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2019–20 National League
The 2019–20 National League was the fifth tier of English football, suspended in March 2020 and decided on points per game, promoting Barrow as champions and play-off winners Harrogate Town.
2019–20 Premier League
2019–20 Premier League: Liverpool's first PL title, 99 points, 32 wins, sealed with seven games left. Season suspended 13 March 2020 (COVID-19), restarted 17 June behind closed doors; first VAR season.
2019–20 Rangers F.C. season
2019–20 Rangers F.C. season: Rangers' 140th competitive season under Steven Gerrard. Second in the curtailed Premiership (67 pts/29 games), Europa League round of 16 from the first qualifying round, League Cup final loss to Celtic.
2019–20 Real Madrid CF season
2019–20 Real Madrid CF season: Zidane's side won the club's 34th La Liga title (87 points, five clear of Barcelona) after a 10-game post-COVID winning run, plus the Spanish Super Cup; Champions League last-16 exit to Manchester City.
2019–20 Scottish Premiership
The 2019–20 Scottish Premiership was Scotland's top division for 12 clubs, ended early on 18 May 2020 because of COVID-19, with final places decided on points per game.
2019–20 Serie A
2019–20 Serie A, the 118th Italian top-flight season, was suspended by COVID-19 in March 2020 and resumed behind closed doors on 20 June; Juventus won a ninth consecutive title with 82 points, one ahead of Inter, and Immobile scored a record-equaling 36 goals.
2019–20 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. season
2019-20 Tottenham Hotspur season: Spurs' first full year at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium; Pochettino sacked in November, replaced by Jose Mourinho; 6th in the Premier League with 59 points, Champions League last 16, £63.9m pandemic loss.
2019–20 UEFA Champions League
2019–20 UEFA Champions League, won by Bayern München 1-0 over PSG in Lisbon on 23 August 2020 via Coman's header; COVID-19 moved the knockout rounds to single-leg ties; Bayern's perfect season and second treble under Hansi Flick.
2019–20 UEFA Champions League group stage
2019–20 UEFA Champions League group stage: 32 clubs in eight groups, drawn 29 August 2019 in Monaco, played 17 September to 11 December 2019. Record 308 goals; Bayern won all six games; Atalanta qualified after three losses; first all top-five-league knockout field.
2019–20 UEFA Champions League knockout phase
2019–20 UEFA Champions League knockout phase, the COVID-disrupted elimination stage won by Bayern München, who beat Paris Saint-Germain 1-0 in the single-leg final eight tournament in Lisbon in August 2020.
2019–20 UEFA Europa League
2019–20 UEFA Europa League, 49th edition of Europe's second-tier club competition. Sevilla beat Inter 3–2 in the 21 August 2020 final in Cologne for a sixth title; Bruno Fernandes top scored with 8; COVID-19 forced a single-leg August finish in Germany.
2019–20 UEFA Futsal Champions League
2019–20 UEFA Futsal Champions League, second rebranded edition; Barça beat Murcia FS 2-1 in the first all-Spanish final at Palau Blaugrana on 11 October 2020, after COVID-19 moved the finals from Minsk.
2019–20 UEFA Women's Champions League
2019–20 UEFA Women's Champions League, won by Olympique Lyonnais (Lyon), who beat Wolfsburg 3-1 in the 30 August 2020 final at Anoeta, San Sebastián, for a fifth straight and seventh overall title; season ended as a COVID-era final-eight tournament.
2020 AFC Champions League
2020 AFC Champions League, Asia's club football tournament, won by Ulsan Hyundai 2-1 over Persepolis in the Doha final on 19 December 2020; COVID-19 hub format, Junior Negrao brace, Hamdallah top scorer.
2020 AFC U-23 Championship
2020 AFC U-23 Championship, fourth edition held in Thailand, 8-26 January 2020, 16 teams, also the Tokyo 2020 Olympic qualifier. Korea Republic won their first title, beating Saudi Arabia 1-0 in extra time on Jeong Tae-wook's 113th-minute header; Australia took the third Olympic berth.
2020 AFF Championship
The 2020 AFF Championship, also the 2020 AFF Suzuki Cup, was the 13th ASEAN football championship; postponed twice by COVID-19 from late 2020 to 5 December 2021 to 1 January 2022, ten teams, Thailand in the final.
2020 CONCACAF Champions League
2020 Scotiabank Concacaf Champions League, the 2020 edition of Concacaf's club championship, suspended in March for COVID-19 and finished in an Orlando bubble; Tigres UANL beat LAFC 2-1 in the December 22, 2020 final.
2020 Copa Libertadores
2020 Copa Libertadores, the 61st CONMEBOL South American club championship, suspended March-September 2020 by COVID-19; Palmeiras beat Santos 1-0 in the single-match Maracana final on 30 January 2021 via Breno Lopes' stoppage-time header.
2020 FA Cup final
The 2020 FA Cup final, also called the Heads Up FA Cup Final, saw Arsenal beat Chelsea 2-1 at Wembley for a record 14th title.
2020 FIFA Club World Cup
2020 FIFA Club World Cup: seventh-team Qatar-hosted edition postponed to 1–11 February 2021 by COVID-19; Bayern Munich beat Tigres UANL 1-0 in the final to complete a sextuple; last edition in the old format.
2020 FIFA Futsal World Cup qualification (UEFA)
The 2020 FIFA Futsal World Cup qualification (UEFA) was a four-stage tournament run by UEFA from January 2019 to November 2020 that decided six European qualifiers for the finals in Lithuania.
2020 NCAA Division I women's soccer season
The 2020 NCAA Division I women's soccer season, disrupted by COVID-19, split play across fall 2020 and spring 2021; Santa Clara beat Florida State 1-1 (4-1 penalty kicks) for the title.
2020 UEFA Champions League final
2020 UEFA Champions League final: Bayern Munich beat Paris Saint-Germain 1-0 on 23 August 2020 at Lisbon's Estádio da Luz, Kingsley Coman heading the 59th-minute winner in the behind-closed-doors COVID-era Final 8, giving Bayern a sixth European Cup and a treble.
2020 UEFA Super Cup
2020 UEFA Super Cup, 24 September 2020 at Budapest's Puskás Aréna: Bayern München beat Sevilla 2-1 after extra time (Ocampos, Goretzka, Martínez 104') for Bayern's second title, in the first UEFA match with fans since the pandemic began.
2020–21 Arsenal F.C. season
2020–21 Arsenal F.C. season: Mikel Arteta's first full campaign; Arsenal finished 8th in the Premier League with 61 points and lost the Europa League semi-final 1–2 on aggregate to Unai Emery's Villarreal.
2020–21 Bundesliga
2020-21 Bundesliga: 58th season of Germany's top football league, 18 September 2020 to 22 May 2021. Bayern Munich won a ninth consecutive title with 78 points; Lewandowski scored a record 41 goals; Schalke and Werder Bremen were relegated.
2020–21 CAF Champions League
2020-21 CAF Champions League, the 57th African club season: Al Ahly beat Kaizer Chiefs 3-0 in the 17 July 2021 Casablanca final for a record 10th title; 129 matches, 51 clubs.
2020–21 Chelsea F.C. season
2020-21 Chelsea F.C. season: Chelsea's 116th campaign, finishing 4th in the Premier League, runners-up in the FA Cup, and winning the UEFA Champions League 1-0 over Manchester City in Porto under mid-season coach Thomas Tuchel, with Kai Havertz scoring the winner.
2020–21 EFL Championship
2020–21 EFL Championship: second-tier English football season, 11 Sept 2020–8 May 2021, 24 clubs, 552 matches, played under COVID-19 restrictions. Norwich City champions on 97 points; Watford and play-off winners Brentford promoted; Wednesday, Rotherham, Wycombe relegated.
2020–21 EFL Cup
2020-21 EFL Cup (Carabao Cup): pandemic-season knockout cup won by Manchester City, who beat Tottenham 1-0 in the 25 April 2021 Wembley final via Laporte's header, a record-equalling eighth title and fourth in a row.