Germany May 2020 Bundesliga restart: Location-map, with COVID-19 Timeline in German football, league table before the restart, final attendance figures, titles, and seasons-in-1st-division for the 18 clubs
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By Bill Turianski on 11 May 2020; twitter.com/billsportsmaps.
Links…
-2019–20 Bundesliga (en.wikipedia.org).
-World Football.net site…worldfootball.net/bundesliga.
-Official site of Bundesliga (English)…bundesliga.com/en/bundesliga.
-Deutsche Welle [in English]…DW/en/sports.
-Summary – 2019-20 Bundesliga: fixtures, tables, results, stats, etc…us.soccerway.com.
-Here is a map I posted in August 2019: it shows German clubs by Membership-Size (56 clubs)…Germany: 2019-20 map showing Club Membership sizes (top 3 levels: Bundesliga, 2-Bundesliga, 3-Liga/56 teams) (figures from January 2019).
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-Bundesliga restart after the coronavirus halt: The 10 big questions answered (by Matt Pearson at dw.com/en on 8 May 2020).
-Coronavirus: Dynamo Dresden cases leave Bundesliga restart in the balance (by Matt Ford at dw.com/en on 10 May 2020).
2019-20 Bundesliga: COVID-19 Pandemic Timeline in German football
8 March 2020: German health minister recommends cancelling events with more than 1,000 people.
9 March: DFL announced that the Bundesliga season would be completed to ensure planning for the following season, and that any postponements would be to matchdays ‘en bloc’.
11 March: Catch-up match between Borussia Mönchengladbach and FC Köln was played behind closed doors (first time in league history).
13 March: All Matchday 26 games were suspended (Round 26, 13-16 March).
16 March: DFL suspended the leagues until at least 2 April.
6 May: German chancellor Angela Merkel and the leaders of the 16 Federal States of Germany approved resumption of the leagues.
7 May: DFL announces Bundesliga will resume on 16 May, with Matchday 26. All matches to be played behind closed doors, with no more than 332 people in support of the match there at the stadium (figure includes players, coaches
and referees, journalists, doping control officers, stewards, emergency services, groundskeepers and ball boys and ball girls.
(Germany’s ban on large-scale social events remains until the end of August.)
The final Matchday (Round 34) will take place on 27 June.
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Thanks to all at the following links…
-Blank map of Germany, by NordNordWest at File:Germany location map.svg (Wikimedia Commons).
-Globe-map of Germany, by Rob984 File:EU-Germany_(orthographic_projection).svg (Wikimedia Commons).
-Map with Federal States of Germany from States of Germany (en.wikipedia.org).
-Attendance figures and Stadium Capacities from World Football.net site…worldfootball.net/bundesliga.
-14 largest German cities from List of cities in Germany by population (en.wikipedia.org).
-Closed door match info from -Bundesliga restart after the coronavirus halt: The 10 big questions answered (dw.com/en).
-COVID-19 timeline and Stadium capacities from 2019–20 Bundesliga (en.wikipedia.org).