The timing mismatch for the 2021 caused a saturation of sporting events across the globe. At football there will be several international tournaments that will be played in the year that has just started in a short space, with various peculiarities, such as having double champions.
South America will give 4 titles to clubs the same year
It is true that the pandemic returned to the sui generis calendar in its entirety, but in South America something very special will happen because the Conmebol will have four Champions at club level in 2021, something never before seen in soccer in the southern cone.
The Copa Libertadores 2020 will resolve its Champion in January 2021. The Semifinals begin from the first week: River receives Palmeiras on the 5th and a day later Boca Juniors honors Santos from Brazil. The rounds will be played on January 12 and 13 in Brazil.
With the possibility of an Argentine Superclassic being repeated in the Final, as in 2018 when River was Champion, The Final will be played on January 23. Twenty-five days later, on February 17, the Libertadores Cup 2021, whose Final will be played on November 20, 2021.
South American Cup, spliced with Libertadores
Meanwhile, the South American Cup 2020 it will play its Semifinals practically at the same time as the Libertadores. On Wednesday 6, Vélez and Lanús collide in the Ida in Buenos Aires; a day later, the United Coquimbo of Chile receives the Defense and Justice of Argentina. The rounds will be played on 13 and 14, while The Final will be played on January 23, 2021.
A month and a half later, on March 16, 2021, the South American 2021, which will be played until November 6, the day projected for the Final.
Qatar and Japan, host to two World Cups
South America will not be the only place with the particularity of having a double champion in each of its tournaments; the same will happen with the Club World Cup, which also had modifications due to the pandemic.
He Mundialito 2020 (in the will be Tigres after winning the Concachampions), will be played in Qatar from February 1 to 11, 2021, two months after their original dates. It should be remembered that apart from UANL, there are Bayern Munich (Europe), Ulsan Hyundai (Asia), Al-Ahly (Africa), Auckland City (Oceania) and Al-Duhail of Qatar as host. The representative of South America will be defined with the Final of the Libertadores 2020 on January 23.
Meanwhile, the Mundialito 2021 will be played in Japan in December with the same format of seven teams, (one per confederation plus one from the host country), after FIFA postponed the new Club World Cup project that was planned to be played in China with 24 teams under a format similar to a World Cup. World of Selections, and also because both the Eurocup and the Copa América 2020 were toured for the summer of 2021.
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