The full proposed schedule to finish the 2019-20 Primeira Liga campaign behind closed doors

The Primeira Liga have set out an ambitious plan to finish the 2019-20 season in full, with a detailed schedule revealed outlining the latest hopeful method for this disrupted campaign to reach a natural conclusion.

With UEFA setting the end of the season at a strict deadline of the 3rd August, time is clearly running out to play all 10 remaining rounds of the Primeira Liga, but the Liga have this Thursday proposed a schedule which can get the job done.

The hope is to play all the remaining 10 gameweeks behind closed doors, with players returning to training at the start of May, in time for a mini pre-season.

The first round of competitive football will then commence on the final weekend of May, with matches played across the 30th and 31st May.

Primeira Liga football would then take place every weekend from this point forth until the 19th July; that gives time for 8 rounds of the Primeira Liga to be carried out, meaning that a further two gameweeks will then have to take place in midweek to get the season finished, with the 10th May and 1st July specified as the two midweek days that Primeira Liga football will also be played.

The Portuguese Cup final, which will be between FC Porto and SL Benfica, will then take place on either the 25th or the 26th July, closing out the Portuguese season in typical style.

All this is, of course, dependent on how the COVID-19 outbreak develops over the coming weeks and months, but this is the current working hypothesis for Portuguese football to be completed.

It comes on the same day that the Belgium football league season was set to be cancelled, with Club Brugge set to be given this season’s title.