All games in La Liga have been suspended because of the coronavirus outbreak, in addition to games at other levels of professional and non-professional soccer in Spain.
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At emergency meetings held between RFEF (The Royal Spanish Football Federation), La Liga officials and the AFA (the Association of Spanish Footballers) on Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning, it was decided that the measures would be taken with the total number of COVID-19 cases in the European nation exceeding 2,000.
At the beginning of a week that has seen swift action taken as a precaution to prevent further difficulties, the Champions League last-16 second-leg clash between FC Barcelona and Napoli was already ordered behind closed doors, in the same manner that the Valencia-Atalanta game took place on Tuesday evening.
Schools in Madrid—where half of Spain’s total cases have been recorded—were ordered closed until March 25. Getafe, from the capital, had previously refused to travel to Milan to face Inter in the Europa League.
It was announced that AS Roma had been unable to travel to Sevilla for their meeting in the same competition on Thursday after failing to gain authorization from Spanish authorities. All flights between Italy and Spain have been suspended until the mentioned date.
Around the time that news broke of the latter development, the RFEF revealed that all non-professional soccer in Spain had been suspended for two weeks on its way to heading into talks with La Liga and AFE.
At that point, first- and second-division matches were still scheduled to have their Weeks 28 and 29 fixtures played behind closed doors. But it was widely speculated that Spain’s top two flights would follow the route of their Italian counterpart Serie A, which had decided to suspend play until April 3.
