The UEFA Executive Committee has decided today to cancel the 2020-'21 edition of the Youth League (the Champions reserved for 'Primavera' and similar teams) due to the Covid-19 pandemic and its effects on the conduct of competitions.
In a note, the European football confederation recalls that "it had initially decided to change the format of the competition and to delay its start, but since then the various measures imposed by health authorities across Europe have continued to evolve. they hit the participating clubs create great difficulties for the organization of matches and two of them have already withdrawn from the competition.
Thus, having acknowledged that there is no possibility of further postponing the start of the competition and that, at present, the conditions for resuming it are not met, the Executive has decided "to cancel the edition of this edition as an exception. Youth League season ".
Inspiring the decision was the principle that "the health and safety of young players must have the highest priority", underlines UEFA.