2020 Summer Paralympics, Preparations, Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
New daily cases in Tokyo reached over 4,000 by 11 August 2021; it was anticipated that no public spectators would be admitted during the Paralympics in Tokyo and other affected regions, as with the Olympics. Organizers discussed other options for some form of spectator presence, such as inviting local school students to attend events (a program which was also employed during the Olympics, and largely scaled back due to the pandemic). It was later confirmed that there would be no public spectators at venues in the Tokyo, Chiba, and Saitama prefectures. On 19 August, the state of emergency was extended through 12 September 2021, and expanded to include Shizuoka.


2020 Summer Paralympics, Preparations, Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
On 20 August 2021, Tokyo Organizing Committee delivery officer Hidemasa Nakamura stated that the biosecurity protocols for the Paralympics had been expanded upon those from the Olympics due to the increased vulnerability to COVID-19 among its athletes, but that Tokyo was facing deteriorating hospital capacity, and that "It’s a fight against time so we need to make sure that sufficient communication is taken at a speedy manner." Paula Tesoriero of the New Zealand delegation stated that the Tokyo Organizing Committee and IPC had "worked tirelessly to create the safest and secure environment possible with a focus on continuing to stay vigilant".


2020 Summer Paralympics, Preparations, Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
On 4 September, after four consecutive days without any new COVID-19 cases within the Paralympic bubble, the IPC commended the Tokyo Organizing Committee for their work in handling the pandemic, with a spokesperson stating that "the amount of work that has gone in behind the scenes to deliver what you have seen over the past three weeks has been phenomenal."


2020 Summer Paralympics, Preparations, Torch relay
The details of the torch relay route were announced on 21 November 2019. There was a Heritage Flame Celebration that was held in Stoke Mandeville. and flame lighting festivals that took place in 43 of Japan's 47 prefectures between 13 and 17 August 2020. Torch relays were held from 18 to 21 August throughout four prefectures that co-hosted Paralympic events during the run-up to the Paralympic Opening Ceremony. The flames from each of the flame lighting festivals hosted in each prefecture were brought together in Tokyo on 21 August where the Paralympic Flame was officially lit. The last four days of the torch relay started in Tokyo. The locations in which the torch relay goes through were similar to the 2020 Summer Olympics torch relay.


2020 Summer Paralympics, Preparations, Torch relay
Aluminium was taken from temporary housing in Fukushima to make the torches for the Olympic and Paralympic flames. More than 10,000 pieces of aluminium were used and organizers contacted local authorities to see which houses were no longer being used.


2020 Summer Paralympics, The Games, Sports
The 2020 Summer Paralympics featured 539 events in 22 sports. Badminton and taekwondo made their Paralympic debut in Tokyo, while classifications were added or realigned in other sports; canoe, shooting, table tennis, track cycling, and wheelchair fencing saw increases in the number of medal events held, while there were reductions in athletics and swimming.


2020 Summer Paralympics, The Games, Sports, New sports
In January 2014, the IPC began accepting bids for new sports to be added to the Paralympic programme. Six sports were reported to have made bids, including amputee football, badminton, power hockey, powerchair football, and taekwondo. New disciplines were also proposed in existing events, including 3x3 basketball (in wheelchair and ID classifications), and visually impaired match racing and one-person multi-hull in sailing.


2020 Summer Paralympics, The Games, Sports, New sports
On 31 January 2015, the IPC officially announced that badminton and taekwondo had been added to the Paralympic programme for 2020. They replaced football 7-a-side and sailing. which were dropped due to an insufficient international reach.


2020 Summer Paralympics, The Games, Participating National Paralympic Committee teams
On 9 December 2019, the World Anti- Doping Agency (WADA) banned Russia from all international sport for a period of four years, after the Russian government was found to have tampered with lab data that it provided to WADA in January 2019 as a condition of the Russian Anti- Doping Agency being reinstated. On 26 April 2021, it was confirmed Russian athletes would represent the Russian Paralympic Committee, with the acronym 'RPC'.


2020 Summer Paralympics, The Games, Participating National Paralympic Committee teams
At least five countries withdrew from the Games due to COVID-19-related concerns, including North Korea (which declined to participate in either the Olympics or Paralympics), as well as Kiribati, Samoa, Tonga, and Vanuatu due to budgetary concerns tied to COVID-19 travel restrictions. Absent direct flights to Japan, the four countries' athletes would have had to travel to Tokyo via Australia and New Zealand, and would be subject to 14-day quarantine periods before their flight to Japan, and on their way back to their home countries.


2020 Summer Paralympics, The Games, Participating National Paralympic Committee teams
On 16 August 2021, Afghanistan (representing the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan) withdrew from the Games due to violence and instability in the country following the Taliban's capture of Kabul, which left their team of Zakia Khudadadi (taekwondo) and Hossain Rasouli (athletics) unable to travel to Tokyo. Their national flag was still paraded during the opening ceremony as a signal of solidarity. However, after a "major global operation", the two athletes were successfully evacuated to France, where they trained at INSEP in Paris before arriving in Tokyo on 28 August.


2020 Summer Paralympics, The Games, Participating National Paralympic Committee teams
IPC president Andrew Parsons stated that the team would not be allowed to interact with other athletes, nor would they be available to the media—having been given special permission to skip press conferences. Rasouli missed the event where he was originally intended to compete, the men's 100m T47. After declining an offer to compete in the 400m event as an alternative, Rasouli accepted a spot in the men's long jump T47 final.


2020 Summer Paralympics, The Games, Participating National Paralympic Committee teams
The following 162 teams qualified at least one athlete. Six of them, Bhutan, Grenada, Guyana, Maldives, Paraguay, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, made their debut appearances at the Paralympic Games. Two of them returned to the Games after not sending delegations in 2016: Barbados (that for the first time in its history it had not classified its athletes for the Games) along with Luxembourg (who had classified athletes for the last time in Beijing 2008)


2020 Summer Paralympics, The Games, Number of athletes by National Paralympic Committee
4,403 athletes from 162 NPCs:Ranking listed by number of athletes. As of 24 August 2021


2020 Summer Paralympics, The Games, Test events
There were test events before the Olympic and Paralympic Games; these were contested from June 2019 to June 2020 before the start of the 2020 Summer Olympics. The selected Paralympic sports were athletics (2–3 May 2020), goalball (28–29 September 2019), paratriathlon (15–18 August 2019), powerlifting (26–27 September 2019), swimming (16 April 2020) and  wheelchair rugby (12–15 March 2020). It was announced in February 2019 that test events would be under the banner "Ready, Steady, Tokyo". 22 of the 56 events would be organised by the Tokyo organising committee and the rest by national and international organisations. World Sailing's World Cup Series, held at Enoshima, was the first test event, while the last the Tokyo Challenge Track Meet in May 2020.


2020 Summer Paralympics, The Games, Test events
All test events scheduled after 12 March 2020 were postponed due to COVID-19.


2020 Summer Paralympics, Calendar
The preliminary schedule was announced on 19 October 2018. The finalized schedule was released on 13 August 2019.


2020 Summer Paralympics, Calendar
The original schedule was from 25 August to 10 September 2020. To postpone the Paralympics until 2021, all events were delayed by 364 days (one day less than a full year to preserve the same days of the week), giving a new schedule of 24 August to 9 September 2021.


2020 Summer Paralympics, Venues
The venues for the Paralympic games as detailed on the Tokyo 2020 official website:


2020 Summer Paralympics, Marketing, Logo
The emblems of the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics were unveiled on 25 April 2016. The Paralympic emblem features a hand fan in a circle form, filled with an indigo-colored checkerboard pattern. The design is meant to "express a refined elegance and sophistication that exemplifies Japan". The designs replaced a previous emblem which had been scrapped due to allegations that it plagiarized the logo of the Théâtre de Liège in Belgium.


2020 Summer Paralympics, Marketing, Mascot
The shortlist of mascots for the Tokyo Games was unveiled on 7 December 2017 and the winning entry was announced on 28 February 2018. Candidate pair A, created by Ryo Taniguchi, received the most votes (109,041) and was declared the winner, defeating Kana Yano's pair B (61,423 votes) and Sanae Akimoto's pair C (35,291 votes). Someity is a figure with pink chequered patterns inspired by the Games' official logo, as well as cherry blossom flowers. It has a calm but powerful ability, it is nature-loving, and it speaks to the wind. Both Miraitowa and Someity were named by the Organising Committee on 22 July 2018.


2020 Summer Paralympics, Marketing, Animated shorts
Japanese public broadcaster NHK produced a series of short films called Animation x Paralympic: Who Is Your Hero? Each short features a different Paralympic sport, and is designed and produced in collaboration with well-known creators of anime and manga, sometimes featuring crossovers with popular series or with real-life athletes.


2020 Summer Paralympics, Broadcasting
The International Paralympic Committee anticipated that the 2020 Summer Paralympics would be seen by a global audience of at least 4.25 billion viewers, an increase over the estimated 4.1 billion of the 2016 Games. Japanese broadcaster NHK aired coverage of selected events in 8K. In markets without a dedicated rightsholder, the IPC streamed the Games on its YouTube channel.


2020 Summer Paralympics, Broadcasting
In the United Kingdom, these were third Summer Paralympics to be broadcast by Channel 4, which planned to air at least 300 hours of coverage on free-to-air TV (with More4 to be dedicated primarily to team events), 1,200 hours of coverage via streaming, as well as an evening highlights program and The Last Leg nightly. The broadcaster launched a trailer directed by Bradford Young entitled "Super. Human." in mid-July 2021, which aimed to focus on the "realities" of the lives of Paralympic athletes, and "the sacrifices they make in pursuit of greatness".


2020 Summer Paralympics, Broadcasting
In the United States, NBCUniversal aired 1,200 hours of coverage on NBCSN and Olympic Channel, while NBC broadcast five highlights programs over the course of the Games and afterward (with three airing in primetime), which "[showcased] the incredible backstories of the athletes and teams competing in Tokyo".


2020 Summer Paralympics, Broadcasting
Canadian media rights was once again led by the CBC, with 120 hours of television coverage, along with broadcasts by Sportsnet and AMI-tv.


2020 Summer Paralympics, Broadcasting
In Australia, the Seven Network offered one free-to-air channel broadcast via either their Channel 7 or 7mate channels and up to 16 free streaming channels via the online 7plus service.


2020 Summer Paralympics, Broadcasting
In New Zealand, the Games were broadcast by TVNZ Duke. TVNZ faced criticism for the scale of its coverage, including a lack of streaming coverage, and the TVNZ broadcast and OBS world feed missing coverage of events involving local athletes. On 2 September, citing the criticism, TVNZ announced that it would waive the geoblocking for the IPC's official streams on YouTube.


2020 Summer Paralympics, Broadcasting
In India, Eurosport India and Discovery+ debuted as a new local rightsholder, focusing on coverage of events involving Indian athletes.


2020 Summer Paralympics, Broadcasting
For the first time in Chile, the Paralympics were broadcast on TVN.


2020 Summer Paralympics, Broadcasting
In Brazil, the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games were broadcast on TV Globo, SporTV and TV Brasil.


2020 Summer Paralympics, Broadcasting
In Malaysia, the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games were broadcast on Astro Arena HD channel 801.


2020 Summer Paralympics, Broadcasting
In Singapore, selected live events were telecasted on Mediacorp Channel 5 while the rest of the coverage was streamed on meWATCH. Selected highlights also appeared on the Mediacorp Entertainment YouTube channel.


2020 Summer Paralympics, Broadcasting
In the Philippines, the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games were broadcast on cable channel TAP Sports and was streamed online on TAP Go.


2020 Summer Paralympics, Concerns and controversies, Men's judo 81 kg
Japan's Aramitsu Kitazono was scheduled to compete in the round of 16 events of the men's 81 kg category. However, he was forced to withdraw at the last minute, two days before his scheduled event after sustaining injuries to his head and legs during an incident that happened on 26 August 2021 at the Paralympics Village. It was revealed Aramitsu was hit by a Toyota e-Palette driverless vehicle, which was under manual control by an operator, when he was walking on the pedestrian crossing. His opponent Dmytro Solovey of Ukraine automatically qualified to the quarterfinals as a result of Aramitsu's late withdrawal.


2020 Summer Paralympics, Concerns and controversies, Men's shot put (F20) final
In this event on 31 August 2021, Malaysian athlete, Muhammad Ziyad Zolkefli, originally won the gold medal in the men's shot put F20 event, thus defending his title in Rio 2016 and breaking a new world record. However after the event had finished, his gold was stripped after a joint-protest from Ukrainian and Greek delegations, citing that Ziyad came late to the call room. Other than Ziyad, Australian Todd Hodgets and Ecuadorian Jordi Villalba were also disqualified from the event for the same reason as Ziyad.


2020 Summer Paralympics, Concerns and controversies, Men's shot put (F20) final
Later, Malaysian Youth and Sports Minister, Ahmad Faizal Azumu issued a statement via his Twitter account, stating that the National Paralympic Committees of Malaysia, Australia, and Ecuador has made a joint-counter protest to opposing the protest made by the Ukrainian delegation.


2020 Summer Paralympics, Concerns and controversies, Men's shot put (F20) final
However, the appeal from three NPC's has been rejected, and Ukrainian Maksym Koval remains as the gold medal winner.


2020 Summer Paralympics, Concerns and controversies, Men's shot put (F20) final
After the events, some social media accounts from Ukraine have been spammed by hateful comments from Malaysia, including Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky's Instagram account. Koval's Instagram account has also been hacked by Malaysian cyber troopers due to the result. This action caused the official Facebook account of the Ukrainian Embassy to Malaysia to be deactivated, and the Embassy's official Twitter account has been set to private.


2020 Summer Paralympics, Concerns and controversies, Other incidents
Forty officers from Yamanashi Prefectural Police, who were tasked to support local police at venues and to control traffic during the Games, were removed from duty by Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department (TMPD) and sent home following numerous incidents. This included visiting brothels, drinking in their dormitories (which is against regulations) and in bars surrounding Kinshichō Station, Sumida, which then descended into drunken brawls with civilian bystanders. That latter incident led the TMPD to intervene, which led to the officers being caught.


2020 Summer Paralympics Parade of Nations
During the Parade of Nations at the opening ceremony of the 2020 Summer Paralympic Games, athletes from each participating country paraded in the Japan National Stadium, preceded by its flag and placard carrier. Each flag bearer had been chosen either by the nation's National Paralympic Committee (NPC) or by the athletes themselves.


2020 Summer Paralympics Parade of Nations
For the first time ever, each NPC was invited to appoint one female and one male athlete to jointly carry their flag during the Opening Ceremony.


2020 Summer Paralympics Parade of Nations, Parade order
In the announcement of the Refugee Paralympic Team, it was stated that the team would enter first in the parade of nations. The rest of the countries entered in Gojūon order, with the three final countries being the United States, France, and Japan, as the current host and the next two hosts of the Paralympic Games, France in 2024 and the United States in 2028, Paris and Los Angeles respectively.


2020 Summer Paralympics Parade of Nations, Parade order
Under the assumption that Afghanistan's athletes would be unable to compete in the Paralympics due to the Fall of Kabul to the Taliban, Afghanistan was represented in the Parade of Nations through a Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) representative as a "sign of solidarity". However the UNHCR declined to name a representative and a volunteer will serve as Afghanistan's flagbearer. Afghanistan's athletes later confirmed their participation after the opening ceremony.


2020 Summer Paralympics Parade of Nations, Parade order
New Zealand's athletes also did not participate in the parade.


2020 Summer Paralympics Parade of Nations, Parade order
Solomon Islands had its national flag paraded at the opening ceremony, but ultimately the Solomon Islands team withdrew from the 2020 Summer Paralympics without coming to Japan.


2020 Summer Paralympics Parade of Nations, Reviews
The names of each para-athlete who participated in the Opening Ceremony’s Parade were projected and scrolled on the "digital signage" equivalent to the inner diameter of the stadium.


2020 Summer Paralympics closing ceremony
The closing ceremony of the 2020 Summer Paralympics took place on 5 September 2021 at Olympic Stadium in Tokyo, Japan.


2020 Summer Paralympics closing ceremony, Venue
The New National Stadium served as the main stadium for the closing ceremony. Demolition of the old National Stadium was completed in May 2015, followed by the construction of the new stadium which began at the same site on 11 December 2016. The stadium was handed over to the IPC on 30 November 2019 for necessary games and ceremony preparations. Capacity during the Paralympic Games will be 60,102 taking into account press and executive seating areas.


2020 Summer Paralympics closing ceremony, Antwerp Ceremony
The new Paralympic flag presented in 2019 was passed by the Governor of Tokyo Yuriko Koike to IPC President Andrew Parsons who then handed the flag over to the Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo and waved the flag eight times. It was followed by the raising of the flag of France and the playing of its Anthem, which was performed in sign language by Betty Moutoumalaya.


2020 Summer Paralympics closing ceremony, Antwerp Ceremony, Presentation of Paris 2024
After the anthems, for about three minutes played to music by Yoann Lemoine (Woodkid), 126 dancers including 19 disabled people, performed choreography inspired by Sadek Belaba. Meanwhile, the dancers, sitting in black clothes, continued to express themselves by simply moving their arms, ending with "PARIS 2024" by putting atogether the capital letters that are the names of their next destinations. Finally, hip-hop artist Prone performed with just his eyes after being diagnosed with ALS in 2015. This was followed by a crowd at the Trocadéro that gathered with French Paralympic athletes who returned from Tokyo and Paris 2024 President Tony Estanguet celebrating their achievements, concluding with a large purple Paris 2024 Paralympics flag flown onto the Eiffel Tower.


2020 Summer Paralympics closing ceremony, WeThe15
The #WeThe15 movement was showcased as part of the ceremony.


2020 Summer Paralympics medal table
The medal table of the 2020 Summer Paralympics ranks the participating National Paralympic Committees (NPCs) by the number of gold medals that are won by their athletes during the competition. The 2020 Paralympics were the sixteenth Games to be held, a quadrennial competition open to athletes with physical and intellectual disabilities. The games were held in Tokyo, Japan from 24 August to 5 September 2021. There were 539 medal events.


2020 Summer Paralympics medal table
Athletes from Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Montenegro, and Oman won their first Paralympic medals. El Salvador and Oman had never won an Olympic medal. Costa Rica, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka won their first Paralympic gold medals.


2020 Summer Paralympics medal table, Medal table
Judo, table tennis and taekwondo award two bronze medals per discipline - the table tennis to losing semi-finalists, the combat sports by a repechage system whereby defeated athletes up to the semi-final stage rejoin competition for a bronze medal.


2020 Summer Paralympics medal table, Medal table
Two silver medals were awarded for a second-place tie in the men's high jump T47 athletics event. No bronze medal was awarded as a result.


2020 Summer Paralympics medal table, Medal table
Two bronze medals were awarded for a third-place tie in the men's 100 metres T64 athletics event.


2020 Summer Paralympics medal table, Medal table
Two bronze medals were awarded for a third-place tie in the women's 100 metre freestyle S7 swimming event.


2020 Summer Paralympics medal table, Medal table
Due to the disqualification of two participants, a bronze medal was not awarded in the women's 100 metres T11 athletics event.


2020 Summer Paralympics medal table, Changes
Marcin Polak was provisionally suspended from the men's individual pursuit B pending an adjudication following a positive test for a banned substance.


2020 Summer Paralympics opening ceremony
The 2020 Summer Paralympics opening ceremony took place on 24 August 2021 at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo, Japan. The theme of the opening ceremony was "Moving Forward: We Have Wings" and thus surrounded around the theme of aviation, airplanes, airports, and everything that involved air travel.


2020 Summer Paralympics opening ceremony, Venue
The Japan National Stadium, also referred to as the Olympic Stadium, served as the main stadium for the opening ceremony. The stadium will also serve as the main stadium for the closing ceremony, and the athletics/track and field events.


2020 Summer Paralympics opening ceremony, Parade of nations
In the announcement of the Refugee Paralympic Team, it was stated that the team would enter first in the parade of nations. The rest of the countries entered in the Japanese Gojūon alphabetical order, with the last three teams being the United States, France, and Japan as the current host of the Paralympics as the final team and the next two hosts being Los Angeles 2028 and Paris 2024, so the United States and France entered as the final two teams before the Japanese team. Unlike the Olympics, Greece does not enter at the start of the parade, but instead follows the regular alphabetical order. After the parade of nations, there is a welcome greeting to the Para Airport.


2020 Summer Paralympics opening ceremony, Performers
Japanese pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii was among the musicians who participated in the Opening Ceremony, although not in person. A recording of a composition by him ("House of Wind"), performed with an orchestra, was played while the flag of Japan was carried on stage. 13 year old Yui Wago performed the role of the 'Little One-Winged Plane'.


2020 Summer Paralympics torch relay
The 2020 Summer Paralympics torch relay was held from 12 August 2021 to 24 August 2021. After being lit in multiple locations in Japan and Great Britain, the torch will travel around Japan and will end in Tokyo's New National Stadium, the main venue of the 2020 Summer Paralympics. The relay will take place in a minor scale than the Olympic relay, starting in Tokyo, and local flames are to be lighted through Saitama, Chiba and Shizuoka prefectures where events of the games will be held. The end of the relay will be the closing to the 2020 Summer Paralympics opening ceremony. The LIXIL Corporation is the presenting partner of the torch relay.


2020 Summer Paralympics torch relay, Relay
The relay will first start with Flame festivals in 43 of prefectures of Japan, as well as additional locations which host some of the venues of the Paralympics, from 12–20 August 2021. There will be individual flames lit in each of those locations. On 20 August, the flames from each location will be brought together as one, along with an additional flame from Stoke Mandeville, Great Britain, the birthplace of the Paralympic movement, to become a single Paralympic Flame at a ceremony in Tokyo. From 21–25 August, the one flame will follow a single route, culminating at the New National Stadium for the opening ceremonies.


2020 Summer Paralympics torch relay, Ceremony changes
Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and several prefectures declared state of emergency amid COVID-19 surge and in Shizuoka Prefecture's case, the 2021 Atami landslide, many of the public stages of the relay were truncated to be more ceremonial rather than functional such as alternative events. Participants of the relay would carry the torch for about 30 meters before passing the flame to another participant rather than carrying it for long stretches.


2020 Summer Paralympics torch relay, End of torch relay
At the 2020 Summer Paralympics opening ceremony, the relay ended with the lighting of the cauldron. Yui Kamiji, Karin Morisaki, and Shunsuke Uchida lit the cauldron.


2020 Summit League Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2020 Summit League Men's Basketball Tournament is the postseason men's basketball tournament for the Summit League for the 2019–20 season. All tournament games are to be played at the Denny Sanford Premier Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, from March 7–10, 2020.


2020 Summit League Men's Basketball Tournament, Seeds
The top eight teams by conference record in the Summit League compete in the conference tournament. Teams are seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records. The tiebreakers operate in the following order:


2020 Summit League Women's Basketball Tournament
The 2020 Summit League Women's Basketball Tournament was a post-season women's basketball tournament for The Summit League. The tournament took place March 7–10, 2020, at the Denny Sanford Premier Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The top eight teams in the final standings qualified for the tournament. South Dakota won the tournament and earned an automatic bid to the 2020 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament.


2020 Summit League Women's Basketball Tournament, Seeds
The top eight teams by conference record in the Summit League are eligible to compete in the conference tournament. Teams are to be seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.


2020 Sun Belt Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2020 Sun Belt Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for Sun Belt Conference during the 2019–20 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. Tournament first round, second round, and quarterfinal games were played at the campus sites of the higher seeded team between March 7–11. The semifinals and championship game would have been held from March 14–15, 2020, in New Orleans, Louisiana, at the Smoothie King Center. The regular season champion would have received the Sun Belt's automatic bid to the 2020 NCAA Tournament.


2020 Sun Belt Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Seeds
Only the top 10 of the 12 conference teams will qualify for the tournament. The No. 5 and No. 6 seeds will receive and first round bye, the No. 3 and No. 4 seeds receive a double bye to the quarterfinals, while the No. 1 and No. 2 seeded teams receive a triple bye to the semifinals. Teams are seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.


2020 Sun Belt Conference Men's Soccer Tournament
The 2020 Sun Belt Conference Men's Soccer Tournament was the 26th and final edition of the Sun Belt Conference Men's Soccer Tournament. The tournament decided the Sun Belt Conference champion. The tournament began on November 11 and concluded on November 15, 2020.


2020 Sun Belt Conference Men's Soccer Tournament
Georgia State hosted the tournament, which consisted solely of a semifinal and final round. Coastal Carolina successfully defended their SBC Tournament championship, defeating Georgia State in penalties in the final.


2020 Sun Belt Conference Men's Soccer Tournament
The Sun Belt shuttered its men's soccer league after all of its members moved the sport to other conferences by the end of the 2020–21 school year. The conference had lost one men's soccer team before the season when full conference member Appalachian State dropped men's soccer in May 2020, citing financial impacts from COVID-19. That July saw associate member Howard announce that it would become an associate member of the Northeast Conference in six sports, with men's soccer being one of four sports moving in July 2021.


2020 Sun Belt Conference Men's Soccer Tournament
In January 2021 the ASUN Conference announced three schools as incoming full members, including Sun Belt men's soccer associate Central Arkansas. The following month saw full Sun Belt member Coastal Carolina announce that it would become a single-sport member of Conference USA, joining another in-state associate member in South Carolina. This left Georgia Southern and Georgia State, both full Sun Belt members, as the conference's only remaining men's soccer programs, and those two schools announced they would move that sport to the Mid-American Conference in late May 2021.


2020 Sun Belt Conference Men's Soccer Tournament, Background
The tournament served as the culmination of the SBC's regular season, which was extensively modified due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Four of the five SBC teams played in 2020, under a modified six-match conference season (three home, three away). All teams qualified for the SBC Tournament.


2020 Sun Belt Conference Women's Basketball Tournament
The 2020 Sun Belt Women's Basketball Tournament was the postseason women's basketball tournament for the Sun Belt Conference scheduled to be held from March 10 to March 15, 2020, at the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans. The winner of the tournament would have received a first-round bye to the 2020 NCAA Tournament. On March 12, the NCAA announced that the tournament was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic.


2020 Sun Belt Conference Women's Soccer Tournament
The 2020 Sun Belt Women's Soccer Tournament was the postseason women's soccer tournament for the Sun Belt Conference. The tournament was contested over four days between November 2–8 at the Foley Sports Tourism Complex in Foley, Alabama. The South Alabama Jaguars successfully defended their title, defeating Arkansas State in the final, 2–1, to win their seventh Sun Belt tournament championship in the last eight years.


2020 Sun Belt Conference Women's Soccer Tournament, Match summaries
All matches were played at Foley Sports Tourism Complex in Foley, Alabama. All times are Central.


2020 Sun Belt Conference football season
The 2020 Sun Belt Conference football season was the 20th season of college football play for the Sun Belt Conference. The season began September 3, 2020 and concluded December 26, 2020 as part of the 2020–21 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Sun Belt consists of 10 members in two divisions. The conference released its schedule on February 28, 2020, but numerous changes have been made since as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 Sun Belt Conference football season, Previous season
The 2019 season began with Appalachian State and Louisiana topping the preseason media polls for the East and West Divisions, respectively. The season started well for the conference, as week one was headlined by conference member Georgia State upsetting Tennessee of the SEC. The first conference game took place during week four between Georgia State and Texas State, and saw the Bobcats pull out a three-point win in triple overtime. The regular season concluded on week fourteen, with Appalachian State (11–1, 7–1) topping the East Division and Louisiana (10–2, 7–1) topping the West, as predicted. The two teams met in the 2019 Sun Belt Conference Football Championship Game, which was hosted by Appalachian State at Kidd Brewer Stadium in Boone, North Carolina. The hosts prevailed, 45–38.


2020 Sun Belt Conference football season, Previous season
Sun Belt teams went 3–2 in bowl games, with wins coming from Arkansas State, Appalachian State, and Louisiana.


2020 Sun Belt Conference football season, Preseason
The conference released its preseason media poll and all-conference teams on August 25, 2020.


2020 Sun Belt Conference football season, Head coaches
Appalachian State was the only team to undergo a coaching change from last season; Eliah Drinkwitz departed the program after the conclusion of the regular season to become the head coach at Missouri. Shawn Clark was named interim coach upon his departure, and the interim tag was removed in time for him to coach the Mountaineers to a victory in the 2019 New Orleans Bowl.


2020 Sun Belt Conference football season, Sun Belt records vs Other Conferences, Sun Belt vs Power Five matchups
This is a list of games the Sun Belt has scheduled versus power conference teams (ACC, Big 10, Big 12, Pac-12, BYU/Notre Dame and SEC). All rankings are from the current AP Poll at the time of the game.


2020 Sun Belt Conference football season, Sun Belt records vs Other Conferences, Sun Belt vs Group of Five matchups
The following games include Sun Belt teams competing against teams from the American, C-USA, MAC or Mountain West.


2020 Sun Belt Conference football season, Sun Belt records vs Other Conferences, Sun Belt vs FBS independents matchups
The following games include Sun Belt teams competing against FBS Independents, which includes Army, Liberty, New Mexico State, UConn, or UMass.


2020 Sun Belt Conference football season, Awards and Honors, Sun Belt Individual Awards
The following individuals received postseason honors as voted by the Sun Belt Conference football coaches at the end of the season


2020 Sun Belt Conference football season, Awards and Honors, All-Americans
The 2020 College Football All-America Teams are composed of the following College Football All-American first teams chosen by the following selector organizations: Associated Press (AP), Football Writers Association of America (FWAA), American Football Coaches Association (AFCA), Walter Camp Foundation (WCFF), The Sporting News (TSN), Sports Illustrated (SI), USA Today (USAT) ESPN, CBS Sports (CBS), FOX Sports (FOX) College Football News (CFN), Bleacher Report (BR), Scout.com, Phil Steele (PS), SB Nation (SB), Athlon Sports, Pro Football Focus (PFF) and Yahoo! Sports (Yahoo! ).


2020 Sun Belt Conference football season, Awards and Honors, All-Americans
Currently, the NCAA compiles consensus all-America teams in the sports of Division I-FBS football and Division I men's basketball using a point system computed from All-America teams named by coaches associations or media sources. The system consists of three points for a first-team honor, two points for second-team honor, and one point for third-team honor. Honorable mention and fourth team or lower recognitions are not accorded any points. Football consensus teams are compiled by position and the player accumulating the most points at each position is named first team consensus all-American. Currently, the NCAA recognizes All-Americans selected by the AP, AFCA, FWAA, TSN, and the WCFF to determine Consensus and Unanimous All-Americans. Any player named to the First Team by all five of the NCAA-recognized selectors is deemed a Unanimous All-American.


2020 Sun Belt Conference football season, NFL Draft
The following list includes all Sun Belt Players who were drafted in the 2021 NFL Draft


2020 Sun Belt Conference men's soccer season
The 2020 Sun Belt Conference men's soccer season was the 19th season of men's varsity soccer in the conference. The regular season began on September 18 and concluded on November 6, 2020. The season culminated with the Sun Belt Tournament which began on November 13 and concluded on November 15, 2020.


2020 Sun Belt Conference men's soccer season, Background, Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the season
The COVID-19 pandemic drastically affected the landscape of men's soccer in the Sun Belt Conference. Long-time program, Appalachian State suspended its men's varsity soccer program in the wake of the pandemic, due to anticipated budget cuts in the athletics program. Additionally, Sun Belt associate member, Howard, opted out of playing during the fall season due to concerns with the ongoing pandemic.


2020 Sun Belt Conference men's soccer season, Background, Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the season
The SBC, along with the ACC were the only two men's soccer conferences that played during the fall 2020.


2020 Sun Belt Conference men's soccer season, Background, Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the season
The conference opted to play a six-match season with all programs doing a home-and-home series, or double round robin against every program in the conference. Most teams completed the fall season playing only 8–12 matches instead of the normal 15–18 matches.


2020 Sun Belt Conference men's soccer season, Preseason, Preseason national polls
Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, only College Soccer News released a preseason poll.


2020 Sun Belt Conference men's soccer season, Regular season, Conference results
For the 2020 season, each team plays every other conference team twice; once home and once away.


2020 Sun Belt Conference men's soccer season, Postseason, Sun Belt Tournament
All four teams qualified for the modified Sun Belt Conference Men's Soccer Tournament. The tournament was played from November 13–15, with Coastal Carolina winning the championship in penalties over Georgia State.


2020 Sun Belt Conference men's soccer season, Postseason, NCAA Tournament
The winner of the 2020 SBC Tournament will earn an automatic berth into the 2020 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the tournament was postponed from November/December 2020 to April/May 2021.


2020 Sun Belt Conference men's soccer season, Postseason, Postseason awards and honors
Aris Briggs, Georgia State (F)         Adam Davie, Georgia Southern (F)            Kasper Andersen, Central Ark. (F)           Matthew Fearnley, Georgia State (MF)    Soren Jensen, Central Ark. (MF)          Marcello Jones, Coastal Carolina (MF)     Ross Finnie, Georgia State (MF)      George Proctor, Georgia State (D)   Alberto Suarez, Central Ark. (D)          Mael Couteau, Coastal Carolina (D)     Ramon Munoz, Georgia State (D)    Tor Saunders, Coastal Carolina (GK)     Paul Tyson, Georgia State (GK)


2020 Sun Belt Conference men's soccer season, MLS SuperDraft
The 2021 MLS SuperDraft will be held in January 2021.


2020 Sun Belt Conference men's soccer season, MLS SuperDraft, Notable undrafted players
The following players went pro after the 2020 season despite not getting drafted in the 2021 MLS draft.


2020 Suncorp Super Netball season
The 2020 Suncorp Super Netball season was the fourth season of the premier netball league in Australia. The season was originally scheduled to commence on 2 May, though was delayed to 1 August due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The defending premiers, New South Wales Swifts were eliminated in the first week of the finals series by the eventual runners-up West Coast Fever. The premiers were the Melbourne Vixens, who defeated the Fever by two goals in the Grand Final at Nissan Arena in Brisbane.


2020 Suncorp Super Netball season, Overview, Format
The season is played over fourteen rounds, allowing every team to play each other twice, once at home and once away. The top four teams on the ladder at the conclusion of the regular season qualify for the finals series. In the first week of the finals series, the 1st ranked team hosts the 2nd ranked team in the major semi-final (with the winner of that match to qualify for the Grand Final) and the 3rd ranked team hosts the 4th ranked team in the minor semi-final (with the loser of that match eliminated). The loser of the major semi-final then hosts the winner of the minor semi-final in the preliminary final. The winner of the major semi-final then hosts the winner of the preliminary final in the Grand Final.


2020 Suncorp Super Netball season, Overview, Rule changes
The Super Netball commission announced changes to the league structure in February. Rolling substitutions during play will be permitted, as well as during stoppages and intervals, with no limit to the number of substitutions that can be made, and multiple substitutions allowed to be made at any one time. The substitute must tag hands with the player leaving the court before entering the field of play. Extra time in the event of draws was introduced, after six matches were tied throughout the previous season. The match was to enter one 5-minute period of extra time.


2020 Suncorp Super Netball season, Overview, Rule changes
If at the end of this period teams remain tied, the match was to have been declared a draw. If a team has a one-goal or greater advantage at the end of the period, they would have been declared the winner. The bonus point system in place for the past two seasons was also supposed to remain in place. However, in the days leading up to the season, the league announced it had scrapped bonus points and extra time, citing the need to mitigate the physical impact of the condensed fixture on the players. Teams were also allowed to increase their match-day squads to 12 players, up from 10 in previous years.


2020 Suncorp Super Netball season, Overview, Two-goal super shots
After confirming the return of the league on 1 August, competition administrators announced the introduction of the two-point shot rule alteration. The new rule allows a score of two goals to be awarded to any shooter or attacker who scores in the two-goal zone outside the usual goal circle. The move was met with disapproval from many fans and players, though Super Netball CEO Chris Symington argued "the time is right to introduce an innovation that will make the game even more dynamic and unpredictable". The two-goal shot zone will only be activated in the final five minutes of each quarter and in the five-minute extra time period.


2020 Suncorp Super Netball season, Overview, Relocation to Queensland
As a result of an increase in COVID-19 positive tests in Victoria, the league initially announced the temporary relocation of the two Victorian teams (Magpies and Vixens) to Queensland. Shortly afterwards, the league revealed it had come to an arrangement with the Queensland Government to move all clubs to a hub in South-East Queensland, thereby allowing a condensed fixture, with most matches played in Brisbane, Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast, Cairns and Townsville. The two Victorian clubs were required to serve a 14-day quarantine prior to the start of the season.


2020 Suncorp Super Netball season, Player transfers
The league unveiled the list of non-contracted athletes on 14 August 2019, two weeks before that season's finals series were scheduled to commence. Teams had the exclusive right to re-sign any of their existing contracted players, their permanent/temporary replacement players or training partners, on single year or multi-year contracts for the 2020 and 2021 seasons. Contracts with players from other teams and leagues could not be announced until the signing period commenced on 16 September 2019. This period closed on 14 October 2019, upon which teams were required to have submitted their 10 senior-listed players for the 2020 season. Training partners could be signed by clubs at any time.


2020 Suncorp Super Netball season, Player transfers, Signings
The following table is a list of players who moved clubs/leagues into Super Netball, or were elevated into a permanent position in the senior team, during the off-season. It does not include players who were re-signed by their original Super Netball clubs.


2020 Suncorp Super Netball season, Pre-season, Bushfire Relief Match
In January 2020, Netball Australia announced an All-Stars match for the pre-season featuring the Australian Diamonds and the best players from the Super Netball league. The match was played as a fundraiser for relief efforts for the 2019–20 Australian bushfire season, which had been particularly devastating. The teams were announced on 29 January 2020.


2020 Suncorp Super Netball season, Pre-season, Team Girls Cup
The league's pre-season tournament, known as the Suncorp Team Girls Cup, was set to return for the second time. The tournament would have taken place between 27 and 29 March at the refurbished Ken Rosewall Arena.


2020 Suncorp Super Netball season, Pre-season, Team Girls Cup
However, on 13 March 2020, the league announced that the event would be cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 Suncorp Super Netball season, Awards
The following players were awarded for their performances in the 2020 season:


2020 Sundance Film Festival
The 2020 Sundance Film Festival took place from January 23 to February 2, 2020. The first lineup of competition films was announced on December 4, 2019.


2020 Sunrisers (women's cricket) season
The 2020 season was Sunrisers' first season, in which they competed in the 50 over Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy following reforms to the structure of women's domestic cricket in England. The side finished bottom of the North Group of the competition, losing all six of their matches.


2020 Sunrisers (women's cricket) season
After the ending of the Women's Cricket Super League in 2019, the ECB announced the beginning of a new "women's elite domestic structure". Eight teams were included in this new structure, with Sunrisers being one of the new teams, representing the London and the East of England. Due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, only the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy was able to take place. Sunrisers were captained by Amara Carr and coached by Trevor Griffin, and played their home matches at the County Ground, Chelmsford.


2020 Sunrisers (women's cricket) season, Squad
Sunrisers' squad is listed below. Age given is at the start of Sunrisers' first match of the season (29 August 2020).


2020 Sunshine Coast Gympie Rugby League season
The 2020 Sunshine Coast Gympie Rugby League season was to be the 101st season rugby league football in the area that is now the Sunshine Coast, Queensland.


2020 Sunshine Coast Gympie Rugby League season
The start to the season was disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, which was formally declared a pandemic on 11 March 2020.


2020 Sunshine Coast Gympie Rugby League season
On June 16 it was reported that a number of clubs – including six Division 1 clubs – didn't nominate sides for the 2020 season by the June 15h deadline. The season was eventually cancelled.


2020 Sunshine Coast Gympie Rugby League season
Out of our nine clubs with A Grade teams, six teams decided not to nominate teams this year.


2020 Sunshine Ladies Tour
The 2020 Sunshine Ladies Tour was the 7th season of the Sunshine Ladies Tour, a series of professional golf tournaments for women based in  South Africa.


2020 Sunshine Ladies Tour, Schedule
The season consisted of 9 events, all held in South Africa, played as a block between January and March, with one event in October. Seven events counted towards the Investec Order of Merit, the Canon Serengeti Par-3 Challenge was a new event on the schedule.


2020 Sunshine Ladies Tour, Order of Merit
This shows the leaders in the final Order of Merit.


2020 Super Formula Championship
The 2020 Japanese Super Formula Championship was the 34th season of premier Japanese open-wheel motor racing, and the eight under the moniker of Super Formula.


2020 Super Formula Championship, Race calendar
The provisional calendar with seven rounds was announced in July 2019. However, in September 2019 the calendar was updated to have the Suzuka Circuit as the first round rather than the Fuji Speedway. The final round at Suzuka Circuit was pushed back 2 weeks to avoid a schedule conflict with the FIA World Endurance Championship, which competes at Fuji Speedway on 1 November. After multiple postponements due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a revised calendar was announced on 9 June 2020 that now sees the season starting in August and running until December.


2020 Super Formula Championship, Championship Standings, Scoring system
For the 2020 season, the points system has been overhauled to be more in-line with Super GT. The final points standing only includes the five best results. Additionally, bonus points are no longer available for the final race of the season. Points are also given to the top three drivers of qualifying as opposed to just points for pole position. Note that these qualifying points do not count towards the teams' championship.


2020 Super Formula Championship, Championship Standings, Drivers' Championship
Bold – PoleItalics – Fastest Lap1 – 3 Points for Pole2 – 2 Points for P23 – 1 Points for P3


2020 Super Formula Lights
The 2020 Super Formula Lights Championship was the first Super Formula Lights Championship season, after the Japanese Formula 3 Championship was rebranded following the end of the 2019 season. It was rebranded because of FIA nomenclature regulations (all regional F3 series were rebranded "Formula Regional," with the European series in 2019 and North American series in 2020;  the Formula Regional branding went to another promoter) and a switch to Euroformula Open Championship specification Dallara 320 chassis and similar regulations, which are different from FIA-approved Formula Regional.


2020 Super Formula Lights, Race calendar
The race calendar for the 2020 season was revealed on September 11, 2019. All rounds supported the Super Formula Championship. After multiple postponements due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a revised calendar was announced on 10 June 2020, which had the season start at the end of August and finish in late December.


2020 Super GT Series
The 2020 Super GT Series was motor racing championship based in Japan for grand touring cars. The series is sanctioned by the Japan Automobile Federation (JAF) and run by the GT Association (GTA). It was the twenty-eighth season of the Japan Automobile Federation Super GT Championship which includes the All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship (JGTC) era and the sixteenth season the series to compete under the Super GT name. It was the thirty-eighth overall season of a JAF national sportscar championship dating back to the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship.


2020 Super GT Series
Team Kunimitsu and drivers Naoki Yamamoto and Tadasuke Makino won the Drivers' and Teams' Championships in GT500 for Honda and their new NSX-GT with a front-engine layout. They clinched the championship in the final lap of the final race of the season, after championship rivals TGR Team KeePer TOM's and driver Ryo Hirakawa ran out of fuel at the final corner. Nissan customer racing team Kondo Racing and drivers Kiyoto Fujinami and João Paulo Lima de Oliveira won the GT300 class championships in the second-generation GT-R NISMO GT3.


2020 Super GT Series, Schedule, Initial 2020 schedule
On July 26, 2019, the GTA announced the provisional calendar for the 2020 Super GT series, with the number of rounds remaining at 8, but with an increase in the number of overseas races, with the return of Chang International Circuit in Thailand, and for the first time since 2013 Super GT Series, a return to Sepang International Circuit, in Malaysia. Despite its absence in the calendar, Sepang had remained a popular choice for manufacturers when reviewing locations for testing, particularly during the winter months.


2020 Super GT Series, Schedule, Initial 2020 schedule
At the time, dates for neither of the overseas rounds were revealed, although the races were expected to take place between June and August. The Fuji 500 mile round, introduced to replace the 1000 km of Suzuka, was dropped to avoid a clash with the 2020 Summer Olympics, which would be held in Tokyo. A finalised calendar with the dates for both overseas rounds was revealed during the 2019 Motegi GT 250 km weekend.


2020 Super GT Series, Schedule, Impact of 2019-20 coronavirus pandemic
On March 18, 2020, the original opening round at Okayama International Circuit was postponed to an undetermined date due to the 2019-20 coronavirus pandemic. On March 30, 2020, the second and third rounds at Fuji Speedway and Suzuka Circuit were each postponed. On April 5, 2020, the series released its first revised calendar, which was scheduled to begin on July 12 at Okayama. With the 2020 Summer Olympics postponed, the Fuji Speedway round, traditionally scheduled for the Golden Week holiday of May 4, was moved to August 9.


2020 Super GT Series, Schedule, Impact of 2019-20 coronavirus pandemic
On June 4, 2020, a second revision to the calendar was announced. The season is now scheduled to begin on July 19 at Fuji Speedway, the first of three confirmed races that were announced to be held at Fuji, with a fourth added later. Two rounds were scheduled to take place at Suzuka Circuit, with one scheduled for August 23, the date that was originally set for the cancelled 2020 Suzuka 10 Hours. Two rounds were scheduled to take place at Twin Ring Motegi.


2020 Super GT Series, Schedule, Impact of 2019-20 coronavirus pandemic
The rounds at Okayama International Circuit, Autopolis, and Sportsland Sugo in Japan, as well as the round at Sepang International Circuit in Malaysia, were all cancelled for 2020. On June 8, 2020, it was confirmed that the eighth and final round would take place at Fuji Speedway on November 29, after the round at Chang International Circuit in Thailand, which was provisionally scheduled to take place on December 27, was cancelled. The first event format was announced on June 29, with the first race at Fuji being held at a 300 kilometre distance.


2020 Super GT Series, Schedule, Impact of 2019-20 coronavirus pandemic
This season saw a number of corporate sponsors purchasing naming rights for individual rounds. Oono Associates purchased naming rights for all four rounds held at Fuji Speedway, under their Takanokono Hotel property based in Matsuyama, Japan. Steel manufacturer Fujimaki Group purchased naming rights for the two rounds held at Suzuka Circuit and Twin Ring Motegi.


2020 Super GT Series, Teams and drivers
A total of 45 teams registered to take part in the 2020 Super GT season, 15 teams from the GT500 class, and 30 teams from the GT300 class.


2020 Super GT Series, Teams and drivers, Driver Changes, Mid-season changes
Due to travel restrictions put into place as a result of the 2019-20 coronavirus pandemic, several driver changes were necessitated, starting from the opening round at Fuji Speedway.


2020 Super League Grand Final
The 2020 Super League Grand Final was the 23rd official Grand Final and championship-deciding game of Super League XXV. The game was won 8–4 by St Helens over their local rivals Wigan Warriors. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was the first Super League Grand Final not held at Old Trafford.


2020 Super League Grand Final, Stadium selection
Initially, Old Trafford was confirmed as the venue for the 2020 Super League Grand Final, with the Premier League scheduling Manchester United's tie against Southampton, on the same day, to be played away at St Mary's Stadium in order to allow Old Trafford to accommodate the Grand Final.


2020 Super League Grand Final, Stadium selection
However with an increasing number of positive COVID-19 tests in rugby league players and match postponements approaching the game, Manchester United and the Super League withdrew from the agreement on 17 October as Old Trafford would be unable to accommodate a change in date with them hosting İstanbul Başakşehir and Paris Saint Germain midweek either side of the Grand Final weekend in the Champions League. On 22 October it was announced that the game would be played at the KCOM Stadium, Hull on Friday 27 November with an 8pm kick-off.


2020 Super League Grand Final, Stadium selection
Criticism was met with the selection of KCOM as the venue, with some people saying it was a poor attempt to expand rugby league's reach, whereas other were saying it was the most iconic Super League stadium and that stadium selection did not matter as fans were not allowed to attend.


2020 Super League Grand Final, Background
The two finalists finished first and second in the regular season with Wigan winning 13 of their 17 games and St Helens 12 out of 17. These league positions earned both clubs byes to the second (semi-final) round of the play-offs and home advantage in their semi-final matches.


2020 Super League Grand Final, Background, Route to the final
Wigan finished first in the regular season, to claim their first League Leaders Shield since 2012, and a first trophy for head coach, Adrian Lam. In their semi-final they played Hull F.C. the lowest ranked winning team from the elimination finals. Wigan won the match 29–2, with tries from Joe Burgess, Harry Smith, Zak Hardaker, Jake Bibby and Bevan French to reach the grand final, for an 11th time.


2020 Super League Grand Final, Background, Route to the final
After the semi-final game, Wigan captain Sean O'Loughlin (who has been with Wigan since 2002), was given a guard of honour from both sets of teams, as he made his way back to the dressing room, as this was his final match at the DW Stadium as a Wigan player due to him retiring after the grand final.


2020 Super League Grand Final, Background, Route to the final
Reigning and defending champions St Helens finished second in the regular season against Catalans Dragons the higher ranked winning team from the elimination finals. St Helens won the match 48–2, to reach the grand final, for a record 12th time.


2020 Super League Grand Final, Match details
Both teams normal kit colours are red and white, but with Wigan having finished higher in the league, they were the 'home team' which meant that they were playing in their normal red and white colours, with St Helens playing in their alternate blue and white kit.


2020 Super League Grand Final, Match details
The game was the lowest scoring grand final in the history of Super League, but has been described as one of the greatest and most dramatic grand finals.


2020 Super League Grand Final, Match details
In a game dominated by defences, there was no scoring until the last minute of the first half, when St Helens were awarded a penalty for a shoulder charge by Morgan Smithies on Lachlan Coote. Coote took the kick himself to give St Helens a 2–0 half-time lead. The closest effort to a try had seen Wigan's Zak Hardaker prevented from scoring by five St Helens defenders, when he was held-up over the St Helens goal line after 28 minutes


2020 Super League Grand Final, Match details
The second half continued in the same fashion, with scoring opportunities limited. St Helens thought they had scored on 55 minutes, when Zeb Taia grounded a kick from James Roby, but referee Chris Kendall disallowed the try for offside, a decision confirmed by video referee Ben Thaler.


2020 Super League Grand Final, Match details
Wigan's Jake Bibby finally scored the first try of the game, after 66 minutes when he touched down in the corner. Hardaker's conversion attempt bounced off the crossbar to give Wigan a 4–2 lead. With less than 10 minutes left, St Helens were awarded another penalty as Jackson Hastings was adjudged to have high tackled Theo Fages. Coote made his second successful kick to level the scores up at 4–4. In the 78th minute, Wigan were awarded a penalty when Theo Fages was ruled offside.


2020 Super League Grand Final, Match details
From just inside the Saints half of the field, Hardaker's kick drifted right of the goalposts, leaving the scores tied. As the game went into its final seconds, Saints winger Tommy Makinson attempted a drop goal, and as the hooter sounded the end of the game, the ball bounced back off the goal post, and bounced into the Wigan in-goal area, where St Helens centre Jack Welsby out-sprinted Wigan fullback Bevan French to score the match winning try.


2020 Super Rugby AU season
The 2020 Super Rugby AU season (branded as Vodafone Super Rugby AU for sponsorship reasons) was a professional club rugby union tournament organised by Rugby Australia. Sponsored by communications company Vodafone, the tournament replaced the Australian component of the incomplete 2020 Super Rugby season that was shut down in March of that year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It featured the four teams from the 2020 Australian conference, with the addition of former Super Rugby franchise the Western Force.


2020 Super Rugby AU season
The tournament was the inaugural season of Super Rugby AU and ran from 3 July to 19 September 2020.


2020 Super Rugby AU season, Law adaptions
On 12 June, Rugby Australia announced seven law trials designed to make the game more entertaining for the fans and players. The trials were adapted from the 10 optional law trials available for unions and competitions given by World Rugby in May 2020. The following trials will be used during the competition:


2020 Super Rugby AU season, Matches, Final
Assistant Referees: Amy Perrett (Australia) Reuben Keane (Australia)Television match official: James Leckie (Australia)


2020 Super Rugby Aotearoa season
The 2020 Super Rugby Aotearoa season (branded as Investec Super Rugby Aotearoa for sponsorship reasons) was a domestic club rugby union tournament organised by New Zealand Rugby. It was a 10-week, round robin tournament played between the five New Zealand-based teams of Super Rugby. The competition supplanted the 2020 Super Rugby season, which was suspended in March due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 Super Rugby Aotearoa season
Announced on 6 May, the competition ran from 13 June to 14 August, making it the first professional rugby union competition to occur since the beginning of the pandemic. On 8 June, with most non-travel restrictions relating to the pandemic having been lifted in New Zealand (Alert Level 1), it was announced that the matches would be played with spectators admitted, making it among the first professional sporting events not played behind closed doors since the beginning of the pandemic's global spread.


2020 Super Rugby Aotearoa season
Due to the reinstatement of restrictions nationally on 11 August after new cases of community transmission, one match in the final round was played behind closed doors, and the other was cancelled due to Alert Level 3 in Auckland and declared a 0-0 draw — resulting in the Crusaders clinching the tournament championship.


2020 Super Rugby Aotearoa season
With New Zealand border restrictions and managed isolation requirements not easing despite the country back in level 1 alert level as of October 11, 2020, Super Rugby Aotearoa and Australia will return in 2021, and Super Rugby Aotearoa will by sponsored by Sky New Zealand. There will be an increase of Sunday afternoon fixtures, which proved popular in 2020.


2020 Super Rugby Aotearoa season, Law adaptions
On 2 June, New Zealand Rugby announced that it would implement two optional law trials being offered by World Rugby, including a golden point format for extra time, and that players who receive a red card can be substituted after 20 minutes. It was also stated that referees would be stricter in applying laws for breakdowns to increase the pace of play.


2020 Super Rugby Aotearoa season, Standings
Key: P = matches played, W = Win, D = Draw, L = Loss, PF = Points for, PA = Points Against, PD = Points Difference, TF = Tries For, TA = Tries Against, TB = Tries Bonus, LB = Loss Bonus, Pts = Competition Points


2020 Super Rugby Aotearoa season, Matches, Round 10
On 14 August, due to restrictions being reintroduced nationwide after new cases of community transmission (with Alert Level 3 in effect in Auckland and thus prohibiting all events, and all other regions under Alert Level 2), the penultimate match between the Highlanders and Hurricanes was played behind closed doors, and the final match between the Blues and Crusaders was cancelled and declared a draw (with both teams awarded two points on the final standings).


2020 Super Rugby season
The 2020 Super Rugby season was the 25th season of Super Rugby, an international men's rugby union competition organised by SANZAAR involving teams from Argentina, Australia, Japan, New Zealand and South Africa. It is the third tournament in its current 15 team format, the last before the Japanese side the Sunwolves withdraw from the tournament ahead of a new format in 2021. The current champions are the Crusaders, who won their 10th title in 2019.


2020 Super Rugby season
On 14 March 2020, it was announced that play would be suspended after the conclusion of the weekend's fixtures, due to the COVID-19 pandemic and a travel restriction that was announced by New Zealand earlier in the day. Replacement regional tournaments would take place thereafter, beginning in June in New Zealand, July in Australia and October in South Africa.


2020 Super Rugby season, Competition format
15 teams will partake in the 2020 edition of Super Rugby. They are split into three different 'conferences': the Australian Conference (consisting of four Australian teams and the Japanese Sunwolves), the New Zealand Conference (consisting of five New Zealand teams), and the South African Conference (consisting of four South African teams and the  Jaguares from Argentina).


2020 Super Rugby season, Competition format
The group stages consist of 18 rounds of matches spanning from 31 January 2020 until the beginning of June. Teams play 16 matches each across these 18 rounds with two bye weeks built into each of their schedules. Teams play each of their conference rivals home and away and then another eight matches against non-conference teams either home or away, but will play against a minimum of four of the teams in the other conferences.


2020 Super Rugby season, Competition format
The winner of each conference qualifies for the Super Rugby finals, along with the next five best teams from all the conferences. The winners of each conference and the best placed team host the quarterfinals. The winners of the quarterfinals then progress to the semifinals, and the winners of the semifinals to the final. The hosts of the semifinals and finals are determined on the team which has the best record from the regular season.


2020 Super Rugby season, COVID-19 pandemic
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, two Sunwolves matches were moved to Australia from Japan. It was announced 12 March that although fans would still be admitted for that weekend's fixtures, future rounds held in Australia were to be played behind closed doors. On 14 March, New Zealand announced that all travellers entering the country from outside of the Pacific Islands would be required to self-isolate for 14 days on arrival; as this would make play logistically difficult, SANZAAR announced that the season would be suspended indefinitely following the completion of the seventh round of fixtures.


2020 Super Rugby season, COVID-19 pandemic
Following the suspension, SANZAAR and regional rugby boards proposed regional tournaments to replace the Super Rugby fixtures that were cancelled. On 6 May, New Zealand Rugby announced that a Super Rugby Aotearoa competition, involving the five New Zealand teams, would begin on 13 June. The competition will be contested using a double round robin format, with 20 matches played over 10 weeks. On 27 May, Rugby Australia confirmed Super Rugby AU would begin on 3 July, involving the four Australian sides in the Australian conference and the Western Force, who played in Super Rugby until the 2017 season. The Sunwolves were also in discussions to take part in the Australian competition, but due to travel restrictions were unable to do so. Following this, the club was disbanded on 1 June, with the side having been due to leave Super Rugby at the end of the original 2020 season.


2020 Super Rugby season, COVID-19 pandemic
On 16 September, SA Rugby announced a 7 team competition between the four South African Super Rugby sides, plus the Cheetahs from Pro14, and the Griquas and Pumas from the Currie Cup, starting on 10 October. On 18 September, the official details of the Super Rugby Unlocked tournament was announced, with the 7 teams playing each other in a round robin format over the course of 7 weeks, with the domestic Currie Cup competition continuing thereafter.


2020 Super Rugby season, Standings
The current standings for the 2020 Super Rugby season are:


2020 Super Rugby season, Standings, Round-by-round
The table below shows each team's progression throughout the season. For each round, their cumulative points total is shown with the overall log position in brackets:


2020 Super Rugby season, Matches
The fixtures for the 2020 Super Rugby competition were released on 10 September 2019.


2020 Super Rugby season, Players, Top scorers
The top ten try and point scorers during the 2020 Super Rugby season are:


2020 Super Rugby season, Referees
The following refereeing panel was appointed by SANZAAR for the 2020 Super Rugby season:


2020 Super Start Batteries 400
The 2020 Super Start Batteries 400 presented by O'Reilly Auto Parts was a NASCAR Cup Series race that was originally scheduled to be held on May 31, 2020 and was rescheduled to July 23, 2020, at Kansas Speedway in Kansas City, Kansas. Contested over 267 laps, on the 1.5 mile (2.4 km) asphalt speedway, it will be the 19th race of the 2020 NASCAR Cup Series season.


2020 Super Start Batteries 400, Report, Background
Kansas Speedway is a 1.5-mile (2.4 km) tri-oval race track in Kansas City, Kansas. It was built in 2001 and hosts two annual NASCAR race weekends. The NTT IndyCar Series also raced there until 2011. The speedway is owned and operated by the International Speedway Corporation.


2020 Super Start Batteries 400, Qualifying
Kevin Harvick was awarded the pole for the race as determined by a random draw.


2020 Super Start Batteries 400, Media, Television
NBC Sports covered the race on the television side. Rick Allen, Jeff Burton, Steve Letarte and Dale Earnhardt Jr. covered the race from the booth at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Parker Kligerman and Kelli Stavast handled the pit road duties on site, and Marty Snider handled the features from the RCR shop during the race.


2020 Super Start Batteries 400, Media, Radio
MRN had the radio call for the race which was also simulcast on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio. Alex Hayden and Jeff Striegle called the race in the booth when the field raced through the tri-oval. Dave Moody covered the race from the Sunoco spotters stand outside turn 2 when the field was racing through turns 1 and 2. Kurt Becker called the race from a platform outside turn 4. Winston Kelley and Steve Post worked pit road for the radio side.


2020 Super2 Series
The 2020 Super2 Series was an Australian motor racing competition for Supercars, which was staged as a support series to the 2020 Supercars Championship. It was the twenty-first running of the Supercars Development Series, the second tier of competition in Supercars racing.


2020 Super2 Series, Entries
The following teams and drivers competed in the 2020 championship:


2020 Super2 Series, Calendar
The calendar for the 2020 championship was expected to consist of five rounds, but only three were run as the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the running of the championship.


2020 Superbike World Championship
The 2020 Motul FIM Superbike World Championship was the 33rd season of the Superbike World Championship.


2020 Superbike World Championship, Race calendar and results
The 2020 season calendar was announced on 21 November 2019, with 13 rounds scheduled. The championship visited Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya (on 19 and 20 September) for the first time, and a round was due to be staged at Oschersleben – on 1 and 2 August – for the first time since 2004. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Losail round was postponed to an unannounced date and the Jerez, Assen, Aragon and Misano rounds were rescheduled to a later date, while the Imola and Oschersleben rounds were cancelled. As a result of updates made to the MotoGP calendar for the same reason, the French round date was also affected. Despite having already been rescheduled, the Assen round was later postponed to a to-be-determined date, along with the Donington round.


2020 Superbike World Championship, Race calendar and results
On 19 June, an updated calendar was published; for the restart, Jerez and Portimão were brought forward from their respective dates and a second round at Aragon was added to the schedule. Other five rounds—the first at Aragon, as well as Barcelona, Magny-Cours, San Juan and Misano—either kept their original or revised dates, although the latter two events were labelled as 'to be confirmed'. Three rounds—Losail, Donington and Assen—were included without a confirmed date and were subsequently cancelled on 24 July. The San Juan round was cancelled on the 13 August whilst the Misano round was cancelled and replaced by a round in Estoril on 18 August. It was the first time since 1993 that the championship raced at Estoril.


2020 Supercar Challenge
The 2020 Supercar Challenge powered by Hankook was the twentieth Supercar Challenge season since it replaced the Supercar Cup in 2001. It began at Circuit Zolder on 7 August and ended at Circuit Zandvoort on 11 October.


2020 Supercars Championship
The 2020 Supercars Championship (known for commercial reasons as the 2020 Virgin Australia Supercars Championship) was a motor racing series for Supercars. It was the twenty-second running of the Supercars Championship and the twenty-fourth series in which Supercars have contested the Australian Touring Car Championship, the premier title in Australian motorsport. Due to disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, a number of rounds were rescheduled or cancelled.


2020 Supercars Championship
The series reverted to having only two manufacturers, Ford and Holden, for the first time since 2012 with Nissan no longer being represented on the grid.


2020 Supercars Championship
Scott McLaughlin successfully defended his drivers' championship with one event remaining, winning the title for the third consecutive year. DJR Team Penske successfully defended the teams' championship. Ford successfully defended the manufacturers' championship.


2020 Supercars Championship, Teams and drivers
The following teams and drivers are competing in the 2020 championship:


2020 Supercars Championship, Teams and drivers, Team changes
Tekno Autosports relocated to Western Sydney and expanded to a two-car operation under the Team Sydney by Tekno brand. A second Racing Entitlement Contract (REC) was acquired from Supercars management. It entered two Triple Eight-built Holden ZB Commodores.


2020 Supercars Championship, Teams and drivers, Team changes
Brad Jones Racing expanded to a three-car team, after acquiring an REC that was formerly owned by Britek Motorsport and had been leased to Matt Stone Racing. Brad Jones Racing continued to operate a fourth car on behalf of Tim Blanchard Racing.


2020 Supercars Championship, Teams and drivers, Team changes
Kelly Racing scaled down from a four-car team racing Nissan Altimas to a two-car team with Ford Mustangs. Two of the team's RECs were purchased by Team 18 and Matt Stone Racing, with both expanding to two car entries. Matt Stone Racing acquired a second REC from Garry Rogers Motorsport to replace the one it had been leasing from Britek Motorsport. Team principal Garry Rogers cited escalating costs of competing and a model that required them to purchase parts rather than develop them as the reasons for his decision to withdraw.


2020 Supercars Championship, Teams and drivers, Team changes
Rogers' team later returned to the championship with a single wildcard for the Bathurst 1000 – signing Super2 Series drivers Tyler Everingham and Jayden Ojeda. Nathan Herne from the Australian TA2 Racing Series was originally signed in Ojeda's place however his entry was blocked as Motorsport Australia denied him of the required licence.


2020 Supercars Championship, Teams and drivers, Driver changes
Walkinshaw Andretti United fielded a new line-up in 2020 after James Courtney and Scott Pye left the team. Courtney moved to Team Sydney by Tekno, with his seat at Walkinshaw Andretti United filled by Chaz Mostert. Jack Le Brocq left Tekno Autosports and joined Tickford Racing, where he replaced Mostert. Scott Pye joined Team 18 and Walkinshaw Andretti United named reigning Super2 champion Bryce Fullwood as Pye's replacement. Chris Pither returned to the championship on a full-time basis, racing with Team Sydney by Tekno. Pither last competed full-time in 2016. Courtney departed the team after one round.


2020 Supercars Championship, Teams and drivers, Driver changes
Zane Goddard and Jake Kostecki graduated from the Super2 Series and make their championship débuts driving for Matt Stone Racing. Goddard and Kostecki will share a car as part of the new SuperLite program, allowing both drivers to compete in five rounds of the series each before teaming up for the Enduro Cup.


2020 Supercars Championship, Teams and drivers, Driver changes
Todd Hazelwood left Matt Stone Racing to join Brad Jones Racing. He replaced Tim Slade who will join DJR Team Penske as a co-driver. Jack Smith made his full-time début in the championship with the team. Smith had previously competed for Brad Jones Racing in the Super2 Series and at selected Supercars rounds as a wildcard in 2019.


2020 Supercars Championship, Teams and drivers, Driver changes
Richie Stanaway and James Golding left Garry Rogers Motorsport after the team withdrew from the series. Stanaway retired from motorsport, while Golding joined Team 18 for the endurance races.


2020 Supercars Championship, Teams and drivers, Driver changes
Simona de Silvestro and Garry Jacobson left Kelly Racing after it scaled down to two cars. De Silvestro returned to Europe to compete in the ADAC GT Masters with Porsche, while Jacobson joined Matt Stone Racing.


2020 Supercars Championship, Teams and drivers, Mid-season changes
James Courtney left Team Sydney by Tekno after round one, citing an inability to come to an agreement with the team for the contract to continue. He was replaced by Alex Davison. 23Red Racing withdrew from the series after its primary sponsor withdrew after round 2, leaving Will Davison without a drive. He became a co-driver at the Bathurst 1000 for Tickford Racing after Alexandre Prémat, who resides in Las Vegas, was forced out by COVID-19 travel restrictions. Tickford Racing, which had prepared the car started to lease the REC from 23Red Racing and Car, entered the car as a fourth entry with James Courtney from round three.


2020 Supercars Championship, Calendar
The 2020 championship was originally due to be contested over twenty-eight races run at fourteen rounds. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Melbourne 400 event was cancelled after practice and qualifying had commenced. With multiple calendar revision during the year, the championship was contested over eleven rounds, although racing only occurred at ten rounds.


2020 Supercars Championship, Calendar, Calendar changes
The Sydney SuperNight was originally scheduled to return to the calendar after a one-year absence, but will instead be the first event back after the enforced break due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and will be run in daylight hours. Sydney Motorsport Park continued to host the event. The Gold Coast 600 was to have also become a night race. The Auckland Super400 moved from Pukekohe Park Raceway to Hampton Downs Motorsport Park. The change was made in response to Auckland Council passing legislation that prohibited from running any event at the circuit on key dates, with Anzac Day falling on the Saturday of the round.


2020 Supercars Championship, Calendar, Calendar changes
The Bend 500 was scheduled to replace the Sandown 500 as the opening round the Enduro Cup. The Bend SuperSprint was re-formatted as a 500 kilometre race, while the Sandown round adopted a sprint format. This resulted in a 500 kilometre being restored as the first race of the Enduro Cup after the Bathurst 1000 was the first endurance race in 2019. The Sandown round, the first sprint round at the circuit since 2011, will be known as the Sandown Super400.


2020 Supercars Championship, Calendar, Calendar changes
The Ipswich and Phillip Island SuperSprints were removed from the calendar. It will be the first time since opening that Queensland Raceway has not been on the calendar and the first since 2004 for Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit.


2020 Supercars Championship, Calendar, Format changes
The Saturday race at the SuperSprint and SuperNight events and the Darwin Triple Crown will be extended from 120 kilometres to 200 kilometres.


2020 Supercars Championship, Calendar, Format changes
Proposed changes to the Melbourne 400 and a relocated Sandown 500 to The Bend Motorsport Park did not take place as the events were subsequently cancelled.


2020 Supercars Championship, Calendar, Impact of 2019–20 COVID-19 pandemic
The championship was disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, with the Melbourne 400 cancelled before the first race of the event. Supercars' management later announced that should an event be postponed, the calendar would have been altered to complete the 2020 fixture, and that a January 2021 finish may have been required to do so. Supercars later announced the postponement of the Launceston, Auckland and Perth rounds due to the pandemic. All three were later cancelled.


2020 Supercars Championship, Calendar, Impact of 2019–20 COVID-19 pandemic
The championship recommenced in June with a reformatted round at Sydney Motorsport Park, with the postponed races assigned new dates later in the season. Races at Gold Coast and Newcastle were removed from the schedule.


2020 Supercars Championship, Calendar, Impact of 2019–20 COVID-19 pandemic
Due to a spike in COVID-19 cases in Victoria, Sydney Motorsport Park hosted round four of the championship on the weekend of July 18–19 instead of Winton. The event followed the same format as the previous round but featured a night race on the Saturday night and fans were allowed to attend the event. This spike also caused the Sandown event to be removed from the calendar and replaced with two rounds at The Bend Motorsport Park on the weekends of September 19–20 and 26–27. This calendar revision also saw postponed races at Symmons Plains Raceway, Wanneroo Raceway and a scheduled third appearance at Sydney Motorsport Park cancelled.


2020 Supercars Championship, Rule changes, Technical regulations
The number of engines that a team was allowed to use has been reduced to three, compared with four in 2019 in a bid to reduce costs. The piston ring and rocker ratios became control components and engines must complete 4,000 km (2,485 mi) before being rebuilt. Breaking the engine seal before reaching the mileage limit will result in a ten-place grid penalty, similar to Formula One's system of grid penalties for changing engine components. However, engine changes can be made with the approval of Supercars provided that teams present a clear reason for doing so.


2020 Supercars Championship, Rule changes, Technical regulations
A control shock absorber manufactured by Supashock was introduced in a bid to reducing costs. All cars had a reduction of downforce of up to twelve percent, in a bid to improve racing and encourage overtakes. The rear wing angle was be reduced from 18 degrees to 13 degrees, and has gurney flaps of 13 millimetres and 10 millimetres on the wing plane and bootlid respectively. The Mustang's rear wing has also moved forward by 90 millimetres and lowered by 50 millimetres.


2020 Supercars Championship, Rule changes, Technical regulations
LED panels were to be fitted in the windows of all cars. To accommodate this, the car number on the front windscreen moved from the top-right to top-left corner. Originally scheduled to be introduced from the start of the season, due to production delays its introduction was postponed until 2021.


2020 Supercars Championship, Results and standings, Points system
Points were awarded for each race at an event, to the driver or drivers of a car that completed at least 75% of the race distance and was running at the completion of the race. At least 50% of the planned race distance must be completed for the result to be valid and championship points awarded.


2020 Supercopa Ecuador
The 2020 Supercopa Ecuador was the first edition of the Supercopa Ecuador, Ecuador's football super cup. It was held on 1 February 2020 between 2019 Ecuadorian Serie A champions Delfín and 2019 Copa Ecuador champions LDU Quito, being the third final in a row played between both sides after the final series of both the league and the cup. It was also the first time VAR was implemented in Ecuadorian football.


2020 Supercopa Ecuador
The match was played at Estadio Christian Benítez Betancourt in Guayaquil. Originally it was scheduled to be played at Estadio Monumental Isidro Romero Carbo, however, the venue was switched due to the latter stadium hosting the return leg of Barcelona's Copa Libertadores first stage tie against Uruguayan club Progreso on 29 January.


2020 Supercopa Ecuador
LDU Quito were the winners, beating Delfín 5–4 on penalties following a 1–1 draw after 90 minutes.


2020 Supercopa Ecuador, Match
Assistant referees:Christian LescanoMónica AmboyaFourth official:Augusto AragónVideo assistant referee:Carlos OrbeAssistant video assistant referee:Luis Quiroz


2020 Supercopa Peruana
The 2020 Supercopa Peruana was the 1st edition of the Supercopa Peruana, an annual football super cup contested by the winners of the previous season's Liga 1 and Copa Bicentenario competitions.


2020 Supercopa Peruana
The match was played between the 2019 Copa Bicentenario champion, Atlético Grau, and the winners of the 2019 Liga 1, Binacional.


2020 Supercopa Uruguaya
The 2020 Supercopa Uruguaya was the third edition of the Supercopa Uruguaya, Uruguay's football super cup. It was held on 1 February 2020 between 2019 Torneo Intermedio winners Liverpool and 2019 Primera División champions Nacional.


2020 Supercopa Uruguaya
The match was played at Estadio Domingo Burgueño in Maldonado, being this the first time the match was played away from Estadio Centenario in Montevideo due to it undergoing remodeling works.


2020 Supercopa Uruguaya
Liverpool defeated Nacional by a 4–2 score after extra time in order to claim their first Supercopa title.


2020 Supercopa de Chile
The 2020 Supercopa de Chile (known as the Súper Copa Easy 2020 for sponsorship purposes) was the eighth edition of the Supercopa de Chile, championship organised by the Asociación Nacional de Fútbol Profesional (ANFP). The match was played by the 2019 Chilean Primera División champions Universidad Católica and the 2019 Copa Chile champions Colo-Colo on 21 March 2021 at Estadio Nacional Julio Martínez Prádanos in Santiago.


2020 Supercopa de Chile
The match, scheduled to be played in the calendar year 2020, was postponed to 2021 due to the schedule disruptions caused by the 2019 Chilean protests which pushed back the conclusion of the 2019 Copa Chile to January 2020 and later the COVID-19 pandemic in Chile. Universidad Católica were the winners, claiming their third Supercopa title with a 4–2 victory after 90 minutes.


2020 Supercopa de Chile, Teams
The two teams that contested the Supercopa were Universidad Católica, who qualified as 2019 Primera División champions and Colo-Colo, who qualified for the match as the 2019 Copa Chile champions, defeating Universidad de Chile in the final by a 2–1 score.


2020 Supercopa de Chile, Details
Assistant referees:Christian SchiemannAlejandro MolinaFourth official:Juan LaraVideo assistant referee:Julio BascuñánAssistant video assistant referee:Loreto Toloza


2020 Supercopa de España Final
The 2020 Supercopa de España Final decided the winner of the 2019–20 Supercopa de España, the 36th edition of the annual Spanish football super cup competition. The match was played on 12 January 2020 at King Abdullah Sports City in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The final featured city rivals Real Madrid and Atlético Madrid.


2020 Supercopa de España Final
Real Madrid won the match 4–1 on penalties, following a 0–0 draw after extra time, to win their 11th Supercopa title.


2020 Supercopa de España Final, Match, Details
Assistant referees:Raúl Cabañero Martínez (Region of Murcia)José Gallego García (Region of Murcia)Fourth official:Guillermo Cuadra Fernández (Balearic Islands)Reserve assistant referee:Diego Barbero Sevilla (Andalusia)Video assistant referee:Ignacio Iglesias Villanueva (Galicia)Assistant video assistant referees:Santiago Jaime Latre (Aragon)Roberto Díaz Pérez del Palomar (Basque Country)


2020 Supercopa de España de Baloncesto
The 2020 Supercopa de España de Baloncesto, also known as Supercopa Endesa for sponsorship reasons, was the 17th edition of the Supercopa de España de Baloncesto, an annual basketball competition for clubs in the Spanish basketball league system that were successful in its major competitions in the preceding season. All matches were played behind closed doors due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 Supercopa de España de Baloncesto
Real Madrid defended successfully the title and conquered its third consecutive Supercup, 6th overall.


2020 Supercopa de España de Baloncesto, Qualification
The tournament featured the winners from the three major competitions (2019–20 Liga Endesa, 2020 Copa del Rey and 2019 Supercopa Endesa), the host team and the remaining highest ranked teams from the 2019–20 Liga Endesa season if vacant berths exist.


2020 Supercopa de España de Baloncesto, Venue
On May 16, 2019, ACB selected and announced Tenerife to host the supercup on September 2020. The venue can hold 5,000 people for basketball games, and it offers 2,000 square meters of floor space. The facilities remain open all year long, without interruption. The pavilion also provides the following facilities for athletic use: 5 large locker rooms and 4 double locker rooms. Additionally, a gymnasium, infirmary, video and press room are available as well as a rehab room for athletes.


2020 Supercopa de España de Baloncesto, Venue
The arena hosted the 2017 Champions League Final Four, as Iberostar Tenerife hosted the tournament in which Tenerife won its first Champions League title. The arena also hosted the 2017 Intercontinental Cup final match between Tenerife and Guaros de Lara. The arena was also used a host venue of the 2018 Women's World Cup, and the 2020 Intercontinental Cup.


2020 Supercopa de España de Baloncesto, Draw
The draw was held on 29 July 2020 in Tenerife, Spain. TD Systems Baskonia as the league champion and Real Madrid as cup champion were the seeded teams.


2020 Supercopa do Brasil
The 2020 Supercopa do Brasil was the 3rd Supercopa do Brasil, an annual football match played between the champions of the 2019 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A and 2019 Copa do Brasil. The 2020 edition marked the return of the tournament, which since 1991 was not disputed.


2020 Supercopa do Brasil
The match was played at the Estádio Nacional Mané Garrincha in Brasília on 16 February 2020. Flamengo and Athletico Paranaense qualified after winning the 2019 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A tournament and the 2019 Copa do Brasil, respectively.


2020 Supercopa do Brasil
Flamengo won the match 3–0, securing their first tournament title.


2020 Supercopa do Brasil, Match, Details
Assistant referees:Fabrício Vilarinho da Silva (Goiás)Bruno Raphael Pires (Goiás)Fourth official:Sávio Pereira Sampaio (Federal District)Video assistant referee:Rodrigo Guarizo Ferreira do Amaral (São Paulo)Assistant video assistant referees:Márcio Henrique de Gois (São Paulo)Leone Carvalho Rocha (Goiás)


2020 Supercoppa Italiana
The 2020 Supercoppa Italiana (branded as the PS5 Supercup for sponsorship reasons) was the 33rd edition of the Supercoppa Italiana, the Italian football super cup. It was played on 20 January 2021 for the first time at the Mapei Stadium – Città del Tricolore, Reggio Emilia, between Juventus, the winners of the 2019–20 Serie A championship, and Napoli, the winners of the 2019–20 Coppa Italia.


2020 Supercoppa Italiana
Juventus won the match 2–0 and claimed their ninth Supercoppa Italiana title.


2020 Supercoppa Italiana, Background
Juventus made its ninth consecutive Supercoppa Italiana appearance, and 16th overall. They had a 4–4 record during this run, and were 8–7 overall. Napoli took part in the competition for the fourth time, having already participated as Serie A champions once (1990) and as Coppa Italia winners twice (2012, 2014). Napoli won two of the previous three editions in which they played. On all three occasions Juventus had been the opponent.


2020 Supercoppa Italiana, Match, Summary
Cristiano Ronaldo opened the scoring in the 64th minute when a corner from the left broke to him off the back of Napoli's Tiémoué Bakayoko, he finished to the net from six yards out. Napoli was awarded a penalty kick in the 80th minute, but with a chance to tie the game at 1–1, Lorenzo Insigne missed the net, wide to the left. Álvaro Morata made it 2–0 in the 5th minute of added time with a low shot to the net from the right, after Juan Cuadrado ran into the penalty area and drew goalkeeper David Ospina before passing to him.


2020 Supercoppa Italiana, Match, Details
Assistant referees:Daniele BindoniStefano Del GiovaneFourth official:Maurizio MarianiVideo assistant referee:Marco Di BelloAssistant video assistant referee:Giacomo Paganessi


2020 Supercoppa Italiana (women)
The 2020 Supercoppa Italiana (women) was the 24th edition of the Supercoppa Italiana.


2020 Supercoppa Italiana (women)
Usually 2 teams participate in the competition, but the COVID-19 pandemic caused the Coppa Italia to end prematurely and it was decided to involve the best 4 teams of the 2019–20 Serie A.


2020 Supercoppa Italiana (women), Qualified teams
Italian Football Federation has confirmed that four team's will be competing in 2020 Supercoppa Italiana (women) competition: Juventus, Fiorentina, Milan and Roma. The Federation also confirmed that the semi-finals and the final will be played at a neutral venue.


2020 Supercoppa Italiana (women), Broadcasting
Italian pay-TV broadcaster Sky Italia has secured linear and digital rights to domestic women’s club football competitions for the 2020–21 season as part of an extended rights deal with the Italian Football Federation, which includes Supercoppa Italiana (women).


2020 Supercupa României
The 2020 Supercupa României was the 22nd edition of the Supercupa României, an annual football super cup contested by the winners of the previous season's Liga I and Cupa României competitions. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the match was postponed until 15 April 2021.


2020 Supercupa României
The game featured CFR Cluj and FCSB, and the Ilie Oană Stadium in Ploiești hosted the competition for a second consecutive year. CFR Cluj claimed its fourth trophy after a 4–1 victory at the penalty shoot-out.


2020 Supercupa României, Venue
On 18 March 2021, Romanian Football Federation president Răzvan Burleanu announced that the match would be played on 15 April, at the Ilie Oană Stadium in Ploiești.


2020 Supercupa României, Post-match
Edward Iordănescu claimed his second trophy as a manager—His first was also the Supercupa României, which he won during his first spell at CFR Cluj in 2019.


2020 Supercupa României, Post-match
FCSB goalkeeper Andrei Vlad was named player of the match, on the eve of his 22nd birthday.


2020 Superettan
The 2020 Superettan is part of the 2020 Swedish football season, and the 20th season of Superettan, Sweden's second-tier football division in its current format. A total of 16 teams contest the league.


2020 Superettan, Teams
A total of 16 teams contest the league. The top two teams qualify directly for promotion to Allsvenskan, the third will enter a play-off for the chance of promotion. The two bottom teams are automatically relegated, while the 13th and 14th placed teams will compete in a play-off to determine whether they are relegated.


2020 Superettan, League table, Playoffs
The 13th-placed and 14th-placed teams of Superettan met the two runners-up from 2020 Division 1 (Norra and Södra) in two-legged ties on a home-and-away basis with the teams from Superettan finishing at home.


2020 Superliga Colombiana
The 2020 Superliga Colombiana (known as the Superliga Águila 2020 for sponsorship purposes) was the ninth edition of the Superliga Colombiana. It was contested by the champions of the 2019 Categoría Primera A season from 8 to 11 September 2020.


2020 Superliga Colombiana
The competition, which is usually played in January prior to the start of each Categoría Primera A season, was originally scheduled to be played in the middle of the year due to the schedule saturation caused by the 2020 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament and the start of the Primera A tournament in that same month.


2020 Superliga Colombiana
By February, DIMAYOR was considering to play the Superliga on 31 May 2020 as a single match at a neutral venue outside the country, with Miami as the tentative host city, however, those plans were put on hold due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the suspension of every football tournament. On 31 August 2020, with the announcement of the resumption of the tournaments organized by DIMAYOR, the competition was eventually confirmed to be played on 8 and 11 September 2020, with its usual double-legged series format.


2020 Superliga Colombiana
Junior won its second Superliga Colombiana title following a 3–2 win over América de Cali on aggregate.