2020 Liberal Democrats leadership election, Campaign
In June, acting leader Davey launched his bid to become leader saying that his "experience as a carer can help rebuild Britain after coronavirus". He proposed the establishment of a basic income to support carers, and said that the Liberal Democrats should be "the party of social care". Davey ruled out a formal electoral agreement with the Labour Party, but said that he would prioritise defeating the Conservatives, and ruled out working with the Conservatives following the next election. He proposed a plan to reduce carbon emissions from domestic flights to zero by 2030 through investment in research and technology. In a hustings event with Welsh members, he said that the 2021 Senedd election was a priority and he expected success for the Liberal Democrats.


2020 Liberal Democrats leadership election, Campaign
On 24 June, the first day of nominations, both Davey and Moran received sufficient nominations to progress to the ballot. When nominations closed in July, Davey had more nominations both from members and from MPs than Moran.


2020 Liberal Democrats leadership election, Campaign
Between the final two candidates, Moran is considered to be the more left-wing. Alongside former leader Nick Clegg and many of the Lib Dems who served in the governing Conservative-Lib Dem coalition of 2010–2015, Davey is associated with the party's right-wing Orange Booker branch. The record of the coalition, which caused a decline in popularity of the Lib Dems after 2015, has been defended by Davey. Conversely, Moran is considered to represent a break from the coalition years.


2020 Liberal Democrats leadership election, Candidates, Withdrawn
The following MPs declared their intention to stand but later withdrew.


2020 Liberal Democrats leadership election, Endorsements
Leadership candidates were endorsed by various notable politicians. Former party leader Jo Swinson remained neutral in the campaign.


2020 Liberal Democrats leadership election, Nominations
Nominations opened on 24 June. Both of the remaining candidates attained the nominations needed to progress to the membership ballot. The table below lists the number of nominations for each candidate. The total number of MPs represents the eleven Liberal Democrat MPs minus the two leadership candidates and Alistair Carmichael, who as chief whip remained neutral.


2020 Liberal Democrats leadership election, Results
Ed Davey was announced as the new leader of the Liberal Democrats on 27 August. This was the largest margin of victory since the 1988 leadership election, where Paddy Ashdown won with 71% of the vote.


2020 Liberal Democrats leadership election, Aftermath
In his victory speech, Davey said that the Liberal Democrats must "wake up and smell the coffee" and "start listening" to ordinary people and those who "don't believe we share their values." He also stressed his experience in the coalition government, and his commitments to tackle climate change. Moran later congratulated Davey on Twitter, saying "I look forward to working with him to campaign for a better future for Britain."


2020 Liberal Democrats leadership election, Aftermath
Cooper was subsequently chosen by the Parliamentary Party as their new deputy leader.


2020 Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador leadership election
The 2020 Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador leadership election was held due to the announcement by  Dwight Ball on February 17, 2020 that he would be resigning as Liberal Party leader and  Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador effective when the party elects his successor. Provincial legislation requires that a general election must occur no more than one year following a Premier's resignation.


2020 Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador leadership election
The leadership campaign was suspended on March 23, 2020 at noon due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada. The party's leadership election committee met on May 25, 2020, announcing that the race would resume on June 8, 2020. A virtual convention was held on August 3, 2020, at which Andrew Furey was elected leader.


2020 Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador leadership election, Declared candidates, John Abbott
CEO of the Newfoundland and Labrador branch of the Canadian Mental Health Association, Deputy Minister of Health under Premiers Danny Williams and Dwight Ball


2020 Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador leadership election, Declared candidates, Andrew Furey
Philanthropist and orthopedic surgeon, founder of Team Broken Earth, son of Senator George Furey, and nephew of former cabinet minister Chuck Furey.


2020 Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador leadership election, Results
Furey defeated Abbott in all 40 electoral districts, with Abbott performing the best in St. John's and the surrounding regions.


2020 Liberian Senate election
Senate elections were held in Liberia on 8 December 2020, with half the seats in the Senate up for election. the elections were held concurrently with a constitutional referendum.


2020 Liberian Senate election, Disputes
Nathaniel Blama of the Liberian National Union (LINU) called for a rerun in the election held in Gbarpolu and Grand Kru counties because of tampering with ballots.


2020 Liberian Senate election, Disputes
The Collaborating Political Parties (CPP) called for a rerun of the election in the Nimba County based on allegations of fraud.


2020 Liberian constitutional referendum
A constitutional referendum was held in Liberia on 8 December 2020 alongside Senate elections and two by-elections to the House of Representatives. It had been planned for 13 October, but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Voters were asked whether they approved of eight amendments to the constitution, voting separately on each one. Although a majority of valid votes were in favour for each proposal, the two-thirds quorum was not met for any proposal.


2020 Liberian constitutional referendum, Background
The government had planned to bundle the eight amendments into three questions, with one question on amending article 28 (citizenship), one on amending articles 45, 47, 48, 49 and 50 on the terms of office of the President, Senate and House of Representatives, and one on amending article 83 to change the date of general elections and decrease the time the Elections Commission has to investigate complaints. However, this was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, as article 92 requires amendments to be voted on separately. This was taken by many to mean the referendum was cancelled. However, Solicitor-General Syrenius Cephus claimed the ruling meant that if the questions were unbundled, the referendum could go ahead. The National Elections Commission subsequently began printing new ballot papers with the amendments separated out.


2020 Liberian constitutional referendum, Background
The opposition Collaborating Political Parties attempted to appeal to the Supreme Court, but were unsuccessful. Despite reports the changes would lead to George Weah's third presidential term like in other Western African neighbors, Weah denied the move.


2020 Liberian constitutional referendum, Results
Partial results coming from the third of country's regions showed that the amendments on reducing the term of presidency and allowing dual citizenship won a majority of votes. According to National Election Commission, voters said yes to all eight questions asked on the referendum in five of fifteen counties in the country. Final results were released on 1 April 2021, with a narrow majority in favour of all eight proposals, but none meeting the two-thirds quorum required, resulting in all proposals being rejected.


2020 Libertarian National Convention
Delegates to the 2020 Libertarian National Convention selected the Libertarian Party nominees for president and vice president in the 2020 United States presidential election. Primaries were held, but were preferential in nature and did not determine delegate allocation. The convention was originally scheduled to be held from May 21 to May 25 at the JW Marriott Austin luxury hotel in downtown Austin, Texas. On April 26, all reservations at the JW Marriott Austin were canceled in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, leaving the convention oversight committee to seek another venue for a possible July date.


2020 Libertarian National Convention
After extensive discussion and debate surrounding the question of whether the party's bylaws permitted it to convene online, the convention was eventually scheduled to be held online from May 22 to May 24 to nominate the party's presidential ticket and in Orlando, Florida from July 7 to July 12 to conduct other business.


2020 Libertarian National Convention, Nominations and balloting, Chair election
Joe Bishop-Henchman, Tony D'Orazio, Jacob Lamont, Mike Shipley, and Joshua Smith ran for chair of the Libertarian National Committee. Bishop-Henchman and Smith were both incumbent at-large representatives on the committee. Bishop-Henchman was also the incumbent chair of the DC Libertarian Party. Smith previously ran for national chair at the 2018 convention. Incumbent LNC Chair Nicholas Sarwark announced that he would not be running for a fourth term and endorsed Joe Bishop-Henchman.


2020 Libertarian National Convention, Nominations and balloting, Vice-chair election
Incumbent LNC Vice Chair Alex Merced indicated that he would not seek re-election.


2020 Libertarian National Convention, Nominations and balloting, Presidential nomination
Delegates were required to submit nominating tokens for candidates who they wished to place on the ballot for the nomination. 30 Tokens was the threshold for being nominated, with Jo Jorgensen, Jacob Hornberger, Vermin Supreme, John Monds, James P. Gray and Adam Kokesh meeting that mark.


2020 Libertarian National Convention, Nominations and balloting, Vice-presidential nomination
The Libertarian Party delegates selected the party's vice-presidential nominee the day after they selected the presidential nominee.


2020 Libertarian National Convention, Theme
In early 2019, the Libertarian Party held a contest, allowing members to decide the 2020 convention theme, charging $5 a vote. On April 11, it was announced that the winning theme was "TANSTAAFL", an acronym for "There Ain't No Such Thing As a Free Lunch", a libertarian economic concept popularized by American writer Robert Heinlein and subsequently Chicagoan school economist Milton Friedman. The phrase was also embodied in the Libertarian Party's first logo, adopted in 1972, in an image known as the "Libersign".


2020 Libertarian National Convention, Theme
The second place theme was Ancapistan, an anarcho-capitalist utopia. Ancapistan, although controversial within the Party, was number one for many weeks during the contest, until in the final remaining hours leading up to midnight it was outspent by a few supporters of TANSTAAFL.


2020 Libertarian National Convention, Theme
The theme contest raked in $24,007 for the LP to gear towards convention expenses.


2020 Libertarian National Convention, Convention speakers, Planned speakers
According to the convention website, the following notable people were scheduled speakers:


2020 Libertarian National Convention, Convention speakers, Keynote speaker dispute
Black Guns Matter founder and 2019 candidate for Philadelphia City Council At-Large Maj Toure was initially chosen to be the convention's keynote speaker. This changed in November 2019, when Convention Oversight Committee Chairman Daniel Hayes rescinded Toure's invitation. Hayes cited tweets posted by Toure that were perceived as being transphobic and anti-immigrant. Larry Sharpe, host of The Sharpe Way and 2018 Libertarian candidate for New York Governor was later selected to replace Toure as keynote speaker.


2020 Libertarian National Convention, Delegate allocation
Delegates to the convention were allocated based on the number of sustaining members of the national Libertarian Party per state, as well as the percentage of the vote cast by state in the 2016 presidential election for Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson. Delegates voted for changes to the national party's platform and bylaws, on members of the Libertarian National Committee and on the party's 2020 presidential and vice-presidential nominees. A total of 1,046 delegates were selected to vote at the convention.


2020 Libertarian National Convention, Events
On the night of May 21 (EST), the final debates for president and vice-president are being held. Participation was limited to those candidates who had finished in the top five in receiving "debate tokens" from the national convention delegates, and had also received over 10% of those tokens. Jim Gray, Jacob Hornberger, Jo Jorgensen, John Monds and Vermin Supreme all met this threshold and participated in the debate. For the vice-presidential debate, participation was also limited to candidates in the top five with a 10% threshold. Larry Sharpe, Spike Cohen and Ken Armstrong participated in the debate, with John McAfee placing in the top five but not receiving 10% of the tokens.


2020 Libertarian National Convention, Schedule
Due to the coronavirus epidemic, the balloting for the LP presidential nomination was held online, while the rest of the convention was scheduled  be held in person in July. Several practice runs were done the previous weekend.


2020 Libertarian National Convention, Presidential nomination results, Nomination round
Only candidates who received 30 or more tokens from the delegates qualified for the ballot.


2020 Libertarian National Convention, Presidential nomination results, Nomination round
There were several attempts to place candidates who had not received 30 tokens on the ballot anyway, with special attention drawn to an attempt to place “Great Meteor of Death” on the ballot.


2020 Libertarian National Convention, Presidential nomination results, Balloting
No candidate achieved the majority on the first ballot, so there was a second ballot vote. Due to finishing last of the six nominated candidates, Kokesh was excluded from the second ballot. No candidate achieved the majority on the second ballot, so there was a third ballot vote. Due to finishing last of the five remaining nominated candidates, Gray was excluded from the third ballot. Gray subsequently endorsed Jorgensen in his concession speech while Gray's running mate Larry Sharpe withdrew from the vice-presidential nomination. No candidate achieved the majority on the third ballot, so there was a fourth ballot vote. Due to finishing last of the four remaining nominated candidates, Monds was excluded from the fourth ballot. Monds subsequently endorsed Jorgensen in his concession speech and indicated he would accept the vice-presidential nomination if offered by the delegates.


2020 Libertarian National Convention, Presidential nomination results, Balloting
Jorgensen was nominated on the fourth ballot with 51.07% of the vote.


2020 Libertarian National Convention, Vice presidential nomination results
Only candidates who received 30 or more tokens from the convention delegates  qualified for the ballot.


2020 Libertarian National Convention, Vice presidential nomination results, Balloting
Prior to voting, presidential nominee Jo Jorgensen said that she would be voting for John Monds as her vice presidential running mate, but declined to endorse a candidate.


2020 Libertarian National Convention, Vice presidential nomination results, Balloting
No candidate achieved the majority on the first ballot, so there was a second ballot vote. Due to finishing last of the four nominated candidates, Kokesh was excluded from the second ballot. No candidate achieved the majority on the second ballot, so there was a third ballot vote. Due to finishing last of the three remaining nominated candidates, Armstrong was excluded from the third ballot. Armstrong endorsed Cohen in his concession speech. Cohen received the vice presidential nomination on the third ballot.


2020 Libertarian National Convention, Delegate polling, National polling of delegates to the Convention
Both of these polls were conducted using ranked choice voting, progression down the table indicates later rounds of voting as the candidate with the lowest total is eliminated.


2020 Libertarian Party presidential primaries
The 2020 Libertarian Party presidential primaries and caucuses were a series of electoral contests to indicate non-binding preferences for the Libertarian Party's presidential candidate in the 2020 United States presidential election. These differ from the Republican or Democratic presidential primaries and caucuses in that they do not appoint delegates to represent a candidate at the party's convention to select the party's presidential nominee.


2020 Libertarian Party presidential primaries
The party's nominee was subsequently chosen directly by registered delegates at the 2020 Libertarian National Convention, held through an online convention from May 22 to May 24. Jo Jorgensen was chosen as the party's presidential nominee, becoming the first woman to receive the Libertarian nomination, after four rounds of voting. Spike Cohen was nominated for vice president.


2020 Libertarian Party presidential primaries, Background
The 2020 United States presidential election was the thirteenth contested presidential election in which the Libertarian Party participated. The 2016 election saw the highest vote total and percentage of votes for a Libertarian presidential ticket ever, with former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson and his running mate, former Massachusetts governor Bill Weld, receiving over four million votes and 3.28% of the total vote. During his presidential campaign in 2016, Johnson often stated that it would be his last run for the presidency.


2020 Libertarian Party presidential primaries, Candidates
Major candidates have been invited to participate in at least two Libertarian Party-sponsored debates or have received substantial independent media coverage.


2020 Libertarian Party presidential primaries, Candidates, Declined to be candidates
These individuals have been the subject of presidential speculation, but have publicly denied or recanted interest in running for president.


2020 Libertarian Party presidential primaries, Primaries and caucuses
The Libertarian Party will be eligible to participate in presidential primaries in numerous states.


2020 Libertarian Party presidential primaries, Primary election polling, National polling, National polling of delegates to the Convention
Both of these polls were conducted using ranked choice voting, progression down the table indicates later rounds of voting as the candidate with the lowest total is eliminated.


2020 Libertarian Party presidential primaries, Primary election polling, Online straw polls
The following are early unofficial online polls that have included various speculative and potential candidates, including some that are not members of the Libertarian Party.


2020 Libertarian Party presidential primaries, Campaign finance
This is an overview of the money used by each campaign as it is reported to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) and released on October 15, 2019. Totals raised include loans from the candidate and transfers from other campaign committees. Some of the Libertarian candidates have not filed with the FEC, and financial data for those candidates are therefore not available.


2020 Liberty Bowl
The 2020 Liberty Bowl was a college football bowl game played on December 31, 2020, with kickoff at 4:00 p.m. EST (3:00 p.m. local CST) on ESPN. It was the 62nd edition of the Liberty Bowl, and was one of the 2020–21 bowl games concluding the 2020 FBS football season. Sponsored by automotive retailer AutoZone, the game was officially known as the AutoZone Liberty Bowl.


2020 Liberty Bowl, Teams
Based on conference tie-ins, the bowl was expected to feature teams from the Southeastern Conference (SEC) and the Big 12 Conference. After a matchup of West Virginia of the Big 12 and Tennessee of the SEC was announced on December 20, the Tennessee program had to withdraw on December 21 due to positive COVID-19 testing. Army, who had accepted an invitation to the Independence Bowl before it was canceled due to a lack of available teams, was named as their replacement.


2020 Liberty Bowl, Teams, West Virginia Mountaineers
West Virginia of the Big 12 entered the Liberty Bowl with a 5–4 record, 4–4 in conference play. The Mountaineers' most recent bowl game was the 2018 Camping World Bowl, and their most recent bowl win was the 2016 Cactus Bowl (January). They had two prior appearances in the Liberty Bowl, losing in the 1964 and the 2014 editions.


2020 Liberty Bowl, Teams, Army Black Knights
Army, which competed as an independent, entered the Liberty Bowl with a 9–2 record. The Black Knights' most recent bowl game, and bowl win, was the 2018 Armed Forces Bowl. This edition marked Army’s first Liberty Bowl appearance.


2020 Liberty Bowl, Game summary, Statistics
Tyhier Tyler tied the Liberty Bowl record for rushing touchdowns, with three.


2020 Liberty Flames baseball team
The 2020 Liberty Flames baseball team represented Liberty University in the sport of baseball for the 2020 college baseball season. The Flames competed in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the Atlantic Sun Conference. They played their home games at Liberty Baseball Stadium in Lynchburg, Virginia. The team was coached by Scott Jackson, who was in his fourth season at Liberty.


2020 Liberty Flames baseball team, Previous season
The 2019 Flames finished 40–19 overall, and 15–9 in the conference. In the 2019 Atlantic Sun Conference Baseball Tournament championship game, they beat the Stetson Hatters to win their first ever ASUN title. They lost in the Chapel Hill Regional during the 2019 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.


2020 Liberty Flames football team
The 2020 Liberty Flames football team represented Liberty University in the 2020 NCAA Division I FBS football season. They were led by second-year head coach Hugh Freeze and played their home games at Williams Stadium. The Flames competed as an FBS independent.


2020 Liberty Flames football team, Schedule
Liberty had games scheduled against Bowling Green, North Carolina A&T, UConn, and UMass, which were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. These games were partially replaced with new match-ups announced with Coastal Carolina and North Alabama. The games against NC State and Syracuse were rescheduled for different days for the 2020 season.


2020 Liberty Flames football team, Schedule
Because of an increased number of COVID-19 cases within the football program, Liberty University's medical staff decided to pause its football team's activities and cancel the game with Coastal Carolina in Conway, South Carolina, scheduled for December 5. Ironically, the two teams were selected to play in the Cure Bowl at season's end, a match-up that Liberty won.


2020 Liberty Flames football team, Game summaries, at Virginia Tech
The game featured a wild finish as Liberty got into field goal range with 8 seconds left to go in a 35-35 tie. Facing a 4th and 6 at the Virginia Tech 41-yard line, disaster appeared to strike when Liberty 59-yard field goal attempt was blocked and returned for a touchdown by Virginia Tech's Jermaine Waller with no time remaining. However, Virginia Tech had called a timeout to try to Icing the kicker before the play.


2020 Liberty Flames football team, Game summaries, at Virginia Tech
Liberty then decided to go for it on fourth down, and got a 8-yard pass completion for a first down after Virginia Tech mistakenly thought that Flames would try a Hail Mary and went to a prevent defense. With 5 seconds remaining, the Flames converted a 51-yard field goal to win the game.


2020 Libyan protests
The 2020 Libyan protests consisted of street protests over issues of poor provision of services in several cities in Libya, including cities controlled by the Government of National Accord (GNA) in the west (Tripoli, Misrata, Zawiya) and by the Libyan National Army (LNA) in the east (Benghazi) and south (Sabha) of Libya.


2020 Libyan protests, August 2020
On 23 and 24 August 2020, protests took place in Tripoli, Misrata and Zawiya over issues of power and water cuts, lack of fuel and cooking gas, cash shortages, poor security, and the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 Libyan protests, August 2020
Armed forces associated with the GNA shot at the demonstrators, causing injuries. The Interior Ministry stated that demonstrators had the right to peacefully protest and that the ministry had opened criminal investigations into the shootings. The Tripoli Protection Force also declared its support for the right of citizens to carry out street protests. The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) also called for an investigation. Interior Minister Fathi Bashagha criticised the gunmen, stating that live ammunition was used "indiscriminately", and that the gunmen had kidnapped demonstrators and "[sowed] panic among the population and [threatened] security and public order".


2020 Libyan protests, August 2020
Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj responded to the protests with a long speech, with the suspension of Interior Minister Fathi Bashagha, and with a Cabinet reshuffle. Salah Eddine al-Namrush became Defence Minister and Mohammad Ali al-Haddad, from Misrata, became the head of the army.


2020 Libyan protests, September 2020
Protests over "living conditions and power cuts" took place in Benghazi on 11 September 2020, including tyre burning and road blocks. Protests continued in Benghazi on 12 and 13 September, and started in Bayda, Sabha and Marj. Benghazi protestors set fire to a building used as headquarters by the LNA-associated authorities. The de facto LNA-associated government led by Abdullah al-Thani offered its resignation on 13 September 2020 in response to the protests.


2020 Libyan protests, September 2020
On 13 September, two hundred protestors demonstrated in Tripoli in front of the Presidential Council against poor living conditions and calling for elections and political reform. Speakers at the protest objected to the appointment of Mohammed Bayou as head of a state-supported media organisation, claiming that he supported Khalifa Haftar.


2020 Libyan protests, September 2020
On 16 September, Fayez al-Sarraj, head and prime minister of the Government of National Accord, stated that he would resign from his position by the end of October 2020.


2020 Libyan protests, September 2020
Protests continued on 21 September in Benghazi by the Residents of the City of Benghazi calling for democracy and opposing corruption and on 24 September in Sug Juma, Tripoli and Zliten against cuts in electric power. The Benghazi protestors were attacked by Haftar supporters and one organiser went missing. The 24 September protests included road blocks and tyre burning.


2020 Libyan protests, September 2020
A protest in Gharyan on 23 September called for the Gharyan municipal elections to be held.


2020 Libyan protests, October 2020
A protest in Sabha on 16 October criticised Haftar for poor living conditions in Sabha and the southern region in general, citing control of fuel supplies, growth of the black market and the shutdown of Sabha Airport.


2020 Libyan protests, October 2020
Protests and strikes were seen as widespread and nationwide with riots being held and the country seen at risk of a revolution by unknown commentators. Between 19-20 October, protests and riots against the government and the shortages on the nation occurred with no police involved but then, riot police took control of the protests in Tobruk and clashing with protesters in Benghazi. Peaceful demonstrations occurred throughout Libya between 22-27 October and led to shootings and quelling. Anti - France and a 2-day anti-govt movement was held in Tripoli.


2020 Libyan protests, October 2020
Strikes against power cuts saw hundreds attend on 29-30 October. It was met with tear gas and plastic bullets and riots was met with rubber bullets. Riots occurred on 29 October by workers and ended violently with clashes. The general strikes was the worse since August. Benghazi and Sirte was the areas that experienced the unrest, according to local Libyan media.


2020 Libyan protests, October 2020
On 31 October 2020, Fayez al-Sarraj rescinded his decision to resign.


2020 Libyan protests, Deaths and injuries
The riots and protests in Libya has made the United Nations and Amnesty International to express "grave concern". The rival government to Khalifa Haftar resigned but on 31 October, refused and didn't accept the resignation. At least 4 deaths, according to CNN, were committed and blood was also seen by witnesses on the streets of Benghazi. 13 injuries were reported in October alone by Libyan media and the opposition.


2020 Libyan protests, Naming of revolt, slogans and fears of a Revolution
Revolution was being shouted on the streets of Misrata as police entered the critical stage of the protests. Amnesty international and the USA and the European Union has condemned the protests and has considered protesters to stay calm. Fears of a revolution was sparked by the slogan "Thawra Liban Libia" meaning revolution in Libya, Libya and "Allahu Akbar" was heard during gunfire in clashes in early September. The protests has been described numerously by international media and the western world as "uprising against presidents Haftar and Al Sarraj" or the "revolt of victory" after the resignation of the eastern-backed government. Another popular slogan throughout the south of Libya which was heard after poor living conditions protests was Ash-shab yurid isqat an-nizam referring to the popular slogan of the Arab summer and Arab spring.


2020 Liechtenstein referendum
A three-part referendum was held in Liechtenstein on 30 August 2020. Voters were asked whether they approve of an initiative proposing changes to the constitution to promote the equal representation of women in political bodies, a parliament law allowing dual citizenship for naturalised citizens, and a decision by the government to fund a railway line expansion. All three proposals were rejected.


2020 Liechtenstein referendum, Background
The 'HalbeHalbe' (HalfHalf) popular initiative proposes inserting the text "The balanced representation of women and men in political bodies is promoted." to article 31, paragraph 2 of the constitution. The initiative was approved by the Landtag in November 2019, with organisers given six weeks to obtain the 1,500 signatures necessary for it to be discussed in the Landtag. Around 1,800 signatures were obtained, resulting in a debate in the Landtag on 4 March. A majority of members rejected the proposal, resulting in it proceeding to a referendum.


2020 Liechtenstein referendum, Background
The dual citizenship proposal was put forward by the Free List in 2015, with the Landtag voting to require the government to amend legislation to allow dual citizenship for naturalised citizens by abolishing the requirement for them to give up their previous citizenship. The legislation was approved by the Landtag in March 2020, with members of parliament also voting to put the final decision to voters in a referendum.


2020 Liechtenstein referendum, Background
A proposal to fund the S-Bahn Liechtenstein project - dual tracking of the Tisis–Nendeln railway track (which would allow the Swiss St. Gallen S-Bahn and Austrian Vorarlberg S-Bahn to merge into a regional network and increasing train frequency through Liechtenstein) was approved by the Landtag on 4 June 2020, with 18 members voting in favour. A majority of members also voted to put the final decision to voters in a referendum.


2020 Liechtenstein referendum, Preliminary results
All three proposals were rejected by a majority of voters. Turnout was slightly over 82%.


2020 Liga 1 (Indonesia)
The 2020 Liga 1, also known as Shopee Liga 1 for sponsorship reasons, was the fourth season of Liga 1 under its current name and the 11th season of the top-flight Indonesian professional league for association football clubs since its establishment in 2008. The season started on 29 February 2020 and was suspended on 16 March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The season was abandoned and declared void on 20 January 2021.


2020 Liga 1 (Indonesia)
Bali United are the defending champions. Persik, Persita, and Persiraja joined as the promoted teams from the 2019 Liga 2. They replace Badak Lampung, Kalteng Putra, and Semen Padang who were relegated to the 2020 Liga 2.


2020 Liga 1 (Indonesia), Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic
The season was first suspended on 15 March 2020 after finishing matchday three amid increasing contagion risks from the COVID-19 pandemic. The initial plan was the suspension would end in late March. However, the suspension was extended to 29 May 2020 due to government restrictions on social gatherings.


2020 Liga 1 (Indonesia), Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic
On 27 June 2020, the Indonesian football association, PSSI, announced it would resume Liga 1 from October 2020. League organizer PT Liga Indonesia Baru (LIB) followed it up by announcing matchday four would be held on 1 October 2020 and the season would end on 28 February 2021, but with a note that this tentative schedule would need approval from authorities related to the management of the COVID-19 pandemic. The plan was to hold all matches without spectators and have no changes to the double round-robin format.


2020 Liga 1 (Indonesia), Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic
Organizers were prepared to hold all matches on the main island of Java, where most teams are based, to mitigate contagion risks. Teams from outside Java and the capital Jakarta, which had the highest infection risks in the country, would be based in Yogyakarta, where the pandemic was relatively under control.


2020 Liga 1 (Indonesia), Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic
In a 17 July 2020 meeting, all teams agreed on further details for the resumption plan, including increasing substitutions from three to five, in line with a proposal by FIFA to lessen the impact of fixture congestion. The meeting also agreed that there would be no relegation and all teams must have a minimum of two U-20 local players. To mitigate infection risks, each team must conduct a swab test before the resumption and a rapid test every 14 days during the competition with LIB in charge of testing the day before matchday. LIB also would allow mid-season transfers between 21 September – 18 October 2020 but the transfers would not be recorded at FIFA Transfer Match System (TMS) to avoid conflict with FIFA regulations.


2020 Liga 1 (Indonesia), Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic
The plan began to crumble in September. On 29 September 2020, PSSI postponed the resumption of Liga 1 and Liga 2 for a month after failing to obtain permission from the police on fears that unruly fans would crowd outside the stadiums. After a month, on 29 October 2020, PSSI announced police had not changed their mind and declared the competition could not be held in 2020.


2020 Liga 1 (Indonesia), Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic
In November 2020, LIB made another attempt to resume the 2020 season in February 2021 with a plan to finish in July 2021. Police also blocked this plan. Eventually, on 15 January 2021, PSSI dismissed the 2020 season of Liga 1 and Liga 2 football leagues and declared them void of winners, relegations and promotions. Any resumption of professional football will be considered as a fresh start of a season.


2020 Liga 1 (Indonesia), Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic
The inability to finish the 2020 season impacted Indonesia's participation in the 2021 AFC Cup competition. Representatives had to be determined by the results of the previous domestic season. Bali United, the 2019 Liga 1 champions, was appointed as the first representative. The second appointment was not as straightforward. PSM, the 2018–19 Piala Indonesia winners, should have taken the spot but they failed to obtain an AFC license that is required for the hosting of an AFC match. The next on the pecking order was Persebaya, the 2019 Liga 1 runner-up, but they also missed the AFC hosting qualifications. As a result, Persipura, the league third place, qualified to take the second AFC Cup slot for Indonesia.


2020 Liga 1 (Indonesia), Teams
Eighteen teams competed in the league – the top fifteen teams from the previous season and the three teams promoted from the Liga 2. The new teams this season were Persik, Persita, and Persiraja, who replaced Badak Lampung, Kalteng Putra, and Semen Padang.


2020 Liga 1 (Indonesia), Teams, Personnel and kits
Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players and coaches may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2020 Liga 1 (Indonesia), Teams, Personnel and kits
Additionally, SPECS made referee kits and also supplied the match ball, the Illuzion II.


2020 Liga 1 (Indonesia), Teams, Foreign players
Football Association of Indonesia restricted the number of foreign players to four per team, including one slot for a player from AFC countries. Teams can use all the foreign players at once.


2020 Liga 1 (Peru)
The 2020 Liga 1 de Fútbol Profesional (known as the Liga 1 Movistar 2020 for sponsorship reasons) was the 104th season of the Peruvian Primera División, the highest division of Peruvian football. A total of 20 teams competed in the season with Binacional coming in as defending champions. The season started on 31 January 2020 and concluded on 20 December 2020 with the second leg of the finals. Sporting Cristal won its 20th domestic championship by beating Universitario in the finals by a 3–2 aggregate score.


2020 Liga 1 (Peru)
The competition was suspended between 12 March and 7 August due to the COVID-19 pandemic, being once again suspended that same day after one match had been played. It eventually resumed on 18 August 2020.


2020 Liga 1 (Peru), Competition format
The season was divided into three stages: Torneo Apertura (Fase 1), Torneo Clausura (Fase 2), and the Playoffs.


2020 Liga 1 (Peru), Competition format
The first and second stages were two Apertura and Clausura tournaments, later rebranded as Fase 1 and Fase 2, respectively. In the Apertura tournament, each team played the other teams once for a total of 19 games. Prior to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Clausura tournament was scheduled to be played in a similar way to the Apertura, with reversed fixtures, however, its format was altered due to the 5-month suspension of the league. For the Clausura, the 20 teams were split into two groups of 10 according to their final placement in the Apertura.


2020 Liga 1 (Peru), Competition format
Teams played the other teams in their group once, with the winners of both groups playing a final to decide the Clausura winners. Points earned during the Apertura did not carry over during the Clausura. The winners of the Apertura and Clausura stages qualified to the playoffs along with the top two teams of the aggregate table at the end of the season, unless the Apertura and Clausura winners were placed in the top two positions of the aggregate table.


2020 Liga 1 (Peru), Competition format
The playoffs to decide the national champion were scheduled to be contested by four teams, which would play two semifinals with the winners playing the final. Since the Apertura winners also ended up in the top two of the aggregate table, they were given a bye to the final and only one semi-final was played by the other two playoff qualifiers. In every stage of the playoffs, the teams with the most points on the aggregate table chose which leg they would play as the home team.


2020 Liga 1 (Peru), Competition format
If teams were tied in points after the two legs of the final, extra time and a penalty shootout would have been played to decide the national champion. If a team won both the Apertura and Clausura, the playoffs would not be played and that team would be declared as champion.


2020 Liga 1 (Peru), Competition format
Qualification to international competitions was as follows: the four playoff qualifiers (or the top four teams of the aggregate table in case the playoffs were contested by a lower amount of teams) qualified for the 2021 Copa Libertadores, while the next three best teams in that table qualified for the 2021 Copa Sudamericana, with a fourth berth being allocated to the 2020 Copa Bicentenario winners. With the cancellation of the Copa Bicentenario due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Copa Sudamericana berth allocated to its winner was transferred to the eighth best team in the aggregate table.


2020 Liga 1 (Peru), Competition format
The four teams with the fewest points in the aggregate table at the end of the season were to be relegated, unless the Copa Perú was not played this season, in which case only three teams would be relegated. If the Liga 2 was not played this season either, only two teams would be relegated. Eventually, only the Copa Perú was confirmed not to be held this season, with which three teams were relegated from Liga 1 at the end of the season.


2020 Liga 1 (Peru), Teams
20 teams played in the 2020 Liga 1 season, an increase of two teams from the previous season. The top sixteen teams in the 2019 Liga 1 took part, along with 2019 Liga 2 champions Cienciano, Copa Perú champions Carlos Stein, and the top two teams of the promotion play-offs (Atlético Grau and Deportivo Llacuabamba).


2020 Liga 1 (Peru), Teams
On 23 December 2019, Real Garcilaso announced its name change to Cusco Fútbol Club.


2020 Liga 1 (Peru), Teams, Stadia and locations
Starting from the seventh round of Stage 1, the following stadiums were used to host matches. Estadio Monumental in Lima was also included as a host stadium starting from the second round of Stage 2:


2020 Liga 1 (Peru), Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic
On 12 March, the Liga de Fútbol Profesional announced the decision to temporarily suspend the competition after the sixth round of the Torneo Apertura until at least 30 March due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 Liga 1 (Peru), Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic
On 2 June, the Peruvian government through its Ministry of Health and the Instituto Peruano del Deporte (IPD) approved the biosecurity protocol presented by the Peruvian Football Federation to allow the resumption of the competition, authorizing clubs to resume their training sessions. On 8 June, the FPF and the Liga de Fútbol Profesional announced that the league would resume on 31 July with the seventh round of the Torneo Apertura, with training sessions to resume on 22 June.


2020 Liga 1 (Peru), Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic
It was also announced that all the remaining matches of the season would be relocated to Lima to avoid the constant travel between cities that clubs must do under normal circumstances, as well as an alteration to the competition format. However, after some delays with COVID-19 testing, the date for resumption was pushed back to 7 August.


2020 Liga 1 (Peru), Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic
On 5 August nine positive cases of COVID-19 were confirmed in Binacional, following the application of tests ordered by the FPF after some players of said club breached the biosecurity protocol upon their arrival to Lima. In response to this finding the FPF's Medical Commission recommended the isolation of the entire Binacional delegation, meaning that their match against Alianza Lima scheduled for 9 August would not be played.


2020 Liga 1 (Peru), Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic
On the evening of 7 August, and due to an agglomeration of Universitario fans in the outskirts of the Estadio Nacional before their club's match against Cantolao breaching biosecurity protocols, the IPD ordered the suspension of the remaining matches scheduled for the seventh round of the Torneo Apertura. On 14 August, and following coordination meetings with authorities and awareness and prevention campaigns performed with fans, the IPD approved the proposal from the FPF to resume the competition on 18 August.


2020 Liga 1 (Peru), Aggregate table
Both stages (1 and 2) of the 2020 season will be aggregated into a single league table throughout the season to determine two of the teams that will qualify for the playoffs and the Copa Libertadores and four Copa Sudamericana qualifiers, as well as those to be relegated at the end of the season.


2020 Liga 1 (Peru), Playoffs, Semi-final, Second leg
Sporting Cristal won 6–2 on aggregate and advanced to the finals.


2020 Liga 1 (Peru), Liga 1 awards
On 1 February 2021, the Liga 1 announced the nominees for the 2020 Liga 1 awards. The award ceremony, originally scheduled for 5 February 2021, 12:00 local time (UTC−5), was held on 15 February 2021, 20:00 local time. The winners were chosen based on voting by coaches and captains of 2020 Liga 1 teams, 50 local sports journalist and Liga 1 fans weighted as follows:


2020 Liga 1 (Peru), Liga 1 awards, Best XI
The best XI team of the 2020 Liga 1 season was also announced during the award ceremony.


2020 Liga 2 (Indonesia)
The 2020 Liga 2 was the fourth season of the Liga 2 under its current name and the 11th season under its current league structure. The season was suspended on 27 March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The season was abandoned and was declared void on 20 January 2021.


2020 Liga 2 (Indonesia), Overview, Original format changes
Major changes occur in the league format this season. The second round, which consisting of eight teams (the best four from each region) will be removed this season. The winner of each region will be immediately promoted and qualified for the final. While the second place in each region will be qualified for the third place playoff and the last promotion place. The season started on 14 March and is scheduled to finish on 3 October 2020.


2020 Liga 2 (Indonesia), Preliminary round (Original format before the first abandonment), Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic
The season was suspended on 15 March 2020 after finishing the matchday one due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The initial suspension was until the end of March, which was then extended to 29 May.


2020 Liga 2 (Indonesia), Preliminary round (Original format before the first abandonment), Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic
On 7 August 2020, PT Liga Indonesia Baru made several announcements. The season will be restarted from the beginning with a different format. In the first  round, 24 teams will be drawn into four groups consisting of six teams. All groups will be played a home tournament format where teams play each other once. Group winners and runners-ups will be advance to the second round, which will be drawn into two groups of four. Two best teams will be qualified to the semi-finals. Semi-finals and final will be played a single-legged fixtures. Two finalists will be promoted to Liga 1. All matches will be held and played behind closed doors.


2020 Liga 2 (Indonesia), Teams, Team changes
The following teams have changed division since the 2019 season.


2020 Liga 2 (Indonesia), Teams, Personnel and kits
Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players and coaches may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2020 Liga 2 (Indonesia), Draw
The draw of the tournament was held on 19 August 2020 virtually. The draw resulted in the following groups:


2020 Liga 2 (Peru)
The 2020 Liga 2 season was the 75th edition of the second tier of Federación Peruana de Futbol. The season play started on October 27, 2020 and ended on December 27, 2020.


2020 Liga 2 (Peru), Teams, Promotion and relegation (pre-season)
A total of 10 teams contested the league, including 7 sides from the 2019 season, two relegated from the 2019 Liga 1, and one promoted from the 2019 Copa Perú.


2020 Liga 2 (Peru), Teams, Promotion and relegation (pre-season), Teams promoted to Liga 1
On 11 November 2019, Cienciano were the first team to be promoted to Liga 1, ending a four-year run in the Peruvian Segunda División/Liga 2, after defeating Santos by 4−2. The second team to earn promotion to Liga 1 was play-offs winner Atlético Grau, after a goal-less draw against Chavelines Juniors on 11 December 2019. This marked the end to a two-year run in the second division.


2020 Liga 2 (Peru), Teams, Promotion and relegation (pre-season), Teams relegated from Liga 1
The first team to be relegated from Liga 1 were Pirata. Their relegation was ensured on 1 November 2019, after Sport Boys beat Melgar 4−2, suffering an immediate relegation from the debut season in the first division. The second team to be relegated were Unión Comercio, who were relegated on 22 November 2019 after they were deducted 3 points for submitting fraudulent paperwork regarding the team doctor during a game against Universidad San Martín.


2020 Liga 2 (Peru), Teams, Promotion and relegation (pre-season), Teams relegated from Liga 2
The first team to be relegated from Liga 2 were Sport Victoria, expelled on 9 August 2019, due to their failure to pay their players. This ended a seven-year spell in Segunda División. The second team to be relegated were Los Caimanes, who were relegated on 20 October 2019 after losing 3−1 against Juan Aurich, ending a five-year run in the second division. The third and final relegated club was Sport Loreto, after a walk-over win over Sport Victoria on 25 October 2019 ending a four-year spell in the second division.


2020 Liga 2 (Peru), Teams, Promotion and relegation (pre-season), Teams promoted to Liga 2
The first and only team to achieve promotion was Sport Chavelines after a 1−1 draw against Sport Estrella during the 2019 Copa Perú's final group stage on 1 December 2019.


2020 Liga 2 (Peru), Teams, Stadia and locations
Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the whole tournament was played in two stadiums:


2020 Liga 2 (Peru), Teams, Stadia and locations
Estadio Monumental "U", Estadio Alberto Gallardo, Estadio Miguel Grau were also used for matchday 9 during which all matches were played simultaneously.


2020 Liga 2 (Peru), Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic
The leaders of the clubs playing in Liga 2 originally proposed to begin playing the tournament on 2 May before the government announced a nation-wide lockdown on 15 March. The tournament was then indefinitely postponed.


2020 Liga 2 (Peru), Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic
On 2 June, the Peruvian government through its Ministry of Health and the Instituto Peruano del Deporte (IPD) approved the biosecurity protocol presented by the Peruvian Football Federation to allow the resumption of the sports competitions, authorizing clubs to resume training sessions. On 2 September, the FPF and the Liga de Fútbol Profesional announced that the league would begin play on 26 October, with training sessions to resume on 28 September. It was also announced that the whole season would be played in Lima to avoid the constant travel between cities that clubs must do under normal circumstances. The FPF also awarded US$60,000 to each club as a pandemic-related financial relief.


2020 Liga 2 (Peru), Liga 2 awards
The Liga 2 awards ceremony was held on 4 May 2021, 12:00 local time at the Villa Deportiva Nacional (VIDENA). The winners were chosen based on voting by coaches and captains of 2020 Liga 2 teams and local sports journalists.


2020 Liga 3 (Indonesia)
The 2020 Liga 3 would be the fourth season of the Liga 3 under its current name, the fifth season under its current league structure, and the only amateur league football competition in Indonesia. But cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia.


2020 Liga 3 (Indonesia), Teams, Team changes
The following teams have changed division since the 2019 season.


2020 Liga 3 (Indonesia), Qualifying round
In contrast to last season, the teams that managed to advance to the second round in the previous season will start from their respective provincial round. First, each province held their provincial league followed by unlimited amateur teams with different competition format. Then qualified teams from provincial league will be competing in their respective region to earn 32 slots in national round.


2020 Liga 3 (Indonesia), Qualifying round, Province round
These teams will be the representatives from their provincial league to be competing in regional round.


2020 Liga 3 (Indonesia), National round
A total of 32 teams will be competing in this round.


2020 Liga 3 South Sulawesi
The 2020 Liga 3 South Sulawesi would be the fifth editions of Liga 3 (formerly known as Liga Nusantara) as a qualifying round for the national round of 2020 Liga 3. But cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia.


2020 Liga 3 South Sulawesi, Teams
There are 17 teams participated in the league this season.


2020 Liga 3 West Java Series 1
The 2020 Liga 3 West Java Series 1 would be the fifth editions of Liga 3 (formerly known as Liga Nusantara) as a qualifying round for the national round of 2020 Liga 3. But cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia.


2020 Liga 3 West Java Series 1
PSKC Cimahi, winner of the 2019 Liga 3 West Java Series 1 are the defending champions also promoted to 2020 Liga 2 after being runner-up of 2019 Liga 3. The competition begin in October 2020.


2020 Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito season
Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito's 2020 season was the club's 90th year of existence, the 67th year in professional football, and the 59th in the top level of professional football in Ecuador.


2020 Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito season, Squad information
Note: Caps and goals are of the national league and are current as of the beginning of the season.


2020 Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito season, Competitions, LigaPro
The 2020 season was Liga's 59th season in the Serie A and their 19th consecutive.


2020 Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito season, Competitions, CONMEBOL Libertadores
L.D.U. Quito qualified to the 2020 CONMEBOL Libertadores—their 18th participation in the continental tournament—as Runner-up of the 2019 Serie A. They entered the competition in the group stage.


2020 Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito season, Competitions, CONMEBOL Libertadores, CONMEBOL Libertadores squad
1. Carlos Rodríguez left the club. 2 . Antonio Valencia left the club. 3. Luis Arce left the club. Source:


2020 Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito season, Competitions, Supercopa Ecuador
It was the first edition of the tournament. L.D.U. Quito entered the competition as champions of 2019 Copa Ecuador and became the first champion of the tournament.


2020 Liga Dominicana de Fútbol
The 2020 Liga Dominicana de Fútbol was the sixth season of the LDF. This most important soccer tournament in the country, organized by the Dominican Soccer Federation Dominican Football Federation, would begin in the second week of March, but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 10 teams participated in the competition. The game mode was in three phases (Regular Phase – Liguilla Phase – Play-off Phase).


2020 Liga Dominicana de Fútbol
On September 24, the change of format to the group stage was announced, which began on October 9. It was scheduled to end on December 13.


2020 Liga Dominicana de Fútbol
The Liga Dominicana de Futbol tournament is made up of two parts:


2020 Liga Dominicana de Fútbol, Competition system
The order of classification of the teams will be determined in a general calculation table, as follows:


2020 Liga Dominicana de Fútbol, Competition system, Classification for international competitions
The champion and runner-up of the 'Grand Final' will have a place in the CFU Club Championship


2020 Liga Dominicana de Fútbol, Participating Teams
A total of 8 teams will compete in the 2020 Tournament.


2020 Liga Futebol Amadora Terceira Divisão
The 2020 edition of the Liga Futebol Amadora Terceira Divisão was canceled by the FFTL due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The FFTL decided to hold only two official competitions for the 2020 season: The 2020 Copa FFTL and Taça 12 de Novembro.


2020 Liga de Elite
The 2020 Liga de Elite is the 48 season of the Liga de Elite, the top Macanese league for association football clubs since its establishment in 1973. The season began on 18 September 2020.


2020 Liga de Elite, Effects of the 2020 coronavirus pandemic
As a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic in Macau, the season's start was delayed until September.


2020 Liga de Elite, Effects of the 2020 coronavirus pandemic
On 3 September 2020, the Macau Football Association announced that the 2020 season would begin on 18 September 2020. Teams will play a single round robin format and players are required to undergo nucleic acid testing prior to every match. If the season is delayed at any point due to an outbreak, the clubs have agreed to cancel the season so that the 2021 season can begin on time.


2020 Liga de Elite, Effects of the 2020 coronavirus pandemic
There will be no promotion or relegation for the season.


2020 Lightning (women's cricket) season
The 2020 season was Lightning's 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, winning two of their six matches.


2020 Lightning (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 Lightning being one of the new teams, replacing Loughborough Lightning and representing the East Midlands. Due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, only the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy was able to take place. Lightning were captained by Kathryn Bryce and coached by Rob Taylor. They played their home matches at Trent Bridge and Grace Road.


2020 Lightning (women's cricket) season, Squad
Lightning announced their squad on 20 August 2020. Age given is at the start of Lightning's first match of the season (29 August 2020).


2020 Ligier European Series
The 2020 Ligier European Series was the first season of the Ligier European Series. The five-event season began at Circuit Paul Ricard on 18 July and finished at Algarve International Circuit on 31 October.


2020 Ligue Haïtienne
The 2020 Ligue Haïtienne was the 57th season of the Ligue Haïtienne, the top-tier football league in Haiti. The league Championnat National Haïtien Professionnel was supposed to be split into two tournaments — the Série d'Ouverture and the Série de Clôture — each with identical formats and each contested by the same 18 teams. The season began on 29 February 2020.


2020 Ligue Haïtienne
On 20 March, the season was suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On 2 July, the season was declared abandoned.


2020 Ligue Haïtienne, Teams
Due to unrest in the country, last season was ended before all the matches were played. It was decided that none of the club from last year's edition of the competition would be relegated.


2020 Ligue Haïtienne, Teams
Two clubs from the Haitian second level leagues were promoted for this season: Juventus and US Rivartibonitienne. This means the league for this season has expended from 16 to 18 clubs.


2020 Ligue Haïtienne, Série de Clôture, Regular season
A decision was made to transition the league to a fall-to-spring schedule. Due to this decision, this competition was cancelled.


2020 Ligue Haïtienne, Trophée des Champions
Played between champions of Série d'Ouverture and Série de Clôture. This was cancelled.


2020 Ligue Haïtienne, Aggregate table
Due to the league's disruption, there was no promotion into or relegation out of the league this season.


2020 Ligue de Football de Saint Pierre et Miquelon
The 2020 Ligue de Football de Saint Pierre et Miquelon was the 35th season of top-division football in Saint Pierre and Miquelon. Three clubs competed in the league: AS Saint Pierraise, A.S. Miquelonnaise and A.S. Ilienne Amateur. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the season was truncated to 12 matches instead of 16. The season began on 27 June 2020 instead of its normal May beginning and concluded on 19 September 2020.


2020 Ligue de Football de Saint Pierre et Miquelon
Miquelonnaise won the championship, earning their first title since 2008.


2020 Ligurian regional election
The 2020 Ligurian regional election took place in Liguria, Italy on 20–21 September 2020. It was originally scheduled to take place on May 31, 2020, but it was delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic in Italy.


2020 Ligurian regional election
The result of the election was an absolute win of the incumbent President of Liguria, Giovanni Toti.


2020 Ligurian regional election, Electoral system
The Regional Council of Liguria is composed of 30 members, plus the president elect. The president elect is the candidate winning a plurality of votes at the election. Within the council, 24 seats are elected in provincial constituencies by proportional representation. The remaining 6 councillors are assigned as a majority bonus if the winning candidate has less than 18 seats, otherwise they are distributed among the losing coalitions.


2020 Ligurian regional election, Electoral system
A single list must get at least 3% of the votes in a province in order to access the proportional distribution of seats, unless the list is connected to a coalition with more than 5% of the vote.


2020 Lillestrøm SK season
The 2020 campaign will be  Lillestrøm 103rd competitive season since the club were founded. During this season the club will be competing in the following competitions: 1. divisjon, Norwegian Cup.


2020 Lillestrøm SK season, Current squad
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2020 Lillestrøm SK season, Current squad
For season transfers, see transfers winter 2019–20 and transfers summer 2020.


2020 Lillestrøm SK season, Current squad, Players out on loan
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2020 Lima Challenger
The 2020 Lima Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the fourteenth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2020 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Lima, Peru between 23 and 29 November 2020.


2020 Lima Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2020 Lima Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following player received entry into the singles main draw using a protected ranking:


2020 Lima Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following player received entry into the singles main draw as a special exempt:


2020 Lima Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following player received entry into the singles main draw as an alternate:


2020 Lima Challenger – Doubles
Ariel Behar and Gonzalo Escobar were the defending champions but only Escobar chose to defend his title, partnering Artem Sitak. Escobar lost in the semifinals to Íñigo Cervantes and Oriol Roca Batalla.


2020 Lima Challenger – Doubles
Cervantes and Roca Batalla won the title after defeating Collin Altamirano and Vitaliy Sachko 6–3, 6–4 in the final.


2020 Lima Challenger – Singles
Thiago Monteiro was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.


2020 Lima Challenger – Singles
Daniel Elahi Galán won the title after defeating Thiago Agustín Tirante 6–1, 3–6, 6–3 in the final.


2020 Limerick Premier Intermediate Hurling Championship
The 2020 Limerick Premier Intermediate Hurling Championship was the seventh staging of the Limerick Premier Intermediate Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Limerick County Board in 2014. The championship was scheduled to begin in April 2020, however, it was postponed indefinitely due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Gaelic games. The championship eventually began on 24 July 2020 and ended on 13 September 2020.


2020 Limerick Premier Intermediate Hurling Championship
On 13 September 2020, Kildimo/Pallaskenry won the championship after a 0-22 to 1-13 defeat of Mungret/St. Paul's in the final at the LIT Gaelic Grounds. It was their first ever championship title in this grade.


2020 Limerick Senior Football Championship
The 2020 Limerick Senior Football Championship is the 124th edition of the Limerick GAA's premier club Gaelic football tournament for senior clubs in County Limerick, Ireland. 12 teams compete, with the winner representing not Limerick in the Munster Senior Club Football Championship due to the latter competition's cancellation. Due to the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, the format for this years championship was modified to employ four groups of three teams, rather than the usual two groups of six teams. The championship then progresses to a knock out stage.


2020 Limerick Senior Football Championship
Newcastle West were the defending champions after they defeated Oola in the 2019 final to claim their fourth S.F.C. crown.


2020 Limerick Senior Football Championship
This was Galtee Gaels return to the top flight for the first time since 1994 (a 25-season exodus) after claiming the 2019 Limerick I.F.C. title. They defeated Gerald Griffin's in a final replay. Galtee Gaels last won the I.F.C. in 1993.


2020 Limerick Senior Football Championship, Team Changes
The following teams have changed division since the 2019 championship season.


2020 Limerick Senior Football Championship, Group stage
There are 4 groups called Group A, B, C and D. The top two finishers in each group will qualify for the Quarter-Finals. The bottom finishers of each group will qualify for the Relegation Play Off.


2020 Limerick Senior Football Championship, Knock-out Stages, Relegation Play Off
The four bottom finishers from each group qualify for the Relegation Play-Off. The team to lose both matches will be relegated to the 2021 I.F.C.


2020 Limerick Senior Football Championship, Quarter-Finals
The winners and runners up of each group qualify for the Quarter-Finals.


2020 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship
The 2020 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship was the 126th staging of the Limerick Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Limerick County Board in 1887. The original championship draw took place on 16 December 2019, however, due to the COVID-19 pandemic the draws for a rescheduled championship took place on 24 June 2020 with a new format being adopted. The championship began on 23 July 2020 and ended on 19 September 2020.


2020 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship
Patrickswell were the defending champions, however, they were beaten by Na Piarsaigh at the semi-final stage. Murroe-Boher were relegated after suffering a 0-24 to 1-17 defeat by Garryspillane in a playoff.


2020 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship
On 19 September 2020, Na Piarsaigh won the championship after a 5-27 to 1-12 victory over Doon in the final at the LIT Gaelic Grounds. It was their sixth championship title overall and their first title since 2018.


2020 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship
Ballybrown's Andrew Cliffe was the championship's top scorer with 3-31.


2020 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship, Revised format
The championship was redrawn to consist of four groups of three teams. The six teams that were drawn in the original format in each section group 1 and 2 were split into two further groups. The redrawn groups were decided based on 2019 championship results.


2020 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship, Fixtures/results, Section A, Group 1 table
Advance to semi-finals  Advance to quarter-finals  Advance to sectional relegation final


2020 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship, Fixtures/results, Section A, Group 2 table
Advance to semi-finals  Advance to quarter-finals  Advance to sectional relegation final


2020 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship, Fixtures/results, Section B, Group 1 table
Advance to sectional promotion final and championship quarter-finals  Advance to championship relegation final


2020 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship, Fixtures/results, Section B, Group 2 table
Advance to sectional promotion final and championship quarter-finals  Advance to championship relegation final


2020 Line TV Awards
The 3rd LINE TV Awards was an awarding ceremony presented by LINE TV Thailand, giving recognition to the Thai online entertainment industry in the fields of music, television and drama for their achievements in the year 2019.


2020 Line TV Awards
The awards night was held at the Royal Paragon Hall, Siam Paragon, Bangkok, Thailand on Wednesday, 19 February 2020.


2020 Lion City Sailors FC season
The 2020 season is Lion City Sailors' 25th consecutive season in the top flight of Singapore football and in the Singapore Premier League. Along with the Singapore Premier League, the club will also compete in the Singapore Cup.


2020 Lion City Sailors FC season, Transfer, Pre-season transfer, In
Note 1: Kenji Syed Rusydi returned to the team after the loan and move to Tanjong Pagar United.


2020 Lisboa Belém Open
The 2020 Lisboa Belém Open was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the fourth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2020 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Lisbon, Portugal between 12 and 18 October 2020.


2020 Lisboa Belém Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2020 Lisboa Belém Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following player received entry into the singles main draw as a special exempt:


2020 Lisboa Belém Open – Doubles
Philipp Oswald and Filip Polášek were the defending champions but chose not to defend their title.


2020 Lisboa Belém Open – Doubles
Roberto Cid Subervi and Gonçalo Oliveira won the title after defeating Harri Heliövaara and Zdeněk Kolář 7–6(7–5), 4–6, [10–4] in the final.


2020 Lisboa Belém Open – Singles
Roberto Carballés Baena was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.


2020 Lisboa Belém Open – Singles
Jaume Munar won the title after defeating Pedro Sousa 7–6(7–3), 6–2 in the final.


2020 Lithuanian Athletics Championships
The 97th 2020 Lithuanian Athletics Championships were held in Palanga Stadium, Palanga on 7–8 August 2020. For the first time Lithuanian Championships was open for disabled par-athletes as well. Lithuania become third country in the world and first in Europe were par-athletes competed together with other athletes.


2020 Lithuanian Baseball League
2020 Lithuanian Baseball League was the 34th annual edition of the Lithuanian Baseball League, organised by the Lithuanian Baseball Association. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Lithuania, only four teams participated in the championships, in comparison to usual 12 teams format. The finals were played on 12-13 September 2020.


2020 Lithuanian Football Cup
2020 Lithuanian Football Cup  - 32nd edition of the Independent Lithuania Football Cup. The official name of this year's competition for sponsorship reasons is  Hegelmann LFF Cup .


2020 Lithuanian Football Cup
This year's tournament was scheduled to start in April 2020. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was postponed to mid-June.


2020 Lithuanian Football Cup
A total of 33 A Lyga, LFF I Lyga and II Lyga teams are participating. The reserve teams do not participate in the cup competition. The A Lyga teams will join the tournament from the 1/8 final stage. With a view to shorten the competition the teams of lower divisions were not invited this year.


2020 Lithuanian Football Cup, Participants
A total of 33 participants consisted of 6 A Lyga, 10 LFF I Lyga and 17 II Lyga teams.


2020 Lithuanian Football Cup, Results, Preliminary Round I
Randomly drawn I Lyga teams that advanced to 1/8 final:


2020 Lithuanian Football Cup, Results, Round II
The Round II draw took place on 22 June 2020


2020 Lithuanian Football Cup, Results, 1/8 Final
The 1/8 Final draw took place on 2 July 2020


2020 Lithuanian Football Cup, Results, 1/4 Final
The 1/4 Final draw took place on 17 July 2020


2020 Lithuanian Football Cup, Results, Final
The final will be broadcast on TV3 channel for the first time.


2020 Lithuanian Swimming Championships
The 2020 Lithuanian Swimming Championships  was held in Klaipėda, Lithuania, from 17 December to 19 December.


2020 Lithuanian parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Lithuania on 11 and 25 October 2020 to elect the 141 members of the Seimas. 71 were elected in single-member constituencies using the two-round system, and the remaining 70 in a single nationwide constituency using proportional representation. The first round was held on 11 October and the second round on 25 October.


2020 Lithuanian parliamentary election
In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 Lithuanian parliamentary election had the second-lowest turnout in first round elections to the Seimas since the Republic of Lithuania was restored in the early 1990s (the lowest occurred in 2004).


2020 Lithuanian parliamentary election, Electoral system
The Seimas has 141 members, elected to a four-year term in parallel voting, with 71 members elected in single-seat constituencies and 70 members elected by proportional representation. The voting in the elections is open to all citizens of Lithuania who are at least 18 years old.


2020 Lithuanian parliamentary election, Electoral system
Parliament members in the 71 single-seat constituencies are elected in a majority vote, with a run-off held within 15 days, if necessary. The remaining 70 seats are allocated to the participating political parties using the largest remainder method. Parties normally need to receive at least 5% (7% for multi-party electoral lists) of the votes to be eligible for a seat. Candidates take the seats allocated to their parties based on the preference lists submitted before the election and adjusted by preference votes given by the voters.


2020 Lithuanian parliamentary election, Electoral system
To be eligible for election, candidates must be at least 25 years old on the election day, not under allegiance to a foreign state and permanently reside in Lithuania. Persons serving or due to serve a sentence imposed by the court 65 days before the election are not eligible. Also, judges, citizens performing military service, and servicemen of professional military service and officials of statutory institutions and establishments may not stand for election. In addition, a person who has been removed from office through impeachment may not be elected.


2020 Lithuanian parliamentary election, Background
The 2016 election was a surprise landslide victory for the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LVŽS), which won 54 seats, including half of the single-member constituencies. The Skvernelis Cabinet took office with the support of LVŽS and Social Democratic Party of Lithuania (LSDP). The latter party split in 2017 due to disagreement about government participation, with some of its MPs forming the Social Democratic Labour Party of Lithuania (LSDDP) with members of the Labour Party. Lacking support in Parliament, the government passed a cooperation agreement with Order and Justice (TT) in 2018. After the 2019 presidential election, the Order and Justice and the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania – Christian Families Alliance joined a coalition. Later the same year, the Order and Justice was expelled from a coalition.


2020 Lithuanian parliamentary election, Background
A proposal to reduce the size of the Seimas from 141 to 121 seats failed following a referendum held in May 2019. In the same year, Ramūnas Karbauskis and Naglis Puteikis proposed bill, which reduced electoral threshold from 5% to 3%, but due to President of the Republic of Lithuania veto, this proposal was not implemented.


2020 Lithuanian parliamentary election, Background
In 2020, single-member constituencies were redrawn: one constituency was added in Vilnius, one constituency was removed in Kaunas, new worldwide constituency was established and constituencies in rural areas were enlarged.


2020 Lithuanian parliamentary election, COVID-19 effects
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Central Electoral Commission proposed extension on early voting (four days instead two days). In the second round special polling places for self-isolating voters were set up in Vilnius, Kaunas, Šiauliai and Raseiniai districts.


2020 Lithuanian parliamentary election, COVID-19 effects
On 21 October, a few days before the second round, Lithuanian municipalities were divided into green, yellow and red "risk zones", with de facto lockdown rules, mask mandates and limits on capacities.


2020 Lithuanian parliamentary election, Opinion polls, Party vote
The following are opinion polls conducted for the legislative elections, measuring estimated percentage of the vote. Highlighted parties successfully pass the electoral threshold to win national list seats.


2020 Lithuanian parliamentary election, Results, Preference votes
Alongside votes for a party, voters were able to cast a preferential votes for a candidate on the party list.


2020 Lithuanian parliamentary election, Analysis
The Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats once again received a plurality of votes, similar to the prior elections, and achieved much more success in constituency seats, which made up most of its net gain of 19 seats. Overall Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats received its largest share of votes and seats since 1996. All parties involved in the pre-election coalition, including the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union, Social Democratic Labour Party, and Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania – Christian Families Alliance, lost seats compared to what they held prior, with the Farmers and Greens losing over 40% of their prior seats.


2020 Lithuanian parliamentary election, Analysis
The Electoral Action of Poles also failed to make the 5% threshold for national list seats for the first time since 2008 (although the party's support was declining ever since 2014 European Parliament election). The Social Democratic Party lost a further four seats, achieving its worst seat result since 1992, and its worst vote result since 1996, while the new Freedom Party saw success, obtaining 11 seats less than two years after its split from the Liberal Movement.


2020 Lithuanian parliamentary election, Analysis
The Labour Party saw a rebound at the national level from its disappointing performance in 2016, gaining 8 seats overall and obtaining nearly 10% of the popular vote. Freedom and Justice, which was formed by a merger of Order and Justice (which received 8 seats in the 2016 elections) and the Lithuanian Freedom Union (Liberals), received one constituency seat.


2020 Lithuanian parliamentary election, Analysis
Overall, the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats, the Liberal Movement and the Freedom Party got most support from the cities. For example, both in Vilnius and Kaunas these three parties combined won 52 per cent and 50 per cent of votes respectively.


2020 Lithuanian parliamentary election, Analysis
Turnout was roughly 47% in the first round, and 39% in the second round.


2020 Lithuanian parliamentary election, Analysis
In one of the single-member constituencies (51st Utena) a second round produced an equal number of recorded votes for two candidates: Edmundas Pupinis of the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats, and Gintautas Paluckas of the Social Democratic Party. After a recount, Pupinis was declared the winner with 7,076 votes (Paluckas received 7,071 votes). Despite this, the Social Democratic Party disputed the constituency result as the chairman of the 51st Utena single-member constituency electoral commission turned out to be a staff member of candidate Pupinis. After a recount by the Central Electoral Commission, Pupinis was again declared the winner with 7,078 votes (in this case Gintautas Paluckas received 7,072 votes).


2020 Lithuanian parliamentary election, Aftermath
As no party or electoral coalition won a majority of seats (71), a coalition had to be formed. On 15 October, four days after the first round, the leaders of the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats, the Liberal Movement, and the Freedom Party published a joint declaration, which stated that all three parties nominate Ingrida Šimonytė as their joint candidate to be Prime Minister of Lithuania.


2020 Lithuanian parliamentary election, Aftermath
On 4 November, a second nationwide lockdown and quarantine began. Unlike during the rest of the year, the official numbers of cases and deaths rose exponentially in November and December (see COVID-19 effects).


2020 Lithuanian parliamentary election, Aftermath
On 9 November, a formal coalition agreement between the three aforementioned parties was announced. On 13 November, Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen of the Liberal Movement was elected as Speaker of the Seimas. On 24 November, Ingrida Šimonytė was appointed as Prime Minister of Lithuania.


2020 Little League World Series
The 2020 Little League World Series was scheduled to take place during August 20–30, 2020, at the Little League headquarters complex in South Williamsport, Pennsylvania. It was canceled on April 30, 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 Little League World Series, Cancellation
Talks of cancellation or postponement began in early March as professional sports leagues such as the NBA, NHL, MLB, MLR, and MLS suspended their seasons. In an April 15 interview with the Associated Press, Little League president and CEO Stephen Keener spoke on the challenging decision in regards to the World Series and coronavirus. One of the most prominent resolutions to the situation would be moving the World Series back and playing later in the fall, possibly late September, October or even November. However, Keener negated that idea:


2020 Little League World Series, Cancellation
If we were to do it in the fall, pretty much every team that would be here would have to be uprooted from school. I’m not so sure that it would be in the best interest of a child’s education, after having missed probably a couple of months of school already, to take them out of school in the fall to come play in a baseball tournament. That, to me, would be quite unimportant.


2020 Little League World Series, Cancellation
On April 30, 2020, Little League Baseball announced the cancellation of the 2020 World Series and its regional tournaments for baseball and softball.


2020 Little League World Series, Cancellation
After a thorough assessment of the impact the devastating COVID-19 pandemic has had on 6,500 community-based Little League® programs in 84 countries and based upon the direction of governmental and public health authorities, and in consultation with medical professionals and our Board of Directors, Little League International has made the difficult and disappointing decision to cancel its seven World Series tournaments and their respective regional qualifying events.


2020 Little League World Series, Cancellation
“This is a heartbreaking decision for everyone at Little League International, but more so for those millions of Little Leaguers who have dreamt of one day playing in one of our seven World Series events.


2020 Little League World Series, Cancellation
After exhausting all possible options, we came to the conclusion that because of the significant public health uncertainty that will still exist several months from now, and with direction from Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf and Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine, as well as senior public health officials and government leaders from locations where our other six World Series are held, as well as their qualifying regional tournaments, it will not be possible to proceed with our tournaments as we’ve hosted them for nearly 75 years.”


2020 Little League World Series, 2020 MLB Little League Classic
The 2020 edition of the MLB Little League Classic game at Williamsport's BB&T Ballpark at Historic Bowman Field was to feature the Boston Red Sox and the Baltimore Orioles in the first American League matchup for the event on August 23; it was also cancelled on April 30, 2020. The matchup was retained in the revised schedule for both teams on the same date, instead played in Baltimore.


2020 Little Rock Trojans baseball team
The 2020 Little Rock Trojans baseball team represented the University of Arkansas at Little Rock during the 2020 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Trojans played their home games at Gary Hogan Field and were led by sixth year head coach Chris Curry. They were members of the Sun Belt Conference.


2020 Little Rock Trojans baseball team, Preseason, Sun Belt Conference Coaches Poll
The Sun Belt Conference Coaches Poll was released on January 30, 2020 and the Trojans were picked to finish fourth in the West Division.


2020 Little Rock Trojans baseball team, Schedule and results
*Rankings are based on the team's current ranking in the D1Baseball poll.


2020 Liège–Bastogne–Liège
The 2020 Liège–Bastogne–Liège was a Belgian road cycling one-day race that was originally scheduled for 26 April 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was rescheduled to 4 October, and it was the 106th edition of Liège–Bastogne–Liège and part of the 2020 UCI World Tour.


2020 Liège–Bastogne–Liège
The race was won by Primož Roglič in a tumultuous sprint amongst a group of five riders, beating world champion Julian Alaphilippe, who already had put his hands in the air, in a photo finish. Alaphillipe, however, was later relegated to fifth place for hindering Marc Hirschi in the sprint. This moved Hirschi up into second, while 2020 Tour de France winner Tadej Pogačar was moved up into third.


2020 Liège–Bastogne–Liège, Teams
All nineteen UCI WorldTeams and six UCI ProTeams made up the twenty-five teams of seven riders each that participated in the race. 125 of the 175 riders in the race finished.


2020 Liège–Bastogne–Liège (women's race)
The fourth edition of Liège–Bastogne–Liège for Women, a road cycling one-day race in Belgium, was held on 4 October 2020. It was originally planned to be held on 26 April, but was cancelled and rescheduled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It was the seventh event of the shortened 2020 UCI Women's World Tour. The race started in Bastogne and finished in Liège; the route included five categorised climbs over a total distance of 135 km (84 mi).


2020 Liège–Bastogne–Liège (women's race), Route
Similar to the 2019 edition, the race finished in Liège. At 135 km (84 mi), the race was approximately half the distance of the men's event. It started in Bastogne, from where it headed north to finish in Liège on the same location as the men's race. The route featured five categorised climbs: the Côte de Wanne, Côte de la Haute-Levée, Côte de la Vecquée, Côte de La Redoute, and Côte de la Roche aux faucons.


2020 Liège–Bastogne–Liège (women's race), Teams
Eight UCI Women's WorldTeams and sixteen UCI Women's Continental Teams competed in the race. Six of the twenty-four teams did not enter the maximum of six riders; Astana, Charente-Maritime Women Cycling, Ciclotel, Équipe Paule Ka, and Hitec Products–Birk Sport entered only five, while Chevalmeire Cycling Team entered only four. Of these 137 riders, 56 finished the race.


2020 London Broncos season
The 2020 London Broncos season was the 41st season in the clubs history and the first season out of the Super League after relegation in Super League XXIV. Coached by Danny Ward, the London Broncos competed in the Betfred Championship and the 2020 Challenge Cup.


2020 London Broncos season
It was their fifth season at the Trailfinders Sports Ground in West Ealing, London. The season was abandoned after five rounds, however the Broncos had already been eliminated from the Challenge Cup at the 4th round stage.


2020 London Marathon
The 2020 London Marathon was the 40th running of the annual marathon race in London, United Kingdom, which took place on 4 October 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the race was postponed from 26 April and only allowed elite participants; the mass participation event was cancelled. The event used a different course from usual, consisting of multiple laps around St James's Park.


2020 London Marathon
The men's elite race was won by Ethiopian Shura Kitata, and the women's event was won by Kenyan Brigid Kosgei. The men's wheelchair race was won by Canadian Brent Lakatos, and the women's event was won by Dutchwoman Nikita den Boer.


2020 London Marathon, Background
The 2020 London Marathon was originally scheduled to be held on 26 April but was postponed until 4 October due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It was the first London Marathon to be run in the autumn. On 6 August, it was confirmed that the marathon would go ahead as an elite-only race, with the mass participation event cancelled. Fields of around 30–40 athletes competed for each title. It was the first time that the London Marathon was solely an elite-only event. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the race was run without spectators, in a biosecure environment. All athletes were tested for COVID-19 multiple times before the race, and wore face coverings and observed social distancing when not competing. All competitors and event co-ordinators wore a "bump" device which alerted them if they got too close to other people.


2020 London Marathon, Background
As a result of the need for a biosecure environment, the race did not follow its traditional route. Instead, the 2020 London Marathon consisted of 19 laps of length 2.15 kilometres (1.34 mi) around St James's Park, followed by 1,345 metres (0.84 mi) along The Mall, following the finish line of the traditional London Marathon course. The circuits took in The Mall, Horse Guards Parade, Birdcage Walk and Buckingham Palace. The area around St James's Park was closed to prohibit spectators from attending.


2020 London Marathon, Background
The prize money for winners of the 2020 London Marathon was 50 per cent lower than in 2019. For the first time, there was separate prize money awarded to the highest finishing British athletes in the race. The winner's prize money was US$30,000. British competitors who achieved the Olympic qualifying standard at the 2020 London Marathon would have their time count towards the qualification criteria at the delayed 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo in 2021. Before both events were postponed, the London Marathon had been scheduled to be used as the British trial event to determine qualification for the 2020 Olympics.


2020 London Marathon, Background
The 2021 London Marathon was postponed from April until October 2021, to maximise the chance of being able to hold a mass participation event.


2020 London Marathon, Competitors
There were three separate races: the women's race started at 7:15 BST (UTC+1), the men's event started at 10:15 BST, and the wheelchair marathon started at 13:10 BST. The women's race included 2019 winner and current marathon world record holder Brigid Kosgei, 2018 winner Vivian Cheruiyot, as well as Ruth Chepng'etich, Roza Dereje, and Valary Jemeli Aiyabei, all of whom had personal best times under 2:20. Ethiopian Degitu Azimeraw was scheduled to race, but withdrew after testing positive for COVID-19.


2020 London Marathon, Competitors
The favourites for the men's race were 2019 winner Eliud Kipchoge and Kenenisa Bekele, who won the 2019 Berlin Marathon in 2:01:41, two seconds away from Kipchoge's world record. The men's race also featured  Mosinet Geremew, Mule Wasihun, Sisay Lemma, and Tamirat Tola, all of whom had personal best times under 2:05. Sondre Nordstad Moen, who broke the European one hour run record earlier in 2020, also competed. Briton Mo Farah, who in September 2020 set the men's world record for the one hour run, acted as a pacemaker for the men's race. Two days before the race, Kenenisa Bekele withdrew from the London Marathon with a calf injury. American Galen Rupp, who won his country's Olympic qualifying event in February 2020, did not compete, after undergoing surgery for an existing injury.


2020 London Marathon, Competitors
The men's wheelchair race featured 10 competitors. 2019 winner Daniel Romanchuk was scheduled to race, but later decided not to attend the event. The race featured Marcel Hug, who won the London Marathon in 2014 and 2016, and was the only man to have beaten Romanchuk in a marathon since March 2019. Other competitors included British eight-time winner David Weir, 2010 winner Josh Cassidy, and Sho Watanabe, who came second at the 2020 Tokyo Marathon.


2020 London Marathon, Competitors
The women's wheelchair race featured six competitors. 2019 winner Manuela Schär competed at the 2020 race, and former women's winner Shelly Woods raced in what was her first event for four years.


2020 London Marathon, Race summary
All of the races were run in heavy rain due to Storm Alex, which made them the wettest London Marathon in history. The temperature was cold, though it was warmer than the 2004 race, where the temperature was 5.3 °C (41.5 °F) at the start. The conditions inhibited any chance of world records being broken at the event; world record attempts had been thought possible due to the flatness of the 2020 marathon course.


2020 London Marathon, Race summary
In the women's race, 2019 winner Brigid Kosgei retained her title, winning by over three minutes. Kosgei broke away from the pack 18 miles (29 km) into the race, and stayed ahead for the rest of the race. She finished in a time of 2:18.58. Ruth Chepng'etich was running second until she was overtaken by Sara Hall around 150 metres (490 ft) from the finish line. Hall finished second, in a personal best time, and Chepng'etich third.


2020 London Marathon, Race summary
Hall's second place was the first time that an American had finished in the top three of the London Marathon since 2006, when Deena Kastor won the race. It was also the first time that a non-African had finished in the top three of the event since 2013, when Japan's Yukiko Akaba finished third. Natasha Cockram won the prize for best British finisher, although she was outside the Olympic qualifying time. After the race, Chepng'etich said that she had struggled with the cold, wet conditions.


2020 London Marathon, Race summary
In the men's race, Shura Kitata won a sprint finish with Vincent Kipchumba and Sisay Lemma, who finished second and third respectively. Shura finished in a time of 2:05:41. The front group completed the first half of the marathon in 1:02:54, and with 4 miles (6.4 km) left in the race, there was a group of nine contenders for the victory. At that point, Shura moved to the front of the field and accelerated the pace. 2019 winner Eliud Kipchoge was dropped from the leading group, and eventually finished in eighth place.


2020 London Marathon, Race summary
It was the first time since 2013 that Kipchoge had lost a marathon race, and after the race, Kipchoge said that he ran the last 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) with a blocked ear. It was Kipchoge's second slowest marathon time. Jonathan Mellor won the prize for best British finisher. He and Ben Connor finished within the Olympic qualifying time.


2020 London Marathon, Race summary
The men's wheelchair race was won by Canadian Brent Lakatos in a sprint finish involving six athletes. With two laps to go, Lakatos decided to move to the front of the group, and he remained there until the finish. David Weir and Marcel Hug finished second and third respectively, and Sho Watanabe, Jordi Madera, and Kota Hokinoue were also involved in the final sprint. Hug and Watanabe finished with exactly the same time. Lakatos was the first Canadian to finish on the podium in the London Marathon men's wheelchair event for 10 years.


2020 London Marathon, Race summary
The women's wheelchair was won by Nikita den Boer, who finished 82 seconds clear of pre-race favourite Manuela Schär. The pair had traded the lead throughout the race until around 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) from the finish, when den Boer took a lead that Schär could not pull back. American Jenna Fesemyer finished third, over 12 minutes behind den Boer. It was den Boer's first World Marathon Majors victory, and she was the first Dutch person to win a London Marathon wheelchair race. Den Boer beat her previous personal best by over 10 minutes, and due to her victory, she qualified for the delayed 2020 Summer Paralympics. Schär had won the previous nine World Marathon Majors races that she competed in.


2020 London Marathon, Results
Only the top 20 finishers in each race are listed.


2020 London Marathon, Virtual marathon
A virtual marathon event was also held to allow people to run a marathon distance and record their own times. The virtual race had an entry fee, with all proceeds going to charity. Competitors who completed a virtual marathon on 4 October and recorded it on the official app received a medal, as they would do for finishing a traditional London Marathon. The times from the virtual race can be used for people wanting to enter the 2021 mass participation event. Over 43,000 people ran a virtual London Marathon. In January 2021, the virtual event received a Guinness World Record for most users to run an organised remote marathon in 24 hours.


2020 London Spitfire season
The 2020 London Spitfire season was the third season of the London Spitfire's existence in the Overwatch League. The Spitfire planned to host two homestand events in the 2020 season; the first was to be held at The SSE Arena Wembley, while the second was to be at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham. However, all homestand events were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 London Spitfire season, Preceding offseason, Organizational changes
In early October 2019, the Spitfire parted ways with coach Kim "Jfeel" Jeong-min, who had been with the team since London's inception.


2020 London Spitfire season, Preceding offseason, Organizational changes
London found their new head coach within the organization, promoting assistant coach Hong "Agape" Cheol-yong to the position. Additionally, the team signed former New York Excelsior head coach Ty "Pavane" Hyun-sang, former Florida Mayhem assistant coach Kim "SNT" Sung-hoon, and former O2 Blast assistant coach Lim "Twinkl" Young-bin all as assistant coaches. The changes reunited Agape, Pavane, and SNT, as Apage and Pavane previously coached LuxuryWatch Blue and LuxuryWatch Red together, while SNT played with LuxuryWatch Red at the same time.


2020 London Spitfire season, Preceding offseason, Roster changes
The Spitfire enter the new season with three free agents, one players which they have the option to retain for another year, and five players under contract. The OWL's deadline to exercise a team option is 11 November, after which any players not retained will become a free agent. Free agency officially began on 7 October.


2020 London Spitfire season, Preceding offseason, Roster changes, Acquisitions
The Spitfire's first acquisitions of the offseason were announced on 30 October, when the team traded tank Kim "Fury" Jun-ho to the Philadelphia Fusion in exchange for Fusion University players tank Shin "BERNAR" Se-won and support Kim "Fuze" Tae-hoon.