2020 Dijon riots, Investigation
On the following Thursday, six people were arrested with their connection to the four-day long riots. Two men, one with Russian and one with French citizenship, were charged with criminal association and intent and with gathering to perpetrate violence as well as damage property. The consequences of their crimes could be ten years in jail. The other suspects have similar charges in addition to aggravated assault.


2020 Dijon riots, Response
The Head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov expressed support for the Chechen rioters, stating they had decided to take matters into their own hands against the drug dealers, after the French police failed to act against those who assaulted the 16-year old Chechen boy. His comments were echoed by several Chechen individuals who claimed that the destruction was a good thing. The father of the assaulted teenager, issued a statement asking individuals to stop rioting and for calm within the neighborhood.


2020 Dijon riots, Response
French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner defended the police's reaction to the riots claiming that the police had been outnumbered by "a savage horde", while Marine Le Pen, leader of the far-right National Rally party claimed the streets had been thrown into chaos by gangs waging ethnic wars.


2020 Dijon riots, Response
Outrage was pointed at French police by local officials due to the lack of firearm use, with some officials claiming that it had allowed ethnic groups to settle anger and disputes on the street. Other French authorities and policing experts have highlighted the response to the riots as instead a textbook showing of police restraint, during a time of high profile protests against police use of lethal force in both the United States following the murder of George Floyd and in France with the death of Cédric Chouviat.


2020 District of Columbia Democratic presidential primary
The 2020 District of Columbia Democratic presidential primary took place on June 2, 2020, as one of the Democratic Party presidential primaries for the 2020 presidential election. The District of Columbia primary is a closed primary, with the district awarding 46 delegates, of whom 20 are pledged delegates allocated on the basis of the results of the primary. Former Vice President Joe Biden won the primary with 76% of the vote, earning all 20 delegates. Senator Elizabeth Warren finished second, her best performance in the 2020 primaries, while Senator Bernie Sanders came in third.


2020 District of Columbia Democratic presidential primary, Procedure
A law passed in December 2019 moved the election from June 16 to June 2. Voting took place across the district from 7:00 a.m. until 8:00 p.m. local time. In the closed primary, candidates must meet a threshold of 15% at the congressional district or municipal district in order to be considered viable. The 20 pledged delegates to the 2020 Democratic National Convention will be allocated proportionally on the basis of the primary results.


2020 District of Columbia Democratic presidential primary, Procedure
Of the 20 pledged delegates, between 6 and 7 are allocated to two municipal districts (each consisting of 4 wards) and another 2 are allocated to party leaders and elected officials (PLEO delegates), in addition to 5 at-large pledged delegates. These delegate totals do not account for pledged delegate bonuses or penalties from timing or clustering.


2020 District of Columbia Democratic presidential primary, Procedure
The pre-primary caucus was held at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center on May 9, 2020, at which district-level delegates to the national convention were designated. The state party committee will then meet after the primary on June 9 to vote on the 5 pledged at-large and 2 PLEO delegates to send to the Democratic National Convention.


2020 District of Columbia Democratic presidential primary, Procedure
The 20 pledged delegates District of Columbia sends to the national convention will be joined by 26 unpledged PLEO delegates (22 members of the Democratic National Committee; 3 members of Congress, consisting of the district's delegation of its nonvoting delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton and two shadow Senators; and the mayor, Muriel Bowser, in place of the place usually allotted to state governors).


2020 District of Columbia Republican presidential primary
The 2020 District of Columbia Republican presidential primary was held on June 2, 2020, along with seven other Republican presidential primaries that day. Donald Trump ran unopposed in the primary and thus won the vote and all of the district's 19 pledged delegates.


2020 Ditrău xenophobic incident
The 2020 Ditrău xenophobic incident refers to the incident that started on 26 January 2020 in the village of Ditrău (Hungarian: Ditró), Harghita County, in Romania, in which around 1,800 ethnically Hungarian locals protested the employment of two, later three Sri Lankan workers by the bakery Ditrói Pékség. The locals, led by the chaplain of the village, protested that the bakery's working conditions dissatisfied them and, as well as feared that the immigrants could "impose their culture" and "threaten the Hungarian local ethnic identity". On 11 February, a petition signed by 1,800 people was sent to the town hall of the village with several requests, among them, the improvement of these working conditions, the end of immigration to the village and compensations and apologies to the population.


2020 Ditrău xenophobic incident
The incident affected the popularity and income of the company, with workers and owners being repeatedly threatened by locals. The two Sri Lankans were forced to move in Gheorgheni. Furthermore, the incident received great media coverage. Other previous cases that happened in other cities began to receive more attention, and conflicts between the country's Romanian ethnic majority and the Hungarian minority sparked. Sociologists and journalists have said that this is an opportunity to start debating the existing discrimination against foreigners and the overexploitation of many workers in Romania. In the end, the owner of the company Köllő Katalin met with the chaplain to discuss the situation. On 3 March, Kelemen Hunor, president of the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR), announced that the situation had finally normalized.


2020 Ditrău xenophobic incident, Background
Due to the large number of Romanian citizens that have emigrated from Romania, several companies have been left without sufficient human resources, which has led them to attract immigrants. However, a 2019 study by the Romanian Institute for Evaluation and Strategy (IRES) showed that 68% of the Romanians surveyed were highly suspicious of immigrants and 50% would stop them at the border if they could.


2020 Ditrău xenophobic incident, Background
The inhabitants of Ditrău, composed of Catholic Székelys (Hungarians), are, according to the journalist Keno Verseck, "extremely traditionalist and conservative". Ioan-Aurel Pop, president of the Romanian Academy, has declared that the community of Ditrău is a closed one, coming "from an older world". According to the sociologist Dumitru Sandu, this closure is cultural, being determined by ethnic and religious factors. Locals mainly watch, read and listen to Hungarian media close to the country's government, causing the transmission of liberalist doctrinal elements to them. Due to this affiliation with Hungarian politics, Romania matters little to the inhabitants of Ditrău. Furthermore, in 1986, this community had a conflict with the Romani minority of the village, which increased fear and hostility towards foreigners.


2020 Ditrău xenophobic incident, Background
On the other hand, according to the newspaper Átlátszó Erdély, in Székely Land, many companies pay their employees with salaries that they consider "indecent", which contributes to the emigration of qualified human resources. Furthermore, according to the journalist Sipos Zoltán, work in the region usually includes overwork, lack of rest days and some of the hours worked are not paid. Thus, a large number of the local population currently works abroad.


2020 Ditrău xenophobic incident, Background
Journalist and sociologist Ruxandra Hurezean said there were indications that several Hungarian local leaders were rejecting investment in counties like Harghita (where Ditrău is located), as it could boost immigration to the region and affect its ethnic composition. A study has shown that of all Transylvania, Harghita and Covasna (both with a large Hungarian population) are the counties with the least amount of foreign capital entered.


2020 Ditrău xenophobic incident, Background
Csata Zsombor, another sociologist, has indicated that, according to a study on the economy based in ethnicity in Transylvania, a non-Hungarian employee who works in a Hungarian-speaking environment earns 50 to 450 lei less than an employee who does the same position but in a company where he is the only Hungarian. He says that the degree of Hungarian ethnic homogeneity at work is related to disadvantage in the salary. There is an average difference of 300 lei if someone does not have many Romanian colleagues compared to someone who has a similar position but in a completely Romanian environment.


2020 Ditrău xenophobic incident, Incident, January
Ditrói Pékség, in Ditrău, is a bakery built with funds from the European Community in need of additional human resources at the time. Then, of the over 90 employees, only 18 were locals from Ditrău. Since the bakery's employers were unable to find new workers in the Harghita County or nearby counties, they decided to hire workers from abroad. Therefore, the bakery legally hired a baker from Hungary in 2019 and in January 2020, two bakers from Sri Lanka. One of them is Welgamage Don Prasanna Piumal, a 22-year-old Catholic, and the other is Amarashinga Archchilag Mahinda, a 48-year-old Buddhist. Both are of Sinhalese ethnicity. Further, the company announced its intention to hire another Sri Lankan and four persons from Nepal.


2020 Ditrău xenophobic incident, Incident, January
Almost two weeks after the engagement of the two Sri Lankan bakers by the company in question, their presence led to a riot of a part of the community in Ditrău, which saw them as a threat to the village. The atmosphere of intolerance soon turned to exclusion and xenophobia. According to parishioners of the village, on 26 January, a Roman Catholic chaplain warned of the danger associated with the arrival of "strangers". The chaplain appealed to the population to ask the mayor of the commune of Ditrău to resolve the created situation.


2020 Ditrău xenophobic incident, Incident, January
On 27 January, a Facebook group with the name Migráns mentes ditrot akarunk ("We want a Ditrău without migrants") was created. For two days, in the discussions carried out on the platform, nationalist and racist threats were targeted to the Sri Lankan employees and the bakery owners. After becoming the spokesperson of the protesters, the chaplain organized a demonstration on 29 January in front of the town hall with around 200 locals. Among their reasons, they said that they were afraid of the emergence of "a wave of migrants", which would impose their culture and endanger the safety of the locals.


2020 Ditrău xenophobic incident, Incident, January
After being threatened, the Sri Lankans moved to a house in Lăzarea, a neighbouring village. The owner of the house there was also threatened, so both workers started looking for a house in Gheorgheni. The same day, the inhabitants of Ditrău announced their intention to protest during a town council meeting. The 200 locals continued protesting in the courtyard of a church, where the chaplain organized a meeting on the fate of the Székelys and the injustices suffered by them. After that, he led the group to the building in which the town council meeting was held, but due to limited space and the busy schedule of those who attended the meeting, the protest was postponed to 1 February. Afterwards, the protesters went back to the church.


2020 Ditrău xenophobic incident, Incident, January
The first to react was the mayor of the commune, who involved in mediating the situation and urged people to calm, and the employers of the company. The directors of the company, ignoring the locals, stated that they would continue to work with Sri Lankans. The company's other workers, including some who had worked abroad, supported them as well. However, locals did not relent, beginning to boycott the company's revenue under the argument that "bread is made by foreigners". In fact, the sales of the bakery dropped by 30%. Furthermore, hundreds of racist and hate comments continued to be posted on Facebook.


2020 Ditrău xenophobic incident, Incident, February
On 1 February, approximately 300 people gathered at a meeting in the Cultural House in Ditrău. The bakery owners did not participate although they were asked to attend insistently. They, however, sent a letter to the inhabitants in which they, among other things, apologized for not warning them of the arrival of foreigners. During the discussion, it was revealed that there had previously been a deep conflict between the company owners and the locals, and that this incident had only aggravated the situation between them.


2020 Ditrău xenophobic incident, Incident, February
Protestants expressed dissatisfaction with the employers' attitude towards some of the workers who had been there at the company and the salary they had received. The financial newspaper Ziarul Financiar stated that, based on the public data of the company, the 90 workers received the minimum wage allowed by Romanian economy.


2020 Ditrău xenophobic incident, Incident, February
During the meeting, locals insisted that they did not want immigrants in the village, nor did want the two Sri Lankans to touch the bread. Fearing that the incident could escalate, employers of the bakery reported that, although both workers will be kept, they will be transferred to another stage of the production process. In addition, they also informed locals that if enough workers could be hired from nearby areas in the next half-year, the bakery would stop looking for people abroad.


2020 Ditrău xenophobic incident, Incident, February
Locals did not clarify whether or not they accepted the company's responses, but agreed to send a petition to the directors with all their wishes on 3 February. On the day of the meeting, the workers moved to Gheorgheni. Ștefan Mandachi, an economist, offered them job in Suceava to relocate, this one being followed by more offers.


2020 Ditrău xenophobic incident, Incident, February
On 2 February, after the National Council for Combating Discrimination ordered to be notified in case of relocation of the two Sri Lankans to another stage of the production, the company directors announced that the workers will retain their initial workplace. Furthermore, they also announced that some of the other workers of the bakery were being threatened for collaborating with the foreigners.


2020 Ditrău xenophobic incident, Incident, February
In a press release, the employers described several of the threats the locals were sending to the immigrants, including the slogan published in the Facebook group Să dăm foc ca în annul ’90 ("Let's set fire like in the 90s", referring to the ethnic clashes of Târgu Mureș), stating that they intended to set the bakery on fire. Also, one of the bakery's businessperson announced that due to the incident of the past days, another bakery that was planned to be built in Ditrău with funds of the European Union will be built elsewhere.


2020 Ditrău xenophobic incident, Incident, February
On 3 February, the local police of Gheorgheni registered a complaint by the company for the events in the village. Throughout the whole incident, the Sri Lankan embassy, concerned about the safety of two workers, contacted them. On 4 February, the bakery was fined 10,000 lei, and the employers were warned for committing four minor irregularities.


2020 Ditrău xenophobic incident, Incident, February
The day after a third Sri Lankan worker arrived in Romania on 10 February to work in the bakery, several residents and the chaplain presented the petition agreed at the meeting of 1 February signed by more than 1,800 persons from the village to the town hall. The petition was directed to the town hall, the town council and the bakery. On it, the locals asked the bakery employers to not employ more immigrants as the unemployment rate "surpassed the 2% of the population" and "the emigration of young people had to be stopped".


2020 Ditrău xenophobic incident, Incident, February
In addition, the documents regarding the professional qualification of the first two Sri Lankans along with their personal documents and medical certificates were requested. Apologies were sought by the locals and the chaplain for "damage to their reputation", as well as financial compensation to harmed and offended workers for 5 years. Other conditions also include the payment of holidays.


2020 Ditrău xenophobic incident, Incident, February
On 21 February, the owner of the company Köllő Katalin announced that it had hired another four workers from Nepal, who would arrive in about a month. In addition, she said the petition had not yet been officially received by the company. On 26 February, the bakery owner met with the chaplain to discuss the incident and the dissatisfaction expressed by the locals. Declaratively, after reaching a consensus, the company expected the workers to continue working, and the local priest Bíró Károly urged the population of Ditrău to work at the bakery.


2020 Ditrău xenophobic incident, Incident, February
The mayor of the village, Puskás Elemér, said that the situation "is about to normalize". In addition, it was stated that another company in Ditrău was filling an application to bring between 5 and 10 foreign workers to the village. On 3 March, the president of the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR) Kelemen Hunor declared that things had finally calmed down.


2020 Ditrău xenophobic incident, Consequences
The media coverage of what happened in Ditrău highlighted the fact that what happened in the locality was not an isolated case in Romania. Therefore, a partner of the company Soter&Partners which, among other things, brings foreigner workers to the country, mentioned several similar cases. Among them is one from Cluj-Napoca, in which several persons protested the presence of Sri Lankan workers in a restaurant and sent a petition to the town hall. Other cases occurred in Râmnicu Vâlcea and in Bucharest. Until February 2020, however, there was no data specifying in how many localities in Romania similar phenomena happened.


2020 Ditrău xenophobic incident, Consequences
The incident attracted great attention from the ethnic Romanian public who began to discuss the "export of ideologies" given by the government of Viktor Orbán. There were also Romanians who used the incident to carry out nationalist attacks on the country's Hungarian minority.


2020 Ditrău xenophobic incident, Consequences
As for Hungarians, the events showed that even though some Hungarians adopted "strategies" to "demonstrate superiority" and "preserve the Hungarian ethnic identity", the minority is in a vulnerable position with respect to Romania, evidenced by the presentation of the events in Ditrău as a case of racism of the Hungarian community by a large part of Romanian media. Due to the lack of a dominant position, many Hungarians have leaned to a far-right ideology, which according to the journalists Tamás Kiss and Tibor Toró, hinders the possibility of Romanian Hungarians to make a credible and honest speech on their minority rights.


2020 Ditrău xenophobic incident, Consequences
According to the journalist Răzvan Bibire, the incident also presents an opportunity to start discussing at a national level the overexploitation suffered by many employees and the difficulties they have in defending their labor rights. It is unknown how possible future cases of this type will be treated. There is a possibility that media may try to strengthen interethnic borders or attempt to subordinate political objectives. It is also possible that the incident will trigger an open debate on the problems of Romanian society, such as power relations, marginalization and xenophobia.


2020 División de Honor de Béisbol
The 2020 División de Honor de Béisbol will be the 35th season of the top Spanish baseball league since its establishment and the 75th Spanish championship overall. The start of the season was postponed due to coronavirus pandemic.


2020 División de Honor de Béisbol, Teams
Antorcha Valencia promoted to the league after finish the previous season as champion of Primera División (tier 2).


2020 Dixie State Trailblazers football team
The 2020 Dixie State Trailblazers football team represents Dixie State University in the 2020–21 NCAA Division I FCS football season as an independent. They are led by second-year head coach Paul Peterson and play their home games at Greater Zion Stadium in St. George, Utah. Due to the NCAA's transition rules, they are not eligible for the 2020 FCS Playoffs.


2020 Dixie State Trailblazers football team, Previous season
The Trailblazers finished the 2019 season 8–3 overall and 7–3 in Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference (RMAC) play to place third.


2020 Dixie State Trailblazers football team, Schedule
Dixie State had a game scheduled against Drake, which was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 Dixie Vodka 400
The 2020 Dixie Vodka 400 was a NASCAR Cup Series race that was originally scheduled to be held on March 22, 2020 and was rescheduled to June 14, 2020, at Homestead–Miami Speedway in Homestead, Florida. On March 13, 2020, NASCAR announced that they would postpone the race due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 Dixie Vodka 400
Contested over 267 laps on the 1.5 mile (2.4 km) oval, it was 12th race of the 2020 NASCAR Cup Series season. This race will be the first time since 2001 that Homestead has not hosted the final race of the season, and the first time in the Chase/Playoff era.


2020 Dixie Vodka 400, Report, Background
Homestead-Miami Speedway is a motor racing track located in Homestead, Florida. The track, which has several configurations, has promoted several series of racing, including NASCAR, the NTT IndyCar Series and the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series


2020 Dixie Vodka 400, Report, Background
From 2002 to 2019, Homestead-Miami Speedway has hosted the final race of the season in all three of NASCAR's series: the NASCAR Cup Series, Xfinity Series and Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series.


2020 Dixie Vodka 400, Report, Background
After having held races closed to spectators since The Real Heroes 400 in May due to the pandemic, the Dixie Vodka 400 was the first NASCAR event to admit a limited number of outside spectators (albeit still closed to the public). The race was held before an audience of 1,000 United States Armed Forces members from South Florida, representing the Homestead Air Reserve Base and the United States Southern Command.


2020 Dixie Vodka 400, Qualifying
Denny Hamlin was awarded the pole for the race as determined by a random draw.


2020 Dixie Vodka 400, Media, Television
The Dixie Vodka 400 will be carried by Fox in the United States. Mike Joy and 2012 Homestead winner Jeff Gordon will cover the race from the Fox Sports studio in Charlotte. Matt Yocum handled the pit road duties. Larry McReynolds provided insight from the Fox Sports studio in Charlotte.


2020 Dixie Vodka 400, Media, Radio
MRN will have the radio call for the race, which will be simulcast on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio. Alex Hayden and Jeff Striegle will call the action of the race for MRN when the field raced down the front straightaway. Dave Moody will cover the action for MRN in turns 1 & 2, and Mike Bagley will have the call of the action from turns 3 & 4. Winston Kelley and Steve Post will cover the action of the race for MRN on pit road.


2020 Djurgårdens IF season
The 2020 season was Djurgårdens IF's 120th in existence, their 65th season in Allsvenskan and their 20th consecutive season in the league. In addition to the, Allsvenskan, they will compete in the 2019–20 and 2020–21 editions of the Svenska Cupen and the Champions League where they entered at the first qualifying round.


2020 Djurgårdens IF season
Djurgården entered the league season as defending champions having won their 12th league title, and the first in 14 years, on the final day of the 2019 season.


2020 Djurgårdens IF season, Squad, Out on loan
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2020 Doha Diamond League
The 2020 Doha Diamond League was the 22nd edition of the annual outdoor track and field meeting in Doha, Qatar. Held on 25 September 2020 at the Qatar Sports Club Stadium, it was the eighth and last leg of the 2020 Diamond League – the highest level international track and field circuit. Despite being the last meet in the series, no Diamond League champions were crowned due to the shortened season, and no points were awarded for event placements.


2020 Doha Diamond League
The meet was originally scheduled to be held at the Qatar Sports Club Stadium on April 17, except for the men's high jump, which would have been held at the Katara Amphitheater on April 16. However, on March 16, it was announced that the meet had been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In May, a new date of 9 October had been selected making it the twelfth leg of the 2020 Diamond League. In August it was rescheduled for the last time to 25 September, making it the eighth and last meet in the 2020 Diamond League after several other meets were cancelled.


2020 Doha Diamond League, Results
Because of the shortened season, no Diamond League points were awarded for athlete placements, and no Diamond League champions were crowned.


2020 Dominica Premier League
The 2020 Dominica Premier League is the 55th season of the Dominica Premier League, the top tier of association football in Dominica. The season began on 12 January 2020. The season was suspended on 15 March due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Dominica and resumed play on 31 July. South East FC won the league title.


2020 Dominican Republic general election
General elections were held in the Dominican Republic on 5 July 2020 to elect a president, vice-president, 32 senators and 190 deputies. They had originally been planned for 17 May, but were postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. They are the second elections since 1994 in which all positions will be elected simultaneously, and the first in Dominican history in which all authorities will be elected simultaneously and directly.


2020 Dominican Republic general election
Incumbent President Danilo Medina was ineligible to stand for re-election, having served two consecutive terms since 2012. The governing Dominican Liberation Party's 16-year rule ended after Modern Revolutionary Party candidate Luis Abinader received a majority of the vote. Rival candidates Gonzalo Castillo and Leonel Fernández also conceded defeat. The Modern Revolutionary Party also won a majority of seats in the Senate and a plurality in the Chamber of Deputies.


2020 Dominican Republic general election
The election was a partial realignment, with the Modern Revolutionary Party entering a status as a major party in the country, replacing the Dominican Revolutionary Party, who saw poor election results for the second election in a row and who obtained its lowest total vote share and seat count in its history. Abinader would be officially sworn in as President on August 16.


2020 Dominican Republic general election, Electoral system
The President of the Dominican Republic is elected using the two-round system; if no candidate receives 50% + 1 vote, or more, of the total votes, a second-round runoff will be held between the two candidates with the highest votes on the first round.


2020 Dominican Republic general election, Electoral system
The 32 members of the Senate are elected from the 31 provinces and the Distrito Nacional using first-past-the-post voting.


2020 Dominican Republic general election, Electoral system
The 190 members of the Chamber of Deputies are elected in three groups; 178 are elected by proportional representation from 32 multi-member constituencies based on the 31 provinces and the Distrito Nacional, with the number of seats based on the population of each province. A further seven members are elected by proportional representation by Dominican expatriates in 3 overseas constituencies, and five seats are allocated at the national level to parties that received at least 1% of the vote nationally, giving preference to those that did not win any of the 178 constituency seats.


2020 Dominican Republic general election, Electoral system
The 20 seats in the Central American Parliament are elected by proportional representation.


2020 Dominican Republic general election, Conduct
It was initially reported that representatives of the Organization of American States (OAS) would arrive to the Dominican Republic on 13 February 2020 to monitor the elections. The general election to elect the President and members of the Dominican Republic parliament, which was postponed from the scheduled May 17, 2020 date due to the COVID-19 pandemic, was later held on July 5, 2020.


2020 Dominican Republic general election, Conduct
Local media reported that the elections proceeded smoothly, except for one incident, when a person was shot inside a polling station after an argument erupted between rival party supporters.


2020 Dominican Republic general election, Results, President
Luis Abinader won the presidential election in the first round, obtaining over 50% of the vote. During the election count, the ruling Dominican Liberation Party's candidate Gonzalo Castillo conceded defeat, stating that the official count "shows that there is an irreversible trend and that from now on we have a president-elect... Our congratulations to Mr Luis Abinader." Former President Leonel Fernández, who left the ruling party and ran for the presidency as a member of the People's Force party, also conceded defeat. Abinader was sworn in as President of the Dominican Republic on August 16, 2020.


2020 Dominican Republic general election, Results, Senate
The Modern Revolutionary Party won an absolute majority in the Senate on their own, seeing their seat total increase by 15, while the ruling Dominican Liberation party lost over 75% of their prior seats.


2020 Dominican Republic general election, Results, Chamber of Deputies
The Modern Revolutionary Party won a plurality of votes and seats, seeing their seat count more than double. The ruling Dominican Liberation Party lost nearly 30% of their prior seats. No party has a majority on their own in the Chamber, meaning alliances or coalitions will need to be made to guarantee the passage of bills. A total of 96 seats is needed for a majority.


2020 Dominican Republic municipal elections
Municipal elections were held in the Dominican Republic on February 16, 2020, to elect all local governments officials in the country, including mayors, deputy mayors, aldermen, directors, deputy directors, and voices in municipalities. However, due to countless electoral polling places reporting problems with the electronic voting system within the first few hours of opening the polls, the Central Electoral Board (Spanish: Junta Central Electoral, JCE) decided to suspend the elections. The elections were rescheduled to March 15, 2020.


2020 Dominican Republic municipal elections
These would have been the second municipal elections to be held solely and apart from any other electoral process in the country's history and the first since 1968. It is the first time in the country's voting history that elections have been suspended.


2020 Dominican Republic municipal elections
After the suspension of the elections, various acts of violence in the province of Santo Domingo took place that left at least two dead and several injured; additionally another person died before the suspension of the election, that is, during the voting.


2020 Dominican Republic municipal elections
In the hours following the suspension and for several days after February 16, thousands of Dominicans took to the streets to demand the resignation of the Central Electoral Board.


2020 Dominican Republic municipal elections
Initially concentrated at The Flag Square, a monument dedicated to the Dominican flag which is located across the street from the main site of the Central Electoral Board in Santo Domingo de Guzmán, the protests have since extended to other locations across the country, and in cities around the world, led by the Dominican diaspora.


2020 Dominican Republic municipal elections, Electoral system
Municipalities in the Dominican Republic are governed by ayuntamientos, which are the basic political institutions in the country. Ayuntamientos have independent legal personality and have two governing bodies, the municipal council, composed of the mayor and a plenary assembly of councillors (the local legislative branch), and the Office of the Mayor, known as Alcaldía, directed by the mayor (the local executive branch). Municipalities are often divided into Municipal Districts, governed by decentralized organs under the municipality known as district councils (Juntas Distritales) composed of a District director (Director distrital) and an assembly of district councillors (vocales).


2020 Dominican Republic municipal elections, Electoral system
The city of Santo Domingo de Guzman is contained within the Distrito Nacional, the site of national government, and possesses a special status, as is common in federal nations. However, in practice and for the purposes of local administration, the rules that apply for the country's municipalities also apply for the capital.


2020 Dominican Republic municipal elections, Electoral system
Regidores are allocated to municipal councils based on the following scale:


2020 Dominican Republic municipal elections, Electoral system
District councillors (vocales) are elected at the rate of 3 in Municipal Districts with a population of up to 15,000, and 5, in districts with a population greater than 15,000.


2020 Dominican Republic municipal elections, Electoral system, Election method
The mayor is directly elected by popular vote. For the first time the choice of councilors will feature preferential voting, meaning that when citizens vote for a specific councilor candidate, this vote would be automatically counted towards that candidate's party and also towards the candidate for mayor of that same party. This system differs from previous elections, in which a closed list was used. The allocation of the total number of councilors to be chosen for each party/alliance will be determined by total votes received.


2020 Dominican Republic municipal elections, Electoral system, Election method
This means all votes cast for mayor, for each of the councilors, and for each party/alliance will be added using open list proportional representation and the D'Hondt method. Candidates will be selected based on the position won according to the preference vote. Municipal District officials will be elected the same way.


2020 Dominican Republic municipal elections, Electoral system, Election system
After claims of irregularities with the automated voting system during the Simultaneous Primary in October 2019, the Central Electoral Board decided that this system would only be used in those municipalities whose number of councilors to elect would be eleven or more in addition to the municipality of Mao.


2020 Dominican Republic municipal elections, Electoral system, Election system
In total, the automated voting system was to be used in 18 municipalities across the country, while the remaining 140 municipalities would use the traditional manual voting system. The Municipal Districts will use the same method as the municipality to which they belong.


2020 Dominican Republic municipal elections, Electoral system, Election system
For the rescheduled date, the Central Electoral Board eliminated the automated voting option.


2020 Dominican Republic municipal elections, Suspension of elections and national protests
In the early hours of February 16, Dominican citizens began approaching their designated sites to vote. Although polling places were scheduled to open nationwide at 7 am, delays began to be reported which led the president of the Central Election Board, Julio César Castaños Guzmán, to ask that citizens “have patience” as he indicated during a press conference at the board's headquarters that some “polling places may experience delays” in starting the electoral process.


2020 Dominican Republic municipal elections, Suspension of elections and national protests
At 11:11 am, Castaños Guzmán called for a second press conference to announce that elections would be suspended nationwide due to the widespread failure of the electronic voting system. He said that elections could not continue because the electoral ballot did not load properly in a majority of polling places in which the automated voting system was being used.


2020 Dominican Republic municipal elections, Suspension of elections and national protests
Issues with the automated voting system became known to the Central Electoral Board on the evening prior to the elections as the board's technical team was installing the voting machines. The issues were communicated to the Organization of American States, who was participating in the elections as part of a group of international observers, and to delegates from all political parties. The Central Electoral Board's technical team attempted to correct the issues by visiting the affected polling sites after 5PM on February 15 but were unable to correct them.


2020 Dominican Republic municipal elections, Suspension of elections and national protests
José Ignacio Paliza, opposition leader and president of the Modern Revolutionary Party, was among first to report the technical issues were present as early as the night before the elections in heavily populated provinces and municipalities across the country, such as Puerto Plata, San Pedro, San Francisco de Macorís, San Cristóbal, and Santo Domingo Oeste. Paliza reported that the issues had not been resolved as of 6:10 am on the morning of the elections.


2020 Dominican Republic municipal elections, Suspension of elections and national protests
Shortly after opening the polls, delegates from several parties began reporting problems at specific polling sites, indicating that the voting equipment failed to load the ballots fully. This meant certain candidate names, primarily of candidates from opposition parties, would not appear at all, making it impossible for their supporters to vote for them.


2020 Dominican Republic municipal elections, Suspension of elections and national protests
The automated voting system was to be used in 18 municipalities across the country, representing 62% of all registered voters, as these municipalities have the largest populations, while the remaining 140 municipalities would use the traditional manual voting system for 38% of registered voters.


2020 Dominican Republic municipal elections, Protests, Dominican Republic
Shortly after the Central Electoral Board's announcement, groups of Dominican citizens, outraged with the electoral suspension itself and the lack of information regarding the causes behind the technical failure, took to the streets to protest against the Central Electoral Board. The peaceful protests began in Santo Domingo de Guzman and were initially concentrated at [The Flag Square], a monument dedicated to the Dominican flag which is located across from the main site of the Central Electoral Board. The protests have since extended to other locations across the country, and in cities around the world, led by the Dominican diaspora.


2020 Dominican Republic municipal elections, Protests, Dominican Republic
Some of the main issues raised by the protesters were the perceived collaboration between the electoral board and the current government, the use of national funds for the benefit of politicians and their families, and a generalized frustration with political corruption and impunity. Other issues addressed were the poor state of the country's public health and education systems, the privatization of protected areas, crime, and the weakened state of Dominican democracy. A majority of the protesters are young, educated, and represent various social classes. Many have taken to wearing black clothes and covering their faces with masks to protect their identity to avoid retaliation from the government.


2020 Dominican Republic municipal elections, Protests, Dominican Republic
Also at issue was the lack of information provided by the Central Electoral Board about the failures and a concern that the incident would not be investigated fully. This dissatisfaction led many protesters to call for the resignation of the current Central Electoral Board.


2020 Dominican Republic municipal elections, Protests, Dominican Republic
After the suspension, the Central Electoral Board began taking measures to contain the protests by increasing security around the building's perimeter as early as the morning following the suspended elections, when the first manifestation was expected to take place.


2020 Dominican Republic municipal elections, Protests, Dominican Republic
Repression of protesters intensified on Tuesday, as crowds grew larger at The Flag Square. Military agents were deployed to the area to support the National Police and on Tuesday evening, tear gas devices were detonated against the crowd. The move was criticized by the local and international press, the Central Electoral Board, opposition parties, and the government.


2020 Dominican Republic municipal elections, Protests, Dominican Republic
Although the country's security forces were quick to distance themselves from the incident, the Minister of Defense, Lieutenant General Ruben Paulio Sem, later confirmed that the tear gas devices were launched by a rogue military agent and were not authorized, as the protest had been organized and peaceful, there was no threatening activity, and the situation did not call for such a response. According to reports, protesters “took the time to pick up litter and clean up the plaza”, putting the trash “into organized trash bags” and have “urged each other to show respect to authorities, particularly local police”.


2020 Dominican Republic municipal elections, Protests, Dominican Republic
On February 24, the Dominican Government increased Dominican National Police and Dominican Army presence in the areas surrounding President Danilo Medina's residence in the Los Cacicazgos neighborhood, which is located near the Flag Square, the main site of the protest in Santo Domingo. On February 25, reports surfaced of protest repression, as pedestrians and cyclists carrying placards or wearing black clothes were prohibited from transiting freely on the street. Authorities were reported to have confiscated and destroyed protest signs.


2020 Dominican Republic municipal elections, Protests, Aftermath and investigation
After the suspension of the elections, the Central Electoral Board asked outside organizations to audit the voting system and an investigation is in process. The Organization of American States, the International Foundation for Electoral Systems and the Inter-American Union of Electoral Organizations (UNIORE) have agreed to perform an investigation into the elections.


2020 Dominican Republic municipal elections, Protests, Aftermath and investigation
On February 19, 2020, National Police spokesman Frank Félix Durán Mejía said that two individuals, police Col. Ramón Antonio Guzmán Peralta, who had been assigned as security detail to the presidential candidate of one of the opposition parties, Luis Abinader, and Manuel Antonio Regalado, a technician for the Claro telecommunications company, were detained for trying to sabotage the elections. Both individuals were interrogated and have since been released. A third individual alleged to be involved in the incident, Coronel Koji Maruyama, has not been questioned by authorities.


2020 Dominican Republic municipal elections, Election schedule
Key dates relating primaries and the general election will be as follows:


2020 Dominican Republic municipal elections, Nominations
After the process for internal elections during the month of October, on November 8 the electoral campaign was formally opened and the electoral calendar began to run. The parties had to formally register their candidates during the first week of December 2019, each Municipal Electoral Board decided on December 11 on the admission or rejection of all candidacies.


2020 Dominican Republic municipal elections, Nominations
For this election a total of 158 mayors and the same amount of vice mayors will be chosen; 1,164 councillors (regidores) and a similar amount of alternates; 235 directors, same proportion of deputy directors and 735 district councillors (vocales).


2020 Dominican Republic municipal elections, Nominations
After that date, several complaints and legal complaints have been filed against the rejection of candidacies and, above all, changes in the composition of the ballots of the parties in relation to deputies and councilors, especially regarding the changes produced in those with the objective of complying the quota of women and the quota of youth. For this reason, the Central Electoral Board has not yet published the definitive list of candidates. The electoral law establishes a gender quota of no more than 60% and not less than 40%, for any gender, at the congressional and municipal levels, the municipal law previously established that the running mates of mayors and directors should be of the opposite gender.


2020 Dominican Republic municipal elections, Nominations
On December 16, the Superior Electoral Court (Spanish: Tribunal Superior Electoral, TSE) presented a formula and urged that it be the basis as an example of how the woman's quota should be applied fairly, this formula was submitted on the occasion of rejecting the action initiated by Niurka M. Reyes Guzmán (PRM - El Seibo), a former pre-candidate for a deputy, the court understood that her fundamental rights had not been violated because in her demarcation there was only one position submitted to popular election during the primaries. Two days later, the TSE instituted a special and more agile procedure to hear the appeals for amparo and the challenges filed against the decisions of the Electoral Boards, during the first four days (from December 16 to 19) the total files deposited have amounted to 235.


2020 Dominican Republic municipal elections, Nominations
On the other hand, according to the law, 10% of the candidates must be between 18 and 35 years of age, this provision known as the youth quota has not presented the same degree of disagreements or holders in the media, in fact, neither the JCE or the TSE has established any selection method, this is probably because Electoral Laws says its at national level, but the ambiguity of the law based on the levels of election will make the challenges more recurrent in the days to publish the candidates definitive list approaches.


2020 Dominican Republic municipal elections, Results, City control
The following table lists the mayor changes in provincial capitals, as well as in municipalities of at least 50,000 inhabitants. The inauguration of the new municipal councils will take place on 24 April 2024 unless otherwise noted.


2020 Dominican Republic municipal elections, Results, City control
Gains for a party are highlighted in that party's color. For official reasons a party gain is based on the party which won the municipality on the last election instead of the outgoing mayor current affiliation, additionally, the incoming mayor listed party depends on the party that lead the alliance (if existed) in that specific location, this means an alliance may have various parties listed as incoming instead of just the national mayor party of that alliance. Outgoing mayors marked with an asterisk (*) are not seeking reelection in 2020.


2020 Dominican Republic protests
The 2020 protests in the Dominican Republic, also known as the youth movement, comprise a series of massive congregations, both in the Dominican Republic and internationally, which took place from Sunday, February 16 to Thursday, March 12. of 2020, as a result of the Central Electoral Board suspending municipal elections for the first time in the entire history of national democracy.


2020 Dominican Republic protests
This decision was due to "errors" presented by electronic voting in the polling stations of 18 municipalities of the country, during the elections, in which around 62% of the votes were concentrated, despite the fact that manual votes, which were also applied in those demarcations, were being carried out without problems.


2020 Dominican Republic protests
The suspension of the elections generated discontent that transcended all social sectors. A group of young people, through their social media accounts, called on all Dominicans to congregate in the Plaza de la Bandera, becoming the largest manifestation in the country in recent national history, among those called by civil society. In this way, pressure was sought on the authorities, first of all, so that they resigned, going on to an investigation of what happened, the culprits were punished, and subsequent transparent elections were held.


2020 Dominican Republic protests, Background
The night before the municipal elections on Sunday, February 16, several technicians from the Central Electoral Board were working with the automated voting machines, without having previously notified the political delegates. After a meeting that lasted all morning, it was reported that there had been a failure in the ballots of some polling stations, which did not show all the candidates, and it was promised to resolve the problem before seven in the morning, time in that the elections should begin.


2020 Dominican Republic protests, Background
The environment prior to the voting was characterized by some isolated acts of violence (which resulted in four injuries), a complaint of proselytism, with the distribution of money and household items, supposedly to benefit the ruling party candidates. Faced with the situation, the president of the Junta had called on the parties and their leaders to "remain calm" and asked that they collaborate so that the elections would pass "in peace." A commission of the Modern Revolutionary Party went to the headquarters of the institution of the elections, to denounce that its leaders are supposedly "victims of aggression."


2020 Dominican Republic protests, Background
On the other hand, the Parties had been called in an emergency because the information was disseminated that “in some schools where automated voting would be used, the teams had been manipulated by the JCE technicians without the presence of the delegates of the parties". The leaders of the Fuerza del Pueblo party met at 10:00 pm with the members of the observer mission of the Organization of American States (OAS) due to this situation. The automated vote would be used in 9,757 municipalities of 18 municipalities, specifically those that surpassed 13 candidates for councilors, in which 62% of the votes were concentrated.


2020 Dominican Republic protests, Background
The incidents recorded on Saturday, February 15, the day before the municipal elections, occurred in Enriquillo, Barahona and in Castañuelas, Montecristi.10 In both cases it was reported that there were clashes between leaders of the Modern Revolutionary Party and the Party of the Dominican Liberation.


2020 Donegal Senior Football Championship
The 2020 Donegal Senior Football Championship was the 98th official edition of Donegal GAA's premier Gaelic football tournament for senior graded clubs in County Donegal. 16 teams compete with the winner representing Donegal in the Ulster Senior Club Football Championship. Generally, the championship begins with four groups of four and continues with a knock-out format. However, this year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the format was changed.


2020 Donegal Senior Football Championship
Naomh Conaill were the defending champions after they defeated Gaoth Dobhair by 0-8 to 0-7 after a second replay in the 2019 final.


2020 Donegal Senior Football Championship
The 2020 competition progressed as far as the final but this match was twice postponed due to issues arising from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Gaelic games.


2020 Donegal Senior Football Championship
This was St Naul's return to the senior grade for the first time since 2012 after a seven-year exodus when claiming the 2019 I.F.C. title. The club defeated Cloughaneely by 1-10 to 0-10 in the final.


2020 Donegal Senior Football Championship, Team changes
The following teams changed division since the 2019 championship season.


2020 Donegal Senior Football Championship, Format alterations
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 County Championship took a different format to previous championships. All 16 teams compete in a league competition, playing four games each. A random draw determined which teams faced each other in each of the four rounds. No team could meet each other twice in the group stage. Each team played two home games and two away games in this league phase. The top eight teams went into a seeded draw for the Quarter-Finals (the top four had home advantage in the quarter-finals) while the bottom four teams entered a relegation playoff.


2020 Donegal Senior Football Championship, Group stage
All 16 teams entered the competition at this stage. The top two teams in each group advanced to the quarter-finals, while the bottom team of each group entered a relegation playoff.


2020 Donegal Senior Football Championship, League stage
All 12 teams entered the competition at this stage. A random draw determined which teams faced each other in each of the four rounds. No team could meet each other twice in the group stage. The top eight teams went into a seeded draw for the quarter-finals, while the bottom three teams entered a relegation playoff. If teams were level on points and a place in the quarter-final was at stake, a playoff would have been conducted to determine which team went through.


2020 Donegal Senior Football Championship, Knock-out stage, Semi-finals
The semi-final draw was held on 6 September, producing the same pairings as this stage of the previous competition.


2020 Donegal Senior Football Championship, Knock-out stage, Final
The final was originally scheduled for 19 September 2020. However, it emerged on 21 September that a Kilcar player had tested positive for the coronavirus; initially the game was announced to be proceeding as scheduled.


2020 Donegal Senior Football Championship, Knock-out stage, Final
A short while later though, the final was postponed until 7 October. However, the GAA suspended all club fixtures with immediate effect on 5 October, citing "post-match celebrations and a lack of social distancing at certain events" elsewhere in the country (i.e. Cork, Meath) as "disappointing and problematic".


2020 Donegal Senior Football Championship, Relegation play-offs
The four bottom-placed teams from the league phase entered the relegation play-Offs. The 13th and 14th placed teams had home advantage in the relegation semi-finals and played the 16th and 15th placed teams respectively. The two winners maintained their senior status for 2021. The two losers contested a relegation final to determine which team would be relegated to the 2021 I.F.C.


2020 Donegal Senior Football Championship, Television rights
The following matches were broadcast live on national television, unless otherwise indicated:


2020 Donegal Senior Football Championship, Television rights
The League Stage: Round 4 matches were all streamed live and free-to-air on Sunday 23 August.


2020 Donegal county football team season
The following is a summary of Donegal county football team's 2020 season. The season was suspended in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The season resumed in mid-October of the same year.


2020 Donegal county football team season
Jason McGee had hip surgery in Coventry, England, on 28 November 2019, causing him to miss the opening part of the season.


2020 Donegal county football team season
Odhrán Mac Niallais did not return, having previously opted out of the 2019 season.


2020 Donegal county football team season
Eamonn Doherty, Hugh McFadden and Odhrán McFadden-Ferry were all struck down by "January flu" as the season opened. Eight players completed the league and championship season while awaiting the outcome of the 2020 Donegal Senior Football Championship final (postponed following a case of COVID-19 at the Kilcar club); these were Patrick McBrearty, Ryan McHugh, Eoin McHugh and Andrew McClean, as well as the following from their opponents Naomh Conaill: Ciarán Thompson, Jeaic Mac Ceallbhuí, Eoghan McGettigan and Ethan O'Donnell.


2020 Donegal county football team season, National Football League Division 1
Donegal competed in Division 1 for the 2020 National League season. The GAA published the fixture schedule on 26 November 2019. On 12 March 2020, the GAA suspended the National League in mid-March due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Games resumed in October 2020. The footballers travelled the round-trip of 900 kilometres to Tralee in their own cars to play Kerry in the first game, a feat described in the Irish Independent as the "most eye-catching example of GAA expeditions in the Covid era".


2020 Donegal county football team season, Ulster Senior Football Championship
The draw for the 2020 Ulster Senior Football Championship took place on RTÉ Radio 1 on the morning of 9 October 2019.


2020 Donegal county football team season, Ulster Senior Football Championship
Paddy McGrath sustained an injury during training ahead of the 2020 Ulster Senior Football Championship semi-final, which ruled him out.


2020 Donegal county football team season, Ulster Senior Football Championship
Ciarán Thompson and Oisín Gallen sustained injuries during training ahead of the 2020 Ulster Senior Football Championship final; Thompson could only make a substitute appearance in the game and Gallen could not play at all.


2020 Donegal county football team season, 2020 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the GAA announced that there would be no back-door route into the All-Ireland Championship. Therefore, because Donegal did not win the Ulster Championship, they did not qualify for the 2020 All-Ireland Championship.


2020 Dow Tennis Classic
The 2020 Dow Tennis Classic was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the twenty-sixth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2020 ITF Women's World Tennis Tour. It took place in Midland, Michigan, United States between 3 and 9 February 2020.


2020 Dow Tennis Classic, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2020 Dow Tennis Classic – Doubles
Olga Govortsova and Valeria Savinykh were the defending champions but Govortsova chose not to participate.


2020 Dow Tennis Classic – Doubles
Savinykh partnered Yanina Wickmayer, but lost in the final to Caroline Dolehide and Maria Sanchez, 6–3, 6–4.


2020 Dow Tennis Classic – Singles
Caty McNally was the defending champion, but lost in the quarterfinals to Anhelina Kalinina.


2020 Dow Tennis Classic – Singles
Shelby Rogers won the title after Kalinina withdrew from final because of leg injury.


2020 Down Senior Football Championship
The 2020 Down Senior Football Championship was the 112th official edition of Down GAA's premier Gaelic Football tournament for senior clubs in County Down, with 16 teams competing. The tournament operated a double elimination format for the opening two rounds of the championship, with the winners and early round losers rejoining at the quarter final stage.


2020 Down Senior Football Championship
Kilcoo were the holders after defeating Warrenpoint in the 2019 final.


2020 Down Senior Football Championship
Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, relegation from the S.F.C. was not tied to this year's Down Football League. Instead, a Relegation Play-off was implemented within this year's S.F.C. format. Darragh Cross were relegated to the 2021 I.F.C. after losing their Relegation Play-Off. Saul will replace them after they claimed the 2020 I.F.C. title.


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


2020 Down Senior Football Championship, Participating Teams
The following teams take part in the 2020 edition of the Down Senior Football Championship. –


2020 Down Senior Football Championship, Participating Teams
Ballyholland Harps (Semi Final) Bryansford (Quarter Final) Burren (Round 3) Carryduff (Final) Clonduff (Quarter Final) Kilcoo (Champions)  Loughinisland (Quarter Final) Mayobridge (Round 3) Rostrevor (Quarter Final) Warrenpoint (Semi Final)


2020 Down Senior Football Championship, Participating Teams
Bredagh (Round 3) Castlewellan (Round 2B) Darragh Cross (Round 2B) Glenn (Round 2B) Longstone (Round 3) RGU Downpatrick (Round 2B)


2020 Down Senior Football Championship, Round 1
The 16 participating teams were placed into an open draw. Winning sides moved to Round 2A while losing sides went into Round 2B.


2020 Down Senior Football Championship, Round 2, Round 2A
Round 2A featured the eight winning sides from Round 1, with an open draw to determine the fixtures. The winning sides progress directly to the Quarter Final, with the losing sides moving into Round 3.


2020 Down Senior Football Championship, Round 2, Round 2B
Round 2B sees the eight losing sides from Round 1 compete for a place in Round 3. The losing sides from this round will be eliminated from the competition, and will have to play a relegation play-off to attempt to retain their Senior status for 2021.


2020 Down Senior Football Championship, Round 3
Round 3 is a supplementary round for teams to have a second chance at reaching the Quarter Final. This round features teams that have lost once so far in this year's Championship, either winning in Round 1 and losing in Round 2A, or losing in Round 1 but winning their Round 2B fixture. Losing sides in this round are eliminated from this year's competition.


2020 Down Senior Football Championship, Round 3
This round is seeded, meaning in each fixture a Round 2A losing side will face a Round 2B winning side.


2020 Down Senior Football Championship, Quarter Final
The Quarter Final sees the two brackets rejoin, with the earlier Round 2A winners facing a Round 3 winner for a Semi Final spot.


2020 Down Senior Football Championship, Semi Final
The Semi Final will see the four winning sides face off for a place in this year's final. This round is an open draw from the four Quarter Final winners.


2020 Down Senior Football Championship, Final
The final was played between the two Semi Final winners, and took place at Páirc Esler, Newry.


2020 Down Senior Football Championship, Relegation Play-Offs, Relegation Semi-Finals
The 4 losers of Round 2B play each other in the Relegation Semi-Finals. The 2 winners will secure their Senior status for 2021, while the 2 losers will face-off in the Relegation Final.


2020 Down Senior Football Championship, Relegation Play-Offs, Relegation Final
The winner of the Relegation Final will maintain their Senior status into 2021, while the loser will be relegated to the 2021 Down I.F.C.


2020 Down county football team season
The following is a summary of Down county football team's 2020 season, which was its 117th year. The season was suspended in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The season resumed in mid-October of the same year.


2020 Down county football team season, Dr McKenna Cup
The draw for the 2020 Dr McKenna Cup was made on 4 December 2019.


2020 Down county football team season, National Football League Division 3
Down will compete in Division Three for the 2020 National League season. Fixtures were published by the GAA on 26 November 2019.


2020 Down county football team season, National Football League Division 3
On 12 March 2020 the GAA suspended the National League in mid-March due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Games resumed in October 2020.


2020 Down county football team season, Ulster Senior Football Championship
The draw for the 2020 Ulster Senior Football Championship took place on 9 October 2019. On 26 November 2019 it was confirmed that Down will face Fermanagh on 24 May 2020. This date was then changed to 8 November due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 Down county football team season, 2020 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the GAA announced that there would be no back-door route into the All-Ireland Championship. Therefore, because Down did not win the Ulster Championship, they did not qualify for the 2020 All-Ireland Championship.


2020 Dr McKenna Cup
The 2020 Dr McKenna Cup, known for sponsorship reasons as the Bank of Ireland Dr McKenna Cup, is a Gaelic football competition in the province of Ulster for county teams. It is held at the beginning of the GAA season.


2020 Dr McKenna Cup
The draw was made on 4 December 2019 with the fixtures confirmed following a meeting of Comhairle Uladh CCC later in the month. For the first time in many years, no university teams will take part, due to the changed schedule for the Sigerson Cup.


2020 Dr McKenna Cup
Tyrone were the winners for the eighth time in nine years.


2020 Dr McKenna Cup, Competition Format
The nine teams were drawn into three sections of three teams. Each team plays the other teams in their section once, either home or away. Two points are awarded for a win and one for a draw. The points-ratio method (points for divided by points against) is used to determine the ranking of teams who are level on section points (as opposed to the more typical scoring differential). The competition will begin on Sunday 29 December 2019.


2020 Dr McKenna Cup, Competition Format
The winners of the three sections and the best of the runners-up in the three sections compete in the semi-finals with the two winners meeting in the final.


2020 Drake Bulldogs football team
The 2020 Drake Bulldogs football team represents Drake University in the 2020–21 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Bulldogs compete as members of the Pioneer Football League and are led by second-year head coach Todd Stepsis. They play their home games at Drake Stadium in Des Moines, Iowa.


2020 Drake Bulldogs football team, Previous season
The Bulldogs finished the 2019 season 6–5, 6–2 in PFL play to finish in a tie for second place.


2020 Drake Bulldogs football team, Schedule
Drake had a game scheduled against Hastings on September 3, which was later canceled before the start of the 2020 season. A replacement game, scheduled for the same day, was announced against Black Hills State on July 14. On July 27, that replacement game, along with Drake's scheduled games against North Dakota State and Dixie State, were canceled due to the Pioneer Football League's decision to play a conference-only schedule due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In August, the entire schedule was pushed to spring due to the pandemic.


2020 Drake Bulldogs football team, Schedule
On December 17, the PFL announced its revised spring football season schedule. The revised schedule will feature Presbyterian, who were originally not scheduled to move into the PFL until the 2021–2022 season.


2020 Drake Bulldogs football team, Schedule
Following the decisions by Marist and Dayton to opt out of a spring season, the PFL released another schedule in February 2021.


2020 Dresden knife attack
On 4 October 2020, a man was killed and another injured during a knife attack in Dresden, Germany. After two weeks, the suspected perpetrator was arrested. Europol classified the attack as jihadist terrorism.


2020 Dresden knife attack, Attack
Two German men, a gay couple, who were visiting Dresden were stabbed with a knife by the suspect. One of the victims, a 55-year-old, died from his injuries, while the other, a 53-year-old, was critically injured but later recovered. The perpetrator fled the scene, and was arrested two weeks later, after his DNA traces were found on the knife, which was recovered near the scene of the attack. An Islamist background was confirmed to be behind the attack; Justice Minister Christine Lambrecht said that "Islamist terror is a major, enduring threat to our society that we have to tackle determinedly."


2020 Dresden knife attack, Suspect
The suspect is identified as 20-year-old Abdullah al-H. H., a Syrian national who arrived in Germany in 2015 to seek asylum. He was previously investigated for planning a terrorist attack, and reported to German authorities by a foreign intelligence service. He had contacts with a woman, a member of the Islamic State: the two were planning an attack in Germany with the help of other militants. After publishing several Islamic State-related symbols and flag on his personal Facebook profile in 2017, Abdullah al-H. H. was investigated as a dangerous radicalized Islamist, who can "carry out an attack at any moment".


2020 Dresden knife attack, Suspect
His home was checked by police, who seized his phone. Investigators discovered that he was planning to join the Islamic State, had contacts with a militant in Yemen and was working on the construction of suicide belts; al-H. H. was then taken into custody. His accomplices were also arrested, including the Islamic State woman who was identified as the leader of the cell, according to police. All of them were sentenced in November 2018 to two years and nine months for supporting a terrorist organization and planning an attack.


2020 Dresden knife attack, Suspect
Abdullah, who also attacked prison guards during his time in jail, was released in September 2020, even if he was still considered "radicalized and dangerous" and was forbidden to possess any sharp objects and firearms. Police were in charge of checking him with a technical surveillance device placed in front of his home. However, he is not checked at every moment. Two days before the attack, he bought a knife, which was the one used in the attack.


2020 Dresden knife attack, Aftermath
In the aftermath, it was debated in the Bundestag (Federal parliament of Germany) why the Syrian, whose asylum application had been rejected by authorities, had not been deported from the country. Questions were also asked on why the security agencies of Saxony had not monitored him sufficiently.


2020 Drexler-Automotive Formula 3 Cup
The 2020 Drexler-Automotive Formula 3 Cup was the 39th Austria Formula 3 Cup season and the second Drexler-Automotive Formula 3 Cup season.


2020 Drexler-Automotive Formula 3 Cup, Teams and drivers
All Cup cars were built between 2008 and 2018, Trophy cars were built between 1992 and 2007, and Open class have more powerful engines.


2020 Drexler-Automotive Formula 3 Cup, Championship standings
Standings for all competitions are shown below. There was no RAVENOL Formel 3 Cup classification for German drivers for this season.


2020 Drive for the Cure 250
The 2020 Drive for the Cure 250 presented by Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina was the 29th stock car race of the 2020 NASCAR Xfinity Series, the 48th iteration of the event, the third race of the playoffs, and the final, and therefore cutoff race for the Round of 12. The race took place on Saturday, October 10, 2020 in Concord, North Carolina at the Charlotte Motor Speedway roval, a permanent 2.28 miles (3.67 km) road course, using part of the oval and part of the infield road course.


2020 Drive for the Cure 250
The race was extended from 67 to 68 laps due to NASCAR overtime finish. A. J. Allmendinger would survive the race, avoiding crashing in the rain and a charging Noah Gragson to win the race. Noah Gragson of JR Motorsports and Daniel Hemric of JR Motorsports would finish 2nd and 3rd, respectively.


2020 Drive for the Cure 250
The race is known for the heavy rain that fell down on the track that day, leading to several spins and wrecks. Numerous cars were spinning during 7 laps to go in Stage 1, starting with Kyle Weatherman. Eventually, the rain would get so bad that the leader spun from the lead, multiple drivers ended up in the tire barriers (Tommy Joe Martins, Matt Mills, Austin Hill), and a red flag was thrown. While rain did still fall down, the race was continued and finished in the same day it was started. However, many drivers would still spin out or worse.


2020 Drive for the Cure 250, Starting lineup
Qualifying was set by a formula set on the previous race. As a result, Noah Gragson of JR Motorsports was given the pole.


2020 Drydene 200 (Saturday)
The first of the two 2020 Drydene 200s was the 20th stock car race of the 2020 NASCAR Xfinity Series season, and the 39th iteration of the event. The race was held on Saturday, August 22, 2020 in Dover, Delaware at Dover International Speedway, a 1 mile (1.6 km) permanent oval-shaped racetrack. The race was originally to be held on May 2, but was postponed to August 22 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The race took the scheduled 200 laps to complete.


2020 Drydene 200 (Saturday)
At race's end, Justin Allgaier of JR Motorsports would win the race in dominating fashion, winning the 12th race of his career in the NASCAR Xfinity Series and the first of the season. To fill the podium, Austin Cindric of Team Penske and Ross Chastain of Kaulig Racing would finish 2nd and 3rd, respectively.


2020 Drydene 200 (Saturday), Background
Dover International Speedway is an oval race track in Dover, Delaware, United States that has held at least two NASCAR races since it opened in 1969. In addition to NASCAR, the track also hosted USAC and the NTT IndyCar Series. The track features one layout, a 1 mile (1.6 km) concrete oval, with 24° banking in the turns and 9° banking on the straights. The speedway is owned and operated by Dover Motorsports.


2020 Drydene 200 (Saturday), Background
The track, nicknamed "The Monster Mile", was built in 1969 by Melvin Joseph of Melvin L. Joseph Construction Company, Inc., with an asphalt surface, but was replaced with concrete in 1995. Six years later in 2001, the track's capacity moved to 135,000 seats, making the track have the largest capacity of sports venue in the mid-Atlantic. In 2002, the name changed to Dover International Speedway from Dover Downs International Speedway after Dover Downs Gaming and Entertainment split, making Dover Motorsports. From 2007 to 2009, the speedway worked on an improvement project called "The Monster Makeover", which expanded facilities at the track and beautified the track. After the 2014 season, the track's capacity was reduced to 95,500 seats.


2020 Drydene 200 (Saturday), Starting lineup
The starting lineup was based on a metric qualifying system based on the previous race, the 2020 UNOH 188 and owner's points. As a result, Austin Cindric of Team Penske won the pole.


2020 Drydene 311 (Saturday)
The 2020 Drydene 311 was a NASCAR Cup Series race that was originally scheduled to be held on May 3, 2020 but expected to be scheduled on August 22, 2020, at Dover International Speedway in Dover, Delaware. Scheduled to be contested over 400 laps but shortened to 311 laps because of the 500 kilometer doubleheader format used on the 1-mile (1.6 km) concrete speedway, it was the 24th race of the 2020 NASCAR Cup Series season. It was the first 300-mile Cup Series race since 1970 at Dover.


2020 Drydene 311 (Saturday)
There were three stages, each ending at 70, 115 & 126.


2020 Drydene 311 (Saturday), Report, Background
Dover International Speedway is an oval race track in Dover, Delaware, United States that has held at least two NASCAR races since it opened in 1969. In addition to NASCAR, the track also hosted USAC and the NTT IndyCar Series. The track features one layout, a 1 mile (1.6 km) concrete oval, with 24° banking in the turns and 9° banking on the straights. The speedway is owned and operated by Dover Motorsports.


2020 Drydene 311 (Saturday), Report, Background
The track, nicknamed "The Monster Mile", was built in 1969 by Melvin Joseph of Melvin L. Joseph Construction Company, Inc., with an asphalt surface, but was replaced with concrete in 1995. Six years later in 2001, the track's capacity moved to 135,000 seats, making the track have the largest capacity of sports venue in the mid-Atlantic. In 2002, the name changed to Dover International Speedway from Dover Downs International Speedway after Dover Downs Gaming and Entertainment split, making Dover Motorsports. From 2007 to 2009, the speedway worked on an improvement project called "The Monster Makeover", which expanded facilities at the track and beautified the track. After the 2014 season, the track's capacity was reduced to 95,500 seats.


2020 Drydene 311 (Saturday), Qualifying
Chase Elliott was awarded the pole for the race as determined by competition-based formula.


2020 Drydene 311 (Saturday), Media, Television
NBC Sports covered the race on the television side. Rick Allen, 2006 race winner Jeff Burton, Steve Letarte and 2001 race winner Dale Earnhardt Jr. covered the race from the booth at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Dave Burns, Parker Kligerman and Dillon Welch handled the pit road duties on site.


2020 Drydene 311 (Saturday), Media, Radio
MRN had the radio call for the race, which was also simulcast on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio.


2020 Drydene 311 (Sunday)
The 2020 Drydene 311 was a NASCAR Cup Series race held on August 23, 2020, at Dover International Speedway in Dover, Delaware. Scheduled to be contested over 400 laps but shortened to 311 laps because of the doubleheader format on the 1-mile (1.6 km) concrete speedway, it was the 25th race of the 2020 NASCAR Cup Series season.


2020 Drydene 311 (Sunday), Report, Background
Dover International Speedway is an oval race track in Dover, Delaware, United States that has held at least two NASCAR races since it opened in 1969. In addition to NASCAR, the track also hosted USAC and the NTT IndyCar Series. The track features one layout, a 1 mile (1.6 km) concrete oval, with 24° banking in the turns and 9° banking on the straights. The speedway is owned and operated by Dover Motorsports.


2020 Drydene 311 (Sunday), Report, Background
The track, nicknamed "The Monster Mile", was built in 1969 by Melvin Joseph of Melvin L. Joseph Construction Company, Inc., with an asphalt surface, but was replaced with concrete in 1995. Six years later in 2001, the track's capacity moved to 135,000 seats, making the track have the largest capacity of sports venue in the mid-Atlantic. In 2002, the name changed to Dover International Speedway from Dover Downs International Speedway after Dover Downs Gaming and Entertainment split, making Dover Motorsports. From 2007 to 2009, the speedway worked on an improvement project called "The Monster Makeover", which expanded facilities at the track and beautified the track. After the 2014 season, the track's capacity was reduced to 95,500 seats.


2020 Drydene 311 (Sunday), Qualifying
Matt DiBenedetto was awarded the pole for the race as determined by the top 20 from Saturday's finishing order inverted.


2020 Drydene 311 (Sunday), Media, Television
NBC Sports covered the race on the television side. Rick Allen, 2006 race winner Jeff Burton, Steve Letarte and 2001 race winner Dale Earnhardt Jr. covered the race from the booth at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Dave Burns, Parker Kligerman and Dillon Welch handled the pit road duties on site.


2020 Drydene 311 (Sunday), Media, Radio
MRN had the radio call for the race, which was also simulcast on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio.


2020 Dubai 24 Hour
The 2020 Dubai 24 Hour was the 15th running of the Dubai 24 Hour. It was also the first round of both the 2020 24H GT Series and the 2020 24H TCE Series. The event was held on 9 to 10 January at the Dubai Autodrome, United Arab Emirates. The race ran for 7 hours, 18 minutes of race time and 16 hours overall before the race was red flagged due to excess rain. The track had insufficient draining for the amount of rain and after 16 hours officials declared the race official.


2020 Dubai Tennis Championships
The 2020 Dubai Tennis Championships (also known as the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships for sponsorship reasons) was an ATP Tour 500 event on the 2020 ATP Tour and a Premier tournament on the 2020 WTA Tour. Both events were held at the Aviation Club Tennis Centre in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The women's tournament took place from February 17 to 22 and the men's tournament from February 24 to 29.


2020 Dubai Tennis Championships
The Women's event was expanded to 30 places in the main draw, and 48 places in qualifying; following the cancellation of the Hungarian Ladies Open, which was scheduled in the same week as the Dubai Tennis Championships.


2020 Dubai Tennis Championships, ATP singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2020 Dubai Tennis Championships, ATP singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following player received entry using a protected ranking into the singles main draw:


2020 Dubai Tennis Championships, ATP doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:


2020 Dubai Tennis Championships, WTA singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2020 Dubai Tennis Championships, WTA doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following pairs received a wildcard into the doubles main draw:


2020 Dubai Tennis Championships – Men's Doubles
Rajeev Ram and Joe Salisbury were the defending champions, but lost in the quarterfinals to John Peers and Michael Venus.


2020 Dubai Tennis Championships – Men's Doubles
Peers and Venus went on to win the title, defeating Raven Klaasen and Oliver Marach in the final, 6–3, 6–2.


2020 Dubai Tennis Championships – Men's Singles
Roger Federer was the defending champion, but withdrew from the tournament after undergoing surgery on his right knee.


2020 Dubai Tennis Championships – Men's Singles
Novak Djokovic won the title, defeating Stefanos Tsitsipas in the final, 6–3, 6–4. Djokovic saved three match points in his semifinal match agasint Gaël Monfils.


2020 Dubai Tennis Championships – Women's Doubles
Hsieh Su-wei and Barbora Strýcová were the defending champions and successfully defended their title, defeating Barbora Krejčíková and Zheng Saisai in the final, 7–5, 3–6, [10–5].


2020 Dubai Tennis Championships – Women's Doubles, Seeds
The top four seeds received a bye into the second round.


2020 Dubai Tennis Championships – Women's Singles
Belinda Bencic was the defending champion, but lost in the first round to Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova.


2020 Dubai Tennis Championships – Women's Singles
Simona Halep won the title, defeating Elena Rybakina in the final. 3–6, 6–3, 7–6(7–5). Halep saved a match point against Ons Jabeur in the second round.


2020 Dubai Tennis Championships – Women's Singles
This tournament marked the return of former world No. 1 Kim Clijsters, who lost to Garbiñe Muguruza in the first round. It was Clijsters' first professional match since August 29, 2012.


2020 Dubai Tennis Championships – Women's Singles, Seeds
The top two seeds received a bye into the second round.


2020 Dubai Women's Tour
The 2020 Dubai Women's Tour was a women's cycle stage race held in Dubai from 17 to 20 February, 2020. The Dubai Women's Tour, being held for the first time, was held as a UCI rating of 2.2 race.


2020 Dublin Senior Football Championship
The 2020 Dublin Senior Football Championship was the 134th edition of Dublin GAA's premier gaelic football tournament for senior clubs in County Dublin, Ireland. 32 teams participate (16 in Senior 1 and 16 in Senior 2), with the winner of Senior 1 representing Dublin in the Leinster Senior Club Football Championship.


2020 Dublin Senior Football Championship
Ballyboughal won the 2019 I.F.C. and were promoted along with I.F.C. finalists Trinity Gaels to Senior 2. They replaced St. Patrick's Palmerstown and Round Towers Clondalkin who were relegated to the 2020 I.F.C.


2020 Dublin Senior Football Championship
Round Towers Lusk won the Senior 2 Championship and were promoted along with finalists Whitehall Colmcille to Senior 1. They replaced St. Brigid's and St. Sylvester's who were relegated to the 2020 SFC2.


2020 Dublin Senior Football Championship, Senior 1
The team named first in Rounds 1 and 2 in each group will have home advantage. Round 3 will see teams play at neutral venues.


2020 Dublin Senior Football Championship, Senior 2
The team named first in Rounds 1 and 2 in each group will have home advantage. Round 3 will see teams play at neutral venues.


2020 Duhallow Junior A Football Championship
The 2020 Duhallow Junior A Football Championship is the 88th staging of the Duhallow Junior A Football Championship. The draw for the group stage placings took place on 19 November 2019. The championship was scheduled to begin in April 2020, however, it was postponed indefinitely due to the coronavirus pandemic in Ireland. The championship is scheduled to take place between July and October 2020.


2020 Duhallow Junior A Football Championship
Boherbue were the defending champions and retained their title after beating Cullen.


2020 Duhallow Junior A Football Championship, Results, Final
Duhallow Winners will Qualify to the First Round of the 2020 Cork Junior Football Championship.


2020 Duke Blue Devils football team
The 2020 Duke Blue Devils football team represented Duke University in the 2020 NCAA Division I FBS football season as a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). The Blue Devils were led by head coach David Cutcliffe, in his 13th year, and played their home games at Wallace Wade Stadium in Durham, North Carolina.


2020 Duke Blue Devils football team, Previous season
The Blue Devils finished the season 5–7, 3–5 in ACC play to finish in sixth place in the Coastal Division.


2020 Duke Blue Devils football team, Schedule
Duke had games scheduled against Charlotte, Elon, Middle Tennessee, and Wake Forest, which were all canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 Duke Blue Devils football team, Schedule
The ACC released their schedule on July 29, with specific dates selected at a later date.


2020 Duke Blue Devils men's soccer team
The 2020 Duke Blue Devils men's soccer team represented Duke University during the 2020 NCAA Division I men's soccer season. The Blue Devils were led by head coach John Kerr, in his thirteenth season. They played home games at Koskinen Stadium. The team was founded in 1935 and currently plays in the Atlantic Coast Conference.


2020 Duke Blue Devils men's soccer team
The teams' 2020 season was significantly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, which curtailed the fall season and caused the NCAA Tournament to be played in Spring 2021. The ACC was one of the only two conferences in men's soccer to play in the fall of 2020. The ACC also held a mini-season during the spring of 2021.


2020 Duke Blue Devils men's soccer team
The Blue Devils finished the fall season 2–6–0 and 2–4–0 in ACC play to finish in fourth place in the South Division. In the ACC Tournament they lost to Pittsburgh in the Quarterfinals. They finished the spring season 2–4–3 and 2–3–1 in ACC play, to finish in third place in the Coastal Division. They were not invited to the NCAA Tournament.


2020 Duke Blue Devils men's soccer team, Background
The 2019 Duke men's soccer team finished the season with a 7–9–2 overall record and a 2–5–1 ACC record. The Blue Devils were seeded twelfth–overall in the 2019 ACC Men's Soccer Tournament, where they lost to NC State in the First Round. The Blue Devils were not invited to the 2019 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament.


2020 Duke Blue Devils men's soccer team, Squad, Roster
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2020 Duke Blue Devils women's soccer team
The 2020 Duke Blue Devils women's soccer team represented Duke University during the 2020 NCAA Division I women's soccer season. The Blue Devils were led by head coach Robbie Church, in his twentieth season. They played home games at Koskinen Stadium. This was the team's 33rd season playing organized women's college soccer and their 33rd playing in the Atlantic Coast Conference.


2020 Duke Blue Devils women's soccer team
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the ACC played a reduced schedule in 2020 and the NCAA Tournament was postponed to 2021. The ACC did not play a spring league schedule, but did allow teams to play non-conference games that would count toward their 2020 record in the lead up to the NCAA Tournament.


2020 Duke Blue Devils women's soccer team
The Blue Devils finished the fall season 7–4–2, 4–2–2 in ACC play to finish in sixth place. As the fifth seed in the ACC Tournament, they defeated Clemson before losing to eventual champions Florida State in the Semifinals. The Blue Devils finished the spring season 3–1–1 and received an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament. In the tournament, they defeated Arizona State in the Second Round and Ole Miss in the Third Round before losing to Florida State in the Quarterfinals, on penalties to end their season.


2020 Duke Blue Devils women's soccer team, Previous Season
The Blue Devils finished the season 9–4–7, 3–1–6 in ACC play to finish in fifth place. As the sixth seed in the ACC Tournament, they lost to Virginia in the Quarterfinals. They received an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament where they defeated Utah before losing to Wisconsin in the Second Round.


2020 Duke Blue Devils women's soccer team, Squad, Roster
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2020 Duke's Mayo Bowl
The 2020 Duke's Mayo Bowl was a college football bowl game played on December 30, 2020, with kickoff at noon EST on ESPN. It was the 19th edition of the Duke's Mayo Bowl (formerly the Belk Bowl), and was one of the 2020–21 bowl games concluding the 2020 FBS football season. Duke's Mayonnaise was the title sponsor of the game.


2020 Duke's Mayo Bowl, Teams
Based on conference tie-ins, the Duke's Mayo Bowl was expected to feature teams from the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) and the Big Ten Conference. On December 20, teams from those conferences were announced as the game participants; Wake Forest of the ACC and Wisconsin of the Big Ten. This was the first meeting between the two programs.


2020 Duke's Mayo Bowl, Teams, Wake Forest Demon Deacons
Wake Forest entered the bowl with a 4–4 record (3–4 in conference play). The Demon Deacons played two ranked teams during the season, losing to Clemson and defeating Virginia Tech. Wake Forest had played in two prior editions of this bowl, winning the 2007 Meineke Car Care Bowl and 2017 Belk Bowl, when it was known by those names.


2020 Duke's Mayo Bowl, Teams, Wisconsin Badgers
Wisconsin entered the bowl with a 3–3 record, all in conference games. The Badgers played three ranked teams during the season, losing to each of Northwestern, Indiana, and Iowa. This was the first appearance by Wisconsin in this bowl.


2020 Duke's Mayo Bowl, Aftermath
During their post-game locker room celebration, Wisconsin quarterback Graham Mertz accidentally dropped and shattered the game trophy.


2020 Dundalk F.C. season
Dundalk entered the 2020 season as the reigning League Champions and League of Ireland Cup holders from 2019. Having qualified for European football for the seventh season in a row, they were entered in the 2020–21 UEFA Champions League. It was manager Vinny Perth's second season as manager until his dismissal following Dundalk's exit from Europe in the first qualifying round of the Champions League. The 2020 season was Dundalk's 12th consecutive season in the top tier of Irish football, their 85th in all, and their 94th in the League of Ireland.


2020 Dundalk F.C. season, Season summary
After the postponement of the President's Cup due to storm conditions, the scheduled double-double round-robin 36 round League programme commenced on 14 February 2020 and was due to be completed on 23 October 2020. The season was predicted to be a two-horse race between Dundalk and Shamrock Rovers. Both sides won their opening three matches before Rovers won their first encounter, 3–2, in Tallaght Stadium. That game was notable for a goal by Dundalk's Jordan Flores, which was subsequently nominated for the FIFA Puskás Award.


2020 Dundalk F.C. season, Season summary
Subsequently, the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic saw the cessation of football in line with other European countries ahead of the Round Six match at home to St Patrick's Athletic. The League of Ireland Cup, sponsored by EA Sports, was deferred for the season. The Leinster Senior Cup was abandoned. During the stoppage, assistant manager Ruaidhrí Higgins departed his role for a new role under former Dundalk manager Stephen Kenny with the Republic of Ireland national football team. He was replaced by Alan Reynolds, who had earlier resigned as manager of Waterford.


2020 Dundalk F.C. season, Season summary
The league season resumed on 31 July 2020 with a reduced schedule of 18 matches in total. Matches were played behind closed doors for the remainder of the shortened season as part of the Irish government's response to the pandemic. In Europe, Dundalk entered the 2020–21 UEFA Champions League as the seeded team in the first qualifying round. They were drawn away to Celje and defeated 3–0 in the single-leg tie, which was played at Szusza Ferenc Stadion, Budapest (Hungary) because of travel restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic between Slovenia and Ireland. In the aftermath of that defeat, manager Vinny Perth was sacked by the club.


2020 Dundalk F.C. season, Season summary
On 26 August Filippo Giovagnoli was confirmed as the new manager of Dundalk, with nine league matches remaining. John Gill and Alan Reynolds left the club the following week. After being defeated in the Champions League first qualifying round, they drew Andorran champions Inter Club d'Escaldes in the Europa League second qualifying round, and won 1–0. They were drawn away again in the second round, and defeated Sheriff Tiraspol in Moldova in a penalty shoot-out, following a 1–1 draw. The victory gave Dundalk a chance to reach the group stage for the first time since 2016. In the play-off round, they faced KÍ of Klaksvík in the Faroe Islands at the Aviva Stadium, and won 3–1. Meanwhile, they continued to struggle in the league and eventually finished third, thus qualifying for the new UEFA Europa Conference League.


2020 Dundalk F.C. season, Season summary
Dundalk were seeded fourth for the group stage and were drawn in Group B alongside Arsenal, Rapid Wien, and Molde. In the first match at home to Molde, Dundalk took a first half lead through Sean Murray, before going down 2–1. Matchday 2 was the first away match, which was against Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium. It finished 3–0 to the home side. Matchday 3 away to Rapid in Vienna finished 4–3 to the home side after Dundalk had taken the lead. They failed to pick up any points from the second set of matches, and finished bottom of the group on 0 points. They also received a €50,000 fine from Uefa for 'shadow coaching', as interim head coach Filippo Giovagnoli did not hold a Uefa Pro Licence.


2020 Dundalk F.C. season, Season summary
In the FAI Cup, which also had a schedule change as a result of the pandemic, they reached the final after wins over Waterford, Cobh Ramblers, Bohemians, and Athlone Town. The 11–0 semi-final victory over Athlone Town saw Dundalk set a new record for the biggest win in the competition's history, and was also a new club record victory. They followed that with a 4–2 extra time victory over the holders, Shamrock Rovers, with David McMillan scoring a hat-trick, to win the Cup for the twelfth time.


2020 Dundalk F.C. season, Competitions, Europe, Europa League
The group stage draw was held on 2 October 2020.


2020 Dungan–Kazakh ethnic clashes
The 2020 Dungan–Kazakh ethnic clashes or Korday conflict was an ethnic conflict between ethnic Kazakhs and ethnic Dungans (a Muslim group with Chinese origins) in the village of Masanchi within the Korday District of Kazakhstan. As a result of the conflict, 11 persons died, 185 were injured (34 of them having to be hospitalized) and 47 persons were arrested. It provoked damages costing around KZ₸1.7 billion (US$4.44 million) and the displacement of around 20,000 people to neighboring Kyrgyzstan.


2020 Dungan–Kazakh ethnic clashes
President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev made a statement regarding the conflict in which he gave his condolences to the family of the victims and stated that the situation was now controlled by the Military Police and the Kazakh National Guard.


2020 Dungan–Kazakh ethnic clashes, Background
The Sortobe and Masanchi are considered to be cultural capitals for Kazakhstani Dungans. The House of Culture in Masanchi houses a museum of the history of the Dungan people. Every year there, as well as in the village of Sortobe, the holiday “Day of the Dungan Ethnos” is held. With the support of the Dungan Association of Kazakhstan (ADK), a monument dedicated to Bai Yanhu was unveiled in the village in 2001.


2020 Dungan–Kazakh ethnic clashes, Chronology, 5 February
The conflict began in the village of Sortobe because of the incident with the fight between the elderly Dungan Ersmane Yunhu and his son Marat Yunhu and the aqsaqal Tölegen Qūdaşpaev and his two sons. 80 year old Tölegen was beaten and the Qūdaşpaev family of three people were heading to the hospital until their road was blocked by a Dungan driver driving from the yard onto the highway. As a result of a conflict on the road, a scuffle took place, the result of which was the hospitalization of two members of the Qūdaşpaev family. Tölegen was taken by sanitary aviation to Almaty for a surgery on the hip joint.


2020 Dungan–Kazakh ethnic clashes, Chronology, 7 February
At approximately around 14:15 in Sortobe, near the village of Masanchi, a passenger car was stopped by the patrolmen due to non-compliance with the license plate standard. When checking documents, other administrative offenses were also found out. While in the process, the driver tried to flee, but was overtaken in the courtyard of his home where the policemen were completely attacked. According to unofficial data, the cause of the conflict was a domestic conflict between residents of several villages.