2020 Bulgarian Cup Final
The 2020 Bulgarian Cup Final was the final match of the 2019–20 Bulgarian Cup and the 80th final of the Bulgarian Cup. The final took place on 1 July 2020 at Vasil Levski National Stadium, Sofia, Bulgaria. On 27 June the Bulgarian Football Union announced that it is allowed for the stadium to host up to 30% of its total capacity (i.e. 12,000 spectators) with up to 3,000 spectators per block in accordance to health regulations, issued by the Ministry of Health in relation to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic in Bulgaria.


2020 Bulgarian Cup Final
The clubs contesting the final were CSKA Sofia and Lokomotiv Plovdiv. Both teams had met on multiple occasions in the competition but never in the final itself. This was CSKA's 33rd final and the first one since 2016, while Lokomotiv Plovdiv appeared in their 2nd consecutive and 6th overall final.


2020 Bulgarian Cup Final
Lokomotiv Plovdiv won the game after penalties and lifted their 2nd consecutive cup. This victory ensured their qualification to the first qualifying round of the 2020–21 UEFA Europa League. This was the first occasion in the history of the Cup finals in which a team from Plovdiv managed to prevail against a Sofia-based club - in the 15 previous instances the teams from the capital city had emerged victorious. Momchil Tsvetanov joined Krasimir Bezinski and Elin Topuzakov in becoming the player with most cup wins in the history of the tournament. This was his 6th cup in total with a 4th different club after 2008, 2009, 2016, 2018, and 2019.


2020 Bulgarian Supercup
The 2020 Bulgarian Supercup will be the 17th Bulgarian Supercup, an annual Bulgarian football match played between the winners of the previous season's First Professional Football League and Bulgarian Cup. The game will be played between the champions of the 2019-20 First League, Ludogorets Razgrad, and the 2020 Bulgarian Cup winners, Lokomotiv Plovdiv.


2020 Bulgarian Supercup
This will be Ludogorets's eighth Bulgarian Supercup appearance and Lokomotiv Plovdiv's fourth. The two teams played each other twice: in 2012 and in last season. On both occasions Ludogorets won the trophy.


2020 Bulgarian Supercup
Lokomotiv Plovdiv won their second supercup following their success in 2004. The goal was scored by Dimitar Iliev.


2020 Bulgarian Supercup, Post-match reactions
Lokomotiv Plovdiv owner Hristo Krusharski was overjoyed due to the victory, claiming that he had a premonition before the game, praising the collective efforts of the team and expressing the viewpoint that the "railwaymen" have great ambitions for the European tournaments and the next season in the league, hoping to make up for the disappointing finish outside the top 3 in the previous campaign.


2020 Bulgarian Supercup, Post-match reactions
Assistant manager Aleksandar Tunchev who was in charge of the team during the Supercup because of Bruno Akrapović serving a suspension expressed his gratitude to the players, some of whom were returning from a quarantine and also insisted that everyone should remain focused on the upcoming matches. Lokomotiv captain Dimitar Iliev was satisfied that his team had been quite convincing and dominated the hosts from Razgrad unlike any other. Sports director Georgi Ivanov regarded Lokomotiv's consistency as an indication of the team's class and expressed hope that the inertia the team had accumulated would carry over into the 2020/2021 season.


2020 Bulgarian Supercup, Post-match reactions
Ludogorets manager Pavel Vrba acknowledged issues with the team performance, especially when it came to the offensive players, as well as ill-discipline leading to the red card, though he also insisted that Jordan Ikoko had been provoked. Ludogorets captain Svetoslav Dyakov considered his team's play to have been poor and emphasized the need for the right lessons to be drawn for the next matches.


2020 Bundamba state by-election
A by-election was held for the seat of Bundamba in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland on 28 March 2020, the same day as the Currumbin by-election and local government elections, following the resignation of Jo-Ann Miller on 20 February 2020. Lance McCallum won the by-election, holding the seat for the Labor Party.


2020 Burgenland state election
The 2020 Burgenland state election was held on 26 January 2020 to elect the members of the 22nd Landtag of Burgenland. The snap election was called in the wake of the Ibiza affair in May 2019, which caused the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) to terminate its coalition with the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ).


2020 Burgenland state election
The centre-left SPÖ achieved its best result since 2005, winning an absolute majority on a swing of eight percentage points. The conservative Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) improved on its 2015 result, but did not gain any seats. The FPÖ lost a third of its votes, falling to 9.8% and four seats. The Greens stayed level, while List Burgenland (LBL) lost most of its votes and both of its seats. The net result was a shift of four seats to the SPÖ.


2020 Burgenland state election
The SPÖ's unexpectedly strong result came after a string of election losses since 2017, including its worst-ever result in the 2019 federal election result three months earlier. Commentators attributed this to the conservative positions on immigration and national security taken by Governor Hans Peter Doskozil. Burgenland is a traditional stronghold of the SPÖ, who have governed the state continuously since 1964.


2020 Burgenland state election
Due to its Landtag majority, the SPÖ did not seek a coalition partner, and entered government alone. Doskozil was sworn in as Governor for a second term on 17 February. Fellow SPÖ member Astrid Eisenkopf became Deputy Governor, the first woman to hold the position in Burgenland.


2020 Burgenland state election, Electoral system
The 36 seats of the Landtag of Burgenland are elected via open list proportional representation in a two-step process. The seats are distributed between seven multi-member constituencies, corresponding to the seven districts of Burgenland (the statutory cities of Eisenstadt and Rust are combined with Eisenstadt-Umgebung District). Apportionment of the seats is based on the results of the most recent census.


2020 Burgenland state election, Electoral system
For parties to receive any representation in the Landtag, they must either win at least one seat in a constituency directly, or clear a 4 percent state-wide electoral threshold. Seats are distributed in constituencies according to the Hare quota, with any remaining seats allocated using the D'Hondt method at the state level, to ensure overall proportionality between a party's vote share and its share of seats.


2020 Burgenland state election, Electoral system
In addition to voting for a political party, voters may cast preferential votes for specific candidates of that party, but are not required to do so. These additional votes do not affect the proportional allocation based on the vote for the party or list, but can change the rank order of candidates on a party's lists at the state and constituency level. Voters may cast one preferential vote at the state level, or three at the constituency level. A voter may not cross party-lines to cast a preference vote for a candidate of another party; such preference votes are invalid.


2020 Burgenland state election, Results, Preference votes
Alongside votes for a party, voters were able to cast a preferential votes for a candidate on the party list. The ten candidates with the most preferential votes on a state level were as follows:


2020 Burkinabé general election
General elections were held in Burkina Faso on 22 November 2020 to elect the President and National Assembly. In the presidential elections, incumbent president Roch Marc Christian Kaboré of the People's Movement for Progress was re-elected in the first round with 57.7% of the vote, avoiding the need for second round. The main campaign focus of the major presidential candidates was the growing insecurity in the country with the rise in terrorism and ethnic violence.


2020 Burkinabé general election, Electoral system
The President is elected using the two-round system; if no candidate receives a majority of the vote in the first round, a second round will be held.


2020 Burkinabé general election, Electoral system
The 127 members of the National Assembly are elected by proportional representation; 111 are elected from 45 multi-member constituencies with between two and nine seats, with 16 elected from a single nationwide constituency.


2020 Burkinabé general election, Campaign
In February 2019 former Prime Minister Kadré Désiré Ouédraogo announced that he would contest the presidential elections.


2020 Burkinabé general election, Conduct
Due to instability, the election commission was unable to conduct voter registration in more than 17% of the country. Fifty-two out of 127 members of parliament suggested that they would not be able to campaign in their constituency due to security concerns. With increased pressure from the government not to postpone the elections, the National Assembly passed a bill on 24 August to introduce a force majeure clause.


2020 Burkinabé general election, Conduct
The clause allowed the elections to continue as normal and in areas where insecurity limited the vote from being held, the results from polling stations that were able to open dictated the result for the entire constituency. At the start of the campaign period, municipalities in six of the thirteen regions had cases of force majeure.


2020 Burkinabé general election, Conduct
The COVID-19 pandemic also prevented voter registrations between 30 March and 25 May.


2020 Burkinabé general election, Conduct
On election day, voting did not take place in 926 of the 19,836 polling stations, disenfranchising 596,756 registered voters.


2020 Burkinabé general election, Aftermath
Although the opposition accused the government of committing electoral fraud before and after the election, on 27 November opposition leader Zephirin Diabre conceded defeat and met with Kabore to congratulate him on his re-election. The opposition failed to produce substantial evidence of electoral fraud and the election commission quickly dismissed the claims of irregularities. However, it did not necessarily mean that the election was without any irregularities at all. In the country's east, 30 people voted using fake ballot papers as there were not any "original" ballot papers available. However, Halidou Ouedraogo, President of local election monitoring organization CODEL said that it was not a widespread phenomenon and gave the election a mostly clean bill.


2020 Burnie International
The 2020 Burnie International was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the seventeenth (men) and eleventh (women) editions of the tournament which was part of the 2020 ATP Challenger Tour and the 2020 ITF Women's World Tennis Tour. It took place in Burnie, Australia between 27 January and 2 February 2020.


2020 Burnie International, Men's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2020 Burnie International, Men's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following player received entry into the singles main draw as an alternate:


2020 Burnie International, Women's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2020 Burnie International – Men's Doubles
Lloyd Harris and Dudi Sela were the defending champions but chose not to defend their title.


2020 Burnie International – Men's Doubles
Harri Heliövaara and Sem Verbeek won the title after defeating Luca Margaroli and Andrea Vavassori 7–6(7–5), 7–6(7–4) in the final.


2020 Burnie International – Men's Singles
Steven Diez was the defending champion but lost in the second round to Jason Kubler.


2020 Burnie International – Men's Singles
Taro Daniel won the title after defeating Yannick Hanfmann 6–2, 6–2 in the final.


2020 Burnie International – Women's Doubles
Ellen Perez and Arina Rodionova were the defending champions but Rodionova chose not to participate.


2020 Burnie International – Women's Doubles
Perez partnered alongside Storm Sanders and successfully defended her title, defeating Desirae Krawczyk and Asia Muhammad in the final, 6–3, 6–2.


2020 Burnie International – Women's Singles
Belinda Woolcock was the defending champion but lost in the first round to Paula Badosa, in a repeat of the previous year's final.


2020 Burnie International – Women's Singles
Maddison Inglis won the title, defeating Sachia Vickery in the final, 2–6, 6–3, 7–5.


2020 Burundian general election
General elections were held in Burundi on 20 May 2020 to elect both the president and the National Assembly. Évariste Ndayishimiye of the ruling CNDD–FDD was elected president with 71% of the vote. In the National Assembly elections, the CNDD–FDD won 72 of the 100 elected seats.


2020 Burundian general election, Electoral system
The president is elected using the two-round system. If no candidate receives a majority of the vote in the first round, a second round will be held. 100 members of the National Assembly are elected from 18 multi-member constituencies based on the provinces using the closed list proportional representation system. Seats are allocated using the d'Hondt method with a national 2% electoral threshold. A further three members of the Twa ethnic group are appointed, and more members are co-opted to ensure a 60–40 split between Hutus and Tutsis, and a 30% quota for female MPs.


2020 Burundian general election, Campaign
Incumbent President Pierre Nkurunziza, in power since 2005, announced in December 2018 that he would not contest the elections. In response, the main opposition alliance, CNARED, announced that they would return from exile in Belgium to participate in the elections for the first time since 2005.


2020 Burundian general election, Campaign
In January 2020, the CNDD–FDD chose the party's secretary general Évariste Ndayishimiye as its presidential candidate. In February, the National Congress for Liberty selected Agathon Rwasa as their candidate.


2020 Burundian general election, Campaign
Gaston Sindimwo, the First Vice President of Burundi, announced he would run as the Union for National Progress nominee.


2020 Burundian general election, Campaign
Dieudonné Nahimana, Léonce Ngendakumana, Francis Rohero and Domitien Ndayizeye also ran in the elections.


2020 Burundian general election, Conduct
In December 2017, the government introduced a voluntary election levy. However, Human Rights Watch accused the youth wing of the ruling CNDD–FDD and local government officials of extorting the money from citizens in the buildup to the elections, sometimes demanding the donation multiple times.


2020 Burundian general election, Conduct
According to the Burundi Human Rights Initiative, election day was marred by irregularities including the arrests of opposition leaders and people voting multiple times. Long queues formed at polling stations.


2020 Burundian general election, Results, National Assembly
The three Twa representatives were from the ASSEJEBA, UJEDECO and UNIPROBA parties.


2020 Burundian general election, Reactions, International
Due to the travel restrictions imposed by COVID-19 pandemic, there were almost no international observers present in the country.


2020 Busch Clash
The 2020 Busch Clash was a NASCAR Cup Series race held on February 9, 2020 at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. Contested over 88 laps — extended from 75 laps due to an overtime finish, it was the first exhibition race of the 2020 NASCAR Cup Series season. The race was won by Erik Jones, one of only six cars still running after a series of crashes late in the race.


2020 Busch Clash, Report, Background
The track, Daytona International Speedway, is one of six superspeedways to hold NASCAR races, the others being Michigan International Speedway, Auto Club Speedway, Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Pocono Raceway, and Talladega Superspeedway. The standard track at Daytona International Speedway is a four–turn superspeedway that is 2.5-mile (4.0 km) The track's turns are banked at 31 degrees, while the front stretch, the location of the finish line, is banked at 18 degrees.


2020 Busch Clash, Report, Format and eligibility
The race is 75 laps in length, and is divided into two segments; the first is 25 laps and the second is 50 laps. The race is open to those drivers who won a pole in the 2019 season or had won "The Clash" previously.


2020 Busch Clash, Report, Format and eligibility
The 2020 Busch Clash will not be a predetermined number of cars; rather, the field is limited to drivers who meet more exclusive criteria. Only drivers who were 2019 Pole Award winners, former Clash race winners, former Daytona 500 champions, former Daytona 500 pole winners who competed full–time in 2019 and drivers who qualified for the 2019 Playoffs are eligible.


2020 Busch Clash, Entry list
Eighteen drivers were confirmed to be participating in this event. Although Daniel Hemric and Daniel Suárez were eligible to run the event, they chose not to run with Hemric moving back to the NASCAR Xfinity Series and Suarez focusing in preparing for the 2020 Daytona 500.


2020 Busch Clash, Practice
Erik Jones was the fastest in the final practice session with a time of 45.055 seconds and a speed of 199.756 mph (321.476 km/h).


2020 Busch Clash, Starting lineup
The lineup was determined by random draw, with Ryan Newman drawing the top spot.


2020 Busch Clash, Media
FS1 covered the race on the television side; Mike Joy and Jeff Gordon handled the call in the booth for the race; Michael Waltrip,  Vince Welch and Matt Yocum handled pit road for the television side.


2020 Busch Clash, Media, Television
A total of 2.46 million people watched the race, which earned it a 1.57 rating. This rating was 15% higher than the 2019 Clash.


2020 Butler Bulldogs football team
The 2020 Butler Bulldogs football team represents Butler University in the 2020–21 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They are led by 15th-year head coach Jeff Voris and play their home games at the Bud and Jackie Sellick Bowl. They are members of the Pioneer Football League.


2020 Butler Bulldogs football team, Previous season
The Bulldogs finished the 2019 season 3–9, 2–6 in PFL play to finish in eighth place.


2020 Butler Bulldogs football team, Schedule
Butler's games scheduled against South Dakota State, DePauw, and Taylor were canceled on July 27 due to the Pioneer Football League's decision to play a conference-only schedule due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 C-League
2020 Metfone C-League  is the 36th season of the C-League. Contested by 13 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with Cambodian Second League.


2020 C-League, Foreign players
The number of foreign players is restricted to five per team. A team can use four foreign players on the field in each game, including at least one player from the AFC region.


2020 C-League, Foreign players
Players name in bold indicates the player is registered during the mid-season transfer window.


2020 C-League, Foreign players
*Note: Bati Academy and Electricite du Cambodge do not use foreign players.


2020 CAA Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2020 Colonial Athletic Association Men's Basketball Tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the Colonial Athletic Association for  the 2019–20 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The tournament was held March 7–10, 2020 at the Entertainment and Sports Arena in Washington, D.C..


2020 CAA Men's Basketball Tournament, Seeds
All 10 CAA teams participate in the tournament. Teams are seeded by conference record, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with identical conference records. The top six teams receive a bye to the quarterfinals.


2020 CAA Women's Basketball Tournament
The 2020 Colonial Athletic Association Women's Basketball Tournament was a postseason women's basketball tournament for the Colonial Athletic Association for the 2019–20 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The tournament was scheduled to be held from March 11–14, 2020 at the Schar Center in Elon, North Carolina. The champion would have received the CAA's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. On March 12, the NCAA announced that the tournament was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic.


2020 CAA Women's Basketball Tournament, Seeds
All 10 CAA teams are expected to participate in the tournament. Teams will be seeded by conference record, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with identical conference records. The top six teams will receive a bye to the quarterfinals.


2020 CAF Champions League Final
The 2020 CAF Champions League Final was the final of the 2019–20 CAF Champions League, the 56th edition of Africa's premier club football tournament organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF), and the 24th edition under the current CAF Champions League title.


2020 CAF Champions League Final
For the first time, the final was played as a single match at a venue pre-selected by CAF. It was originally scheduled to be played on 29 May 2020 at the Japoma Stadium in Douala, Cameroon. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the match was postponed and Cameroon decided to withdraw from hosting. Instead, the final was played on 27 November 2020 at the Cairo International Stadium in Cairo, Egypt.


2020 CAF Champions League Final
The final featured two Egyptian clubs, Al-Ahly and Zamalek, which made this the first CAF Champions League final to feature two clubs from the same country, as well as the first final to feature two clubs from the same city. As Al-Ahly and Zamalek were also Egypt's most successful clubs both in domestic and international competitions and share an intense rivalry, the final between two teams was considered as the most important game to have ever been played between two clubs.


2020 CAF Champions League Final
Al-Ahly defeated Zamalek and won 2–1, winning their record-extending ninth title and their first since 2013. They also earned the right to play against the 2019–20 CAF Confederation Cup winners RS Berkane in the 2020–21 CAF Super Cup, and qualified for the 2020 FIFA Club World Cup in Qatar.


2020 CAF Champions League Final, Teams
In the following table, finals until 1996 were in the African Cup of Champions Club era, since 1997 were in the CAF Champions League era.


2020 CAF Champions League Final, Venue, Original host selection
The CAF Executive Committee decided in June 2019 that the final would be played as a single match. Three member associations submitted bids during the period of 11–20 February 2020: The CAF Emergency Committee made the final decision on 12 March 2020, and Japoma Stadium, Douala was officially announced as the final venue on 16 March 2020.


2020 CAF Champions League Final, Venue, Postponement and relocation
On 18 April 2020, the CAF announced that the final had been postponed until further notice due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 CAF Champions League Final, Venue, Postponement and relocation
In July, the Cameroonian Football Federation announced that they had withdrawn from hosting the final.


2020 CAF Champions League Final, Venue, Postponement and relocation
On 3 August 2020, the CAF announced that the final would be played on 16 or 17 October 2020. It would be played in Egypt if both semi-finalists from Egypt, Al-Ahly and Zamalek, reached the final, or in Morocco if both semi-finalists from Morocco, Raja Casablanca and Wydad Casablanca, reached the final. If one team from Egypt and one team from Morocco reached the final, it was initially decided that the final would be played in a neutral country.


2020 CAF Champions League Final, Venue, Postponement and relocation
On 10 September 2020, the CAF announced that at the request of the Royal Moroccan Football Federation, the final was rescheduled to 6 November 2020.


2020 CAF Champions League Final, Venue, Postponement and relocation
It was later decided that if the final were between a team from Egypt and a team from Morocco, the final would be played in either Egypt or Morocco, to be decided by a draw, which was held on 16 October 2020 in Casablanca, Morocco prior to the semi-final first legs, and the country drawn was Egypt.


2020 CAF Champions League Final, Venue, Postponement and relocation
Egypt was confirmed as the host country of the final after Al-Ahly eliminated Wydad Casablanca in the semi-final and reached the final on 23 October 2020.


2020 CAF Champions League Final, Venue, Postponement and relocation
The semi-final second leg between Zamalek and Raja Casablanca was postponed due to Raja Casablanca being required by Moroccan authorities to self-isolate until 27 October after eight players testing positive for the COVID-19 virus, with the total number of cases increasing to fourteen the following day, and as a result, the CAF announced on 30 October 2020 that the final was further postponed to 27 November 2020.


2020 CAF Champions League Final, Venue, Postponement and relocation
Borg El Arab Stadium, Alexandria was initially announced as the final venue, but it was decided in early November to relocate the match to Cairo International Stadium, Cairo due to expected heavy rains.


2020 CAF Champions League Final, Venue, Postponement and relocation
On 25 November 2020, the CAF and the Egyptian Football Association confirmed the final would be played behind closed doors.


2020 CAF Champions League Final, Road to the final
Note: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away).


2020 CAF Champions League Final, Format
The final was played as a single match at a pre-selected venue, with the winner of semi-final 1 according to the knockout stage draw designated as the "home" team for administrative purposes. If scores were level after full time, extra time was not to be played and the winner was to be decided by a penalty shoot-out (Regulations Article III. 28).


2020 CAF Champions League Final, Officials
On 26 November 2020, CAF named Algerian referee Mustapha Ghorbal as the referee for the match. Ghorbal had been a FIFA referee since 2014 and officiated two fixtures in the CAF Champions League during the 2019–20 season, including a match for Zamalek against Espérance de Tunis in the quarter-finals, which was won by the latter 1–0 thanks to a penalty. His compatriots Abdelhak Etchiali and Mokrane Gourari were chosen as the assistant referees, while Janny Sikazwe of Zambia was chosen as the fourth official. Moroccan referee Redouane Jiyed was named the video assistant referee, but his assistants were not announced prior to the match.


2020 CAF Champions League Final, Officials
A few hours before the start of the match, CAF announced that Redouane Jiyed had tested positive for COVID-19 and was excluded from the final as a result. Janny Sikazwe, who was originally appointed as the fourth official, was given the role of the video assistant referee, while Egyptian referee Ibrahim Nour El Din was named the new fourth official for the match. The identity of the assistant video assistant referees was still known at this time.


2020 CAF Champions League Final, Match, Summary
El Solia opened the scoring for Al-Ahly in the 5th minute with a downward header from four yards out a corner on the right. Shikabala equalized for Zamalek in the 31st minute when he cut in from the right before shooting left-footed form the edge of the penalty area to the top left corner of the net past Mohamed El Shenawy who did not move. Magdy got the winning goal for Al Ahly in the 86th minute when he controlled the ball on his knee after it was cleared, before volleying to the right corner of the net with his right foot from outside the penalty area.


2020 CAF Champions League Final, Match, Details
Assistant referees:Abdelhak Etchiali (Algeria)Mokrane Gourari (Algeria)Fourth official:Ibrahim Nour El Din (Egypt)Video assistant referee:Janny Sikazwe (Zambia)Assistant video assistant referees: Zakhele Siwela (South Africa) Gerson Emiliano dos Santos (Angola)


2020 CAF Confederation Cup Final
The 2020 CAF Confederation Cup Final was the final of the 2019–20 CAF Confederation Cup, the 17th edition of Africa's secondary club football tournament organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF), under the current CAF Confederation Cup title after the merger of CAF Cup and African Cup Winners' Cup.


2020 CAF Confederation Cup Final
For the first time, the final was played as a single match at a venue pre-selected by CAF. It was originally scheduled to be played on 24 May 2020 at the Prince Moulay Abdellah Stadium in Rabat, Morocco. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the match was postponed and was played on 25 October 2020, as part of a Final Four format played as single matches in Morocco.


2020 CAF Confederation Cup Final
RS Berkane defeated Pyramids and won 1–0, earning themselves their first ever CAF Confederation Cup and African trophy. They also earned the right to play against the 2019–20 CAF Champions League winners in the 2020–21 CAF Super Cup.


2020 CAF Confederation Cup Final, Venue
The CAF Executive Committee decided in June 2019 that the final would be played as a single match. One member association submitted bids during the period of 11–20 February 2020:


2020 CAF Confederation Cup Final, Venue
The CAF Emergency Committee made the final decision on 12 March 2020, and Prince Moulay Abdellah Stadium, Rabat was officially announced as the final venue on 16 March 2020.


2020 CAF Confederation Cup Final, Venue, Postponement
On 18 April 2020, the CAF announced that the final had been postponed until further notice due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 CAF Confederation Cup Final, Venue, Postponement
On 3 August 2020, the CAF announced that the final would be played on 27 September 2020.


2020 CAF Confederation Cup Final, Venue, Postponement
On 10 September 2020, the CAF announced that at the request of the Royal Moroccan Football Federation, the final was rescheduled to 25 October 2020.


2020 CAF Confederation Cup Final, Road to the final
Note: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away; N: neutral).


2020 CAF Confederation Cup Final, Format
The final is played as a single match at a pre-selected venue, with the winner of semi-final 1 according to the knockout stage draw designated as the "home" team for administrative purposes. If scores are level after full-time, extra time is not played and the winners are decided by a penalty shoot-out (Regulations Article III. 28).


2020 CAF Confederation Cup Final, Officials
On 24 October 2020, CAF named Cameroonian referee Sidi Alioum as the referee for the match. Alioum is a member of the CAF Elite and took charge of numerous important matches in competitions organized by CAF, including the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations final. His compatriot Elvis Guy Noupue was chosen as one of the assistant referees, along with Chadian official Issa Yaya, while Eric Otogo-Castane of Gabon was chosen as the fourth official. Zambian referee Janny Sikazwe was named the video assistant referee and was assisted by Haythem Guirat from Tunisia and Gerson Emiliano dos Santos from Angola.


2020 CAF Confederation Cup Final, Match
Assistant referees:Elvis Guy Noupue (Cameroon)Issa Yaya (Chad)Fourth official:Eric Otogo-Castane (Gabon)Video assistant referee:Janny Sikazwe (Zambia)Assistant video assistant referees:Haythem Guirat (Tunisia)Gerson Emiliano dos Santos (Angola)


2020 CAF Super Cup
The 2020 CAF Super Cup (officially the 2020 Total CAF Super Cup for sponsorship reasons) was the 28th CAF Super Cup, an annual football match in Africa organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF), between the winners of the previous season's two CAF club competitions, the CAF Champions League and the CAF Confederation Cup.


2020 CAF Super Cup
The match was played between Espérance de Tunis from Tunisia, the 2018–19 CAF Champions League winners, and Zamalek from Egypt, the 2018–19 CAF Confederation Cup winners, at the Thani bin Jassim Stadium in Al Rayyan, Doha, Qatar on 14 February 2020.


2020 CAF Super Cup
This season was the first to be played according to the new calendar, as per the decision of the CAF Executive Committee on 20 July 2017. The match was initially scheduled on 16, 17 or 18 August 2019, but was postponed. The CAF announced on 21 November 2019 that the match would be played on 14 February 2020 in Doha, Qatar.


2020 CAF Super Cup
The match was played in Qatar for the second season in a row, after they signed a three-year agreement with the CAF the previous season. Zamalek announced in November 2019 that they would not play the match in Qatar due to the Qatar diplomatic crisis. However, the club's board voted in February 2020 to play in the match.


2020 CAF Super Cup
Zamalek won the match 3–1, winning their fourth CAF Super Cup title.


2020 CAF Super Cup, Venue
The match was played at Thani bin Jassim Stadium in Al Rayyan, Doha, Qatar. The stadium has a capacity of 21,175 and is the home venue of Qatar Stars League side Al Gharafa. It was one of the five venues that hosted the 2011 AFC Asian Cup in the country.


2020 CAF Super Cup, Format
The CAF Super Cup is played as a single match at a neutral venue, with the CAF Champions League winners designated as the "home" team for administrative purposes. If the score is tied at the end of regulation, extra time will not be played, and the penalty shoot-out will be used to determine the winner (CAF Champions League Regulations XXVII and CAF Confederation Cup Regulations XXV).


2020 CAF Super Cup, Background
The match was the fourth CAF Super Cup to feature an Egyptian and a Tunisian team, with all previous three matches ending in favor of the Egyptian side. Espérance de Tunis qualified to the match after their controversial win against Wydad Casablanca in the 2019 CAF Champions League Final, where they were declared champions after the second leg was abandoned. Zamalek earned a place in the match after defeating RS Berkane in the 2019 CAF Confederation Cup Final 5–3 on penalties after being tied 1–1 on aggregate.


2020 CAF Super Cup, Background
This was the seventh meeting between both teams in African competition. All of their previous six encounters were in the Champions League, including the 1994 final which was won by Espérance de Tunis where they grabbed their only victory against Zamalek in the second leg. The rest of the meetings resulted in two wins for Zamalek, including an away win in 2005, and three draws between the two teams.


2020 CAF Super Cup, Pre-match
Nine days before the match, the 2019–20 CAF Champions League knockout stage draw was held at the Hilton Pyramids Golf in Cairo, Egypt and resulted in Zamalek being drawn against Espérance de Tunis; meaning that both teams would face each other three times in three weeks.


2020 CAF Super Cup, Pre-match
Prior to their league game against US Tataouine, Espérance de Tunis announced that defender Abdelkader Bedrane has suffered from a torn ligament and would be sidelined for at least three weeks, missing the CAF Super Cup as a result.


2020 CAF Super Cup, Pre-match
Zamalek captain Mahmoud Shikabala suffered from an injury during training with the club in January 2020 and was still in the recovery stage. He was included by Patrice Carteron in the club's traveling squad to Qatar, but did not appear in the starting eleven or on the bench.


2020 CAF Super Cup, Match, Officials
On 10 February 2020, CAF named South African referee Victor Gomes as the referee for the match. Gomes is considered one of Africa's finest referees and consistently appeared in all CAF major competitions since 2013. His compatriot Zakhele Siwela was chosen as one of the assistant referees, along with Mosotho official Souru Phatsoane, while Maguette N'Diaye of Senegal was chosen as the fourth official. Zambian referee Janny Sikazwe was named the video assistant referee and was assisted by Mustapha Ghorbal from Algeria and Gerson Emiliano dos Santos from Angola.


2020 CAF Super Cup, Match, Details
Assistant referees:Zakhele Siwela (South Africa)Souru Phatsoane (Lesotho)Fourth official:Maguette N'Diaye (Senegal)Video assistant referee:Janny Sikazwe (Zambia)Assistant video assistant referees:Mustapha Ghorbal (Algeria)Gerson Emiliano dos Santos (Angola)


2020 CAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament
The 2020 CAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament was the 5th edition of the CAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament, the quadrennial international football competition organised by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) to determine which women's national teams from Africa qualify for the Olympic football tournament.


2020 CAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament
CAF was given 1.5 places for the 2020 Summer Olympics women's football tournament in Japan. The winner of the qualifying tournament, Zambia, qualified directly, while runner-up Cameroon entered a play-off against the second-placed team from CONMEBOL, Chile.


2020 CAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament, Teams
The 54 members of CAF were eligible to enter the qualifying competition, and a total of 25 national teams were in the qualifying draw, which was announced on 22 February 2019. The seven teams which had the best performance in the qualifying competition for the 2016 Olympics were given a bye to the second round.


2020 CAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament, Teams
Equatorial Guinea were banned by FIFA from qualifying for the 2020 Summer Olympics. However, they were still entered in the qualifying competition.


2020 CAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament, Format
Qualification ties are played on a home-and-away two-legged basis. If the aggregate score is tied after the second leg, the away goals rule is applied, and if still level, extra time is played. The away goals rule is again applied after extra time, and if still level, the penalty shoot-out is used to determine the winner.


2020 CAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament, Schedule
The schedule of the qualifying rounds is as follows. All matches are played during the FIFA International Window.


2020 CAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament, First round
Ivory Coast won on walkover due to FIFA's suspension of the Sierra Leone Football Association.


2020 CAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament, Second round
Zambia won on walkover after Zimbabwe failed to arrive for the second leg.


2020 CAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament, Fifth round
The winner qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics, while the loser entered a play-off against a team from CONMEBOL.


2020 CAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament, Qualified teams for Summer Olympics
The following team from CAF qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympic women's football tournament. Cameroon failed to qualify after they lost the play-off against the 2018 Copa América Femenina second-placed team, Chile.


2020 CAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament, Goalscorers
There were 100 goals scored in 41 matches, for an average of 2.44 goals per match.


2020 CCC Team season
The 2020 season for the CCC Pro Team began in January with the Tour Down Under.


2020 CD3
2020 CD3 (also 2020CD3 or CD3 for short) is a tiny near-Earth asteroid (or minimoon) that ordinarily orbits the Sun but makes close approaches to the Earth–Moon system, in which it can temporarily enter Earth orbit through temporary satellite capture (TSC). It was discovered at the Mount Lemmon Observatory by astronomers Theodore Pruyne and Kacper Wierzchoś on 15 February 2020, as part of the Mount Lemmon Survey or Catalina Sky Survey. The asteroid's discovery was announced by the Minor Planet Center on 25 February 2020, after subsequent observations have confirmed that it was orbiting Earth.


2020 CD3
It is the second temporary satellite of Earth discovered in situ, after 2006 RH120, which was discovered in 2006. Based on its nominal trajectory, 2020 CD3 was captured by Earth around 2016–2017, and has likely escaped Earth's gravitational sphere of influence around May 2020. 2020 CD3 will make another close pass to Earth in March 2044, though it will most likely not be captured by Earth due to the greater approach distance.


2020 CD3
2020 CD3 has an absolute magnitude around 32, indicating that it is very small in size. Assuming that 2020 CD3 has a low albedo characteristic of dark, carbonaceous C-type asteroids, its diameter is probably around 1.9–3.5 metres (6–11 ft). 2020 CD3 is classified as an Arjuna asteroid, a subtype of small Earth-crossing Apollo asteroids that have Earth-like orbits.


2020 CD3, Discovery
2020 CD3 was discovered on 15 February 2020, by astronomers Theodore Pruyne and Kacper Wierzchos at the Mount Lemmon Observatory. The discovery formed part of the Mount Lemmon Survey designed for discovering near-Earth objects, which is also part of the Catalina Sky Survey conducted at Tucson, Arizona. 2020 CD3 was found as a faint, 20th magnitude object in the constellation of Virgo, located about 0.0019 AU (280,000 km; 180,000 mi) from Earth at the time. The observed orbital motion of the object suggested that it may be gravitationally bound to Earth, which prompted further observations to secure and determine its motion.


2020 CD3, Discovery
The object's discovery was reported to the Minor Planet Center's Near-Earth Object Confirmation Page (NEOCP), where a preliminary orbit was calculated from additional observations conducted at several observatories. Follow-up observations of 2020 CD3 spanned six days since its discovery, and the object was formally announced in a Minor Planet Electronic Circular notice issued by the Minor Planet Center on 25 February 2020. No indication of perturbations by solar radiation pressure was observed, and 2020 CD3 could not be linked to any known artificial object. Although the evidence implied that 2020 CD3 is most likely a dense, rocky asteroid, the possibility of the object being an artificial object, such as a dead satellite or rocket booster, had not yet been fully ruled out.


2020 CD3, Discovery
As of July 2020, no precovery images of 2020 CD3 have been identified. The discoverers of 2020 CD3 have suspected that it is possible that the object may have been imaged by other astronomical surveys prior to its discovery, but had not been identified due to its faintness and highly variable orbit.


2020 CD3, Nomenclature
Upon discovery, the asteroid was given the temporary internal designation C26FED2. After follow up observations confirming the object, it was then given the provisional designation 2020 CD3 by the Minor Planet Center on 25 February 2020. The provisional designation signifies the object's discovery date and year. The object has not yet been issued a permanent minor planet number by the Minor Planet Center due to its short observation arc of several days.


2020 CD3, Orbit
Prior to the temporary capture of 2020 CD3, its heliocentric orbit was probably Earth-crossing, either falling into the categories of an Aten-type orbit (a < 1 AU) or an Apollo-type orbit (a > 1 AU), with the former considered to be more likely.


2020 CD3, Orbit, Temporary capture
Because 2020 CD3 has an Earth-like heliocentric orbit, its motion relative to Earth is low, allowing for it to slowly approach the planet and get captured. Nominal orbit solutions for 2020 CD3 suggest that it was captured by Earth between 2016–2017, and is expected to leave its geocentric orbit by May 2020 according to simulations of its orbit. The geocentric orbit of 2020 CD3 is chaotic due to the combined effects of tidal forces from the Sun and Earth as well as repeated close encounters with the Moon.


2020 CD3, Orbit, Temporary capture
The Moon gravitationally perturbs 2020 CD3's geocentric orbit, causing it to be unstable. Over the course of 2020 CD3's orbit around Earth, repeated close encounters with the Moon will eventually lead to ejection from its geocentric orbit as the Moon's perturbations can transfer enough momentum for 2020 CD3 to escape Earth's gravitational influence.


2020 CD3, Orbit, Temporary capture
2020 CD3's orbit around Earth is highly variable and eccentric, hence predictions of its past trajectory are uncertain. According to the JPL Small-Body Database, the closest approach to Earth has already occurred, on 4 April 2019, when it approached to a distance of 13,121 km (8,153 mi). The previous close approach by 2020 CD3 had occurred on 13 February 2020, at a distance of about 41,000 km (25,000 mi) from Earth's surface. The orbital period of 2020 CD3 around Earth is currently around 47 days, though on larger orbits around Earth, 2020 CD3's orbital period can range from 70 to 90 days. However, these estimates are very uncertain due to the chaotic dynamics of 2020 CD3's orbit.


2020 CD3, Orbit, Temporary capture
Being captured into a temporary orbit around Earth, 2020 CD3 is a temporarily captured object or a temporary satellite of Earth. 2020 CD3 has also been widely referred to in the media as a "mini-moon" of Earth, due to its small size. 2020 CD3 is the second known temporary captured object discovered in situ around Earth, with the first being 2006 RH120 discovered in 2006.


2020 CD3, Orbit, Temporary capture
Other objects have also been suspected to have once been temporarily captured, including the small near-Earth asteroid 1991 VG and the bolide DN160822 03. Objects that get temporarily captured by Earth are thought to be common, though larger objects over 0.6 m (2 ft) in diameter are believed to be less likely to be captured by Earth and detected by modern telescopes.


2020 CD3, Orbit, Future approaches
After its departure from Earth, 2020 CD3 will continue orbiting the Sun and will approach Earth in March 2044, from a nominal distance of 0.0245 AU (3.67 million km; 2.28 million mi). Accounting for uncertainties in its orbit, the minimum approach distance from Earth is expected to be 0.0237 AU (3.55 million km; 2.20 million mi). It is unlikely that 2020 CD3 will be captured by Earth in the March 2044 encounter, as the approach distance is too large for capture.


2020 CD3, Orbit, Future approaches
Assuming that 2020 CD3's orbit does not change after the 2044 close approach, the next encounter would be around 2061, when it is expected to approach Earth from a nominal distance of 0.0375 AU (5.61 million km; 3.49 million mi). However, uncertainties in the 2061 approach distance are greater; 2020 CD3's minimum approach distance could be 0.0131 AU (1.96 million km; 1.22 million mi).


2020 CD3, Orbit, Future approaches
The possibility of 2020 CD3 impacting Earth has been considered by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Sentry risk table. Being only a few meters in size, an impact by 2020 CD3 would pose no threat to Earth as it would most likely fragment and disintegrate upon atmospheric entry.


2020 CD3, Orbit, Future approaches
With a cumulative impact probability of 2.8%, it is listed as the second most likely object to impact Earth, but because of the harmless size of 2020 CD3, it is given a Torino Scale rating of 0 and a cumulative Palermo Scale rating of –5.16 Within the next 100 years, the date with the highest probability of impact is 9 September 2082, which is estimated to have an impact probability of 1.0% and a negligible Palermo Scale rating of –5.57.


2020 CD3, Physical characteristics
2020 CD3 is estimated to have an absolute magnitude (H) around 31.7, indicating that it is very small in size. Studies reported in November 2020 have determined that the asteroid is about 1–2 m (3.3–6.6 ft) in diameter. The rotation period and albedo of 2020 CD3 have not been measured due to the limited number of observations. Assuming that the albedo of 2020 CD3 is similar to those of dark, carbonaceous C-type asteroids, the diameter of 2020 CD3 is around 1.9–3.5 m (6–11 ft), comparable to in size to that of a small car. The JPL Sentry risk table estimates 2020 CD3 to have a mass of 4,900 kg (10,800 lb), based on the assumption that the asteroid has a diameter of 2 m (6.6 ft).


2020 CEBL season
The 2020 CEBL season was the second season of the Canadian Elite Basketball League (CEBL). It was played from July 25 to August 9 at the Meridian Centre in St. Catharines, Ontario.


2020 CEBL season
The season was scheduled to take place from May 7 to August 6, with the championship being played in Edmonton from August 14 to 16. On April 15, the season was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 CEBL season
A shortened 2020 season tournament, branded as the CEBL Summer Series, was held at the Meridian Centre in St. Catharines. A single round robin was played to eliminate one team, followed by a six-team single-elimination playoff. All games were played behind closed doors with no spectators admitted.


2020 CEBL season
The 2020 season saw the inclusion of the Ottawa Blackjacks, the CEBL's seventh team and first expansion team. It was also the first in a three-year broadcast partnership with CBC Sports. Host broadcaster Mediapro utilized automated cameras, using AI technology to track the ball and players.


2020 CEBL season, Rule changes
The Elam ending, as used in The Basketball Tournament and the 2020 NBA All-Star Game, was adopted for all games; after the first stoppage within the final four minutes of the fourth quarter, the game clock is stopped, and a target score is established which is nine points greater than the leading team's score. The first team to reach the target score is declared the winner.


2020 CEBL–U Sports Draft
The 2020 CEBL–U Sports Draft is the second CEBL Draft, being revealed on March 26. Seven Canadian Elite Basketball League (CEBL) teams will select 21 athletes in total.


2020 CEBL–U Sports Draft, Format
the draft order for the first round is determine by how the teams finished in the 2019 CEBL season, with the Ottawa Blackjacks getting the first overall, and for the rest is last place, to the league champion. A "snake draft" was used, with the order reversing in even-numbered rounds, and the original order in odd-numbered rounds. The draft order for the first round was determined as follows:


2020 CECAFA U-17 Championship
The 2020 CECAFA U17 Championship was the 4th CECAFA U-17 Championship organized by CECAFA (Council of East and Central Africa Football Association). It took place from 12 to 22 December 2020 in Gisenyi, Rwanda.


2020 CECAFA U-17 Championship
This competition also served as the CECAFA qualifiers for the 2021 Africa U-17 Cup of Nations as the two finalists of the tournament represented CECAFA in the CAF U-17 continental competition.


2020 CECAFA U-17 Championship
The 6 participating teams were drawn into 2 groups. The winners and the runners-up of each group advanced to the semi-finals.


2020 CECAFA U-17 Championship, Knockout stage
In the knockout stages, if a match is level at the end of normal playing time, extra time is played (two periods of 15 minutes each) and followed, if necessary, by a penalty shoot-out to determine the winners.


2020 CECAFA U-17 Championship, Qualification for CAF U17 Cup of Nations
The two finalists of the tournament qualified for the 2021 Africa U-17 Cup of Nations.


2020 CECAFA U-20 Championship
The 2020 CECAFA U-20 Championship took place from 22 November to 2 December 2020 in Arusha, Tanzania.


2020 CECAFA U-20 Championship
This competition served as the CECAFA qualifiers for the 2021 Africa U-20 Cup of Nations . The two finalists of the tournament represented CECAFA in the 2021 Africa U-20 Cup of Nations. It was initially planned to be hosted by Sudan in October–November 2020 but were then later shifted and held in Tanzania between 22 November–2 December 2020.


2020 CECAFA U-20 Championship
The matches were played at Karatu (Black Rhino Academy) and Arusha (Sheikh Amri Abeid Memorial Stadium)


2020 CECAFA U-20 Championship
All the 11 teams were initially drawn into 3 groups, 2 groups of 4 teams and 1 group of 3 teams but ultimately Rwanda & Eritrea withdrew. The winners of each group and the best runners-up advanced to the semi-finals.


2020 CECAFA U-20 Championship, Qualification for CAF U20 Cup of Nations
The two finalists of the tournament qualified for the 2021 Africa U-20 Cup of Nations.


2020 CFL Draft
The 2020 CFL Draft took place on April 30, 2020 at 8:00 pm ET and was broadcast on TSN and RDS. 73 players were chosen from among eligible players from Canadian Universities across the country, as well as Canadian players playing in the NCAA. This was the second year in a row that featured territorial picks after they were re-introduced in the 2019 CFL Draft.


2020 CFL Draft
The draft was broadcast live on TSN for two hours and then subsequent coverage shifted to digital platforms on CFL.ca. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, every commentator broadcast from remote locations as opposed to in-studio. The TSN production was hosted by Farhan Lalji and featured the CFL on TSN panel which included Dave Naylor, Duane Forde, and Davis Sanchez. Randy Ambrosie, the CFL commissioner, delivered an opening remark and each selection in the first two rounds was announced by Lalji. Once the TSN production finished, CFL.ca host, Brodie Lawson, and CFL.ca columnist, Marshall Ferguson, covered all remaining rounds via an online broadcast on CFL.ca.


2020 CFL Draft, Trades
In the explanations below, (D) denotes trades that took place during the draft, while (PD) indicates trades completed pre-draft.


2020 CFL season
The 2020 Canadian Football League season would have been the 67th season of modern Canadian professional football. Officially, it would have been the 63rd season of the league.


2020 CFL season
It was originally scheduled to begin on June 11; on April 7, the start of the season was delayed to begin no sooner than July due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada. The CFL planned to obtain financial assistance from the federal government. In May, the CFL delayed the season to no sooner than September, and announced that the Grey Cup was to be played as a home advantage game rather than as a neutral site game in Regina, Saskatchewan as originally planned. In July, the CFL announced plans to tentatively play all games in Winnipeg, Manitoba as a "hub city".


2020 CFL season
On August 17, the CFL announced that the season had been cancelled, citing the league's inability to obtain appropriate loans and subsidies from the federal government in order to cover operating costs and compensate for playing behind closed doors without paid ticketholders.


2020 CFL season, League business, Salary cap
Per the collective bargaining agreement, the 2020 salary cap was at least $5,300,000 (average of $115,217 per active roster spot). That number is subject to change as players will now have revenue sharing of 20% from broadcast deals with TSN and international deals. The base individual minimum salary increased to $65,000 in 2020 for National and American players and was set at $54,000 for Global players. CFL Draft picks will be subject to a pay scale starting in this season, with first round picks earning $80,000, at maximum, with the lowest round picks earning a maximum of $75,000. All National and Global players signing their first CFL contracts have to sign two-year plus an option contracts while first-year American players must sign one-year plus an option contracts.


2020 CFL season, League business, Atlantic Canada expansion
On December 10, 2019, the proposed revival of the Atlantic Schooners expansion team received a $20 million one-time rebate from the Halifax government towards the building of a stadium there, conditional upon support from the government of Nova Scotia and building the stadium at an alternate site after the council rejected building at the proposed site in Shannon Park. Ownership of the Schooners had originally hoped to start playing during the 2020 season in Croix-Bleue Medavie Stadium in Moncton, New Brunswick while the new stadium would be built, but, as of December 2019, were planning to start play during the 2022 CFL season.


2020 CFL season, League business, Football operations cap
For the second consecutive season, the league imposed cap regulations on coaching and operations staff, with the total compensation of the combined 11 coaches and 14 other football operations staff being set at $2,588,000. In the same manner as the player salary cap, teams that exceed the cap by up to $100,000 will be penalized the same amount they are over and for teams that exceed the cap by over $100,000, they will also forfeit draft picks.


2020 CFL season, League business, Montreal Alouettes ownership
On January 6, the CFL announced that Sid Spiegel and Gary Stern of Crawford Steel had acquired the Montreal Alouettes.


2020 CFL season, League business, Renaming of the Edmonton Eskimos
On July 21, Edmonton's CFL team  retired its "Eskimos" branding; the term "eskimo" has been considered an offensive term to refer to the Inuit, while team sponsor Belairdirect had threatened to cut its ties with the Eskimos unless it dropped the name. The team will temporarily use "Edmonton Football Team" and "EE Football Team" until a new name is decided.


2020 CFL season, League business, Media rights
On November 21, 2019, the CFL announced that it had renewed its media rights with Bell Media's TSN and RDS for an undisclosed long-term period. Independent reports indicated that the agreement extended to 2025, adding four additional years to the existing agreement that had been set to expire after 2021; TSN has held exclusive rights to all CFL telecasts since 2008.


2020 CFL season, Cancellation of the season
The regular season schedule was unveiled on December 16, 2019, a 21-week season initially scheduled to begin on June 11 with a kickoff game between Edmonton and BC. The league continued its larger focus on Saturday primetime games and fewer triple headers, with only one Sunday game (the Winnipeg/Saskatchewan Labour Day weekend game) and three Monday games scheduled. 28 Friday Night Football games (eight double-headers) and 13 Thursday Night Football games were also part of the schedule. The Touchdown Atlantic game was also scheduled to be held between the Argos and Roughriders at  Huskies Stadium in Halifax on July 25.


2020 CFL season, Cancellation of the season
On March 12, the CFL cancelled its regional combines in Edmonton and Montreal, and the CFL National Combine in Toronto, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Free-agent scouting camps in the United States planned by teams were also cancelled. The 2020 Global Draft, scheduled for April 16, was postponed to coincide with the opening of training camps, while the 2020 CFL Draft was held as scheduled on April 30. On March 19, TSN's Dave Naylor reported that the league had ordered the closure of team training facilities.


2020 CFL season, Cancellation of the season
On March 30, the league announced the indefinite postponement of training camps, which had been scheduled to begin on May 13. In a March 31 interview with CBC Sports, Commissioner Randy Ambrosie stated that the league had been exploring "all options available" and "[wants] to play as much football as we can", explaining that "things are changing so quickly. We're not installing an artificial timetable. We're looking at all the components of what would go into a training camp and what are the compressed scenarios looking like." He added that a complete cancellation of the season would be "devastating financially".


2020 CFL season, Cancellation of the season
As late as April 7, the league intended to play a full schedule of games. On that day, Ambrosie announced that the start of the season would be postponed until at least the beginning of July.


2020 CFL season, Cancellation of the season
On April 29, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stated that the CFL had requested financial assistance from the federal government; the league requested $30 million in immediate aid, up to an additional $130 million in the event the season was cancelled entirely, and stated that it planned to pay this back via various initiatives, including "community and public education programs across the country, the use of our digital channels, stadiums and broadcasts for advertising and promotion, and tourism initiatives surrounding the Grey Cup and other CFL events".


2020 CFL season, Cancellation of the season
On May 14, it was reported that the league and CFLPA were discussing the possibility of holding games at centralized locations.


2020 CFL season, Cancellation of the season
On May 20, Ambrosie announced that the season would not begin until at least September, citing numerous provincial and local bans on large gatherings until at least September 1. He also announced that the Grey Cup would not be held as a neutral site game in Regina as was originally awarded. If held, it was to be played at the home field of the finalist with the better regular season record. Regina's hosting of the Grey Cup was postponed to 2022.


2020 CFL season, Cancellation of the season
On July 21, the CFL announced that it was tentatively pursuing a "hub city" model where all games would be played at a single location, and that Winnipeg (beating a bid by Regina and the Saskatchewan Roughriders) had been selected as the provisional hub city. The league reiterated that a federal subsidy would be required in addition to players' union and public health approval for the hub city proposal to go forward.


2020 CFL season, Cancellation of the season
On August 16, Dave Naylor reported that the federal government had denied a request by the CFL for a $30 million loan, and that there was a high probability that the season would be cancelled outright. On August 17, Commissioner Ambrosie  announced that the season had been cancelled. Ambrosie said that the league had secured union approval for the hub city plan, but was unwilling to take the high-interest loans the government was offering.


2020 CFL season, Cancellation of the season
He added that the league could not play behind closed doors unless the government offered subsidies that the league would not have to pay back (which would compensate for the lack of ticket sales). According to Ambrosie, the government's proposal would have put the league's owners, especially the three community-owned teams, at risk in the long term. Additionally, the Public Health Agency of Canada was unable to provide a timeline for approving the hub city proposal.


2020 CFL season, Cancellation of the season
Ambrosie stated that the league would instead focus on the 2021 season and effectively guaranteed that a 2021 season would be played; this marked the first time the Grey Cup was not awarded since 1919, when a rules dispute, the overall lack of desire to contest for the trophy, and the country's slow recovery from the Spanish flu epidemic led to no game being played that year.


2020 CFL season, Cancellation of the season
Players were permitted to void their contracts on August 24.


2020 CFL season, Player movement, Free agency
The 2020 free agency period  began on February 11 at noon ET. Pending free agents and teams were able to negotiate offers for one week starting February 2 at noon ET and ending February 9 at noon ET. Previously, players and teams could only discuss potential contracts once the free agency period had started. All formal offers to a player during this time will be sent to both the league and the players union and could not be rescinded.


2020 CFL season, Player movement, Free agency
Once that negotiating window closed, all teams had until February 11 at 10:00 a.m. to exclusively negotiate with their own pending free agents, including being able to review contract offers that their players received from other teams. Thereafter, players had two hours to review all offers that they have received and may select one and inform the league. If that player did not select any contract offer in that period, he becomes an unrestricted free agent. The most prominent signings during the free agency period are listed in the table below:


2020 CFL season, Player movement, Free agency, NFL window
On December 13, 2019, the CFLPA filed a grievance against the league regarding the NFL window. According to the terms of the collective bargaining agreement (CBA), which was ratified between the league and players in May 2019, all players under contract would be eligible to pursue NFL opportunities for a specified period of time during the offseason. However, the CFL and NFL are not able to come to an agreement on the parameters of this process. The CFL wants all players who do not make the final 53-man NFL rosters to return to their parent CFL club.


2020 CFL season, Player movement, Free agency, NFL window
The NFL however, wants to be able to place these potential CFL Transfer Window players on their practice rosters. At present only players who are not under contract are eligible to work out for, or sign with an NFL team. However, as a show of good-faith many teams granted their players a release from their contracts so they could pursue NFL opportunities.


2020 CFL season, Player movement, Global players
Following their introduction in the 2019 season, the league will have two active roster spots for players designated as "global" players for each team. Each team will also have up to three spots on their practice rosters for global players. Global players are defined as those who do not hold Canadian or American citizenship nor do they qualify as a National player in any other way.


2020 CFL season, Player movement, Global combines
The league will feature international combines to allocate designated global players to CFL rosters. The league held the first of these scouting combines in Finland and Sweden on January 11 and 12 respectively. In the following week, on January 17, a scouting combine took place in Paris. Additional combines were announced on November 5, 2019, to be held in a total of seven different countries and spanning three months. As of February 29, 11 total combines were scheduled with additional combines added in Sweden, Denmark, Brazil, and another in Japan.


2020 CFL season, Player movement, Global combines
The combine in Mexico was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The players were evaluated by CFL head office staff and the Director of Global Scouting, Greg Quick. The top players identified were intended to be invited to the CFL National Combine in Toronto which was scheduled to take place from March 26 to 28. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the combine was cancelled and these players will participate in a separate combine to be held shortly before training camps open.


2020 CFL season, Player movement, Global combines
All of the participating global players will be eligible to be selected in the 2020 CFL Global Draft with the date to be rescheduled (originally planned for April 16). The order of the draft will follow the same waiver priority as the CFL National Draft (reverse 2019 standings with Grey Cup participants picking last) as opposed to the lottery systems from the previous year's separate LFA and European drafts. Complete details of the Global Draft have not yet been announced.


2020 CHA Women's Ice Hockey Tournament
The 2020 College Hockey America Women's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 18th tournament in league history played between March 5 and March 7, 2020, at the LECOM Harborcenter in Buffalo, New York. Mercyhurst won their 13th tournament and earned College Hockey America's automatic bid into the 2020 NCAA National Collegiate Women's Ice Hockey Tournament. The NCAA Tournament was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic.


2020 CHA Women's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format
All six CHA teams participated in the tournament. On the first day of the tournament, the top two seeds received a bye, while the #3 seed played the #6 seed, and the #4 seed played the #5 seed in the quarterfinal round. On the second day, the semifinal games featured the #1 seed against the lower remaining seed, while the #2 seed played the higher remaining seed. On the third and final day, the CHA championship was played between the two semifinal winners. There was a total of five games.


2020 CHA Women's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format, Standings
The tournament MVP was Mercyhurst goaltender Kennedy Blair., making 31 saves in the overtime championship game.


2020 CHA Women's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format, Standings
Syracuse junior forward Victoria Klimek, Penn State junior Natalie Heising, Mercyhurst junior forward Summer-Rae Dobson, Robert Morris senior defender Sarah Lecavalier, and Mercyhurst freshman defender Jordan Mortlock joined Blair on the 2020 all-tournament team.


2020 CHA Women's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format, Standings
The tournament champion earned a berth in the NCAA Tournament to determine the national champion. The Mercyhurst Lakers were the number 8 seed out of 8 in the tournament and were set to face #1 seed Cornell on March 14 in Ithaca, New York, prior to the cancellation.


2020 CIK-FIA European Championship
The 2020 CIK-FIA European Championship was the 49th edition of the CIK-FIA Karting European Championship, with championships in the KZ, KZ2, OK and OKJ classes. Due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, multiple events had to be cancelled, including the championship for the Superkart category.


2020 CIK-FIA European Championship, OK Class results, Scoring system
Points were awarded to the top 15 classified finishers in the race and the top ten in the qualifying heats.


2020 CIK-FIA European Championship, OK Class results, Scoring system
Each driver's worst result in both the Qualifying heats and races is dropped and not counted towards their points total. This rule does not apply to disqualifications.


2020 CIK-FIA European Championship, OKJ Class results, Scoring system
Points were awarded to the top 15 classified finishers in the race and the top ten in the qualifying heats.


2020 CIK-FIA European Championship, OKJ Class results, Scoring system
Each driver's worst result in both the Qualifying heats and races is dropped and not counted towards their points total. This rule does not apply to disqualifications.


2020 CME Group Tour Championship
The 2020 CME Group Tour Championship was the tenth CME Group Tour Championship, a women's professional golf tournament and the season-ending event on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour. It was played at the Gold Course of Tiburón Golf Club in Naples, Florida. The CME Group Tour Championship marked the end of the season-long "Race to the CME Globe" in 2020. The event was televised by Golf Channel Thursday through Saturday on a 3-hour delay, and NBC Sunday live.


2020 CME Group Tour Championship
Ko Jin-young won by five strokes over Hannah Green and Kim Sei-young. With the large winner's check, she also topped the season's money list despite playing in only four events.


2020 CME Group Tour Championship, Format, Qualification
Since 2014, the field has determined by a season-long points race, the "Race to the CME Globe". All players making the cut in a tournament earned points, with 500 points going to the winner. The five major championships had a higher points distribution, with 625 points to the winner. No-cut tournaments only awarded points to the top 40 finishers. Only LPGA members are eligible to earn points. From 2014 to 2018, the top 72 players on the points list and any tournament winners, whether or not a member, earned entry into the championship. The points were reset for the championship and the points leader after the championship won a $1 million bonus. Only the top-12 players entering the tournament has a mathematical chance of winning the bonus.


2020 CME Group Tour Championship, Format, Qualification
After the field in 2019 was 60 players, the field expanded to 72 players in 2020 (the top 70 from the "Race to the CME Globe" points list and 2 sponsor's exemptions) and the purse dropped to $3 million. The bonus is now rolled into the purse so that the winner of the tournament wins $1.1 million. All 72 players compete for the top prize.


2020 CME Group Tour Championship, Format, Field
Top 70 LPGA members and those tied for 70th on the "Race to the CME Globe" Points Standings


2020 CME Group Tour Championship, Format, Field
Brittany Altomare, Céline Boutier, Ashleigh Buhai, Chun In-gee, Carlota Ciganda, Cydney Clanton, Perrine Delacour, Austin Ernst, Jodi Ewart Shadoff, María Fassi, Kristen Gillman, Hannah Green, Georgia Hall, Mina Harigae, Nasa Hataoka, Brooke Henderson, Charley Hull, Ariya Jutanugarn, Moriya Jutanugarn, Danielle Kang, Cristie Kerr, Megan Khang, Christina Kim, Kim Sei-young, Katherine Kirk, Cheyenne Knight, Ko Jin-young, Lydia Ko, Jessica Korda, Nelly Korda, Jennifer Kupcho, Brittany Lang, Andrea Lee, Minjee Lee, Mirim Lee, Stacy Lewis, Lin Xiyu, Brittany Lincicome, Pernilla Lindberg, Yu Liu, Gaby López, Nanna Koerstz Madsen, Leona Maguire, Caroline Masson, Stephanie Meadow, Azahara Muñoz, Yealimi Noh, Anna Nordqvist, Bianca Pagdanganan, Park Hee-young, Inbee Park, Robynn Ree, Mel Reid, Ryu So-yeon, Madelene Sagström, Lizette Salas, Sarah Schmelzel, Alena Sharp, Jenny Shin, Jennifer Song, Angela Stanford, Linnea Ström, Jasmine Suwannapura, Emma Talley, Kelly Tan, Lexi Thompson, Maria Torres, Anne van Dam, Lindsey Weaver, Amy Yang


2020 CMT Music Awards
The 2020 CMT Music Awards were held in Nashville, Tennessee on September 16, 2020. Kane Brown, Sarah Hyland and Ashley McBryde were the hosts for the show. The CMT Music Awards are a fan-voted awards show for country music videos and television performances; Voting takes place on CMT's website.


2020 CONCACAF Champions League
The 2020 CONCACAF Champions League (officially the 2020 Scotiabank CONCACAF Champions League for sponsorship reasons) was the 12th edition of the CONCACAF Champions League under its current name, and overall the 55th edition of the premier football club competition organized by CONCACAF, the regional governing body of North America, Central America, and the Caribbean.


2020 CONCACAF Champions League
Starting from this season, only 10 of the 16 teams directly qualified for the tournament, with the other six berths allocated through the CONCACAF League, where previously only the winners would have qualified.


2020 CONCACAF Champions League
UANL defeated Los Angeles FC in the final to win their first CONCACAF club title. As the winners of the 2020 CONCACAF Champions League, they qualified for the 2020 FIFA Club World Cup in Qatar. Monterrey were the title holders, but did not qualify for this tournament and were unable to defend their title.


2020 CONCACAF Champions League
On 12 March 2020, CONCACAF suspended the tournament with immediate effect due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On 13 March, CONCACAF suspended all competitions scheduled over the next 30 days.


2020 CONCACAF Champions League
On 2 November 2020, it was announced that the tournament would resume at a centralized location in the United States from 15 to 22 December 2020, with the sole quarter-final to have not completed a first leg, semi-finals, and final played as single-leg matches. On 10 November, Exploria Stadium in Orlando, Florida was designated as the host for the remainder of the tournament, which consisted of seven matches, including the quarter-finals, semi-finals, and final.


2020 CONCACAF Champions League, Qualification
A total of 16 teams participated in the CONCACAF Champions League:


2020 CONCACAF Champions League, Qualification
Therefore, teams from between 6 and 10 out of the 41 CONCACAF member associations could participate in the CONCACAF Champions League.


2020 CONCACAF Champions League, Qualification, North America
The nine direct berths for the North American Football Union (NAFU), which consisted of three member associations, were allocated as follows: four berths each for Mexico and the United States, and one berth for Canada.


2020 CONCACAF Champions League, Qualification, North America
For Mexico, the champions and runners-up of the Liga MX Apertura and Clausura Liguilla (playoff) tournaments qualified for the CONCACAF Champions League. If there was any team which were finalists of both tournaments, the vacated berth was reallocated using a formula, based on regular season records, that ensured that two teams qualified via each tournament.


2020 CONCACAF Champions League, Qualification, North America
For the United States, four teams qualified for the CONCACAF Champions League, three through the Major League Soccer (MLS) season and one through its domestic cup competition:


2020 CONCACAF Champions League, Qualification, North America
If there was any team which qualified through multiple berths, or if there was any Canada-based MLS team which were champions of the MLS Cup, the Supporters' Shield, or conference regular season, the vacated berth was reallocated to the U.S.-based team with the best MLS regular season record not yet qualified.


2020 CONCACAF Champions League, Qualification, North America
For Canada, the champions of the 2019 Canadian Championship, its domestic cup competition which awards the Voyageurs Cup, qualified for the CONCACAF Champions League. While some Canada-based teams competed in MLS, they could not qualify through either the MLS regular season or playoffs. Moreover, a team from the Canadian Premier League qualified for the CONCACAF League, meaning a second team from Canada (and a tenth team from North America) could potentially qualify for the CONCACAF Champions League.


2020 CONCACAF Champions League, Qualification, Central America
Teams from the Central American Football Union (UNCAF), which consisted of seven member associations, had to qualify for the CONCACAF Champions League through the CONCACAF League. A total of eighteen teams from Central America qualified for the CONCACAF League through their domestic leagues. As all but four teams in the CONCACAF League were from Central America, between two and six teams from Central America could qualify for the CONCACAF Champions League.


2020 CONCACAF Champions League, Qualification, Caribbean
Teams from the Caribbean Football Union (CFU), which consisted of 31 member associations, qualified for the CONCACAF Champions League either as champions of the CONCACAF Caribbean Club Championship, the first-tier subcontinental Caribbean club tournament, or through the CONCACAF League. Since 2018, the CONCACAF Caribbean Club Championship was open to teams from professional leagues, where they could qualify as champions or runners-up of their respective association's league in the previous season.


2020 CONCACAF Champions League, Qualification, Caribbean
Another three teams from the Caribbean qualified for the CONCACAF League, which were the runners-up and third-placed team of the CONCACAF Caribbean Club Championship, and the winners of a playoff between the fourth-placed team of the CONCACAF Caribbean Club Championship and the champions of the CONCACAF Caribbean Club Shield, the second-tier subcontinental Caribbean club tournament which was open to teams from non-professional leagues, where they could qualify as champions of their respective association's league in the previous season. Therefore, between one and four teams from the Caribbean could qualify for the CONCACAF Champions League.


2020 CONCACAF Champions League, Qualification, CONCACAF League
Besides the ten direct entrants of the CONCACAF Champions League, another 22 teams (1 from North America, 18 from Central America, and 3 from the Caribbean) qualified for the CONCACAF League, a tournament held from July to November prior to the CONCACAF Champions League. The top six teams of the CONCACAF League, i.e., champions, runners-up, both losing semi-finalists, and best two losing quarter-finalists, qualified for the CONCACAF Champions League.


2020 CONCACAF Champions League, Teams
The following 16 teams (from eight associations) qualified for the tournament.


2020 CONCACAF Champions League, Teams
In the following table, the number of appearances, last appearance, and previous best result count only those in the CONCACAF Champions League era starting from 2008–09 (not counting those in the era of the Champions' Cup from 1962 to 2008).


2020 CONCACAF Champions League, Draw
The draw for the 2020 CONCACAF Champions League was held on 9 December 2019, 21:00 EST (local time 20:00 CST), at the University of the Cloister of Sor Juana in Mexico City.


2020 CONCACAF Champions League, Draw
The draw determined each tie in the round of 16 (numbered 1 through 8) between a team from Pot 1 and a team from Pot 2, each containing eight teams. The "Bracket Position Pots" (Pot A and Pot B) contained the bracket positions numbered 1 through 8 corresponding to each tie.


2020 CONCACAF Champions League, Draw
The teams from Pot 1 were assigned a bracket position from Pot A and the teams from Pot 2 were assigned a bracket position from Pot B. Teams from the same association could not be drawn against each other in the round of 16 except for "wildcard" teams which replaced a team from another association.


2020 CONCACAF Champions League, Draw
The seeding of teams was based on the CONCACAF Club Index. The CONCACAF Club Index, instead of ranking each team, was based on the on-field performance of the teams that had occupied the respective qualifying slots in the previous five editions of the CONCACAF Champions League. To determine the total points awarded to a slot in any single edition of the CONCACAF Champions League, CONCACAF used the following formula:


2020 CONCACAF Champions League, Draw
The 16 teams were distributed in the pots as follows:


2020 CONCACAF Champions League, Format
In the CONCACAF Champions League, the 16 teams played a single-elimination tournament. Each tie was initially played on a home-and-away two-legged basis.


2020 CONCACAF Champions League, Schedule
Times are Eastern Time, as listed by CONCACAF (local times are in parentheses):


2020 CONCACAF Champions League, Round of 16
In the round of 16, the matchups were decided by draw: R16-1 through R16-8. The teams from Pot 1 in the draw hosted the second leg.


2020 CONCACAF Champions League, Round of 16, Summary
The first legs were played from 18–20 February, and the second legs were played from 25–27 February 2020.


2020 CONCACAF Champions League, Round of 16, Matches
Tied 2–2 on aggregate. Montreal Impact won on away goals.


2020 CONCACAF Champions League, Quarter-finals
The winners of round of 16 matchups 1, 3, 5 and 7 were originally planned to host the second leg.


2020 CONCACAF Champions League, Quarter-finals, Summary
The first legs were played from 10–11 March, with the final match originally scheduled to be played on 12 March, and the second legs were originally scheduled to be played from 17–18 March 2020. Following resumption of the tournament, the second legs were played at Exploria Stadium in Orlando from 15–16 December 2020. The two-leg match between Los Angeles FC and Cruz Azul was changed to a single-leg match as a result.


2020 CONCACAF Champions League, Semi-finals, Summary
The first legs were originally scheduled to be played from 7–9 April, and the second legs were originally scheduled to be played from 14–16 April 2020. Following resumption of the tournament, the semi-finals were played at Exploria Stadium in Orlando on 19 December 2020 as single-leg matches.


2020 CONCACAF Champions League, Final
The first leg was originally scheduled to be played between 28 and 30 April, and the second leg was originally scheduled to be played between 5 and 7 May 2020. Following resumption of the tournament, the final was played at Exploria Stadium in Orlando on 22 December 2020 as a single-leg match.


2020 CONCACAF Champions League Final
The 2020 CONCACAF Champions League Final was the final match of the 2020 CONCACAF Champions League, the 12th edition of the CONCACAF Champions League under its current name, and overall the 55th edition of the premier association football club competition organized by CONCACAF, the regional governing body of North America, Central America and the Caribbean.


2020 CONCACAF Champions League Final
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the final was switched from a two-legged series at the finalists home grounds to a single match at the predetermined neutral venue, making it the first final since the 2002 CONCACAF Champions' Cup to be contested over a single leg. The match, originally scheduled for 28–30 April 2020 for the first leg and 5–7 May 2020 for the second leg, was postponed to 22 December 2020. The match was played at Exploria Stadium in Orlando, Florida, United States, between Tigres UANL and Los Angeles FC.


2020 CONCACAF Champions League Final
UANL won their first CONCACAF Champions League title and qualified for the 2020 FIFA Club World Cup in Qatar.


2020 CONCACAF Champions League Final, Teams
In the following table, final until 2008 were in the CONCACAF Champions' Cup era, since 2009 were in the CONCACAF Champions League era.


2020 CONCACAF Champions League Final, Venue
In October 2020, it was reported that CONCACAF would resume the tournament at a neutral location either in Mexico or in the U.S. states of California, Florida, or Texas during the third or fourth week of December over the span of the week. On 2 November 2020, CONCACAF announced that the tournament would resume at a centralized location in the United States from 15 to 22 December 2020, with the remaining quarter-finals, single-leg semi-finals and final. Exploria Stadium in Orlando, Florida, home of Major League Soccer club Orlando City SC, was designated as the host for the remainder of the tournament.


2020 CONCACAF Champions League Final, Background
The CONCACAF Champions League was established in 2008 as the continental championship for football clubs in North America, Central America, and the Caribbean, succeeding the CONCACAF Champions' Cup. During its first nine editions, the Champions League consisted of a group stage in summer and autumn followed by a knockout stage during the following spring. Beginning with the 2018 edition of the tournament, the group stage was re-formed as the CONCACAF League and limited to Central American and Caribbean teams.


2020 CONCACAF Champions League Final, Background
The Champions League was shortened to a two-month knockout tournament between teams from North American and major Central American nations, as well as the winner of the CONCACAF League. The knockout tournament falls within the beginning of Major League Soccer's season, which operates on a summer schedule unlike other football leagues.


2020 CONCACAF Champions League Final, Background
The 2020 edition of the Champions League was greatly altered to the COVID-19 pandemic. The round of 16 began on time with series played in late February 2020. The first legs of the quarter-finals began as scheduled on 10 March, with three of the four quarter-final first legs played. On 12 March 2020, CONCACAF suspended all competitions due to rising concerns around the pandemic.


2020 CONCACAF Champions League Final, Background
The tournament was indefinitely postponed with no announcements on the resumption of the tournament from CONCACAF until August 2020, with the organization stating there were plans to resume the tournament at a neutral venue at the end of the year. In November 2020 this was confirmed with the tournament resuming behind closed doors, with the semi-finals onward consisting of a single leg.


2020 CONCACAF Champions League Final, Road to the final
Note: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: Home; A: Away; N: Neutral).


2020 CONCACAF Champions League Final, Road to the final
Note: Even though UANL was considered the "home" team for their second leg quarter-final match against New York City FC (with away goals applying), the match was played in Orlando behind closed doors due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 CONCACAF Champions League Final, Road to the final, Los Angeles FC
Los Angeles FC were making their first ever appearance in the CONCACAF Champions League Final. They were also the first MLS team since Toronto FC's 2018 Champions League run to reach the final, and the first American team to reach the final since Real Salt Lake did so in 2011. En route to the final, LAFC eliminated three Liga MX teams, the most ever by an American or MLS club. LAFC qualified for the Champions League by winning the Supporters' Shield for having the best regular season record during the 2019 Major League Soccer season, accumulating 72 points in 34 matches, the best record by a Supporters' Shield winner since their local rivals, LA Galaxy in 1998.


2020 CONCACAF Champions League Final, Road to the final, Los Angeles FC
LAFC opened their Champions League campaign on 18 February 2020 against León at Estadio León. León bested LAFC 2–0 with goals coming from Jean Meneses and Ángel Mena in the first and second halves, respectively. LAFC hosted León on 25 February, and overcame the two-goal deficit and won the match 3–0, and the series on aggregate 3–2, making the first time in the Champions League era, an American team overcame a multi-goal deficit to defeat a Mexican team.


2020 CONCACAF Champions League Final, Road to the final, Los Angeles FC
LAFC were slated to continue the tournament by hosting Cruz Azul in the quarter-finals, with the first leg being held on 12 March 2020. The match was the last scheduled quarter-final match of the week, with the other three fixtures being played on 10 and 11 March. However, with rising concerns surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic in North America, CONCACAF postponed the match, and the entire tournament.


2020 CONCACAF Champions League Final, Format
The final was played in a single match at a neutral venue, instead of the typical home-and-away two-legged series. If the match was tied after regulation, extra time was played. If the score was still tied after extra time, a penalty shoot-out was used to determine the winner.


2020 CONCACAF Champions League Final, Match, Details
Assistant referees:Humberto Panjoj (Guatemala)Gerson López (Guatemala)Fourth official:Daneon Parchment (Jamaica)Reserve assistant referee:Nicholas Anderson (Jamaica)


2020 CONCACAF Champions League Final, Post-match
As winners of the Champions League, UANL qualified for the 2020 FIFA Club World Cup in Qatar, which was held in February 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. They beat Asian champions Ulsan Hyundai of South Korea, and South American champions Palmeiras of Brazil, becoming the first ever CONCACAF team to reach the final; they would lose the decisive match to European champions Bayern Munich of Germany.


2020 CONCACAF League
The 2020 CONCACAF League (officially the 2020 Scotiabank CONCACAF League for sponsorship purposes) was the fourth edition of the CONCACAF League, a football club competition organized by CONCACAF, the regional governing body of North America, Central America, and the Caribbean.


2020 CONCACAF League
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, CONCACAF announced on 23 June 2020 that the start of the tournament, which was scheduled to begin on 28 July 2020 and end in November, had been postponed. On 7 August 2020, they announced the tournament would begin on 20 October and end on 28 January 2021.


2020 CONCACAF League
To ease the schedule, CONCACAF originally announced that the preliminary round and round of 16 would be played as single-leg matches, but on 29 October 2020, CONCACAF announced that this format had been extended to all rounds, with ties hosted by the higher-seeded teams based on the CONCACAF Club Ranking. The final was also rescheduled to 3 February 2021.


2020 CONCACAF League
Alajuelense defeated title holders Saprissa in the final to win their first CONCACAF League title. As winners, they and the next best five teams qualified for the 2021 CONCACAF Champions League. After the format change of all rounds to single-leg matches, it was decided a play-in round would be added for the four losing quarter-finalists to compete for the last two places in the CONCACAF Champions League.


2020 CONCACAF League, Qualification
A total of 22 teams participated in the CONCACAF League:


2020 CONCACAF League, Qualification
Therefore, teams from either 10 or 11 out of the 41 CONCACAF member associations could participate in the CONCACAF League.


2020 CONCACAF League, Qualification, North America
The one berth for the North American Zone (NAFU) was allocated to the Canadian Soccer Association through the previous year's Canadian Premier League, where the champions, decided by the Canadian Premier League Finals, contested between the Spring and Fall season champions, qualified. They were the second Canadian representative included in CONCACAF competitions, not including the Canadian Championship winners which qualified for the CONCACAF Champions League.


2020 CONCACAF League, Qualification, Central America
The 18 berths for the Central American Football Union (UNCAF), which consisted of seven member associations, were allocated as follows: three berths for each of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, two berths for Nicaragua, and one berth for Belize.


2020 CONCACAF League, Qualification, Central America
All of the leagues of Central America employed a split season with two tournaments in one season, so the following teams qualifief for the CONCACAF League:


2020 CONCACAF League, Qualification, Central America
If teams from any Central American associations were excluded, they were to be replaced by teams from other Central American associations, with the associations chosen based on results from previous CONCACAF League and CONCACAF Champions League tournaments.


2020 CONCACAF League, Qualification, Caribbean
The three berths for the Caribbean Football Union (CFU), which consisted of 31 member associations, were allocated via the CONCACAF Caribbean Club Championship and CONCACAF Caribbean Club Shield, the first-tier and second-tier subcontinental Caribbean club tournaments. Since 2018, the CONCACAF Caribbean Club Championship had been open to teams from professional leagues, where they could qualify as champions or runners-up of their respective association's league in the previous season, while the CONCACAF Caribbean Club Shield was open to teams from non-professional leagues, where they could qualify as champions of their respective association's league in the previous season.


2020 CONCACAF League, Qualification, Caribbean
Besides the champions of the CONCACAF Caribbean Club Championship which qualified for the CONCACAF Champions League, the runners-up and third-placed team of the CONCACAF Caribbean Club Championship, and the winners of a playoff between the fourth-placed team of the CONCACAF Caribbean Club Championship and the champions of the CONCACAF Caribbean Club Shield, qualified for the CONCACAF League. For the champions of the CONCACAF Caribbean Club Shield to be eligible for the playoff, they had to comply with the minimum CONCACAF Club Licensing requirements for the CONCACAF League.


2020 CONCACAF League, Teams
The following 22 teams (from eleven associations) qualified for the tournament.


2020 CONCACAF League, Teams
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the deadline for registration was extended to 28 June 2020.


2020 CONCACAF League, Draw
The draw for the 2020 CONCACAF League was held on 21 September 2020, 19:00 EDT (UTC−4), at the CONCACAF headquarters in Miami, United States.


2020 CONCACAF League, Draw
The draw determined each tie in the preliminary round (numbered 1 through 6) between a team from Pot 1 and a team from Pot 2, each containing six teams. A team from Pot 1 and a team from Pot 2 were drawn into each tie. Teams from the same association could not be drawn against each other in the preliminary round except for "wildcard" teams which could replace a team from another association.


2020 CONCACAF League, Draw
The draw also determined each tie in the round of 16 (numbered 1 through 8) between a team from Pot 3 and a team from Pot 4, each containing eight teams, with the six preliminary round winners, whose identity was not known at the time of the draw, in Pot 4. A team from Pot 3 and a team from Pot 4 were drawn into each tie.


2020 CONCACAF League, Draw
The seeding of teams was based on the CONCACAF Club Index. The CONCACAF Club Index, instead of ranking each team, was based on the on-field performance of the teams that had occupied the respective qualifying slots in the previous five editions of the CONCACAF League and CONCACAF Champions League. To determine the total points awarded to a slot in any single edition of the CONCACAF League or CONCACAF Champions League, CONCACAF used the following formula:


2020 CONCACAF League, Draw
Teams qualified for the CONCACAF League based on criteria set by their association (e.g., tournament champions, runners-up, cup champions), resulting in an assigned slot (e.g., CRC1, CRC2) for each team.


2020 CONCACAF League, Draw
The 22 teams were distributed in the pots as follows:


2020 CONCACAF League, Format
In the CONCACAF League, the 22 teams played a single-elimination tournament. Each tie was played as a single match.


2020 CONCACAF League, Schedule
Times are Eastern Time, as listed by CONCACAF (local times are in parentheses):


2020 CONCACAF League, Preliminary round
In the preliminary round, the matchups were decided by draw: PR-1 through PR-6. The team from Pot 1 in the draw hosted the single-leg match.


2020 CONCACAF League, Preliminary round, Summary
Four of the six matches were played from 20–22 October 2020. Due to CONCACAF's COVID-19 testing protocol, one match was cancelled, and another match was rescheduled to 4 November.


2020 CONCACAF League, Round of 16
In the round of 16, the matchups were decided by draw: R16-1 through R16-8. The team from Pot 3 in the draw hosted the single-leg match, except for the match between Alajuelense and San Francisco, where the higher-seeded team based on the CONCACAF Club Ranking hosted the match.


2020 CONCACAF League, Round of 16, Summary
Six of the eight matches were played from 3–5 November 2020. Due to CONCACAF's COVID-19 testing protocol, one match was rescheduled to 24 November. Another match was also rescheduled to 24 November due to the postponement of a preliminary round match.


2020 CONCACAF League, Quarter-finals
The higher-seeded team based on the CONCACAF Club Ranking hosted the single-leg match.


2020 CONCACAF League, Quarter-finals, Summary
The winners of the quarter-finals qualified for the 2021 CONCACAF Champions League. The losers entered the play-in round. The matches were played on 1–2 December 2020.


2020 CONCACAF League, Play-in round
The higher-seeded team based on the CONCACAF Club Ranking hosted the single-leg match.


2020 CONCACAF League, Play-in round, Summary
The winners of the play-in round qualified for the 2021 CONCACAF Champions League. The matches were played on 8 and 9 December 2020.


2020 CONCACAF League, Semi-finals
The higher-seeded team based on the CONCACAF Club Ranking hosted the single-leg match.


2020 CONCACAF League, Semi-finals, Summary
The matches were played on 20 and 22 January 2021.


2020 CONCACAF League, Final
In the final (Winner SF1 vs. Winner SF2), the higher-seeded team based on the CONCACAF Club Ranking hosted the single-leg match.