2020 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualification, Qualifying round, Draw
The draw for the qualifying round was held on 23 November 2018, 10:00 CET (UTC+1), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.


2020 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualification, Qualifying round, Draw
The teams were seeded according to their coefficient ranking, calculated based on the following:


2020 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualification, Qualifying round, Draw
Each group contained one team from Pot A, one team from Pot B, one team from Pot C, and one team from Pot D. Based on the decisions taken by the UEFA Emergency Panel, the following pairs of teams could not be drawn in the same group: Russia and Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Armenia, Serbia and Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo.


2020 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualification, Qualifying round, Groups
The qualifying round was provisionally scheduled between 27 August and 3 September, or 1 and 8 October 2019.


2020 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualification, Qualifying round, Groups
Times are CEST (UTC+2), as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).


2020 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualification, Qualifying round, Ranking of third-placed teams
To determine the four best third-placed teams from the qualifying round which advance to the elite round, only the results of the third-placed teams against the first and second-placed teams in their group are taken into account.


2020 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualification, Elite round (cancelled), Draw
The draw for the elite round was held on 29 November 2019, 11:00 CET (UTC+1), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.


2020 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualification, Elite round (cancelled), Draw
The teams were seeded according to their results in the qualifying round. Each group contained one team from Pot A, one team from Pot B, one team from Pot C, and one team from Pot D. Winners and runners-up from the same qualifying round group could not be drawn in the same group, but the best third-placed teams could be drawn in the same group as winners or runners-up from the same qualifying round group.


2020 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualification, Elite round (cancelled), Groups
The elite round was originally scheduled to be played between 7–14 April 2020. On 12 March 2020, UEFA announced that the elite round had been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe. UEFA announced on 1 April 2020 that the tournament had been cancelled.


2020 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualification, Elite round (cancelled), Groups
Times are CEST (UTC+2), as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).


2020 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualification, Goalscorers
In the qualifying round, there were 378 goals scored in 72 matches, for an average of 5.25 goals per match.


2020 UEFA Youth League Final
The 2020 UEFA Youth League Final was the final match of the 2019–20 UEFA Youth League, the seventh season of the tournament. It was originally to be played at the Colovray Stadium in Nyon, Switzerland on 20 April 2020, but on 18 March 2020 was officially postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe, and rescheduled to 25 August 2020. The match was played between Portuguese side Benfica and Spanish side Real Madrid. Real Madrid won the match 3–2 for their first Youth League title.


2020 UEFA Youth 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 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year
The 2020 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year is the 95th year of greyhound racing in the United Kingdom and Ireland.


2020 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year
The year was best known for the major disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The 2020 English Greyhound Derby was postponed and the Arena Racing Company tracks announced a behind closed doors policy from 24 March. ARC's rivals SIS took advantage of the horse racing cancellations by increasing its own schedule by an extra 54 races per week to 532 in total. Henlow increased to eight meetings per week. Racing in Ireland was seriously affected with the industry banning the public from attending meetings. The Irish Greyhound Board (IGB) enforced the ban from Thursday 12 March, with racing continuing with a behind closed doors policy.


2020 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year
The situation worsened and following increased government restrictions all betting shops were closed from March and the open race calendar was suspended, meaning that only graded racing would take place until further notice. Following further announcements by the Prime Minister Boris Johnson on 23 March racing in the UK was suspended and this was followed by Ireland the following day. The industry united with many tracks announcing financial help for every racing and retired greyhound attached to their track, the payments were in addition to the financial help pledged by the Greyhound Board of Great Britain (GBGB).


2020 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year
When trials returned (18 May) following the lock-down Peterborough announced that they would not be re-opening until they sought further clarification from the GBGB. The concerns over the financial implication of racing behind closed doors was evident and the following day (20 May) the Perkins family announced the permanent closure of the track. Although UK racing finally returned on 1 June (at Perry Barr) it was behind closed doors and both Poole Stadium and Belle Vue Stadium remained closed with the possibility of not re-opening being a serious consideration. Then on 1 August, Belle Vue announced that it had closed for good and this was followed by Poole on 22 September. Three tracks had now closed permanently, two of them as a consequence of the pandemic.


2020 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year
As 2020 came to a close the pandemic continued to dramatically affect the industry with no immediate sign of crowds being allowed to return. One positive consequence of the pandemic was that many homing organisations including the Lincolnshire, Suffolk and Portsmouth Greyhound Trusts were reporting that all retired greyhounds were being homed and that there was a shortage. The shortage was caused by a combination of higher demand for pets and less race tracks, however concerns were raised that if the shortage of retired greyhounds continued it could force some homing organisations to close.


2020 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Summary
News not dominated by the COVID-19 pandemic included the Belle Vue Stadium scenario. Following the demise of the GRA in 2019 the industry waited for imminent closure of Belle Vue Stadium. The first track to be built in the United Kingdom (1926) had been approved for housing planning permission and awaited the official closure date. The stadium remained closed when racing returned following the virus ban, the economical impact of racing behind closed doors was quoted and then permanent closure was confirmed on 1 August.


2020 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Summary
The Arena Racing Company (ARC) became the UK's largest greyhound racing operator following the purchase of Nottingham Greyhound Stadium from Nottingham Greyhound Stadium Ltd.


2020 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Summary
2020 was noticeable for the continued recent trend of Irish greyhounds out performing their British opposition, a fact highlighted during the 2020 English Derby. Despite a reduced Irish entry, four greyhounds made the final for the second year in a row and third time in the history of the competition (2016, 2019 and 2020). The Irish duly won both of the sport's premier events with Deerjet Sydney taking the English Derby and Newinn Taylor winning the Irish Derby.


2020 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Summary
Patrick Janssens won his maiden Trainer of the Year title ending the eight-year reign of Mark Wallis. Wallis gained some compensation when his marathon star Aayamza Royale (a black bitch) won the 2020 Greyhound of the Year award, held as a virtual event in February 2021, due to the lockdown that was in place as a consequence of COVID-19.


2020 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, News
The sport lost two of its most famous names when trainers George Curtis and Ernie Gaskin both died, Gentleman George as he was known died on 17 April  and Gaskin died on 24 February.


2020 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, News
Towcester Greyhound Stadium due to re-open on 20 March with a trial session had to wait until the end of the Coronavirus before finally opening with a trial session on 22 May. The GBGB expressed its disappointment with the Greyhound Trust in an open letter, the Trust was reportedly on the verge of insolvency following a move to new offices that has cost somewhere in the region of £1.7 million.


2020 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, News
The GBGB were upset at the money used for new offices and argued that the money should have gone to re-homing greyhounds and warned that they could divert their £1.3 million funding to other homing areas. Leading performer Ice on Fire was retired following an unsuccessful attempt to return from injury, the decision came after a September trial for the Derby.


2020 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Ireland
The Easter Cup was run behind closed doors and Wolfe made amends for his 2019 English Greyhound Derby problems by claiming the event for trainer Graham Holland. The quality of the competition was high with two Derby champions Priceless Blake and Ballyanne Sim both being eliminated in the semi finals. After the lockdown the Champion Stakes attracted a superb entry which resulted in a shock win for Pestana, the blue brindle dog's fast break was the decisive factor for winning the event. Derby champion Lenson Bocko had a bad start and encountered trouble in the final that included three Liam Dowling runners.


2020 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Ireland
A new star was seen in the final of the Larry O'Rourke National Produce, Newinn Taylor won his 12th successive race, the May 2018 whelp provided his trainer Graham Holland a third Produce champion in five years and then headed for the Irish Derby which he went on to win as well. Unfortunately during the Race of Champions night on 5 December, at Shelbourne Park, Newinn Taylor broke down after suffering a serious injury and the very next race on the card saw Lenson Bocko win his farewell race. The two Derby champions were retired and sent to stud by trainer Graham Holland.


2020 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Ireland
The Social Democrat party campaigned to withdraw funding to greyhound racing but it came under criticism after it transpired that the abandoned greyhounds used part of the campaign to discredit the industry were found to be a lurcher and whippet (the latter from Denmark). The bill was defeated on the first motion vote.


2020 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Competitions
The current Greyhound of the Year Ice On Fire continued his good form by winning the Juvenile at Sheffield. The revised schedule of racing after COVID-19 lockdown resulted in a strange calendar events because of the rearranged English and Irish Derby competitions. Kilara Lion won the East Anglian Derby but no greyhound had won more than one major event in England going into the delayed Derby. However, after the Derby had finished Kilara Lion won the Kent Derby in November, winning the final by over 6 lengths.


2020 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Competitions
Smallmead trained by John Mullins had won both the Champion Stakes and St Leger by December and looked like a serious contender for greyhound of the year but suffered a major setback when a positive sample was returned which resulted in him being stripped of the Champion Stakes title. The Champion Stakes title was handed to runner-up Desperado Dan. The geyhound of the year title would go to the Mark Wallis trained Aayamza Royale following two major successes towards the latter part of the year. After winning the returning Cesarewitch in September she went on to win the Coral TV Trophy in December.


2020 UK Championship
The 2020 UK Championship (also known as the 2020 Betway UK Championship for sponsorship reasons) was a professional snooker tournament, that took place from 23 November to 6 December 2020 at the Marshall Arena, in Milton Keynes, England. The event was the first Triple Crown and fifth ranking event of the 2020–21 snooker season. The tournament was played behind closed doors due to COVID-19 restrictions. The event was broadcast by the BBC and Eurosport and featured a prize fund of £1,009,000 with the winner receiving £200,000.


2020 UK Championship
The defending champion was Ding Junhui, who defeated Stephen Maguire 10–6 in the 2019 final. However, Ding lost 5–6 to David Grace in the second round.


2020 UK Championship
Both Kyren Wilson and Stuart Bingham made maximum breaks in the first round of the event. On 28 November, Trump became the fourth player to make 750 career centuries, during his last-64 match against Dominic Dale. Later in the tournament, on 4 December, Robertson also completed his 750th century break in his quarter-final defeat of Mark Selby.


2020 UK Championship
Neil Robertson won the title beating Judd Trump 10–9 in the final. At 9–9 Trump missed a simple final pink when only needing the pink and black to win the title, Robertson then potted the pink to win his 3rd UK Championship.


2020 UK Championship, Overview
The 2020 UK Championship took place between 23 November and 6 December 2020 at the Marshall Arena in Milton Keynes, England. It was the fifth ranking event of the 2020–21 snooker season, and the first of three Triple Crown events. There were 128 players from the World Snooker Tour taking part in the championship. All matches until the final were played over a maximum of 11 frames, with the final played as a best-of-19-frames match, held over two sessions. The first round of the competition started on 23 November, with players seeded according to their world rankings.


2020 UK Championship, Overview
The defending champion was Ding Junhui, who defeated Stephen Maguire 10–6 in the 2019 final to win his third UK title. As defending champion, Ding was seeded first, with world champion Ronnie O'Sullivan seeded second.


2020 UK Championship, Overview, Prize fund
The total prize fund for the event was £1,009,000 with the winner receiving £200,000. The breakdown of prize money is shown below:


2020 UK Championship, Tournament draw
The results of the event are shown below. The winners of each match are indicated in bold.


2020 UK Championship, Century breaks
A total of 136 century breaks were made by 60 players during the tournament. Neil Robertson scored 13 total centuries, setting a record for the UK Championship – the previous record of 12 centuries was shared by Stephen Hendry (1994) and Ronnie O'Sullivan (2003).


2020 UK GCSE and A-Level grading controversy
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom, all secondary education examinations due to be held in 2020 were cancelled. As a result, an alternative method had to be designed and implemented at short notice to determine the qualification grades to be given to students for that year. A grades standardisation algorithm was produced in June 2020 by the regulator Ofqual in England, Qualifications Wales in Wales, Scottish Qualifications Authority in Scotland, and CCEA in Northern Ireland.


2020 UK GCSE and A-Level grading controversy
The algorithm was designed to combat grade inflation, and was to be used to moderate the existing but unpublished teacher-predicted grades for A Level and GCSE students. After the A Level grades were issued, and after criticism,  Ofqual, with the support of HM Government, withdrew these grades. It issued all students the Centre Assessment Grades (CAGs), which had been produced by teachers as part of the process. The same ruling was applied to the awarding of GCSE grades, just a few days before they were issued: CAG-based grades were the ones released on results day.


2020 UK GCSE and A-Level grading controversy
A similar controversy erupted in Scotland, after the Scottish Qualifications Authority marked down as many as 75,000 predicted grades to "maintain credibility", and later agreed to upgrade the results and issue new exam certificates. The Scottish Government apologised for the controversy, with Nicola Sturgeon, the First Minister of Scotland saying of the situation that the Scottish Government "did not get it right".


2020 UK GCSE and A-Level grading controversy, Background
In England, Wales and Northern Ireland, students sit General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) and A Level exams, typically at ages 16 and 18 respectively. These exams are also administered by Cambridge Assessment International Education for students in countries such as Hong Kong, India and Singapore.


2020 UK GCSE and A-Level grading controversy, Background
On 18 March 2020, the government decided to cancel all examinations in England due to the COVID-19 pandemic, although the regulator, Ofqual, had advised that holding exams in a socially distanced manner was the best option. The same cancellation decision was taken by the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Ireland devolved governments. The governments announced that, in their place, grades were to be based on teacher predictions which would be moderated to prevent grade inflation. Overseas exams provided by CIE were cancelled on 23 March 2020, and grades were issued on the same basis as in England.


2020 UK GCSE and A-Level grading controversy, Background
Secretary of State for Education Gavin Williamson stated that his "priority now is to ensure no young person faces a barrier when it comes to moving on to the next stage of their lives – whether that’s further or higher education, an apprenticeship or a job" and that he had "asked exam boards to work closely with the teachers who know their pupils best to ensure their hard work and dedication is rewarded and fairly recognised." Students unhappy with their calculated grades would be able to appeal through their school, or sit exams in the autumn.


2020 UK GCSE and A-Level grading controversy, Background
For homeschooled students, or those retaking exams, Ofqual stated they may not receive a grade, and would have to sit exams in 2021 because of a "lack of any credible alternatives identified". It was estimated that over 20,000 students would be affected, and would be unable to move on to college or university.


2020 UK GCSE and A-Level grading controversy, Standardisation algorithm
A grades standardisation algorithm was produced by Ofqual, the regulator of qualifications, exams and tests in England. It was designed to combat grade inflation, and was to be used to standardise or moderate the teacher-predicted grades for A Level and GCSE qualifications.


2020 UK GCSE and A-Level grading controversy, A Level results
The A Level grades were announced in England, Wales and Northern Ireland on 13 August 2020. Nearly 36% were one grade lower than teachers' predictions and 3% were down two grades. By comparison, 79% of university entrants in 2019 did not achieve their predicted grades.


2020 UK GCSE and A-Level grading controversy, A Level results, Reaction
The release of results resulted in a public outcry. Particular criticism was made of the disparate effect the grading algorithm had in downgrading the results of those who attended state schools, and upgrading the results of pupils at privately funded independent schools and thus disadvantaging pupils of a lower socio-economic background, in part due to the algorithm's behaviour around small cohort sizes.


2020 UK GCSE and A-Level grading controversy, A Level results, Reaction
Students and teachers felt deprived and upset following the controversial algorithm calculation and protested against it, with many demanding Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his government take immediate action. In response to the public outcry, on 15 August, Gavin Williamson said that the grading system is here to stay, and there will be "no U-turn, no change". Williamson criticised Scottish ministers for their u-turn the week prior, stating that awarding unmoderated grades would be "unwise", cause "rampant grade inflation". Instead, he suggested that schools appeal swiftly on behalf of affected students, to ensure any errors could be amended. Boris Johnson stated that the results are "robust and dependable".


2020 UK GCSE and A-Level grading controversy, A Level results, Reaction
Legal action, in the form of judicial review, was initiated by multiple students and legal advocacy organisations such as the Good Law Project.


2020 UK GCSE and A-Level grading controversy, A Level results, A Level results revised
On 17 August, Ofqual and Secretary of State for Education Gavin Williamson agreed that grades would be reissued using unmoderated teacher predictions. As a result, there was an annual increase by more than 10 percentage points in the number of top grades awarded (from 25.2% to an estimated 37.7%), the biggest increase for at least 20 years.


2020 UK GCSE and A-Level grading controversy, GCSE results
On 20 August 2020 the GCSE results were released. After the problems arising from the use of the grade algorithm for A Levels, it was decided that GCSE grades awarded to each student would be the higher of the teacher predicted result or algorithm standardised result for each subject they took.


2020 UK GCSE and A-Level grading controversy, Vocational and technical qualifications (BTEC) results
A further 200,000 students who had taken the level one and two vocational qualifications were told on 19 August 2020, hours before results day, that they would not receive them on time. About 250,000 level-three grades, which had already been awarded, were also reassessed; these vocational equivalents to A Levels had been given a result at the same time as the A Levels were released. The examining board, Pearson Edexcel, withdrew them when the controversy broke, and has re-marked them upwards and is issuing a revised certificate, on a rolling basis, in the week beginning 24 August.


2020 UK GCSE and A-Level grading controversy, Aftermath
On 25 August 2020, Sally Collier resigned from the position of chief regulator of Ofqual following the grading controversy. Three days later, Permanent Secretary Jonathan Slater, the most senior civil servant at the Department for Education (DfE), stood down. Subsequently, the government was accused of scapegoating civil servants and avoiding accountability.


2020 UK GCSE and A-Level grading controversy, Aftermath
On 1 September, the question of blame was reopened by The Guardian. In a report OCR, one of the exam boards, told Williamson that the algorithm was producing some rogue results. But Williamson and the DfE were told by Ofqual that the appeals procedure would correct the few rogue results. OCR informed them that this was more than a few results and that patterns could be observed, such as students with better results than a low-performing group the year before.


2020 UK GCSE and A-Level grading controversy, Aftermath
On 2 September, Ofqual's chair Roger Taylor appeared before the Education Select Committee of the House of Commons during their inquiry into the impact of COVID-19 on education and children's services. He apologised to students, parents and teachers, and stated that the Secretary of State made the decisions to cancel examinations and to abruptly withdraw the procedure to challenge calculated A-level grades.


2020 UK GCSE and A-Level grading controversy, Scottish Highers
On 4 August 2020, secondary school students in Scotland received their Higher grades. Having also been unable to take their exams because of the pandemic, their grades were estimated by teachers, but the body awarding the qualifications was reported to have downgraded around a quarter of the marks awarded in order to "maintain credibility". Following criticism of the system from teachers and students, on 10 August, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon apologised for the controversy, saying the Scottish Government "did not get it right". The following day, on 11 August, the Scottish Government agreed to upgrade thousands of exam results, and accept teachers' estimates of pupils' results. On 18 August, the Scottish Qualifications Authority announced that 75,000 new exam certificates would be issued.


2020 UK Music Video Awards
The 2020 UK Music Video Awards were held on 5 November 2020 to recognise the best in music videos and music film making from United Kingdom and worldwide. The nominees were announced on 29 September 2020 where new categories were presented including a new genre category for R&B/Soul and Best Lockdown Video. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom the ceremony was held virtually.


2020 UK Open
The 2020 Ladbrokes UK Open was a darts tournament staged by the Professional Darts Corporation. It was the eighteenth year of the tournament where players compete in a single elimination tournament to be crowned champion. The tournament was held for the seventh time at the Butlin's Resort in Minehead, England, between 6–8 March 2020, and has the nickname, "the FA Cup of darts" as a random draw is staged after each round following the conclusion of the third round until the final.


2020 UK Open
Nathan Aspinall was the defending champion after defeating Rob Cross 11–5 in the 2019 final. However, he lost 10–8 to Michael van Gerwen in the fourth round.


2020 UK Open
Michael van Gerwen won the UK Open for the third time, and the first time since 2016 after beating Gerwyn Price 11–9 in the final. It was Van Gerwen's first title since he won the 2019 Players Championship Finals, where he beat the same opponent, by the same scoreline, at the same venue.


2020 UK Open
It was the first edition of the UK Open to have more than one nine-darter hit. Jonny Clayton hit a nine-darter on Stage Two during his sixth-round match with Chris Dobey, before Michael van Gerwen did the same against Daryl Gurney in the semi-finals.


2020 UK Open, Format
There is a slight change in format for this year, with the 16 Challenge Tour qualifiers becoming 8, with 8 spaces for the Development Tour now available.


2020 UK Open, Format
The 160 participants will enter the competition incrementally, with 64 players entering in the first round, with match winners joining the 32 players entering in the second and third rounds to leave the last 64 in the fourth round.


2020 UK Open, Qualifiers, PDC Challenge Tour Qualifiers (starting in First Round)
The top 8 ranked players from the 2019 Challenge Tour Order of Merit who didn't have a Tour Card for the 2020 season qualified for the first round.


2020 UK Open, Qualifiers, PDC Development Tour Qualifiers (starting in First Round)
The top 8 ranked players from the 2019 Development Tour Order of Merit who didn't have a Tour Card for the 2020 season qualified for the first round.


2020 UK Open, Qualifiers, Rileys Amateur Qualifiers (starting in First Round)
16 amateur players will qualify from 16 Rileys Sports Bar qualifiers held across the UK between 25 January and 22 February.


2020 UKM F.C. season
The 2020 season was the eighth season in the existence of UKM Football Club and the club's third consecutive season in the Malaysia Premier League.


2020 UKM F.C. season, Season events
On 24 February 2020, the club has announced the players for 2020 season.


2020 UKM F.C. season, Season events
On 16 December 2020, Football Association of Malaysia has decided to reject the club appeals after finding that the documents submitted showed the club did not have the financial standings to survive for one season.


2020 UKM F.C. season, Players
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2020 UMass Minutemen football team
The 2020 UMass Minutemen football team represented the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the 2020 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Minutemen played their home games at Warren McGuirk Alumni Stadium and competed as an independent. They were led by second-year head coach Walt Bell.


2020 UMass Minutemen football team
UMass announced on August 11, 2020, that they would not play football in the fall over concerns related to the COVID-19 pandemic. This decision was reversed on September 21, as UMass announced that opponents would be announced "as they become official".


2020 UMass Minutemen football team
The Minutemen finished the abridged season winless, at 0–4, and were outscored by their opponents by a combined total of 161 to 12.


2020 UMass Minutemen football team, Previous season
The Minutemen finished the 2019 season with a record of 1–11.


2020 UMass Minutemen football team, Schedule
UMass went 0–4, scoring 12 total points while allowing 161 points by their opponents.


2020 UNAF U-20 Tournament
The 2020 UNAF U-20 Tournament is the 13th edition of the UNAF U-20 Tournament. The tournament will take place in Tunisia, from 13 to 28 December 2020. This tournament serves as a qualification event for the Africa U-20 Cup of Nations. The champions and the runners-up will qualify for the 2021 Africa U-20 Cup of Nations.


2020 UNAF U-20 Tournament, Participants
Egypt withdrew from the tournament due to seventeen players from the team testing positive for SARS-2 coronavirus.


2020 UNAF U-20 Tournament, Match officials
A total of 9 referees and 10 assistant referees were appointed for the tournament.


2020 UNAF U-20 Tournament, Qualified teams for Africa U-20 Cup of Nations
The following four teams from CAF qualify for the 2021 Africa U-20 Cup of Nations.


2020 UNAF U-20 Tournament, Statistics, Goalscorers
There were 7 goals scored in 6 matches, for an average of 1.17 goals per match.


2020 UNAF Women's Tournament
The 2020 UNAF Women's Tournament is the 2nd edition of the UNAF Women's Tournament, an association football tournament open to the women's national teams of UNAF member countries. The tournament took place in Tunisia. Of the five UNAF member countries, Libya and Egypt chose not to participate in the competition. Mauritania and Tanzania were invited to replace the two withdrawal teams.


2020 UNAF Women's Tournament squads
Below is a list of squads used in the 2020 UNAF Women's Tournament.


2020 UNLV Rebels football team
The 2020 UNLV Rebels football team represented the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in the 2020 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Rebels were led by first–year head coach Marcus Arroyo. They played their home games at Allegiant Stadium as members of the Mountain West Conference.


2020 UNLV Rebels football team
It was the first season for the UNLV Rebels football team at Allegiant Stadium. They played their first game there on October 31 against Nevada.


2020 UNLV Rebels football team
On August 10, 2020, the Mountain West Conference suspended all fall sports competitions due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 UNLV Rebels football team
On September 24, 2020, the Mountain West Conference resumed all fall sports competitions.


2020 UNLV Rebels football team
Due to scheduling issues with the Raiders at Allegiant Stadium, UNLV moved its September 5, 2020 home game to Sam Boyd Stadium which was later canceled.


2020 UNLV Rebels football team
Playing no non–conference games, the Rebels finished the season 0–6 in Mountain West play to finish in last place, their worst record since 1998.


2020 UNLV Rebels football team, Previous season
The 2019 UNLV Rebels football team went 4–8 overall and 2–6 in conference play last year for the second straight year and did not qualify for a bowl game last season. Head coach Tony Sanchez was replaced by Marcus Arroyo, the former offensive coordinator at Oregon.


2020 UNLV Rebels football team, Preseason, Mountain West media days
The Mountain West media days were originally scheduled to take place from July 27–29, 2020 virtually, but were canceled.


2020 UNLV Rebels football team, Preseason, Mountain West media days, Media poll
The preseason poll was released on July 21, 2020. The Rebels were predicted to finish in sixth place in the MW West Division. The divisions were later suspended for the 2020 season.


2020 UNLV Rebels football team, Schedule
UNLV had games scheduled against Arizona State, California, Iowa State and Louisiana Tech that were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 UNLV Rebels football team, Schedule
On November 18, the Mountain West canceled their scheduled November 21 game vs. Colorado State due to COVID-19 cases related to contact tracing within the UNLV program.


2020 UNLV Rebels football team, Schedule
On December 2, the Mountain West canceled their scheduled December 4 game vs. Boise State due to COVID-19 protocols.


2020 UNOH 188
The 2020 UNOH 188 was the 19th stock car race of the 2020 NASCAR Xfinity Series season, and the inaugural running of the race, after the COVID-19 pandemic forced NASCAR to move the serie's Watkins Glen International race, the Zippo 200, to the Daytona International Speedway road course, a 3.61 miles (5.81 km) permanent road course that uses part of the Daytona oval and infield road course. The race was held on Saturday, August 15, 2021 in Daytona Beach, Florida at the Daytona International Speedway road course. Austin Cindric of Team Penske would continue his dominance of road courses of the years and win the race, leading 21 laps. Brandon Jones of Joe Gibbs Racing and Noah Gragson of JR Motorsports would score the rest of the podium positions, finishing 2nd and 3rd, respectively.


2020 UNOH 188
On July 30, it was revealed after simulation testing revealed concerns of high speeds entering turn 1 (a turn already considered to be difficult among road racers), a temporary chicane was added in between the 4th turn of the oval and the entrance to pit road (similar to the Charlotte ROVAL). NASCAR further announced that it would use the high-downforce aero package used for the road course races in 2019 (in 2020, road courses were scheduled to use a low-downforce package similar to what was used in 2018 and what is used on ovals 1-mile or shorter in 2020). The addition of the chicane increased the length of the course from 3.56 to 3.61 miles and added a 13th and 14th turn to the original 12-turn layout.


2020 UNOH 188, Starting lineup
The starting lineup was based on a formula based on the previous race, the 2020 Henry 180. As a result, Austin Cindric of Team Penske would win the pole.


2020 US Open (tennis)
The 2020 US Open was the 140th edition of tennis's US Open and the second Grand Slam event of the year. It was held on outdoor hard courts at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Queens, New York. The tournament was an event run by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and was part of the calendars for the 2020 ATP Tour and the 2020 WTA Tour, the top professional men's and women's tennis circuits, respectively.


2020 US Open (tennis)
Held during the COVID-19 pandemic, the tournament saw changes in format and personnel compared to previous editions. As a result, withdrawals and opt-outs became a theme of the competition. Defending men's singles champion and world No. 2 Rafael Nadal and No. 9 Gaël Monfils withdrew due to COVID-19 safety concerns, while No. 4 Roger Federer, No. 12 Fabio Fognini, and No. 15 Stan Wawrinka opted out for other reasons.


2020 US Open (tennis)
On the women's side, defending singles champion and world No. 6 Bianca Andreescu did not return due to safety concerns, nor did No. 1 Ashleigh Barty, No. 2 Simona Halep, or No. 5 Elina Svitolina, among others. Further, the qualifying rounds of the tournament, in addition to the mixed doubles and juniors draws, were not held due to the pandemic.


2020 US Open (tennis)
Men's singles world No. 1 Novak Djokovic made headlines by becoming the first top-seeded player to be disqualified from a Grand Slam singles tournament when he was defaulted from his fourth-round match for hitting a ball out of frustration that inadvertently hit a line judge in the throat. Although accidental, Djokovic's actions were deemed to be in violation of a Grand Slam rule regarding ball abuse, and he was disqualified from the tournament.


2020 US Open (tennis)
Dominic Thiem won the men's singles title for his first Grand Slam title. He became the first new Grand Slam men's singles champion since 2014 with his five-set defeat of first-time Grand Slam finalist Alexander Zverev. The women's singles competition was won by Naomi Osaka, who defeated Victoria Azarenka in three sets to capture her second US Open title and third Grand Slam title overall. Osaka arrived to the final wearing a black face mask bearing the name of Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old African-American boy shot to death in Cleveland in November 2014. The tournament took place during the George Floyd protests, and Osaka wore similar masks for each of her other six matches, each with a different name of a Black American who died as a result of unjust violence from police or other citizens in the United States.


2020 US Open (tennis), Tournament
The 2020 US Open was the 140th edition of the tournament and took place at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park of Queens in New York City, New York, United States, where it has been held since 1978. The tournament was held on 17 Laykold hard courts for the first time.


2020 US Open (tennis), Tournament
The tournament consisted of the men's and women's singles and doubles draws, men's and women's wheelchair singles and doubles draws and a wheelchair quad singles and doubles draw. Both doubles draws were cut to 32 pairs instead of the standard 64. Due COVID protocol decisions made by the New York state government, the USTA and US Open cancelled the draws for qualifying matches, mixed doubles, and junior matches, a decision that was sharply criticized by lower-ranked players, bringing accusations of the tournament "catering to the top".


2020 US Open (tennis), Tournament
The wheelchair events were initially not scheduled to be held, due to a change that would have removed them from the event every four years due to a conflict with the Summer Paralympic Games, but the events were reinstated following the postponement of the 2020 Summer Paralympics to 2021 and criticism from several wheelchair players, notably Dylan Alcott.


2020 US Open (tennis), Tournament
The tournament used two of the three main show courts at the National Tennis Center – Arthur Ashe Stadium and Louis Armstrong Stadium. Five of the complex's 18 total courts, including Grandstand, the main stadium of the 2020 Western & Southern Open, which was held in New York City instead of its usual Cincinnati venue, were not used for the tournament due to the lack of players.


2020 US Open (tennis), Tournament, Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
The US Open is normally the final major tournament of the year, scheduled during August and September. It was instead the second major of the year due to the cancellation of Wimbledon and the rescheduling of the French Open to late September. In June 2020, it was announced that the event would take place without spectators for the first time in the tournament's history, and the first time in all the Grand Slam tournaments' 143-year history, due to concerns relating to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 US Open (tennis), Tournament, Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
Players would not be required to quarantine upon arrival, but were subject to regular COVID-19 testing, both prior to arrival and throughout the tournament, and all players and personnel were required to wear a face mask upon entering the grounds except while practicing, training, and working out. To reduce staff, electronic line judges were used on most matches, excluding those held on the two main show courts.


2020 US Open (tennis), Tournament, Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
In the event a player was deemed a close contact of someone who had tested positive, the United States Tennis Association (USTA) and New York City health officials initially stated that the player could continue play, but would be subject to "enhanced" health protocol, including daily testing and restricted access to facilities. On September 5, the USTA announced that health officials in Nassau County, where most players were residing in hotels, had issued 14-day quarantine orders "for all individuals who had prolonged close contact to a person who previously tested positive", thus impacting their ability to continue competing in the tournament.


2020 US Open (tennis), Tournament, Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
The effects of the virus were seen both before and during the tournament. COVID-19 precautions necessitated the cancellation of the qualification matches and the ATP and WTA Rankings were the sole metric used to determine entry into the tournament aside from wild cards. Each singles field contained 120 players who gained entry via their ranking and eight wild card entries. This differed from previous years where 16 players in both men's and women's singles entered their draws through qualifying.


2020 US Open (tennis), Tournament, Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
Many players cited safety concerns due to the pandemic as reason to withdraw from the tournament prior to its start, including men's players Rafael Nadal, Gaël Monfils, Stan Wawrinka, Alexei Popyrin, Nick Kyrgios, and Kei Nishikori, and women's players Bianca Andreescu, Simona Halep, Ashleigh Barty, Elina Svitolina, Kiki Bertens, Belinda Bencic, Wang Qiang, and Barbora Strýcová, among others. All in all, the women's singles competition was hit the hardest, as 24 of the top 100 ranked players were absent from the competition. In addition, Benoît Paire was forced to drop out of the tournament due to a positive COVID-19 test.


2020 US Open (tennis), Tournament, Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
This test also led to the forced withdrawal of the top-seeded women's doubles duo of Tímea Babos and Kristina Mladenovic prior to their second round match due to potential exposure to Paire. Additionally, the men's singles third round match between Alexander Zverev and Adrian Mannarino was delayed for three hours due to a "collaborative dialogue with health officials".


2020 US Open (tennis), Tournament, Players
The men's singles competition featured seven players ranked in the top 10 in the ATP Rankings at the time of the tournament. World No. 1 Novak Djokovic received the top seed, followed by Dominic Thiem, Daniil Medvedev, and Stefanos Tsitsipas. Djokovic was the clear odds-on betting favorite entering the competition, followed by the other top four seeds. Three previous US Open champions, as well as two previous finalists, were included in the field: Djokovic, a three-time champion; one-time champions Andy Murray and Marin Čilić; and one-time finalists Kevin Anderson, entering as a replacement for Nick Kyrgios, and Daniil Medvedev.


2020 US Open (tennis), Tournament, Players
Several notable players were missing for non-Covid-19 issues. No. 4 ranked and five-time champion Roger Federer was injured, while No. 12 Fabio Fognini and No. 15 Stan Wawrinka opted out to prepare for the upcoming clay court season. Eight players, all from the United States, entered the draw as wild cards, and three players with a protected ranking, including American player Jack Sock, who replaced Federer.


2020 US Open (tennis), Tournament, Players
The women's singles tournament was far more affected by withdrawals than the men's singles; of the players ranked in the top ten, only four competed. The top seed in the draw went to world No. 3 Karolína Plíšková, followed by Sofia Kenin, Serena Williams, and Naomi Osaka. Despite being seeded third and fourth, Williams and Osaka entered the tournament as odds-on favorites, having been given equal betting odds to win the title, followed by Plíšková and Kenin.


2020 US Open (tennis), Tournament, Players
Included in the draw were five previous US Open champions: six-time champion Serena Williams, two-time champion Venus Williams, three-time champion Kim Clijsters, who entered as a wild card, and one-time champions Angelique Kerber and Sloane Stephens. Three previous finalists also competed: Victoria Azarenka, Karolína Plíšková, and Madison Keys. Previous champions Svetlana Kuznetsova and Samantha Stosur were scheduled to compete in the event, but withdrew prior to the competition. Eight players, consisting of Clijsters and seven American players, gained entry to the tournament as wild cards, while five were entered with a protected ranking and an additional two competed as alternates.


2020 US Open (tennis), Tournament, Players
Doubles draws were topped by Juan Sebastián Cabal and Robert Farah on the men's side, and Tímea Babos and Kristina Mladenovic on the women's side. Each draw contained 32 pairs, with four wild card entries.


2020 US Open (tennis), Events, Men's Singles
The men's singles tournament began on August 31, with Novak Djokovic holding the top seed and top players Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal opting out. Ten seeded players suffered defeats in the first two rounds, including 9th seed Diego Schwartzman, who lost in the first round to Cameron Norrie. The third round eliminated a further eight seeded players, most notably 4-seed Stefanos Tsitsipas, who fell in a fifth-set tiebreak to Borna Ćorić, and 11-seed Karen Khachanov, who lost to Alex de Minaur despite the latter's second-set bagel and subsequent third-set code violation for racket abuse.


2020 US Open (tennis), Events, Men's Singles
Much of the action in the tournament's fourth round was overshadowed by controversy surrounding top seed Novak Djokovic's match against 20th seed Pablo Carreño Busta. After losing a point while trailing 5–6 in the first set, Djokovic hit a ball out of frustration that hit a line judge in the throat, which violated a Grand Slam rule regarding ball abuse. Djokovic was defaulted from the match by the tournament referee, marking the first time a top-seeded player had been disqualified from a Grand Slam singles tournament. This disqualification ensured that the top half of the men's singles draw would produce a first-time Grand Slam finalist, and that this tournament would be the first Grand Slam since 2004 without Djokovic, Roger Federer, or Rafael Nadal participating in the semifinal round.


2020 US Open (tennis), Events, Men's Singles
The quarterfinals took place on September 8–9. The top two remaining seeds, 2-seed Dominic Thiem and 3-seed Daniil Medvedev, both advanced in straight sets, while 5-seed Alexander Zverev advanced in four sets and 20-seed Pablo Carreño Busta advanced in five. Thiem took his semifinal match over Medvedev in straight sets, while Carreño Busta won the first two sets before losing the final three to Zverev; this was Zverev's first comeback win from two sets down.


2020 US Open (tennis), Events, Men's Singles
This set up a final between Thiem, making his fourth Grand Slam finals appearance, and Zverev, making his first; both players were seeking their first Grand Slam title. Zverev, the underdog, jumped out to an early advantage, taking the first and second sets. Thiem battled back in the third and fourth sets. This set up a fifth and final set, which remained close until the end and was eventually won by Thiem in a tiebreak, after four hours and one minute, making Thiem the first new Grand Slam winner in six years. This also marked the first time since Pancho Gonzalez in 1949 that a two-set deficit had been overcome in a US Open final.


2020 US Open (tennis), Events, Women's Singles
The women's singles tournament began August 31, with Karolína Plíšková holding the top seed. 29 of the 32 seeded players in the women's singles draw advanced to the second round, the most since the US Open began seeding 32 singles players rather than 16 in 2001. Serena Williams made history in her first round match against Kristie Ahn by becoming the winningest player in US Open history, having won her 102nd match.


2020 US Open (tennis), Events, Women's Singles
The second round, however, saw the exit of eleven seeded players, notably 1-seed Plíšková and 5-seed Aryna Sabalenka, who both fell in the second round in straight sets against Caroline Garcia and Victoria Azarenka, respectively. In the third round, 7-seed Madison Keys was forced to retire from her match against Alizé Cornet in the second set after suffering an injury, putting Cornet through to her first-ever US Open round of 16. The fourth round saw three more top-ten seeds fall, notably 2-seed Sofia Kenin, who lost to Elise Mertens, and 6-seed Petra Kvitová, who was upset by Shelby Rogers.


2020 US Open (tennis), Events, Women's Singles
This left the third- and fourth-seeded players, Serena Williams and Naomi Osaka, as the top two players headed into the quarterfinals. Each faced an unseeded player, as Williams defeated Tsvetana Pironkova in three sets and Osaka beat Rogers in two. The other two quarterfinals saw 28-seed Jennifer Brady defeat 23-seed Yulia Putintseva, and unseeded Victoria Azarenka upset 16-seed Elise Mertens. This left Azarenka as the only unseeded player in the semifinals, where she met Serena Williams in the first semifinal in Grand Slam history to be contested by two mothers.


2020 US Open (tennis), Events, Women's Singles
Azarenka's three-set win put her through to her fifth Grand Slam final. She would be met in the final by Osaka, who defeated Brady in three sets to qualify for her third Grand Slam final. In the final, Azarenka got out to an early lead after taking the first set in dominant fashion. Soon after, Osaka improved her play, and her "self-described bad attitude", and won four straight games in the second set to level the match. Osaka was victorious in the final set as well, securing her second US Open title and her third Grand Slam singles title.


2020 US Open (tennis), Events, Women's Singles
In each of her seven matches, Osaka entered the stadium wearing a black face mask with the name of a different African-American who died as a result of unjust violence from police or other citizens in the United States, in support of the Black Lives Matter movement and the ongoing George Floyd protests. The seven masks bore the names of Breonna Taylor, Elijah McClain, Ahmaud Arbery, Trayvon Martin, George Floyd, Philando Castile, and Tamir Rice.


2020 US Open (tennis), Events, Men's Doubles
Coming into the men's doubles tournament, the all-Colombian team of Juan Sebastián Cabal and Robert Farah held the top seed. The first round saw the surprising exit of four of the eight seeded pairs, including the 2-seed pair of Łukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo and the 4-seed pair of Filip Polášek and Ivan Dodig. Two more seeded pairs dropped out in the second round, as top-seeded Cabal and Farah faltered, as did the 6-seed German pair of Kevin Krawietz and Andreas Mies.


2020 US Open (tennis), Events, Men's Doubles
The remaining two seeded pairs met each other in the semifinals, as 8-seed Wesley Koolhof and Nikola Mektić defeated 3-seed Rajeev Ram and Joe Salisbury. The other semifinal saw Jean-Julien Rojer and Horia Tecău fall to Mate Pavić and Bruno Soares; both semifinal matches were decided in two sets. In the final, Pavić and Soares jumped out to a lead as they took the first set 7–5. Koolhoff and Mektić could not respond, and the second set ended in favor of Pavić and Soares, giving them their second and third Grand Slam doubles titles, respectively.


2020 US Open (tennis), Events, Women's Doubles
Entering the women's doubles tournament, the top seed was awarded to Tímea Babos of Hungary and Kristina Mladenovic of France. While the first round saw the exit of only one of the eight seeded pairs in the tournament (the fifth-seeded pair of Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Zhang Shuai were defeated by Asia Muhammad and Taylor Townsend), the second round saw four such occurrences.


2020 US Open (tennis), Events, Women's Doubles
The bottom three seeded pairs – 6-seed Shuko Aoyama and Ena Shibahara, 7-seed Victoria Azarenka and Sofia Kenin, and 8-seed Anna-Lena Friedsam and Kateřina Siniaková – were all defeated, and the top-seeded pair of Babos and Mladenovic were disqualified as a result of Benoît Paire's positive COVID-19 test, which required Mladenovic, who had reportedly had close contact with Paire, to quarantine and therefore drop out of the tournament. Their match was awarded on a walkover to Gabriela Dabrowski and Alison Riske, and Babos would later refer to the decision as an "injustice", citing the numerous negative COVID-19 tests taken by both of the pair and the clearing of a male athlete in a similar situation the day before.


2020 US Open (tennis), Events, Women's Doubles
The tournament progressed to the quarterfinals, where the 2-seed pair of Elise Mertens and Aryna Sabalenka and the 4-seed pair of Květa Peschke and Demi Schuurs were both defeated. In the semifinals, Asia Muhammad and Taylor Townsend were defeated by the 3-seed pair of Nicole Melichar and Xu Yifan. The other semifinal saw Anna Blinkova and Veronika Kudermetova fall to Laura Siegemund and Vera Zvonareva; both semifinals were decided in three sets. This set up a final between the pair of Melichar and Xu and the pair of Siegemund and Zvonareva; the latter team took the final in two sets to win the title. This marked the first Grand Slam women's doubles title for Siegemund and the third for Zvonareva.


2020 US Open (tennis), Events, Wheelchair Men's Singles
The wheelchair men's singles tournament had two seeded players, 1-seed Shingo Kunieda and 2-seed Gustavo Fernández, and six other unseeded players. In the tournament's opening round, the quarterfinals, Kunieda defeated Nicolas Peifer, and Fernández defeated Stéphane Houdet, both in two sets. The quarterfinals also saw Casey Ratzlaff fall in three sets to Joachim Gérard, and Alfie Hewett defeat Gordon Reid in two.


2020 US Open (tennis), Events, Wheelchair Men's Singles
In the semifinals, Kunieda faced Gérard, and bounced back from a first set loss to win in three, while Hewett upset Fernández in three after splitting the first two sets. This set up a final between top-seeded Shingo Kunieda and unseeded Alfie Hewett; the former in his 29th Grand Slam singles final and the latter in his fifth. The match came down to the wire, with each player taking one of the first two sets by a score of 6–3. The third set reached 6–6 and went to a tiebreak, where Kunieda was victorious to win his 24th Grand Slam singles title.


2020 US Open (tennis), Events, Wheelchair Women's Singles
The wheelchair women's singles tournament, like the men's competition, was contested by eight players. Two were seeded, 1-seed Diede de Groot and 2-seed Yui Kamiji, while the six others were unseeded. The tournament opened with de Groot defeating Jordanne Whiley and Kamiji defeating Momoko Ohtani, both in straight sets. The other two quarterfinals saw Marjolein Buis eliminate Dana Mathewson in two sets and Angélica Bernal defeat wild card entry Lucy Shuker in three. In the semifinals, both top seeds advanced, with de Groot defeating Buis in three sets and Kamiji beating Bernal in two. This set up a final between the top two seeds, de Groot and Kamiji. The top seeded player, de Groot, did not give Kamiji much of an opportunity for the upset, taking both sets 6–3 and winning her third US Open title.


2020 US Open (tennis), Events, Wheelchair Quad Singles
The wheelchair quad singles competition was not played as a traditional tournament bracket; rather, it was played in a round robin-style tournament with the top two finishers moving on to the championship match. Four players took part in the tournament: 1-seed Dylan Alcott, 2-seed Andy Lapthorne, unseeded David Wagner, and wild card entry Sam Schröder. In round robin play, Alcott topped the standings by winning all three of his matches, beating Lapthorne and Schröder in two sets and Wagner in three. Schröder's rather dominant two-set upset of Lapthorne gave him second place and the other berth in the final; Lapthorne finished the round robin with one win and Wagner finished with none.


2020 US Open (tennis), Events, Wheelchair Quad Singles
The final was contested by top-seeded Alcott and Schröder. The first set was evenly played by both competitors, but was won by Schröder in a tiebreak. Alcott recovered with a second-set bagel to force the game into a third set, which was won by Schröder in upset fashion, 6–4, for his first US Open title. Schröder's win was especially unlikely considering that Alcott was seeking his eleventh Grand Slam title while Schröder was appearing in a Grand Slam event for the first time.


2020 US Open (tennis), Events, Wheelchair Men's Doubles
The wheelchair men's doubles tournament was contested by the same eight players who contested the singles event. The top seed was given to the pair of Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid, with the second seed given to Stéphane Houdet and Nicolas Peifer. Hewett and Reid faced Gustavo Fernández and Shingo Kunieda in the tournament's opening semifinal round, defeating them in two sets, while Houdet and Peifer took down Casey Ratzlaff and Joachim Gérard, also in two. This set up a final between the two top seeds, which was won in two sets by the top-ranked duo of Hewett and Reid.


2020 US Open (tennis), Events, Wheelchair Women's Doubles
As with the men's tournament, the wheelchair women's doubles event was contested by the same group of eight players that played in the singles event. The semifinal round proved not to be a challenge for either of the two seeded pairs, as the 1-seed duo of Marjolein Buis and Diede de Groot defeated Angélica Bernal and Dana Mathewson  and the 2-seed pair of Yui Kamiji and Jordanne Whiley defeated Momoko Ohtani and Lucy Shuker, both in straight sets. In the final, Kamiji and Whiley were able to outlast Buis and de Groot, winning both sets by a score of 6–3, and earning their eleventh Grand Slam title together.


2020 US Open (tennis), Events, Wheelchair Quad Doubles
The wheelchair quad doubles event was the smallest at the tournament, with only four players (the same four that contested the singles event) competing. As a result, there was only one match played to determine the champion. In the first set, underdogs Sam Schröder and David Wagner jumped out to an early lead by winning the first set 6–3, but Dylan Alcott and Andy Lapthorne battled back to force a third with a 6–4 second-set victory. The third set was played as a match tiebreak, which was won 10–8 by Alcott and Lapthorne to secure them the wheelchair quad doubles title.


2020 US Open (tennis), Point distribution and prize money, Point distribution
As a Grand Slam tournament, the points for the US Open are the highest of all ATP and WTA tournaments. These points determine the world ATP and WTA rankings for men's and women's competition, respectively. Due to the smaller draws and the pandemic, all men's and women's doubles players that made it past the first round received half the points of their singles counterparts, a change from previous years where singles and doubles players received the same number of points in all but the first two rounds.


2020 US Open (tennis), Point distribution and prize money, Point distribution
In both singles and doubles, women received slightly higher point totals compared to their male counterparts at each round of the tournament, except for the first and last. Points and rankings for the wheelchair events fall under the jurisdiction of the ITF Wheelchair Tennis Tour, which also places Grand Slams as the highest classification.


2020 US Open (tennis), Point distribution and prize money, Point distribution
The ATP and WTA rankings were both altered in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Both rankings were frozen on March 16, 2020 upon the suspension of both tours, and as a result the traditional 52-week ranking system was extended to cover the period from March 2019 to December 2020, with a player's best 18 results in that time period factoring into their point totals. Points earned from the US Open and other 2020 Tour-level tournaments will be dropped from their point totals after 52 weeks or until that respective tournament is played in 2021. Like other tournaments, each player could only count their best result from either the 2019 or 2020 US Open towards their ranking.


2020 US Open (tennis), Point distribution and prize money, Point distribution
Below is a series of tables for each of the competitions showing the ranking points on offer for each event:


2020 US Open (tennis), Point distribution and prize money, Prize money
Several days before the tournament began, the prize money pool was announced to be US$53.4 million, a reduction of 6.7% compared to last year's tournament. The prize money for men's and women's singles winners took a large reduction, down 22% to $3 million this year. Prize money at each tier but one of the singles competition saw a reduction in 2020: the winnings for players exiting in the first round rose by 5% but saw no change in second- or third-round exits and saw a decrease in each level past that.


2020 US Open (tennis), Point distribution and prize money, Prize money
Prize money for the men's and women's doubles competitions took big hits as well, as both winning pairs took home 46% less than last year. The total prize pool for the wheelchair competitions was $350,000. In addition to winnings for players, a portion of the prize pool also was given to a relief program funded by the four Grand Slam tournaments, as well as the ITP, ATP Tour, and WTA Tour. A portion of the pool was also designated as being to "make up for" the cancellation of qualification tournaments and the reduced size of the competition.


2020 US Open (tennis), Broadcasting and viewership
In the United States, ESPN held the exclusive rights to the tournament to the tournament for the sixth year in a row as part of an 11-year, $825 million contract. Tournament matches were viewable on ESPN as well as on ESPN2 and online streaming services ESPN3 and ESPN+. ESPN also held rights to the US Open Series, with the Tennis Channel airing overnight replays of the world feed.


2020 US Open (tennis), Broadcasting and viewership
Prior to the broadcast of the women's singles final, Mariah Carey premiered the video for her song "Save The Day", which was filmed in front of Arthur Ashe Stadium on the grounds of the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center and which features clips of past US Open champions Venus and Serena Williams, Sloane Stephens, and Naomi Osaka. In the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, Amazon Prime Video held exclusive rights to the tournament.


2020 US Open (tennis), Broadcasting and viewership
Viewership as a whole saw a decline from previous years, drawing only 700,000 viewers due to player opt-outs and competition from other broadcasts on television. Overall ratings suffered a 45% decline; viewership of the men's final dropped 48% while the women's final dropped 43%. The men's final saw the lowest viewership since the tournament was picked up by ESPN, as the match competed with Tom Brady's debut appearance for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the National Football League (NFL), though the women's final charted as the third-highest in the ESPN era, behind the previous two years.


2020 US Open Series
In tennis, the 2020 US Open Series was the seventeenth edition of the US Open Series, which comprised a group of hard court tournaments that started on August 22, 2020 in Western & Southern Open (to be held in New York City) hosting both a men's and women's event. The series was headlined by lone ATP Tour Masters 1000 and WTA Premier 5 events.


2020 US Open Series, Tournament schedule
Due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in sporting industry, many US Open Series tennis events were scheduled from July 13 to August 21, 2020 have been cancelled due to the outbreak of the virus as in which resulted to postpone them in the 2021 tennis season. The second week would have planned a week break to avoid conflicting with the opening ceremony of 2020 Summer Olympics, since the Olympics itself also postponed to 2021.


2020 US Open Series, Week 1, ATP – Western & Southern Open (Cincinnati)
Daniil Medvedev was the defending champion, but lost in the quarterfinals to Roberto Bautista Agut.


2020 US Open Series, Week 1, ATP – Western & Southern Open (Cincinnati)
Novak Djokovic won the title, defeating Milos Raonic in the final, 1–6, 6–3, 6–4.


2020 US Open Series, Week 1, WTA – Western & Southern Open (Cincinnati)
Madison Keys was the defending champion but lost in the second round to Ons Jabeur.


2020 US Open Series, Week 1, WTA – Western & Southern Open (Cincinnati)
Victoria Azarenka won the title via walkover, after Naomi Osaka withdrew from the final with a hamstring injury.


2020 US Open Series, Weeks 2-3, ATP – US Open (New York)
Rafael Nadal was the defending champion, but chose not to participate due to safety concerns related to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the short amount of time between the US Open and the rescheduled European clay season.


2020 US Open Series, Weeks 2-3, ATP – US Open (New York)
Dominic Thiem won his first Grand Slam, defeating Alexander Zverev in the final, 2–6, 4–6, 6–4, 6–3, 7–6(8–6).


2020 US Open Series, Weeks 2-3, WTA – US Open (New York)
Bianca Andreescu was the defending champion, but she withdrew before the tournament began due to travel concerns related to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 US Open Series, Weeks 2-3, WTA – US Open (New York)
Naomi Osaka defeated Victoria Azarenka in the final, 1–6, 6–3, 6–3.


2020 US Open – Day-by-day summaries
The 2020 US Open described in detail, in the form of day-by-day summaries.


2020 US Open – Men's Doubles
Mate Pavić and Bruno Soares defeated no. 8 seeds Wesley Koolhof and Nikola Mektić in the final, 7–5, 6–3 to win the Men's Doubles tennis title at the 2020 US Open. This was the first time since the 2000 US Open that an unseeded team had won the US Open Men's Doubles title. With this win, Pavić won his second Grand Slam men's doubles title after having won the 2018 Australian Open, and Soares won his third Grand Slam men's doubles title after having won the 2016 Australian Open and 2016 US Open.


2020 US Open – Men's Doubles
Juan Sebastián Cabal and Robert Farah were the defending champions, but lost in the second round to Jean-Julien Rojer and Horia Tecău.


2020 US Open – Men's Singles
Dominic Thiem defeated Alexander Zverev in the final, 2–6, 4–6, 6–4, 6–3, 7–6(8–6) to win the Men's Singles tennis title at the 2020 US Open. It was his first major title, and he became the first man to come back from two sets down in a US Open final in the Open Era, the first to do so overall since 1949, and the first to do so in any major final since the 2004 French Open. Both players served for the championship in the final set (Zverev at 5–3 and Thiem at 6–5), but both were broken at 30. This was the first time in history that the US Open title was decided by a fifth set tie-break, 50 years after the rule was introduced in 1970.


2020 US Open – Men's Singles
Thiem's victory made him the first Austrian to win a major singles title since Thomas Muster at the 1995 French Open, the first man born in the 1990s to win a major singles title, and the first new male major singles champion since Marin Čilić won the 2014 US Open. The gap between Čilić and Thiem's titles was the longest between two new major singles champions in the history of men's tennis, surpassing the previous longest gap between Juan Martín del Potro and Andy Murray respectively at the 2009 and 2012 editions of the US Open. This was also the first time in history that four consecutive Major singles finals were decided in the fifth set (extending back to the 2019 Wimbledon Championships).


2020 US Open – Men's Singles
Zverev became the youngest male finalist at a major championship since Novak Djokovic at the 2007 US Open.


2020 US Open – Men's Singles
Rafael Nadal was the defending champion, but chose not to participate due to safety concerns related to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the short amount of time between the US Open and the rescheduled European clay season. This marked the first time since the 1999 US Open that both Nadal and Roger Federer (who was recovering from a knee surgery) were absent from a Major.


2020 US Open – Men's Singles
There were no qualifiers this year. The ATP rankings valid on August 3 (being the rankings from March 16) were used to determine the main-draw entry list.


2020 US Open – Men's Singles
World No. 1 Novak Djokovic was disqualified from the tournament during his fourth-round match against Pablo Carreño Busta. After being broken to trail 6–5 in the first set, Djokovic frustratedly hit a ball towards the baseline before the commencement of the following game. This ball accidentally hit a lineswoman in the throat. Djokovic's unbeaten 26–0 2020 season, as well as his 29-match winning streak (extending back to the 2019 Davis Cup Finals), ended as a result. This guaranteed that someone born after the 1980s would win a men's singles Major tournament. Djokovic became the first player to be defaulted from a major since Stefan Koubek at the 2000 French Open.


2020 US Open – Men's Singles
Djokovic's ejection from the tournament guaranteed a first-time Major finalist in the top half of the draw. His disqualification also meant this would be the first major since the 2004 French Open not to feature either Djokovic, Federer or Nadal in the semifinals, the first major since the 2003 Wimbledon Championships in which none of the quarterfinalists had previously won a major, and the first major men's singles tournament not to have been won by Djokovic, Federer or Nadal since Stan Wawrinka in the 2016 US Open final.


2020 US Open – Men's Singles
This also guaranteed a maiden major champion in men's singles for the first time since the 2014 tournament, when Čilić defeated fellow first-time finalist Kei Nishikori in straight sets. Additionally, it meant this would be the first major won by someone under the age of 30 since the 2016 Wimbledon Championships.


2020 US Open – Men's Singles, Seeds
Click on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.


2020 US Open – Wheelchair Men's Doubles
Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid were the three-time defending champions and successfully defended their Wheelchair Men's Doubles tennis title at the 2020 US Open, defeating Stéphane Houdet and Nicolas Peifer in the final, 6–4, 6–1, in a repeat of the 2018 US Open final.


2020 US Open – Wheelchair Men's Singles
Alfie Hewett was the two-time defending champion but lost in the finals to no. 1 seed Shingo Kunieda, 3–6, 6–3, 6–7(3–7).


2020 US Open – Wheelchair Quad Doubles
Dylan Alcott and Andy Lapthorne were the defending champions and successfully defended their Wheelchair Quad Doubles tennis title at the 2020 US Open, defeating Sam Schröder and David Wagner in the final, 3–6, 6–4, [10–8].


2020 US Open – Wheelchair Quad Singles
Andy Lapthorne was the defending champion but lost in the round-robin phase. Wildcard entry Sam Schröder won the Wheelchair Quad Singles title after defeating no. 1 seeded Dylan Alcott in the final, 7–6(7–5), 0–6, 6–4.


2020 US Open – Wheelchair Quad Singles, Draw, Round Robin
Standings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-players-ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-players-ties, percentage of sets won, or of games won; 5) Steering Committee decision.


2020 US Open – Wheelchair Women's Doubles
Diede de Groot and Aniek van Koot were the defending champions but van Koot chose not to participate.


2020 US Open – Wheelchair Women's Doubles
De Groot partnered Marjolein Buis but lost in the final to Yui Kamiji and Jordanne Whiley, 3–6, 3–6.


2020 US Open – Wheelchair Women's Singles
Diede de Groot was the two-time defending champion  and successfully defended her Wheelchair Women's Singles tennis title at the 2020 US Open defeating Yui Kamiji in the final, 6–3, 6–3.


2020 US Open – Women's Doubles
Elise Mertens and Aryna Sabalenka were the defending champions, but lost in the quarterfinals to Laura Siegemund and Vera Zvonareva.


2020 US Open – Women's Doubles
Siegemund and Zvonareva went on to win the title in their first event together, beating Nicole Melichar and Xu Yifan in the final, 6–4, 6–4. This was the first time since 2006 that an unseeded team won the US Open women's doubles titles; incidentally, Zvonareva was part of this unseeded team. This was Zvonareva's third Grand Slam title in women's doubles, fifth Grand Slam title overall, her first Grand Slam title since the 2012 Australian Open women's doubles, and her first U.S. Open title since the aforementioned title in 2006. It was Siegemund's first Grand Slam women's doubles title, and her second Grand Slam title overall.


2020 US Open – Women's Singles
Naomi Osaka defeated Victoria Azarenka in the final, 1–6, 6–3, 6–3 to win the Women's Singles tennis title at the 2020 US Open. It was her second US Open title and third major title overall. Osaka became the first player from a fully Asian country to win three major singles titles, the first player since Jennifer Capriati to win three such titles in three attempts and, at 22 years of age, the youngest player to win those three titles since Maria Sharapova won the 2008 Australian Open. Azarenka, who reached her first major final since the 2013 US Open, was aiming to become the first mother to win a major singles title since Kim Clijsters won the 2011 Australian Open.


2020 US Open – Women's Singles
Bianca Andreescu was the defending champion, but she withdrew before the tournament began due to travel concerns related to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Citing safety reasons, five other top 10 players (including reigning major champions Ashleigh Barty and Simona Halep) also withdrew from the event. In all, 24 players ranked inside the top 100 were absent from the tournament. The absences of Barty and Halep, respectively world No. 1 and 2, made this the first Grand Slam event since the 2004 Wimbledon Championships that neither of the world's top 2 ranked players were present in the draw.


2020 US Open – Women's Singles
There were no qualifiers this year. The WTA rankings valid on August 3 (being the rankings from March 16) were used to determine the main-draw entry list.


2020 US Open – Women's Singles
With her first round win over Kristie Ahn, Serena Williams surpassed Chris Evert for the most match wins (102) in US Open history. Williams was attempting to equal Margaret Court's all-time record of 24 Grand Slam singles titles and was also trying to set a new Open Era record by winning a seventh US Open singles title, but lost to Azarenka in the semifinals. Despite her loss, this made Williams the first player in history to reach the semifinals of a major in four decades: the 1990s, 2000s, 2010s and 2020s.


2020 US Open – Women's Singles
29 of the 32 seeded women progressed to the second round; the most since the US Open changed from 16 seeds to 32 seeds in 2001.


2020 US Open – Women's Singles
With Williams, Azarenka and Tsvetana Pironkova all winning their fourth round matches, it marked the first time in Grand Slam history that 3 mothers had reached the quarterfinals. The semifinal between Williams and Azarenka was the first semifinal between 2 mothers in major history.


2020 US Open – Women's Singles
This was Kim Clijsters' first Grand Slam appearance since the 2012 US Open, her return to the sport in February 2020. Clijsters was awarded a wildcard into the main draw, but she lost to Ekaterina Alexandrova in three sets.


2020 US Open – Women's Singles
This was the first time since 1980 that both semifinals and the final lasted 3 sets.


2020 US Open – Women's Singles, Seeds
Click on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.


2020 USA Cross Country Championships
The 2020 USA Cross Country Championships was the 130th edition of the USA Cross Country Championships. The USA Cross Country Championships took place in San Diego, California, on 18 January 2020 and served as the US Trials for 4th edition of 2020 Pan American Cross Country Cup (6 member teams) in Victoria, Canada. The men's race was won by Anthony Rotich in 30:17. The women's race was won by Natosha Rogers in a time of 35:44. The junior (U-20) men's race was won by Corey Gorgas in 25:44. The junior (U-20) women's race was won by Brooke Rauber in a time of 22:11


2020 USA Indoor Track and Field Championships
The 2020 USA Indoor Track and Field Championships were held at the Albuquerque Convention Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Organized by USA Track and Field (USATF), the two-day competition took place from February 14 to February 15 and serves as the national championships in track and field for the United States.


2020 USA Indoor Track and Field Championships
The heptathlon and pentathlon being contested as part of the 2020 USATF Indoor Combined Events Championships will be held February 7-8, 2020 at the United States Naval Academy’s Wesley Brown Field House in Annapolis, Maryland.


2020 USA Indoor Track and Field Championships, Female medalist
Keturah Orji set the American record 14.60 m (47 ft 10+3⁄4 in) in the second round. Tori Franklin then improved upon the record to 14.64 m (48 ft 1⁄4 in) in the sixth round.


2020 USA Indoor Track and Field Championships, Qualification
The 2020 USA Indoor Track and Field Championships serve as the qualification meet for United States representatives in international competitions, including the 2020 IAAF World Indoor Championships from 13 to 15 March 2020 in Nanjing, China. In order to be entered, athletes need to achieve a qualifying standard mark and place in the top 2 in their event and top 12 in the world. The United States team, as managed by USATF, can also bring a qualified back up athlete in case one of the team members is unable to perform.


2020 USA Indoor Track and Field Championships, Qualification
Additionally, defending 2019 IAAF World Indoor Tour Winner (received a wildcard spot subject to ratification by their country) and World Champions received byes into the 2020 World Championships. The athletes eligible for a bye are:


2020 USA Sevens
The 2020 USA Sevens was held in Los Angeles, played at Dignity Health Stadium in Carson in a return to California after a decade in Las Vegas. The rugby sevens tournament was the sixth event of the 2019–20 Sevens World Series for men's teams, and the seventeen edition of the USA Sevens. South Africa won the tournament, defeating Fiji by 29–24 in extra time.


2020 USA Sevens, Format
The sixteen are drawn into four pools of four teams. Each team plays every other team in their pool once. The top two teams from each pool advance to the Cup playoffs and compete for gold, silver and bronze medals. The other teams from each pool go to the classification playoffs for ninth to sixteenth placings.


2020 USA Sevens, Teams
Fifteen core teams played in the tournament along with one invitational team, South Korea.


2020 USA Sevens, Pool stage
All times in Pacific Standard Time (UTC−08:00). The pools were scheduled as follows:


2020 USATF U20 Outdoor Championships
The 2020 USATF U20 Outdoor Championships will be the 49th edition of the annual national championship in outdoor track and field for American athletes aged under 20, organized by USA Track & Field. The three-day competition will take place on June 12–14 at the Ansin Sports Complex in Miramar, Florida. The Ansin Sports Complex will host the event for the second year in a row. It will be the sixth time the meet has been held in Florida. Update: This competition was cancelled due to the Corona Virus pandemic.


2020 USATF U20 Outdoor Championships, Qualification
To enter an event at the national competition, athletes must achieve the event's entry standard performance.


2020 USATF U20 Outdoor Championships, World U20 team selection
The event will serve as the selection meet for the United States team for the 2020 World Athletics U20 Championships. In order to be selected for the national team, athletes must place in the top two of their event at the national competition and also need to achieve the international qualifying standard mark. The United States team, as managed by USA Track & Field, can also bring a qualified back up athlete in case one of the team members is unable to perform.


2020 USC Trojans football team
The 2020 USC Trojans football team represented the University of Southern California in the 2020 NCAA Division I FBS football season. They played their home games at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and competed as members of the South Division of the Pac-12 Conference. They were led by fifth-year head coach Clay Helton.


2020 USC Trojans football team
On August 11, the Pac-12 Conference initially canceled all fall sports competitions due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On September 24, the conference announced that a six-game conference-only season would begin on November 6, with the conference's championship game to be played on December 18. Teams not selected for the championship game would be seeded to play a seventh game.


2020 USC Trojans football team
USC compiled a 5–0 regular season record, and qualified for the Pac-12 Championship Game, which they lost to Oregon. The following day, USC announced that it would not play in any bowl game, ending the season with an overall 5–1 record.


2020 USC Trojans football team, Previous season
The Trojans finished 8–5 in 2019 and 7–2 in Conference play, placing 2nd place in the South Division behind the South Division Champions Utah.


2020 USC Trojans football team, Offseason, Returning Starters
USC returns 37 starters in 2020 including 15 on offense, 19 on defense, and 3 on special teams.


2020 USC Trojans football team, Offseason, Returning Starters
Key departures include Michael Pittman Jr. (WR – 13 games), Austin Jackson (OT – 13 games), Drew Richmond (OT – 12 games), Christian Rector (DE – 10 games), John Houston Jr. (ILB – 13 games)


2020 USC Trojans football team, Offseason, Returning Starters
Other departures include Jack Sears (QB – 1 game in 2018), Dominic Davis (WR – 9 games), and Jacob Daniel (OG – 6 games).


2020 USC Trojans football team, Offseason, 2020 NFL Draft, NFL Combine
The official list of participants for the 2020 NFL Combine included USC football players Michael Pittman (WR) and Austin Jackson (OT).


2020 USC Trojans football team, Personnel, Scholarship distribution chart
redshirt year used / redshirt year eligible / * Former Walk-on


2020 USC Trojans football team, Personnel, Scholarship distribution chart
– Transfer portal out : Palaie Gaoteote IV (ILB, -), Abdul-Malik McClain (OLB, Jackson State), Chase McGrath (K, -)


2020 USC Trojans football team, Personnel, Scholarship distribution chart
– COVID-19 Opt out to NFL : Jay Tufele (DL)


2020 USC Trojans football team, Schedule, Regular season
USC had games scheduled against Alabama, New Mexico, and Notre Dame, but canceled these games on July 10 because the Pac-12 Conference decided to play a conference-only schedule because of the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 USC Trojans football team, Statistics, Defense
Key: POS: Position, SOLO: Solo Tackles, AST: Assisted Tackles, TOT: Total Tackles, TFL: Tackles-for-loss, SACK: Quarterback Sacks, INT: Interceptions, BU: Passes Broken Up, PD: Passes Defended, QBH: Quarterback Hits, FR: Fumbles Recovered, FF: Forced Fumbles, BLK: Kicks or Punts Blocked, SAF: Safeties, TD : Touchdown


2020 USL Championship Playoffs
The 2020 USL Championship Playoffs was the post-season championship of the 2020 USL Championship. It was the tenth edition of the USL Championship Playoffs. The playoffs began on October 10, and originally scheduled to conclude with the USL Championship Final on November 1. The Final was then cancelled the day before because several Tampa Bay Rowdies players and staff tested positive for COVID-19. The championship would not be awarded.


2020 USL Championship Playoffs
Real Monarchs were the defending USL Championship champions, but failed to qualify for the playoffs.


2020 USL Championship Playoffs, Qualified teams, Format
The top two teams in each group will qualify for the 2020 Championship Playoffs. They will begin on October 10, featuring a single-elimination, 16-team bracket. Under the revised season format, four group winners in each conference will earn hosting rights for the Eastern and Western Conference Quarterfinals. Following the opening round, hosting rights will be determined by regular season record. All playoff matches will stream live on ESPN+ except the Championship final on ESPN.


2020 USL Championship Playoffs, Schedule, USL Championship Final
The Final was cancelled the day before because several Tampa Bay Rowdies players and staff tested positive for COVID-19. The championship would not be awarded.


2020 USL Championship season
The 2020 USL Championship season was the tenth season of the USL Championship and fourth under Division II sanctioning. This was the second season under the name "USL Championship", having used the name "United Soccer League" through 2018. Real Monarchs were the defending USL Cup champions. The 2020 season saw 35 teams participate in two conferences during the regular season.


2020 USL Championship season
On November 8, 2019, Ottawa Fury FC announced that it had suspended operations. The team had received sanctioning from its country's governing body, Canada Soccer, but was denied by U.S. Soccer and the continental governing body of CONCACAF. Additionally, the 2020 season is the first season without Nashville SC. The club's identity transferred to a Major League Soccer team that started play in 2020.


2020 USL Championship season
The season was suspended on March 12 due to the COVID-19 pandemic in North America. On June 4, the league announced a return to play on July 11, 2020.


2020 USL Championship season
The playoffs began on October 10, and originally scheduled to conclude with the USL Championship Final on November 1. The Final was then cancelled the day before because several Tampa Bay Rowdies players and staff tested positive for COVID-19. The championship would not be awarded.


2020 USL Championship season
Real Monarchs were the defending USL Championship champions, but failed to qualify for the playoffs.


2020 USL Championship season, Teams
The following teams are playing in the 2020 USL Championship season:


2020 USL Championship season, Competition format
The original divisional alignment was announced on December 19, 2019. The regular season and playoff format was announced on January 9, 2020. The season began on March 6 and was scheduled to conclude on October 17. The 2020 USL Cup Playoffs were expected to begin October 21, and conclude with the final match between November 12–16. The top 10 teams were to make the playoffs in each conference with the same format as in 2019.


2020 USL Championship season, Competition format, Group alignment for resumption of play
The COVID-19 pandemic caused a radical remaking of the competition for 2020. When the season resumed on July 11, the teams were competing in small groups of four or five teams with a geographic component, with the top two teams in each group qualifying for the postseason.


2020 USL Championship season, Group tables, Group C
Group C includes the Rocky Mountain states, New Mexico and El Paso, Texas.


2020 USL Championship season, Group tables, Group G
Group G includes the northern part of the Southern United States.


2020 USL Championship season, Playoffs, Format
The top two teams in each group qualify for the 2020 Championship Playoffs. They began on the weekend of October 10, featuring a single-elimination, 16-team bracket. Under the revised season format, four group winners in each conference earn hosting rights for the Eastern and Western Conference Quarterfinals. Following the opening round, hosting rights will be determined by regular season record. All playoff matches will stream live on ESPN+ except the Championship final on ESPN.


2020 USL Championship season, Playoffs, USL Championship Final
The Final was cancelled the day before because several Tampa Bay players and staff tested positive for COVID-19. As a result, Phoenix Rising and Tampa Bay were recognized as conference champions, and the final was not played. League officials considered postponing the game, but this would have required quarantining both teams and giving them time for renewed training. The prospect of waiting three to four weeks to play led league officials to simply cancel the game. They also considered awarding Rising the title since it had more points than Tampa Bay, but balked at doing so because Rising earned three points by forfeit after San Diego Loyal walked off the field in protest after Rising's Junior Flemmings directed a homophobic slur at Loyal's Collin Martin.


2020 USL Championship season, Average home attendances
† One Tacoma Defiance home match took place closed-door due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 USL Championship season, League awards, All-League Teams
First TeamF: Solomon Asante (PHX), Cameron Lancaster (LOU), Augustine Williams (LAG)M: Kenardo Forbes (PIT), Bruno Lapa (BHM), Speedy Williams (LOU)D: Forrest Lasso (TBR), Kalen Ryden (NMU), Sean Totsch (LOU), Thomas Vancaeyezeele (PIT)G: Ben Lundt (LOU)


2020 USL Championship season, League awards, All-League Teams
Second TeamF: Rufat Dadashov (PHX), Dane Kelly (CLT), Tyler Pasher (IND)M: Christiano Francois (RNO), Kevin Partida (RNO), Chris Wehan (NMU)D: Leland Archer (CHS), Alex Crognale (BHM), Neveal Hackshaw (IND), Jordan Scarlett (TBR)G: Brandon Miller (CLT)


2020 USL League One season
The 2020 USL League One season was the second season of USL League One. The regular season was scheduled to begin on March 27 and end on October 3. On March 13, it was announced the regular season start would be delayed to April 11 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This delay was extended to May 10. The delay was extended for a third time with the USL awaiting guidance and clarity from various authorities before announcing a new date. On June 5, the league announced a provisional return date of July 18.


2020 USL League One season
On July 2, the league announced a modified 20-game schedule (but changed to a 16-game schedule on July 17) with a modified playoffs. Now, only the top two teams will go straight to the League Finals, on the weekend of October 31. On July 8, Toronto FC II announced they would not play in 2020 because of COVID-19 restrictions. They remain a member club of the league, and plan to return for the 2021 season. Nine teams return from the inaugural season, while three  new teams enter for the first time; MLS reserve teams Fort Lauderdale CF and New England Revolution II, and expansion club Union Omaha.


2020 USL League One season
North Texas SC was the defending champion. They were unable to defend the title after finishing third in the regular season, eliminating them from the Championship game.


2020 USL League One season
The Championship game was canceled on October 29, 2020, after several Union Omaha players tested positive for COVID-19. Greenville Triumph SC was awarded the title based on points per game average (2.188 to 1.825).


2020 USL League One season, USL League One Championship
The game was canceled the day before because several Union Omaha players tested positive for COVID-19. Greenville was awarded the title based on points per game average (2.188 to 1.825).


2020 USL League One season, League awards, All-League Teams
F: Greg Hurst (CHT), Emiliano Terzaghi (RIC), Alex Morrell (GVL)M: Evan Conway (OMA), Noah Pilato (GVL), Eduardo Sosa (FTL)D: Justin Che (NTX), Brandon Fricke (GVL), Tyler Polak (GVL), Damia Viader (OMA)G: Dallas Jaye (GVL)


2020 USL League One season, League awards, All-League Teams
F: Edison Azcona (FTL), Lachlan McLean (GVL), Ethan Vanacore-Decker (OMA)M: Nicolas Firmino (NEW), Maciel (NEW), Marco Micaletto (TRM)D: Ian Fray (FTL), Ricky Ruiz (CHT), Connor Tobin (MAD), Collin Verfurth (NEW)G: Rashid Nuhu (OMA)


2020 USL League Two season
The 2020 USL League Two season was to have been the 26th season of the USL League Two, the top pre-professional soccer league in the United States, since its establishment in 1995. Flint City Bucks were the defending champions after defeating Reading United in the National Championship the previous season.


2020 USL League Two season
The regular season was scheduled to start on May 3 and conclude on July 17. There would have been a record of 81 teams participating in this season.


2020 USL League Two season
On April 30, 2020 the season was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 UT Arlington Mavericks baseball team
The 2020 UT Arlington Mavericks baseball team represented the University of Texas at Arlington in the 2020 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Mavericks played their home games at Clay Gould Ballpark and were led by thirteenth year head coach Darin Thomas.


2020 UT Arlington Mavericks baseball team
On March 12, the Sun Belt Conference announced the indefinite suspension of all spring athletics, including baseball, due to the increasing risk of the COVID-19 pandemic. Soon after, the Sun Belt cancelled all season and postseason play.


2020 UT Arlington Mavericks baseball team, Preseason, Sun Belt Conference Coaches Poll
The Sun Belt Conference Coaches Poll will be released sometime around January 30, 2020 and the Mavericks were picked to finish first in the West Division and tied for fourth overall in the conference.


2020 UT Arlington Mavericks baseball team, Schedule and results
*Rankings are based on the team's current ranking in the D1Baseball poll.


2020 UT Arlington Mavericks softball team
The 2020 UT Arlington Mavericks softball team represented the University of Texas at Arlington in the 2020 NCAA Division I softball season. The Mavericks played their home games at Allan Saxe Field. The Cajuns were led by third year head coach Peejay Brun.


2020 UT Arlington Mavericks softball team
On March 12, the Sun Belt Conference announced the indefinite suspension of all spring athletics, including softball, due to the increasing risk of the COVID-19 pandemic. On March 16, the Sun Belt formally announced the cancelation of all spring sports, thus ending their season definitely.


2020 UT Arlington Mavericks softball team, Preseason, Sun Belt Conference Coaches Poll
The Sun Belt Conference Coaches Poll was released on January 29, 2020. UT Arlington was picked to finish third in the Sun Belt Conference with 77 votes.


2020 UT Arlington Mavericks softball team, Schedule and results
*Rankings are based on the team's current ranking in the NFCA/ USA Softball poll.


2020 UT Martin Skyhawks football team
The 2020 UT Martin Skyhawks football team represents the University of Tennessee at Martin during the 2020–21 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They are led by 15th-year head coach Jason Simpson and play their home games at Graham Stadium. They compete as a member of the Ohio Valley Conference (OVC).


2020 UT Martin Skyhawks football team, Previous season
The Skyhawks finished the 2019 season 7–5, 6–2 in OVC play to finish in third place.


2020 UT Martin Skyhawks football team, Schedule
UT Martin had a game scheduled against Alabama, which was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 UTEP Miners football team
The 2020 UTEP Miners football team represented the University of Texas at El Paso in the 2020 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Miners were led by third–year head coach Dana Dimel and played their home games at the Sun Bowl. They competed as members of the West Division of Conference USA (C–USA).


2020 UTEP Miners football team, Previous season
The Miners finished the 2019 regular season 1–11 and 0–8 in C–USA play to finish in last (seventh) in the West Division. They were not eligible to play in any post season bowl game.


2020 UTEP Miners football team, Preseason, C–USA media days
The C–USA Media Days were held virtually for the first time in conference history.


2020 UTEP Miners football team, Schedule
UTEP announced its 2020 football schedule on January 8, 2020.


2020 UTEP Miners football team, Schedule
The Miners had games scheduled against FIU, Nevada, New Mexico State, Rice, Southern Miss, Texas Tech and UAB that were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 UTSA Roadrunners football team
The 2020 UTSA Roadrunners football team represented the University of Texas at San Antonio during the 2020 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Roadrunners played their home games at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas, and competed in the West Division of Conference USA (CUSA). They were led by first-year head coach Jeff Traylor.


2020 UTSA Roadrunners football team, Previous season
The Roadrunners finished the 2019 regular season 4–8, 3–5 in CUSA play which they tied for fourth in the West Division with North Texas and Rice. They were not invited to play in any post season bowl game. Frank Wilson was fired in December 2019, a day after losing to Louisiana Tech.


2020 UTSA Roadrunners football team, Preseason, CUSA media days
The CUSA Media Days were held virtually for the first time in conference history.


2020 UTSA Roadrunners football team, Schedule
UTSA announced its 2020 football schedule on January 8, 2020. The 2020 schedule consisted of 6 home and 6 away games in the regular season.


2020 UTSA Roadrunners football team, Schedule
The Roadrunners had games scheduled against Grambling State, LSU, Old Dominion, and Rice that were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 UTSA Roadrunners football team, Schedule
On December 13, the Roadrunners accepted a bid to the Frisco Bowl, to face the SMU Mustangs. However, on December 15, the bowl was canceled due to COVID-19 concerns within the SMU program, and UTSA accepted an invitation to the First Responder Bowl.


2020 Uber Cup group stage
The 2020 Uber Cup group stage is held at the Ceres Arena in Aarhus, Denmark, from 9 to 13 October 2021.


2020 Uber Cup group stage
The group stage is the first stage of the 2020 Uber Cup. The two highest-placing teams in each group advance to the knockout stage.


2020 Uber Cup group stage, Draw
The original draw for the tournament was conducted on 3 August 2020, at 15:00 MST, at BWF Headquarters in Kuala Lumpur. BWF then decided to redraw the tournament after the postponement from 2020 to 2021 this time to be conducted on 18 August 2021, at 15:00 MST also at the BWF headquarters in Kuala Lumpur. The 16 teams were drawn to four groups of four and were allocated to three pots based on the World Team Rankings of 18 February 2021.


2020 Uber Cup qualification
The 2020 Uber Cup qualification process is a series of tournaments organised by the five BWF confederations to decide 14 of the 16 teams which will play in the 2020 Uber Cup, with Denmark qualifying automatically as hosts, and Japan qualifying automatically as trophy holder.