2020 CONCACAF League, Qualification to CONCACAF Champions League
The top six teams qualified for the 2021 CONCACAF Champions League, i.e., champions, runners-up, both losing semi-finalists, and the two winners of the play-in round contested by the four losing quarter-finalists.


2020 CONCACAF League, Awards
The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament:


2020 CONCACAF League Final
The 2020 CONCACAF League Final was the final round of the 2020 CONCACAF League, the fourth edition of the CONCACAF League, the secondary club football tournament organised by CONCACAF, the regional governing body of North America, Central America, and the Caribbean.


2020 CONCACAF League Final
The final was contested in a single match format between Alajuelense and Saprissa, both clubs being from Costa Rica. The final was hosted by Alajuelense at the Estadio Alejandro Morera Soto in Alajuela on 3 February 2021.


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


2020 CONCACAF League Final, Post-match
Both Alajuelense and Saprissa qualified for the 2021 CONCACAF Champions League for their performance in the CONCACAF League. Alajuelense took on Atlanta United of the United States in the first round, while Saprissa played American side, Philadelphia Union.


2020 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship
The 2020 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship was the fifteenth and final edition of the CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying, the quadrennial, international, age-restricted football tournament organised by CONCACAF to determine which men's under-23 national teams from the North, Central America and Caribbean region qualify for the Olympic football tournament.


2020 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship
In August 2019, it was announced that the tournament would be hosted in Guadalajara and Zapopan, both cities in the state of Jalisco, Mexico, with the tournament originally scheduled to take place between 20 March and 1 April 2020.


2020 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship
On 13 March 2020, CONCACAF suspended all upcoming competitions scheduled to take place over the next thirty days due to the COVID-19 pandemic in North America. On 14 January 2021, CONCACAF announced that the Men's Olympic Qualifiers would now take place between 18 and 30 March 2021, as the Olympics had been postponed to July 2021.


2020 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship
Host nation, Mexico successfully defended their title after defeating Honduras on penalties in the final. It was their eight Pre-Olympic title and third in a row, after previous wins in 1964, 1972, 1976, 1996, 2004, 2012 and 2015. As the top two teams, Mexico and Honduras both qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Japan as the CONCACAF representatives, just as the same sides had in the previous two Olympics.


2020 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship
On 16 September 2021, CONCACAF announced that the representatives at the 2024 Summer Olympic Games will qualify through the 2022 CONCACAF U-20 Championship.


2020 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship, Qualification
The eight berths were allocated to the three regional zones as follows:


2020 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship, Qualification
Regional qualification tournaments were held in Central America and Caribbean to determine the five teams joining Canada, Mexico, and the United States at the final tournament.


2020 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship, Draw
The draw for the tournament took place on 9 January 2020, 19:00 CST (UTC−6), at the Estadio Akron, in Guadalajara, Mexico.


2020 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship, Draw
The eight teams were drawn into two groups of four teams. The teams were seeded into four pots for the draw. Pot 1 contained Mexico, seeded in Group A as the host nation, and Honduras, seeded in Group B as the best performing team in the last editions among the other teams. Pot 2 contained the two remaining teams from North America, Canada and United States, Pot 3 contained the two remaining teams from Central America, Costa Rica and El Salvador, while Pot 4 contained the two teams from the Caribbean, Dominican Republic and Haiti.


2020 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship, Squads
Players born on or after 1 January 1997 were eligible to compete in the tournament.


2020 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship, Match officials
The match officials appointed for the 2020 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship were announced by CONCACAF on 23 February 2021.


2020 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship, Group stage
The top two teams from each group advanced to the semi-finals.


2020 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship, Statistics, Goalscorers
There were 38 goals scored in 15 matches, for an average of 2.53 goals per match.


2020 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship, Statistics, Awards
The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament.


2020 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship, Statistics, Final ranking
As per statistical convention in football, matches decided in extra time were counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by a penalty shoot-out were counted as draws.


2020 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship, Qualified teams for Summer Olympics
The following two teams from CONCACAF qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympic men's football tournament.


2020 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship qualification
The qualifying competition for the 2020 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship determined five of the eight teams of the final tournament. Players born on or after 1 January 1997 were eligible to compete in the tournament.


2020 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship qualification, Teams
A total of 25 CONCACAF teams (out of 41) entered Olympic qualifying, with 22 involved in regional qualifiers for the final tournament. The entrants were divided into three zones:


2020 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship qualification, Draw
The draw for the Caribbean preliminary round took place on 17 April 2019, 11:00 EDT (UTC−4), at the CONCACAF Headquarters in Miami. The sixteen teams which entered the Caribbean preliminary round were drawn into four groups of four teams. Based on the FIFA World Rankings (as of 4 April 2019), the sixteen teams were distributed into four pots, with teams in Pot 1 assigned to each group prior to the draw, as follows:


2020 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship qualification, Draw
The matchups of the Caribbean play-in round, played between the four Caribbean preliminary round group winners, were determined as follows:


2020 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship qualification, Draw
Each tie was played as a single match, with the higher-ranked team according to the seeding used for the preliminary round draw hosting the match.


2020 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship qualification, Draw
No draw was made for the Central American matchups, which were based on the FIFA World Rankings (as of 4 April 2019), as follows:


2020 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship qualification, Draw
Each tie was played as two-legged home-and-away matches, with the higher-ranked team according to the seeding hosting the second leg.


2020 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship qualification, Central America
The first legs were played on 17 July, and the second legs were played on 21 July 2019. Winners qualified for the 2020 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship.


2020 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship qualification, Caribbean
The Group A, B, and D matches were played between 17–21 July, and the Group C matches were played between 24–28 July 2019. Group winners qualified for the play-in round.


2020 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship qualification, Caribbean, Preliminary round, Group A
Matches were played at the Anthony Spaulding Sports Complex, Kingston in Jamaica. All times are local, EST (UTC−5).


2020 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship qualification, Caribbean, Preliminary round, Group B
Matches were played at the Bethlehem Soccer Complex, Saint Croix in United States Virgin Islands. All times are local, AST (UTC−4).


2020 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship qualification, Caribbean, Preliminary round, Group C
Matches were played at the Truman Bodden Sports Complex, George Town in Cayman Islands. All times are local, EST (UTC−5).


2020 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship qualification, Caribbean, Preliminary round, Group D
Matches were played at the Estadio Panamericano, San Cristóbal in Dominican Republic. All times are local, AST (UTC−4).


2020 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship qualification, Caribbean, Play-in round
The higher ranked teams according to the seeding, Saint Kitts and Nevis and Haiti, each hosted a one-legged elimination match. The winners qualified for the 2020 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship.


2020 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship squads
The 2020 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship was an international football tournament that was held in Mexico from 18 to 30 March 2021. The eight national teams involved in the tournament were required to register a squad of twenty players, three of whom had to be goalkeepers.


2020 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship squads
Each national team had to submit a provisional list with up to fifty players to FIFA and CONCACAF at least thirty days before their first match in the tournament. The final list of twenty players per national team had to be submitted to FIFA and CONCACAF up to ten days before the start of the tournament. Once the final lists had been submitted, teams were only be permitted to make replacements in cases of force majeure or serious injuries up to 24 hours before their first match, where the replacement players needed to be in the preliminary squad.


2020 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship squads
The provisional lists were published by CONCACAF on 23 February 2021. The final lists were published by CONCACAF on 11 March 2021.


2020 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship squads
All registered players had to have been born on or after 1 January 1997 (Regulations Article 13). The age listed for each player is on 18 March 2021, the first day of the tournament. A flag is included for coaches who are of a different nationality than their own national team. Players marked in bold have been capped at full international level.


2020 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship squads, Group A, Mexico
The 50-man provisional squad was announced on 23 February 2021. The 20-man final squad was announced on 11 March 2021.


2020 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship squads, Group A, United States
The 48-man provisional squad was announced by CONCACAF on 23 February 2021, and was reduced to 31 players on 1 March 2021. The 20-man final squad was announced on 11 March 2021. On 18 March 2021, midfielder Ulysses Llanez was ruled out due to an ankle injury and was replaced by Tanner Tessmann.


2020 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship squads, Group A, Costa Rica
The 50-man provisional squad was announced by CONCACAF on 23 February 2021, The 20-man final squad was announced on 10 March 2021.


2020 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship squads, Group A, Dominican Republic
The 50-man provisional squad was announced by CONCACAF on 23 February 2020. The 20-man final squad was announced on 8 March 2021. Defender Lean Torres withdrew injured and was replaced by Josué Báez on 18 March 2021.


2020 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship squads, Group B, Honduras
The 48-man provisional squad was announced by CONCACAF on 23 February 2021. The 20-man final squad was announced on 8 March 2021.


2020 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship squads, Group B, Canada
The 50-man provisional squad was announced on 23 February 2021. The 20-man final squad was announced on 10 March 2021. On 19 March, defender Thomas Meilleur-Giguère and forward Kris Twardek were replaced on the roster by Diyaeddine Abzi and Mohamed Farsi due to medical reasons.


2020 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship squads, Group B, El Salvador
The 33-man provisional squad was announced by CONCACAF on 23 February 2021. The 20-man final squad was announced on 7 March 2021.


2020 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship squads, Group B, Haiti
The 50-man provisional squad was announced on 21 February 2021. The 20-man final squad was announced on 10 March 2021.


2020 CONCACAF U-17 Championship
The 2020 CONCACAF U-17 Championship was originally to be the 7th edition of the CONCACAF U-17 Championship (20th edition if all eras included), the biennial international youth football championship organised by CONCACAF for the under-17 national teams of the North, Central American and Caribbean region. However, on 5 June 2020, CONCACAF announced that the qualifying competition, originally scheduled to be played in 2020, had been postponed indefinitely due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 CONCACAF U-17 Championship
The top four teams of the tournament would have qualified for the 2021 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Peru as the CONCACAF representatives. However, FIFA announced on 17 November 2020 that this edition of the World Cup would be cancelled. Following this announcement, CONCACAF decided on 4 January 2021 that the 2020 CONCACAF U-17 Championship, which served as the regional qualifiers, would be cancelled.


2020 CONCACAF U-20 Championship
The 2020 CONCACAF U-20 Championship was originally to be the 7th edition of the CONCACAF U-20 Championship (28th edition if all eras included), the biennial international youth football championship organised by CONCACAF for the under-20 national teams of the North, Central American and Caribbean region. The tournament was originally scheduled to be held in Honduras between 20 June and 5 July 2020. However, on 13 May 2020, CONCACAF announced the decision to postpone the tournament due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with the new dates of the tournament to be confirmed later.


2020 CONCACAF U-20 Championship
The final tournament would feature 20 teams, using the same format as the 2019 CONCACAF U-17 Championship. The top four teams of the tournament would have qualified for the 2021 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Indonesia as the CONCACAF representatives. However, FIFA announced on 17 November 2020 that this edition of the World Cup would be cancelled. Following this announcement, CONCACAF decided on 4 January 2021 that the 2020 CONCACAF U-20 Championship, which served as the regional qualifiers, would be cancelled.


2020 CONCACAF U-20 Championship, Qualified teams
The format for qualification has changed since the 2016 edition (qualifying was not played in 2018). The qualifying competition no longer features Caribbean and Central American zones.


2020 CONCACAF U-20 Championship, Qualified teams
The 41 CONCACAF teams were ranked based on the CONCACAF Men's Under-20 Ranking as of June 2019. A total of 33 teams entered the tournament. The highest-ranked 16 entrants were exempt from qualifying and advanced directly to the group stage of the final tournament, while the lowest-ranked 17 entrants had to participate in qualifying, where the four group winners advanced to the round of 16 of the knockout stage of the final tournament.


2020 CONCACAF U-20 Championship, Draw
The draw for the group stage took place on 20 November 2019, 11:00 EST (UTC−5), at the CONCACAF Headquarters in Miami. The 16 teams which entered the group stage were drawn into four groups of four teams. Based on the CONCACAF Under-20 Ranking, the 16 teams were distributed into four pots, with teams in Pot 1 assigned to each group prior to the draw, as follows:


2020 CONCACAF U-20 Championship, Squads
Players born on or after 1 January 2001 are eligible to compete.


2020 CONCACAF U-20 Championship, Group stage
The top three teams in each group advance to the round of 16, where they are joined by the four teams advancing from the qualifying round.


2020 CONCACAF U-20 Championship, Knockout stage, Quarter-finals
Winners would have qualified for 2021 FIFA U-20 World Cup.


2020 CONCACAF U-20 Championship qualifying
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2020 CONCACAF U-20 Championship qualifying
The 2020 CONCACAF U-20 Championship qualifying stage took place between 15–23 February 2020. The teams competed for four of the 20 berths in the 2020 CONCACAF U-20 Championship final tournament.


2020 CONCACAF U-20 Championship qualifying, Teams
The qualifying format changed from the 2016 edition (no qualifying was held for the 2018 edition), and the teams were no longer divided into regional zones.


2020 CONCACAF U-20 Championship qualifying, Teams
The 41 CONCACAF teams were ranked based on the CONCACAF Men’s Under-20 Ranking as of June 2019. A total of 33 teams entered the tournament. The highest-ranked 16 entrants were exempt from qualifying and advanced directly to the group stage of the final tournament, while the lowest-ranked 17 entrants had to participate in qualifying, where the four group winners advanced to the round of 16 of the knockout stage of the final tournament.


2020 CONCACAF U-20 Championship qualifying, Draw
The draw for the qualifying round took place on 20 November 2019, 11:00 EST (UTC−5), at the CONCACAF Headquarters in Miami. The 17 teams which entered the qualifying stage were drawn into four groups: one group of five teams and three groups of four teams.


2020 CONCACAF U-20 Championship qualifying, Qualifying stage
The winners of each group qualify for the 2020 CONCACAF U-20 Championship, where they enter the round of 16 of the knockout stage.


2020 CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Championship
The 2020 CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Championship was the fifth edition of the CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament, the quadrennial international football tournament organised by CONCACAF to determine which women's national teams from the North, Central American and Caribbean region qualify for the Olympic football tournament. CONCACAF announced on 5 November 2019 that the United States would host the tournament between 28 January to 9 February 2020.


2020 CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Championship
The top two teams qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics women's football tournament in Japan as the CONCACAF representatives. The United States were the defending champions.


2020 CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Championship, Qualification
The eight berths were allocated to the three regional zones as follows:


2020 CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Championship, Qualification
Regional qualification tournaments were held in Central America and Caribbean to determine the five teams joining Canada, Mexico and the United States at the final tournament.


2020 CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Championship, Venues
The three venues were announced during the draw ceremony on 7 November 2019.


2020 CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Championship, Draw
The draw for the tournament took place on 7 November 2019, 14:30 EST (UTC−5), at the Mediapro Studio in Miami, Florida, United States.


2020 CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Championship, Draw
The eight teams were drawn into two groups of four teams. The teams were seeded into four pots for the draw. Pot 1 contained the United States, seeded in Group A as the host nation. The remaining teams were allocated to the pots based on the FIFA Women's World Rankings of 27 September 2019 (shown in parentheses below).


2020 CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Championship, Group stage
The top two teams from each group advance to the semi-finals.


2020 CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Championship, Group stage, Tiebreakers
The ranking of teams in the group stage was determined as follows:


2020 CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Championship, Goalscorers
There were 77 goals scored in 15 matches, for an average of 5.13 goals per match.


2020 CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Championship, Awards
The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament.


2020 CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Championship, Qualified teams for Summer Olympics
The following two teams from CONCACAF qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympic women's football tournament.


2020 CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Championship qualification
The qualifying competition for the 2020 CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Championship determined five of the eight teams of 2020 CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Championship final tournament.


2020 CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Championship qualification, Teams
A total of 25 CONCACAF teams (out of 41) entered Olympic qualifying, with 22 involved in regional qualifiers for the final tournament. The entrants are divided into three zones:


2020 CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Championship qualification, Draw
The draw for the Caribbean qualifying round took place on 29 July 2019, 11:00 EDT (UTC−4), at the CONCACAF Headquarters in Miami. The 16 teams which entered the Caribbean qualifying round were drawn into three groups, one of six teams and two of five teams. Based on the FIFA World Ranking (as of 29 March 2019), the 16 teams were distributed into five pots, as follows:


2020 CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Championship qualification, Draw
The draw for the Central American qualifying round took place on 30 July 2019, 11:00 EDT (UTC−4), at the CONCACAF Headquarters in Miami. The six teams which entered the Central American qualifying round were drawn into two groups of three teams. Based on the FIFA World Ranking (as of 29 March 2019), the six teams were distributed into three pots, with top seeds assigned to each group prior to the draw, as follows:


2020 CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Championship qualification, Central America
Matches were played between 4–8 October 2019. Group winners qualified for 2020 CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Championship.


2020 CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Championship qualification, Central America, Group A
All matches will be held in Costa Rica. Times are local, UTC–6.


2020 CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Championship qualification, Central America, Group B
All matches were held in Panama. Times are local, UTC–5.


2020 CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Championship qualification, Caribbean
The Group A and B matches were played between 30 September – 8 October, and the Group C matches were played between 3–7 October 2019. Group winners qualified for 2020 CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Championship.


2020 CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Championship qualification, Caribbean, Group A
All matches were held in Trinidad and Tobago. Times are local, UTC−4.


2020 CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Championship qualification, Caribbean, Group B
All matches were held in Jamaica. Times are local, UTC−5.


2020 CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Championship qualification, Caribbean, Group C
All matches were held in Puerto Rico. Times are local, UTC−4.


2020 CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Championship squads
The 2020 CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Championship is an upcoming international football tournament that will be held in the United States between 28 January to 9 February 2020. The eight national teams involved in the tournament are required to register a squad of 20 players, including three goalkeepers. Only players in these squads were eligible to take part in the tournament.


2020 CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Championship squads
A provisional list of players was published CONCACAF on 10 January 2020, with a maximum of 50 players per national team. From the preliminary squad, the final list of 20 players per national team was submitted to CONCACAF by 21 January, one week prior to the opening match of the tournament. Teams are permitted to make late replacements in the event of serious injury, at any time up to 24 hours before their first match, where the replacement players are required to be from the preliminary squad.


2020 CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Championship squads
The age listed for each player is on 28 January 2020, the first day of the tournament. The numbers of caps and goals listed for each player do not include any matches played after the start of the tournament. The club listed is the club for which the player last played a competitive match prior to the tournament. A flag is included for coaches who are of a different nationality than their own national team.


2020 CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Championship squads, Group A, Haiti
The final squad was announced on 18 January 2020. Tabita Joseph and Angeline Gustave withdrew injured and were replaced respectively by Maudeline Moryl and Gaëlle Dumas on 27 January 2020.


2020 CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Championship squads, Group B, Jamaica
The final squad was announced on 16 January 2020. However, midfielder Chyanne Dennis was later replaced by Sydney Schneider due to the requirement of three goalkeepers in the squad.


2020 CONCACAF Women's U-17 Championship
The 2020 CONCACAF Women's U-17 Championship was originally to be the 7th edition of the CONCACAF Women's U-17 Championship, the biennial international youth football championship organised by CONCACAF for the women's under-17 national teams of the North, Central American and Caribbean region. The tournament was originally scheduled to be held in Mexico between 18 April and 3 May 2020. However, on 19 March 2020, CONCACAF announced the decision to postpone the tournament due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with the new dates of the tournament to be confirmed later.


2020 CONCACAF Women's U-17 Championship
The final tournament was expanded from eight to 20 teams, using the same format as the 2019 CONCACAF U-17 Championship. The top three teams of the tournament would have qualified for the 2021 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup (originally 2020 but postponed due to COVID-19 pandemic) in India as the CONCACAF representatives. However, FIFA announced on 17 November 2020 that this edition of the World Cup would be cancelled. Following this announcement, CONCACAF decided on the same day that the 2020 CONCACAF Women's U-17 Championship, which served as the regional qualifiers, would be cancelled.


2020 CONCACAF Women's U-17 Championship, Qualified teams
The qualifying format has changed since the 2018 edition, and the teams are no longer divided into regional zones.


2020 CONCACAF Women's U-17 Championship, Qualified teams
The 41 CONCACAF teams were ranked based on the CONCACAF Women's Under-17 Ranking as of 2018. A total of 32 teams entered the tournament. The highest-ranked 16 entrants were exempt from qualifying and advanced directly to the group stage of the final tournament, while the lowest-ranked 16 entrants had to participate in the qualifying stage, where the four group winners advanced to the round of 16 of the knockout stage of the final tournament.


2020 CONCACAF Women's U-17 Championship, Draw
The draw for the group stage took place on 9 May 2019, 11:00 EDT (UTC−4), at the CONCACAF Headquarters in Miami. The 16 teams which entered the group stage were drawn into four groups of four teams. Based on the CONCACAF Women's Under-17 Ranking, the 16 teams were distributed into four pots, with teams in Pot 1 assigned to each group prior to the draw, as follows:


2020 CONCACAF Women's U-17 Championship, Squads
Players born on or after 1 January 2003 are eligible to compete. Each team must register a squad of 20 players, two of whom must be goalkeepers.


2020 CONCACAF Women's U-17 Championship, Group stage
The top three teams in each group advance to the round of 16, where they are joined by the four teams advancing from the qualifying stage.


2020 CONCACAF Women's U-17 Championship, Group stage
The ranking of teams in each group is determined as follows (Regulations Article 12.8):


2020 CONCACAF Women's U-17 Championship, Knockout stage
In the knockout stage, if a match is level at the end of 90 minutes, extra time is played, and if still tied after extra time, the match is decided by a penalty shoot-out (Regulations Article 12.13).


2020 CONCACAF Women's U-17 Championship, Knockout stage, Semi-finals
Winners would have qualified for 2021 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup.


2020 CONCACAF Women's U-17 Championship, Knockout stage, Third place match
Winner would have qualified for 2021 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup.


2020 CONCACAF Women's U-17 Championship qualifying stage
The 2020 CONCACAF Women's U-17 Championship qualifying stage will take place between 21–25 August 2019. The teams will compete for four of the 20 berths in the 2020 CONCACAF Women's U-17 Championship final tournament.


2020 CONCACAF Women's U-17 Championship qualifying stage
Players born on or after 1 January 2003 are eligible to compete.


2020 CONCACAF Women's U-17 Championship qualifying stage, Teams
The qualifying format has changed since the 2018 edition, and the teams are no longer divided into regional zones.


2020 CONCACAF Women's U-17 Championship qualifying stage, Teams
The 41 CONCACAF teams were ranked based on the CONCACAF Women’s Under-17 Ranking as of 2018. A total of 32 teams entered the tournament. The highest-ranked 16 entrants were exempt from qualifying and advanced directly to the group stage of the final tournament, while the lowest-ranked 16 entrants had to participate in the qualifying stage, where the four group winners advanced to the round of 16 of the knockout stage of the final tournament.


2020 CONCACAF Women's U-17 Championship qualifying stage, Draw
The draw for the group stage took place on 9 May 2019, 11:00 EDT (UTC−4), at the CONCACAF Headquarters in Miami. The 16 teams which entered the qualifying stage were drawn into four groups of four teams. Based on the CONCACAF Women's Under-17 Ranking, the 16 teams were distributed into four pots, as follows:


2020 CONCACAF Women's U-17 Championship qualifying stage, Qualifying stage
The winners of each group qualify for the final tournament, where they enter the round of 16 of the knockout stage.


2020 CONCACAF Women's U-17 Championship qualifying stage, Qualifying stage
The ranking of teams in each group is determined as follows (Regulations Article 12.4):


2020 CONCACAF Women's U-17 Championship qualifying stage, Qualifying stage, Group A
Matches are played at the Estadio Olímpico Metropolitano, San Pedro Sula in Honduras. All times are local, CST (UTC−6).


2020 CONCACAF Women's U-17 Championship qualifying stage, Qualifying stage, Group B
Matches are played at the Truman Bodden Sports Complex, George Town in Cayman Islands. All times are local, EST (UTC−5).


2020 CONCACAF Women's U-17 Championship qualifying stage, Qualifying stage, Group C
Matches are played at the Wildey Turf, Wildey in Barbados. All times are local, AST (UTC−4).


2020 CONCACAF Women's U-17 Championship qualifying stage, Qualifying stage, Group D
Matches are played at the Ergilio Hato Stadium, Willemstad in Curaçao. All times are local, AST (UTC−4).


2020 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship
The 2020 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship was the 10th edition of the CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship, the biennial international youth football championship organized by CONCACAF for the women's under-20 national teams of the North, Central American and Caribbean region. The tournament was held in the Dominican Republic between 22 February and 8 March 2020.


2020 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship
The final tournament is expanded from eight to 20 teams, using the same format as the 2019 CONCACAF U-17 Championship. The top two teams of the tournament would have qualified for the 2021 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup (originally 2020 but postponed due to COVID-19 pandemic) in Costa Rica as the CONCACAF representatives, along with Costa Rica who would have automatically qualified as hosts. The U-20 Women's World Cup was initially to be co-hosted with Panama, but they backed out from co-hosting due to COVID-19 concerns, due to having the highest cases and deaths in the region. The fourth CONCACAF team to qualify, which would have initially been Panama, was not confirmed. However, FIFA announced on 17 November 2020 that this edition of the World Cup would be cancelled.


2020 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship
Mexico were the defending champions but was defeated by United States in the final.


2020 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship, Qualified teams
The qualifying format has changed since the 2018 edition, and the teams are no longer divided into regional zones.


2020 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship, Qualified teams
The 41 CONCACAF teams were ranked based on the CONCACAF Women's Under-20 Ranking as of 2018. A total of 26 teams entered the tournament. The highest-ranked 16 entrants were exempt from qualifying and advanced directly to the group stage of the final tournament, while the lowest-ranked 10 entrants had to participate in the qualifying stage, where the four group winners and runners-up advanced to the round of 16 of the knockout stage of the final tournament.


2020 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship, Qualified teams
On 13 January 2020, CONCACAF announced that Costa Rica and Panama, who had automatically qualified for the 2021 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup as hosts, would no longer participate in the 2020 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship. As a result, the following changes to the tournament were made:


2020 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship, Draw
The draw for the group stage took place on 19 April 2019, 11:00 EDT (UTC−4), at the CONCACAF Headquarters in Miami. The 16 teams which entered the group stage were drawn into four groups of four teams. Based on the CONCACAF Women's Under-20 Ranking, the 16 teams were distributed into four pots, with teams in Pot 1 assigned to each group prior to the draw, as follows:


2020 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship, Draw
Following the exclusion of Costa Rica and Panama from the tournament, their vacated positions in the group stage were replaced by Guyana and Saint Kitts and Nevis respectively. Furthermore, the vacated positions in the round of 16 of Guyana and Saint Kitts and Nevis were replaced by Bermuda and Barbados respectively.


2020 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship, Squads
Players born on or after 1 January 2000 are eligible to compete. Each team must register a squad of 20 players, two of whom must be goalkeepers.


2020 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship, Match officials
CONCACAF announced the appointment of the match officials on 14 February 2020.


2020 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship, Group stage
The top three teams in each group advance to the round of 16, where they are joined by the four teams advancing from the qualifying stage.


2020 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship, Group stage
The ranking of teams in each group is determined as follows (Regulations Article 12.8):


2020 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship, Knockout stage
In the knockout stage, if a match is level at the end of 90 minutes, extra time is played, and if still tied after extra time, the match is decided by a penalty shoot-out (Regulations Article 12.13).


2020 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship, Goalscorers
There were 198 goals scored in 39 matches, for an average of 5.08 goals per match.


2020 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship, Qualified teams for FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup
The following three teams from CONCACAF would have qualified for the 2021 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup before the tournament was cancelled, including Costa Rica who would have qualified automatically as hosts. The fourth CONCACAF team to qualify for the 2021 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup, which would initially have been co-hosts Panama (which had pulled out of hosting), was not confirmed.


2020 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship, Awards
The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament.


2020 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship qualifying stage
The 2020 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship qualifying stage took place between 13–21 July 2019. The teams competed for four of the 20 berths in the 2020 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship final tournament.


2020 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship qualifying stage
Players born on or after 1 January 2000 are eligible to compete.


2020 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship qualifying stage, Teams
The qualifying format changed from the 2018 edition, and the teams were no longer divided into regional zones.


2020 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship qualifying stage, Teams
The 41 CONCACAF teams were ranked based on the CONCACAF Women’s Under-20 Ranking as of 2018. A total of 26 teams entered the tournament. The highest-ranked 16 entrants were exempt from qualifying and advanced directly to the group stage of the final tournament, while the lowest-ranked 10 entrants participated in the qualifying stage, where the two group winners and the two group runners-up advanced to the round of 16 of the knockout stage of the final tournament.


2020 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship qualifying stage, Draw
The draw for the qualifying stage took place on 19 April 2019, 11:00 EDT (UTC−4), at the CONCACAF Headquarters in Miami. The 10 teams which entered the qualifying stage were drawn into two groups of five teams. Based on the CONCACAF Women's Under-20 Ranking, the 10 teams were distributed into five pots, as follows:


2020 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship qualifying stage, Qualifying stage
The winners and runners-up of each group qualified for the final tournament, where they will enter the round of 16 of the knockout stage.


2020 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship qualifying stage, Qualifying stage
The ranking of teams in each group is determined as follows (Regulations Article 12.4):


2020 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship qualifying stage, Qualifying stage, Group A
Matches were played at the Synthetic Track and Field Facility, Leonora in Guyana. All times are local, AST (UTC−4).


2020 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship qualifying stage, Qualifying stage, Group B
Matches were played at the Warner Park Sporting Complex, Basseterre in Saint Kitts and Nevis. All times are local, AST (UTC−4).


2020 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship squads
This is a list of the squads for the 2020 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship in Dominican Republic between February 22 and March 8, 2020. The 16 national teams involved in the tournament were required to register a squad of 20 players each; only players in these squads were eligible to take part in the tournament.


2020 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship squads
Players marked (c) were named as captain for their national squad.


2020 CONIFA World Football Cup
The 2020 CONIFA World Football Cup would have been the fourth edition of the CONIFA World Football Cup, an international football tournament for states, minorities, stateless peoples and regions unaffiliated with FIFA organized by CONIFA. Somaliland were originally announced as the tournament host, but were forced to withdraw as hosts in August 2019. It was later announced that the tournament would be held in Skopje, the capital city of North Macedonia, with no CONIFA member as designated host. However, on 23 March 2020 CONIFA announced that the tournament would not be taking place in North Macedonia from 30 May – 7 June because of the coronavirus pandemic. The Tournament was eventually cancelled by CONIFA with the organisation outlining plans to expand continental tournaments.


2020 CONIFA World Football Cup, Host selection
In January 2019, at the CONIFA Annual General Meeting in Krakow, Poland, it was announced that Somaliland had been selected to act as the host for the 2020 CONIFA World Football Cup. In August 2019 CONIFA announced that Somaliland had given up hosting rights for the 2020 ConIFA World Football Cup without naming a replacement. Kernow had subsequently bid to host the tournament. In December 2019 CONIFA announced that the tournament would be held in Skopje, the capital city of North Macedonia with no CONIFA member as designated host.


2020 CONIFA World Football Cup, Qualification
CONIFA assigns the number of berths for each continent according to the percentage of CONIFA members that come from that continent. Europe has 4 berths, including one for the winners of the 2019 CONIFA European Football Cup. Asia and Africa both have 3, and North America, South America and Oceania have one berth each. Additionally, one berth is reserved for a wild card team. Kárpátalja, the defending champions, qualified automatically. Originally, Somaliland qualified automatically as hosts, but the tournament has since been moved to North Macedonia and no CONIFA member is hosting, so it was unclear whether Somaliland has still qualified.


2020 CONIFA World Football Cup, Qualification
Not all CONIFA members entered qualification, and in the continents of Africa and South America, an equal number of teams entered compared to the number of berths available, so all entrants from those continents qualified automatically.


2020 CONIFA World Football Cup, Controversy
The decision by CONIFA to originally host the 2020 World Football Cup in Somaliland was met with criticism by some, with James Scott, the president of Parishes of Jersey FC, telling the Jersey Evening Post that he would not accept the place at the final tournament if his side won the Atlantic Heritage Cup. The comments were met with a backlash from CONIFA, who criticised inaccurate reporting and defended the decision to host the World Football Cup in Somaliland. The competition was later moved to North Macedonia after Somaliland had hosting rights revoked by CONIFA.


2020 CONIFA World Football Cup, Postponement and cancellation
On 22 March 2020, members of the CONIFA Executive Committee made the decision that the tournament would not be taking place in North Macedonia from 30 May – 7 June 2020 due to the COVID-19 emergency being seen across the world. On 29 April 2020 the CONIFA Executive Committee announced through its social media channels that the competition was cancelled, with no rescheduling, and the organisation outlining plans to expand continental competitions in the future by redirecting funding from the 2020 World Football Cup from sponsors Sportsbet.io.


2020 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament
The 2020 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament was the 13th edition of the CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament, the quadrennial, international, age-restricted football tournament organised by the Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol (CONMEBOL) to determine which men's under-23 national teams from the South American region qualify for the Olympic football tournament.


2020 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament
In August 2018, CONMEBOL announced the return of the South American Pre-Olympic Tournament in 2020 with Colombia as the host country, after a 16-year absence. The last edition of this competition had been held in Chile in 2004. From the 2008 through the 2016 Summer Olympics, the two teams from South America were determined by the South American Youth Football Championship, always held in the previous year. The tournament was held from 18 January through 9 February 2020.


2020 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament
The top two teams qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics men's football tournament in Japan as the CONMEBOL representatives. Argentina successfully defended their title won 16 years ago, and qualified for the Olympics together with runners-up Brazil, the defending Olympic champions.


2020 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament, Venues
Colombia was announced as host of the tournament at the CONMEBOL Council meeting held on 14 August 2018 in Luque, Paraguay. On 28 August 2019, Pereira, Armenia, and Bucaramanga were announced as the host cities.


2020 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament, Squads
Players born on or after 1 January 1997 were eligible to compete in the tournament.


2020 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament, Draw
The draw of the tournament was held on 5 November 2019, 19:00 COT (UTC−5), at the Auditorium of the Colombian Football Federation in Bogotá, Colombia. The ten teams were drawn into two groups of five. The hosts Colombia and Brazil as the current Olympic champions and best CONMEBOL team in the FIFA World Rankings as of October 2019 were seeded into Group A and Group B, respectively, and assigned to position 1 in their group, while the remaining eight teams were placed into four "pairing pots" based on their FIFA World Rankings as of October 2019 (shown in brackets). The positions of these eight teams within their groups were also defined by draw.


2020 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament, Draw
The draw was led by Hugo Figueredo, CONMEBOL's Director of Competitions, with the collaboration of Daniela Montoya, a member of the Colombia women's national football team, and former Colombian footballer Iván Valenciano.


2020 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament, Match officials
On 4 December 2019, CONMEBOL announced that the CONMEBOL Referee Commission had appointed 12 referees and 20 assistant referees for the tournament. Referees Guillermo Guerrero from Ecuador and Alexis Herrera from Venezuela as well as the assistant referee Byron Romero from Ecuador, who were not included in the initial list of officials, were summoned to officiate in the two matches of the final stage's last matchday.


2020 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament, First stage
The top two teams of each group advanced to the final stage.


2020 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament, First stage
The ranking of teams in the first stage was determined as follows (Regulations Article 8):


2020 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament, Final stage
The ranking of teams in the final stage was determined using the same criteria as the first stage, taking into account only matches in the final stage (Regulations Article 8).


2020 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament, Goalscorers
There were 75 goals scored in 26 matches, for an average of 2.88 goals per match.


2020 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament, Qualified teams for Summer Olympics
The following two teams from CONMEBOL qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympic men's football tournament.


2020 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament squads
The 2020 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament was an international association football tournament held in Colombia from 18 January to 9 February 2020. The ten national teams involved in the tournament were required to register a squad of 23 players; only players in these squads are eligible to take part in the tournament.


2020 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament squads
As the tournament will not held during the FIFA International Match Calendar, clubs were not obligated to release the players.


2020 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament squads
All registered players had to have been born on or after 1 January 1997. The age listed for each player is on 18 January 2020, the first day of the tournament. Players marked in bold have been capped at full International level.


2020 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament squads
On 10 January 2020, CONMEBOL published the lists of the ten teams.


2020 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament squads, Group A, Colombia
The 23-man squad was announced on 27 December 2019. On 13 January 2020, midfielder Juan Pablo Ramírez was replaced by Johan Carbonero due to an injury.


2020 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament squads, Group A, Venezuela
The 23-man squad was announced on 31 December 2019. On 6 January 2020, Miguel Silva replaced goalkeeper Joel Graterol who was not released by his team América de Cali. On 16 January, Brayan Palmezano was replaced by Yeferson Soteldo due to an injury.


2020 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament squads, Group A, Ecuador
The 23-man squad was announced on 23 December 2019. On 10 January 2020, Johan Mina replaced midfielder Jhojan Julio due to an injury. On 12 January, it was announced that the squad was reduced to 22 players because midfielder Jonathan Perlaza was not released by his new team Querétaro.


2020 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament squads, Group A, Argentina
The 22-man squad was announced on 15 December 2019. On 4 January 2020, a 23-man final squad was announced with some modifications. Facundo Mura was added to the squad whilst Lucas Robertone withdrew injured and was replaced by Gastón Togni, moreover, Maximiliano Centurión and Nazareno Colombo were called up to replace Leonel Mosevich and Lautaro Valenti who were not released by their teams Nacional and Lanús respectively. On 15 January, Carlos Valenzuela was replaced by Juan Brunetta due to an injury.


2020 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament squads, Group B, Brazil
The 23-man squad was announced on 16 December 2019. On 27 December, Douglas Luiz, Gabriel Martinelli, Emerson, Gabriel and Wendel were replaced by Douglas Augusto, Bruno Tabata, Dodô, Nino and Pepê respectively. Three other changes to the squad were announced on 3 January 2020, Douglas Augusto, Ayrton Lucas and Roger Ibañez were replaced by Maycon, Iago and Bruno Fuchs respectively. All these modifications were made because the replaced players were not allowed by their teams to take part in the tournament. On 16 January, Walce was replaced by Ricardo Graça due to an injury.


2020 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament squads, Group B, Paraguay
The 23-man squad was announced on 27 December 2019. On 3 January 2020, Sergio Bareiro was called up to replace Sebastián Ferreira who was not released by his team Monarcas Morelia.


2020 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament squads, Group B, Uruguay
The 23-man squad was announced on 29 December 2019. On 10 January 2020, defender Emiliano Ancheta was replaced by Jonathan González due to an injury.


2020 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament squads, Group B, Peru
The 23-man squad was announced on 3 January 2020. On 15 January, Kluivert Aguilar was called up to replace Franco Medina who withdrew injured.


2020 COSAFA Cup
The 2020 COSAFA Cup was supposed to be the 20th edition of the COSAFA Cup, an international football competition consisting of national teams of member nations of the Council of Southern Africa Football Associations (COSAFA).


2020 COSAFA Cup
In January 2020, it was announced that Durban, South Africa would be the host city.


2020 COSAFA Cup
The tournament ended up being postponed, and finally cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa.


2020 COSAFA U-20 Cup
The 2020 COSAFA U-20 Cup was the 27th edition of the COSAFA U-20 Challenge Cup, an international youth football tournament open to national associations of the COSAFA region. It took place between 3 December and 13 December in Nelson Mandela Bay, South Africa. Initially planned to be hosted by Mauritius, the competition was later shifted to South Africa after Mauritius withdrew as hosts due to the COVID-19 regulations. The matches were played at Port Elizabeth (Wolfson Stadium and Gelvandale Stadium).


2020 COSAFA U-20 Cup
The tournament was also the first qualifying round for the U-20 World Cup in Indonesia in 2021 as the finalists were qualified for the 2021 Africa U-20 Cup of Nations, played in Mauritania where the semi-finalists will see themselves qualify for the World Cup.


2020 COSAFA U-20 Cup, Draw
The draw was made in Nelson Mandela Bay on the 2nd of November. Last year's top nations were seeded into one group each and the rest of the teams were placed in 2 pots depending on last year's performance. From the first pot, teams were drawn and slotted consecutively into groups A, B, and C. The last team from pot 1 was then placed among the pot 2 teams to make them 5. Now the teams from the second pot were drawn and slotted consecutively into groups A, B, and C resulting that group C ended up with one less team.


2020 COSAFA U-20 Cup, Group stage
The group stage will be played in 3 groups as a round-robin, where the group winners and the best runner up will advance to the semi-finals.


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


2020 COSAFA Under-17 Championship
The 2020 COSAFA Under-17 Championship is the 9th edition of the COSAFA U-17 Championship, a football tournament organized by the Council of Southern Africa Football Associations (COSAFA) involving teams from Southern Africa for players aged 17 and below. The tournament is also the qualifier for the 2021 Africa U-17 Cup of Nations, which in turn is the qualifier for the 2021 FIFA U-17 World Cup and will be played on November 19–29 in Nelson Mandela Bay and the two finalists of the tournament will be representing COSAFA in the Africa U-17 Cup of Nations. Initially, it was planned to be played in Malawi in July but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. After the first four games, (2 in each group), the tournament was re-started as four teams (Comoros, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Eswatini) were disqualified for using over-aged players.


2020 COSAFA Under-17 Championship, Participating teams
Last year's runners-up Mozambique were meant to be the 9th nation to participate, but in the end 8 of the 14 COSAFA teams entered to compete for this year's trophy. After the first round of games four teams were expelled due to cheating, namely:


2020 COSAFA Under-17 Championship, Qualification for CAF Cup of Nations
The two finalists of the tournament will qualify for the 2021 Africa U-17 Cup of Nations. Qualified nations:


2020 COSAFA Under-17 Championship, COSAFA-La Liga partnership
South Africa's Mduduzi Shabalala and Zambia's Joseph Banda was selected by the Technical Study Group to be traveling to Spain for a LaLiga development experience, where they will get the opportunity to observe the football life in Spain and train with a local team. The duo become the first players along with their two counterparts from 2020 COSAFA Women's U17 Championship to get this opportunity on account of the new formalization of the partnership between COSAFA and La Liga to boost Southern African football


2020 COSAFA Under-17 Championship, Disqualification
Prior the tournament, CAF scanned all players with MRI, to make sure that everyone was eligible for the age-category. In the tournament regulations there is stated that the scanning will take place and a team that have players that do not pass the eligibility test will be disqualified and sent home as soon as possible. The test that is used world wide to measure eligibility for U17 tournaments focus on bone fusions in the wrist that are unlikely (with 99% accuracy rate) to appear before the age of 17.


2020 COSAFA Under-17 Championship, Disqualification
Comoros, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Eswatini, were all found to have one or more players too old to participate in the tournament whereby the teams were disqualified. Because of this, it was decided to re-start the tournament with the other four teams and regard the already played games as warm-up for the tournament without any result value. The tournament were decided to be played as a round-robin where the top two qualify for the final (as well as the 2021 Africa U-17 Cup of Nations) and the bottom two qualify for the bronze medal game.


2020 COSAFA Under-17 Championship, Original draw
The teams were on the 2nd of November drawn from 2 different pots, as the top-seeded teams were placed in one group each. After drawing the first two teams from pot 1 the last team were put together with the teams from pot 2 to draw the last two teams to each group.


2020 COSAFA Women's Championship
The 2020 COSAFA Women's Championship is the eighth edition of the COSAFA Women's Championship, an women's international football tournament for national teams organised by COSAFA, teams from Southern Africa. It takes place from 3 to 14 November in the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality, South Africa.


2020 COSAFA Women's Championship, Participants
Nine of the fourteen COSAFA member took take part in the competition. Tanzania from the CECAFA region entered as guests. Eswatini and Lesotho entered late because of uncertainety due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Namibia withdrew on 21 October 2020. The draw then was held on 22 October 2020.


2020 COSAFA Women's Championship, Group stage
The group stage is composed of three groups of four teams each. Group winners and the best runner-up amongst all groups advance to the semi-finals. As Group A has 4 teams, the results against the bottom-placed team in this group are not counted towards the best runner-up calculation.


2020 COSAFA Women's Championship, Goalscorers
There were 64 goals scored in 15 matches, for an average of 4.27 goals per match.


2020 COSAFA Women's Championship squads
This article lists the squads for the 2020 COSAFA Women's Championship, the 8th edition of the COSAFA Women's Championship. The tournament is a women's international football tournament for national teams organised by COSAFA, teams from Southern Africa, and was held in Nelson Mandela Bay from 3 to 14 November 2020. In the tournament were involved ten national teams: nine teams from COSAFA and Tanzania, who were invited as guests. Each national team registered a squad of 20 players.


2020 COSAFA Women's Championship squads
The age listed for each player is on 3 November 2020, the first day of the tournament. The numbers of caps and goals listed for each player do not include any matches played after the start of tournament. The club listed is the club for which the player last played a competitive match prior to the tournament. The nationality for each club reflects the national association (not the league) to which the club is affiliated. A flag is included for coaches that are of a different nationality than their own national team.


2020 COSAFA Women's Championship squads, Group A, South Africa
A provisional 27-woman squad was announced on 15 October 2020. The final squad was announced on 28 October 2020.


2020 COSAFA Women's Championship squads, Group B, Lesotho
The final squad was announced on 28 October 2020. On 30 October 2020, Litšeoane Maloro was ruled out due to an ankle injury and was replaced by Maseeiso Mphubelu.


2020 COSAFA Women's Championship squads, Group B, Malawi
A provisional squad was announced on 24 October 2020. The final squad was announced on 3 November 2020.


2020 COSAFA Women's Championship squads, Group B, Zambia
A 28-woman provisional squad was announced on 25 September 2020. The final squad was announced on 1 November 2020.


2020 COSAFA Women's Championship squads, Group C, Botswana
A provisional squad was announced on 16 October 2020. The final squad was selected prior to the tournament.


2020 COSAFA Women's U17 Championship
The 2020 COSAFA Women's U17 Championship was the second edition of the COSAFA U-17 Women's Championship. The tournament took place in Nelson Mandela Bay, South Africa on November 4–14.


2020 COSAFA Women's U17 Championship, Participants
All 14 COSAFA nation's U17 teams as well as Reunion were allowed to enter the tournament, out of which four finally participated. Tanzania was invited as a guest team for this tournament.


2020 COSAFA Women's U17 Championship, Group stage
The group stage is played in a round-robin where all 5 teams play once against each other and where the top two teams advance to the final.


2020 COSAFA Women's U17 Championship, COSAFA-La Liga partnership
South Africa's Jessica Wade (also awarded best player of last years tournament) and Zambia's Tisilile Lungu(also scored 3 goals at last years tournament) was selected by the Technical Study Group to be traveling to Spain for a LaLiga development experience, where they will get the opportunity to observe the football life in Spain and train with a local team. The duo become the first players to get this opportunity on account of the new formalization of the partnership between COSAFA and La Liga to boost Southern African football.


2020 COSAFA Women's U17 Championship, Changes due to COVID-19
The tournament was originally planned to be played in Mauritius on April 17–26, with 8 participating nations, but in March COSAFA decided to postpone. Other than the four COSAFA nations finally participating, Mauritius, Botswana, Eswatini, and Malawi was set to play the tournament. When the new plan was set for the tournament to be played in South Africa in November, Tanzania had been invited and six teams should be divided into two groups where the winners and runners-up should advance to the semi-finals. After Botswana's withdrawal, as many of their players had lost time in school and were set to write exams, the five-team group was finally employed.


2020 CS Budapest Trophy
The 2020 CS Budapest Trophy was held in October 2020 in Budapest, Hungary. It was part of the 2020–21 ISU Challenger Series. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, and ice dance.


2020 CS Budapest Trophy
On September 10, 2020, the Hungarian National Skating Federation released the Hungarian government's COVID rules to which foreign competitors were required to adhere in order to gain entry to the country.


2020 CS Budapest Trophy, Entries
The International Skating Union published the list of entries on September 29, 2020.


2020 CS Cup of Tyrol
The 2020 CS Eva u. Horst Faber Cup of Tyrol was scheduled to be held in November 2020 in Innsbruck, Austria. It was part of the 2020–21 ISU Challenger Series. Medals would have been awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dance.


2020 CS Cup of Tyrol
The Austrian Challenger event was initially announced as the Inge Solar Trophy. Although pair skating was not part of the original program, it was added after two of the originally scheduled Challenger events including pairs were cancelled.


2020 CS Cup of Tyrol
Unlike the previous Challenger events, several non-European skaters were included on the preliminary entry list.


2020 CS Cup of Tyrol
On November 3, the event was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Austria.


2020 CS Cup of Tyrol, Entries
The International Skating Union published the list of entries on October 30, 2020.


2020 CS Nebelhorn Trophy
The 2020 CS Nebelhorn Trophy was held in September 2020 in Oberstdorf, Germany. It was part of the 2020–21 ISU Challenger Series. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dance.


2020 CS Nebelhorn Trophy
On August 25, 2020, the German Ice Skating Union confirmed that Nebelhorn Trophy would be held as scheduled, but without spectators and would include extensive social distancing guidelines and procedures for the athletes and coaches in attendance. Originally scheduled as the fourth event in the 2020–21 Challenger Series, Nebelhorn Trophy became the first to officially proceed as scheduled, after cancellations and postponements of the preceding events due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 CS Nebelhorn Trophy
Filipino ladies' singles skater Alisson Krystle Perticheto, whose hometown is in Switzerland, was the only skater on the preliminary entry lists to represent a non-European nation.


2020 CS Nebelhorn Trophy, Entries
The International Skating Union published the list of entries on September 1, 2020.


2020 CS Warsaw Cup
The 2020 CS Warsaw Cup was scheduled to be held in November 2020 in Warsaw, Poland. It was part of the 2020–21 ISU Challenger Series. Medals would have been awarded in the disciplines of men's and ladies' singles.


2020 CS Warsaw Cup
On October 10, 2020, the Polish Figure Skating Association released information for competitors regarding traveling to Poland during the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 CS Warsaw Cup
As with the prior two Challenger events, only European skaters were entered for the event.


2020 CS Warsaw Cup
The ice dance portion of the event was cancelled on November 6. The event was cancelled entirely on November 10, after a large number of withdrawals in men's singles significantly reduced the number of countries.


2020 CS Warsaw Cup, Entries
The International Skating Union published the list of entries on October 14, 2020.


2020 CW
2020 CW is a tiny near-Earth asteroid of the Apollo group, approximately 1 meter (3 ft) in diameter. It was first observed by the Mount Lemmon Survey on 1 February 2020, when it passed Earth very closely at a nominal distance of only 0.041 lunar distances (0.000105 astronomical units). The object's orbital elements remain highly uncertain.


2020 CW, Description
2020 CW passed within 15,660 kilometres (9,730 mi) of the Earth on 1 February 2020, with a fly-by speed of 21.2 kilometres (13.2 mi) per second. The household-appliance-sized asteroid passed within the orbit of satellites in the geostationary ring at 35,900 kilometres (22,300 mi) above Earth's equator. At the time, it was the closest approach in the year 2020. Since then, 2020 JJ made a closer approach on 4 May 2020.


2020 CW, Description
The asteroid was first observed 1 February 2020 by the Mount Lemmon Survey at Mount Lemmon Observatory in the Santa Catalina Mountains northeast of Tucson, Arizona. The next encounter closer than the Moon is predicted to occur 5 February 2029 at a distance of 19,040 kilometres (11,830 mi) or more.


2020 Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race
The 2020 Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race was a road cycling race that was held on 2 February 2020 in Geelong, Australia. It was the sixth edition of the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race and the second event of the 2020 UCI World Tour.


2020 Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race
The race was won in a two-up sprint by Dries Devenyns of the Deceuninck–Quick-Step team, ahead of Team Ineos rider Pavel Sivakov, with Mitchelton–Scott's Daryl Impey finishing third for the third year in succession.


2020 Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race, Teams
Sixteen teams entered the race, which consisted of fifteen of the nineteen UCI WorldTeams, along with an Australian national team. Each team submitted seven riders, except for Bahrain–McLaren and CCC Team, which each entered six, and AG2R La Mondiale, which only entered five. Of the starting peloton of 108 riders, 95 finished.


2020 Cadillac Grand Prix of Sebring
The 2020 Cadillac Grand Prix of Sebring was a sports car race sanctioned by the International Motor Sports Association (IMSA). The race was held at Sebring International Raceway in Sebring, Florida on July 18, 2020. This race was the third round of the 2020 WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, and the second round of the 2020 WeatherTech Sprint Cup.


2020 Cadillac Grand Prix of Sebring
The race was won by the #31 team of Pipo Derani and Felipe Nasr, while the LMP2 class victory was taken by Patrick Kelly and Spencer Pigot, who were awarded the win after the #81 entry was disqualified for failing to meet drive time limits. The GTLM class was won by the #4 entry for Tommy Milner and Oliver Gavin, while Jack Hawksworth and Aaron Telitz secured their second consecutive class victory in GTD.


2020 Cadillac Grand Prix of Sebring, Background
The race was just the second for the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship after returning from the pandemic-induced hiatus. The race was added to the schedule in May due to said pandemic, becoming the second race of the season at Sebring alongside the rescheduled 12-hour race. Similarly to the previous round at Daytona, a limited number of fans were announced to be allowed into the track for the event. In late June, Cadillac was announced as the title sponsor of the event. The race marked the beginning of the LMP2 overall championship, as their only previous race (the 24 Hours of Daytona) counted for the Michelin Endurance Cup exclusively. Similarly, the GTD class only scored points towards the WeatherTech Sprint Cup in this race, not the overall GTD championship.


2020 Cadillac Grand Prix of Sebring, Background
On July 10, 2020, IMSA released the latest technical bulletin regarding Balance of Performance for the race. However, no changes were made to any cars taking part in the event.


2020 Cadillac Grand Prix of Sebring, Background, Entries
A total of 29 cars took part in the event, up from 26 cars in the previous round, thanks in part to the inclusion of the LMP2 class which was absent from the Daytona race. There were 8 cars in the DPi class, 8 cars in the LMP2 class, 6 cars in the GTLM class, and 10 cars in the GTD class. The DPi field was unchanged in terms of entries from the previous event, although Felipe Nasr returned after missing the previous race due to testing positive for COVID-19. Stephen Simpson also replaced Chris Miller in the #85.


2020 Cadillac Grand Prix of Sebring, Background, Entries
Patrick Kelly replaced Simon Trummer in the #52 due to travel restrictions, and Gustavo Menezes was announced to run in the #81, making his first IMSA start since 2018. The two Meyer Shank Racing Acuras were absent from the event due to the round only scoring points towards the WeatherTech Sprint Cup.


2020 Cadillac Grand Prix of Sebring, Qualifying, Qualifying results
Pole positions in each class are indicated in bold and by .


2020 Caen municipal election
The 2020 Caen municipal election took place on 15 March 2020 in conjunction with the first round of the 2020 French municipal elections throughout the country.


2020 Caen municipal election, Declared candidates, Lutte Ouvrière
The Lutte Ouvrière party list was led by Pierre Casevitz in Caen.


2020 Caen municipal election, Declared candidates, La France Insoumise
The La France Insoumise party list was led by Philippe Velten.


2020 Caen municipal election, Declared candidates, Caen en commun
The Left-wing list Caen en commun was led by Aurélien Guidi.


2020 Caen municipal election, Declared candidates, Europe Ecology - The Greens, Citoyens à Caen, Community Party & Cap21
The Europe Ecology – The Greens party list was led by Rudy L'Orphelin.


2020 Caen municipal election, Declared candidates, The Republicans
On 28 August 2018, incumbent Mayor Joël Bruneau announced that he was running for re-election as a member of The Republicans. His list was supported in 2020 by La République En Marche, the Union of Democrats and Independents and the Democratic Movement.


2020 Caen municipal election, Declared candidates, National Rally
The National Rally list in Caen was led by Isabelle Gilbert.


2020 Cagua fire
On 23 January 2020, a fire was started in the Agrícola del Lago reed bed in Cagua, Aragua state, Venezuela. Eleven people were confirmed to have died as a result of the fire, all but two being minors.


2020 Cagua fire, Fire
The fire started in Cagua on 23 January 2020, around 13:00 local time (VET), at the  Agrícola del Lago reed bed sugarcane plantation, located in a popular extraction zone in the La Carpiera sector, in Cagua, Aragua state. The fire was under control by 22:00 but the authorities maintained a watch on it. Firefighter units from Aragua, Cagua and the Forestry Unit, state civil defense officials, rescue groups, as well as park rangers and Corposalud Aragua participated in the operation.


2020 Cagua fire, Fire
At 21:50 an official from the fire department declared that the incident was a "vegetation fire" that had started in the afternoon. Aragua's governor, Rodolfo Clemente Marco Torres, stated that investigations were under way to clarify the circumstances, and Douglas Rico, director of the Scientific, Penal, and Criminal Investigation Service Corps (CICPC), declared that officers had been deployed for the investigation.


2020 Cagua fire, Fire
Reports from the rescue teams initially indicated that the fire had claimed ten victims. The following day, Attorney General Tarek William Saab announced that at least eleven people died, nine of them minors, and announced that he had formed a commission headed by the state high prosecutor to investigate.


2020 Cagua fire, Fire
The young people who died had approached the area to hunt rabbits that were escaping from the fire, but a change in the wind direction spread the flames rapidly, and they were unable to get out of the burning plantation. According to Saab, this plantation periodically burned sugarcane in the process of harvesting.


2020 Cagua fire, Fire
A relative of the victims noted that the owners of the plantation had started the fire during the day to burn sugarcane, as customary, but stressed that these types of fires are supposed to be set during the night, when temperatures are lower and there is less risk to neighbors, and that a firebreak should be in place to control the flames; the relative also claimed that this was not the first instance of plantation owners starting a fire during the daytime without taking the recommended precautions.


2020 Cagua fire, Fire
Residents of the area criticized the municipal government for leaving local firefighters without the necessary equipment to control the fire, including tanker trucks and water, which meant that the fire took hours to bring under control. They also drew attention to the government party official for Sucre Municipality, Miriam Pardo, who had spent millions of dollars to remodel a public square during her tenure.


2020 Cagua fire, Fire
The National Assembly deputy of Aragua, Karin Salanova, declared that the children had been hunting rabbits to feed themselves due to the precarious situation they lived in, noted that there were no ambulances in the area to transfer the injured to hospital, questioned the lack of supplies in the hospital where they were taken, the Central Hospital of Maracay—whose pediatrics wing was closed—and pointed out that regional authorities did not mobilize the Armed Forces to respond to the emergency.


2020 Cagua fire, Victims
In the area where the fire took place, there were no health centers prepared for this type of emergency, which meant that the victims had to be transferred to several more distant centers in the region, including the Cagua Clinic, the Central Hospital of Maracay and San José Social Service, also in Maracay.


2020 Cagua fire, Victims
At least seven teenagers died during the fire; another two died in the Cagua Clinic and a tenth in the Central Hospital of Maracay, where one of the victims was receiving intensive care. On social media, some users posted messages asking for medical supplies to be brought to the health centers. Two twelve-year-old children were hospitalized in the intensive care unit of the Central Hospital of Maracay, in critical condition and with burns covering 30 percent of their bodies; one of them died during the night. The victims were aged between 10 and 18, with all but two being minors.


2020 Cagua fire, Victims
Juan Guaidó, Henrique Capriles, and Guaidó's presidential human rights commissioner, Humberto Prado, sent their condolences to the victims' relatives.


2020 Cairo Declaration
The 2020 Cairo Declaration, announced on June 6, 2020, was a proposed Second Libyan Civil War ceasefire drawn up in Cairo between Egypt's Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and leaders associated with the Libyan National Army, including Khalifa Haftar and Aguila Saleh. The Libyan national army's principal opposition in the civil war was the UN-recognized Government of National Accord. The declaration proposed to cease all hostilities from June 8, 2020, withdraw all foreign troops and mercenaries, and to disarm the population and hand all weapons over to the Libyan National Army, and to then hold national elections.


2020 Cairo Declaration, Background
The Libyan National Army (LNA) had been pressing for 18 months in an offensive to take the capital city of Tripoli. However, initial successes were largely undone and they were now being pressed by Government of National Accord (GNA) in multiple directions. The LNA was backed by Egypt and other Arab nations, whilst the GNA was backed by Turkey, who had recently increased its support and had begun installing a military base.


2020 Cal Poly Mustangs football team
The 2020 Cal Poly Mustangs football team represented California Polytechnic State University in the 2020–21 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Mustangs were led by 1st-year head coach Beau Baldwin and played their home games at Alex G. Spanos Stadium as members of the Big Sky Conference.


2020 Cal Poly Mustangs football team
On March 29, 2021, Cal Poly announced that it would opt out of the remainder of the 2021 spring season, citing safety issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic and numerous injuries to players.


2020 Cal Poly Mustangs football team, Previous season
The Mustangs finished the 2019 season 3–8, 2–6 in Big Sky play to finish in a tie for ninth place.


2020 Cal Poly Mustangs football team, Preseason, Polls
On July 23, 2020, during the virtual Big Sky Kickoff, the Mustangs were predicted to finish tenth in the Big Sky by both the coaches and media.


2020 Cal Poly Mustangs football team, Schedule
Cal Poly released their full schedule on September 20, 2019. The Mustangs had games scheduled against California and San Diego, which were later canceled before the start of the 2020 season.


2020 Cal Poly Mustangs football team, Schedule
Games against Northern Arizona (April 3), UC Davis (April 10), and Weber State (April 17) were canceled when the Mustangs opted out of the remainder of the season on March 29, 2021.


2020 Calabasas helicopter crash
On January 26, 2020, a Sikorsky S-76B helicopter crashed in the city of Calabasas, California, around 30 mi (48 km) northwest of Downtown Los Angeles, while en route from John Wayne Airport to Camarillo Airport. All nine people on board were killed on impact: retired professional basketball player Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter Gianna, baseball coach John Altobelli, five other passengers, and the pilot.


2020 Calabasas helicopter crash
Investigative updates published by the National Transportation Safety Board during the accident investigation state that the helicopter was not fitted with a flight data recorder (FDR) or cockpit voice recorder (CVR) nor was it required to be, there was no evidence of drug or alcohol use, and that viewable sections of the engines showed no evidence of an uncontained or catastrophic internal failure.


2020 Calabasas helicopter crash, Accident
On January 26, 2020, at approximately 9:06 a.m. PST (17:06 UTC), the 9 passengers and crew of the helicopter departed from John Wayne Airport (SNA) in Orange County, California, in a 1991 Sikorsky S-76B helicopter, registration N72EX, along with seven other people including John Altobelli (head baseball coach at Orange Coast College) and pilot Ara Zobayan. They were heading to a basketball game at Bryant's Mamba Sports Academy in Newbury Park, where Bryant was scheduled to coach Gianna's team.


2020 Calabasas helicopter crash, Accident
Flight records showed that the helicopter had flown the same journey the day before without incident to Camarillo Airport (CMA), a major general aviation airport about 20 minutes by car from Mamba Sports Academy. The previous day's flight had taken only 30 minutes; in contrast, driving from Bryant's home in Newport Beach to the academy would have taken at least 2 hours.


2020 Calabasas helicopter crash, Accident, Weather conditions
A number of video recordings of the crash area were available, and although none showed the crash itself, the sound of the helicopter and the crash was recorded. In particular, surveillance cameras installed at the Agoura Pony Baseball Fields provided overlapping coverage of the final parts of the flight path. The FAA conducted a visibility study which used frequency analysis to determine when the aircraft made the closest approach to each camera, ground-speed, engine RPM and determine likely inflight visibility by comparing video recorded during the accident period to clear-sky imagery. The report concluded that, at the moment of the accident, the estimated visibility ranges were between 1–1.5 miles (1.6–2.4 km).


2020 Calabasas helicopter crash, Accident, Weather conditions
The Los Angeles Police Air Support Division had grounded its police helicopters on the morning of January 26 due to poor visibility and low ceiling; Air Support Division rules require at least 2 miles (3.2 km) of visibility and an 800-foot (240 m) cloud ceiling. At the time that N72EX took off from SNA, visibility was 5 miles (8.0 km) with a ceiling of 1,300 feet (400 m). It was operated by Island Express Helicopters Inc. as a 14 CFR  (Part 135) on-demand passenger flight under visual flight rules (VFR).


2020 Calabasas helicopter crash, Accident, Weather conditions
Flying through clouds is possible if a pilot elects to operate under instrument flight rules (IFR), but the company's Part 135 operating certificate, issued in 1998, limited operations to on-demand VFR-only flights. Even if the company's operating certificate and rules had allowed for flying under IFR, that option could still have led to lengthy delays and detours (thereby using up any anticipated time savings) because of severe congestion in Los Angeles controlled airspace. Bryant's celebrity status would not have given the helicopter priority in that airspace.


2020 Calabasas helicopter crash, Accident, Weather conditions
According to an automated weather station, the ceiling (distance from ground to bottom of the cloud layer) at the Van Nuys Airport was 1,100 feet (340 m) above ground level. Closer to the site of the crash, the cloud top extended up to 2,400 feet (730 m) above mean sea level.


2020 Calabasas helicopter crash, Accident, Flight
Because visual flight rules prohibit a pilot from flying into or near clouds, the helicopter remained at an altitude of 700 or 800 feet (210 or 240 m) above mean sea level (amsl) while flying northwest from SNA. On most of its previous flights to Camarillo, the helicopter had turned west at Downtown Los Angeles and flown over the Santa Monica Mountains until it picked up the Ventura Freeway (US 101).


2020 Calabasas helicopter crash, Accident, Flight
On January 26, that was not an option for VFR flights because of a deep marine layer which had pushed fog from the Pacific Ocean into the Santa Monica Mountains.


2020 Calabasas helicopter crash, Accident, Flight
Instead, the helicopter continued northwest, passed over Boyle Heights near Dodger Stadium and began following the route of the Golden State Freeway (I-5); as the flight approached Glendale, pilot Zobayan requested permission from the Burbank Airport air traffic controllers to transition to following the Ventura Freeway (US 101); Burbank controllers advised him that weather conditions around the airport dictated IFR and held the helicopter circling in a holding pattern for 11 minutes starting at 9:21 a.m. (17:21 UTC) before granting it permission to proceed into the controlled airspace around Burbank Airport. The hold allowed two inbound flights to land; while holding, Burbank informed Zobayan the cloud top extended to an altitude of 2,400 ft (730 m). Burbank called Van Nuys, which was also operating under IFR, and Van Nuys advised Burbank to take Zobayan north of Van Nuys.


2020 Calabasas helicopter crash, Accident, Flight
Permission to proceed was granted at 9:32 a.m. (17:32 UTC) under special VFR, requiring the pilot to stay under 2,500 feet (760 m) altitude. The helicopter climbed to an altitude of 1,400 feet (430 m) amsl, which Zobayan confirmed with Van Nuys at 9:35 a.m. (17:35 UTC). After proceeding through the Burbank controlled airspace, the flight turned west, following the Ronald Reagan Freeway (SR 118) as it passed into the Van Nuys Airport controlled airspace; the Van Nuys controllers shortly afterward approved a turn southwest towards the Ventura Freeway (US 101) at 9:39 a.m. (17:39 UTC). Zobayan then confirmed he was still in VFR flight conditions at 1,500 feet (460 m) and acknowledged the handoff to Southern California air traffic control (SCT).


2020 Calabasas helicopter crash, Accident, Flight
SCT made its first contact with Zobayan at 9:40 a.m. (17:40 UTC), confirming the helicopter's altitude and continued operation under VFR conditions; SCT informed Zobayan that at the aircraft's current altitude and position, they would lose communication and radar contact shortly, advising him to squawk VFR until he could contact Camarillo on the radio. By 9:42 a.m. (17:42 UTC), the helicopter had started following the Ventura Freeway west, entering more hilly terrain at the western edge of the San Fernando Valley. The SCT controller was relieved by a different controller at 9:43 a.m. (17:43 UTC).


2020 Calabasas helicopter crash, Accident, Flight
At 9:44:34 a.m. (17:44:34 UTC), Zobayan advised SCT that N72EX would be climbing above the cloud cover; the relieving SCT controller asked Zobayan to identify and asked if he were requesting flight following, a tracking service that would have provided the VFR flight with continuous verbal updates on air traffic. Zobayan confirmed that he was, and in response to a question about his intentions, advised air traffic control at 9:45:15 a.m. (17:45:15 UTC) that he would level out at 4,000 feet (1,200 m); this was the last transmission made by Zobayan.


2020 Calabasas helicopter crash, Accident, Flight
As it approached higher ground, the helicopter began to climb, gaining approximately 1,000 feet (300 m) of altitude in 36 seconds. According to transponder data, the helicopter first entered a climbing turn to the left, taking a southern heading and peaking at an altitude of 2,300 feet (700 m) amsl (1,500 feet (460 m) above ground level [agl]). Eight seconds later, at about 9:45:18 a.m. (17:45 UTC) the helicopter, continuing its left turn to the southeast, started to descend rapidly.


2020 Calabasas helicopter crash, Accident, Flight
It reached a descent rate of more than 4,000 ft/min (20 m/s) and a ground speed of 160 knots (300 km/h) before it struck a hillside at an elevation of approximately 1,085 feet (331 m); the aircraft's altitude at the last recorded ADS-B signal (9:45:36 a.m.) was 1,295 feet (395 m).


2020 Calabasas helicopter crash, Accident, Impact and emergency response
The helicopter crashed and caught fire in Calabasas, California, near the intersection of Las Virgenes Road and Willow Glen Street, as reported by a 9-1-1 emergency call at 9:47 a.m. (17:47 UTC). The crash occurred on the New Millennium Loop Trail, on a hillside behind the headquarters of the Las Virgenes Municipal Water District. The hillside is public land managed by both the water district and another government agency known as the Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority,  and forms part of a small valley that also happens to be the upper end of Malibu Canyon.


2020 Calabasas helicopter crash, Accident, Impact and emergency response
The impact crater was 24 feet-by-15 feet in diameter and 2 feet deep, and the main wreckage came to rest about 127 feet away from the point of initial impact at an angle of 347° where it was consumed by fire. Much of the helicopter, cabin, cockpit and instrumentation were highly fragmented and destroyed by the impact and subsequent fire.


2020 Calabasas helicopter crash, Accident, Impact and emergency response
The helicopter came down between two groups of mountain bikers who called 9-1-1. Witnesses reported that the helicopter's engine was "sputtering" before the crash. Others reported seeing the helicopter flying into the ground at a "fairly significant rate of speed." It is unclear whether a distress call was made.


2020 Calabasas helicopter crash, Accident, Impact and emergency response
The crash started a 1⁄4-acre (1,000 m2) brush fire that was difficult to extinguish because of the presence of magnesium (which reacts with oxygen and water). Los Angeles County Fire Department firefighters responded to the scene and extinguished the fire by 10:30. The debris from the crash was scattered on steep terrain over a field estimated to extend 500 to 600 feet (150 to 180 m). Firefighters hiked to the site and paramedics rappelled from a helicopter to the scene but could not locate any survivors; all nine occupants of the helicopter were killed in the crash. Based on examinations by the Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner, all nine occupants died from blunt trauma.


2020 Calabasas helicopter crash, Victims
The following nine individuals were all killed immediately in the crash.


2020 Calabasas helicopter crash, Aircraft
Until 2015, the Sikorsky S-76B helicopter N72EX was owned by the government of the state of Illinois, which used it to transport governors and other officials. According to FAA and California Secretary of State records, the helicopter was registered to the Island Express Holding Corporation, based in Fillmore, California. The passenger compartment of the helicopter was converted from configuration seating twelve (as N761LL) to eight after the sale to Island Express.


2020 Calabasas helicopter crash, Aircraft
The aircraft did not have a flight data recorder (FDR) or cockpit voice recorder (CVR); helicopters in the U.S. are not required to carry them. Although the S-76B originally had a CVR installed, records show that Island Express removed the CVR shortly after acquiring the helicopter from the Illinois state government in March 2016. The helicopter was also not equipped with a terrain awareness and warning system (TAWS); although the NTSB recommended that all helicopters designed to carry six or more passenger seats be equipped with a TAWS after a 2004 S-76A crash, the FAA did not enforce the recommendation.


2020 Calabasas helicopter crash, Aircraft
It was not generally known in the aftermath of the crash whether Bryant had chartered the aircraft or leased it full-time. Bryant's company had begun negotiations with OC Helicopters (OCH) in 2012 or 2013 to provide on-demand charter helicopter service, requiring the use of a twin-engine helicopter and a pre-screened list of acceptable pilots; because OCH only had a single-engine helicopter, Island Express was subcontracted for Bryant's flights starting in 2015, and Zobayan became the preferred pilot. OCH had developed a business relationship with Island Express starting in approximately 2014, when OCH began subcontracting charter flights to Island Express.


2020 Calabasas helicopter crash, Reporting
The operations manager of OC Helicopters called the vice president of Island Express around 9:49 a.m., asking for the current location of the helicopter, as the flight tracking application Spidertracks had stopped tracking at 9:45 a.m. The vice president called the general manager of Island Express, who was unable to reach the pilot over VHF radio, and Island Express activated their Emergency Response Plan at 9:58 a.m. The company launched another helicopter to the site of the last tracked position from the Queensway heliport (in Long Beach) at 10:22 a.m., but the later flight was recalled at 10:27 a.m. after a crash had been confirmed at the site.


2020 Calabasas helicopter crash, Reporting
At 11:24 a.m., less than two hours after the crash, TMZ was the first news source to confirm Bryant's death. TMZ was later criticized by local law enforcement for reporting the story before the coroner's office had the opportunity to confirm the identities of the helicopter's occupants and inform their families. Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva stated, "It would be extremely disrespectful to understand that your loved one had perished and you learn [that] through TMZ."


2020 Calabasas helicopter crash, Reporting
At 2:30 p.m., the Los Angeles County Sheriff and Los Angeles County Fire Department held a joint press conference detailing initial aspects of the crash. Los Angeles County fire chief Daryl Osby confirmed the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) were on the scene investigating. A "Go Team" consisting of 18 people, including specialists and investigators from the NTSB, arrived in the evening to search for a flight recorder.


2020 Calabasas helicopter crash, Reporting
Sheriff Villanueva urged people to stay away, because people had flooded into residential neighborhoods around the crash site and the traffic was getting in the way of responders. The FAA imposed a five-mile no-fly zone around the crash site up to an altitude of 5,000 feet at the request of Bryant's wife, Vanessa, in order to protect the victims' privacy. The Medical Examiner-Coroner was able to initially remove the remains of three of the nine victims overnight.


2020 Calabasas helicopter crash, Reporting
In response to attempts at unauthorized access during the first evening after the crash, Sheriff Villanueva assigned deputies to patrol the rugged terrain on horseback and all-terrain vehicles in order to enforce a secure perimeter and prevent access by souvenir hunters. It was later reported that Los Angeles County sheriff deputies had taken and shared unauthorized graphic photos of the crash scene and were ordered by Sheriff Villanueva to delete the photographs to avoid discipline. The deletion of these photos led the Sheriff Civilian Oversight Commission to question whether that amounted to a cover-up.


2020 Calabasas helicopter crash, Reporting
It was reported the following day that the pilot was told that he was at a "too low level for flight following", which he had apparently requested, by air traffic controllers moments before the helicopter crashed into the hillside. This means that the helicopter was too low to be tracked by air traffic control, but does not necessarily mean that it was too low to fly safely.


2020 Calabasas helicopter crash, Reporting
By January 28, all nine bodies had been recovered from the crash site by the Medical Examiner-Coroner. The bodies of Kobe Bryant and three others were identified through fingerprints on January 28, and the five other bodies were identified on January 30 after DNA testing and analysis. Autopsies were conducted on January 28. By February 1, the Medical Examiner-Coroner had released most of the victims' bodies to their families, including the Bryants.


2020 Calabasas helicopter crash, Legal actions
On February 24, 2020, Vanessa Bryant, Kobe Bryant's wife and the mother of Gianna, filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Island Express, the helicopter company that was transporting the 8 passengers, as well as the heirs of the estate of the pilot, Ara Zobayan. The Mauser and Altobelli families filed suit against Island Express in April, and the Chester family followed in May. Berge Zobayan, Ara's brother, responded to the original lawsuit in May, saying that Kobe was aware of the risks and faulted the negligence of the passengers. Island Express reiterated that Bryant was aware of the risks and disavowed responsibility, calling the crash "an act of God."


2020 Calabasas helicopter crash, Legal actions
Island Express filed a cross-complaint lawsuit against two SCT air traffic controllers working for the FAA in August 2020, stating their "series of erroneous acts and/or omissions" caused the crash. That same month, Judge Virginia Keeny denied a motion filed by Zobayan's estate for a change of venue; the suit was filed in Los Angeles Superior Court and already had been assigned to a court in Van Nuys. Bryant amended her suit in September, naming OC Helicopters as an additional defendant, alleging the owner had checked and monitored weather conditions during the fatal flight.


2020 Calabasas helicopter crash, Legal actions
As many as eight Los Angeles County Sheriff deputies who had responded to the crash took or shared pictures on personal devices; when Sheriff Villanueva learned about it, he ordered the deputies to delete the photographs. Although there was no official policy prohibiting photographs at an accident, Villanueva called it "inexcusable ... To have that on top of what they've already gone through is unconscionable" and apologized to the families while calling for a state law to prohibit unauthorized photographs. Vanessa Bryant also filed suit against the sheriff's office in September 2020 over the sharing of crash scene photographs.


2020 Calabasas helicopter crash, Legal actions
California passed AB2655 on September 28, which states first responders who take unauthorized photographs of victim(s) of a crime or accident outside their job duties can be cited with a misdemeanor offense, punishable by a fine of up to US$1,000 per instance. Mauser's family filed a similar lawsuit against the sheriff's office in December. United States District Court Judge John F. Walter ruled the names of the deputies suspended for misconduct could be released to the public in March 2021, of which Vanessa Bryant revealed on March 15th of that year.


2020 Calabasas helicopter crash, NTSB investigation
A spokesperson for the National Transportation Safety Board said on January 31 that Island Express Helicopters, which owned the helicopter that crashed, was not certified to fly in foggy conditions.


2020 Calabasas helicopter crash, NTSB investigation
On January 30, the wreckage of the helicopter was transported from Los Angeles to Phoenix, Arizona, for further analysis by NTSB investigators. However, the secure perimeter remained in place around the crash site, pending removal of hazardous materials (especially jet fuel and hydraulic fluids) by a private hazmat cleanup crew under the supervision of the California Department of Toxic Substances Control.


2020 Calabasas helicopter crash, NTSB investigation
On February 7, the NTSB released an "investigative update" regarding the crash. Preliminary findings from the NTSB update show that there was no evidence of engine failure. The report indicates that "viewable sections of the engines showed no evidence of an uncontained or catastrophic internal failure" and that damage to the blades was "consistent with powered rotation at the time of impact."


2020 Calabasas helicopter crash, NTSB investigation
On June 17, 2020, the NTSB released the public docket on the crash. It contained more than 1,700 pages "of factual reports on operations, survival factors, human performance, air traffic control, and aircraft performance. The docket also includes interview transcripts, photographs, and other investigative materials."


2020 Calabasas helicopter crash, NTSB investigation
On February 9, 2021, the NTSB held a meeting to determine the probable cause of the crash. The Board concluded that Zobayan had flown into thick clouds, contrary to VFR requirements; the resulting spatial disorientation and loss of control led to the crash. Cited likely contributing causes were self-induced pressure by the pilot to complete the flight and the inadequate oversight of Island Express over its safety management process. Flying at an excessive speed for the weather conditions was also mentioned in the final report. Even if the helicopter had been equipped with a terrain awareness and warning system, it was not likely to have helped to avoid the crash due to the pilot's disorientation. The "probable cause" reads: