Bundesliga ready to resume on May 9
Bundesliga is now eager to return to action with plans to play spectator-free games in May, the German league could be the first to return to action since football came to a halt due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Bundesliga CEO, Christian Seifert has said that the league will be ready to return to competitive action as early as May 9, although government approval will be required before an official decision is made.
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Seifert told the press: “The Bundesliga is ready to resume, no matter whether it’s on May 9 or a later date. But it’s not up to us to find a date. The political decision makers decide.
“We have not defined an exact date today. The fact that we are even able to think about resuming games underlines the performance of the German authorities.
“It would be presumptuous for the DFL to name an exact date for the restart.”
Questions have been asked as to whether resuming football would put an unnecessary strain on medical authorities in terms of personal protection and testing equipment, to which Seifert replied: “Professional football would not even consume 0.4 percent of the available testing capacity in the country.”
