A new meeting of the Council of CONMEBOL there is room to polish the start of the continental competitions. The Copa Libertadores has a ratified date for September 15. However, From FIFA headquarters in Zurich they will notify changes regarding the South American Qualifiers.
In FIFA they took note of a health deterioration and complications in the countries due to the Coronavirus Pandemic. So so the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) postponed the qualifiers to Qatar 2022 and the AFC Asian Cup in China from 2023 to 2021. Also in CONCACAF find it difficult to play international matches in 2020.
According Double Yellow, FIFA will raise the CONMEBOL of the possibilities: or postpone the start of the qualifiers to November or directly postpone to 2021. And postponing the playoffs to next year would mean a change of formate.
In case the drastic decision suspension until next year of the Qualifiers, due to the lack of dates for the current format, The post-match system would be changed: two groups of five teams, where they would play all against all in each zone and the first two of each group qualify. The third parties would dispute the fifth place for the playoff.
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