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Liverpool  won the 2019/2020  Premier League . The club's title was confirmed after  Chelsea  defeated second placed  Manchester City  2-1 on Thursday night. The Merseyside giants needed one victory to seal the league but City's failure to beat Chelsea means they can't are out of the title challenge. It's Liverpool's first ever Premier League victory, and the first time in 30 years that they've won a top division league title.  As the corona virus pandemic halted the season, Liverpool supporters faced the real possibility that the season could be finished early, with some suggestions that the season would be cancelled altogether. However, this wasn't the case and the Premier League has been able to resume behind closed doors without any fans in the stadiums. TIGERS SUPER SPORTS It's a particularly unusual way to win the league because, with all the measures put in place in response to the virus, the  Reds  will not be able to celebrate their ...

Juventus  bagged their ninth consecutive  Serie A  title on Sunday after a 2-0 win over  Sampdoria  that put them over the line with two matches to spare.  Cristiano Ronaldo  scored his 31st goal of the season before  Federico Bernardeschi  sealed the victory in the second half as another Scudetto is heading to  I Bianconeri . Despite Ronaldo missed a late penalty,  Maurizio Sarri 's side moved seven points ahead of second-placed Inter Milan to seal a 36th title. TIGERS UNITED The ' Scudetto ' is Sarri's first and extends a record run which  Antonio Conte  started with three titles from 2012 and  Massimiliano Allegri  continued with the following five. Sarri's team had missed the chance to wrap up the title on Thursday when the ' Old Lady ' of Italian football fell to a 2-1 defeat at  Udinese . But they made no mistake at the  Allianz Stadium  despite being pushed hard by  Claudio Ranieri 's S...

Real Madrid   clinched their first   La Liga   title in three years after they edged past   Villarreal   at an empty Alfredo Di Stefano Stadium.   Zinedine Zidane   says winning the title this season made him happier than winning the Champions League. Karim Benzema  scored between the legs of  Sergio Asenjo  and added a controversial second from a retaken penalty. In bizarre fashion,  Sergio Ramos  had rolled the first attempt for Benzema to smash in but the effort was disallowed.  Vicente Iborra  pulled one back but it did not stop Real to wrap-up their 34th Spanish title.  Zidane's side have won all 10 of their matches since Spanish football restarted in June. They head into the final day of the season with an unassailable seven-point lead over second-placed Barcelona. Behind closed doors in a 6,000-seat stadium at the club's training complex is perhaps not the stage for the grand crowning Real would have imagi...

The  Malaysian Football League  (MFL) is planning to resume the  Malaysia League  in September. However, all matches will be played behind closed doors. The season was suspended on March 16, two days before the Movement Control Order (MCO) was enforced to contain the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic. However, the September restart will also depend on the situation then. If the M-League is not allowed to resume in September, the season will be called off. Due to time constraints, the home-and-away format for the  Super League  and the  Premier League  has been scrapped. Teams will now play each other only once, meaning the champions of the Super League and Premier League will be decided after 11 rounds of matches. According to MFL plan, the Super League and Premier League will start on Sept 1 or 2 and end on Sept 26 or 27. The MFL has also changed the format of the Malaysia Cup by dropping the group stage. The 16-team competition, comprising 11 Supe...

The FA of England says that it "remains committed" to finding a way in which to conclude the season and is open to playing up until the end of June. In their recent statement issued, the governing body confirmed that there will be no professional football in England, including the Premier League , until at least April 30 as a result of the Covid-19 outbreak. Initially, fixtures in the country were suspended until the weekend of April 3-5 as a minimum , but this has been extended as the UK battles the pandemic, with more than 2,500 cases confirmed in the country. The FA released a statement on Thursday, which said: "The FA, Premier League, EFL and women’s professional game, together with the PFA and LMA , understand we are in unprecedented times and our thoughts are with everyone affected by Covid-19. With all games suspended, the Covid-19 outbreak has delayed Liverpool 's Premier League celebrations. They are currently on top of the table and need six...

The   Malaysian Football League   (MFL) and   Football Association of Malaysia   (FAM) today announced that all 2020   Malaysian League   (M-League) matches scheduled from Monday (March 16) will be postponed due to Covid-19. FAM president Datuk Hamidin Mohd Amin announced the decision at a press conference after chairing a special meeting on the Covid-19 pandemic here today. However, Hamidin said all Premier League and Super League matches for this week (Friday-Sunday) will still be played but in empty stadiums (without spectators). “The decision is taken in the interest of all players, teams and supporters involved directly with the national football arena.” The meeting was also attended by representatives from the Ministry of Health Malaysia (MOH), National Sports Council (NSC), National Sports Institute (NSI), sponsors and M-League partners. Mursyid Alharamain Hamidin, who is also MFL president, said the decision also involved other local competitions or...

Johor Darul Ta'zim  (JDT) completed their  M-League  double after defeating  Kedah  3-0 in the  Malaysia Cup  final. The Super League champions did not face much problems to tame the  Red Eagles  at the National Stadium in Bukit Jalil on Saturday. JDT  opened the scoring in the 27th minute through  Leandro Velazquez . Eight minutes later,  Safawi Rasid  doubled the lead for the  Southern Tigers . Kedah struggled to stop their opponent as they were without centreback  Renan Alves  and rightback  Rizal Ghazali  due to suspension. Syafiq Ahmad  added the third for JDT after the break to sealed their victory. It is only their second Malaysia Cup title, after winning it in 2017. JDT had also won the  Charity Shield  early in the season, before winning the  Super League  in June. Asia Sports Channel