What is the situation of the national competitions in your country? Have they been suspended / stopped / resumed? If suspended, do you know if and when they will resume? If so, under what conditions?

I would like to first briefly outline the sequence of events that occurred and how the COVID-19 situation evolved. On 13 March 2020, shortly after the World Health Organization announced the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus as a global pandemic, the Bulgarian Parliament declared a state of emergency which was immediately followed by the Government’s prohibition of each and every mass sport activity. This was one of many anti-epidemic measures implemented by the Government as an attempt to contain the spread of the coronavirus.

On the very same date, and in compliance with the mandatory measures implemented by the Government, the Bulgarian Football Union (BFU) temporarily suspended all domestic...

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