Although still battling fiercely with the coronavirus pandemic, Singapore leads the way for Asian football with a slow and steady return to routine. Although still playing behind closed doors, they try and get creative.
As more leagues across the globe halt their operations, Australia has chose to take a different approach: Speed up and condense the schedule, so the league will finish before the coronavirus will pause all sport activities in the country.
Bhutan is almost a coronavirus free area. The kingdom that was isolated for decades is now one of the few countries that still play football, and all they want is to celebrate the first title of the season.
As the coronavirus pandemic increasingly shuts down leagues across the globe, football matches seem to be a rare commodity these days. In Brazil and Bahrain, two passionate derbies went ahead as planned, and restored some sense of normality.
Central Asia sits in a unique situation at the moment; an isolated, unaffected island of calm amid a global pandemic. Only one COVID-19 case has been reported so far in the region, and the leagues are running regularly—Asian football expert, Martin Lowe, with a unique coverage on football away of the virus panic.
