Mexico City: Mexico's professional soccer league has decided to cancel the season without crowning a champion for the first time in its history due to the uncertainty generated by the pandemic.
The league suspended play on March 15, more than two weeks after the first confirmed COVID-19 case in Mexico was announced.
WATCH: Mexico's Liga MX cancels Clausura 2020 season due to COVID-19 pandemic They said in the statement that the restrictions caused by the health emergency made it impossible to continue without putting people at risk.
Every team in the league had played 10 matches of the 18-game Clausura season when the league was shut down in March due to coronavirus pandemic, but following a meeting on Friday, the season and the Liguilla playoffs have been called off for both the women's and men's Liga MX.
"This Friday, May 22, 2020, the Extraordinary Assembly of the LIGA MX was held, taking vital decisions that allow us to ensure the health of all the people who make up the LIGA MX family and the integrity of the soccer industry," a statement from the league read.
"The time of the contingency that we are living in has caused increasing scheduling restrictions, which do not allow us to maintain competition without putting the members of this great family at risk. Therefore, in absolute unity, the Extraordinary Assembly of the Liga MX agreed to conclude in advance the 2020 Liga MX Clausura in its men's and women's branches," it added.
No champion will be crowned this season, but Leon and Cruz Azul will go into the Concacaf Champions League.
Earlier this week, Mexican football club Santos Laguna's eight players were tested positive for coronavirus.
Liga MX had said that all the players were asymptomatic and will be constantly observed while maintaining the protocols established by the federal government's Health Secretariat.
