- Date set to restart Premiership if ‘it is safe to do so’
- Clubs this week given green light to return to training
Premiership Rugby has announced it hopes to resume the 2019-20 English top-flight rugby union season on Saturday 15 August.
The decision was taken at a board meeting on Thursday evening after this week’s announcement that Premiership Rugby clubs can return to training under Stage 1 of the process. The structure of how the remaining games in the 2019-20 season are to be played will be released at a later date.
Darren Childs, Chief Executive of Premiership Rugby said: “Nothing will happen until it is safe to do so but we will do everything we can to resume the 2019-20 Gallagher Premiership Rugby campaign on Saturday 15 August.
Written by Guardian sport
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/jun/05/premiership-rugby-to-resume-season-on-15-august under the title “Premiership Rugby sets provisional date of 15 August to resume season”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
