Italy's top football league: Serie A votes to restart play

ROME: The teams in Italy's top football league, Serie A, have voted to restart the season on June 13, pending government approvals and rules on medical protocols.

Italy's top-flight, Serie A, announced Wednesday that all 20 teams voted in favour of restarting in June — despite the handful of teams from the northern part of the country hardest hit by the coronavirus outbreak had expressed doubts about restarting the season. Four teams voted in favour of restarting June 20, but as the other 16 voted in favour of restarting for June 13.

The vote is the biggest step yet toward reopening the Serie A season suspended under the terms of Italy's ten-week-old national coronavirus lockdown. The government is still debating the measures that must be put into place in order for the season to play out the remainder of its schedule.

This is the first time league members have decided on a specific date they want to restart the season.

The final games before the lockdown were played on March 8, the day before Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte announced the country's nationwide lockdown. A total of 114 scheduled regular-season games have been left un-played. Agencies 

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