Coronavirus timeline: How COVID-19 has affected football in Britain and around the globe

Here, we take a look at how the events of the past three months have panned out and the effect COVID-19 is having on football.

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22 January

Olympic women's football qualifiers moved from Wuhan to Nanjing, before later being switched to Sydney.

29 January

The home leg of the Chinese women's national team's Olympic qualification play-off against South Korea in March is switched to Sydney.

The squad were held in quarantine upon their arrival in Australia for January's qualifying group stage.

30 January

The Chinese Football Association says domestic games at all levels will be postponed due to COVID-19

4 February

Asian Champions League matches involving Chinese clubs Guangzhou Evergrande, Shanghai Shenhua and Shanghai SIPG are postponed until April.

7 February

Vietnam explains it won’t allow sports events to be hosted in February, meaning home AFC Cup group stage matches for Ho Chi Minh City and Than Quang Ninh are switched to away fixtures.

11 February

The Asian Football Confederation says preliminary stage matches of the AFC Cup are postponed until April because of travel curbs in several countries.

21 February

China's 2022 World Cup qualifiers at home to Maldives and away to Guam are moved to Thailand and will be played behind closed doors in March.

Daegu FC and Pohang Steelers home fixtures in South Korea's K-League are postponed.

23 February

Serie A matches in the northern Italian regions of Lombardy and Veneto are postponed.

Several matches in Serie B and Serie D, as well as a number of amateur and youth games, are also called off.

24 February

The start of the K-League season is postponed, with the four teams in the AFC Champions League playing matches behind closed doors.

25 February

Japan's J-League postpones all domestic games until the middle of March.

Five matches in the next round of fixtures in Italy's Serie A are ordered to be played behind closed doors.

28 February

The weekend's matches in Switzerland's top two divisions were postponed, and the World Anti-Doping Agency cancelled next month's annual symposium in the Swiss city of Lausanne.

29 February

Five Serie A matches, including Juventus' game at home to Inter Milan, that were due to be played on the weekend of 29 February and 1 March were postponed following the outbreak of the virus in Italy.

1 March

The Serie A match between Sampdoria and Hellas Verona, scheduled for 2 March, is also postponed.

2 March