FIRST TEAM
04/22/2021

DFL adopts two-stage quarantine measures for season finale

The Executive Committee of the DFL has adopted two-stage quarantine measures for the last three matchdays of the current 2020-21 season of the Bundesliga and Bundesliga 2. In doing so, the committee is following a recommendation by the “Sports Medicine/Special Match Operations Task Force” headed by Prof. Dr. Tim Meyer in coordination with the “Football Commission”.

''We support this decision by the DFL. At TSG, we found out last year what it is like to have infection cases in the team, so it's all the more important now to continue to act with caution and foresight. All of us in the league have worked in a very disciplined manner over the past few months to be able to play through the season despite the great challenges posed by Coronavirus. Now we should do everything in our power to make sure the last few games can take place too," says TSG press spokesman Holger Kliem.

Two steps are planned: firstly, the group of persons included in the regular PCR testing programme, comprising the professional team, coaching team and team officials, must stay solely in their home environment or on the training premises/in the stadium (“quasi quarantine”) from Monday, 3 May. This is intended to reduce contact and further minimise the infection risk and was successfully implemented in the final phase of last season after the resumption of match operations.

In the next step, from Wednesday, 12 May, the corresponding group of persons at all 36 clubs will enter a “quarantine training camp”, having undergone a PCR test with a negative result no more than 24 hours beforehand. The “quarantine training camp” is compulsory until the end of the final match of the respective club on Matchday 34 (22/23 May). Consequently, the last two matchdays of the Bundesliga and Bundesliga 2 according to the fixture list fall within this specific period.

The purpose of the ''quarantine training camp'' is to provide extra safeguards for the staging of matches. It is the clubs’ responsibility to ensure that players, coaches and training staff come into contact with no one but each other during the stated period.

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