Every Friday since the mass suspension of football around the world back in March, we’ve been recommending alternatives to whet your appetite for the game. But this weekend, there are signs of life and with the number of active leagues swelling, that matches tab in your app is starting to look a little busier!
Credited with one of the best responses to the Coronavirus outbreak anywhere in the world, the Korean Republic’s authorities have allowed the delayed football season to begin with a series of protocols in place to secure the health and safety of the players and club staff.
The first game in the top flight was played today and with a world wide audience keen to sample what was likely their first taste of Korean league football, Jeonbuk – the defending champions beat Suwon Bluewings thanks to a single goal from 41-year-old legend, Lee Dong-gook.
There are five further K League 1 games across the weekend – all of which will have live score and match updates in the app and we’ll also have all the action from the country’s second division, K League 2.
To help you get to know a little more about the league, we’ve also brought in news feeds from respected sources such as K League United. And on our twitter, we gave an introduction to the really important details about each team!
?? INTRODUCING THE BETRI DEILDIN
Tomorrow, we’ll be introducing another new league to the app as the Faroe Island’s Premier League gets underway. 10 teams spread across the tiny archipelago in the North Atlantic will compete this season, in what is the 78th edition of the league.
There’s been a lot of hype for this in FotMob’s native Norway, with one of the major broadcasters showing games live and we’re proud to help raise awareness of the league across the world by bringing news from the games to you in the app.
By way of introduction, we enlisted football and travel magazine, Gløry to help us explore this new frontier.
Just because there’s another European league joining the party, it doesn’t mean that we’ll be ignoring the Belarusian Premier League, the one and only source of live football we had for a while there last month!
Surprise league leaders, FK Slutsk opened the weekend action today, but most of the attention in this round will fall on Sunday’s fixtures as the vastly improved BATE Borisov take on struggling Smolevichy and then defending champions, Dynamo Brest host fallen giants, Dinamo Minsk.
?? THE FINAL, FINAL IN NICARAGUA
With last weekend’s first leg finishing all square, it’s all to play for in tomorrow night’s 2nd leg of the Clausura play-off Final in Nicaragua.
The Primera Division’s top two, Managua and Real Estelí were separated by seven points in the regular season but apart from two goals in 5 minutes – one for each side, the opening game was a cagy affair and we’ll be hoping for more drama as the champions are decided in the Nicaraguan capital.
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