The TAR tribunals have accepted three out of four appeals against quarantine orders on Serie A clubs, but it remains to be seen how many games will be played tomorrow amid COVID chaos.
The Lega Serie A launched an appeal to the various regional TAR (Arbitration Tribunal) courts after the ASL (local health authority) ordered Udinese, Torino, Bologna and Salernitana into quarantine conditions due to a COVID outbreak.
Serie A argued under the December 31 Government decree, those who had their vaccine within the last 120 days do not need to quarantine if they are in close contact with someone who tests positive for COVID-19.
The appeal was accepted for Udinese, Torino and Salernitana, who are now freed from their lockdown, but the TAR in Bologna stuck with the quarantine order.
It’s all very last-minute, so it remains to be seen how many Serie A games will go ahead as planned tomorrow.
There are suggestions that Torino’s game with Fiorentina could be postponed to Monday in order to give the Granata time to prepare.
They have not been allowed out of self-isolation and therefore haven’t been able to train since the order on January 5.
There were already four games called off on Thursday, namely Atalanta-Torino, Bologna-Inter, Fiorentina-Udinese and Salernitana-Venezia.
As expected, the Disciplinary Commission has marked these results ‘sub judice’, meaning they are not taking any action to impose an automatic 3-0 defeat on the teams that did not turn up because they were under quarantine.
This is because there is a legal precedent set by Napoli against Juventus from October 2020 confirming the ASL has the right to over-rule the Lega Serie A’s COVID protocol.
The new version of the Lega Serie A protocol states that as long as a team has 13 players available born after January 1 2003 and at least one of them is a goalkeeper, the game can go ahead.
Serie A, “sub iudice” per il giudice sportivo le partite rinviate per Covid#SkySport #SkySerieA #SerieA #Covid https://t.co/0rHFErk4de
— skysport (@SkySport) January 8, 2022