Coronavirus pandemic: How it hit football finance in Africa

Qualifiers for the 2021 Afcon are on hold - and there is doubt as to whether it will even go ahead as planned FILE

Just four months into 2020, the coronavirus pandemic has swept across the planet, obliterating sports events and forcing suspensions, postponements and outright cancellations.

A sporting calendar that promised so much - including the Olympics, Africa Women's Cup of Nations, European Championships, African Athletics championship, the CHAN tournament - has instead become a series of blank weeks and months as event after event succumbed to postponements and cancellations.