The Russian League is set to return to action on the 21st of June with fans in the stadium.
Dmitry Chernyshenko, the Russian Prime Minister, said in a press conference that the teams will each have 10% of their fans present in the stadium.
He went further to state that fans are important to the players and the game of football.
The RPL will be the first league to resume with fans in the stadium.
Currently, the German Bundesliga is the only top-flight league to have resumed and fans are not allowed in the stadium.
The Spanish La Liga, Italian Serie A, and also the English Premier League have all announced their return dates but none have said that fans will be allowed once the league restarts.
The Belarusian League is the only football league.
The Russian Premier League had been suspended since the 17th of March due to the outbreak of the Coronavirus.
Russia currently has one of the highest numbers of confirmed cases behind Brazil and the United States with over three thousand confirmed cases.
News of the return of the league comes a day after four players in Lokomotiv Moscow tested positive to COVID-19.
Earlier in the month, star player Jefferson Farfan had tested positive for the virus.
Currently, football fans and critics are beginning to wonder how the RPL will successfully pull off a return with fans in the stadium without an increased number of people with COVID-19.
However, Russia’s President, Vladimir Putin, believes that the virus has begun to ease out of the country.
Well, time would tell.
