The Bundesliga and second division of German football league will run the 2022/2023 season without a central hygiene concept, the organisers said on Thursday.
The German football league (DFL) will be doing this for the first time since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic.
The special task force which helped clubs operate matches throughout the pandemic has been replaced by a permanent working group “Medicine in professional football”.
This new group will take on the duties of the task force and supplement the medical commission of the German football federation.
It will continue to retain a focus on developments in the pandemic and potentially impact on matches, the DFL said.
But it will also consider different health and medical topics around football under the leadership of Tim Mayer from Saarland University.
Mayer headed the task force and is the Germany team doctor.
dpa
