De­fence Force was de­clared the win­ner of the 2019/2020 T&T Pro League yes­ter­day, af­ter a de­ci­sion by the League to take pre­ven­ta­tive mea­sures, due to the dead­ly COVID19 (coro­n­avirus) which has now reached a to­tal of nine cas­es.

Yes­ter­day the League in a re­lease said, “Giv­en the ex­ist­ing sit­u­a­tion with re­gard to the world­wide pan­dem­ic, COVID19 (coro­n­avirus), the League has tak­en the de­ci­sion to de­clare the De­fence Force Foot­ball Club the 2020 League cham­pi­ons. The de­ci­sion was tak­en in light of the fact that we will not be able to com­plete the League any­time soon. At present, we now have nine af­fect­ed cit­i­zens re­port­ed and it is more than like­ly that this will grow in num­bers over the com­ing weeks.”

It said al­so: “The League is of the view that this is the best de­ci­sion to take un­der the cir­cum­stances and ex­tends con­grat­u­la­tions to the De­fence Force Foot­ball Club. We al­so con­tin­ue to pray for our na­tion at this time.”

Cur­rent­ly the Army Coast Guard Com­bi­na­tion team leads the 11-team stand­ings with 42 points af­ter 17 match­es. They en­joy a com­fort­able sev­en-point ad­van­tage on their clos­est ri­val Ter­minix La Hor­quet­ta Rangers on 35 points in 17 games, with Point Fortin Civic, W Con­nec­tion- the mul­ti­ple times win­ners, and Mor­vant Cale­do­nia Unit­ed se­cur­ing third, fourth and fifth on the ta­ble re­spec­tive­ly.

Fi­nal Team Stand­ings 2019-2020

Teams*P*W*D*L*F*A*Pts

1. De­fence Force FC*17*13*3*1*35*17*42

2. L.H Rangers*17*11*2*4*48*18*35

3. Pt Fortin Civic*17*8*4*5*25*23*28

4. W Con­nec­tion*16*8*3*5*28*20*27

5. Mor­vant Cale­do­nia*17*6*6*5*20*23*24

6. Po­lice FC*17*6*5*6*29*22*23

7. Club San­do*18*5*6*7*28*25*21

8. Jabloteh*17*5*4*8*21*31*19

9. Cen­tral FC *18*3*5*10*18*34*14

10. AC Port-of-Spain*17*3*4*10*18*38*13

11. Cunu­pia FC*17*2*6*9*14*33*12