Governing body Football Federation Australia said its board and the clubs had unanimously decided to call the season off late on Monday, with most Australian states having already banned travellers from other parts of the country.
Six rounds of regular season matches needed to be completed before the playoffs that were originally set to start in May, but the A-League is now frozen with no timetable for resumption, barring a"status assessment" set for April 22, when administrators will review the virus situation. Australia has now suspended all major sports competitions, with Australian Rules football, the National Rugby League and Super Rugby calling off their seasons in recent days.
Most A-League clubs have run at a loss for years, and Johnson declined to guarantee that all would survive the crisis or that Sydney-based expansion side Macarthur FC would be able to join the competition for the next 2020/21 season.