This book documents the early impressions and initial responses of various stakeholders of the soccer world to the challenges of COVID-19 in 2020. It reveals how the process of confrontation, negotiation, adjustment and overcoming against such challenges necessitated and inspired novel responses and strong improvisations from soccer bodies to players, from referees to spectators, and from journalists to sponsors. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal, Soccer & Society.