Unpredictable and uncontrollable situations have happened throughout history. Inevitably, such situations have an impact on various spheres of life. The coronavirus disease 2019 has affected many of them, including sports. The ban on social gatherings has caused the cancellation of many sports competitions. This paper proposes a methodology based on hierarchical cluster analysis (HCA) that can be applied when a need occurs to end an interrupted tournament and the conditions for playing the remaining matches are far from ideal. The proposed methodology is based on how to conclude the season for Serie A, a top-division football league in Italy. The analysis showed that it is reasonable to play 14 instead of the 124 remaining matches of the 2019–2020 season to conclude the championship. The proposed methodology was tested on the past 10 seasons of the Serie A, and its effectiveness was confirmed. This novel approach can be used in any other sport where round-robin tournaments exist.

在整个历史中都发生了无法预测和无法控制的情况。不可避免地，这种情况会影响生活的各个方面。2019年的冠状病毒病已影响到许多人，包括体育运动。禁止社交聚会已导致许多体育比赛被取消。本文提出了一种基于层次聚类分析（HCA）的方法，该方法可以在需要结束中断的锦标赛并且进行剩余比赛的条件远非理想时应用。拟议的方法基于如何结束意大利顶级足球联赛意甲联赛的赛季。分析表明，在结束2019-2020赛季的比赛之前，打14场而不是124场剩余比赛是合理的。所提出的方法论在意甲的过去10个赛季中进行了测试，并证实了其有效性。这种新颖的方法可以用于存在循环锦标赛的任何其他运动中。