The 2020 season calendar was announced on 21 November 2019, with 13 rounds scheduled. The championship visited Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya (on 19 and 20 September) for the first time, and a round was due to be staged at Oschersleben – on 1 and 2 August – for the first time since . Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Losail round was postponed to an unannounced date and the Jerez, Assen, Aragon and Misano rounds were rescheduled to a later date, while the Imola and Oschersleben rounds were cancelled. As a result of updates made to the MotoGP calendar for the same reason, the French round date was also affected. Despite having already been rescheduled, the Assen round was later postponed to a to-be-determined date, along with the Donington round.