Excitement in France: The football is for the court thing

On promotion and relegation will not be decided in France, on the lawn, but before the court. The Conseil d'etat, a sort of French Federal administrative court, has spoken out this week against the descent of the first League clubs Toulouse and Amiens. Under the circumstances, the top French professional League will Unite the coming season, therefore, with 22 instead of 20, best riding. Because of the rise of the two best second-League clubs Lens and Lorient should have according to current situation more stock. Background of the demolition of the football season is days as a result of the Coronavirus-crisis to 28 instead of 38 game.

Christian Schubert

economic correspondent in Paris.

Three of the club had complained about it. Amiens, and Toulouse had not the right, but Lyon. The combative President of Olympique Lyonnais Jean-Michel Aulas didn't want to be content with seventh place, because the participation in international competitions, the club denied. The Freezing of the table stands is unfair, he argues. The fifth-placed nice, for example, would have had more home matches than Lyon and has played just once against the all-powerful master club Paris St. Germain. PSG and Strasbourg came just 27 games, which is why the officials for the final table stand, divided the points by the number of games. Some of the allegations were against President Emmanuel Macron: He wanted to save his favorite club Marseille, which ended as the Second, a place in the Champions League. The Elysée Palace denied immediately.

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The Conseil d'etat, a rating is not a rating of the level of damage of the three applicant associations, in its judgment, the same. It States, basically, that the descent is considerable according to a fuselage of the season, with all its open questions harder as a possible disadvantage, on the front seats. The consistency of the judges ruling are not all experts, but now it is acceptable. "I think the judgment of the Conseil d'etat is a gesture of humanity towards Toulouse, and Amiens," said the lawyer Redouane Mahrach of the sports newspaper "L'équipe".

The football officials must now answer the tricky question of how many clubs are allowed to play in the coming season to the championship. The administrative court pointed out that the current Agreement with the professional League Association and the French football Federation (FFF) to limit the top division to 20 clubs, only up to and including 30. June 2020 and, thus, not for the next season applies. The associations at the 20. In may this Agreement was extended on the upcoming season, left the court mentioned. You would continue to play with 20 clubs, one would have to disappoint the supposed intermediates. With 22 Clubs in the Ligue 1, the television would distribute, however, revenue more associations, which could ensure displeasure. The French football Federation-world, which is already characterized by many of the bickering, are difficult negotiations.