2023-08-04 17:09:00
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INTERVIEW. Jean-Baptiste Forray, author of “At the heart of the great downgrading. The lost pride of Peugeot-Sochaux”, analyzes the fall of the oldest French professional football club.
Interview by Julien Rebucci FC Sochaux-Montbéliard will lose its professional status after the decision of the Paris administrative court of August 3, 2023. © SEBASTIEN BOZON / AFP Published on 04/08/2023 at 5:09 p.m.
The ax fell for FC Sochaux-Montbéliard. The oldest French professional club (since 1928) took a step closer to filing for bankruptcy on Thursday August 3. Abandoned by its Chinese shareholder Nenking, the club hoped to obtain a stay of administrative justice to retain its professional status and its place in Ligue 2.
In vain. “We have just learned of the decision of the Paris administrative court dated August 3, 2023 which refuses to examine the FCSM’s request on the grounds that the urgency has not been demonstrated, while the Ligue 2 championship begins this Saturday, “announced Romain Peugeot, great-grandson of the club’s founder, in a press release sent in the evening to Agence France-Presse.
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