“It’s scandalous”: why the Ile-de-France clubs are fuming against the formula of the Regional 1 championship

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2024-01-12 21:41:38

“Sportsmanship is violated. How can we decide on a climb in this way when a final would have been the pretext for a great football celebration? » After a one-month winter break, the French Amateur Championships resume this weekend. Within the Paris-Ile-de-France League, the anger of the Regional 1 clubs (R1, 6th Division) has not diminished. Quite the contrary. The reason ? The conditions for accession to National 3 (5th Division) following the overhaul of the championships.

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There will, in fact, only one rise this season and next (unlike three in recent years) in each of France’s thirteen regional leagues. A problem for that of Paris-Ile-de-France, because the R1 is made up of two groups, A and B. To define obtaining the only accession ticket, the FFF proposed last year to the Leagues having several groups in R1 to choose their mode of advancement between a final between the best of the two groups or a mini-championship between the first of each group and the teams classified from 2nd to 6th place (taking into account the results obtained against them during of the season).

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