2023-08-01 07:59:53
The Professional Football League has noted that the next Ligue 2 season, which starts this Saturday August 5, will be played with 20 clubs, Announcement The Team. A move to 19 clubs had been considered for a time, in the event of financial concerns for training, in order to get closer to the future Ligue 2 with 18 clubs in 2024-2025. In the end, nothing will happen and the LFP has also decided that the last jump seat will be played between Sochaux and Annecy, who therefore see their destinies linked.
A “sufficient” offer for Sochaux?
The Sochaux defended Monday before the sports authorities their financial solidity, in the hope of ensuring their maintenance, after the defection of their Chinese shareholder. The historic Franche-Comté club, taken over by Romain Peugeot, great-grandson of the founder, is threatened with bankruptcy and relegation to National 3, where it would lose its professional status and its training center.
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Several sources said the 33-year-old financier’s takeover bid was “sufficient” for the maintenance in Ligue 2. A championship at the end of which Sochaux had finished 9th in the championship. Annecy, for its part, had been relegated sportingly at the end of the season, doubled by Rodez whose match against Bordeaux had been stopped after the scuffle between the Ruthénois Lucas Buades and a supporter of the Girondins. The Haut-Savoyard club had asked in an open letter to be kept in an L2 with 21 clubs, considering itself “collateral victim” of this event.
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