the collapse of the National 2 confirmed, the club will play in the championship sponsor – Libération

2024-08-17 07:06:11

The six-time French champion, placed into receivership due to serious financial problems, saw his final appeal rejected on Friday August 16. He will therefore work this season in the fourth division.

The descent into hell is sealed. The French National Olympic Committee and Sports Committee (CNOSF) confirmed the reduction of the management of the Girondins de Bordeaux to Nationale 2, rejected its request for mediation, the group announced Friday August 16 in the evening. CNOSF scale “reveals the importance of the club’s debates on budget matters” more “However, this evening confirms the club’s relegation to the 2nd national championship”Write the club was released, after its hearing Friday morning.

The six-time French champion, who was transferred by management from Ligue 2 to the National in July for financial reasons, then to the National 2 after being placed in receivership by the commercial court, has taken the matter home – the right to mediate with a view to treatment in the country.

The club, owned by businessman Gerard Lopez, will not file a final appeal before the administrative court and “will now focus all his efforts on the success of his legal recovery and his reconstruction, which first and foremost includes his athletic recovery”continued press release.

Ce “The game project is mandatory with the continuation of the matches at Matmut Atlantique”The Girondin stadium, specifically the club, which this summer abandoned its professional status, terminated the contracts of its players and dissolved its training center.

The Girondins have until now paid a rent of 4.7 million euros per year – an unaffordable amount for the parliament – to use this enclosure, built in 2016 at a cost of 310 million euros Europe.

“A painful soap opera”

Owned by Bordeaux metropolis, the stadium is operated by a subsidiary of the construction groups Vinci and Fayat which focuses on “critical situation” and, in the event of bankruptcy, may make all costs to the community. For his part, the mayor of Bordeaux Pierre Hurmic deplored “The near end of this painful soap opera which reduced the Girondins de Bordeaux to the National 2” and promised to work “to see new governing bodies emerge”.

The 2-nation tournament should resume this Saturday, August 17. But the first two matches of the Girondins were postponed to another day by the federation.