Paris (AFP)
The Professional Football League welcomed Friday the "rejection" in emergency procedure of the appeals filed by the clubs of Lyon, Amiens and Toulouse against the decision to stop the 2019-2020 Ligue 1 season and freeze the ranking after the last day contested on March 8.
The judge of the administrative court of Paris "has logically retained, by three orders made this Friday afternoon, that the decisions of general scope taken by the League's Board of Directors on April 30 could only be challenged before the Council of State ", competent in the matter, writes the LFP in a press release.
The League decided at the end of April to end the season definitively, in accordance with government orders, and to establish a ratio of points won per match played to establish a final ranking.
With this criterion, the Lyon club ranks 7th in Ligue 1, which deprives it of any qualification for the European Cup through the Championship. Amiens (19th) and Toulouse (20th) are relegated to Ligue 2 at the end of this truncated season, where ten days remained to be played.
The three applicant clubs will now have to continue their legal combat before the Council of State which, according to the League, is "competent to hear acts of a regulatory nature taken by the authorities with national jurisdiction such as the LFP".
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