The fight to maintain will end without spectators for the Greens, punished Monday by the Professional Football League (LFP) after the incidents of Saturday evening.

The meeting was interrupted twice, for more than half an hour the second time, while the group of Green Angels supporters celebrated their 30th anniversary with great blows of smoke and other fireworks.

In addition to having to play three of their last four away matches of the season, the Stéphanois will play their last home game in silence, for the 37th day, against the Champenois, on May 14 at 9:00 p.m., while waiting for be fixed on the final sanction.

This will be returned on May 18, a few days before the last day of Ligue 1, announced the LFP disciplinary committee which placed the file under investigation after an emergency meeting on Monday.

The club said it was analyzing the "appeals likely to be initiated without delay".

ASSE risks other sanctions (fine, additional behind-closed-doors matches, even withdrawal of points) which could stretch into next season, or apply from the end of May during a hypothetical barrage against a club from Ligue 2... if the club keeps its 18th place until the end of the season.

The Forez club, which is four points ahead of the first relegation player, Bordeaux (19th), and two points behind Troyes (16th) and Clermont (17th), is all the more exposed as its ultra supporters have already been talked about this season.

In addition to flares, fireworks were used at Geoffroy-Guichard on April 23, 2022 Jean-Philippe KSIAZEK AFP

The kick-off of the match against Angers had been delayed by one hour on October 22, a suspended match behind closed doors had been decided for the use of pyrotechnic devices during a match against Nantes at the end of December, and a sanction the closing of the stand for two suspended matches, for similar incidents, had been pronounced in February against the Greens.

Similar penalty for Nancy

The Disciplinary Committee has also placed another file under investigation, that of the behavior of Nancy supporters on Friday during the reception of Quevilly-Rouen in Ligue 2.

After jets of smoke and several interruptions, the meeting could not go to an end and the ASNL will be fixed on May 4 on its sanctions.

She has already recorded her relegation to National although the fate of the meeting, stopped when Nancy was down 2-0, has not yet been decided.

In the meantime, the Lorraine club, last in L2, will play its match of the 36th day behind closed doors, against Nîmes on Saturday (7:00 p.m.).

Logically, he risks losing his meeting against Quevilly-Rouen on the green carpet, and the presence of spectators for the last day against Pau, on May 14, is pending.

Nancy's meeting against Quevilly-Rouen could not be completed on Friday at the Marcel-Picot stadium after jets of smoke Jean-Christophe VERHAEGEN AFP / Archives

The 2021-2022 season of the French Championship was marred by multiple incidents in the stands, leading to an escalation of disciplinary sanctions from the authorities.

Nice thus suffered a withdrawal of a firm point in the classification after overflows including a bottle throw on the Marseillais Dimitri Payet at the end of August, like Lyon for another throw of a projectile from a spectator on the same Payet at the end of November.

But overflows also took place in Rennes, Montpellier, Lens, Angers, Bordeaux or even Brest during this tumultuous exercise.

Saturday and Sunday, the 34th day offered a sad spectacle in the stands, between a title of champion of Paris SG not celebrated by some of the ultras, persistent tensions between OL players and their supporters, or even the mistrust of Lille fans towards their team.

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