The Ligue 2 match between Chambly and Le Mans, scheduled for Friday evening in Beauvais in the Oise (20:00), will be played behind closed doors, announced on Tuesday the Professional Football League (LFP), faced with the intensification of the coronavirus epidemic.
“In agreement with the Prefecture of Oise, the FC Chambly Oise-Le Mans FC match counting for the 28th day of Ligue 2, scheduled for Friday March 6, 2020 at 8 pm, will be played in Beauvais behind closed doors as part of the measures taken by public authorities with regard to the coronavirus ”, explains the LFP in a press release.
A first in France
This is the first professional football match in France to see its organization changed due to the Covid-19 epidemic, which has affected 191 people in France since the end of January, three of whom have died.
The weekend’s Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 matches had in fact been kept in their initial configuration, not being considered as events involving more than 5,000 people in a closed environment and not taking place in "areas of" cluster "", as Minister of Health Olivier Véran said. This is not the case for the Chambly-Le Mans match, planned for Beauvais in Oise, the most important center of the country.
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