There are happy people ... and others much less. In any case, the decision of the Professional Football League comes to close a non-suspense: the board of directors of the LFP voted the official end of the Championships in Ligue 1 and Ligue 2. It thus respects the recommendations of the French government .
This truncated season offers no surprise the coronation at Paris Saint-Germain. Marseille and Rennes are the happy qualified for the Champions League, for the biggest misfortune of Lyon, 7th, which is deprived of this European qualification for the first time in 20 years.
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Amiens, 19th, and Toulouse, 20th, will be relegated to Ligue 2 while Lorient, 1st in L2, and Lens, 2nd, will be promoted.
With this decision, the LFP put an end to the last concerns of some and the ultimate hopes of others, two days after the words of the Prime Minister who announced that "the 2019-2020 season of professional sports will not be able to resume" .
"This statement is unambiguous. We had to make a firm and final decision on the current season. We have marked the end of the 2019-2020 season," confirmed Nathalie Boy de la Tour, president of the body organizer of L1, before Didier Quillot, the executive director general, reveals the classification. "These decisions are firm and solid. The Board of Directors is proof," hammered Nathalie Boy de la Tour, while some French football players spoke of the need for a vote in the General Assembly of the LFP, scheduled for May 20 .
Ninth champion title for PSG
The classification method used by the League is that which was recommended for amateur championships by Noël Le Graët, president of the French Football Federation (FFF), namely a quotient "number of points per match played".
PSG logically wins its ninth champion title, equaling Marseille, a length of the AS Saint-Etienne record (ten titles). Accompanying Paris in the Champions League, OM, a good runner, will find its part in the group stage of C1, a qualification unseen since 2013 which will do good to its finances.
For its part, Rennes, 3rd and qualified at least for the preliminary rounds of the European queen test, will have the opportunity to compete for the first time in its history.
For its part, Lille will be content with the Europa League. Nice and Reims, 5th and 6th, are also on pole for the C3, in the event that there would be no possibility of playing in the Cup finals, matches for which the "objective" is that they are organized in early August.
Marseille and Rennes, thus qualified for the Champions League, and losers, like Lyon, 7th, and deprived in the state of a European qualification for the first time in more than twenty years, according to the "final classification" revealed by the LFP in a press conference.
Ranking:
1. Paris SG (2.52 points per match)
2. Marseille (2.00)
3. Reindeer (1.79)
4. Lille (1.75)
5. Nice (1.46)
6. Reims (1.46)
7. Lyon (1.43)
8. Montpellier (1.43)
9. Monaco (1.43)
10. Strasbourg (1.41)
11. Angers (1.39)
12. Bordeaux (1.32)
13. Nantes (1.32)
14. Brest (1.21)
15. Metz (1.21)
16. Dijon (1.07)
17. Saint-Etienne (1.07)
18. Nimes (0.96)
19. Amiens (0.82)
20. Toulouse (0.46)
With AFP
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