There will be no play-offs, as claimed by Jean-Michel Aulas. The LFP, meeting this Thursday, ratified the terms of the end of the Ligue 1 championship, which a vote definitively recorded in the afternoon according to L'Équipe . According to information from Europe 1, the club presidents have looked into the different scenarios and have agreed on this season stopped on the 28th day, with a ranking in the quotient which is carried out according to the ratio between the number points taken and the number of matches played. The board of directors of the Football League must administratively validate this choice this Thursday afternoon, before a general meeting is held in early May.
PSG champion of France, Lyon big loser
If this method of calculation is confirmed, the classification would be as follows:
1. Paris
2. Marseille
3. Rennes
4. Lille
5. Nice
6. Reims
7. Lyon
Paris-Saint-Germain would thus obtain the title of champion of France. Marseille and Rennes would accompany Paris to the Champions League, and Lille would be entered next season in the Europa league. With whom ? The mystery still remains a little ...
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The last two tickets are in fact reserved for the winners of the French Cups and the League, but we don't know if they will be able to fight or when. 5th and 6th place in the championship could therefore qualify for the next C3. And in this case, with this same calculation, it would be Nice and Reims who would recover these tickets, much to the dismay of Lyon, which fails in 7th place.
Nice would even finish in front of Reims since the results of their outward and return matches are taken into account (Nice victory 2-0 and draw 1-1).
The relegated would be Amiens and Toulouse, and Lorient and Lens would join Ligue 1. These relegations must still be confirmed by the French Football Federation, which will take the decision, its leader Noël Le Graët having given the tempo throughout this crisis.