Olivier Sadran, president of the TFC, on January 6, 2020 at the Toulouse Stadium. - Nicolas Stival / 20 Minutes

  • While the 2019-2020 Ligue 1 season will not resume, the Professional Football League (LFP) must freeze the Ligue 1 ranking. The TFC, 20th and last, would then descend to Ligue 2.
  • Toulouse President Olivier Sadran "reserves the right to file a legal appeal" against this decision.
  • Before the end of the season, the Violets had only 13 points, 14 lengths behind Nîmes, barragiste.

A Ligue 1 championship stopped, a fixed classification and a TFC relegated to Ligue 2. This is the scenario that must be ratified this Thursday by the board of directors of the Professional Football League (LFP), forced to deal with the consequences of the coronavirus epidemic. But the president Olivier Sadran warns: his club "reserves the right" to file a legal appeal if the red lantern of L1 was demoted administratively, after an early stop of the competition.

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- 20 Minutes Sport (@ 20minutesSport) April 30, 2020

"We don't know if we will do it, it's still too early to say, but we reserve the right to do it," said the boss of Les Violets, who only had 13 points after 28 days, before the suspension of the competition, March 13.

Despite a poor record of three wins for four draws and 21 defeats, combined with a 14 point outlay on Nîmes (18th and barrage), the TFC may not have given up on the L1, which he frequents continuously since 2003. With a main argument: 30 points remain at stake during the last ten days, so the Toulouse team is not mathematically doomed. Even if she remained on 18 games without a win at the time of the interruption ...

The LesViolets.com site published this Thursday a letter sent the day before by the businessman to the president of the LFP Nathalie Boy de la Tour and to the president of the Federation (FFF) Noël Le Graët. "Any unilateral decision to demote would constitute a sanction not provided for by the applicable regulations" is it written in this document. It "would be immediately challenged before the competent courts".

Invited to react by 20 Minutes , Olivier Sadran simply dropped: "It's not the content of the mail".

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