The general assembly of the Professional Football League gave the green light on Wednesday to a League 2 championship with 22 teams and not 20 for the next season. This option, which would save Orleans and Le Mans from relegation, has yet to be validated by the French Football Federation.

The general assembly of the Professional Football League (LFP) adopted on Wednesday the principle of an enlarged Ligue 2 from 20 to 22 teams next season, we learned from sources close to the file, a decision which must still has been validated by the French federation. This decision, taken by a small majority of the general assembly according to three sources close to the deliberations, should allow Orléans and Le Mans, the last two of L2 at the time of the interruption of the season, to avoid relegation.

FFF President Wants Relegation

But it must be validated by the executive committee of the federation to be fully recorded, while the president of the FFF Noël Le Graët said he wanted promotions and relegation at all levels of French football.