OM-Toulouse - AFP

The Council of State has decided, and it could change the future of Ligue 1. Invited at the request of Olympique Lyonnais, Amiens and Toulouse to decide on the end of the season decided by the LFP, the judge of the referrals chose to cut the pear in half. Yes, it was admissible to put an end to the Ligue 1 season, but no, the LFP could not decide as such the relegation of Amiens and Toulouse, respectively 19th and 20th of Ligue 1 according to the final ranking drawn up in early May.

"The judge in chambers considers that there is no serious doubt on the legality of this decision (the end of the championship) which weighed the advantages and the disadvantages of an immediate stop of the championship, whereas a very large uncertainty affected the hypothesis of a possible restart of competitions in good time ", explains immediately the press release sent by the body, thus de facto revoking the request of Jean-Michel Aulas, the president of Lyon, to resume competition and finish the 2019/2020 season. Similarly, the Council of State "validates the terms defined by the League" to make its final ranking, which will therefore not move.

A League 1 to 22 before June 30?

On the other hand, the judge in summary proceedings decided to suspend the relegations of Amiens and Toulouse, estimating "that the board of directors of the League could not legally be founded, to decide to relegate the last two of the classification of Ligue 1 , on the fact that the current agreement with the French Football Federation (FFF) provides for a limit of twenty clubs, while this agreement ends on June 30 and that a new agreement must be signed. "

Consequently, “the judge therefore orders the Professional Football League, in conjunction with the competent bodies of the FFF, to re-examine the question of the format of Ligue 1 for the 2020-2021 season, in the light of all the elements relating to the conditions under which this season is likely to take place, and to draw the consequences as to the principle of relegation before June 30. " Clear ? See the feasibility of a League at 22 for next season. It is now the only obstacle that separates Amiens and Toulouse from a miraculous relegation.

"The club is the happiest in the world, reacted to the brink of tears Luigi Mulazzi, vice-president of Amiens. I am proud that we have this justice in France. This judgment is something normal and full of common sense. After such a judgment, I do not see how the LFP could sink further and refuse an L1 to 22. It is impossible for the LFP to go beyond a judgment of French justice. It (the league) can attack on the bottom but that does not change anything because it is enforceable. If it goes very quickly, the substance can be discussed within one, two or three months. As of today, we are in Ligue 1. There is no longer any doubt about it. We attacked and found it abnormal that we were relegated after 28 games. Trying to make clubs disappear when the championship was not over was unfair. We were victims of that and it was repaired. We do not compromise with injustice, we repair it. Hats off to the Council of State. "

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