Will you have a Ligue 1 to 20 or 22 clubs next season? The debate is reopened. The Professional Football League must decide again this morning after the opinion of the Council of State ten days ago. The French football bodies meet by videoconference Friday morning to discuss the format again. The injunction of the Council of State was to review by June 30 the convention which sets the maximum number of clubs in Ligue 1. The main players in French football will therefore debate it.
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Amiens pleads for a Ligue 1 to 22 clubs
Bernard Jouanin, president of Amiens, and member of the board of the League of course pushes for a Ligue 1 to 22 clubs, which would allow his formation to remain in elite. For the lawyer of the Picard club, Maitre Olivier Martin, it is perfectly possible to organize this denser calendar as much as the abolition of the League Cup will release dates.
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"Playing Ligue 1 at 22 on 2020-2021 and returning to 20 clubs in the following season is a storm in a glass of water," he reacted to the microphone of Europe 1. " But it is to solve the problems we encountered in relation to these exceptional circumstances in a fairly simple way. "
But the trend is rather to maintain the format at 20 clubs. The Union of Professional Footballers is pushing for this. The decision will be taken at the federal assembly of the French Football Federation scheduled for June 26, a federation which has already allocated a league 2 to 22 clubs. If Amiens is relegated again, like Toulouse, the Picard club warns that it will continue its fight before the courts.