If someone ever comes to rescue TFC and Amiens, it will not be the FFF. Meeting in a Federal Assembly at a distance, the 3F validated the decision to keep Ligue 1 2020-21 at 20 teams by adopting at 82.33% the new agreement binding it to the Professional League (LFP) for the next four seasons.
League 1 to 22, desired for the 2020-21 fiscal year by Amiens and Toulouse, relegated at the end of this season truncated by the coronavirus, therefore has lead in the wing, despite a decision of the Council of State leaving see a widening on June 9. The highest administrative court had in fact suspended relegations on the grounds that the League had pronounced them on the basis of an expired FFF-LFP agreement, at the end of April, enjoining the football authorities to re-study the format of the Championship.
"Financial interests" prevailed over "solidarity", deplores Joannin via @ 20minutesSport https://t.co/JqEjlaB5QN
- 20 Minutes Sport (@ 20minutesSport) June 23, 2020But this had not disturbed the leaders of French football: successively, the Bureau of the League, then its Board of Directors, then its General Assembly, then finally Friday the Federal Assembly bringing together nearly 200 delegates from amateur and professional clubs , all were in favor of maintaining the downshifts on the lower floor.
Bernard Joannin will return to the Council of State
This is yet another blow for Amiens, very active in the media in recent days to advocate the expansion of the Championship, which he considers manageable on the calendar and beneficial to "the general interest of football". Picard club president Bernard Joannin said in the Assembly on Friday that he “will return to the Council of State” to contest this decision, which he says will “destroy the Amiens club, with dozens of families who will lose their employment ”.
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