New ideas to end the season

Pressed by the authorities and the other sports leagues which have already acted the end of the season, the FFF takes the necessary time to try to injure as few clubs as possible.

For the moment, President Le Graët has procrastinated and consulted a lot. He has several challenges before him with a professional and an amateur world to save. The two worlds, so different, are coming together for once in many aspects, notably that of finance, which will be impacted by this epidemic.

Damage the fewest clubs, avoid legal complaints

And faced with the inevitable cessation of the various amateur championships that is looming, the FFF is reflecting on the various hypotheses to close the 2019/2020 season with championships that will not be finished. Several hypotheses are studied between taking the classification at the end of the first matches, taking it at time T …. The idea of ​​play-off between the first x is abandoned. How to explain that we play play-off matches when the championships have been stopped.

Several clubs ready in case

Furthermore, according to our information, clubs have already grouped and organized to respond judicially if they felt injured by the decision which will be retained by the FFF. This is the speech that was given to us by

A legal vacuum to fill, a new hypothesis takes over

The regulations of the FFF do not, of course, mention a case like the one we are currently experiencing. This is why the work in progress before the federation is complicated. To take the classification at the end of the first matches, is to risk that the clubs which are leaders at the moment T ask repair in justice. And conversely if the FFF takes the leaders at time T, those leaders at the truce will ask for justice to be sure.

No descent, increase the number of promoted?

In its current reflection, several clubs told us that the FFF would have already recorded the fact of not bringing anyone down. It remains to solve the climbs and there several hypotheses are studied. To avoid legal concerns, the FFF could finally rely on several elements to raise a club in the upper division:
– Raise the leading teams at the end of the first leg matches and those at the instant T: Pau and Dunkirk would go up in Ligue 2 (the question of play-offs for the third will depend on the decisions in L1 / L2), 7 teams in N1 at instead of 4 (Sedan, Bastia, Rouen, St Brieuc, Sète, Annecy and Grasse), 17 climbs in N2 instead of 12 (Hauts Lyonnais, Auxerre B, Pontivy GSI and Plabennec, Tours, Istres and Atlhetico Marseille, Sarre Union and Metz B, Feignies Aulnoye et Beauvais, Caen B, Mont de Marsan, Canet RFC, Versailles, La Roche VF and Châteaubriant Voltigeurs *)

– Assemble the teams that meet the two conditions (leader at the end of the first leg and leader at the instant T (Sète in N2, Hauts Lyonnais, Auxerre B, Tours, Caen B, Mont de Marsan, Canet RFC, Versailles)
And to complete if this is not the case, take into account the best team of the group in the particular classification (matches against the first six of the group). It would then be necessary to take a coefficient of point per match because not all clubs have the same number of matches.

The advantage of this particular classification is that it is more easily tenable legally since it is present in article 13 of the regulations of the national championships to determine the champion of all the groups, see article 11 to decide between clubs ex -equo .. Playing with groups made up of different numbers of teams is not really a problem, it has happened in the past. There would then be only more relegated in the following season.

A decision within fifteen days?

For the moment, the FFF consults in all directions in regional leagues, clubs …. President Le Graët also wants to give himself time in case the fight against the Covid-19 epidemic is resolved sooner than expected. In the meantime, the reflection continues to choose the hypothesis which will be the least bad solution for everyone but as time passes, the choice is more and more precise on the end of the season.

* Châteaubriant is second with one point behind but one game less

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