According to our information, the end of the 2019-2020 season takes a new turn this Thursday with a succession of meetings of football bodies, marking the final end of the championships. This Thursday morning, the Professional Football League (LFP) learned that Canal +, the main broadcaster of the current season stopped on March 13 due to the pandemic, should terminate its contract. If BeIN sports, the other broadcaster of the current season, were to do the same in the coming hours, French football would never touch the 278 million euros of TV rights still planned.
Faced with the government's injunction (this Tuesday in the Assembly, Edouard Philippe explained: "The 2019-2020 season of professional sports, especially that of football, will not be able to resume"), the League is accelerating. According to our information, a board of directors is scheduled for this Thursday afternoon from 3 p.m. when it was initially scheduled for next week.
After an office this Thursday morning, the board of directors is about to convene a General Assembly in mid-May. Another agenda: the end of the 2019-2020 season.
The Board of Directors will set the agenda for the General Assembly this afternoon, where it will be a matter of deciding on the terms for stopping the 2019-2020 season. To date, an immense majority is focused on the freezing of the season at the 27th day, the last of L 1 disputed in its entirety.
Legislative text in preparation
The final classification of the season will thus be known after this Assembly in mid-May with undoubtedly the PSG champion of France 2020, the qualified for the Champions League (Marseille, Rennes), the other European places, the relegations (Amiens and Toulouse, with the climbs of Lorient and Lens from L 2 to L 1).
The authorities, after the Minister of sports cut professional football on Thursday on RTL and Noël Le Graët, the president of the French Federation, put pressure on the professional world in an interview with Le Télégramme to rely on the gel of the season at J27, no longer want to waste time facing the disastrous spectacle it has been offering for several weeks.
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To wait is to take the risk of exposing oneself to the most eccentric scenarios, such as the incredible idea of Jean-Michel Aulas to play 53 new games to finish the season in August.
In order to secure the classification decided by the League and to avoid numerous legal remedies, the government, through the Ministry of Sports, is preparing a legislative text allowing regulatory changes due to this case of force majeure, as indicated by L ' Team this Thursday.