The Council of State can breathe.
If the French Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 Championships do not go to the end this season, due to Covid-19 or any other reason, there is a regulation this time around.
Which should avoid the incredible palaver that occurred last spring after the end of the competitions announced by the Prime Minister at the time, Edouard Philippe, on April 30, during a statement that had knocked out the main presidents of the elite, including Jean-Michel Aulas, the boss of OL.
Lyon, Amiens and Toulouse, in particular, had thus fought to the end before the highest administrative court in France to change the final ranking retained.
PSG had then been designated champion, Marseille and Rennes had won the right to compete in the Champions League and OL had not collected any jump seat, to the chagrin of Aulas, ready for any fights.
The news went unnoticed in the middle of the episode of the Mediapro fiasco withdrawing from the audiovisual rights game, but the League's board of directors modified its texts on December 10 during a videoconference meeting.
The new regulations, which have already been adopted, distinguish between two scenarios to determine the classification in the event of further damage, depending on whether the first 19 matches have taken place or not.
“If all of the first leg matches for all clubs in the division could not be played”, the season is then blank.
“No title awarded.
No ascents and descents.
The clubs will be qualified for the European competitions 2021-2022, subject to validation by UEFA, only according to the sporting classification of the Ligue 1 season 2019-2020 ”, we read in the minutes of the meeting of 10 December.
OM have two games to go
The Ligue 1 championship is currently in this scenario since Marseille still has two games late in the first leg to play.
The second against Nice is scheduled for February 17.
As long as it has not been played, Ligue 1 will live with the specter of a white season even if this time, the public authorities have revised their judgment and let the professionals work even though the epidemic is still and sometimes running. in an uncontrolled manner.
On the other hand, if all the first matches have been held, the rules change.
The ranking is then “established by a performance index taking into account all the matches played as for the 2019-2020 season.
The titles, climbs and descents would then depend on this classification.
This is what happened on April 30, notably with the champion PSG.
“The clubs will be qualified for the European competitions 2021-2022 according to the sporting classification of the Ligue 1 season 2020-2021 and possibly the Coupe de France.
»Which for the moment has not started for the pro teams of L1 and L2.
The League has not yet ruled on the future of the playoffs and play-offs in the event of the championships being stopped, only stipulating that the decision "must be taken by June 30 at the latest".