They are going to find the elite's antechamber.
SC Bastia, victim of a bankruptcy filing and returned to the fifth division in 2017, officially returned to Ligue 2 on Wednesday after making sure to finish in one of the top two places in the National, like Quevilly -Rouen, also promoted.
The Corsican team saw this rise, the third in three seasons for the club, endorsed without playing Wednesday night, thanks to the victory of Villefranche Beaujolais in Orléans (1-3) in a late match of the 31st day.
" We are back "
Three days from the end, Bastia and Quevilly have 57 points, 11 more than Villefranche (3rd, 46 pts), who can no longer come back to the leading duo.
Orleans is fourth (43 pts) and will fight for third place, giving access to a dam against the 18th in Ligue 2.
"We are back, we are in Ligue 2", enthusiastic SC Bastia in a message in Corsican language posted on its Twitter account.
“Four years after the sporting, economic and social disaster, we find the professional world!
», Adds the club, victorious in the 1981 Coupe de France and finalist in the 1978 UEFA Cup (former name of the Europa League).
Emu straziatu ... emu suffertu ... MA L'EMU FATTU!
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4 anni dopu at a catastrophesofa spurtiva, ecunumica è suciale, ritruvemu u mondu prufessiunale!
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SIMU DI RITORNU, SIMU IN LEGA 2!
⚽️ # ÙnHèSpentaAFiamma 🔥 pic.twitter.com/yHV8gnFkcQ
- SC Bastia (@SCBastia) April 28, 2021
Faced with enormous financial problems for several years and in suspension of payments in August 2017, the Bastia club, which employed 47 employees, was placed in liquidation in September 2017 by the Commercial Court of Bastia.
The Corsican club had a debt of 21 million euros at the end of the 2016-2017 season.
Relegated sportingly to the fifth division, the club, which was taken over in August 2017 by two entrepreneurs from Bastia, Claude Ferrandi and Pierre-Noël Luiggi, then went up the slope, three consecutive sports promotions in the last three years.
In addition, in this crossing of the desert, SC Bastia was not abandoned by its supporters.
In February 2020, more than 1,000 of them had made the trip to Sedan for a top match in National 2 (0-0).
And last September, before the establishment of closed health in the face of the pandemic, some 6,000 spectators attended a match between the SCB and Boulogne-sur-Mer in National.
Same satisfaction for Quevilly-Rouen Métropole (QRM) which also goes back to L2, a division that the Normandy team had already experienced for a season in 2017-2018, before dropping down immediately.