Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 players and their managers will now be subject to a mandatory test 48 hours before each match, whether or not they are vaccinated, according to the new health protocol finalized on Tuesday by the Professional Football League.
The new version of the “match
organization protocol
” sent to the clubs, a document of around one hundred pages that AFP was able to consult, also modified the duration of isolation imposed on players who tested positive, according to this the new instructions from the government.
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For those who have a complete vaccination schedule, it will now be seven days (or even five if a new test is negative), against ten previously. With an incomplete vaccination schedule, isolation will last ten days, and only seven if a second test is negative in the meantime. Concretely, a vaccinated player will be able to resume training a week after his positive test, on the sidelines of the collective however and in the absence of any symptoms related to the virus. This recovery phase should last at least seven days. "
The collective resumption (training or match) is therefore at best on the 13th day for a player with a complete vaccination schedule with an early release from isolation
", specifies the document, against 18 incompressible days previously.
However, the rule relating to postponements of matches remains unchanged. In Ligue 1, a club can request the postponement of a match if it no longer has a minimum of 20 players, including a goalkeeper, on its official list of 30 declared, i.e. from 11 players affected at the same time . The L1 meeting between Angers and Saint-Etienne, initially scheduled for next Sunday, has already been postponed after the Angevin club announced the detection of 19 positive cases in its group. Doubts also arose concerning Bordeaux-Marseille on Friday, the Girondin club being particularly affected, as well as Lorient-Lille on Saturday.
Since Monday and for a period of three weeks, the stadiums have also been subject to gauges set at 5,000 people as part of the measures to curb the Covid-19 epidemic.
In its protocol amended on Tuesday, the League suspends the obligation for host clubs to grant seats up to 5% of the total capacity of their stadium to visiting supporters.
"
It is now up to each club visited to decide whether or not it wishes to provide places to the visiting club and, if so, in what proportion
", specifies the document.
