The Disciplinary Committee of the Professional Football League will meet on Monday to examine the incidents of the L2 match between Nancy and Quevilly-Rouen, stopped on Friday after supporters threw smoke bombs protesting against Nancy's relegation, we learned on Saturday with the League.
The match at the Marcel-Picot stadium was definitively interrupted by the referee on Friday evening in the 40th minute of play, while Quevilly, 18th and play-off, led 3-0, a score synonymous with relegation for Nancy, last in Ligue 2. The match was stopped for the first time after smoke bombs were thrown in the wake of Quevilly-Rouen's second goal (17th), from the stand behind the Lorraine goal.
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In the event of a definitive interruption of a match, the regulations of the Professional Football League provide that the file falls “within the competence of the Disciplinary Committee of the LFP”, whose next meeting, initially scheduled for Wednesday, has been brought forward. see you Monday.
Among the arsenal of possible sanctions, the commission could give Nancy a lost match on green carpet, a result which would seal the relegation of the club to National (3rd division).
Friday evening, the Lorraine club had no illusions about its fate to the point of announcing itself on Twitter that it would evolve into National next season.
Since its creation in 1967, the ASNL had never played in the third division.
The club experienced its golden age in the 1970s when, thanks to a goal from Michel Platini, the Lorraine region won the Coupe de France (1978) by beating Nice.
A victory in the Coupe de la Ligue (2006) is the second most glorious line on the record of Nancy, who have also won the second division French championship five times.
ASNL was still playing in Ligue 1 in 2017.
