LEAGUE 1 – the resumption of The championship of France of football will be good to 20 clubs for the season 2020-2021, as Toulouse and Amiens are officially relegated. Check out the final standings of the last season, and the schedule of games for the coming year.
[updated June 23, 2020 at 12: 05pm] The hope has been of short duration for the SC, Amiens, and Toulouse FC. For both clubs, including the Council of State had suspended the relegation of the 9th June last, asking the professional football League to review its copy, the cut, and the final fell on Tuesday, June 23 : the LFP, gathered in the general assembly, endorsed the maintenance of 20 clubs, operating this time the good legal leverage (they had to wait for the validation of the new convention LFP-FFF imposing a maximum limit of 20 teams in the championship), and, therefore, the demotion of Amiens, and Toulouse in Ligue 2 and promotion of Lorient and Lens in Ligue 1. “The General Assembly of the LFP was adopted by a majority of 74,49 % of the votes cast on the resolution proposed by the Board of Directors to maintain the format of the League 1 to 20 clubs for the season 2020/2021″, said the release”. The series may not be over as the club picard had already reported, last Friday, by the voice of its president Bernard Joannin, that he was ready to turn on “all necessary appeals before the competent courts”.
The recall of the classification of the Ligue 1 2019-2020
The League of professional football (LFP) had established, on the 30th of April last, a classification on the basis of a performance index taking into account the number of points scored from all games played for that season League 1 2019-2020, stopéée by the coronavirus. As a result, the PSG, champion, OM and Rennes qualified for the champions League, Lille for the Europa League, while the fifth and the sixth can also be expected to participate in the “small” Cup of Europe based on the outcome of the French Cup and the League Cup (if the trophy winners are already qualified for Europe via the league, they release an additional seat).
The final ranking of the season 2019 / 2020
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