Football: FC Sochaux will play this season in National, subject to confirmation from the FFF


FC Sochaux should most likely be out of the woods. This Thursday, the DNCG, the financial policeman of French football, gave a favorable opinion on maintaining the club in National 1 while it was under threat of filing for bankruptcy. The file presented by Jean-Claude Plessis, historic president of the club between 1999 and 2008, has visibly convinced. The decision must however be validated by the Executive Committee of the FFF.

“FC Sochaux-Montbéliard had requested from the French Football Federation its registration in the National Championship and the maintenance of its professional status”, wrote the club in a press release. “This was granted to him after the hearing held before the Professional Club Control Commission (DNCG) on Thursday August 17 and was validated by the LFP (Professional Football League, editor’s note). The FFF will decide in the next few hours”, details the press release.

“Do well in the National Championship”

This decision removes the specter of bankruptcy that once hovered over this historic French football club. “The new leaders will now work on setting up their project, with the first priority being the construction of a competitive sports team in order to do well in the National Championship, the first meeting of which for the FCSM is set for Friday 25 August on the lawn of Red Star FC”, added FC Sochaux-Montbéliard in its press release.

“It’s a great relief for all the supporters, for all the club’s employees, for the training center… Congratulations to Jean-Claude Plessis as well as to all the supporters and former players who participated in this lifting of funds. Thank you, thank you to everyone”, reacted on Europe 1 Franck Silvestre, former French international trained at the FCSM.

Ninth in Ligue 2 last season, the almost century-old club had been abandoned by its owner, the Chinese real estate group Nenking, in great financial difficulty. In July, a project led by Romain Peugeot, great-grandson of the club’s founder, was then born to try to keep the Cubs in Ligue 2. In vain, the file did not convince the executive committee of the French Football Federation (FFF), the French National Olympic and Sports Committee (CNOSF) and the Administrative Court of Paris.





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