The Girondin club has one week to appeal the decision.
Le Monde with AFP
The Girondins de Bordeaux, relegated sportingly in Ligue 2 at the end of the 2021-2022 season, were sanctioned with an administrative demotion at the lower level in National 1, the equivalent of the third division, A Announced Tuesday the Professional Football League.
The LFP made this decision public, susceptible of appeal, after the financial examination of the Girondin club by the National Directorate of Control and Management (DNCG). The club, ownership of the businessman Gerard Lopez, has seven days to appeal from the day after the day when the decision was notified to him.
cascade setbacks
Bordeaux is in the grip of recurring financial difficulties and has not been able to reassure the DNCG, a financial gendarme of the French League. These setbacks are added to a catastrophic sports season, ended in the last place in Ligue 1, with an unprecedented relegation since 1991-1992.
These developments come a year after the arrival of Gerard Lopez at the head of the Girondins. The Hispano -Luxembourg leader had landed in the summer of 2021 as a Savior at the head of the Bordeaux club, despite a blurred image, in particular by the end of his Lille period – he had been ousted from LOSC for financial problems.
Chance of the calendar, the league announced Tuesday that the DNCG had taken “no measure” against the Lille club.