By Michalis Gioulenoglou/ info@eurohoops.net
Monaco is not expected to play in any French professional league next season.
Despite the club’s plea for a re-examination of its case, according to the local newspaper “Nice-Matin” the French federation has already refused to refer the case to its chamber of appeals.
According to the report: “The CNOSF (French National Olympic and Sports Committee) applied a precedent already established in the case of the Girondins de Bordeaux football club: only new elements supplementing what had already been debated before the Appeals Chamber could be taken into account. Monaco’s new financial situation and the new project presented since then could therefore not be examined on their merits”.
In theory, the club could make an appeal to an administrative court, but according to the same report, they are not going to proceed with that.
As a result, Monaco has practically already been excluded from the French professional leagues; Saint-Quentin, which was recently relegated, will be reinstated in the Betclic Elite, the top French division, while Fos-sur-Mer would return to Elite 2, the second division.
Monaco could end up in the third division, which is a semi-professional league, or even play only at the amateur level.
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