French League 1 cancelled by Prime Minister
French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe has effective immediately cancelled the 2019-20 French football season.
He was speaking at France’s unveiling plans to exit confinement in the country’s capital.
“Big sporting events will not be able to take place before September,” Philippe said. “The 2019-20 season, notably for football, will not be able to resume.”
This new decision will come as a big disappointment to clubs, players, stakeholders, sponsors, fans and other interest parties who harbored any hopes of a restart to the league.
The league was hampered by the deadly Covid-19, which decimated lots of lives all over the world and brought major events to a grand halt as a result.
Most countries around the world were badly affected as a result, China, Italy, France, USA.
The decision ends Ligue 1 and Ligue 2’s hopes of returning to training in May for a mid-June restart and puts further pressure on UEFA regarding the Champions League after Paris Saint-Germain secured their place in the quarterfinals, while Lyon lead Juventus in their round-of-16 tie.
Sadly, Ligue 1 will miss out on £175m at most following the announcement that the 2019-20 season will not be completed.
The Professional Football League (LFP) and French Football Federation (FFF) will now have to decide how to deal with the question of promotion, relegation and European qualification concerning the top three tiers of French football, as well as the potential restart of football in August.
