Administrative Court No “I will not repeat the match.” In a decision issued Thursday, the request of the former Portuguese club FC Cholet, which became Racing Club Cholet in 2022, to join the higher division (from R3 to R2) at the end of the season… 2019-20 was rejected. Training was halted midway by the French Football Federation due to the health emergency linked to the coronavirus. Ironically, this request was examined even though the club no longer had the same identity and played in R1, a division above the level in which it requested promotion…
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Point quotient method for each match
The interest in this individual case relates to the potential compensation that the FA could have claimed in the event that the FA had failed to respect sporting justice. The French Football Federation chose the “points per game” method to choose between teams that did not play the same number of matches. Thus the Portuguese were defeated by Saint-Brevin by a hundredth of a point. The judges rejected the formal defect application, without even examining the legality of the classification formula used: the club did not notify the Football Association and the Olympic Committee (CNOSF) to refer the matter to administrative jurisdiction. It is “Deemed acceptable” The final ranking approved by sports authorities.
