Bordeaux abandons its appeals and agrees to play in National 2

They tried everything but the axe still fell. The Girondins de Bordeaux confirmed on Friday 16 August that they would indeed play in the National 2 championship next season, after the rejection of their conciliation proposal in front of the French National Olympic and Sports Committee (CNOSF).

“Considering that it has exhausted all possible and useful remedies to try to maintain its position in National 1, the club is now focusing on the accelerated implementation of its sporting project for a 2024-2025 season that has already started”we can read in the press release distributed on social networks by the Bordeaux team. The latter specifies that it wants to continue playing its matches at Matmut Atlantique despite the relegation to the fourth division.

“FC Girondins de Bordeaux will now focus all its efforts on the success of its legal recovery and its reconstruction, which begins with its sporting recovery, an essential step in its gradual return to the elite, with a healthy financial situation allowing it to reconnect with its ambition of becoming a major club in French football.”the club continues.

The latter had remained in Ligue 2 last season, before his failed appearance before the National Management Control Directorate (DNCG), the financial watchdog of French football, which initially administratively demoted him to National 1. Faced with the extent of FCGB’s financial problems, the federal club control commission then sent him down a level. A sanction confirmed on appeal. With the National 2 season starting on Saturday 17 August, the French Football Federation had warned the Girondins’ first opponents earlier in the week that their matches would be postponed.