The Haut-Savoyard club, a collateral victim of the incidents during Bordeaux-Rodez, the sanction of which ratified its relegation, announced on Tuesday that it would sue the Ruthenian club.
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FC Annecy, under the threat of relegation to National due to the interruption of the Bordeaux-Rodez match and the loss of the match inflicted on the Girondins, announced, Tuesday, June 13, its intention to continue Rodez “for active and passive sports corruption”. The club is also proposing to increase Ligue 2 from 20 to 21 clubs next season to put a definitive end to the dispute.
“How to accept the sporting descent of a football club, under professional or amateur status, after a match stopped in the 23rd minute which does not concern it and during which, in view of the images, the player of Rodez AF, Lucas Buades, simulates a violent attack leading to the definitive end of the match and thus ensuring the maintenance of his club with the support of its leaders?attacks the Haut-Savoyard club in a press release.
Pending appeal, the sanction imposed on Bordeaux has not yet been recorded in the official classification of Ligue 2, where Rodez still appears 17th and first relegated while Annecy, 16th, is saved. But with the three points of the victory in Bordeaux, Rodez would remain in Ligue 2 while Annecy would go down next season in National, the third division of French football. A perspective that the management of the FCA refuses.
“FC Annecy cannot be the collateral victim of the shortcomings of the Girondins de Bordeaux in terms of security. Nor can it be the victim of a sporting result which was not obtained on the green square being manifestly contrary to the essential values of sports ethics.”
FC Annecy in a press releaseJune 13, 2023
The club adds that it has already commissioned its lawyer “to seize the commissions of the Professional Football League (competitions commission, legal commission) then the higher commission of appeal of the FFF and the CNOSF and finally the public prosecutor of Bordeaux against the leader of Rodez AF , the player Lucas Buades and the Rodez club for active and passive sports corruption”.
The club, which is also calling for mediation from the Minister of Sports, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, also proposes that Ligue 2 go from 20 to 21 clubs next season. “to put a definitive end to this affair which harms French football”.