There will be almost no football matches next weekend and the following in Pays de la Loire. The regional league decided this Thursday morning to postpone the amateur matches scheduled for the next 10 days, until Sunday January 16 included.
This includes all regional and departmental competitions, whether they are championships or cups. Friendly matches are also canceled. All categories are concerned, as well as 7-a-side football and futsal.
On the other hand the competitions managed directly by the French Football Federation are maintained : the championships from N3, the Gambardella cup, the French women’s cup, and the national futsal cup.
“The stopping of the refreshments weighed in the balance because the clubs live on it specifies Frédéric Davy, the president of the district of Sarthe. There are also many cases of Covid, of the clubs announced to us that their workforce was affected. So there would have been difficulties to play matches, a lot of postponements, it would have been unmanageable. “
See you in 10 days
In Sarthe, only one day of district D1 was scheduled for the 16th, all the other matches planned were late matches.
The people in charge of the Loire football will meet on Monday January 17 to decide whether a new postponement is necessary or not.