Marchisio Boateng
French LIGUE 1 will soon announce the cancellation of the 2019/20 season due to the global pandemic COVID-19.
According to sources, bosses of French football will meet next month to determine whether to void the season and decide on promotion and relegation as well as which teams can qualify for next season’s Champions League and Europa League places.
Like the other top flight leagues in Europe including England and Spain, LIGUE 1 sides had hoped to return to training in May with a view to finishing the season in June.
However France President, Emmanuel Macron is set to ban all matches taking place even behind closed doors.
The August deadline expected to be set may still allow Paris Saint-Germain to finish their Champions League campaign with the capital club already in the quarter-finals before a touted return of the competition that month.
PSG are also 12 points clear in the Ligue 1 title race and it remains to be seen whether they will be rewarded for their efforts.
Marseille and Rennes sit in the other two Champions League qualification spots, ahead of Lille and Reims in the Europa League places.
Uefa have asked leagues to come up wit their own plans to award European qualification places on “sporting merit”, meaning a full table completed on pointsper-game or even a round of play-offs.
The vast majority of clubs still have ten games left to play in addition to the Coupe de France final, between PSG and Saint-Etienne.
Nimes, Amiens and Toulouse occupy the Ligue 1 relegation spots, the latter having won just three of 28 games all season.
In Ligue 2, a tight promotion race has Lorient leading Lens before Ajaccio, Troyes and Clermont Foot sit in the three play-off positions – the top-five altogether separated by just five points.
