The LFP and Canal + have reached an agreement for the broadcast of the end of the 2020-2021 Ligue 1 season, on February 4, 2021.. – FRANCK FIFE / AFP
To be less numerous to share a cake of uncertain size and to play fewer matches. The transition from a Ligue 1 from 20 to 18 clubs looks like an attractive project. Finally, especially for the big teams, supported in their fight by Vincent Labrune, president of the LFP, but also by Canal +, attracted by the tempting posters, less by the anonymous shocks of the soft belly.
According to The team, this reduction of the elite will take place, but not before the 2023-2024 season. A measure delivered during the meeting of the college of Ligue 1 this Wednesday morning, after a close vote to decide if this slimming treatment should take place in one or two years.
Four relegations, two climbs
It was Labrune who would have won the decision by proposing the longest delay in order to convince the most fearful of this return to a formula that existed between 1997 and 2002.
The general assembly of the LFP should formalize the measure Thursday, the day after a meeting of Ligue 2 clubs. It will result in four relegations in L2 and two increases in L1 at the end of the 2022-2023 fiscal year.