Overview
- The CNOSF conciliator proposed on Friday to uphold the DNCG decision that excludes FC Girondins de Bordeaux from France’s national championships, a recommendation the FFF has taken note of but not yet finalized.
- The conciliator said Sparta Capital’s late deposit of €10.6 million, held under sequestration at the Caisse des Dépôts, counted as a ‘new element’ and could not overturn the DNCG’s earlier finding about missing guarantees.
- With the CNOSF opinion standing, Bordeaux faces, at best, relegation to Régional 1 and an increased chance that the commissaire to the club’s plan de continuation will ask the commercial court to resolve the plan, a step that typically precedes liquidation judiciaire.
- The club has 15 days to file an administrative challenge and plans an urgent référé to the tribunal administratif to seek suspension of the recommendation, a legal route Bordeaux’s new leadership says it will pursue.
- If liquidation occurs, the SASP’s assets and sporting rights could be sold by a liquidator or returned to regional leagues, threatening jobs, player contracts, the club’s legal identity and long-term ties to its supporters.