Reims win €4.7m in damages for 2015-16 relegation
January 18 – In a case dating back to the 2015-2016 season, the French Football Federation (FFF) has been ordered to pay Ligue 1 Reims €4.78 million by a local court over a relegation debacle that occurred in 2015-16.
Although Reims ended that season in the automatic relegation places, they claimed SC Bastia, who finished 10th, should have gone down instead because of the Corsican club’s dire financial situation.
Whether or not the local ruling is binding remains to be seen but in its judgement the court said that the FFF should have taken into account “financial and accounting documents produced by SC Bastia.”
It further points out that Bastia were subsequently demoted to the third tier of French football in 2017 when the club was understood to owe various enterprises around €15 million.
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