Sixth in Ligue 1 and quarter finalist in the Europa League, Olympique Lyonnais will have shortly missed the possibility of living a great season, but has delivered an honorable assessment. On the other hand, if the sports situation is at least correct, the club’s economic situation is very different. Last November, Olympique Lyonnais saw the DNCG having a heavy hand.
Pinned by the financial gendarme of French football, the Rhone club had been sanctioned with a temporary demotion in Ligue 2 at the end of the season. A severe sanction for the Rhone club which easily kept in Ligue 1 on the field and was now to do it in the offices. Before presenting economic guarantees, OL was auditioned this Tuesday.
OL demoted in Ligue 2
Thus, the passage of the club held by John Textor was particularly expected and various scenarios were offered to the Gones. Either a transition to green and therefore the end of the constraints of the DNCG, or an orange fire reported by a framework of the payroll and/or transfers (which can go as far as a recruitment ban), but also a nightmarish outcome with the confirmation of the sanction last November, namely the relegation in Ligue 2.
And it is via a usual email that the DNCG communicated its decision. “As part of the examination of the situation of clubs for the 2025-2026 sports season, the professional club control commission made the following decisions in application of article 11 of the DNCG regulation: OL: Deftation in the Ligue 2 championship” ! A blow for John Textor, who had displayed his confidence at the end of the hearing. OL should appeal this decision, hoping to save its place in the elite next season. But it is clearly not the scenario that was envisaged still today …
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