On July 10, RC Strasbourg and RC Lens will also be set over their 2025-2026 season! Administratively downgraded to Ligue 2 by the DNCG, Olympique Lyonnais will go to the appeal committee next Thursday. The owner of the Gones John Textor, disputed for his catastrophic management, was dismissed from management to give way to a duo Michele Kang president of the club-Michael Gerlinger Managing Director, to whom the sum of 100 million euros-on a bank account-is now claimed.
If the Lyonnais sink in the second division, Strasbourg would then recover the direct qualification in the Europa League (allocated to the 6th of the last ranking). It is the RC Lens, 8th during the outcome in May, which would enter the Dams of the Conference League in place of the Alsatians (drawing on August 4, matches on Thursdays August 21 and 28).
Participation in the third UEFA competition is not at all in the plans of Sang et Or. The businessman club Joseph Oughourlian reduced the wing (after the folies made during the Champions League in 2023) and Pierre Sage is the new captain of the first team. After the departure of Kevin Danso in January, the other defensive crack of the Frank Haise team, Facundo Medina, was sold to OM (loan of two million euros with purchase obligation set at 18 million).
Very distant trips for the RC Lens?
On the one hand, the Conference League offers some quality opponents for the French representative (if he survives the dams), with the representatives of the Premier League, the Liga, the Bundesliga and the Serie A, which will be Nottingham Forest, Rayo Vallecano, Mainz and La Fiorentina respectively. Panathinaikos, Besiktas or Sparta Prague should also be avoided, even if the Bollaert audience would be delighted to ignite for a continental poster.
But the problem with this European Cup is that it possibly offers trips to the other end of the old continent. Even squarely in Asia. In the projections of the x account
Football meets datawe find, in addition to Icelandic and Norwegian clubs, Samsunspor, Turkish Formation of the Black Sea, Kaïrat Almaty, city east of Kazakhstan near China, or FC Noah, club of the capital of Armenia, Erevan. Not ideal for a RC Lens who will play his survival in L1.
