The verdict fell and it is terrible for AC Ajaccio. Freshly climbed administratively from Ligue 2 to the National by the National Directorate of Management Control (DNCG), the Corsican club was reported this Wednesday the pure and simple exclusion of national competitions for the 2025-2026 season.
If the ACA has seven days to appeal, this sentence thus pronounced by the disciplinary cell of the French Football Federation seems to condemn the club to the abandonment of its professional status, with the constraint of leaving at amateur level, in regional 1.
After taking a tough first blow last week, the leaders of AC Ajaccio had indicated that they were giving up the French National Olympic and Sports Committee (CNOSF), for lack of means. “” The club is unable to enter the CNOSF. (…) The leaders are working to present a budget to evolve in National 1 in order to preserve professional status. »»
Too heavy deficit for ACA
Only as the DNCG attached to the Professional Football League (LFP), the financial gendarme of amateur football dependent on the FFF concluded that the ACA insolvency, which according to Corse Matin displays a deficit greater than 13 million euros.
This loss of fortune could benefit FC 93 Bobigny, which has already seized the administrative court to recover the place thus left vacant in national, as the best second 2 last season. However, the National Championship having already started, a 2025-2026 exercise to 17 teams cannot be excluded.
