The cleaver fell this Thursday. Heavy and brutal. The Commercial Court of Niort brought the chamois. After seven months of vain. In compulsory liquidation since last September, the club could not find the adequate solutions and means to mop its debts.
“” No transfer offer having been presented, the association no longer having a resource and not being able to cover its current charges, it is necessary for the court to end the continuation of the activity », Can we read in the legal sentence shared today by the team.
Detroded last summer in regional 3 (the eighth national level of French football), the Chamois Niortais, who will have had a season in the elite in the 80s, thus saw their affiliate number erased to the French Football Federation (FFF). A final measure which, beyond the symbolism, purely and simply confirms the disappearance of the club founded a hundred years ago, in 1925.
A club sentenced like the FC Tours
“” It is a great feeling of mess because it was a solid club, which had spent its best years in Ligue 2Dixit Guy Fleurquin, the president of the Niortais Chamois association which has been trying in recent weeks to find the 3 million euros necessary for the survival of his institution.
I hope people responsible for it will pay one day. »»
The Deux-Sèvres club has never recovered from its national relegation in 2023. Like the FC towers which experienced such a descent into hell after the loss of its professional status in 2019 and the end of which was pronounced last February. The FFF executive committee will make this sad disappearance official on April 17.
