The qualification of Paris Saint-Germain for the final of the Champions League, which will take place on May 31 in Munich, against Inter Milan, is the tree which hides the French football forest. In an attempt to remove it from the crisis he is going through, the president of the FFF unveiled a new governance project on Monday on Monday.
“I have noted that the current crisis is major and structuralsaid Philippe Diallo at a press conference organized in Visio at the 3F headquarters. And since it was not easy to bring out a dialogue within the league, I took the initiative. I wish to create a commercial club of clubs (with one voice each) linked directly to the Federation, announces Diallo. We will go from an association law 1901 to a commercial company. »»
The main change would therefore concern the abolition of the professional football league. Created in 1946, this organization has so far been responsible for managing and organizing professional football competitions in France, such as Ligue 1 and Ligue 2.
Towards a French first league?
“The Federation will have a preferential action allowing it to be the guarantee of the general interest, with a veto right for example in the format of the competition, the number of climbs and descents. The FFF will also have a regulation action. A number of skills that are the responsibility of the LFP will go back to the Federation. I am thinking in particular of the DNCG ”continues the one who had been appointed head of the French Football Federation in January 2023, after the receipt of Christmas Le Graët.
Philippe Diallo's plan, re -elected last December for a new mandate, therefore seems to be a French first League. The Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 clubs would then become shareholders of a company whose other shareholders are CVC. Vincent Labrune's position in the chessboard of French football now seems to be weakened.
