CS Sedan-Ardennes will play in Regional 1 this season.
The French Football Federation remained deaf to the call of the Boars. Sanctioned by the National Management Control Department (DNCG) for a debt of 3 million euros, Sedan is no longer authorized to compete in a national championship.
The Ardennes club was challenged by the FFF despite the favorable opinion issued by the French National Olympic and Sports Committee (CNOSF) regarding the opening of a new study of its accounts. He will therefore evolve in Regional 1 – sixth level of French football – this season.
” It’s unworthy, unspeakable, disrespectfuldeplores to L’Equipe the former leader Guy Cotret, who led a project to take over the CSSA. Philippe Diallo (the president of the FFF, editor’s note) writes that our file will not be re-examined, without explanations… What is the conciliator used for? He had sent us back to the FFF, which hit us back. This means that we are going to R1. And no one cares. This represents at least 25 full-time jobs… »
Seventh in National last season, Sedan has already recovered from a bankruptcy filing in 2013. Twice winner of the Coupe de France, in 1956 and 1961, the CSSA played no less than 23 seasons in the elite.
