Bordeaux will play in National 2 (official)

Published on August 16, 2024 at 7:56 pm – Updated on August 16, 2024 at 8:11 pm.


Thibaut Simon

It’s official now! The Girondins de Bordeaux will play next season in the National 2 competition. While the DNCG had confirmed that the club had been reduced, the Girondins had approached the CNOSF to request a settlement. This was the last chance for Gérard Lopez’s club to hope for a draft in N1. Heard this Friday morning by the CNOSF, In the end Bordeaux did not receive a settlement offer. The club will play in the fourth tier of French football next season. Terrible news for the managers, players and staff of a club that is considered an institution in the French football landscape.

What’s next for Bordeaux?

Unfortunately Bordeaux continues to sink and the coming days do not seem to improve the situation of the club. While professional players have terminated their contracts, Bordeaux had requested an exemption to lose the first games of the competitionpending an official decision. Around fifteen players returned to training, but there was growing concern at the Château du Haillan before the club contacted the CNOSF. For the staff of the club, shamefully, the end was brutal. “Most people lose their job and their passion,” said one of them. Now that the club knows what happened to him, he must bounce back and attack the competition in a few days. The Girondins will join group B of the national championship 2. The games start this Friday, August 16 with the Avranche-Les Herbiers meeting. So Bordeaux will play Niort, administratively relegated after finishing 3rd in the National championship 1 Bordeaux’s relegation could change the situation GOAL FCalso put down, but to fun. The club had applied for a draft of the National. At the moment, the competition has 17 teams, a situation that had been criticized by clubs demanding that GOAL FC be reinstated.