The president of Luzenac, Jerome Ducros, requests the reinstatement of the club in Ligue 2 – Foot

Jérôme Ducros, the president of the SASP de Luzenac, who won an appeal against the cancellation of the refusal of his accession to the second division decided in 2014 by the football authorities, was adamant: "The league must reintegrate us into Ligue 2."

On 1 July, the second administrative chamber of the Administrative Court of Appeal of Bordeaux annulled the judgment of the Administrative Court of Toulouse, which had ratified on 16 May 2017 the ban for the club to access League 2 decided by the League Professional Football Tournament (LFP) on August 27, 2014.

The LFP has filed "An appeal to the Conseil d'État"said the leader. "But the decision of the Court of Appeal of Bordeaux is executory and we are today a club of L2", he said. The club evolving today in Regional 1, Ducros recognized that it was currently "Without a pro player and without infrastructure" to evolve in L2.

"We'll have to discuss. Because in the end, the league must reintegrate us in Ligue 2 ", he added, indicating that he did not know "Not how was it going to happen" because it is "A case study". Jérôme Ducros put forward the case of a Portuguese club, without naming it (it is Gil Vicente), who was reinstated two years after a similar decision.

The President expected compensation

Luzenac had acquired sporting in 2014 the right to climb Ligue 2, a dream for this village of 600 inhabitants nestled on the banks of the Ariège. But the club, which had taken off with the contribution of the real estate developer Jerome Ducros Toulouse and the arrival as general manager of the world champion 98 Fabien Barthez, had then collided with the refusal of the authorities of the football for financial reasons then stadium non-compliance.

The leader, who has increased the number of appeals, admitted that he never thought of getting this reinstatement and that he expected rather "To an indemnity". On May 16, 2017, the Administrative Court of Toulouse had confirmed the decision of the board of directors of the LFP of August 27, 2014 to deny Luzenac to participate in the Championship of Ligue 2.

This court of first instance considered that the club had not "Demonstrated that it had the sports facilities required for participation in the French Ligue 2 Championship, in the absence, in particular, of a firm and irrevocable agreement to use, throughout the 2014-2015 season, the facilities from Ernest-Wallon stadium to Toulouse », the Toulouse Stadium stadium rugby.