The French Cycling Federation has decided to give an additional year to move up a division for teams that meet the sporting criterion at the end of the biennial.
The latest reform of the National teams introduced a sporting criterion based either on the calculation of FFC points scored by the club's best riders over a period of two years, or on the ranking of the Coupe de France (read here). The first biennial spanned 2022 and 2023. The second is underway and will end in 2025.
The modification decided by the Executive Office and adopted by the Federal Council will allow a club which meets the sporting criterion at the end of the biennial, to wait a year before validating its ticket and boarding the train, if it does not is not able to go up from the start of the biennial. He thus has one more year to complete his budget.
For example, an N3 club which met the sporting criterion to move up to N2 at the end of 2023, and which remained in N3 in 2024, can request to move up in 2025, if it meets the administrative and sporting criteria.
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