Juba Touabi, Media365, published on Tuesday November 12, 2024 at 7:40 p.m.
The Professional Football League (LFP) plans to relocate the Champions Trophy final between Paris Saint-Germain and AS Monaco, initially scheduled in China, to Doha, Qatar, in January 2025.
Scheduled to be played last August in Beijing, the meeting was canceled due to lack of authorization from the Chinese authorities. Since then, the LFP has been working to reschedule the event, and Doha now appears to be the most likely solution according to information from RMC Sport. This relocation would, however, require a rearrangement of the Ligue 1 calendar. To allow the match to take place in Qatar, the meeting between PSG and Monaco in the championship, scheduled for January 5, could be brought forward to December 18, thus freeing up a date at the start of the season. 'year. Although no final agreement has yet been reached, the Qatari capital currently represents the most realistic option to host this meeting.
The Champions Trophy is slow to be scheduled
For this edition of the Champions Trophy, PSG, which won the French championship and the Coupe de France, will face its runner-up, AS Monaco. An expected duel that the LFP initially hoped to organize in China for increased visibility. Before choosing Qatar, options in Thailand, Ivory Coast and the Democratic Republic of Congo had been explored, but were abandoned due to logistical constraints and insufficient resources.
The choice of Doha also comes within a tense financial context for the LFP, which could see it as a welcome opportunity to strengthen its economic situation, particularly in the face of the challenges linked to the redistribution of Ligue 1 television rights. Although this decision raises questions about the future and the prestige of the competition, it offers a temporary solution which would make it possible to maintain the meeting while strengthening the international visibility of French football.
