It is a sanction with no direct consequence on the AC Ajaccio sporting season, which was pronounced against it this Tuesday evening by the DNCG. Indeed, the decision to downgrade the Ajaccian club to National is only precautionary. This could only be effective next summer, if the Corsican club's budget did not once again provide the necessary guarantees, during a new examination by the financial policeman of French football.
The Bears will thus continue their Ligue 2 championship to the end and notably finish the first leg of their calendar this Friday, in Pau (8 p.m.).
However, this administrative sanction accompanied by a ban on recruiting, following a study of the accounts and budget of AC Ajaccio for the current year, sounds like an important alarm signal.
A predictable relapse
Especially since the Islanders had already come close to falling last summer. At the end of June, the Ajaccian team had already been demoted to National, before being officially reinstated in Ligue 2, a fortnight later. Around 3 million euros had been put back into the pot by current shareholders, while counting on possible transfers, before the end of the transfer window.
Unfortunately for them, these transactions never took place. The most important of them, the sale of midfielder Tim Jabol-Folcarelli to AJ Auxerre, collapsed and dug a big hole of around 2 million euros in the ACA's financial forecast.
