After examining the Sporting Club de Bastia file this Wednesday, November 27, the National Directorate of Management Control pronounced the demotion of the club at the end of the season as a precautionary measure. The DNCG also imposed on the club the control of its payroll and the ban on recruiting for payment.
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It’s an unpleasant surprise for the leaders of the Sporting Club de Bastia.
This Wednesday, November 27, the SCB file was examined by the National Directorate of Management Control (DNCG), the body responsible for verifying the accounts of professional clubs.
During this mid-season hearing, the “financial policeman of French football” thus issued three measures against the island club: “the demotion as a precautionary measure at the end of the current sporting season, the control of the payroll and the ban on recruiting for consideration”.
For now, this decision to downgrade the club to National remains provisional. Indeed, Sporting’s situation will be examined again at the end of the season.
However, this call to order from the DNCG brings bad memories to the surface for the Bastia club.
Administratively demoted in 2017, SCB then climbed the ranks to return to Ligue 2 in the summer of 2021.
In December 2022, he passed the mid-season hearing before the DNCG without any restrictive measures. A first since 2009. Last year, the club also successfully passed this same intermediate exam. This Wednesday, it was different.
“Following the reduction in the amounts granted to clubs for television rights, the DNCG has taken the following decisions, indicate the Bastia leaders in a press release published this Wednesday evening. The Sporting Club de Bastia remains calm and confident in its ability to provide the required guarantees and wishes to reassure its supporters. The necessary details will be communicated tomorrow.”
In the meantime, Sporting – which is also going before the League’s disciplinary committee this evening for the incidents against Lorient – still has six months to try to redress the financial situation.
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