Fallen French football giant Bordeaux moves closer to extinction
FILE PHOTO: Bordeaux had failed to pay nearly €10 million for the 2025-26 financial year and hence was sanctioned. | Photo Credit: AFP
FILE PHOTO: Bordeaux had failed to pay nearly €10 million for the 2025-26 financial year and hence was sanctioned. | Photo Credit: AFP
Bordeaux, once one of France’s leading football clubs and the team where the country’s new head coach Zinedine Zidane made his name, lurched further into trouble on Friday.
After years of crippling financial problems, the spectre of judicial liquidation is looming over the Girondins after the French National Olympic and Sports Committee (CNOSF) rejected the club’s latest appeal against exclusion from the national leagues.
The measure, notified to the club on Friday, according to its vice-president Arnaud De Carli, means the six-time French champion is barred from playing in the fourth tier in the coming season, as it had hoped.
It has instead been relegated to the sixth tier. Bordeaux has 15 days to file an appeal, but the fourth-tier season starts on August 22.
It was sanctioned for failing to provide the roughly €10 million ($11.6 million) needed for the 2025-2026 financial year and meet debt payments.
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