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The Commercial Court of Niort ended this Thursday, the activity of the Chamois Niortais, club founded a hundred years ago Thursday, almost day.
The Commercial Court of Niort ended the activity of the Chamois Niortais, a football team founded in 1925 on Thursday, with the liquidation of the association in the absence of a relegated club offer in regional 3 (8th division) last summer and heavily in debt.
“No transfer offer has been presented, the association no longer having a resource and not being able to cover its current charges, it is necessary for the court to end the continuation of the activity”can be read in the decision.
A disappearance less than a month before its centenary
This outcome, which was expected, confirms the judicial liquidation of the entity holding the affiliation number to the French Football Federation (FFF), as well as the end of its activity, thus acting the disappearance of the club less than a month from its centenary scheduled for May 1, 2025.
The Chamois Niortais have evolved for many years in Ligue 2, until their national relegation in 2023. The club had even briefly known the first division during the 1987-1988 season.
“It is a great feeling of mess because it was a solid club, which had spent its best years in L2”reacted Guy Fleurquin, president of the Niortais Chamois association, deploring that the association was “Lead” by certain debts inherited from the professional club.
“I hope people responsible for it will pay a day”he added.
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The leader had been struggling since September 10 and the Commercial Court's decision to liquidate the club, a debt of just over 3 million euros. He regretted Thursday that he did not have “Could find partners who wanted to invest, not in the club, but to pay the debts”.
The FFF executive committee must now meet on April 17 to decide what will happen to the association's sports rights now disappeared.
“I do not expect anything, they will simply confirm as for Tours (whose final end was ratified in February, editor's note) and excludes us from all departmental, regional and national competitions”warned Mr. Fleurquin.
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