Downgraded to National 2, the Ardennes club is about to be bought out and could finally be kept in the French third division.
The sports authorities have called on the French Football Federation to reconsider the administrative demotion of Sedan, paving the way for a return to National 1 of the football club on the verge of being taken over.
The buyers will therefore be received by the DNCG, financial policeman of French football on Thursday, for the third time, said the former president of the Ardennes club Francis Roumy.
The CNOSF (French National Olympic and Sports Committee), which met on July 27, made its advisory decision on Monday, said Mr. Roumy, who supports the arrival of new investors.
This organization hasproposed to the FFF to carry out a new examination of the situation“of the Sedan club, he said.
Gerard Lopez in the pool
Sedan, who finished last season in 7th place in National 1, was demoted to N2 during the first hearing before the DNCG, then excluded from the federal championships on appeal.
A pool of investors including the Reims investment banker Guy Cotret, also ex-president of Auxerre and Paris FC, and the president of the Girondins de Bordeaux Gérard Lopez, are preparing to buy Sedan.
They would be ready to buy the shares of the current president Marc Dubois and would undertake to absorb the debt of 900,000 euros, with the hope of keeping the club in National, indicated a source familiar with the matter in mid-July.
They have the ambition to build a budget of 3.2 million euros if the CSSA were drafted.
