Ligue 1: Paris St-Germain awarded French title as season finished early
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Paris St-Germain have been awarded the Ligue 1 title after it was announced the season would not resume because of the coronavirus pandemic.
PSG were 12 points clear at the top of the table, with a game in hand, when French football was suspended indefinitely on 13 March.
Earlier this week the French government cancelled the 2019-20 sporting season.
The club said they wished to dedicate the title "to healthcare staff and all the everyday heroes on the front line".
PSG chairman and CEO Nasser Al-Khelaifi added that French essential workers' "commitment and self-sacrifice over many weeks have earned our deepest admiration".
He continued: "We understand, respect and support the decisions taken by the French Government to end the championship. Health, as the government has always said, must be everyone's priority.
"In these difficult times, I hope that this trophy will bring a little happiness and hope to all our supporters, and I am grateful to them for their unwavering support which helps drive Paris St-Germain forward."
Before the government's intervention, French football's governing body had been hoping to resume the season on 17 June.
PSG have been awarded the title on a points-per-game basis, while Lorient have been crowned Ligue 2 champions on the same principle.
They were just one point above Lens when the season was suspended and both teams will be promoted.
Amiens and Toulouse will be relegated from Ligue 1.
Lyon - who were fifth a week before the last match day, but finished seventh - said they might appeal against the verdict.
Now set to miss out on a place in Europe next season, Lyon say they also "reserve the right to claim damages", which the club say amount to "several tens of millions of euros".
"There might be appeals but our decisions are solid," said Didier Quillot, the chief executive of the French League (LFP).
Quillot added the LFP had until 25 May to tell Uefa which clubs will be qualified for European competitions.
That is the same day by which European leagues have to tell European football's governing body whether they want to complete or cancel their seasons.
The Dutch top flight was abandoned on Friday with no promotion or relegation and no champions, while on Monday Belgian clubs postponed a vote on confirming the cancellation of their top flight until next week.
Analysis
BBC World Service reporter John Bennett
The French football authorities had three main options when it came to deciding the final league positions. They did not go for freezing the table after 27 games or freezing the table when everyone had played each other once, and instead they chose the points per game system.
The big losers from that decision are Lyon, who were in the Europa League places after match day 27, but under these rules finish in seventh place.
It means their only hope of getting into Europe next season is either winning the League Cup final, which could still be played later in the year but will probably be cancelled, or winning the Champions League, which is unlikely even if Uefa manage to somehow complete the matches.
Meanwhile, PSG's dominance made the decision to crown champions a lot easier in France than it was in the Netherlands, where Ajax and AZ Alkmaar were level on points at the top and the KNVB decided there would be no title winners.
So a reason to celebrate for PSG but of course their main aim this season was to win the Champions League and remember, as unlikely as it would seem, they are still hoping they can complete that mission, saying that they would be prepared to play their matches abroad in August if it is not possible to play in France.
French clubs now have to count the cost of losing crucial TV revenue in this shortened season and there will be some difficult decisions to be made for many of them.
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That's fair enough.
But I still don't see why the season had to end? Why not just finish it once it is safe for sport to resume.
Surely finishing this season is more important than making sure next season starts on time? Particularly when next season may be ruined anyway?
What if it's not safe for football to return until next March? Surely if that were the case it would be more logical to play the remaining 9 games of this season than the 1st 9 games of next season?
Otherwise you just have 2 incomplete seasons......
Or do you only want it to be void to prevent Liverpool from having what they were going to win?
- Liverpool champions - no one could really object
- Norwich relegated - harsh, but maybe not unrealistic
- Villa relegated - very harsh as they are only 2 points below 16th
- Bournemouth relegated - absolutely ridiculous as they are one of three teams on 27 points and the other two teams get to stay up!
And yes Liverpool do deserve it
If the games aren't played it's a shame. But let's be clear, 25 points ahead, this is the most deserved league title in the history of English football!
Nothing was mathematically resolved in every department including PSG's lead at the top. Scandalous decision in every area and every way. Lets hope the Premier League dont make the same mistake.
In that case should we not have Man United participate in next seasons premier league as they haven't got the requisite number of points to be sure of avoiding relegation?
Some of you are simply going to have to come to terms with the fact that Liverpool have been the dominant team this season and thoroughly deserve to be champions.
Before this virus it was all about VAR, even though the facts don’t back up that opinion.
Just be honest and say you can’t stand them!
But stop trying to deny they are more than worthy winners.
I love how you say there's more important things to think about. Yet here you are on a football comments section talking about football and trying to deny Liverpool the league........
Have your 76% PL title, leaving Leicester & Blackburn above you with their 100% titles and then Arsenal, Chelsea, City & Utd above that."
Complains about all comments being about Liverpool, makes comment about Liverpool.................
Once it's safe again you might as well just finish this season and scrap next one entirely.
The only tainted titles that have been won in England are by a certain team that play in sky blue.
I think we all know why....