The French Football Federation would consider playing the final of the Coupe de France far from Saint-Denis.
Will PSG face AS Saint-Etienne in the final of the Coupe de France? Postponed due to a coronavirus pandemic, the final could take place in early August, as a curtain raiser for the 2020-21 season. At least if the sanitary conditions allow it at that time. In any case, this has been the stated objective of the French Football Federation (FFF) for several weeks. A will reaffirmed last Sunday, on Canal +, by its president Noël Le Graët. “Today, we have to imagine a PSG – Saint-Etienne behind closed doors,” he said in this interview. According to information from The New Republic, however, this poster may not take place at the Stade de France, as is customary.
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Because of the rental cost of the Dionysian enclosure (1.5 M €) – which could not be amortized by the ticket office in the event of a closed session – and the status of “red zone” attributed to Île-de -France during the crisis, the FFF would indeed seek a new base to play “its” final.
Châteauroux, Toulouse, Caen, Guingamp or Amiens instead of Saint-Denis?
“And the Gaston-Petit stadium hypothesis, in Châteauroux, comes back with insistence”, assure our colleagues, citing Toulouse, Caen, Guingamp or Amiens as so many avenues of study as well. And to specify that the rental of the Gaston-Petit stadium would cost only 7,500 euros. If he qualifies this information as “rumor” with the regional daily, the club of Châteauroux “would have inquired about the probability of this hypothesis near the FFF, without obtaining a concrete answer for the moment”, one assures one still . Triple title holder, PSG was originally to face Saint-Etienne on April 25 to conclude this 103rd edition. If they win, the Greens could get a ticket to the Europa League.