AS Saint-Etienne : D1 Arkema: Saint-Etienne hails “a legitimate and deserved accession” for its women’s team | ASSE News

The women’s team of AS Saint-Etienne (D2), who lived with a feeling of injustice to have been deprived of a climb for the past two seasons, will finally compete in the D1 championship. The executive committee of the French Football Federation on Tuesday promoted ASSE to replace Le Havre, 12th and last in the D1 championship at the end of the 2020-2021 season.

“This accession is legitimate and rewards three years of efforts. On the ground, ASSE has shown that it deserves its place among the elite, said in a statement Jean-Marc Barsotti, president of the association AS Saint-Etienne. It is the victory of a territory. Saint-Etienne must have a women’s team at the highest level. “The Greens, relegated from the elite in 2018, remained for three years on 50 victories in 67 matches.

In 2019-2020, while the D2 championship had been stopped for the first time due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Saint-Etienne could not reach the elite despite eleven successes for four draws in fifteen meetings. The Saint-Etienne club had indeed been penalized by the method of calculating the quotient (number of points obtained on the number of matches played) favored by the FFF, which had favored Le Havre which had one more meeting than the Stéphanoises, penalized by a match postponed. Like other clubs, ASSE had been dismissed from all its appeals.

Last season, the Greens, after six victories in six days, eighteen goals scored and none conceded, had once again been able to complete the D2 championship, stopped in October without being able to resume in the spring, again due to the Covid. The season had been declared as “white”. ASSE finally reaches the upper floor as the best 2nd of the 2019-2020 season.