“600 kids on the sidelines”: the FC towers disappears from French football after its confirmed liquidation

His reprieve will only have lasted a little month. The Tours FC is definitively scratched by the club map after the compulsory liquidation of its SASP (professional sports company) pronounced on January 30 by the Court of Appeal of the Tribunal of Orleans. The latter was in the grip of significant financial difficulties for several years,

As Foot Amateur reports and confirmed by Tourangeaux leaders, the FFF Executive Committee (Comex) decided this Wednesday not to authorize the transfer of sports rights to the association. All the teams still active, and on the suspended, can therefore no longer end the season, or 616 licensees. The meetings of the last two weekends had already been postponed

Long present in the antechamber of the elite of French football, in Ligue 2, the Tours FC lost its professional status by being demolished administratively in N3, in the summer of 2019. In the past, several renowned players, including Olivier Giroud and Andy Delort, had participated in the big hours of the club, whose current team was now playing in Regional 1, like its women.