The 2009–10 season was the 77th season of competitive professional
football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...
in France.
The season began on 7 August 2009 for the
Championnat National and
Ligue 2
Ligue 2 (, League 2), also known as Ligue 2 BKT due to sponsor (commercial), sponsorship by Balkrishna Industries, is a French professional football league. The league serves as the second division of French football and is one of two divisions ...
and on 8 August for
Ligue 1
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and the
Championnat de France amateur
The Championnat National 2, commonly known as National 2 and formerly known as Championnat de France Amateur (CFA), is a football league competition. The league serves as the fourth tier of the French football league system behind Ligue 1, Ligue ...
. The season concluded on 14 May 2010 for
Ligue 2
Ligue 2 (, League 2), also known as Ligue 2 BKT due to sponsor (commercial), sponsorship by Balkrishna Industries, is a French professional football league. The league serves as the second division of French football and is one of two divisions ...
, 15 May for Ligue 1, and 21 May for the
Championnat National and the
Championnat de France amateur
The Championnat National 2, commonly known as National 2 and formerly known as Championnat de France Amateur (CFA), is a football league competition. The league serves as the fourth tier of the French football league system behind Ligue 1, Ligue ...
.
News
Supercup in Canada
On 12 May, it was announced that the
2009 Trophée des Champions
The 2009 Trophée des Champions Final was a football match that was played on 25 July 2009. The match was contested between the winners of 2008–09 Coupe de France, En Avant Guingamp, and the 2008–09 Ligue 1 champions, FC Girondins de Bordeaux ...
will be played, for the first time, on international soil at
Olympic Stadium in
Montreal, Canada. The match will contest the winners of the
2008–09 Coupe de France
The 2008–09 Coupe de France was the 92nd season of the French most prestigious cup competition and was open to all clubs in French football, as well as seven teams from overseas departments and territories (Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martiniq ...
,
Guingamp, and the
2008–09 Ligue 1
The 2008–09 Ligue 1 season was the 71st since its establishment. Bordeaux became champions for the sixth time on the last weekend of the season. The fixtures were announced on 23 May 2008. The season began on 9 August 2008 and ended on 30 May ...
champions,
Bordeaux, with the objective being to promote
French professional football abroad.
Match ball sponsorship
On 5 June, it was announced that German
sportswear company
Puma
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Animals
* ''Puma'' (genus), a genus in the family Felidae
** Puma (species) or cougar, a large cat
Businesses and organisations
* Puma (brand), a multinational shoe and sportswear company
* Puma Energy, a mid- and d ...
will become the official provider of match balls for the upcoming season after agreeing to a long term
partnership with the
Ligue de Football Professionnel (LFP).
Presidential departures
On 17 June,
Marseille announced that they were parting ways with longtime
chairman
The chairperson, also chairman, chairwoman or chair, is the presiding officer of an organized group such as a board, committee, or deliberative assembly. The person holding the office, who is typically elected or appointed by members of the grou ...
Pape Diouf
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. Diouf had been chairman of the club for five years and was the only black chairman ever to preside over a Ligue 1 club. Jean-Claude Dassier was announced as his replacement.
On 7 July,
Auxerre announced that
Alain Dujon will become the club's new president. He replaces
Jean-Claude Hamel, who had presided over the club for over 46 years.
On 10 September,
Paris Saint-Germain announced that president
Sébastien Bazin would step down from his role in order to supervise the club's surveillance council. He was replaced by
Robin Leproux.
Television deal
On 29 June, the LFP board of directors announced that
France Télévisions will be the official provider of Coupe de la Ligue coverage for the next three seasons.
French football records
On 9 August 2009, Bordeaux established a record for most consecutive league wins with 12, surpassing
Lille, who won 11 consecutive matches in 1949, winning their last four games of the
1948–49 season and their first seven in the
1949–50 season. Bordeaux's streak began during the 2008–09 Ligue 1 season on 14 March 2009 following a 2–1 victory over
Nice. The club broke the record on the opening match day of this season defeating
Lens 4–1. The record lasted for 14 matches before coming to an end on 30 August following the club's 0–0 draw with Marseille.
On 31 October 2009,
Grenoble set a record for most consecutive losses in
French football following the club's 11th-straight league defeat, an 0–2 loss to Lille. The previous record of ten-straight defeats, held by
Sète
Sète (; oc, Seta, ), also historically spelt ''Cette'' (official until 1928) and ''Sette'', is a commune in the Hérault department, in the region of Occitania, southern France. Its inhabitants are called ''Sétois'' (male) and ''Sétoises' ...
, had been intact since 1947. The losing streak came to an end the following week, on 7 November, following the club's 0–0 draw with
Monaco.
DNCG rulings
On 23 June, the
Direction Nationale du Contrôle de Gestion (DNC) ruled that
Arles-Avignon would not be allowed to play in Ligue 2 following their promotion from the
Championnat National, due to irregularities in the club's management. On 3 July, following an appeal, the DNCG reversed its decision, reinstating Arles' Ligue 2 status.
Following the DNCG's annual report on clubs, on 25 June it was announced that six clubs had been relegated from the National to lower divisions:
AS Beauvais
Association Sportive Beauvais Oise (; commonly referred to as AS Beauvais, ASBO, or simply Beauvais) is a French association football club based in Beauvais. The club was formed in 1945 as a result of a merger and currently play in the Championnat ...
,
SO Cassis Carnoux,
CS Louhans-Cuiseaux, and
FC Libourne Saint-Seurin were relegated to the
Championnat de France Amateurs
The Championnat National 2, commonly known as National 2 and formerly known as Championnat de France Amateur (CFA), is a football league competition. The league serves as the fourth tier of the French football league system behind Ligue 1, Ligue ...
. Meanwhile,
Besançon RC,
US Luzenac, and
FC Rouen, who were all recently promoted, were relegated to
Championnat de France Amateurs 2, while Sète and
Calais RUFC were relegated to the
Division d'Honneur. All clubs relegated were allowed to appeal the decision.
Following an appeal from the aforementioned clubs, Rouen, Beauvais and Luzenac had their appeals successfully overturned, meaning they will remain in the Championnat National. Some clubs were, however, unsuccessful. For example, Sète's appeal was upheld relegating them to the Division d'Honneur;
Stade Plabennecois
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will replace them in the Championnat National. Libourne Saint-Seurin, Besançon and Calais' appeals were also rejected by the DNCG, though all three clubs have decided to take their case to the CNOSF, the National Sporting Committee of France which governs
sport in France. Both Calais and Besançon's rulings were determined on 23 July. The CNOSF determined that Besançon should be relegated to the CFA and not CFA 2, while Calais should respect and oblige the DNCG's ruling relegated them to CFA 2.
Libourne's ruling was determined on 27 July, when the CNOSF informed the club that they should honor the DNCG's ruling and suffer relegation to the CFA. Libourne's chairman Bernard Layda responded by announcing the club will file for
bankruptcy
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, restructure the club and oblige the ruling. Besançon and Libournce are slated to be replaced by
ES Fréjus
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* ''E's'', a manga series by Satoru Yuiga
* ''Es'' (film), the German title of ''It'', a 1966 West German film directed by Ulrich Scham ...
and
AS Moulins.
Both Louhans-Cuiseaux and Cassis Carnoux had their appeals heard by the DNCG on 9 July. On 10 July, the DNGC ruled that both Louhans-Cuiseaux and Cassis-Carnoux rulings had been overturned, meaning they will play in the Championnat National this season.
On 6 August, just three days before the start of the season, the CNSOF ruled that CFA 2 club
Olympique Saumur would be allowed promotion to the CFA on the assumption that the club was ranked second behind Les Herbiers VF in terms of the promotion chart following a current CFA club's relegation by means of a federation ruling. With Besançon's relegation to the CFA, it has been determined that two groups will have an allocation of 20 clubs, while one group will have an allocation of 19 clubs. Due to the sudden circumstances, on 7 August the
France Football Federation
The French Football Federation ( FFF; french: Fédération Française de Football) is the governing body of football in France. It also includes the overseas departments (Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique, Mayotte and Réunion), the overseas ...
(FFF) devised a brand new schedule for the CFA. The FFF also announced that they had rejected the CNOSF's proposal for integrating Saumur into the CFA. Saumur responding by announcing their intent to appeal the judgment in Administrative Court.
Turmoil at 2010 FIFA World Cup
On 19 June 2010,
France international striker
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*A participant in a strike action
*A participant in a hunger strike
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People wi ...
Nicolas Anelka was dismissed from the national team at the
2010 FIFA World Cup
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after reportedly having a dispute, in which obscenities were passed with team
manager Raymond Domenech during the team's 2–0 loss against
Mexico. The FFF condemned the actions and, following a meeting with Anelka, Domenech and team captain
Patrice Evra, the FFF agreed to send the player home. The following day, Evra engaged in a heated confrontation with team trainer Robert Duverne, with Duverne having to be restrained by Domenech. The resulting confrontation led to the players returning to the team bus and canceling practice. The team's managing director, Jean-Louis Valentin, announced his resignation from his position and the FFF the same day, stating he was "sickened and disgusted" by the actions of the team. The team, through Domenech, later released a statement criticizing the FFF for sending Anelka home based on reports from the media. The FFF responded to the statement by declaring the player's boycott "unacceptable" and apologizing to the world for the conduct of the players. The FFF also announced that following the World Cup, the Federal Council would convene to discuss the current state of the team.
Five players were identified as having been key to the embarrassing events at the World Cup – Nicolas Anelka, Patrice Evra,
Franck Ribéry,
Jérémy Toulalan and
Eric Abidal – and all were summoned to a hearing before the FFF disciplinary committee on 17 August 2010. After the expulsion of Anelka and ensuing training strike, Evra and Ribéry were summoned for failing in their duties as captain and vice-captain respectively; Toulalan was seen as the originator of the statement read out by coach Domenech to the media; while Abidal was accused of refusing to play in the final group match. After the hearing, Anelka was banned from playing for France for 18 games, Evra was banned for five, Ribéry for three and Toulalan for one, while Abidal was not punished. Anelka dismissed the sanction as irrelevant, considering himself already retired from international football.
Promotion and relegation
Teams promoted to
2009–10 Ligue 1
The 2009–10 Ligue 1 season was the 72nd since its establishment. Bordeaux were the defending champions. The fixtures were announced on 5 June 2009, and play commenced on 8 August and ended on 15 May 2010. There were three promoted teams from ...
* Champions:
Lens
* Runners-up:
Montpellier
Montpellier (, , ; oc, Montpelhièr ) is a city in southern France near the Mediterranean Sea. One of the largest urban centres in the region of Occitania (administrative region), Occitania, Montpellier is the prefecture of the Departments of ...
* 3rd Place:
Boulogne
Boulogne-sur-Mer (; pcd, Boulonne-su-Mér; nl, Bonen; la, Gesoriacum or ''Bononia''), often called just Boulogne (, ), is a coastal city in Northern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department of Pas-de-Calais. Boulogne lies on the ...
Teams relegated from
2008–09 Ligue 1
The 2008–09 Ligue 1 season was the 71st since its establishment. Bordeaux became champions for the sixth time on the last weekend of the season. The fixtures were announced on 23 May 2008. The season began on 9 August 2008 and ended on 30 May ...
* 18th Place:
Caen
Caen (, ; nrf, Kaem) is a commune in northwestern France. It is the prefecture of the department of Calvados. The city proper has 105,512 inhabitants (), while its functional urban area has 470,000,[Nantes
Nantes (, , ; Gallo: or ; ) is a city in Loire-Atlantique on the Loire, from the Atlantic coast. The city is the sixth largest in France, with a population of 314,138 in Nantes proper and a metropolitan area of nearly 1 million inhabita ...]
* 20th Place:
Le Havre
Teams promoted to
2009–10 Ligue 2
The Ligue 2 2009–10 season was the sixty-ninth edition since its establishment. The fixtures were announced on 5 June 2009, and the league began on 7 August and ended on 14 May 2010.
German sportswear company Puma became the official provide ...
* Champions:
Istres
* Runners-up:
Laval
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People
* House of Laval, a French noble family originating from the town of Laval, Mayenne
* Laval (surname)
Places Belgium
* Laval, a village in the municipality of Sainte-Ode, Luxem ...
* 3rd Place:
Arles-Avignon
Teams relegated from
2008–09 Ligue 2
The Ligue 2 season 2008–09 was the sixty-seventh edition since its establishment, and began on 1 August 2008 and ended on 29 May 2009. The fixtures were announced on 23 May 2008.
Promotion and relegation
Teams relegated to Ligue 2
*FC Metz, re ...
* 18th Place:
Amiens
* 19th Place:
Reims
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Founded by ...
* 20th Place:
Troyes
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Teams promoted to
2009–10 Championnat National
The 2009–10 Championnat National was the 17th edition of the 3rd division league. Play commenced on 7 August 2009 and ended on 21 May 2010.
Promotion and relegation
Teams relegated from 2008–09 Ligue 2
* 18th Place: Amiens
* 19th Place: Rei ...
* Champions, Groupe A:
Besançon
* Champions, Groupe B:
Hyères
* Champions, Groupe C:
Luzenac
* Champions, Groupe D:
Rouen
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* 2nd Place, Groupe D:
Plabennec
Plabennec (; ) is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in north-western France.
History
The area around Plabennec has been occupied since Neolithic times and into the Bronze Age. The commune of Plabennec was formed around the 6th c ...
Teams relegated from
Championnat National 2008–09
* 17th Place:
Niort
* 18th Place:
Calais
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* 19th Place:
Cherbourg
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* 20th Place:
L'Entente
Teams promoted to
2009–10 Championnat de France Amateur
Promoted from
CFA 2
* Champions, Groupe A:
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* Champions, Groupe B:
Drancy
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History
Toponymy
The name Drancy comes from Medieval Lati ...
* Champions, Groupe C:
Épinal
* Champions, Groupe D:
Grenoble B
* 2nd Place, Groupe E:
Le Pontet1
* Champions, Groupe F:
Toulouse Fontaines
* 2nd Place, Groupe G:
Les Herbiers2
* Champions, Groupe H:
Carquefou
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Population
Economy
The headquarters of the geophysical research company Sercel is located in Carquefou
Sport
In 2008, the local ...
* 2nd Place, Groupe B :
Ivry-sur-Seine
* 2nd Place, Groupe C :
Amnéville
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Geography
Amnéville is located in the Moselle valley, ...
* 2nd Place, Groupe D :
Bourg-Peronnas
* 2nd Place, Groupe H :
Avranches
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History
By the end of the Roman period, t ...
1 Saint-Raphael finished as Champions, but won't participate in next season's
CFA because the club will fuse with
ES Fréjus
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Arts and entertainment
* An alternate name for the musical note E♭ (E-flat)
* ''E's'', a manga series by Satoru Yuiga
* ''Es'' (film), the German title of ''It'', a 1966 West German film directed by Ulrich Scham ...
to form a new club. As such, Le Pontet was allowed to take their promotion spot.
2 Tours B finished as Champions, but won't participate in next season's
CFA because the DNCG deemed the formation structure of the reserves inadequate. Les Herbiers were allowed to take their promotion spot.
Teams relegated from
Championnat de France Amateurs 2008–09
* 16th Place, Groupe A:
Vesoul
* 17th Place, Groupe A:
Metz B
* 18th Place, Groupe A:
Sainte-Geneviève
* 16th Place, Groupe B:
Saint-Étienne B
* 17th Place, Groupe B:
Saint-Priest
* 18th Place, Groupe B:
AS Monaco B
* 16th Place, Groupe C:
Châtellerault
Châtellerault (; Poitevin-Saintongeais: ''Châteulrô/Chateleràud''; oc, Chastelairaud) is a commune in the Vienne department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in France. It is located in the northeast of the former province Poitou, and the re ...
* 17th Place, Groupe C:
Bordelais
* 18th Place, Groupe C:
Bergerac
* 16th Place, Groupe D:
Red Star
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* 17th Place, Groupe D:
Guingamp B
* 18th Place, Groupe D:
Vitré
Managerial changes
Ligue 1
In season
Ligue 2
In season
Championnat National
In season
Transfers
Notable transfers
Bordeaux completes the signing of
midfielder Yoann Gourcuff after the player spent the entire
2008–09 season on loan from Italian club
Milan. The transfer fee was priced at €15 million.
Defending Portuguese Liga champions Porto lose four players to three Ligue 1 title chasers, with
Marseille signing
midfielder Lucho González for €18 million,
Lyon signing both
striker
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*A participant in a hunger strike
*Blacksmith's striker, a type of blacksmith's assistant
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People wi ...
Lisandro López for €24 million and
defender Aly Cissokho for €15 million, and
Toulouse signing
Paulo Machado for a modest €3.5 million. Porto also lost veteran defender
João Paulo
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* João Paulo (footballer, born 1957), João Paulo de Lima Filho, Brazilian football winger
*João Paulo (footballer, born 1964 ...
to
Le Mans
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for a fee of €1.5 million.
Guingamp striker
Eduardo, who wrote his name into French football history by scoring both his team's goals in a 2–1 triumph in the
Coupe de France final against
Rennes
Rennes (; br, Roazhon ; Gallo: ''Resnn''; ) is a city in the east of Brittany in northwestern France at the confluence of the Ille and the Vilaine. Rennes is the prefecture of the region of Brittany, as well as the Ille-et-Vilaine department ...
, moves to recently promoted
Lens for approximately €3 million.
Four
French national team goalkeepers move clubs, with
Cédric Carrasso joining Bordeaux for €8 million,
Mickaël Landreau joining
Lille from
Paris Saint-Germain for €2 million,
Yohann Pelé moving to Toulouse from Le Mans on a
Bosman transfer, and
Grégory Coupet makes his return Ligue 1 signing with PSG from
La Liga side
Atlético Madrid
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.
PSG sign two Ligue 1 stars for a total on €12 million, committing four years to both
Turkish
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striker
Mevlüt Erdinç
Mevlüt Erdinç (surname spelt Erding in France; born 25 February 1987) is a former professional footballer who played as a forward.
Born in France to Turkish parents, he spent most of his career in his country of birth, recording 295 games and ...
and
Lorient midfielder
Christophe Jallet
Christophe Jean-Pierre Jallet (born 31 October 1983) is a French former professional footballer who played as a right back. During his career, he played for Niort, Lorient, Paris Saint-Germain, Lyon, Nice and Amiens, as well as register ...
.
Nancy recruits three Bordeaux youngsters:
Malian
striker
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People
*A participant in a strike action
*A participant in a hunger strike
*Blacksmith's striker, a type of blacksmith's assistant
*Striker's Independent Society, the oldest mystic krewe in America
People wi ...
Cheick Diabaté, French
defender Florian Marange
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Career
Marange began his career in 2002 with Girondins de Bordeaux an ...
and the
Togolese
midfielder Floyd Ayité. All join the club, with Diabaté and Ayité joining on loan for the entire season and Marange signing a one-year contract.
Saint-Étienne
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Saint-Étienne is the t ...
sign two
Argentine internationals from the
Primera División
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of
Argentina. The first signing being striker
Gonzalo Bergessio, formerly of
San Lorenzo
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Places Argentina
* San Lorenzo, Santa Fe
* San Lorenzo Department, Chaco
* Monte San Lorenzo, a mountain on t ...
, for an undisclosed fee, and midfielder
Augusto Fernández
Augusto Matías Fernández (; born 10 April 1986) is an Argentine former professional footballer who played as a central midfielder.
Club career River Plate
Born in Pergamino, Buenos Aires, Fernández was a River Plate youth graduate. He made ...
, who joins the club on loan for the entire season from
River Plate.
Honours
National teams
France
2010 FIFA World Cup qualification
Friendly
2010 FIFA World Cup
Last updated: 28 March 2010
Source
French Football Federation Les matches de l'équipe de France
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France (women's)
2011 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
Friendly
2011 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
Friendly
2011 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
Last updated: 28 March 2010
Source
French Football Federation Women's Schedule
/small>
France U-21
Friendly
2011 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship qualification
Friendly
2011 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship qualification
Friendly
France U-20
* The
France under-20 team competed in the quad-annual
Mediterranean Games
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football tournament that was contested from 25 June to 5 July in
Pescara, Italy.
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(Published 16 February 2009) France finished in a respectable 4th place losing to
Libya on penalties in the third place match. The U-20 team will also compete in the
2009 edition of the
Francophone Games
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that will be held in
Beirut,
Lebanon to begin on 26 September.
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Last updated: 30 March 2010
Source
French Football Federation U-21 Schedule
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France U-19
2009 Sendaï Cup
Friendly
Tournio de Limoges
Friendly
Unofficial Friendly
2010 UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship
Last updated: 28 March 2010
Source
French Football Federation U-19 Schedule
/small>
France U-17
2010 UEFA European Under-17 Football Championship First Round qualification
2010 UEFA European Under-17 Football Championship Elite Round qualification
2010 UEFA European Under-17 Football Championship
Last updated: 27 March 2010
Source
French Football Federation U-17 Schedule
/small>
See also
;2009–10 season
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Olympique Lyonnais
Olympique Lyonnais (), commonly referred to as simply Lyon () or OL, is a men and women's French professional football club based in Lyon in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. The men play in France's highest football division, Ligue 1. Founded in 1950, th ...
Ligue 1
Ligue 1, officially known as Ligue 1 Uber Eats for sponsorship reasons, is a French professional league for men's association football clubs. At the top of the French football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. A ...
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Paris Saint-Germain Ligue 1
Ligue 1, officially known as Ligue 1 Uber Eats for sponsorship reasons, is a French professional league for men's association football clubs. At the top of the French football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. A ...
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Olympique Marseille Ligue 1
Ligue 1, officially known as Ligue 1 Uber Eats for sponsorship reasons, is a French professional league for men's association football clubs. At the top of the French football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. A ...
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Rennes
Rennes (; br, Roazhon ; Gallo: ''Resnn''; ) is a city in the east of Brittany in northwestern France at the confluence of the Ille and the Vilaine. Rennes is the prefecture of the region of Brittany, as well as the Ille-et-Vilaine department ...
Ligue 1
Ligue 1, officially known as Ligue 1 Uber Eats for sponsorship reasons, is a French professional league for men's association football clubs. At the top of the French football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. A ...
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Chamois Niortais
Chamois Niortais Football Club (often referred to as ''Les Chamois'', Chamois Niortais, or simply Niort) is a French association football club based in the commune of Niort, in the Deux-Sèvres department of western France. It was founded in 1 ...
CFA
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Seasons in French football