The 2021–22

Championnat National 2 The Championnat National 2, commonly known as National 2 and formerly known as Championnat de France Amateur (CFA), is a Association football, football league competition. The league serves as the fourth tier of French football league system be ...

was the 24th season of the fourth tier in the

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in its current format. This season the competition was contested by 64 clubs split geographically across four groups of 16 teams. The teams include amateur clubs (although a few are

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) and the reserve teams of professional clubs.

Teams

On 15 July 2021, the FFF ratified the constitution of the competition, and published the groups. Due to the non-completion of the 2020–21 season, the FFF declared that there would be no regular promotion or relegation from the division, and that any vacancies to be filled would be done on the basis of finishing positions in the 2019–20 season. Changes from 2020–21 season are as follows: * Sedan were promoted to Championnat National to replace SC Lyon, who finished bottom of

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, and were relegated according to the rules of that competition. SC Lyon will play as Lyon La Duchère in Championnat National 2 this season. * Bourges 18 and

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merged to form Bourges Foot 18, resulting in a vacancy. *

Gazélec Ajaccio Gazélec Football Club Ajaccio (), commonly referred to as GFC Ajaccio, GFCA, Gazélec Ajaccio or simply Gazélec (), is a French football club from Ajaccio, Corsica. Founded in 1910, Gazélec played one season in Ligue 1 in the 2015–16 seaso ...

were administratively relegated to

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for financial reasons, a decision which was confirmed on appeal, resulting in a vacancy. * Vacancies were to be filled by

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(res) and Vitré as best 14th placed teams in the 2019–20 season. However, Lille (res) declined to take up the position, and were replaced by

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(res).

Impact of COVID-19 on the season

The start of the season was impacted by postponements due to the

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. Three opening day games in Group C were postponed due to COVID-19 cases at Saint-Priest,

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and

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. The game-week three game between

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(res) and

Angers Angers (, , ;) is a city in western France, about southwest of Paris. It is the Prefectures of France, prefecture of the Maine-et-Loire department and was the capital of the province of Duchy of Anjou, Anjou until the French Revolution. The i ...

(res) was postponed on the preceding Wednesday due to COVID-19 cases at Angers.

League tables

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Top scorers

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Season outcomes

Promotion

FC Versailles 78, Versailles,

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and Le Puy were champions of each group, and were promoted to 2022–23 Championnat National, subject to the usual ratification by the FFF and DNCG.

Relegation

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, Plabennec, Vitré,

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(res),

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(res), Rumilly-Vallières,

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(res),

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and

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finished in the relegation places, and were relegated to

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, subject to any reprieves detailed in the next section.

Reprieves

Any reprieves required due to administrative relegations, mergers or clubs folding will be decided by taking, in order, the 14th placed clubs ranked by order of their record against clubs finishing 9th to 13th position in their group, followed by the 15th placed clubs ranked by order of their record against clubs finishing in 10th to 14th position in their group. On 14 June 2022, the DNCG announced that

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were to be relegated to

for the 2022–23 season, due to financial mismanagement. The decision was upheld on appeal, and

were reprieved from relegation.

References

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