Championnat National 3
The Championnat National 3, commonly referred to as simply National 3 and formerly known as Championnat de France Amateur 2, is a football league competition. The league serves as the fifth division of the French football league system behind ...
is the sixth season of the fifth tier in the
French football league system
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in its current format. The competition is contested by 168 clubs split geographically across 12 groups of 14 teams. The teams include amateur clubs (although a few are
semi-professional
Semi-professional sports are sports in which athletes are not participating on a full-time basis, but still receive some payment. Semi-professionals are not amateur because they receive regular payment from their team, but generally at a cons ...
) and the reserve teams of professional clubs. The competition starts on 28 August 2022 and is scheduled to end on 4 June 2023.
Lens
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Marseille
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(res),
Montpellier
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Mont-de-Marsan
Mont-de-Marsan (; Gascon dialect, Occitan: ''Lo Mont de Marçan'') is a communes of France, commune and capital of the Landes (department), Landes Departments of France, department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, southwestern France.
Population
Milit ...
Stade Bordelais
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The club was established in 1889. Bordelais were a major force in the French championship during the 1900s. Until 2005–06, the senior team competed in the second level of dom ...
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Saumur
Saumur () is a Communes of France, commune in the Maine-et-Loire Departments of France, department in western France.
The town is located between the Loire and Thouet rivers, and is surrounded by the vineyards of Saumur itself, Chinon, Bourgu ...
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Vierzon
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Geography
A medium-sized town by the banks of the river Cher (river), Cher with some light industry and a ...
Colmar
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Alès
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Évreux
Évreux () is a commune in and the capital of the department of Eure, in the French region of Normandy.
History Antiquity
In late Antiquity, the town, attested in the fourth century AD, was named '' Mediolanum Aulercorum'', "the central town ...
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Rennes
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Cognac
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Blagnac
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It is the third-largest suburb of the city o ...
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Nîmes
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Boulogne
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(res),
Le Touquet
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Bayeux
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Mantes
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Mulhouse
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were relegated by the DNCG for financial reasons and subsequently entered receivership.
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Narbonne
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were relegated by the Occitanie league after receiving a points deduction for not fielding junior teams in competitions as required by the regulations..
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* The merger of Marignane Gignac F.C. and Côte Bleue meant the second team of the new club, Marignane GCB (res), took the place of Côte Bleue in group D.
Promotion and relegation
If eligible, the top team in each group is promoted to
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 ...
. If a team finishing top of the group is ineligible, or declines promotion, the next eligible team in that group is promoted.
This season, five teams will be relegated from each group to their respective top regional league, subject to reprieves, as a result of the restructuring of the French leagues. Extra teams are relegated from a group if more than one team is relegated to that group from Championnat National 2. In the case that no teams are relegated to a group from Championnat National 2, one less team is relegated from that group to the regional league.
Reserve teams whose training centres are categorised as category 2B or lower cannot be promoted to Championnat National 2 by the rules of the competition.
Cannes
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Aubervilliers
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finished top of their group, but were denied promotion by the '' DNCG'', and failed to appeal successfully.
Toulouse
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(res) were promoted as runners-up.
Relegation
A total of 60 teams were initially relegated due to finishing in the bottom five places in each group. Reprieves are required to maintain the correct number of teams in the division, in light of any administrative relegations from this or higher divisions enacted by the ''FFF'' and ''DNCG''. The relegated teams will take their place in the
competition of their respective regional leagues:
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Mont-de-Marsan
Mont-de-Marsan (; Gascon dialect, Occitan: ''Lo Mont de Marçan'') is a communes of France, commune and capital of the Landes (department), Landes Departments of France, department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, southwestern France.
Population
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Bordeaux
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Le Mans
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Dreux
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Geography
Dreux lies on the small river Blaise (river), Blaise, a tributary of the Eure (river), Eure, about 35 km north of Cha ...
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Chartres
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Any reprieve required will initially go to the tenth placed team in Group D, EUGA Ardziv. Any reprieves required beyond this will come from the tenth-placed team with the best record against the teams placed sixth to ninth in their group.
;Ranking of tenth placed teams.
Subject to any appeals to be enacted, reprieves are required due to the following administrative decisions:
* AS Poissy, Poissy and
Évreux
Évreux () is a commune in and the capital of the department of Eure, in the French region of Normandy.
History Antiquity
In late Antiquity, the town, attested in the fourth century AD, was named '' Mediolanum Aulercorum'', "the central town ...
were excluded from National competitions by the ''DNCG'', and will not take their place in National 3, having been relegated from 2022–23 Championnat National 2. Poissy appealed unsuccessfully against the decision.
* C'Chartres Football were administratively relegated to
, in addition to being relegated from 2022–23 Championnat National 2. The decision was confirmed on appeal.
* FC Sète 34 were placed into receivership, which automatically triggered an administrative relegation. Due to finishing in the 2022–23 Championnat National 2 relegation places, they will therefore be relegated at least to
, in addition to being relegated from 2022–23 Championnat National 2, but successfully appealed the decision.
References
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