Marseille fire Michel Gonzalez- Franck Passi to take charge temporarily

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Struggling Olympique Marseille have fired coach Michel Gonzalez and have put assistant coach Franck Passi in charge for their remaining games of the season, including an important midweek French Cup tie against Sochaux.

Marseille are winless in their last eleven Ligue 1 games and are just six points above the drop zone.

Among all Marseille managers who have been in charge for more than 30 games at Stade Velodrome, Michel possesses the second worst win record- only Louis Maurer (15.8%) is worse than him Continue reading →

Ligue 1 to have relegation-promotion playoff from 2016-17

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The LFP (Ligue de Football Professionel) have announced the reintroduction of the relegation-promotion playoff from the upcoming 2016/17 season. The playoff will see the 18th place team in Ligue 1 take on the third place team from Ligue 2 over two legs, with the first leg played at the home stadium of the Ligue 2 outfit, with the Ligue 1 team then taking over as hosts for the return leg. Continue reading →

Domino’s Ligue 2 from 2016/17- Pizza giant to sponsor France Ligue 2 for four seasons

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Ligue 2 now officially has a new sponsor in the form of pizza giant Domino’s, who have struck a deal with the LFP to sponsor the French second division championship for four seasons beginning 2016/17 (till the end of the 2019/20 season). Domino’s title sponsorship deal is reportedly worth 1.5m million euros a year, according to reports from those in the know.

England’s Championship (second division) is sponsored by Sky Bet.