{"id":899747,"date":"2026-09-21T06:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T06:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/899747\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T06:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T06:08:09","slug":"french-basketball-federation-confirms-refusal-to-admit-monaco-to-third-division","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/899747\/","title":{"rendered":"French Basketball Federation confirms refusal to admit Monaco to third division"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph-text\">Monaco had applied to join NM1 after being barred from competing in the professional \u00c9lite and \u00c9lite 2 championships following proceedings that continued throughout the summer. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">The Federation initially rejected the club\u2019s NM1 application on 12 September, saying it did not have sufficient guarantees to allow Monaco to compete. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">The club subsequently appealed to the CNOSF, but the conciliator did not rule in its favour. <\/p>\n<p>Club warns of possible liquidation <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">Monaco\u2019s lawyer, Xavier Le Cerf-Galle, had urged FFBB president Jean-Pierre Hunckler to reconsider the club\u2019s situation, warning of serious consequences if it was unable to enter a high-level championship. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">According to the lawyer, failure to secure a place could lead to the dismissal of the club\u2019s 22 employees, the loss of the company\u2019s corporate purpose and potentially its liquidation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">The FFBB has nevertheless maintained its position. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">Monaco now has 15 days to oppose the proposal before the CNOSF before potentially taking the case to the Administrative Court. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">The NM1 season is meanwhile getting under way without the Roca Team, further adding to the uncertainty surrounding the club\u2019s future. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">Monaco won all four trophies available in France during the 2025-2026 season and finished as runners-up in the 2025 European championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Monaco had applied to join NM1 after being barred from competing in the professional \u00c9lite and \u00c9lite 2&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":899748,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-899747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=899747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/899748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}