2020–21 Championnat National

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The 2020–21 Championnat National season was the 28th season since the establishment of the Championnat National, and the 22nd in its current format, which serves as the third division of the French football league system.[1]

Team changes

Team changes from the 2019–20 Championnat National were confirmed by the FFF on 17 July 2020.[1]

Stadia and locations

Villefranche
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Location of teams in 2020–21 National
Club Location Venue Capacity
Annecy Annecy
Parc des Sports[a]
 15,660
Avranches Avranches Stade René Fenouillère 2,000
SC Bastia Bastia
Stade Armand Cesari
 16,048
Bastia-Borgo
 		Borgo Stade Paul-Antoniotti 1,300
Boulogne Boulogne-sur-Mer Stade de la Libération[b] 15,204
Bourg-Péronnas Bourg-en-Bresse Stade Marcel-Verchère 11,400
Cholet Cholet Stade Pierre Blouen 9,000
Concarneau Concarneau Stade Guy Piriou 6,500
Créteil Créteil Stade Dominique Duvauchelle 12,150
Laval Laval Stade Francis Le Basser 18,607
Le Mans Le Mans
MMArena
 25,000
SC Lyon
 		Lyon Stade de Balmont[c] 5,438
Orléans Orléans Stade de la Source 7,000
Quevilly-Rouen
 		Le Petit-Quevilly Stade Robert Diochon 12,018
Red Star
Saint-Ouen
) 		Stade Bauer 10,000
Stade Briochin Saint-Brieuc
Fred-Aubert Stadium
 10,600
Sète Sète
Stade Louis Michel
 8,500
Villefranche
 		Villefranche-sur-Saône Stade Armand-Chouffet 3,200
  1. Parc des Sports was unavailable until 31 October 2020 due to structural concerns. Annecy played their first two home games at Stade des Grangettes in Rumilly.[2][3]
  2. ^ Boulogne played their first home game at Stade de l'Epopée in Calais due to a new pitch being prepared at Stade de la Libération.[4]
  3. Saint-Priest, due to work taking place on the pitch at Stade de Balmont.[5]

Number of teams by regions

Teams Region Team(s)
4  Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Villefranche
3  Pays de la Loire Cholet, Laval and Le Mans
2  Brittany Concarneau and Stade Briochin
 Corsica
Bastia-Borgo
 Île-de-France
Créteil and Red Star
 Normandy
Quevilly-Rouen
1  Centre-Val de Loire Orléans
 Hauts-de-France Boulogne
 Occitanie Sète

Impact of COVID-19 on the season

The start of the season was impacted by the ongoing

Quevilly-Rouen and Bourg-Péronnas were both postponed due to COVID-19 cases at Annecy and Bourg-Péronnas,[7] as was the match between Bourg-Péronnas and Red Star in game-week four, due to Bourg-Péronnas players still isolating.[8] The game-week four match between Concarneau and Cholet was postponed an hour before kick-off due to positive tests for the Concarneau trainer and captain.[9] There was a follow-on postponement for Concarneau's match with Annecy in game-week 5, Annecy's third postponement of the season.[10]

The game-week four and five matches for

Bastia-Borgo and Boulogne, in accordance with local Corsican rules, due to Bastia-Borgo having played Orléans the previous Thursday.[12]

Positive cases at Sète caused the postponement of their game-week 5 match at Quevilly-Rouen,[13] and their game-week 6 match against Red Star,[14] whilst a local decree in Haute-Corse caused the postponement of their game-week 7 tie at SC Bastia.[15]

SC Lyon and Cholet in the same round was postponed due to positive cases at Cholet.[18]

Game-week 11 saw the postponements of Annecy v SC Lyon, Quevilly-Rouen v Stade Briochin and Villefranche v Sète due to Covid cases.[19][20][21]

Four matches were rearranged for the catch-up week of 28 to 30 October; Quevilly-Rouen v Bourg-Péronnas, Sète v Red Star, Annecy v Villefranche, and SC Lyon v Cholet, but postponed for a second time due to Covid cases.[22][23][24]

Game-week 12 ties between Cholet and Annecy, SC Lyon and Quevilly-Rouen, and Orléans and Boulogne were postponed.[25][26][27] Game-week 13 ties between Boulogne and Avranches, and between Le Mans and Orléans were postponed.[28][29]

All of the postponed matches were caught up by 15 December 2020.[30]

In February 2021, Red Star had two matches postponed due to Covid cases.[31]

In March 2021, the games between Laval and Bastia, and Concarneau and Boulogne, scheduled for 13 March, were both postponed due to Covid cases in the Laval and Boulogne squads.[32][33] Boulogne's next scheduled match, against Laval, was also postponed.[34] Positive cases at Créteil caused the postponement of their matches with Boulogne (27 March) and Le Mans (2 April).[35][36] The rescheduled date for Créteil's match with Le Mans, 14 April, was also postponed, along with their match against Villefranche, scheduled for 17 April, as the outbreak continued.[37][38]

In April, the game between Orléans and Le Mans, scheduled for 9 April, was postponed due to Covid cases in the Orléans squad.[39] On 21 April, Orléans announced further postponements due to Covid cases: the game against Le Mans, which had been rearranged for 21 April, and the game against Villefranche, which was scheduled for 24 April.[40] The game between Cholet and Bastia, scheduled for 23 April, was postponed on 22 April.[41]

League table

Due to the

SC Lyon.[43]

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Promotion or Relegation
1 SC Bastia (C, P) 34 19 9 6 57 28 +29 66 Promotion to Ligue 2
2
Quevilly-Rouen
(P) 		34 16 10 8 48 31 +17 58
3
Villefranche
 34 15 10 9 40 29 +11 55 Qualification to promotion play-offs
4 Le Mans 34 13 13 8 46 36 +10 52
5 Concarneau 34 11 15 8 38 32 +6 48
6 Orléans 34 12 11 11 49 41 +8 47
7 Red Star 34 11 14 9 39 33 +6 47
8 Cholet 34 11 10 13 36 48 −12 43
9 Bourg-Péronnas 34 10 13 11 29 33 −4 43
10 Stade Briochin 34 10 13 11 32 33 −1 43
11 Sète 34 10 13 11 31 32 −1 43
12 Laval 34 10 12 12 33 32 +1 42
13 Avranches 34 11 8 15 36 42 −6 41
14
Annecy
 34 9 13 12 42 47 −5 40
15 Boulogne 34 7 17 10 29 38 −9 38
16
Bastia-Borgo
 34 7 14 13 37 49 −12 35
17 Créteil 34 8 11 15 29 48 −19 35
18
SC Lyon
(R) 		34 5 16 13 33 52 −19 31 Relegation to 2021–22 Championnat National 2
Source: Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) head-to-head results; 2) head-to-head goal difference; 3) goal difference; 4) goals scored; 5) fair play points
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated

Promotion play-offs

A promotion play-off was held at the end of the season between the 18th-placed team of the 2020–21 Ligue 2 and the 3rd-placed team of the 2020–21 Championnat National. This was played over two legs on 19 and 22 May.[44]

Villefranche
3–1Niort
Blanc 54'
Dauchy 84'
Garita 90+3'		 Report
Bâ
45+2'
Stade Armand Chouffet, Villefranche-sur-Saône
Attendance: 0
Referee: Bartolomeu Varela Teles
Villefranche
Lebeau 78'
Kemen 81'		 Report
Attendance: 0
Referee: Nicolas Rainville

Niort won 3–3 on away goals

Top scorers

As of games played on 15 May 2021.[45]
Rank Player Club Goals
1 France Andrew Jung
Quevilly-Rouen
 21
2 France Wilson Isidor
Bastia-Borgo
 15
3 France Ottman Dadoune
Quevilly-Rouen
 13
France Gaëtan Perrin Orléans
5 France Thomas Robinet Laval 12
France Sébastian Da Silva SC Bastia
France Billal Brahimi Le Mans
France Antony Robic SC Bastia
9 France Carnegy Antoine Orléans 11
10 Guadeloupe Geoffray Durbant
Bastia-Borgo
 10
France Romain Spano
Annecy

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