Brest in the Champions League, this remains to be confirmed, but we are off to a good start. Four days before the end of the championship, the Bretons are 3rd in the standings and therefore provisionally qualified directly for the group stage. One certainty: in C1, Eric Roy’s men will have to make do with 5,000 seats if they wish to play their home matches in their usual venue, the Francis-Le Blé stadium. The other option is to play elsewhere.
L’Equipe reveals this Monday that UEFA has not granted the exemption requested by Stade Brestois to approve its stadium. Exemption made necessary by the ban on tubular stands, that is to say made up of an assembly of metal tubes. Three of the four stands at Francis-Le Blé are. The club has until mid-May to notify the European governing body of its choice: play in front of three-quarters empty stands or relocate.