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Bordeaux Placed in Sixth-Tier After €10M Sanctions

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  • Bordeaux will play in France’s sixth-tier football league this season after sanctions.
  • Sanctions follow the club’s failure to provide roughly €10 million for the 2025-26 and 2026-27 budgets.
  • The club sold for €1 to US investor Park Bench, whose president Dominique Delport said rebuilding can now begin.
  • Bordeaux must appear in court on October 20 to ratify a 12-year plan halving debt to €13 million.