Amiens are first team in Europe to launch legal challenge against relegation after Ligue 1 drop with TEN games to play

AMIENS have become the first team in Europe to take legal action after being relegated with ten games still to play.

President Bernard Joannin has lodged a formal complaint against the French Football Federation in a Paris court.

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He is demanding that no teams are demoted from Ligue 1 after the government ordered a sports shutdown until September.

Joannin insisted: “This decision is unjust, incoherent and unfounded.

“How can you relegate two teams when there’s still a quarter of the season to be played?”

Sporting director John Williams expects to win their case and said: “The Amiens soldier is not dead and nobody is dancing on its coffin.”

Lyon are set to join Amiens — relegated with Toulouse — in court.

They were seventh and face missing out on a European spot.

Lyon and Paris Saint-Germain are both still in this season’s Champions League.

President Jean-Michel Aulas warned: “If our legal action to resume the league doesn’t succeed, Lyon and PSG will be massacred by teams who have had preparation.”