LFP: a "liaison committee" desired by the clubs to "better understand" refereeing decisions

The Collège de Ligue 1 (Board of Ligue 1) would like to set up a liaison committee comprising the chairs of the Ligue 1 (Jean-Pierre Caillot, Stade de Reims) and Ligue 2 (Bernard Joannin, Amiens SC) boards, the vice-presidents of the Ligue 1 board (Jean-Pierre Rivère, OGC Nice), the chairman of Foot Unis (Laurent Nicollin, Montpellier Hérault SC) and FFF refereeing officials, Montpellier Hérault SC) and the FFF's refereeing managers, with the aim of "enabling the parties to coordinate better on the technical guidelines put in place but also to better understand the decisions taken on matches in order to enhance the value of the professional leagues," said the Ligue de Football Professionnel on 06/03/2024.

The presidents of the 2023-24 Ligue 1 Uber Eats clubs want to review the organisation of refereeing in professional football, believing that the current system, which they did not want and which was the wish of the Fédération Française de Football and which they finally supported, has "negative consequences on the performance of refereeing teams, and therefore on the management of…