{"id":512745,"date":"2026-08-31T16:40:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T14:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=512745"},"modified":"2026-08-31T16:40:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T14:40:28","slug":"official-saint-quentin-remain-in-betclic-elite-fos-provence-promoted-to-elite-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/official-saint-quentin-remain-in-betclic-elite-fos-provence-promoted-to-elite-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Official: Saint-Quentin Remain in Betclic \u00c9LITE, Fos Provence Promoted to ELITE 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is now official: Saint-Quentin Basket-Ball will remain in Betclic \u00c9LITE for the 2026-27 season<\/strong>, while Fos Provence Basket<\/strong> have been promoted to ELITE 2. The Ligue Nationale de Basket’s Executive Committee approved the participation of both clubs in their respective competitions on Monday, August 31.<\/p>\n

Saint-Quentin Officially Remain in Betclic \u00c9LITE<\/h2>\n

Saint-Quentin can now definitively prepare for another season in France’s top division. The club, which was relegated on the court last spring, have officially been retained in Betclic \u00c9LITE<\/strong> following the CNOSF’s decision regarding AS Monaco.<\/p>\n

The LNB Executive Committee has now formally confirmed Saint-Quentin’s administrative survival, bringing the uncertainty surrounding the 2026-27 Betclic \u00c9LITE lineup to an end.<\/p>\n

Fos Provence Promoted to ELITE 2<\/h2>\n

Saint-Quentin’s return to the top division has had a direct impact on the composition of France’s second tier. Fos Provence Basket<\/strong>, initially relegated to Nationale 1, have officially been promoted to ELITE 2<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The Bouches-du-Rh\u00f4ne club benefited from several teams ahead of them declining the opportunity to take the available spot, including Challans, who had been in position to remain in ELITE 2 but turned down the possibility.<\/p>\n

After dropping to Nationale 1 in 2025, the BYers will therefore return to the LNB’s second division.<\/p>\n

One Nationale 1 Spot Remains Vacant<\/h2>\n

Fos Provence’s promotion creates another vacancy, this time in Nationale 1<\/strong>. No decision has yet been announced regarding which club will fill the remaining spot.<\/p>\n

The timing makes the situation particularly complicated, with the Nationale 2 season scheduled to begin on September 5. Promoting an NM2 team, with Cergy-Pontoise previously identified as the leading candidate, would require a very late restructuring of the competition.<\/p>\n

Another possible scenario involves AS Monaco’s association first team, although that possibility depends on the future of Monaco’s professional structure and a potential move to another competition, such as the Adriatic League.<\/p>\n

For now, the final Nationale 1 spot remains vacant<\/strong>, with the Federal Bureau expected to make a decision to avoid a season featuring one group with 14 teams and another with 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LNB officially confirms Saint-Quentin in Betclic \u00c9LITE for 2026-27, while Fos Provence are promoted to ELITE 2. One Nationale 1 spot remains vacant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":512744,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[237],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[15727],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-512745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-betclic-elite","typology-press-release-en"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/08\/Saint-Quentin.jpeg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512745"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=512745"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=512745"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=512745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}