It is “The” project of Stéphane Nomis, the president of France Judo, who personally launched this file which he says is important to him. “particularly at heart”. An “American-style” closed league project of twelve clubs (for the moment) designed to energize national judo through a team competition with regular meetings. In what spirit? “French judo today has to face competition from new spectator sports such as BMX or three-a-side basketball. Our town halls complain that they finance French judo without ever seeing it. This is what we offer: seeing French judo regularly, highlighting teams, but also the regions behind them, creating stories, enthusiasms, always with the global promotion of our judo in all its ambition as a benchmark, c that is to say also through its moral code, exemplary attitudes, and the ippon, which we wish to put forward, including by revisiting the rules. I say thank you to the twelve teams and their presidents who dared and who will be today and for the future the twelve pioneers of this project which aims to open a new era for our judo”.
After analyzing the media success of the mixed teams of the Olympic Games, but also that of the last day of the last senior world championships in Tashkent, FranceJudo carried out its work with a beating drum to refine this old intention, sketch the concept, decline the graphic charter, convincing the teams… and finding the first dates. And it will be for November 15 for a “Judo Pro League, season 1” whose official announcement was made today in Toulon during the French championships. If some clubs and not the least have declined the invitation such as RSC Champigny, PSG Judo, AC Boulogne-Billancourt or Sainte-Geneviève Sports, others have merged for new entities like “Paris-Saclay” which brings together Chilly-Mazarin and FLAM91, that many questions remain on the real economic model, the system of dual licenses which will make it possible to be from a club and a member of a different team from the “Pro League”, the addition from dates to an already busy calendar, the question of diets, study and training time, the interest for clubs or regional entities… “The strength of the project at this stage is that it exists” as Stéphane Nomis points out. The future will tell if the fiery president of FranceJudo has managed to install, in France, for the first time, the concept of closed franchise. “France has often been innovative in judo, we are part of this tradition”. This is well said.
We therefore find Franche-Comté with AJBD 21-25, the Dojo Nantais, Normandy Judo, Arts Martiaux Asnières, ESBM, OM Judo, Corsica Judo, Judo Nice Métropole (with an unprecedented alliance between OJ Nice and Nice Judo), Paris Saclay Judo (Flam91 and I JC Chilly-Mazarin), the Dojo Béglais, Montpellier Judo Olympique and the US Orléans Loiret JJ.
Twelve teams, four days for the group stages, quarter-finals then “Final Four”… everything starts on November 15 with the following programme.
All information (dates, competition format, etc.) can be found here
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