Ligue 2 is facing the prospect of having to handle 21 teams this season after minnows Luzenac were authorised to play in French football's second tier.
After a Toulouse court ordered the DNCG, the body which oversees football's finances in France, to re-examine the club's case, it decided on Thursday that Luzenac could now be admitted to Ligue 2, despite the season having started last weekend.
The French football league (LFP) announced on its official website that it will now look at how it will deal with the situation at an emergency meeting of its administrative council on Aug. 8.
With Chateauroux -- relegated last season -- having been reinstated into Ligue 2, Luzenac, which represents a village in south-western France of some 600 inhabitants and boasts World Cup winner Fabien Barthez as director general, will take the second tier up to 21 clubs.