Paris Saint-Germain supporters will not be allowed to attend their team's Ligue 1 clash against Marseille this weekend following a ruling by local authorities.
The defending champions are due to visit the Stade Velodrome on Sunday evening but police in Marseille have decided not to allow PSG fans access to the ground.
Five hundred PSG supporters had hoped to attend the game but, according to AFP, local police prefect Laurent Nunez said there was "too great a risk of public order troubles." Lyon supporters were barred from going to the Stade Velodrome earlier this season for similar reasons.
France is still in a state of emergency following terror attacks in Paris and Nice in recent years, something which has placed a strain on local police resources.
However, the absence of visiting supporters for a game involving these two sides is nothing new. Marseille fans boycotted the reverse fixture in October in protest at the number of tickets they were afforded as well as high parking prices around the Parc des Princes.
Marseille supporters' groups also chose not to take up their ticket allocation for last season's fixture in Paris following crowd trouble at the Marseille-Lyon game earlier that year.
The Marseille-PSG match nonetheless looks set to be a 67,000 sell-out and injured Marseille captain Bafetimbi Gomis believes his team can cause problems for the visitors on Sunday.
"Every match is different -- it's going to be very difficult," Gomis told RMC. "You have to respect the opponent, which is PSG.
"But in a classique at the Velodrome, everything is possible and at the moment we have the means to put them in danger."
Marseille are currently sixth in Ligue 1, 17 points behind second-placed PSG.
Gomis is the home team's top goal scorer with 16 league goals this season but he will sit out Sunday's game with a knee injury.
However, the on-loan Swansea striker feels home advantage could prove decisive against a PSG side that beat Barcelona 4-0 in the Champions League earlier this month.
"They're coming off a good performance against Barcelona," he said. "It was good for French football but it will be a completely different story at the Velodrome, where we've only lost one match [this season] against Monaco.
"It will be a real fortress -- I'm really sad not to be able to take part."