FRENCH football club Bastia have been handed a one-point deduction after their second-tier game was disrupted when a fan racially abused an assistant referee.

The French league said late on Wednesday that its disciplinary panel judged the case based on the racial abuse of the match official, plus fans lighting fireworks and throwing one on the field.

Points deductions in such cases have been requested for more than a decade by anti-discrimination groups working in football.