Division 2 2000/01

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Division 2 2000/01
master FC Sochaux
Climbers FC Sochaux
FC Lorient
HSC Montpellier
Relegated FC Martigues
AS Cannes
SCO Angers
Teams 20th
Games 380
Gates 883  (ø 2.32 per game)
spectator 1,923,445  (ø 5062 per game)
Top scorer Francileudo Silva dos Santos ,
(FC Sochaux)
← Division 2 1999/2000
^ Division 1 2000/01

The Division 2 2000/01 was the 62nd staging of the second highest French football league . It was a league with only professional teams.

The game was played from July 28, 2000 to May 18, 2001. Second division champions were FC Sochaux-Montbéliard .

societies

The 14 clubs that had not been promoted to the first division or relegated to the third division (national) or lower after the previous season were eligible to participate ; there were also three first division relegated teams and just as many promoted national teams . So this season the following 20 teams played for the championship of Division 2 :

The top three clubs were directly eligible for promotion. The three worst placed participants had to relegate and were replaced by as many third division promoters.

Season course

Each team played a return match against each group opponent, once in front of their own audience and once away. The three-point rule applied ; in the event of a tie, the goal difference was decisive for the placement.

At the top of the table there was a duel for the championship between Sochaux and Lorient, which was only decided on the last match day. With these two teams, even the best-placed relegated from the Hérault could not keep pace in the end, but - unlike Montpellier's "comrades in fate" Nancy and Le Havre - could be certain early on that he would make the immediate promotion. In the relegation zone beginning with table rank eleven, all three promoters from the third division were to be found, of which only Beauvais was able to secure the further second division membership fairly early, while Angers had to return there immediately as the bottom. This lot would actually have hit FC Martigues third last; but because with the FC Toulouse one of the sporting first division relegated was administratively "transferred" to the national , Martigues remained in division 2 .

In the 380 encounters 883 hits were scored; this corresponds to an average of 2.3 goals per game. The most successful goalscorer and thus the winner of the league's top scorer's crown was Francileudo Silva dos Santos from Master Sochaux with 21 goals. For the following season came with the AS Saint-Étienne and Racing Strasbourg exceptionally only two relegated from Division 1 ; three teams rose from the third highest division, namely SC Amiens , Grenoble Foot and FC Istres-Ville-Nouvelle . Thus, in the following season, Strasbourg and Amiens, this year's cup finalists played together in the second division.

Closing table

Pl. society Sp. S. U N Gates Diff. Points
 1. FC Sochaux  38  21st  12  5 067:270 +40 75
 2. FC Lorient  38  21st  11  6th 058:340 +24 74
 3. HSC Montpellier (A)  38  18th  14th  6th 052:260 +26 68
 4th Chamois Niort  38  15th  14th  9 058:440 +14 59
 5. AS Nancy (A)  38  15th  11  12 046:320 +14 56
 6th LB Châteauroux  38  14th  14th  10 050:380 +12 56
 7th Le Havre AC (A)  38  14th  14th  10 048:420  +6 56
 8th. Olympique Nîmes  38  14th  11  13 053:560  −3 53
 9. Stade Laval  38  15th  8th  15th 039:430  −4 53
10. FC Gueugnon  38  13  11  14th 044:500  −6 50
11. AS Beauvais (N)  38  11  14th  13 038:420  −4 47
12. AC Ajaccio  38  12  10  16 032:400  −8 46
13. IT Wasquehal  38  11  12  15th 037:400  −3 45
14th Le Mans UC  38  9  18th  11 037:450  −8 45
15th OGC Nice  38  13  6th  19th 039:560 −17 45
16. US Créteil  38  10  13  15th 037:430  −6 43
17th SM Caen  38  11  10  17th 038:330  +5 43
18th FC Martigues (N)  38  8th  15th  15th 030:460 −16 39
19th AS Cannes  38  8th  10  20th 045:660 −21 34
20th SCO Angers (N)  38  7th  12  19th 035:600 −25 33

Placement criteria: 1st points - 2nd goal difference - 3rd goals scored

  • Promotion to Division 1 2001/02
  • Relegation to the National (D3)
    • (A) Relegated from Division 1 in 1999/2000
    (N) Newcomers

    See also

    Web links

    literature

    • Alex Graham: Football in France. A statistical record 1894-2005. Soccer Books, Cleethorpes 2005, ISBN 1-86223-138-9
    • Sophie Guillet / François Laforge: Le guide français et international du football éd. 2009. Vecchi, Paris 2008, ISBN 978-2-7328-9295-5

    Notes and evidence

    1. ↑ Guillet / Laforge, p. 253