Championnat National 1 A 1996/97
The 1996/97 season of the Championnat National 1 A was the 23rd edition of the French women's football championship since the official recognition of women's football by the FFF, the French Football Association , in 1970 and the first edition in the 1974/75 season . From 1992 to 2002, the national highest league was designated as Championnat National 1 A.
The previous year's champions of Juvisy FCF could defend her title and won their fourth French Cup.
Qualification and mode of competition
For the eligibility to participate, only the performance of the women's teams in the previous season was taken into account. The teams that had taken one of the first nine places qualified as well as three promoted teams from the National 1 B Championship , the second division. These were:
- from the northwest: promoted USO Bruay-Labuissière , defending champion Juvisy FCF , US Le Mans , Chaffoteaux Sports Saint-Brieuc , VGA Saint-Maur , Olympique Saint-Memmie
- from the southwest: Newcomers ESOF La Roche , ASJ Soyaux , Toulouse Olympique Aérospatial Club
- from the southeast: promoted Celtic Beaumont (from Marseille), SC Caluire Saint-Clair , FC Lyon
The championship was decided in a double round of points, in which each club competed in home and away games against each other. The three-point rule applied ; in the event of a tie, first the direct comparison and then, if necessary, the better overall goal difference was decisive. At the end of the season, the three bottom of the table had to be relegated and were replaced for the coming season by the group winners of the three second-class seasons.
Results, table and course of the season
The results of the home games can be read in the cross table in the horizontal row, those of the away games in the vertical column.
USO Bru |
SC CSC |
FCF Juv |
ESO LaR |
US LeM |
FC Lyo |
Cel. Bea |
ASJ Soy |
CS StB |
VGA SMa |
Oly. SMe |
OAC Tou |
|
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USO Bruay-Labuissière | 3-0 | 2: 3 | 1: 2 | 5: 1 | 2: 1 | 2: 1 | 2: 3 | 1: 1 | 1: 1 | 5: 2 | 2: 2 | |
SC Caluire Saint-Clair | 1: 1 | 1: 1 | 2: 1 | 2: 1 | 0: 4 | 2: 3 | 1: 1 | 1: 6 | 1-0 | 1: 4 | 0: 6 | |
Juvisy FCF | 2: 1 | 6-0 | 2-0 | 7-0 | 1-0 | 6-0 | 2: 1 | 4: 1 | 1-0 | 3: 3 | 1-0 | |
ESOF La Roche | 3-0 | 1-0 | 1: 1 | 3: 1 | 2: 1 | 0-0 | 3: 3 | 0: 3 | 0: 2 | 3-0 | 0: 2 | |
US Le Mans | 2: 1 | 0: 7 | 1: 4 | 0: 6 | 1: 4 | 1: 2 | 1: 3 | 0: 4 | 0: 3 | 2: 1 | 0: 8 | |
FC Lyon | 1: 3 | 4-0 | 1: 2 | 3: 1 | 1-0 | 4: 1 | 1: 1 | 2: 2 | 2-0 | 7: 4 | 0: 3 | |
Celtic Beaumont | 1: 1 | 0-0 | 1: 2 | 3: 2 | 2: 1 | 0: 1 | 1: 4 | 1: 1 | 1-0 | 3: 2 | 0: 2 | |
ASJ Soyaux | 1: 3 | 1: 2 | 1: 3 | 8: 1 | 4-0 | 0: 1 | 0-0 | 2: 2 | 2: 3 | 2: 1 | 0: 3 | |
CS Saint-Brieuc | 6: 1 | 1-0 | 0: 3 | 3: 1 | 3: 1 | 2-0 | 6: 3 | 4: 2 | 4: 1 | 2: 2 | 3: 2 | |
VGA Saint-Maur | 0-0 | 2: 1 | 1: 2 | 1: 1 | 3: 1 | 0: 1 | 1: 1 | 0-0 | 1: 2 | 1: 1 | 3: 1 | |
Olympique Saint-Memmie | 9: 4 | 1: 2 | 0: 7 | 1: 2 | 10-0 | 1: 2 | 3: 3 | 3: 5 | 2-0 | 0: 2 | 1-0 | |
Toulouse OAC | 4-0 | 1-0 | 3: 1 | 4-0 | 8-0 | 3: 1 | 5-0 | 4: 2 | 2: 2 | 2-0 | 1-0 |
Pl. | Womanhood | Sp | G | U | V | Gates | Diff. | Pts. |
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1. | Juvisy FCF | 22nd | 18th | 3 | 1 | 64:18 | 57 | |
2. | Toulouse OAC | 22nd | 16 | 2 | 4th | 66:16 | 50 | |
3. | CS Saint-Brieuc | 22nd | 13 | 6th | 3 | 58:32 | 45 | |
4th | FC Lyon | 22nd | 12 | 2 | 8th | 42:29 | 38 | |
5. | VGA Saint-Maur | 22nd | 7th | 6th | 9 | 25:25 | ± a | 027 |
6th | USO Bruay Lab. (N) | 22nd | 7th | 6th | 9 | 41:47 | - a | 627 |
7th | ASJ Soyaux | 22nd | 7th | 6th | 9 | 46:41 | + a | 527 |
8th. | ESOF La Roche (N) | 22nd | 8th | 4th | 10 | 33:41 | 25 c | |
9. | Celtic Beaumont (N) | 22nd | 6th | 7th | 9 | 27:46 | 20 d | |
10. | Olympus. Saint-Memmie | 22nd | 5 | 4th | 13 | 51:57 | - b | 619th |
11. | SC Caluire Saint-Clair | 22nd | 6th | 4th | 12 | 24:48 | -24 b | 19 c |
12. | US Le Mans | 22nd | 2 | 0 | 20th | 14:91 | 0 e |
It was not because of the strength of the home that the top three teams were separated by a considerable point gap. Because Juvisy and Toulouse each had ten wins and one draw in front of their home crowd, and Saint-Brieuc was also able to record nine wins and one draw in their own stadium. Away, however, the future champions were only defeated once - by pursuers TOAC - while the latter had to go back to Toulouse from four games without winning a point despite his most dangerous attack and the best defense in the league. The Breton women from Saint-Brieuc lost only two encounters abroad, but only managed to split points in five more. The players from Lyon were practically alone in the middle of the table, while the relegation zone began from fifth place onwards.
This time, all three climbers managed to secure their class membership for another year. Otherwise, the association's strict policy with regard to broadening youth work in the women's field led to the obligation to maintain girls' teams for children and young people of all age groups (U-13, U-16 and U-19) and to provide qualified trainers for this purpose, with punishments staggered depending on the individual case several first division teams that did not meet these requirements or did not fully meet them. In the mid-1990s, the FFF still considered these measures, which affected every third top division club, to be necessary because in numerous French clubs - apart from all-women clubs and those whose men's teams only played in lower amateur leagues - women's football was only the “fifth Rad am Wagen “was considered.
However, these point deductions did not have a decisive effect on which three women were relegated to the National 1 B Championship . The starting positions of Saint-Memmie, Caluire and Le Mans took the newly promoted AS Saint-Quentin , Stade Quimper and Entente Montpellier Le Crès for the following season .
See also
literature
- Pascal Grégoire-Boutreau: Au bonheur des filles. Cahiers intempestifs, Saint-Étienne 2003, ISBN 2-911698-25-8
Web links
- 1996/97 season at rsssf.com
Notes and evidence
- ↑ On this topic, see in particular Laurence Prudhomme-Poncet: Histoire du football féminin au XXe siècle. L'Harmattan, Paris 2003, ISBN 2-7475-4730-2 , pp. 274-277.
- ↑ Grégoire-Boutreau, p. 248