Championnat National 1 A 1997/98
The 1997/98 season of the Championnat National 1 A was the 24th playing 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 in the 1974/75 season . The Championnat National 1 A was pure League mode in a group consisting of a single group, twelve-team france wide highest league discharged. The French soccer players were officially pure amateurs at the time.
The previous winners of Juvisy FCF could not repeat their success; instead, FC Lyon won their fourth league title.
Qualification and mode of competition
For the right to participate, only the performance in the previous season was taken into account; Qualified were the nine best-placed women's teams of the previous year as well as three climbers from the second division, which is divided into three regional groups (Championnat National 1 B) . Thus, the first division this season included the following participants:
- from the north: USO Bruay-Labuissière , defending champion Juvisy FCF , VGA Saint-Maur , promoted AS Saint-Quentin
- from the west: ESOF La Roche , promoted Stade Quimper , CS Saint-Brieuc , ASJ Soyaux , Toulouse OAC
- from the south: Celtic Beaumont , FC Lyon , newly promoted Entente Montpellier Le Crès
The championship was played 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
|
USO Bru |
FCF Juv |
ESO LaR |
FC Lyo |
Cel Bea |
Ent MLC |
Sta Qui |
CS StB |
VGA StM |
AS StQ |
ASJ Soy |
OAC Tou |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| USO Bruay-Labuiss. | 0: 2 | 1: 3 | 1: 2 | 3-0 | 4: 3 | 0: 3 | 2: 1 | 3: 3 | 2: 1 | 2: 7 | 3-0 | |
| Juvisy FCF | 2: 1 | 1: 2 | 1: 1 | 8-0 | 6-0 | 2: 1 | 3: 1 | 1-0 | 2-0 | 2: 1 | 1-0 | |
| ESOF La Roche | 4: 3 | 1: 2 | 0-0 | 3-0 | 2-0 | 4-0 | 1: 1 | 4-0 | 3-0 | 2-0 | 1: 3 | |
| FC Lyon | 6: 2 | 1-0 | 2: 1 | 2: 1 | 2: 2 | 8: 1 | 5-0 | 4-0 | 2-0 | 3: 3 | 3-0 | |
| Celtic Beaumont | 3: 2 | 1: 4 | 0: 3 | 0: 3 | 1: 2 | 3: 1 | 1: 2 | 1-0 | 1: 6 | 0: 4 | 1: 8 | |
| Montpellier Le Crès | 3-0 | 2: 6 | 0: 1 | 2: 6 | 2: 1 | 3-0 | 0: 3 | 3-0 | 2: 3 | 2: 2 | 2: 4 | |
| Quimper Stadium | 3: 4 | 1: 4 | 1: 2 | 0: 4 | 5: 1 | 1: 1 | 0: 2 | 1: 1 | 2-0 | 5: 6 | 0: 8 | |
| CS Saint-Brieuc | 9: 2 | 2: 1 | 1: 1 | 1: 3 | 5: 1 | 7: 1 | 5: 1 | 4-0 | 2: 3 | 1-0 | 2: 4 | |
| VGA Saint-Maur | 1: 1 | 1: 2 | 0-0 | 0: 2 | 1-0 | 0: 1 | 2: 2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0: 3 | |
| AS Saint-Quentin | 4-0 | 0: 6 | 0: 2 | 1: 8 | 4: 1 | 1: 1 | 3-0 | 0: 4 | 0: 2 | 2-0 | 0: 5 | |
| ASJ Soyaux | 1: 1 | 1: 1 | 1-0 | 1: 3 | 3: 1 | 7-0 | 5-0 | 0: 2 | 2-0 | 4: 2 | 1: 4 | |
| Toulouse OAC | 3: 1 | 0: 2 | 3: 1 | 2: 2 | 4: 1 | 4-0 | 7-0 | 3: 2 | 1-0 | 1-0 | 2-0 |
| Pl. | Womanhood | Sp | G | U | V | Gates | Diff. | Pts. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | FC Lyon | 22nd | 17th | 5 | 0 | 72:19 | 56 | |
| 2. | Juvisy FCF (TV) | 22nd | 17th | 2 | 3 | 59:17 | 53 | |
| 3. | Toulouse OAC | 22nd | 17th | 1 | 4th | 69:23 | 52 | |
| 4th | ESOF La Roche | 22nd | 13 | 4th | 5 | 41:19 | 43 | |
| 5. | CS Saint-Brieuc | 22nd | 12 | 3 | 7th | 57:32 | 39 | |
| 6th | ASJ Soyaux | 22nd | 9 | 5 | 8th | 49:35 | 32 | |
| 7th | AS Saint-Quentin (N) | 22nd | 7th | 2 | 13 | 30:50 | 23 | |
| 8th. | Entente Montp. Le Crès (N) | 22nd | 6th | 4th | 12 | 32:61 | 22nd | |
| 9. | USO Bruay-Labuissière | 22nd | 6th | 3 | 13 | 38:64 | 21st | |
| 10. | VGA Saint-Maur | 22nd | 2 | 8th | 12 | 11:35 | 14th | |
| 11. | Stade Quimper (N) | 22nd | 3 | 3 | 16 | 28:75 | 12 | |
| 12. | Celtic Beaumont | 22nd | 3 | 0 | 19th | 19:75 | 9 |
Juvisy at home against La Roche and Toulouse in Bruay suffered a few slip-ups, while the new champions' players were undefeated, and with three teams of similar strength this resulted in a narrow point advantage for FC Lyon in the end. In the lower half of the two-part table middle field, Saint-Quentin and Montpellier, two of the three newcomers, whose points account showed a clear gap to tenth place.
After two years of membership in the first division, the women from the Marseilles suburb of Beaumont, who did not bring a single point from their away trips and also only won at home against the three women's teams placed immediately in front of them, had to relegate. Celtic was accompanied by the newcomers from Quimper and VGA Saint-Maur. The latter had been the “over-team” of the 1980s with six French championship titles, had already participated in its first playout in 1974/75 and in 1992/93 in the league - behind Lyon and Juvisy - were once again third in the table. Since then, La Vie au Grand Air had slowly gone downhill, and this development now culminated in an unprecedentedly poor goal rate of eleven goals in 22 games. Saint-Maur's women scored seven goals in just three games, so that they could only look forward to a goal of their own in one in five of the remaining 19 games. Even a relatively solid defense around national goal woman Sandrine Roux , who only conceded 35 goals, could not compensate for that. For at least the following 16 years, VGA Saint-Maur did not find its way back into the first division.
For the coming season , Croix Blanche OSL Angers , US Orléans and SC Caluire Saint-Clair were newly promoted from the second division .
See also
literature
- Pascal Grégoire-Boutreau: Au bonheur des filles. Cahiers intempestifs, Saint-Étienne 2003, ISBN 2-911698-25-8
Web links
- 1997/98 season at rsssf.com
Notes and evidence
- ↑ Grégoire-Boutreau, p. 55