Championnat National 1 A 1999/2000
The 1999/2000 season of the Championnat National 1 A was the 26th 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 . 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 year's winners of the Toulouse Olympique Aérospatial Club were able to repeat their success and thus won their second championship 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: Juvisy FCF , US Orléans , promoted Olympique Saint-Memmie ,
- from the west: ESOF La Roche , promoted Stade Quimper , the renamed Saint-Brieuc FF , ASJ Soyaux , defending champion Toulouse OAC
- from the south: SC Caluire Saint-Clair , newly promoted FC Félines Saint-Cyr , FC Lyon , Entente Montpellier Le Crès
The championship consisted of two phases. First, a double round of points was played, in which each club competed in home and away games against each other. The " modified three-point rule " , which was common in French amateur football into the 21st century, applied with four points for a win, two for a draw and one for a defeat won on the field; 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.
As a novelty, a subsequent play-off round was introduced this season , in which the women in positions one to four determined the final title winner. This “championship round”, known in France as the Poule des as (“group of aces”), consisted of only one encounter between each of the participating teams against each other. The points from the first phase were not taken away, only the first and second placed there received two or one bonus point, and these two teams also had two home games in the championship round, while the third and fourth placed only one each.
Phase 1: Results, table and course of the season
| SC CSC |
FCF Juv |
ESO LaR |
FC Lyo |
Ent M-C |
US Orl |
Sta Qui |
FF StB |
FC FSC |
Oly StM |
ASJ Soy |
OAC Tou |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SC Caluire Saint-Clair | 3: 6 | 0-0 | 4: 2 | 2: 3 | 4: 4 | 2: 3 | 1: 8 | 5: 5 | 3: 1 | 1: 4 | 2: 4 | |
| FCF Juvisy | 5: 1 | 5: 2 | 1-0 | 7-0 | 5-0 | 2: 1 | 7: 1 | 4: 1 | 5-0 | 3-0 | 2: 3 | |
| ESOF La Roche | 3: 1 | 0-0 | 2-0 | 3: 1 | 7: 1 | 2: 4 | 2: 1 | 8-0 | 4-0 | 0-0 | 1: 4 | |
| FC Lyon | 2: 1 | 0: 4 | 2-0 | 3: 2 | 1-0 | 0-0 | 3: 2 | 7-0 | 1: 1 | 2-0 | 1: 5 | |
| Entente Montp. Le Crès | 2: 2 | 1: 3 | 2: 1 | 0: 2 | 0: 2 | 1: 4 | 0: 2 | 6-0 | 3: 1 | 1-0 | 0: 4 | |
| US Orléans | 0: 1 | 0: 2 | 0: 5 | 1: 4 | 0: 1 | 1: 3 | 1: 4 | 2: 3 | 2: 2 | 0: 5 | 0: 5 | |
| Quimper Stadium | 1: 1 | 0: 1 | 0: 5 | 1: 3 | 3: 1 | 4-0 | 1: 7 | 1: 1 | 0: 3 | 2: 2 | 0: 2 | |
| Saint-Brieuc FF | 4: 4 | 1: 1 | 1: 4 | 1: 4 | 4: 3 | 3: 1 | 4-0 | 8: 1 | 4: 1 | 6: 1 | 0: 3 | |
| FC Félines Saint-Cyr | 1: 1 | 2: 3 | 1: 4 | 0: 2 | 1: 2 | 1-0 | 1: 1 | 1: 6 | 1: 5 | 0: 3 | 0: 7 | |
| Olympique Saint-Memmie | 1: 1 | 1: 3 | 2: 1 | 0: 1 | 3: 1 | 5-0 | 0: 1 | 2: 2 | 2-0 | 0-0 | 3: 5 | |
| ASJ Soyaux | 9: 2 | 1: 1 | 0: 1 | 1: 3 | 0: 2 | 7: 2 | 4: 1 | 3: 2 | 2: 1 | 3: 2 | 1: 5 | |
| Toulouse OAC | 2-0 | 0-0 | 4: 1 | 0: 1 | 3: 3 | 5-0 | 2: 1 | 4-0 | 13: 0 | 3: 1 | 2-0 |
| Pl. | Womanhood | Sp | G | U | V | Gates | Diff. | Pts. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Toulouse OAC (M) | 22nd | 19th | 2 | 1 | 85:17 | 81 | |
| 2. | Juvisy FCF | 22nd | 17th | 4th | 1 | 70:18 | 77 | |
| 3. | FC Lyon | 22nd | 15th | 2 | 5 | 44:26 | 69 | |
| 4th | ESOF La Roche | 22nd | 12 | 3 | 7th | 56:29 | 61 | |
| 5. | Saint-Brieuc FF | 22nd | 11 | 3 | 8th | 71:48 | 58 | |
| 6th | ASJ Soyaux | 22nd | 9 | 4th | 9 | 46:39 | 53 | |
| 7th | Stade Quimper (N) | 22nd | 7th | 5 | 10 | 32:45 | −13 a | 48 |
| 8th. | Entente Montpellier Le Crès | 22nd | 8th | 2 | 12 | 35:50 | −15 a | 48 |
| 9. | Olympique Saint-Memmie (N) | 22nd | 6th | 5 | 11 | 36:44 | 45 | |
| 10. | SC Caluire Saint-Clair | 22nd | 3 | 8th | 11 | 42:70 | 39 | |
| 11. | FC Félines Saint-Cyr (N) | 22nd | 2 | 4th | 16 | 21:92 | 32 | |
| 12. | US Orléans | 22nd | 1 | 2 | 19th | 17:77 | 27 |
The two top women from Toulouse and Juvisy remained unbeaten abroad; They had to accept their only defeat of the season (against Lyon or against the TOAC) in front of their home crowd and were able to set themselves apart early on from the competition, which in fact only consisted of FC Lyon.
Two of the three newcomers to the league finished the table in midfield, with the “elevator team” from Stade Quimper turning out to be relatively strong away from home this time with five wins and two draws on opposing places. The games of the other team from Brittany were particularly high-scoring - on average more than five hits per game - : Saint-Brieuc's offensive against the goal- scoring national player Françoise Jézéquel was only unsuccessful in the two games against Toulouse.
In the battle for relegation, two clubs with very different league histories hit the bottom of the table, US Orléans (without a home win). While Caluire had already reached the national finals at the first national championship a quarter of a century earlier, this was the first and only participation in France's top division for the "village team" from Félines in Ardèche, and until the 2010s. These three relegated teams were replaced the following season by the most successful second division clubs, namely Celtic Marseille , the Entente Sportive Cormelles-le-Royal from Normandy and the Alsatians of SC Schiltigheim .
Championship round
| FCF Juv |
ESO LaR |
FC Lyo |
OAC Tou |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Juvisy FCF | 2: 3 | 6: 2 | : | |
| ESOF La Roche | : | : | 0: 3 | |
| FC Lyon | : | 1: 5 | : | |
| Toulouse OAC | 0: 1 | : | 4-0 |
| Pl. | Womanhood | Sp | G | U | V | Gates | Diff. | bonus | Pts. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Toulouse OAC | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7: 1 | 2 | 11 | |
| 2. | Juvisy FCF | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 9: 5 | 1 | 10 | |
| 3. | ESOF La Roche | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8: 6 | 0 | 9 | |
| 4th | FC Lyon | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3:15 | 0 | 3 |
On the last of the three game days of the championship round, there was a real final in La Roche-sur-Yon . ESOF La Roche - which was only placed fourth in the first championship phase - saw the starting position before the game with eight points, while the guests from Toulouse only had seven including bonus. Even a draw would have been enough for the hosts, who were only runner-up last year, to win the first title in the club's history, because with ten points they would have tied with Juvisy and had already won the direct comparison against them. The TOAC defending champions won this decisive match, as they did in both meetings during the first phase of the season.
The champions' players
Coach Jean-Pierre Bonnet had the following players in his squad:
- Goal: Laëtitia Frasca , Céline Marty , Géraldine Marty
- Defense: Natacha Burg , Marie-Laure Chaume , Marie Cizac , Dominique Geminiano , Cendrine Juhel , Magalie Luscan , Aurélie Samptiaux , Myriam Saïdi , Sabrina Viguier
- Midfield: Gaëlle Blouin , Céline Bonnet , Emmanuelle Dalpos , Marie-Ange Kramo , Marie-Joëlle Kramo , Karine Pavailler , Emmanuelle Royer , Céline Suc , Élodie Woock
- Attack: Caroline Bouscatel , Mélanie Briche , Christelle Caillard , Sandrine Rouquet , Anne Zenoni
See also
literature
- Pascal Grégoire-Boutreau: Au bonheur des filles. Cahiers intempestifs, Saint-Étienne 2003, ISBN 2-911698-25-8
Web links
- 1999/2000 season at footofeminin.fr
- 1999/2000 season at rsssf.com
Notes and evidence
- ↑ Grégoire-Boutreau, p. 249
- ↑ Toulouse's squad at footofeminin.fr