Championnat de France Amateur

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Championnat de France Amateur describes the French football championship for amateur teams . It is played in two national leagues organized by the Fédération Française de Football : the fourth-rate CFA and the fifth-rate CFA 2 . For the 2017/18 season, the CFA was renamed National 2 and the CFA 2 was renamed National 3 .

history

Before professional football was introduced (1932), all French champions were amateurs , at least on paper . An explicitly named competition arose with the 1934/35 season, at the end of which the regional championship teams ( winners of the respective Division d'Honneur ) determined the amateur title holder (Champion de France amateurs) in a knockout round . Since there was already a second professional division at this point , this was the champion of the third highest league level. From 1948/49 this competition was continued with different modes.

With the introduction of a new third division ( National 1 , 1970), the amateur championship became the fourth highest division (D4). Another league reform before the beginning of the 1993/94 season reorganized the top amateur division under the name National 2 again. In the first four years, the winners of the individual regional relays held a tournament to determine the amateur champion; In 1997/98 the league was renamed CFA and the amateur championship was split in two, with the amateur clubs and the reserve teams of professional clubs (now called B teams in France) each having their own national champion after the normal scoring round. From 2001 until the cessation of the determination of a reserve champion (2011), there was only this tournament of the B teams, while the actual amateur champion is awarded to the team that has the most points in its season at the end of the season (currently there are four such Groups), although only the games against the top seven teams in the respective final standings are taken into account.

The players can now be described as semi-professionals because their respective clubs in National 2 and 3 - as with all amateur clubs from the third up to and including the sixth league - have to sign a "federal contract" (contrat fédéral) with them, which, however, has fewer rights and Contains lower income than a professional contract and must be approved by the UNFP players union . In 2007/08 the monthly minimum income excluding bonuses was € 1,139 gross.

One of the special features of National 2 and National 3 is that up to four points can be achieved per game: four for a win, two for a draw and one for a defeat that occurred on the field.

At the beginning of the 2013/14 season, the CFA and CFA 2 at that time were reduced - the CFA to four groups of 16 teams, the CFA 2 to eight groups of 14 teams.

National 2 - the fourth division

The National 2 plays in a double round of points (home and away game of each league team against each group opponent) in four regional groups of 16 teams, roughly covering the north and northwest, the middle east, the Mediterranean south including Corsica and the west. It is also the highest league in which B-teams (Réserve Pro) can compete; B-teams of the third-class professional teams, on the other hand, are only allowed to play in national 3. At the end of the season, the first of each group - otherwise the highest-placed non-reserve team - will be promoted to National 1 , provided that they also have the basic right to promotion and a. Economic and structural minimum requirements are met, while the three worst-placed teams must be relegated to the National 3.

The amateur champions of France

The following teams are the official amateur national champions in France.

Master until 1993

Master 1994 to 1997

Master from 1997/98

year Amateur clubs Reserve teams
1998 Valenciennes FC Olympique Lyon
1999 Clermont Foot AJ Auxerre
2000 FCO Dijon Le Havre AC
2001 US Saint-Maur Lusitanos Olympique Lyon
2002 AS Cherbourg Olympique Marseille
2003 Gazélec FCO Ajaccio Olympique Lyon
2004 Croix de Savoie 74 Rennes stadium
2005 US Boulogne not determined
2006 AS Beauvais Olympique Lyon
2007 Villemomble Sports Rennes stadium
2008 Olympique Croix de Savoie AS Monaco
2009 US Luzenac Olympique Lyon
2010 SR Colmar Olympique Lyon
2011 Le Poiré-sur-Vie VF Olympique Lyon
2012 CA Bastia Title no longer awarded
2013 USL Dunkerque
2014 US Avranches MSM
2015 CS Sedan
2016 FC Pau

Remarks

  1. ↑ France Football of December 21, 2010, p. 55
  2. ↑ France Football, May 20, 2008, p. 61
  3. ^ For 1936 and 1949–1998 after Thierry Berthou / Collectif: Dictionnaire historique des clubs de football français. Pages de Foot, Créteil 1999 - Volume 1 (A-Mo) ISBN 2-913146-01-5 , pp. 20-23; for 1937-1947 and from 1994 after fff.fr