Division 1 1934/35

Division 1 1934/35
master	FC Sochaux
Cup winners	Olympique Marseille
Relegated	SO Montpellier SC Nîmes
Teams	16
Games	240
Gates	940  (ø 3.92 per game)
Top scorer	André Abegglen (FC Sochaux)
← Division 1 1933/34 Division 1 1935/36 →
Division 2 1934/35 ↓

The Division 1 1934-35 was the third staging of the professional French football league. By winning the championship by FC Sochaux there was the possibility the third title holder.

The first game day was the 25/26. August 1934, last scheduled date May 12, 1935; however, there were still some catch-up games up until May 26th. There was no “winter break”; December 25th and 30th were also complete game days.

mode

Eligible were the clubs that had finished the previous season no worse than 12th place, and the four promoted from the second division ; the league had been increased from 14 to 16 participants before the start of the season.

societies

This season the following teams played for the championship title:

• three clubs from the far north ( Olympique Lille , SC Fives , Excelsior AC Roubaix ),
• two from Paris ( Racing Club , promoted Red Star Olympique )
• one from the northwest ( Stade Rennes UC )
• three from the northeast ( FC Sochaux and the two newly promoted FC Mulhouse and Racing Strasbourg ),
• seven from the Mediterranean region (defending champions FC Sète , SO Montpellier , promoted Alès Olympique , SC Nîmes , Olympique Marseille , AS Cannes , FC Antibes ).

Season course

The two-point rule applied ; in the event of a tie, the goal quotient was decisive for the placement. The association also had a restriction on the use of foreigners, of whom no team was allowed to use more than three in a game.

For the championship there was a duel between two outstanding teams that dominated Division 1 almost at will, in which no other team - not even Sète, who had won the doublé last year - was able to intervene almost from the start of the season . FC Sochaux and the strong promoted team from Strasbourg led the table almost in lockstep, stealing the points from the opponent's stadium in both direct encounters - the top game at Meinau in March 1935 wanted over 25,000 spectators - and differed against the "rest" of the league only in nuances: Sochaux was a little stronger away, scored 25 out of 30 possible points, Strasbourg only 21; In return, the Alsatians gave up only four points on their own place, while the players from Franche-Comté gave seven. And although Sochaux's line of attacks was noticeably more accurate, Strasbourg stayed at the top of the table until December; but then the picture was reversed and Sochaux did not give up first place. Even his 3: 7 home defeat against Antibes on the third and the 1: 2 in Lille on the penultimate matchday only allowed Strasbourg to come back, but not to overtake.

The second Alsatian newcomer, Mulhouse FC, did very well in sixth place in the final ranking, leaving Marseille and Lille behind, among others, while Montpellier and Nîmes - clearly lagging behind at the bottom of the table - two other founding members of the league made their way into the second division had to compete. They were replaced the next season by the promoted US Valenciennes-Anzin and CS Metz .

Closing table

Montpellier Marseille Lille Rennes Antibes Cannes RC Paris RS Paris Mulhouse Strasbourg Sochaux Nîmes Sète Alès Roubaix Fives

Division 1 venues 1934/35

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Quota	Points
1.	FC Sochaux	30th	22nd	4th	4th	094:360	2.61	48:12
2.	Racing Strasbourg (N)	30th	21st	5	4th	073:330	2.21	47:13
3.	Racing Paris	30th	16	5	9	077:570	1.35	37:23
4th	FC Sète (M, P)	30th	13	10	7th	052:450	1.16	36:24
5.	AS Cannes	30th	14th	5	11	062:480	1.29	33:27
6th	FC Mulhouse (N)	30th	14th	5	11	066:670	0.99	33:27
7th	Olympique Lille	30th	14th	3	13	056:460	1.22	31:29
8th.	Excelsior AC Roubaix	30th	13	5	12	051:480	1.06	31:29
9.	Olympique Marseille	30th	13	5	12	076:720	1.06	31:29
10.	Stade Rennes UC	30th	11	5	14th	057:490	1.16	27:33
11.	SC Fives	30th	12	1	17th	045:610	0.74	25:35
12.	Red Star Olympique (N)	30th	8th	7th	15th	058:720	0.81	23:37
13.	Alès Olympique (N)	30th	10	3	17th	052:730	0.71	23:37
14th	Antibes FC	30th	8th	7th	15th	049:800	0.61	23:37
15th	SO Montpellier	30th	7th	3	20th	037:860	0.43	17:43
16.	SC Nîmes	30th	5	5	20th	035:670	0.52	15:45

Placement criteria: 1st points - 2nd goal quotient

French football champion

Relegation to Division 2 in 1935/36

(M)	reigning French champion
(P)	reigning French cup winner
(N)	Newcomers from Division 2 in 1933/34

Crosstab

	Ol. Alè	FC Ant	AS Can	EAC Rou	SC Fiv	Ol. Lil	Ol. Mar	SO Mon	FC Mul	SC Nîm	RC par	RS Ol.	SUC Ren	FC Sèt	FC Soc	RC Str
Alès Olympique		2: 1	5: 1	0: 3	2: 1	3: 1	1-0	1: 1	2: 2	2: 4	7: 2	3: 2	3: 2	3-0	0: 5	1: 5
Antibes FC	1-0		1: 1	4: 2	2: 3	1-0	1: 7	4-0	1: 1	4: 1	2: 5	1: 1	0-0	1-0	1: 1	1: 3
AS Cannes	6: 2	3: 1		5: 2	2-0	1: 2	3-0	7: 2	5-0	1-0	0: 2	6: 2	3-0	2-0	0: 2	0: 1
Excelsior AC Roubaix	2-0	1: 4	2-0		0: 1	2: 1	0: 3	6: 1	1: 2	4-0	5: 3	2-0	0-0	0: 1	0: 1	1: 2
SC Fives	1-0	2: 1	1: 2	0-0		2: 1	6: 3	1-0	0: 2	3: 1	2: 1	6-0	4: 1	1: 2	0: 3	1: 3
Olympique Lille	2: 1	10-0	0-0	4-0	3-0		5-0	4: 1	0: 1	3: 1	0-0	0: 4	3: 1	2-0	2: 1	2: 1
Olympique Marseille	3: 2	7: 2	2: 2	2: 4	5: 1	3: 1		4: 1	8: 3	2: 1	3: 2	4: 3	4: 1	1: 1	1: 3	1: 1
SO Montpellier	0: 3	2-0	2: 3	0: 2	2-0	1: 3	3: 2		5: 3	0: 3	3: 3	0: 3	4: 1	0: 2	0: 4	0-0
FC Mulhouse	2-0	4: 1	4-0	6: 1	1-0	1-0	3: 4	4: 1		6-0	3: 1	0-0	2: 2	1: 1	1: 5	4: 1
SC Nîmes	1: 1	3: 1	1: 2	1: 1	1: 4	1: 2	1: 1	4: 5	3: 2		0: 2	2: 1	1: 2	1: 3	0: 2	0: 1
Racing Paris	6: 1	5: 3	3: 2	3: 1	7-0	3-0	5: 1	1-0	2: 3	2-0		2: 2	2: 1	6: 2	1: 2	2: 2
Red Star Olympique	3: 1	2: 2	2: 1	1: 3	5: 2	1: 1	4: 1	0: 1	3: 1	2: 2	1: 2		2: 1	3: 4	2: 7	1: 3
Stade Rennes UC	6-0	4: 1	3-0	0: 1	3: 1	4-0	1: 1	4: 1	6: 2	2-0	0: 1	3: 1		4: 1	3: 3	0: 2
FC Sète	1-0	1: 1	1: 1	2: 2	4-0	3: 1	6: 3	3-0	2-0	2: 2	2: 2	2: 2	2-0		1: 1	1-0
FC Sochaux	6: 2	3: 7	4: 2	0: 2	2: 1	5: 2	4-0	9-0	8-0	1-0	3: 1	4: 3	2: 1	0-0		2: 3
Racing Strasbourg	3: 2	6: 1	1: 1	1: 1	2: 1	4: 1	1-0	2: 1	4: 2	3-0	6-0	5: 2	2: 1	5: 2	0: 1

The master's players

The following 21 players were used during the season (in brackets: number of point games): André Abegglen (28), Roger Courtois (27), Pedro Duhart (26), Dumas (2), Louis Finot (28), Germain ( 3), Albert Gougain (23), Roger Hug (4), Jacquier (3), Gabriel Lalloué (26), Maxime Lehmann (30), Magnien (1), André Maschinot (17), Étienne Mattler (30), Leslie Miller (16), Conrad Ross (20), Saint-Maurice (2), Jean Sarrieux (2), Jenö Szabó (10), Willy Wagner (30), Bernard Williams (2)

Sochaux scored 94 hits: Abegglen 30, Courtois 29, Duhart 11, Finot 9, Miller 6, Maschinot 4, Lalloué, Sarrieux, Williams 1 each; there were also two own goals.

Most successful goal scorers

Pl.	player	society	Gates
1	André Abegglen	FC Sochaux	30th
2	Roger Courtois	FC Sochaux	29
3	Franz Weselik	FC Mulhouse	24
4th	Joseph Alcazar	Olympique Marseille	22nd
	Jean Sécember	Excelsior AC Roubaix	22nd
6th	Robert Mercier	Racing Paris	21st
	Fritz Keller	Racing Strasbourg	21st
8th	Oskar Rohr	Racing Strasbourg	20th
9	André Simonyi	Olympique Lille	18th
10	André Guimbart	AS Cannes	17th
11	Frederick Kennedy	Racing Paris	16
12	Oldrich Pybert	Alès Olympique	15th
13	Alfred Aston	Red Star Olympique	14th
	Vilmos Kohut	Olympique Marseille	14th
	Émile Veinante	Racing Paris	14th

See also

• Division 2 1934/35
• Coupe de France 1934/35

literature

• Almanach du football éd. 1934/35. Paris 1935
• Hubert Beaudet: Le Championnat et ses champions. 70 ans de Football en France. Alan Sutton, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire 2002, ISBN 2-84253-762-9
• Sophie Guillet / François Laforge: Le guide français et international du football éd. 2009. Vecchi, Paris 2008, ISBN 978-2-7328-9295-5
• Jean-Philippe Rethacker: La grande histoire des clubs de foot champions de France. Sélection du Reader's Digest, Paris / Bruxelles / Montréal / Zurich 2001, ISBN 2-7098-1238-X

Notes and evidence

1. ↑ Almanach, pp. 63ff.
2. ↑ Beaudet, p. 17f.
3. ↑ Rethacker, pp. 26/27
4. ↑ Guillet / Laforge, p. 134, supplemented from Almanach, p. 70
5. ^ Almanac, p. 70