Division 1 1937/38

Division 1 1937/38
master	FC Sochaux
Cup winners	Olympique Marseille
Relegated	Red Star Olympique US Valenciennes-Anzin
Teams	16
Games	240
Gates	793  (ø 3.3 per game)
Top scorer	Jean Nicolas ( FC Rouen )
← Division 1 1936/37 Division 1 1938/39 →
Division 2 1937/38 ↓

The Division 1 1937/38 was the sixth staging of the professional French football league. The championship was won by FC Sochaux , after his success of 1935 as the first French club for the second time.

mode

Eligible were the clubs that had finished the previous season no worse than 14th place, and the two promoted from the second division .

societies

This season the following teams played for the championship title:

• six clubs from the far north ( Olympique and SC Fives from Lille , Excelsior and Racing from Roubaix , plus the two newcomers Racing Lens and US Valenciennes-Anzin ),
• three from Paris and Normandy ( Racing , Red Star Olympique , FC Rouen ),
• three from the northeast ( FC Sochaux , Racing Strasbourg , FC Metz ),
• four from the southeast ( FC Sète , defending champions Olympique Marseille , AS Cannes , FC Antibes ).

Of these 16 teams, nine were among the founding members of the league, who had been continuously represented in it until then: Antibes, Cannes, Fives, Lille, Marseille, RC Paris, EAC Roubaix, Sète and Sochaux.

Season course

The two-point rule applied ; in the event of a tie, the goal quotient was decisive for the placement.

The champions became the team with the best attack and what parts of the press like to refer to as the “ Maginot Line ” - this meant in particular the national team series Di Lorto - Cazenave - Mattler  - the best defense in the league; while Sochaux had lost the home games against Marseille and Sète, his two main competitors, and had also returned home from Marseille with a defeat. But the strength of the “Werkself from Peugeot ” was that they were able to compensate for injuries-related losses on an equal basis thanks to their good quality and quantity of players. During the entire season, there was only a fourth defeat (1: 2 in Antibes), so that Sochaux was able to keep the pursuers at a distance.

The other two co-favorites, Lille (1933 champions) and Racing Paris (1935 champions), were never able to intervene in the title race from the start; In the case of the northern French, the reason for this was the frequent gate blockade by its attackers, while the capital city dwellers were severely weakened by several high-profile departures ( Delfour , Dupuis , Kennedy , Mercier ). At the bottom of the table were Valenciennes - the "elevator team" of those years had both the weakest attack and the most punctured defense of Division 1  - and Red Star early beaten and had to vacate their place for the promoted Le Havre AC and AS Saint-Étienne the following season .

Three goalscorers set an exclamation point this season: Jean Nicolas scored seven of the nine goals of his FC Rouen in Valenciennes, with which he holds the "Trello" Abegglens record from the 1934/35 season - also against Valenciennes - which is valid to the present (2010/11) achieved - discontinued. After all, six goals in Red Stars 7-0 win against Racing Roubaix were given by André Simonyi , and with Jaguaré Bezerra de Vasconcelos from Marseille even a goalkeeper was successful who converted one penalty in the 1-1 draw at Sète and defended two opponents.

Closing table

Paris ( RS + RC ) Roubaix ( RC  +  EAC ) Fives Lille Marseille Lens Antibes Cannes Valenciennes Strasbourg Sochaux Metz Sète Rouen

Division 1 venues 1937/38

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Quota	Points
1.	FC Sochaux (P)	30th	18th	8th	4th	069:260	2.65	44:16
2.	Olympique Marseille (M)	30th	15th	12	3	061:350	1.74	42:18
3.	FC Sète	30th	16	9	5	046:480	0.96	41:19
4th	FC Rouen	30th	14th	8th	8th	057:440	1.30	36:24
5.	Racing Strasbourg	30th	12	9	9	066:540	1.22	33:27
6th	Excelsior AC Roubaix	30th	10	11	9	059:570	1.04	31:29
7th	Olympique Lille	30th	10	9	11	039:330	1.18	29:31
8th.	Racing Roubaix	30th	11	6th	13	039:600	0.65	28:32
9.	AS Cannes	30th	8th	11	11	056:470	1.19	27:33
10.	Antibes FC	30th	9	9	12	038:400	0.95	27:33
11.	FC Metz	30th	8th	11	11	045:560	0.80	27:33
12.	SC Fives	30th	7th	12	11	042:430	0.98	26:34
13.	Racing Club Paris	30th	9	8th	13	048:590	0.81	26:34
14th	Racing Lens (N)	30th	9	8th	13	045:630	0.71	26:34
15th	Red Star Olympique	30th	6th	7th	17th	047:710	0.66	19:41
16.	US Valenciennes-Anzin (N)	30th	6th	6th	18th	030:770	0.39	18:42

Placement criteria: 1st points - 2nd goal quotient

French football champion

Relegation to Division 2 in 1938/39

(M)	reigning French champion
(P)	reigning French cup winner
(N)	Newcomers from Division 2 1936/37

Crosstab

	FC Ant	AS Can	EAC Rbx	SC Fiv	RC Len	Ol. Lil	Ol. Mar	FC Met	RC par	RSt Ol.	RC Rbx	FC Rou	FC Sèt	FC Soc	RC Str	US Val
Antibes FC		2-0	4: 2	1: 1	1: 1	0-0	0: 3	2-0	2: 2	4: 1	5-0	0: 1	1: 1	2: 1	1: 2	0-0
AS Cannes	2: 1		2: 1	0-0	5-0	3: 1	1: 1	4-0	2: 2	5: 5	2: 3	6: 1	3: 4	0: 1	2: 3	5-0
Excelsior AC Roubaix	2: 1	2: 2		3: 2	1: 1	2: 2	4: 2	2: 4	3: 2	3: 1	1: 2	2-0	2: 2	1: 2	3: 2	5-0
SC Fives	3: 1	2: 2	4: 4		2: 1	0: 1	2: 1	3-0	1-0	3-0	3-0	0: 1	1: 2	1: 1	1: 1	2: 2
Racing Lens	2: 4	2: 2	2: 2	3: 2		2: 1	4: 3	2: 3	2: 1	1: 3	2: 1	1: 1	0: 2	0: 2	2: 3	2: 1
Olympique Lille	4-0	0-0	1: 1	2: 1	3-0		1: 1	3: 1	0: 1	4: 1	1: 1	4-0	2: 1	0-0	2-0	0: 1
Olympique Marseille	1-0	2: 2	1: 1	1: 1	2: 2	4-0		4-0	2: 1	1-0	5: 1	1: 1	3-0	2-0	2: 1	1: 1
FC Metz	1: 1	1-0	1: 2	0-0	1: 1	1-0	1: 2		4: 4	3-0	1: 1	1: 1	1: 1	2: 2	4-0	1-0
Racing Paris	1: 2	3: 1	5: 1	1: 1	1: 3	1-0	3: 3	2: 2		2: 1	2: 1	2: 1	0: 2	0: 4	0: 3	0: 3
Red Star Olympique	0: 1	2: 1	2: 2	3: 2	0: 1	3: 2	0: 1	2: 2	2: 2		7-0	2: 2	1: 4	0: 1	2: 2	2-0
Racing Roubaix	2: 1	4: 1	1-0	0-0	3: 1	3-0	1: 3	2: 3	2: 1	0-0		0: 3	1: 1	2: 2	0: 2	3: 2
FC Rouen	2-0	1-0	1: 3	2: 2	3: 1	0-0	2: 2	2: 1	3: 1	4-0	2-0		3: 1	1: 3	3-0	4: 1
FC Sète	0-0	1: 1	3-0	1-0	3: 1	3: 1	1: 1	4: 1	2: 2	3: 1	0: 1	1-0		0: 1	3-0	3-0
FC Sochaux	1-0	1: 1	1: 1	6: 2	4-0	2-0	1: 2	3: 2	4-0	3: 1	3-0	5-0	0: 1		3: 3	6: 1
Racing Strasbourg	3-0	1-0	3: 3	2-0	2: 2	0-0	2: 2	1: 1	1: 3	9: 3	4-0	3: 3	0: 2	1: 6		10-0
US Valenciennes-Anzin	1: 1	0: 1	1-0	1-0	1: 3	0: 4	1: 2	5: 2	1: 3	3: 2	2: 4	1: 9	0-0	0-0	1: 2

The master's players

The following 23 players were used during the season (in brackets: number of point games): André Abegglen (5), Árpád Belko (1), Héctor Cazenave (29), Roger Courtois (26), Laurent Di Lorto (26), Pedro Duhart (1), Ferdinand Faczinek (28), Jean Germain (4), Albert Gougain (2), Johann Hoffmann (5), Roger Hug (27), Ramón Ithurbide (13), Curt Keller (24), Pierre Korb (18), Gabriel Lalloué (9), Michel Lauri (2), Maxime Lehmann (25), Étienne Mattler (29), José Padrón (10), Guido Pretto (5), Jean Sarrieux (2), Jenö Szabó (30 ), Bernard Williams (10)

The Sochaux shooters' 69 hits cannot be fully determined on the basis of the available literature; Exact information is only available for Courtois (22), Faczinek (15), Ithurbide (4), Padrón (2) and Hoffmann (1). It is also known that Sarrieux scored three goals in a single game and Keller two goals in another.

Most successful goal scorers

Pl.	player	society	Gates
1	Jean Nicolas	FC Rouen	26th
2	Oskar Rohr	Racing Strasbourg	25th
3	Dezsõ Korányi	FC Sète	24
4th	Ivan Petrak	AS Cannes	23
5	Roger Courtois	FC Sochaux	22nd
6th	André Simonyi	Red Star Olympique	21st
7th	Mario Zatelli	Olympique Marseille	20th
8th	Ferdinand Faczinek	FC Sochaux	15th
	Helenio Herrera	Excelsior AC Roubaix	15th
	Moselli	Antibes FC	15th

See also

• Division 2 1937/38
• Coupe de France 1937/38

literature

• 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. ↑ Beaudet, p. 23
2. ↑ Rethacker, p. 28f.
3. ↑ Beaudet, p. 22
4. ↑ Rethacker, p. 28
5. ↑ ^{a b} Guillet / Laforge, p. 137
6. ^ Alain Pécheral: La grande histoire de l'OM. Des origines à nos jours. Ed. Prolongations, o. O. 2007, ISBN 978-2-916400-07-5 , pp. 58f .; Beaudet, p. 23
7. ↑ Rethacker, p. 29