Division 1 1940/41
| Division 1 1940/41 | |
| master |
Red Star Olympique (North) unofficial Olympique Marseille (South) unofficial |
| Cup winners | Girondins Bordeaux |
| Teams | 16 (in 2 groups) |
| Games | 114 |
| Gates | 387 (ø 3.39 per game) |
| ← Division 1 1939/40 | |
The Division 1 1940-41 was the second edition of the French football league during the Second World War , the occupation of France by the German Wehrmacht (summer 1940) and the subsequent division of the remaining after the annexation of Alsace and parts of Lorraine region into a free, reception and - near the border with Belgium , Germany and Switzerland - a forbidden zone (zone libre, zone occupée, zone interdite) .
These so-called "war championships " (championnats de guerre) between 1939 and 1945 - unlike the national cup - do not count as official competitions, and the respective winners of one of their seasons have therefore not won an official title. The winner of the north group was Red Star Olympique from Saint-Ouen , winner of the south group Olympique Marseille .
Of the 21 teams that had belonged to the first division in the previous season , five were missing from this draw; While the Antibes FC had withdrawn due to its unsuccessfulness, the four remaining teams from the region immediately bordering Belgium ( Excelsior AC Roubaix , Racing Lens , US Boulogne , Racing Arras ) were unable to participate due to the special restrictions in the zone interdite not possible. The clubs from Lille ( Olympique and SC Fives ) had not been able to participate in 1938/39. Fives, Lens and the US Valenciennes-Anzin carried out their own round of points, the results of which are not published in the literature. There were no additional promoters.
societies
The 16 participants in the first division were divided into two regional groups (north and south), whose respective area corresponded to that of the occupied and the unoccupied zone:
- North: Le Havre AC , FC Rouen , Racing Paris , CA Paris , Red Star Olympique , Stade Reims and the renamed Girondins AS du Port from Bordeaux
- South: AS Saint-Étienne , Toulouse FC , FC Sète , SO Montpellier , Olympique Alès , Olympique Nîmes , Olympique Marseille , AS Cannes and OGC Nice .
Season course
The two-point rule applied ; in the event of a tie, the goal difference was decisive for the placement.
Numerous players had left occupied France at the beginning or during the season and henceforth competed for a club from the south of the country. Toulouse FC in particular benefited from this, with Anton Marek (from Lens), Raoul Diagne , Maurice Dupuis , Mario Zatelli (all from Racing Paris) and Curt Keller (from Racing Strasbourgs now playing in Brive-la-Gaillarde) joining them . while, for example, Edmund Weiskopf from RC Paris returned to Marseille. Jean Bastien from Marseille also came to Toulouse .
With a total of 387 hits in 114 matches, the average was 3.4 goals per game. A top scorer was not determined, also because of the different number of games in the two groups. In Marseille, the team with the most powerful attack of all 16 participants, Emmanuel Aznar was the most successful shooter with 15 goals.
Group north
Red Star Olympique created the basis for his safe group victory with a flawless record (six wins in six games) at their home country Stade Bauer and a defense that allowed a total of only eight goals. In addition, Red Star also had one of the most successful attack lines in the group - only Rouen FC scored one more goal than the team from Saint-Ouen - from which André Simonyi defeated their strongest rivals, the “Red Devils” 7-1. from Rouen , was successful four times alone. The other five group opponents had no chance, with the Racing Club in particular suffering from the massive bloodletting at the start of the season, which the capital eleven, which in May 1940 had still won the state cup , was unable to compensate.
Placement criteria: 1st points - 2nd goal quotient
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Group south
At the head of this group there was a head-to-head race between Marseille and Toulouse, in which only the goal difference was the decisive factor in favor of Olympiques. Both contenders for the group win were undefeated in front of their own audience, won their game there against the main opponent, and the only opponent who managed to get a point against both in their stadium was the third in the final classification, FC Sète . Overall, there were always extremely low-goal games as soon as the Dauphins from Sète were involved, who had by far the most insurmountable defense in the southern season, but also the second worst attack. At the bottom of the table, the teams from Montpellier, Alès and especially Saint-Étienne could not keep up with the other teams over the entire season.
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The players of the group winners
The following players were used in Division 1 matches at Red Star and Marseille :
- Red Star Olympique: Lucien Alleaume , Alfred Aston , Paul Bersoullé , Julien Darui , Georges Hatz , Helenio Herrera , Georges Meuris , José Padrón , Henri Roessler , Georges Séfelin , René Sergent , André Simonyi , Roger Thévenot , Roger Vandevelde , Jules Vandooren , J According to another source , players who had been banned from Vastag did not
join the club until the end of this or the following season. - Olympique Marseille: Eight, Joseph Alcazar , Andreis , Emmanuel Aznar , Hadidji Ben Arab , Bigot , Ferdinand Bruhin , Max Conchy , Georges Dard , Jacques Delachet , de Nicolas, player- coach József Eisenhoffer , Ferrigno , Joseph Gonzales , Malvy, Franciszek Olejniczak , Paul Patrone , Félix Pironti , Jean-Louis Pradel , Jean Robin , Salson, Subreville , Lucien Troupel , Edmund Weiskopf
Locked printed player have not been used according to another source this season in league games.
See also
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
- Alex Graham: Football in France. A statistical record 1894-2005. Soccer Books, Cleethorpes 2005, ISBN 1-86223-138-9
- Sophie Guillet / François Laforge: Le guide français et international du football éd. 2009. Vecchi, Paris 2008, ISBN 978-2-7328-9295-5
Notes and evidence
- ↑ Guillet / Laforge, p. 139
- ↑ a b c Guillet / Laforge, p. 140
- ^ 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. 386f.
- ^ François de Montvalon / Frédéric Lombard / Joël Simon: Red Star. Histoires d'un siècle. Club du Red Star, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-95125-620-5 , alphabetical list of players on pp. 269–283
- ^ Alain Pécheral: La grande histoire de l'OM. Des origines à nos jours. Ed. Prolongations, o. O. 2007, ISBN 978-2-916400-07-5 , alphabetical list of players on pp. 372–379, and seasonal statistics, pp. 386f.