Division 1 1941/42
| Division 1 1941/42 | |
| master |
Stade Reims (North) unofficial FC Sète (South) unofficial |
| Cup winners | Red Star Olympique |
| Teams | 18 (in 2 groups) |
| Games | 144 |
| Gates | 456 (ø 3.17 per game) |
| ← Division 1 1940/41 | |
The Division 1 1941-42 was the third staging 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 Stade Reims , winner of the south group of FC Sète .
All 16 teams that had belonged to the first division in the previous season also took part in this draw. In addition, two new teams were added with Amiens and Rennes. However, there were still no representatives from the “forbidden zone” near the border; In the associated northern French departments of Nord and Pas-de-Calais , twelve teams carried out their own regional double round, the course of which is not detailed in the literature used, because it was not considered part of the official league operation at the time. Participants were the US Tourcoing , from Roubaix Excelsior , Racing and Stade Roubaisien , from Lille the OICL , created in 1941 through the merger of Olympique and Iris Club , and SC Fives , plus the "miners' teams " Racing Lens (winner of this competition), Stade Orchies , ES Bully , US Ouvrière Bruay , Racing Arras and the US Valenciennes-Anzin .
societies
The 18 participants in the first division were divided into two regional groups (north and south), the areas of which corresponded to the occupied and unoccupied zones:
- North: Le Havre AC , FC Rouen , Racing Paris , CA Paris , Red Star Olympique , Stade Reims , Girondins AS du Port from Bordeaux and the newcomers AC Amiens and Stade Rennes Université Club .
- South: AS Saint-Étienne , Toulouse FC , FC Sète , the US Olympique Montpellier , Olympique Alès , Olympique Nîmes , Olympique Marseille , AS Cannes and OGC Nice , created by the merger of SO Montpellier and US Montpelliéraine .
The two-point rule applied ; in the event of a tie, the goal quotient was decisive for the placement.
Season course
The Football Association had reduced the playing time to 80 minutes to give the Sports Commissioner of the Vichy government and also has that professional athletes - and thus also the players in the Football League - in civilian life a profession had to exercise.
With a total of 456 hits in 144 matches, the average was 3.2 goals per game. However, the difference between the goal frequency in the two groups was significant: while in the north there were an average of 3.6 hits per match, in the south it was only 2.8. The most successful goalscorer was José Mandaluniz from the "Red Devils" from Rouen, who scored 17 goals and thus exactly half the goals of his team.
For the following season , the first division was increased to 32 participants after the clubs from the prohibited zone were allowed to participate in the nationwide game again. In addition to Lens, OIC Lille, Fives and Excelsior Roubaix, AS Troyes-Savinienne , US Le Mans and a Peugeot "works club" merger of FC Sochaux and AS Valentigney were added in the north, while the new first division clubs FC Annecy , FC Grenoble in the south , Lyon OU , AS Clermont-Ferrand , ESA Brive , USA Perpignan and AS Avignon .
Group north
The surprising group winner from Reims, who was only in the middle of the table in the previous season, secured a narrow lead over Rouen (10: 6) and Red Star (8: 8), thanks in particular to his away strength (12: 4 points). Reims and the team from Saint-Ouen were also the two most successful teams from the occupied part of the country in the cup competition . On the other hand, newcomer Amiens in this group was sportily overwhelmed, had the lowest goal attack and the weakest line of defense and had to be content with a total of three draws on the credit side. Due to the following league increase, however, this bleak balance did not result in any consequences with regard to the league whereabouts of the team from Picardy .
Placement criteria: 1st points - 2nd goal quotient
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Group south
Also in the southern season, Sète, a team prevailed that had nothing to do with winning the group twelve months earlier, and even with a clear lead over the runner-up from Toulouse. Behind these two teams, the group winners of the previous year, Olympique Marseille, in particular, disappointed with this time even negative points. No team was relegated from this group either, but seven more were added from late summer 1942.
Placement criteria: 1st points - 2nd goal quotient |
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The players of the group winners
At Reims and Sète, the following players were used in Division 1 matches:
- Stade Reims: Pierre Brembilla , Louis Carrara , René Deligny , Jacques Favre , Frelin, Gillis, Hanus, Ignace Kowalczyk , Olivier, Padron, Lucien Perpère , André Petitfils , François Szego , Tobia, player-coach Jules Vandooren , Vernay
- FC Sète: Charles, Pierre Danzelle , Armenak Erevanian , René Franquès , Désiré Koranyi , Mohamed Laïd , Charles Laurent , Lucien Leduc , Mainguet, Jean Mathieu , Mercier, Jean Miramon , Edmond Novicki , Pruss, Jules Robisco , Sisco, Marcel Tomazover ; Coach: René Dedieu
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
- ↑ a b Guillet / Laforge, p. 141
- ^ Alain Pécheral: La grande histoire de l'OM. Des origines à nos jours. Ed. Prolongations, o. O. 2007, ISBN 978-2-916400-07-5 , p. 118
- ↑ Guillet / Laforge, p. 141, on Reims supplemented from Pascal Grégoire-Boutreau / Tony Verbicaro: Stade de Reims - une histoire sans fin. Cahiers intempestifs, Saint-Étienne 2001, ISBN 2-911698-21-5 , pp. 36 and 249, and from Lucien Perpère / Victor Sinet / Louis Tanguy: Reims de nos amours. 1931/1981 - 50 ans de Stade de Reims. Alphabet Cube, Reims 1981, pp. 55ff.