Division 1 1943/44
| Division 1 1943/44 | |
| master | ÉF Lens-Artois (unofficial) |
| Cup winners | ÉF Nancy-Lorraine |
| Teams | 16 |
| Games | 240 (including 3 criminally verified) |
| Gates | 942 (ø 3.97 per game) (excluding criminally verified games) |
| Top scorer |
Stefan "Stanis" Dembicki (ÉF Lens-Artois) 41 goals |
| ← Division 1 1942/43 | |
The Division 1 1943-44 was the fifth staging of the French football league during the Second World War , the occupation of France by the German Wehrmacht and the subsequent division of the after annexation of Alsace and parts of Lorraine remaining area into a free, one occupied and restricted area ( zone libre, zone occupée, zone interdite) . These so-called "war championships " (championnats de guerre) between 1939 and 1945 do not count as official competitions - unlike in the state cup competition - and the respective winners of one of their seasons have therefore not won an official title .
This year's host had a special feature, which is available in the pre-season had not yet given and already the following season was also abolished. All club teams were replaced by so-called "federal selections " (équipes fédéraux) , each of which was named after a - in some cases historical - landscape. A total of 16 such selection teams were created, which should cover the entire country; This also resulted in teams in areas in which football had hardly been played at the highest level until then, such as Clermont-Ferrand and Grenoble .
The players were usually recruited from one or two clubs from cities that were comparatively close together; However, they were no longer professional footballers, but employees of the sports department of the French Vichy government , which also paid them. The sporting direction of the selection lay with a president of one of the clubs involved, which had not been dissolved, but were only allowed to continue working under amateur conditions.
The background to this reorganization was the rejection of professional sport by the Vichy regime, which had previously tried to enforce its unpopular position with athletes and sports fans in small steps, for example by reducing the playing time from 90 to 80 minutes or the instruction that every professional club must employ at least four amateurs. Responsible for these measures was the Comité national des sports headed by Colonel Pascot , initially sports director and from 1942 in successor to Jean Borotra General Commissioner for Education and Sports, thus de facto Minister.
Season course
The two-point rule applied ; in the event of a tie, the goal quotient was decisive for the placement.
The season-first from the Artois , which consisted mainly of players from Racing Lens , who had been winners in the northern season a year earlier, proved to be relatively weak; In his games in front of his own audience, he only got nine wins and a total of 20 points, while the team won eleven times away and had 23 points on the credit side. This comparison was even more blatant with fourth-placed Paris-Île-de-France: only four home wins and 15 points were compared to ten wins in the opposing stadiums (22 plus points there). At the end of the overall standings, the teams from the Dauphiné and the Auvergne found themselves, as expected and with a large deficit , to which Montpellier-Languedoc was joined by an Équipe Fedérale, which was not necessarily expected so far below.
The course of the season was characterized repeatedly by side effects of the war and occupation situation. Most selections suffered from a lack of sufficient numbers of players accustomed to this level; This meant, for example, that Rennes-Bretagne had to use a 47-year -old footballer, Jean Batmale, and Nancy-Lorraine, a 41-year-old footballer, Paul Wartel . Another problem was that travel options depended on the availability and reliability of rail connections - against which the Resistance campaigns were repeatedly directed - which often made travel and game planning more difficult. Therefore, Lens-Artois had to hold two encounters on two consecutive days in mid-June 1944, initially in Lyon and on the way back in Nancy. Finally, air raids caused disruptions to the game: at the end of October 1943, the kick-off for a meeting between Paris and Nancy did not begin until after the all-clear and an hour late. The Stade Félix-Bollaert in Lens had to be completely closed several times due to the danger of bombs in early 1944.
The final table shown below according to Graham - from which the individual results in the crosstab also originate - does not completely coincide with that from Guillet / Laforge, according to which five games were not played at all, three of them with the participation of Toulouse. However, the latter do not give any individual results. For the correctness of Graham's data speaks that, for example, the individual results for Reims exactly match those from another source; Regarding Marseille, another title confirms the total number of points, but indicates Marseilles placement like Guillet / Laforge (rank 9). Their deviations from Graham in terms of placements and scores are listed at the bottom right of the final ranking.
table
| Pl. | society | Sp. | S. | U | N | Gates | Quota | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | ÉF Lens-Artois | 30th | 20th | 3 | 7th | 95:41 | 2.32 | 43:17 |
| 2. | ÉF Lille-Flandres | 30th | 18th | 4th | 8th | 78:44 | 1.77 | 40:20 |
| 3. | ÉF Paris-Capitale | 30th | 18th | 3 | 9 | 83:50 | 1.66 | 39:21 |
| 4th | ÉF Paris-Île-de-France | 30th | 14th | 9 | 7th | 47:33 | 1.42 | 37:23 |
| 5. | ÉF Bordeaux-Guyenne | 30th | 14th | 7th | 9 | 51:51 | 1.00 | 35:25 |
| 6th | ÉF Toulouse-Pyrénées | 30th | 13 | 6th | 11 | 85:62 | 1.37 | 32:28 |
| 7th | ÉF Rennes-Bretagne | 30th | 12 | 8th | 10 | 58:59 | 0.98 | 32:28 |
| 8th. | ÉF Reims-Champagne | 30th | 12 | 7th | 11 | 64:52 | 1.23 | 31:29 |
| 9. | ÉF Nice-Côte-d'Azur (a) | 30th | 12 | 7th | 11 | 50:43 | 1.16 | 31:29 |
| 10. | ÉF Marseille-Provence (a) | 30th | 14th | 3 | 13 | 50:42 | 1.19 | 31:29 |
| 11. | ÉF Nancy-Lorraine | 30th | 11 | 9 | 10 | 68:82 | 0.83 | 31:29 |
| 12. | ÉF Rouen-Normandy | 30th | 10 | 9 | 11 | 50:60 | 0.83 | 29:31 |
| 13. | ÉF Lyon-Lyonnais | 30th | 11 | 3 | 16 | 49:62 | 0.79 | 25:35 |
| 14th | ÉF Clermont-Auvergne | 30th | 5 | 8th | 17th | 45:86 | 0.52 | 18:42 |
| 15th | ÉF Montpellier-Landuedoc | 30th | 6th | 3 | 21st | 45:85 | 0.53 | 15:45 |
| 16. | ÉF Grenoble-Dauphiné | 30th | 4th | 3 | 23 | 33:99 | 0.33 | 11:49 |
Placement criteria: 1st points - 2nd goal quotient
Crosstab
| Bor Guy |
Cle Auv |
Gre Dau |
Len Art |
Lil fla |
Lyo Lns |
Mar Pro |
Mon Lan |
Nan Lor |
Nic CdA |
Par cap |
Par ÎdF |
Rei Cha |
Ren Bre |
Rou Nor |
Tou Pyr |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ÉF Bordeaux-Guyenne | 7: 2 | 3-0 | 1-0 | 1: 2 | (b) | 2: 2 | 5: 2 | 3: 2 | 3: 3 | 3: 1 | 1-0 | 4: 2 | 3: 1 | 1: 1 | 0: 3 | |
| ÉF Clermont-Auvergne | 1: 1 | 4-0 | 3: 4 | 0: 4 | 4: 1 | 0: 3 | 1: 5 | 2: 2 | 0-0 | 1: 8 | 0: 1 | 4-0 | 0: 1 | 1: 1 | 2: 1 | |
| ÉF Grenoble-Dauphiné | 1: 1 | 7-0 | 0: 8 | 0: 1 | 1: 4 | (c) | 0: 2 | 1: 5 | 1: 2 | 1: 4 | 2: 3 | 1-0 | 1: 1 | 2: 2 | 2: 1 | |
| ÉF Lens-Artois | 4-0 | 3: 1 | 7: 3 | 0: 1 | 6: 1 | 1-0 | 5-0 | 1: 2 | 7: 1 | 2: 4 | 2: 3 | 4: 1 | 1-0 | 0-0 | 3: 3 | |
| ÉF Lille-Flandres | 1-0 | 7: 1 | 4: 1 | 0: 4 | 3: 1 | 4: 2 | 8-0 | 8: 1 | 2: 1 | 6: 2 | 2: 1 | 2: 1 | 0: 1 | 2: 3 | 2: 2 | |
| ÉF Lyon-Lyonnais | 1: 2 | 2: 1 | 2: 1 | 1: 2 | 0: 3 | 1: 4 | 4: 1 | 1: 3 | 3-0 | 3: 1 | 0: 2 | 0: 3 | 1: 2 | 3: 1 | 7: 3 | |
| ÉF Marseille-Provence | 4-0 | 4-0 | 1: 2 | 2: 3 | 3: 1 | 0: 2 | 2: 1 | 7: 1 | 0: 5 | 0: 2 | 0: 2 | 2: 1 | 1-0 | 3: 1 | 1: 1 | |
| ÉF Montpellier-Languedoc | 0: 2 | 3: 3 | 1-0 | 7-0 | 4: 3 | 0-0 | 0: 2 | 4-0 | 1: 3 | 1: 5 | 1: 1 | 1: 6 | 1: 3 | 1: 2 | 2: 3 | |
| ÉF Nancy-Lorraine | 1: 1 | 2: 2 | 3: 1 | 2: 5 | 3: 3 | 3: 3 | 3-0 | 2: 1 | 1-0 | 5: 3 | 0: 2 | 5: 1 | 6: 3 | 2: 2 | 4: 2 | |
| ÉF Nice-Côte-d'Azur | 1: 2 | 1: 1 | 3: 1 | 0: 3 | 2: 1 | 1-0 | 4-0 | 7-0 | 0-0 | 1: 3 | 2: 1 | 1: 1 | 3: 1 | 3-0 | 1: 1 | |
| ÉF Paris-Capitale | 4-0 | 1: 3 | 6-0 | 1: 2 | 5: 1 | 1: 2 | 1-0 | 1-0 | 5: 1 | 1: 1 | 2: 3 | 4: 2 | 4: 1 | 5: 2 | 2: 1 | |
| ÉF Paris-Île-de-France | 0: 1 | 2: 2 | 3: 1 | 1: 1 | 2-0 | 4: 1 | 0: 1 | 2: 1 | 2: 2 | 0: 1 | 0-0 | 1: 1 | 1: 1 | 1: 1 | 1: 3 | |
| ÉF Reims-Champagne | 2-0 | 3-0 | 8: 2 | 1: 4 | 0: 2 | 1: 1 | 1-0 | 3: 2 | 5: 2 | 2: 1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 6: 1 | 1: 2 | 1: 1 | |
| ÉF Rennes-Bretagne | 2-0 | 3: 2 | 8: 1 | 2: 1 | 3: 3 | 0: 3 | 0-0 | 4: 2 | 2: 2 | 2: 1 | 5: 1 | 0: 2 | 2: 2 | 3: 3 | 1: 1 | |
| ÉF Rouen-Normandy | 1: 1 | 3: 2 | 2-0 | 0: 6 | 0-0 | (b) | 2: 1 | 3-0 | 5-0 | 2-0 | 2: 3 | 2: 3 | 0: 4 | 2: 3 | 0: 2 | |
| ÉF Toulouse-Pyrénées | 7-0 | 6: 2 | 7-0 | 0: 6 | 0: 2 | 3: 1 | 1: 2 | 5: 1 | 7: 3 | 3: 1 | 1: 3 | 2: 3 | 3: 5 | 5: 2 | 7: 2 |
The winner's players
The following 16 players were used during the season: Eugène Battut , Caron, Charles Creteur , Théodore Dabrowski , Henri Evin , Charles Fougnies , Arthur Fruleux , René Gouillard , Ignacy Gruchala , Michel Lewandowski , Anton Marek , Marcel Ourdouillé , Riviere, “Siklo "(Ladislas Smid) , " Stanis "(Stefan Dembicki) and Marceau Stricanne .
Most successful goal scorers
| Pl. | player | selection | Gates |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stefan "Stanis" Dembicki | Lens-Artois | 41 |
| 2 | René Bihel | Lille-Flandres | 38 |
| 3 | Émile Bongiorni | Paris Capitale | 37 |
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. 143.
- ^ Marion Fontaine: Le Racing Club de Lens et les "Gueules Noires". Essai d'histoire sociale. Les Indes savantes, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-84654-248-7 , p. 95.
- ↑ Graham, p. 52 f.
- ^ Pascal Grégoire-Boutreau / Tony Verbicaro: Stade de Reims - une histoire sans fin. Cahiers intempestifs, Saint-Étienne 2001, ISBN 2-911698-21-5 , p. 250 f.
- ^ 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. 387.
- ↑ Guillet / Laforge, p. 143, added from the biographies chapter in Paul Hurseau / Jacques Verhaeghe: Les immortels du football nordiste. Alan Sutton, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire 2003, ISBN 2-84253-867-6 , pp. 9-154.