Division 1 Féminine 2002/03
The 2002/03 season of Division 1 Féminine was the 29th playing of the French women's football championship since the official recognition of women's football by the FFF, the French Football Association , in 1970 and the first in the 1974/75 season . To this season of Championnat National 1 A in Division 1 Féminine renamed league was in pure League mode played in a group consisting of a single group, comprising twelve teams, national top division.
The defending champions were the women of Toulouse FC , but this time they had to leave the championship to Juvisy FCF , who won their fifth title.
The renaming of the league was also a first step towards the professionalization of French women's football. Until then, the French soccer players were still officially pure amateurs. Now the clubs were allowed to reward women players financially for practicing their sport, even though the maximum possible remuneration was very moderate compared to men's football. To this end, a model employment contract , known as a “federal contract” (contrat fédéral) , was introduced by the FFF , which regulates the maximum income levels as well as other rights and obligations of clubs and soccer players. The background to this was that the association wanted to strengthen women's football in the country as a whole in the run-up to France's first participation in a World Cup finals - and also in the longer term.
Qualification and mode of competition
For the eligibility to participate, only the performance of the women's teams in the previous season was taken into account; The nine best-placed women’s teams from the previous season as well as two newcomers from the second division, which was divided into regional groups, were qualified. In addition, as a “special case”, the team from the central training center for young people, Center National de Formation et d'Entraînement in Clairefontaine-en-Yvelines ; for this, the FCF Monteux had to stay as the worst-placed D2 group winner in the second division. The following twelve women’s associations started this season:
- from the north: Olympique Saint-Memmie , promoted USO Bruay
- from the center: newcomer CNFE Clairefontaine , Juvisy FCF , Paris Saint-Germain
- from the west: ESOF La Roche , promoted Stade Quimper , Saint-Brieuc FF , ASJ Soyaux
- from the south: FC Lyon , HSC Montpellier , defending champions FC Toulouse
The championship consisted of two phases. First, a double round of points was played, in which each club competed in home and away games against each other. The " modified three-point rule " , which was also common in French amateur football well into the 21st century, applied with four points for a win, two for a draw and one for a defeat won on the field; in the event of a tie, first the direct comparison and then, if necessary, the better overall goal difference was decisive. At the end of the season, the two bottom of the table had to be relegated and were replaced for the coming season by the winners of the play-offs from the second division.
The four women in positions one to four, however, carried out the second phase as a simple “championship round”, after which the final title holder, who also represented France at the 2003/04 UEFA Women's Cup , was determined. The four participating teams started with bonus points (3, 2, 1 or 0) depending on their placement at the end of the first phase.
Phase 1: Results, table and course of the season
Note: In France, only the plus points are generally given in tables.
| USO Bru |
CNF Cla |
FCF Juv |
ESO LaR |
FC Lyo |
HSC Mon |
SG par |
St. Qui |
FF StB |
Ol. StM |
ASJ Soy |
FC Tou |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| USO Bruay | 0: 1 | 2: 9 | 0: 1 | 1: 2 | 0: 1 | 1: 1 | 0-0 | 2: 3 | 1: 4 | 0: 4 | 0: 3 | |
| CNFE Clairefontaine | 4: 2 | 0: 5 | 1-0 | 0: 1 | 0: 1 | 1-0 | 5-0 | 5: 1 | 6-0 | 1: 2 | 0: 2 | |
| Juvisy FCF | 2-0 | 1: 1 | 3-0 | 2: 1 | 1-0 | 1: 2 | 3-0 | 5-0 | 4-0 | 3-0 | 0-0 | |
| ESOF La Roche | 1: 2 | 1: 2 | 1: 3 | 0: 4 | 1: 5 | 1: 1 | 2-0 | 2: 3 | 1: 2 | 0: 1 | 0: 2 | |
| FC Lyon | 6-0 | 2: 1 | 1: 1 | 5: 1 | 3-0 | 1: 1 | 7-0 | 5: 1 | 4-0 | 1: 1 | 2: 1 | |
| HSC Montpellier | 10: 1 | 0: 3 | 0: 4 | 4-0 | 2-0 | 3: 2 | 9: 1 | 8: 4 | 7-0 | 2: 1 | 2: 2 | |
| Paris Saint-Germain | 5: 2 | 1: 4 | 0: 2 | 2-0 | 2: 5 | 0: 5 | 0-0 | 3: 1 | 3: 1 | 1-0 | 1: 5 | |
| Quimper Stadium | 2-0 | 0-0 | 0: 7 | 3: 3 | 2: 4 | 0: 6 | 4: 4 | 0: 3 | 1-0 | 0: 6 | 0: 2 | |
| Saint-Brieuc FF | 0: 1 | 1: 1 | 0: 2 | 1: 1 | 1: 2 | 1: 4 | 0: 1 | 4: 1 | 0: 1 | 0-0 | 0: 2 | |
| Olympique Saint-Memmie | 3: 1 | 0: 5 | 3: 4 | 0: 5 | 0: 3 | 0-0 | 1: 1 | 4: 3 | 3: 4 | 0: 3 | 0: 3 | |
| ASJ Soyaux | 6: 1 | 0-0 | 2: 3 | 1: 1 | 1: 1 | 0: 1 | 1: 1 | 10-0 | 3: 2 | 2: 2 | 0: 2 | |
| Toulouse FC | 2-0 | 3: 2 | 2-0 | 2-0 | 1-0 | 0: 1 | 6-0 | 2: 1 | 2-0 | 3: 1 | 1-0 |
| Pl. | Womanhood | Sp | G | U | V | Gates | Diff. | Pts. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Toulouse FC (TV) | 22nd | 18th | 2 | 2 | 48:10 | 78 | |
| 2. | Juvisy FCF | 22nd | 17th | 3 | 2 | 65:15 | 76 | |
| 3. | HSC Montpellier | 22nd | 16 | 2 | 4th | 71:24 | 72 | |
| 4th | FC Lyon | 22nd | 15th | 4th | 3 | 60:19 | 71 | |
| 5. | CNFE Clairefontaine (N) | 22nd | 11 | 4th | 7th | 43:23 | 59 | |
| 6th | ASJ Soyaux | 22nd | 8th | 7th | 7th | 44:23 | 53 | |
| 7th | Paris Saint-Germain | 22nd | 7th | 7th | 8th | 32:45 | 50 | |
| 8th. | Saint-Brieuc FF | 22nd | 5 | 3 | 14th | 30:54 | −24 a | 40 |
| 9. | Olympus. Saint-Memmie | 22nd | 5 | 3 | 14th | 25:64 | −39 a | 40 |
| 10. | ESOF La Roche | 22nd | 3 | 4th | 15th | 22:47 | 35 | |
| 11. | Stade Quimper (N) | 22nd | 2 | 5 | 15th | 18:81 | 33 | |
| 12. | USO Bruay (N) | 22nd | 2 | 2 | 18th | 17:70 | 30th |
The four strongest opponents of the previous year - Toulouse, Juvisy, Lyon and Montpellier - dominated the league almost at will this season as well: From the fourth matchday onwards, one of these women was always at the top of the table. The only climbers from Clairefontaine, who were de facto a selection of juniors from the French center technique national Fernand-Sastre , were able to keep pace with these teams at least in the first third of the season, while Soyaux and Paris Saint-Germain were not as strong as in the previous year occurred. Autumn champions were the defending champions from Toulouse , who did not allow themselves to be challenged by the competition for first place in the second half of the season, apart from the fact that Juvisy's women were briefly ex aequo with them on matchday 18. The strength of the previous year's champions was also due to the fact that they did not give up a single point in the 16 point games against the other eight first division clubs.
The clashes at the end of the table turned out to be almost dramatic by the end of the season. The other two promoted teams, Bruay and Quimper, were never without a chance in their efforts to avoid an immediate return to the second division. At the end of the first half of the season, Saint-Memmie was on one of the two relegation ranks and could only be reasonably sure about relegation five rounds before the end of the season; instead, the situation in the second half of the season became critical for the women from La Roche-sur-Yon , who had been overtaken by Quimper after a negative series of ten defeats in a row and were only one point ahead of Bruay, who wore the "red lantern" , exhibited. On the last day of the match, La Roche received Quimper for the “relegation final” and, with a 2-0 win, managed to secure their continued membership in Division 1 .
The two relegated teams were replaced by two newcomers from northern France for the coming season , the FCF Hénin-Beaumont and the USCCO Compiègne .
Championship round
| FCF Juv |
FC Lyo |
HSC Mon |
FC Tou |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FCF Juvisy | 2-0 | 6-0 | : | |
| FC Lyon | : | : | 1-0 | |
| HSC Montpellier | : | 0: 2 | : | |
| Toulouse FC | 1: 2 | : | 1: 2 |
| Pl. | Womanhood | Sp | G | U | V | Gates | Diff. | bonus | Pts. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Juvisy FCF | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 10: 1 | 2 | 14th | |
| 2. | FC Lyon | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3: 2 | 0 | 9 | |
| 3. | HSC Montpellier | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2: 9 | 1 | 7th | |
| 4th | Toulouse FC | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2: 5 | 3 | 6th |
The decisive play-offs were almost the same as in the two previous years, albeit this time with a reversed line-up: It was not the championship leader of the regular points round that ended the season as French champions, but the title won by the runner-up - with the difference that Toulouse had all three lost decisive games, while Juvisy with three wins impressively refuted the impression that there was nothing left to do at the end of the season.
The champions' players
The squad trained by P. Gressani included the following female soccer players:
- Goal: Sandrine Capy
- Defense: Zoé Avner , Lucie Béraldin , Laure Dupont , Nelly Guilbert , Richant, Aline Riera Ubiergo , Émilie Trimoreau
- Midfield: Nadine Antonini , Virginie Bourdille , Aurélie Cousset , Sophie Guyennot , Valérie Jacques , Stéphanie Mugneret-Béghé , Peggy Provost , Sandrine Soubeyrand
- Attack: Sandra Chatoux , Virginie Destrieux , Sandrine Fusier , Lydie Perraudeau , Laëtitia Tonazzi
Juvisy FCF scored 75 goals: Tonazzi 15, Mugneret-Béghé, Provost 12 each, Chatoux 9, Soubeyrand 8, Guilbert, Perraudeau 4 each, Riera Ubiergo 3, Bourdille, Trimoreau 2 each, Antonini, Cousset and Jacques 1 each; there was also an own goal.
Most successful goalscorers
(Only hits scored in phase 1)
| Pl. | Surname | team | Gates |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Sandrine Brétigny | Lyon | 26th |
| 2. | Hoda Lattaf | Montpellier | 25th |
| 3. | Ingrid Boyeldieu | Paris | 13 |
| Élodie Ramos | Montpellier | 13 | |
| Sandrine Rouquet | Toulouse | 13 | |
| 6th | Sonia Bompastor | Montpellier | 12 |
| Stéphanie Mugneret-Béghé | Juvisy | 12 | |
| Peggy Provost | Juvisy | 12 | |
| Laëtitia Tonazzi | Juvisy | 12 | |
| 10. | Jennifer Boulet | Saint-Brieuc | 10 |
| Séverine Creuzet-Laplantes | Lyon | 10 | |
| Sarah M'Barek | Montpellier | 10 |
The most successful shooters in the championship round were Laëtitia Tonazzi (Juvisy, 3) in front of her teammate Virginie Bourdille and Cécilia Josserand (Lyon), who both scored two goals.
See also
literature
- Pascal Grégoire-Boutreau: Au bonheur des filles. Cahiers intempestifs, Saint-Étienne 2003, ISBN 2-911698-25-8
Web links
- 2002/03 season at footofeminin.fr
- 2002/03 season at rsssf.com