Division 1 Féminine 2003/04

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The 2003/04 season of Division 1 Féminine was the 30th playout of the French women's football championship since the official recognition of women's football by the FFF, the Football Association of France , in 1970 and the first run in the 1974/75 season . The championship was in pure League mode in a group consisting of a single group, comprising twelve teams, national top league discharged.

The defending champions were the women of Juvisy FCF , but this time they had to leave the championship to HSC Montpellier , which won their first title.

A cautious professionalization of French women's football had begun in 2002. 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 was that the association had wanted to strengthen the country's women's football in the run-up to France's first participation in a World Cup final .

Qualification and mode of competition

For the eligibility to participate in the D1F, only the performance of the women’s teams in the previous season was taken into account; The ten best-placed women’s teams at the time and two promoted teams from the second division, which was divided into regional groups, were qualified. The following twelve women’s associations started this season:

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 2004/05 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; The first and second placed women each had two home games in the championship round, the other two participants only one each.

Phase 1: Results, table and course of the season

CNF
Cla 		USC
Com 		FCF
H-B 		FCF
Juv 		ESO
LaR 		FC
Lyo 		HSC
Mon 		SG
par 		FF
StB 		Oly
StM 		ASJ
Soy 		FC
Tou
CNFE Clairefontaine 2: 1 0: 1 0: 2 0-0 1: 1 0-0 1-0 4-0 2-0 2-0 0: 1
USCCO Compiègne 0: 3 2: 1 0: 1 0-0 2: 5 1: 5 0: 1 1-0 0: 4 0: 4 0: 2
FCF Henin-Beaumont 0-0 1: 1 0: 2 3-0 2: 2 0: 3 1: 1 1: 4 8: 1 3: 2 0: 2
Juvisy FCF 0: 1 3-0 3: 1 3-0 1: 2 0: 1 3: 1 5-0 5-0 0: 2 0-0
ESOF La Roche 1-0 0-0 1: 3 1: 3 0: 2 1: 1 0-0 1: 3 0: 2 0: 3 0: 2
FC Lyon 0: 2 2-0 1: 1 1: 2 4-0 0: 1 3: 2 4: 1 5-0 4: 2 4: 4
HSC Montpellier 0-0 3-0 3-0 1-0 10-0 2-0 1: 1 10-0 3-0 1: 3 0: 1
Paris Saint-Germain 0: 2 2: 1 2: 5 0: 1 2-0 0: 1 2: 2 0-0 2-0 2: 1 1: 4
Saint-Brieuc FF 1: 5 2: 1 1: 2 2: 3 1-0 1: 3 0: 1 2: 2 1: 2 4: 2 0: 4
Olympus. Saint-Memmie 0: 3 2: 2 0: 3 0: 2 0: 2 1: 4 2: 4 1-0 1: 1 0: 4 0: 5
ASJ Soyaux 0: 6 3-0 2: 2 1: 1 5: 1 0: 2 0: 2 1: 1 2: 1 1-0 0-0
Toulouse FC 3: 1 6-0 3-0 2: 2 3-0 0: 2 2: 1 6-0 5: 1 2-0 1-0
Pl. Womanhood Sp G U V Gates Diff. Pts.
1. Toulouse FC 22nd 17th 4th 1 58:12 77
2. HSC Montpellier 22nd 14th 5 3 55:13 69
3. FC Lyon 22nd 14th 4th 4th 52:25 68
4th Juvisy FCF (TV) 22nd 14th 3 5 42:16 67
5. CNFE Clairefontaine 22nd 12 5 5 35:11 63
6th ASJ Soyaux 22nd 9 4th 9 38:33 53
7th FCF Hénin-Beaumt. (N) 22nd 8th 6th 8th 38:36 52
8th. Paris Saint-Germain 22nd 5 7th 10 22:36 44
9. Saint-Brieuc FF 22nd 5 3 14th 26:59 40
10. Olympus. Saint-Memmie 22nd 4th 2 16 16:59 36
11. ESOF La Roche 22nd 2 5 15th 08:50 33
12. USCCO Compiègne (N) 22nd 2 4th 16 12:52 32

After six match days, Juvisy, Montpellier and Toulouse led the table with equal points, with Soyaux three points behind in fourth place. At the end of the row, Toulouse had overtaken the leading players from Montpellier, and Juvisy was only one point behind these two; Soyaux had meanwhile dropped to seventh place, while Lyon had improved to fourth place. In the second half of the season, however, the FCT only made two draws, while its three main opponents did not record enough wins (Lyon seven, Juvisy and Montpellier only six each) to keep up with them. Behind this quartet, the very young players from Clairefontaine and their 17-year-old striker Élodie Thomis - the CNFE's squad consisted exclusively of young women born between 1985 and 1987 - came in fifth.

From the danger zone, Paris and Saint-Brieuc, who apparently already adorned the bottom of the table after seven matchdays - the capitals had lost six times and drew once, the Bretons even recorded seven defeats - had worked their way up to midfield, where also newcomers Hénin-Beaumont entered. The second promoted player from Compiègne was relegated before the last game, and La Roche could not use his theoretical chance against Saint-Memmie in the end - ESOF's offensive, which went goalless in 15 of the 22 point games, was simply too harmless, which was also expressed in the fact that one of her only eight goals this season had scored her goalkeeper Corinne Lagache . The relegated teams were replaced by FC Vendenheim and FCF Condé-sur-Noireau from the second division for the following season . FC Lyon dissolved its women's football department after this season, which joined local rivals Olympique .

Championship round

FCF
Juv 		FC
Lyo 		HSC
Mon 		FC
Tou
Juvisy FCF (a)
FC Lyon 3: 2
HSC Montpellier 1: 3 3-0
Toulouse FC 0: 1 0: 1
Pl. Womanhood Sp G U V Gates Diff. bonus Pts.
1. HSC Montpellier 3 2 0 1 5: 3 2 11
2. FC Lyon 3 2 0 1 4: 5 1 10
3. Juvisy FCF 3 2 0 1 8: 4 0 09
4th Toulouse FC 3 0 0 3 0: 5 3 05
(a)Juvisy won his game against Toulouse without a fight with 3-0 goals. The guests, who had no chance of winning the title after their two home defeats on this third match day, did not take part in the game and justified this by wanting to "protest against the mode of the championship round".

These play-offs, which were only introduced in 1999/2000 , did indeed give rise to fundamental criticism. After a long season of 132 games, the championship was decided in just six matches, which was not fundamentally changed by the slight differentiation between the four participants through bonus points and the different number of home games.

In fact, the team that had already topped the table after the first championship phase prevailed only in the first of the four previous championship rounds; In the remaining four seasons, on the other hand, a woman with a lower ranking always won the national championship title - and the players from Toulouse were always affected, but twice positively: In 2001, FCT predecessor Toulouse OAC won the play-offs (and not Juvisy, the Leader of the table after 22 matchdays), in 2002 the FCT prevailed - again at the expense of Juvisy - and in 2003 it was exactly the other way round (Juvisy instead of Toulouse champions).
As a result, the French federation FFF abolished the championship round for the following 2004/05 season.

The champions' players

Montpellier coach Régis Durand had the following players in his line-up (the number of point games in brackets):

The 55 hits of the MHSC were scored by Lattaf 17, Ramos 12, Bompastor 7, Diguelman 6, Abily, Faisandier 4 each, Calvié, M'Barek 2 each, Bellier 1; in the championship round, Bompastor, Calvié, Diguelman, Lattaf and Ramos each scored a goal.

Most successful goalscorers

Most goals in phase 1 were scored by:

Pl. Surname team Gates
1. Claire Morel Lyon 18th
2. Hoda Lattaf Montpellier 17th
3. Élodie Thomis Clairefontaine 15th
4th Laëtitia Tonazzi Juvisy 14th
Lilas Traïkia Toulouse 14th
6th Marie-Pierre Castera Toulouse 13
Corine Petit Soyaux 13
8th. Élodie Ramos Montpellier 12
9. Sandrine Brétigny Lyon 9
10. Delphine Blanc Lyon 8th
Déborah Jeannet Saint-Memmie 8th
Peggy Provost Juvisy 8th
13. Sonia Bompastor Montpellier 7th

The most successful shooters in the championship round were Tonazzi (Juvisy) with 4 before Brétigny (Lyon) with 2 goals.

See also

Web links

Notes and evidence

  1. ↑ see Clairefontaines seasonal offer at footofeminin.fr
  2. ↑ see the explanation at footofeminin.fr
  3. ↑ Montpellier's squad at footofeminin.fr
  4. ↑ according to the scorer list at footofeminin.fr
  5. ↑ see the relevant information on the championship round at footofeminin.fr