Division 1 Féminine 2013/14

The 2013/14 season of Division 1 Féminine was the 40th 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 . The Division 1 Féminine called league is in pure League mode played in a group consisting of a single group, comprising twelve teams, national top division.

The first game day was September 1, 2013; the season ended on June 1, 2014.

The old one also became the new champion after the women of Olympique Lyon could not be deprived of the title, as in the previous season . This was Olympique's eighth French championship in a row.

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; Qualified were the nine best-placed teams of the previous season as well as three promoted teams, who had each finished their group in Division 2 Féminine as first in the table. Thus the following twelve participants started this season:

from the north: Arras FCF , promoted FCF Hénin-Beaumont , Juvisy FCF , Paris Saint-Germain
from the west: EA Guingamp , promoted ASJ Soyaux
from the south: defending champions Olympique Lyon , HSC Montpellier , AF Rodez , AS Saint-Étienne , promoted AS Muret , FF Yzeure Allier Auvergne

The championship was played in a double round of points in which each participant 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, the direct comparison was the decisive factor and, if necessary, the better total goal difference , if there is still a tie , possibly the higher number of hits scored. At the end of the season, the three bottom of the table had to be relegated, who were replaced for the coming season by three promoted teams - the winners of the three groups in the second division.

The French champions as well as the runners-up in Division 1 Féminine qualified for the women's European Cup competition the following season .

Results, table and course of the season

	FCF Arr	EA Gui	FCF H-B	FCF Juv	Oly Lyo	HSC Mon	AS Mur	SG par	AF Rod	AS StÉ	ASJ Soy	FFA Yze
Arras FCF		0-0	0: 1	2: 3	2:11	1: 3	2: 2	1: 6	1-0	1-0	3-0	2-0
En Avant Guingamp	3: 2		4: 1	2: 6	1: 5	1: 2	5: 1	0: 6	0-0	0: 3	1-0	1: 1
FCF Henin-Beaum.	2: 2	1: 1		2: 4	0: 4	0: 3	7-0	0: 1	0: 4	0: 3	1: 1	3-0
Juvisy FCF	2-0	2: 1	3-0		0: 4	2: 1	4-0	2: 2	3: 1	2: 1	1: 2	1-0
Olympique Lyon	3: 2	5-0	7-0	3-0		2: 1	10: 1	0: 1	4-0	4: 1	5-0	1-0
HSC Montpellier	7: 1	2-0	4-0	1: 2	1: 4		5-0	1: 2	8: 1	3: 1	2-0	4-0
AS Muret	0: 1	0: 3	1: 5	0:10	0: 7	0: 6		0: 9	1: 6	0: 4	1: 7	0: 3
Paris Saint-Germain	3-0	4-0	11: 0	0: 1	0: 3	2-0	4-0		7-0	5-0	6-0	4-0
AF Rodez	1: 2	0-0	1: 1	1: 6	1: 2	0: 2	2-0	0: 3		1: 1	1: 1	2-0
AS Saint-Etienne	1: 1	1: 1	0-0	0: 3 ^a	1: 5	1: 1	2-0	0-0	0: 2		1: 2	0: 2
ASJ Soyaux	5-0	0: 1	1: 1	1: 4	0: 5	0: 7	4: 1	2: 3	3: 2	0: 1		1-0
FF Yzeure Allier Auv.	3: 1	1: 4	1: 2	0: 3	0: 1	0: 3	3-0	0: 2	1: 3	2: 1	2: 2

Pl.	Womanhood	Sp	G	U	V	Gates	Diff.	Pts.
1.	Olympique Lyon (TV)	22nd	21st	0	1	95:12		85
2.	Paris Saint-Germain	22nd	18th	2	2	81:10		78
3.	Juvisy FCF	22nd	18th	1	3	64:24		77
4th	HSC Montpellier	22nd	15th	1	6th	67:20		68
5.	EA Guingamp	22nd	7th	6th	9	29:43		49
6th	ASJ Soyaux (N)	22nd	7th	4th	11	32:49		47
7th	AF Rodez	22nd	6th	5	11	29:46		45
8th.	Arras FCF	22nd	6th	4th	12	27:56		44
9.	AS Saint-Etienne	22nd	5	6th	11	23:35	-12 ^b	43
10.	FCF Hénin-Beaumt. (N)	22nd	5	6th	11	27:56	-29 ^b	43
11.	Yzeure Allier Auvergne	22nd	5	2	15th	19:41		39
12.	AS Muret (N)	22nd	0	1	21st	08: 109		20 ^c

^aThe game Saint-Étienne against Juvisy from the 4th matchday (final score 0: 2) had to be repeated. This was the result of a dispute over the eligibility of two soccer players who were used, which had dragged itself over several sports court instances: Camille Catala (Juvisy) had inadvertently not been entered on the score sheet, and the association license for Laura, who had switched from Yzeure to Saint-Étienne Bouillot should not have been granted.

^b In a direct comparison with Hénin-Beaumont, Saint-Étienne kept the upper hand thanks to a win and a draw with 3-0 goals.

^c After the games were over, Muret was deducted three points for "non-compliance with the rules on youth teams".

As already begun twelve months earlier, series champion Lyon tried to further reduce his seasonal budget; Olympique relied on its own youth, only signed Saki Kumagai and Mélissa Plaza from outside , gave up Céline Deville (to Juvisy) and Laura Georges (to Paris) and also extended the contracts of Sonia Bompastor (who then ended her playing career, but continues to do so works for OL), Shinobu Ōno and Ami Ōtaki do not. The previous year's runners-up from the capital, however, continued their sporting “armament” that they had started in 2012: Marie-Laure Delie was the French national goal scorer from Montpellier, the experienced central defender Laura Georges from Lyon and Léa Declercq from Hénin-Beaumont, an 18-year-old Storm talent who became U-17 world champion in 2012 . In the second half of the match between these two women on January 18, 2014, PSG prevailed 1-0 in Lyon; this was Olympique's first loss in a league game in the first division in almost four years (March 2010 0-2 at Juvisy). The goal of the day was scored by Laura Georges of all people.
Juvisy, the only all-female club in France's leading club quartet so could financially not expected to keep up, but pledged at least with Céline Deville the second international goalkeeper and with Alexandra Guiné of ESOF La Roche , Lilas Traïkia from Toulouse and Frankfurt -Rückkehrerin Sandrine Brétigny three erstligaerfahrene , offensive players.

After the 18th matchday, promoted Muret was arithmetically the first return to Division 2, Yzeure three rounds later. It was not until the last match day that the decisions about the third relegated team and who would represent France in addition to champions Lyon in the European Cup were made. The latter succeeded the Parisians by one point, which they defended on matchday 21 in a direct duel in Juvisy with a draw. In the lower part of the table, however, Saint-Étienne finally saved themselves, who despite their weakness at home secured a point against Montpellier throughout the season, while Hénin-Beaumont had no chance in Lyon. In the end, it was a direct comparison between these two women with equal points that made the difference.
Muret's 109 goals marked a new negative record since the league was renamed Division 1 in 2002, which until then had been 81 opposing goals. And since the introduction of the league with 12 players (1992), only one team in France's top division has had to concede more goals than Muret - that was SC Caluire Saint-Clair in the 2001/02 season with 113.

The midfield, whose teams had nothing to do with the championship race or the relegation battle for the entire season, only made up three first division clubs with Montpellier, Guingamp and newcomer Soyaux.

For the following season, rising from the two Féminine Division the ASPTT Albi , FF Issy and FC Metz on. The latter took up the women's division of AS Algrange and took over its league license after the women from the north of Lorraine had been confirmed as second division group winners and promoted players.

The champions' players

Coach Patrice Lair , whose position Gérard Prêcheur will take after this season , had the following female footballers in his season squad (in brackets the number of point matches):

Goal: Sarah Bouhaddi (20), Cindy Perrault (0), Pauline Peyraud-Magnin (3)
Defense: Saki Kumagai (19), Corine Petit (15), Mélissa Plaza (14), Wendie Renard (19), Sabrina Viguier (9)
Midfield: Camille Abily (19), Élise Bussaglia (21), Lara Dickenmann (21), Amandine Henry (20), Amel Majri (11), Louisa Nécib (21), Eve Périsset (6), Megan Rapinoe (8), Mylaine Tarrieu (0), Makan Mouchou Traoré (3)
Attack: Eugénie Le Sommer (19), Lotta Schelin (18), Élodie Thomis (20), Laëtitia Tonazzi (21)

Viguier and Rapinoe left the club during the season.

Olympiques scored 95 goals: Le Sommer, Tonazzi 15 each, Abily 13, Schelin 12, Dickenmann 8, Renard 7, Bussaglia, Nécib 4 each, Kumagai, Henry, Rapinoe, Thomis 3 each, Petit 1. There were also four opposing own goals.

Most successful goalscorers

The current best goal scorers of the French national team also fought head-to-head in Division 1, which Juvisy's Gaëtane Thiney won on the last day of the game thanks to three goals against Marie-Laure Delie, who "only" scored twice . Overall, the most point goals scored:

Pl.	Surname	team	Gates
1.	Gaëtane Thiney	Juvisy	25th
2.	Marie-Laure Delie	Paris	24
3.	Sweden Josefine Öqvist	Montpellier	18th
4th	Eugénie Le Sommer	Lyon	15th
	Laëtitia Tonazzi	Lyon	15th
6th	United States Lindsey Horan	Paris	14th
7th	Camille Abily	Lyon	13
8th.	Sweden Lotta Schelin	Lyon	12
9.	Sandrine Brétigny	Juvisy	10
	Japan Rumi Utsugi	Montpellier	10
11.	Viviane Asseyi	Montpellier	9
	Camille Catala	Juvisy	9
	Anaïs Ribeyra	Rodez	9
14th	Laura Bourgouin	Soyaux	8th
	Germany Linda Bresonik	Paris	8th
	Switzerland Lara Dickenmann	Lyon	8th
	Gwendoline Djebbar	Soyaux	8th
18th	Sweden Kosovars Asllani	Paris	7th
	Ludivine Bultel	Arras	7th
	Marina Makanza	Montpellier	7th
	Wendie Renard	Lyon	7th