Division 1 Féminine 2015/16

The 2015/16 season of Division 1 Féminine was the 42nd edition 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 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; In this mode, the D1F completed their 24th season.

The season started on August 30, 2015 and ended on May 21, 2016. A winter break was planned between December 20 and January 17; however, the first division had to intervene in the national cup competition on January 10th . For the first time, the FFF has planned two weekends (November 15 and March 20, respectively) for catch-up games in order to avoid weekday games as much as possible. Successful defending champions were the women of Olympique Lyon , who celebrated their tenth championship in a row.

The D1F also had its own FFF official YouTube channel this season .

Qualification and mode of competition

For the eligibility to participate, only the performance of the women's teams in the previous season is taken into account; Qualified are the nine best-placed teams of the previous season as well as three promoted teams, who each finished their group in Division 2 Féminine as first in the table. The following twelve participants start this season:

• from the north (all from the Paris area): Juvisy FCF , Paris Saint-Germain , promoted VGA Saint-Maur
• from the west: EA Guingamp , promoted ESOF La Roche , ASJ Soyaux
• from the south: ASPTT Albi , defending champion Olympique Lyon , HSC Montpellier , newly promoted FF Nîmes Métropole Gard , AF Rodez , AS Saint-Étienne

With Malika Bousseau from La Roche, Sarah M'Barek (Guingamp) is a second female head coach in Division 1 this season .

The championship is played in a double round of points in which each participant competes 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, applies with four points for a win, two for a draw and one for a defeat on the field; In the event of a tie, the direct comparison first and, if necessary, then the better total goal difference , if there is still a tie, the higher number of hits, if applicable, is decisive. At the end of the season, the three bottom of the table have to be relegated, who will be replaced for the coming season by three promoted teams - the winners of the three groups of the second division.
The French champions as well as the runners-up in Division 1 Féminine qualify for the women's European Cup competition of the following season .

Like a year ago , when FC Metz accepted the women of AS Algrange and thereby acquired the right to play in Division 1, there were also several club changes of women's teams or entire departments to a regionally neighboring " Men's Club ”. In 2015/16, however, this only affected second division: AS La Veore-Montoison agreed to work closely with Olympique Valence , FF Templemars-Vendeville joined OSC Lille and ES Blanquefort joined the Girondins Bordeaux . In this way, the professional clubs in particular meet an association requirement and at the same time gain the women's football know-how (players, coaches, partly junior schools) of the accepted clubs.

Change of club

During the previous summer break, there were a few well-known club changes, in which again mainly Lyon, Paris and - to a much more modest extent - Montpellier were involved.
For example, Élise Bussaglia and Lara Dickenmann (both for VfL Wolfsburg ) left the defending champion, who with Claire Lavogez , Griedge Mbock Bathy and Pauline Bremer (respectively from Montpellier, Guingamp and Potsdam ) three young national players and the returnee Aurélie Kaci (from Paris), to with Wang Fei (most recently in Potsdam) another goalkeeper at the Rhône already took that Lyon but in December left again. The capital club also parted ways with Annike Krahn and Linda Bresonik (both back to Germany) and Karima Benameur (to league rivals Juvisy), whom he hoped to adequately replace with Anja Mittag , Lisa Dahlkvist and the Brazilians Cristiane and Erika . Fatmire Alushi stayed in Paris, but took a “ baby break ”. In addition to Lavogez, Montpellier gave up Iryna Swarytsch (to Zvezda 2005 Perm ) and Marina Makanza (to Germany), bringing in Marion Romanelli from Albi, Marie-Charlotte Léger from FC Metz , Virginia Torrecilla from FC Barcelona , Andressa Alves da Silva from Brazil and During the winter break also Anouk Dekker from FC Twente .
In the other transfers, the departure of Juvisys Sandrine Brétigny , one of the most successful strikers in league history, to the second division Olympique Marseille made headlines. In addition, international player Charlotte Bilbault switched from Soyaux to Juvisy and young talent Laurie Saulnier from Monteux to newly promoted Nîmes, in whose ranks three veteran players ( Élodie Ramos , Ludivine Diguelman and, after the start of the season, Léa Rubio ) celebrated their return to Division 1. The Japanese Ami Ōtaki ended her career in Guingamp .

During the winter break, Lindsey Horan - in the first half of the season still third-best goalscorer in her club -, Kosovare Asllani and the permanently injured Josephine Henning terminated their contracts with Paris SG by mutual agreement; a third Brazilian came to the Seine with the experienced Rosana . Lyon, however, signed an additional defensive player with Line Røddik Hansen . (As of February 1, 2016)

Results, table and course of the season

	ASP Alb	EA Gui	FCF Juv	ESO LaR	Oly Lyo	HSC Mon	FF Nîm	SG par	AF Rod	AS StÉ	VGA StM	ASJ Soy
ASPTT Albi		1-0	1: 2	1: 1	0: 4	2: 1	2: 1	2: 3	0-0	0: 3	4: 2	0-0
EA Guingamp	3: 2		0: 3	1-0	0: 8	1: 2	1-0	1: 4	4: 1	3: 1	5: 2	0: 1
Juvisy FCF	3-0	5-0		2-0	0: 1	1: 2	5-0	0: 5	3-0	2: 1	2-0	4: 1
ESOF La Roche	0: 3	1-0	0: 4		0: 5	0: 2	3: 1	1: 5	0: 3	2: 3	4: 1	2: 3
Olympique Lyon	6-0	12: 0	2-0	6-0		1: 1	9-0	5-0	5-0	5-0	8: 1	7: 1
HSC Montpellier	3-0	3-0	1: 3	2-0	0-0		1-0	1: 2	4-0	1-0	5-0	7-0
FF Nîmes MG	1: 1	0: 2	0: 3	2: 4	0:10	0: 7		0: 5	2: 4	1: 2	3: 2	2: 2
Paris Saint-Germain	3-0	6-0	2: 2	4-0	0-0	0-0	8-0		5-0	3-0	7-0	3-0
AF Rodez	2: 2	2-0	1: 1	3: 2	0: 6	0: 3	3: 1	0: 1		1-0	5: 2	2: 3
AS Saint-Etienne	2: 1	1: 1	2: 2	3-0	0: 3	1: 1	2: 2	0: 4	3-0		2: 2	1: 2
VGA Saint-Maur	1: 3	1: 3	0: 1	2: 1	0: 7	0: 5	3: 1	1: 3	0: 4	1: 2		1: 1
ASJ Soyaux	3-0	4: 1	0: 1	2: 3	1: 5	0: 6	0-0	0: 2	0: 2	1: 2	2-0

Pl.	Womanhood	Sp	G	U	V	Gates	Diff.	Pts.
1.	Olympique Lyon (M)	22nd	19th	3	0	115: 04		82
2.	Paris Saint-Germain	22nd	18th	3	1	075:13		79
3.	HSC Montpellier	22nd	15th	4th	3	058:11		71
4th	Juvisy FCF	22nd	15th	3	4th	049:19		70
5.	AF Rodez	22nd	9	3	10	033:47		52
6th	AS Saint-Etienne	22nd	8th	5	9	031:38		51
7th	ASJ Soyaux	22nd	7th	4th	11	027:51		47
8th.	EA Guingamp	22nd	8th	1	13	026:60		47
9.	ASPTT Albi	22nd	6th	5	11	025:44		45
10.	ESOF La Roche (N)	22nd	5	1	16	024:58		38
11.	VGA Saint-Maur (N)	22nd	2	2	18th	022:78		30th
12.	FF Nîmes MG (N)	22nd	1	4th	17th	017:79		29

(M) = previous year's champion, (N) = promoted team this season

Before the first matchday, France Football rated the duel for the championship title between Lyon and Paris this season as absolutely open and did not expect a preliminary decision even from the first meeting of the two opponents on the 4th matchday. This fell with a 5-0 win - Lyon's greatest success against the capital city since this duel has existed (for the first time in 2004 ) - but then very clearly in favor of the defending champion. After the first half of the season, Montpellier, which like Lyon, had remained unbeaten, was ahead of PSG. In the end, the defending champions prevailed once again, and PSG qualified again for the European competition, followed by Montpellier and Juvisy.

Behind these "big four" followed five teams, which in the end had clearly set themselves apart from the relegated trio, but were far more distant from the top clubs. Among them was Saint-Étienne, a woman who was still in considerable danger of relegation after the second third of the season, but still achieved sixth place thanks to a very successful final spurt.

In the relegation zone, the three climbers were found in the middle of the season, plus Saint-Étienne and, surprisingly, Guingamp. The newcomer from Nîmes, the only one still without a win, had to do without four regular players on the fifth and sixth matchdays, who won the runner-up title at the 2015 Military World Cup with the French selection in South Korea . Nîmes and Saint-Maur were mathematically determined after the 19th matchday as relegated, while Guingamp was only able to break away from La Roche, which also has to return to the second division after just one year.

For the following season, rising from the Division 2 Féminine of FC Metz , Girondins Bordeaux and Olympique Marseille on, for the latter two a debut.

The champions' players

Coach Gérard Prêcheur had the following female footballers in his season squad (the number of point matches in brackets):

• Goal: Sarah Bouhaddi (8), Méline Gérard (12), Wang Fei (2)
• Defense: Estelle Cascarino (1), Line Røddik Hansen (4), Saki Kumagai (20), Griedge Mbock Bathy (20), Eve Périsset (2), Corine Petit (11), Julie Piga (1), Wendie Renard (15 )
• Midfield: Camille Abily (19), Yasmine Badache (1), Maëlle Garbino (2), Amandine Henry (13), Aurélie Kaci (17), Claire Lavogez (11), Amel Majri (17), Louisa Nécib (19), Lucie Pingeon (1)
• Attack: Inès Boutaleb (1), Pauline Bremer (10), Delphine Cascarino (12), Ada Hegerberg (21), Eugénie Le Sommer (18), Lotta Schelin (18), Mylaine Tarrieu (12), Élodie Thomis (15)

Lyon's 115 goals were scored by Hegerberg (33), Schelin (14), Abily, Le Sommer (10 each), Nécib (7), Henry, Renard (6 each), Bremer, Kumagai (5 each), Majri (4), D Cascarino, Mbock Bathy, Petit (3 each), Lavogez and Thomis (2 each). There were also two opposing own goals.

Most successful goalscorers

Most hits scored:

Pl.	Surname	team	Gates
1.	Ada Hegerberg	Lyon	33
2.	Cristiane	Paris	15th
3.	Lotta Schelin	Lyon	14th
4th	Marie-Laure Delie	Paris	12
	Julie Peruzzetto	Saint-Etienne	12
6th	Marie-Charlotte Léger	Montpellier	11
	Desire Oparanoia	Guingamp	11
	Gaëtane Thiney	Juvisy	11
9.	Camille Abily	Lyon	10
	Laura Bourgouin	Soyaux	10
	Kadidiatou Diani	Juvisy	10
	Eugénie Le Sommer	Lyon	10
	Anja noon	Paris	10
	Marlyse Ngo Ndoumbouk	Saint-Maur	10
	Laëtitia Tonazzi	Montpellier	10
16.	Sofia Jakobsson	Montpellier	9
17th	Andressa Alves da Silva	Montpellier	8th
	Kimberley Cazeau	Albi	8th
	Valérie Gauvin	Montpellier	8th
	Sarah Palacin	Saint-Etienne	8th
21st	Camille Catala	Juvisy	7th
	Tatiana Coleman	Juvisy	7th
	Marine De Souza	Rodez	7th
	Louisa Nécib	Lyon	7th

See also

• Coupe de France féminine 2015/16

Web links

• Season 2015/16 at footofeminin.fr

Notes and evidence

1. ↑ see the schedule of April 27, 2015 at footofeminin.fr
2. ↑ see under this web link
3. ↑ see the articles on the agreements on Lille of July 24th and Bordeaux of July 29th, 2015, both at footofeminin.fr
4. ↑ according to the article " Transferts D1 - Le tableau récap 'de tous les mouvements " from August 26, 2015 at footofeminin.fr
5. ↑ France Football, August 26, 2015, p. 64
6. ↑ see France's list at footofeminin.fr
7. ↑ Olympiques season line-up at footofeminin.fr
8. ↑ Top scorer list at footofeminin.fr