Division 2 1937/38
| Division 2 1937/38 | |
| master | Le Havre AC |
| Climbers | Le Havre AC AS Saint-Etienne |
| Relegated |
SM Caen Racing Calais |
| Teams | 25 (in four groups) |
| Games | 446 |
| Gates | 1,579 (ø 3.54 per game) |
| Top scorer |
 Hugo Lamanna ( CA Paris )
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| ← Division 2 1936/37 | |
| ^ Division 1 1937/38 | |
The Division 2 1937-38 was the fifth host the second highest French football league . Second division champion was Le Havre AC .
societies
The 14 clubs that had neither promoted to the first division nor given up their professional status after the previous season were eligible to participate . There were also two first division relegated teams. In addition, nine newcomers who had assumed professional status were added to this season. Due to the large field of participants with 25 teams, the responsible association changed the mode of competition and let the league championship play out in two phases. In the first phase there were four regionally compiled groups, each with five, six or seven participants, whose four best-placed teams each played for promotion in the subsequent second phase (poule de promotion) , while the teams not qualified for a relegation round ( Poule de relégation) .
The groups in the first phase are composed as follows:
- Group North (6): US Boulogne , Racing Calais , Olympique Dunkerque and the three newcomers Racing Arras , AS Hautmont , US Tourcoing
- Group West (5): SM Caen , Le Havre AC , CA Paris , relegated Stade Rennes UC , newcomer FC Dieppe
- Group East (7): FC Olympique Charleville , FC Nancy , Stade Reims , AS Troyes-Savinienne , relegated FC Mulhouse and the newcomers SR Colmar and US du Bassin de Longwy
- Group South (7): Olympique Alès , SO Montpellier , OGC Nice , AS Saint-Étienne and the newcomers Girondins Bordeaux FC , Olympique Nîmes and Toulouse FC
There was only a direct promotion and relegation depending on the sporting result between the first and second professional division. On the other hand, a second division could only be relegated if he surrendered his license or if it was revoked, and previous amateur teams from Division d'Honneur could only be promoted to Division 2 for the following season if they received approval from the association, professional To adopt status.
First phase
Each team played a return match against each group opponent, once in front of their own audience and once away. The two-point rule applied ; in the event of a tie, the goal difference was decisive for the placement. In France, when specifying the point ratio, only the number of plus points is given; here this is done in the notation used in Germany at the time of the 2-point rule.
Group north
Placement criteria: 1st points - 2nd goal quotient
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Group west
Placement criteria: 1st points - 2nd goal quotient
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Group east
Placement criteria: 1st points - 2nd goal quotient
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Group south
Placement criteria: 1st points - 2nd goal quotient
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Second phase
With Le Havre and Saint-Étienne, the third and fourth of the previous year achieved promotion this time. Saint-Étienne had to worry about his success of the season until the last matchday, because on the penultimate matchday the ASSE suffered their first and only home defeat (2: 3) in the Poule de promotion against Le Havre and was therefore - one point behind Rennes and only one point ahead of the surprisingly strong new professionals from Colmar - dropped to third place. In the final away game in Rennes, the players around the outstanding attacker Yvan Beck , who had scored 35 competitive goals this season, then prevailed 3-0.
The top scorer's crown - only the goals scored in the second phase of the championship counted - went to the Argentinean Hugo Lamanna from CA Paris with 29 goals.
The following season , Le Havre and Saint-Etienne were replaced by the first division relegated Red Star Olympique and US Valenciennes-Anzin . Caen and Calais left professional division 2 play ; no new licenses were granted.
Promotion lap
Placement criteria: 1st points - 2nd goal quotient
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Relegation round
Placement criteria: 1st points - 2nd goal quotient
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See also
literature
- 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
- ^ Frédéric Parmentier: AS Saint-Étienne, histoire d'une légende. Cahiers intempestifs, Saint-Étienne 2004, ISBN 2-911698-31-2 , pp. 272f.
- ↑ Guillet / Laforge, p. 252; Marc Barreaud: Dictionnaire des footballeurs étrangers du championnat professionnel français (1932-1997). L'Harmattan, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-7384-6608-7 , p. 23