Division 2 1949/50

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Division 2 1949/50
master Olympique Nîmes
Climbers Olympique Nîmes
Le Havre AC
Teams 18th
Games 306
Gates 954  (ø 3.12 per game)
Top scorer Edmond Haan , (Olympique Nîmes)
← Division 2 1948/49
^ Division 1 1949/50

The Division 2 1949/50 was the eleventh staging of the second highest French football league . Second division champion was Olympique Nîmes .

societies

Eligible to participate were the 16 clubs that had not been promoted to the first division after the previous season or had given up their professional status - voluntarily or by force. There was also a first division relegated and a newcomer who had assumed professional status. It was - this was a first in French professional football - to a legally independent club, for which the second team from Olympique Marseille played.

Thus, the following 18 teams officially played for the championship of Division 2 this season :

Before the Second World War, there was only a direct promotion and relegation depending on the sporting result between the first and second professional division; thereafter a relegation to the third highest division had been introduced over a few years. In addition, a second division could be relegated if he gave up his license or if it was revoked. Previous amateur teams, on the other hand, could only continue to move up to Division 2 for the following season if they received approval from the responsible association FFF to assume professional status.

Season course

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.

With regard to the main decisions, there was clarity long before the last match day. The positions in the table entitled to promotion had secured two teams early on, Nîmes and Le Havre, which in the end were able to distance the third-placed first division relegated from Cannes by 16 and 12 points respectively. The situation was similar in the lower area of ​​the overall standings, where Paris was finally 16 points behind the penultimate. But although the CAP had only been able to leave one team behind in the previous two seasons, this founding member of the professional league operation from 1932 under its president Marcel Langiller stayed with it.

This season was the first as a paid player for a short, dribbling winger named Raymond Kopaszewski , who made his debut at Angers at the age of 17 and would develop into one of the best footballers in Europe in the following years. In the 306 encounters of Division 2 , 954 hits were scored; this corresponds to an average of 3.1 goals per game. Edmond Haan from Nîmes won the top scorer's crown with 27 goals.

No club gave up its professional status after the end of the season, and none of the third division received a new license. Thus, for the following season only the two first division partners SO Montpellier and FC Metz were added.

Closing table

Pl. society Sp. S. U N Gates Quota Points
 1. Olympique Nîmes  34  25th  7th  2 087:280 3.11 57:11
 2. Le Havre AC  34  24  5  5 085:250 3.40 53:15
 3. AS Cannes-Grasse (A)  34  17th  7th  10 065:400 1.63 41:27
 4th AS Béziers  34  12  13  9 057:530 1.08 37:31
 5. FC Rouen  34  13  10  11 056:450 1.24 36:32
 6th US Valenciennes-Anzin  34  15th  6th  13 052:640 0.81 36:32
 7th Lyon OU  34  14th  7th  13 048:510 0.94 35:33
 8th. Olympique Alès  34  13  8th  13 052:520 1.00 34:34
 9. AC Amiens  34  13  7th  14th 055:540 1.02 33:35
10. SC Toulon  34  11  11  12 052:600 0.87 33:35
11. GSC Marseille 2 (N)  34  12  7th  15th 047:610 0.77 31:37
12. US Le Mans  34  11  8th  15th 048:530 0.91 30:38
13. Racing FC Besançon  34  13  4th  17th 046:530 0.87 30:38
14th AS Troyes-Savinienne  34  9  12  13 038:620 0.61 30:38
15th SCO Angers  34  11  7th  16 046:570 0.81 29:39
16. AS Monaco  34  11  7th  16 040:530 0.75 29:39
17th FC Nantes  34  9  9  16 044:570 0.77 27:41
18th CA Paris  34  3  5  26th 036:860 0.42 11:57

Placement criteria: 1st points - 2nd goal quotient

  • Promotion to Division 1 in 1950/51
    • (A) Relegated from Division 1 in 1948/49
    (N) Newcomers

    See also

    Web links

    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

    1. ↑ Guillet / Laforge, p. 252