Division 2 1954/55

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Division 2 1954/55
master UA Sedan-Torcy
Climbers UA Sedan-Torcy
Relegation ↑ Stade Rennes UC
Teams 20th
Games 380 + 2 relegation games
Gates 1,264  (ø 3.33 per game)
Top scorer NetherlandsNetherlands Petrus van Rhijn
( US Valenciennes-Anzin )
← Division 2 1953/54
^ Division 1 1954/55

The Division 2 1954/55 was the 16th staging of the second highest French football league . Second division champion was UA Sedan-Torcy .

societies

Eligible were the 17 clubs that had not been promoted to the first division after the previous season or had given up their license - voluntarily or by force; there were also three first division relegated teams. There were no professional beginners this season.

So this season the following 20 teams played for the championship of Division 2 :

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division; after that, a descent to the third highest division had been introduced over a few years, but this was no longer in force. In addition, a second division could be relegated if he gave up his license or if it was revoked.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.
In addition, this season there was a relegation between the worst-placed first division team who was not directly relegated and the best second division team who was not directly eligible for promotion.

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.

Again it was the team with the most dangerous attack and the safest defense that won the second division championship. The eleven from Sedan succeeded in the prematurely established promotion in France's "upper house of football", which was perceived by the public with surprise because the "worker footballers " (footballeurs-ouvriers) only completed their second season under professional conditions and most of them of their players continued to work in a local cloth factory. Six points behind, the “ Audoniens ” of Red Star Olympique finished in second place in the table, but were not allowed to take advantage of the promotion to Division 1 that was normally associated with it . The football association saw it as proven that officials of the traditional club had tried to influence several game outcomes by making unauthorized payments to opponents in their favor. René Alpsteg, for example, an ex-national player who now wore the dress of the RCFC Besançon, denied having accepted money for a defeat and passed it on to teammates; he admitted, however, that he had received an offer from a stranger before the game against Red Star - of course "without it being clear to me whether we should win or lose for it". Red Stars non-promotion also secured the penultimate of the first division, AS Troyes-Savinienne , relegation. Third place went to the Bretons of the Stade Université Club from Rennes . which also thereby indirectly via the Barrages still hopes for a return to Division 1 were able to (see below) .

As the only relegated last year, Le Havre, the doyen of French football, achieved a placement in the top third of the table without being able to seriously intervene in the promotion battle - just like FC Sète, a founding member of professional gaming in 1932 and twice French before the Second World War Champion or cup winner . The "minimalists" from Languedoc had only conceded 30 goals in their 38 league games, but only scored 40 goals themselves. The end of the table was once again adorned by the capital club Cercle Athlétique, whose president Langiller still wanted to keep his team in the professional field.

In a total of 380 encounters, 1264 hits were scored; this corresponds to an average of 3.3 goals per game. The top scorer's crown was won by the Dutchman Petrus van Rhijn from Valenciennes-Anzin with 40 goals. After the end of the season, no participant gave up his professional status, so that the composition of the second division was almost unchanged in the following season : from Division 1 only the CO Roubaix-Tourcoing , who had won the first division title in 1947 , replaced the promoted team from Sedan-Torcy.

Closing table

Pl. society Sp. S. U N Gates Quota Points
 1. UA Sedan-Torcy  38  26th  9  3 102: 300 3.40 61:15
 2. Red Star Olympique a  38  24  7th  7th 099:430 2.30 55:21
 3. Stade Rennes UC  38  22nd  8th  8th 083:480 1.73 52:24
 4th Le Havre AC (A)  38  19th  11  8th 074:540 1.37 49:27
 5. US Valenciennes-Anzin  38  20th  7th  11 090:660 1.36 47:29
 6th SCO Angers  38  19th  8th  11 071:520 1.37 46:30
 7th FC Sète (A)  38  15th  13  10 040:300 1.33 43:33
 8th. FC Rouen  38  17th  8th  13 059:470 1.26 42:34
 9. Olympique Alès  38  12  12  14th 054:520 1.04 36:40
10. FC Nantes  38  13  9  16 069:780 0.88 35:41
11. AS Béziers  38  12  11  15th 048:650 0.74 35:41
12. SC Toulon  38  12  10  16 053:780 0.68 34:42
13. Stade Français Paris (A)  38  12  9  17th 059:710 0.83 33:43
14th AS Cannes  38  9  13  16 055:670 0.82 31:45
15th AS Aix  38  10  10  18th 054:800 0.68 30:46
16. Racing FC Besançon  38  13  3  22nd 072:960 0.75 29:47
17th SO Montpellier  38  10  9  19th 049:880 0.56 29:47
18th FC Perpignan  38  10  6th  22nd 045:660 0.68 26:50
19th FC Grenoble  38  7th  12  19th 050:770 0.65 26:50
20th CA Paris  38  4th  13  21st 038:760 0.50 21:55
a Ascent was denied because of attempted bribery.

Placement criteria: 1st points - 2nd goal quotient

  • Promotion to Division 1 1955/56
  • Participation in the relegation round
    • (A) Relegated from Division 1 in 1953/54

    Relegation round

    In the barrages for another promotion place, two other “professional clubs from the very beginning” met with Stade Rennes UC and Lille OSC . The northern French of the LOSC, who had even won the French championship title in 1954 and the national cup that year, ultimately prevailed with two wins (1-0 in the first leg and 6-1 in the second match) and thus secured themselves for another season her membership in Division 1 . That these successes had the "character of a swan song " (chant du cygne) for Lille was not yet apparent at the time.

    total First leg Return leg
    Lille OSC 7: 1 Stade Rennes UC 1-0 6: 1

    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. ^ François de Montvalon / Frédéric Lombard / Joël Simon: Red Star. Histoires d'un siècle. Club du Red Star, Paris 1999 ISBN 2-95125-620-5 , pp. 115f.
    2. ↑ Guillet / Laforge, p. 252
    3. ↑ L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: Coupe de France. La folle épopée. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2007, ISBN 978-2-915-53562-4 , p. 371