Division 2 1956/57

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Division 2 1956/57
master Olympique Alès
Climbers Olympique Alès
AS Béziers
OSC Lille
Relegation ↑ Lille OSC
Teams 20th
Games 380 + 3 relegation games
Gates 1,116  (ø 2.94 per game)
Top scorer Fernand Devlaminck , (Lille OSC)
← Division 2 1955/56
^ Division 1 1956/57

The Division 2 1956/57 was the 18th staging of the second highest French football league . Second division champion was Olympique Alès .

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 either.

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division; after that, a descent to the third highest division had been introduced over a few years, but this was no longer in force. In addition, a second division could be relegated if he gave up his license or if it was revoked.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

With Alès, Béziers and first division relegated Lille, three teams had already separated from the rest of the participants several weeks before the end of the season and then only competed with each other over the question of who would win one of the two places eligible for direct promotion to Division 1 . This was finally achieved by the two teams from Languedoc , of which Béziers experienced its "first division premiere", while Lille - despite high investments in the team squad before the start of the season and its very efficient attack series with almost 100 hits - had to go into relegation for the third time in a row (see below) . Behind this troika followed the two other relegated members of the previous season, Troyes-Savinienne and Bordeaux, who led a very wide middle of the table. By the end of the series, Nantes was still in the top group of the second division, before the FCN had to tear off contact due to injuries to two regular players and fell back to 13th place.

In the lower third of the ranking there was a former French champion from 1947 with Roubaix-Tourcoing , with CA Paris a team that had been a "regular" there for almost a decade, and with the Audoniens of Red Star Olympique as the bottom, a particularly ambitious team However, due to their often "unconventional" approach - for example, she had been denied promotion two years earlier because club officials bribed opponents on the way - repeatedly hit the headlines in the 1950s and 1960s.

A total of 1,116 goals were scored in the 380 encounters; this corresponds to an average of 2.94 goals per game, and thus the average fell below the three-hit limit for the first time in league history. Fernand Devlaminck from Lille won the top scorer's crown with 27 goals. After the end of the season, none of the teams gave up their professional status. For the following season , the relegated FC Nancy , Racing Strasbourg and, after the Barrages, Stade Rennes UC came from Division 1 . In addition, the football association gave two newcomers ( US Forbach and FC Limoges ) a professional license for the first time, so that the championship of the second division should then be played with 22 participants.

Closing table

Pl. society Sp. S. U N Gates Quota Points
 1. Olympique Alès  38  24  8th  6th 058:360 1.61 56:20
 2. AS Béziers  38  20th  13  5 058:380 1.53 53:23
 3. Lille OSC (A)  38  21st  10  7th 099:510 1.94 52:24
 4th AS Troyes-Savinienne (A)  38  17th  11  10 071:460 1.54 45:31
 5. Girondins Bordeaux (A)  38  15th  13  10 067:480 1.40 43:33
 6th FC Grenoble  38  16  9  13 063:490 1.29 41:35
 7th SC Toulon  38  18th  5  15th 070:560 1.25 41:35
 8th. Le Havre AC  38  15th  11  12 062:550 1.13 41:35
 9. FC Rouen  38  16  8th  14th 064:480 1.33 40:36
10. Stade Français Paris  38  14th  11  13 053:510 1.04 39:37
11. SO Montpellier  38  16  6th  16 056:710 0.79 38:38
12. FC Sète  38  14th  9  15th 047:530 0.89 37:39
13. FC Nantes  38  13  10  15th 056:640 0.88 36:40
14th FC Perpignan  38  12  12  14th 035:440 0.80 36:40
15th CO Roubaix-Tourcoing  38  14th  4th  20th 049:550 0.89 32:44
16. Racing FC Besançon  38  13  6th  19th 046:600 0.77 32:44
17th AS Aix  38  11  5  22nd 040:610 0.66 27:49
18th AS Cannes  38  7th  13  18th 039:600 0.65 27:49
19th CA Paris  38  6th  11  21st 041:820 0.50 23:53
20th Red Star Olympique  38  7th  7th  24 042:880 0.48 21:55

Placement criteria: 1st points - 2nd goal quotient

  • Promotion to Division 1 1957/58
  • Participation in the relegation round
    • (A) Relegated from Division 1 in 1955/56

    Relegation round

    After the end of the point games, the third-placed Lille met third-bottom division 1 , the Stade Rennes UC , to determine another promoted team. These two teams had already faced each other in relegation two seasons earlier . After both Barragists had won a game by two goals each - Rennes 2-0, Lille 3-1 - a playoff became necessary because the matches were played on a neutral pitch, an extension of the second game was not planned and In addition, no away goals rule existed in the 1950s . In this third clash in Paris , Lille retained the upper hand 2-1 just before the final whistle thanks to a penalty converted by Yvon Douis and returned to the first division.

    Result First leg Return leg Playoff
    Lille OSC 5: 4 Stade Rennes UC 0: 2 3: 1 2: 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. ^ A b Paul Hurseau / Jacques Verhaeghe: Olympique Lillois - Sporting Club Fivois - Lille OSC Alan Sutton, Joué-lès-Tours 1997, ISBN 2-84253-080-2 , p. 100
    2. ^ Pierre Minier: 1943-2003 - Football Club de Nantes, le doyen de l'élite. Cahiers intempestifs, Saint-Étienne 2003, ISBN 2-911698-23-1 , pp. 30f.
    3. ↑ Guillet / Laforge, p. 252