Division 2 1959/60

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Division 2 1959/60
master FC Grenoble
Climbers FC Grenoble
FC Nancy
FC Rouen
AS Troyes-Savinienne
Relegated Red Star Olympique
FC Sète
Teams 20th
Games 380
Gates 1,092  (ø 2.87 per game)
Top scorer Claude Corbel , (FC Rouen)
← Division 2 1958/59
^ Division 1 1959/60

The Division 2 1959/60 was the 21 host the second highest French football league . Second division champions were FC Grenoble .

societies

The 15 clubs that had not been promoted to the first division after the previous season or had given up their license - voluntarily or by force - were eligible to participate ; there were also four first division relegated members and a previous amateur club that had received the professional license.

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

There was only a direct promotion and relegation depending on the sporting result between the first and second professional division; After the Second World War , a descent into the third highest division had been introduced over a few years, but this was no longer in force. A second division officer could relegate alone in the event that he surrendered his license or it was withdrawn from him. 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.
This season, too, there was no 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.

The fight for the four promotion places remained open for a long time and included seven teams last month. Grenoble and pre-season relegated Nancy were the first to secure their promotion tickets, while the two remaining were only finally given on the last day of the game. It was not a good year for the six “Olympic” clubs: the relegated from Alès, Marseille and Lille ended the season in the tabular “Niemannsland”, Red Star Olympique from Saint-Ouen and Stade Olympique from Montpellier won more points than these, but also missed the ascent, and Roubaix-Tourcoing even finished the season only in third from last place - and thus even two places behind the "long runner-up" of the 1950s, CA Paris. The newcomer from Boulogne-sur-Mer also had a very difficult time in his first season.

With an average of just under 2.9 goals per game (1,092 hits in 380 matches), the participating teams also set a new negative record in the history of Division 2 . Claude Corbel from Rouen won the top scorer's crown with 29 goals. At the end of the season, FC Sète (voluntary retirement) and Red Star Olympique (forced relegation to the regional group of the Division d'Honneur for financial reasons) lost their professional status, two clubs that had been among the most successful in France between the two world wars. For the following season , four relegated from Division 1 ( FC Sochaux , Racing Strasbourg , SC Toulon and Girondins Bordeaux ) were added; in addition, the association of AS Cherbourg-Stella issued a professional license for the first time, so that the second division should then be played with 19 participating teams.

Closing table

Pl. society Sp. S. U N Gates Quota Points
 1. FC Grenoble  38  22nd  7th  9 055:330 1.67 51:25
 2. FC Nancy (A)  38  19th  12  7th 061:390 1.56 50:26
 3. FC Rouen  38  21st  5  12 077:450 1.71 47:29
 4th AS Troyes-Savinienne  38  21st  5  12 065:540 1.20 47:29
 5. Red Star Olympique  38  21st  4th  13 069:450 1.53 46:30
 6th FC Metz  38  18th  9  11 058:420 1.38 45:31
 7th SO Montpellier  38  18th  8th  12 057:580 0.98 44:32
 8th. FC Nantes  38  16  9  13 058:480 1.21 41:35
 9. Olympique Alès (A)  38  13  14th  11 048:420 1.14 40:36
10. Olympique Marseille (A)  38  16  5  17th 057:630 0.90 37:39
11. Lille OSC (A)  38  12  12  14th 062:620 1.00 36:40
12. AS Béziers  38  12  12  14th 051:590 0.86 36:40
13. Racing FC Besançon  38  14th  7th  17th 050:440 1.14 35:41
14th FC Sète  38  13  9  16 043:520 0.83 35:41
15th US Forbach  38  10  13  15th 052:570 0.91 33:43
16. CA Paris  38  14th  3  21st 061:680 0.90 31:45
17th AS Cannes  38  11  9  18th 045:740 0.61 31:45
18th CO Roubaix-Tourcoing  38  7th  14th  17th 048:650 0.74 28:48
19th US Boulogne (N)  38  8th  11  19th 042:730 0.58 27:49
20th AS Aix  38  6th  8th  24 033:790 0.42 20:56

Placement criteria: 1st points - 2nd goal quotient - 3rd goals scored

  • Promotion to Division 1 in 1960/61
  • Relegation to the National (D3) after license return
    • (A) Relegated from Division 1 in 1958/59
    (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
    2. ^ François de Montvalon / Frédéric Lombard / Joël Simon: Red Star. Histoires d'un siècle. Club du Red Star, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-95125-620-5 , p. 117