Division 2 1962/63

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Division 2 1962/63
master AS Saint-Etienne
Climbers AS Saint-Étienne
FC Nantes
Relegated CO Roubaix-Tourcoing
AS Troyes-Savinienne
Teams 19th
Games 342
Gates 1,103  (ø 3.23 per game)
Top scorer ArgentinaArgentina Ernesto Gianella
( AS Béziers )
← Division 2 1961/62
^ Division 1 1962/63

The Division 2 1962/63 was the 24th staging of the second highest French football league . Second division champion was the AS Saint-Etienne .

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 teams.

Thus, the following 19 teams played for the division 2 championship this season :

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the Second World War , a descent into the third highest division had been introduced over a few years, but this was no longer in force. A second division officer could relegate alone in the event that he surrendered his license or it was withdrawn from him.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.

AS Saint-Étienne marched with only three defeats - 1: 3 in Béziers, 1: 6 at the bottom of Aix-en-Provence and 0: 1 at home against FC Nantes, where they even won the first leg 4: 0 had - unchallenged for the championship title and immediately returned to Division 1 . Sochaux and Le Havre were the only serious pursuers who were able to keep up with these two teams, but only scored three or two of the eight points to be awarded in the direct duels against this year's top teams. Sochaux had the success on the last day of play in their own hands; the “ Peugeot- Werksklub” lost 2-0 in front of a record crowd of 16,959 paying spectators at FC Nantes. At this point in time it was not yet possible to suspect that both climbers would dominate French club football for the next two decades; the "Greens" from Saint-Étienne won from 1964 and the "Yellows" from Nantes - who had never played first class - from 1965 to 1983 together a total of 15 championship titles and six times the Coupe de France . Above all, they were the first in the country to start setting up their own youth training centers and, under their long-time coaches ( Snella , Batteux and Herbin at ASSE, Arribas and Vincent at FCN), developed a modern, independent and attractive style of play, which later also others France's clubs tried to imitate and which began to make French football internationally competitive as a whole from the mid-1980s.

Since there were only two promotion places this season, the two relegated Sochaux and Le Havre had to spend another year in the second division, as did the fourth relegated from Metz, who even only reached one place in the middle of the table. At the bottom of the final ranking, Aix found himself wearing the “red lantern” for the third time since 1960 . After the end of the season, three of the only marginally better placed clubs, however, drew the consequences of their sometimes long-term failure to permanently leave the second division with its generally low attendance figures and incomes that did not cover costs for the first division: Roubaix-Tourcoing, CA Paris and Troyes-Savinienne gave up their professional status. The case of the capital city of Cercle Athlétique was exemplary: they had belonged to the second division for 23 seasons in uninterrupted succession, reaching 14th place as the best position again from 1947/48, but seven times as penultimate in the table and four times as bottom the respective season ended. In view of the fact that they also had three competitors for the local audience with the Racing Club , Stade Français and Red Star from the neighboring Saint-Ouen , in 1963, despite all the "improvisational art" of the long-time club president Marcel Langiller, the professional status for CAP finally fell no longer finance.

In the 342 league encounters 1,103 hits were scored; this corresponds to an average of 3.2 goals per game. The top scorer's crown was won by the Argentinian Ernesto Gianella from Béziers with 24 goals. For the following season , the first division relegated FC Grenoble , FC Nancy , SO Montpellier and Olympique Marseille were added. The French Football Association did not issue a new license to any amateur club, so Division 2 was then held with 18 participants.

Closing table

Pl. society Sp. S. U N Gates Quota Points
 1. AS Saint-Etienne (A)  36  25th  8th  3 086:460 1.87 58:14
 2. FC Nantes (A)  36  25th  4th  7th 082:380 2.16 54:18
 3. FC Sochaux (A)  36  21st  9  6th 068:330 2.06 51:21
 4th Le Havre AC  36  18th  11  7th 063:430 1.47 47:25
 5. Red Star Olympique  36  17th  9  10 069:600 1.15 43:29
 6th US Boulogne  36  15th  9  12 066:550 1.20 39:33
 7th Lille OSC  36  15th  8th  13 063:590 1.07 38:34
 8th. Limoges FC  36  14th  9  13 057:600 0.95 37:35
 9. FC Metz (A)  36  12  12  12 062:460 1.35 36:36
10. AS Béziers  36  15th  6th  15th 064:620 1.03 36:36
11. AS Cannes  36  16  3  17th 067:700 0.96 35:37
12. Racing FC Besançon  36  12  8th  16 065:720 0.90 32:40
13. US Forbach  36  11  7th  18th 036:530 0.68 29:43
14th CO Roubaix-Tourcoing  36  9  10  17th 046:630 0.73 28:44
15th CA Paris  36  9  10  17th 039:620 0.63 28:44
16. AS Cherbourg  36  7th  13  16 046:620 0.74 27:45
17th AS Troyes-Savinienne  36  8th  10  18th 050:760 0.66 26:46
18th SC Toulon  36  7th  9  20th 041:700 0.59 23:49
19th AS Aix  36  6th  5  25th 033:730 0.45 17:55

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

  • Promotion to Division 1 in 1963/64
  • Relegation to the National (D3) after license return
    • (A) Relegated from Division 1 in 1961/62

    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
    • Pierre Minier: 1943–2003 - Football Club de Nantes, le doyen de l'élite. Cahiers intempestifs, Saint-Étienne 2003, ISBN 2-911698-23-1
    • Frédéric Parmentier: AS Saint-Étienne, histoire d'une légende. Cahiers intempestifs, Saint-Étienne 2004, ISBN 2-911698-31-2

    Notes and evidence

    1. ↑ Parmentier, p. 288; Minier, pp. 265f.
    2. ↑ Minier, p. 42
    3. ↑ Guillet / Laforge, p. 252