Division 2 1963/64

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Division 2 1963/64
master Lille OSC
Climbers Lille OSC
FC Sochaux
Relegation ↑ FC Metz
SC Toulon
Relegated Le Havre AC
FC Nancy
Teams 18th
Games 306 + 8 relegation games
Gates 896  (ø 2.93 per game)
Top scorer Abderrahmane Soukhane
(Le Havre AC)
← Division 2 1962/63
^ Division 1 1963/64

The Division 2 1963/64 was the 25th staging of the second highest French football league . The second division champions were the Lille OSC .

societies

The 14 clubs that had not been promoted to the first division after the previous season and had given up their license - voluntarily or by force - were eligible to participate ; there were also four first division relegated teams.

Thus, the following 18 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the Second World War , a descent into the third highest division had been introduced over a few years, but this was no longer in force. A second division officer could relegate alone in the event that he surrendered his license or it was withdrawn from him.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 there was again a relegation between the two worst-placed first division clubs who were not relegated directly and the two best second division clubs 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 Lille, which had a clear lead, and Sochaux, two "founding members" of professional football in France from 1932 secured the two direct promotion places, which then also succeeded Toulon via the detour of the relegation round. In contrast, the four relegated last year did not even reach these barrages, although Marseille and Grenoble only just missed them. In the lower region of the table, the team from Aix, which had finished three of the previous four seasons as the bottom, surprised positively this time with a balanced point account and a place in midfield. In return, Béziers, who was tenth in the previous year, took over the “red lantern” of Division 2 .

In the 306 encounters 896 hits were scored; this corresponds to an average of 2.9 goals per game. Abderrahmane Soukhane (Le Havre) won the top scorer's crown with 21 goals. After the end of the season, Le Havre and Nancy gave up their professional status. For the following season three particularly well-known teams were added from Division 1 with Racing Paris , Stade Reims and OGC Nice . The football association did not issue new licenses for amateur clubs, so that the second division should then play with only 16 participants.

Closing table

Pl. society Sp. S. U N Gates Quota Points
 1. Lille OSC  34  22nd  6th  6th 062:290 2.14 50:18
 2. FC Sochaux  34  16  12  6th 062:390 1.59 44:24
 3. FC Metz  34  15th  11  8th 054:400 1.35 41:27
 4th SC Toulon  34  19th  3  12 055:430 1.28 41:27
 5. Olympique Marseille (A)  34  15th  10  9 059:470 1.26 40:28
 6th FC Grenoble  34  14th  11  9 046:360 1.28 39:29
 7th Le Havre AC  34  14th  8th  12 058:550 1.05 36:32
 8th. SO Montpellier (A)  34  12  11  11 055:570 0.96 35:33
 9. Limoges FC  34  14th  7th  13 052:580 0.90 35:33
10. AS Aix  34  13  8th  13 046:400 1.15 34:34
11. Red Star Olympique  34  11  10  13 053:610 0.87 32:36
12. Racing FC Besançon  34  9  11  14th 046:560 0.82 29:39
13. AS Cannes  34  10  8th  16 047:540 0.87 28:40
14th AS Cherbourg  34  8th  12  14th 055:690 0.80 28:40
15th US Boulogne  34  9  9  16 050:610 0.82 27:41
16. FC Nancy (A)  34  10  7th  17th 045:610 0.74 27:41
17th US Forbach  34  6th  14th  14th 028:430 0.65 26:42
18th AS Béziers  34  5  10  19th 023:470 0.49 20:48

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

  • Promotion to Division 1 1964/65
  • Participation in the relegation round
  • Relegation to the National (D3) after license return
    • (A) Relegated from Division 1 in 1962/63

    Relegation round

    The second division wore two barrages against the two participants from the first division; So there were no matches between teams from the same league. The top two teams played in Division 1 the following season .

    Closing table
    Pl. society Sp. S. U N Gates Quota Points
     1. Stade Français Paris (D1)  4th  2  1  1 010: 800 1.25 05: 30
     2. SC Toulon (D2)  4th  2  0  2 009: 900 1.00 04: 40
     3. Racing Paris (D1)  4th  2  0  2 008: 900 0.89 04: 40
     4th FC Metz (D2)  4th  1  1  2 008: 900 0.89 03: 50

    Placement criteria: 1st points - 2nd goal quotient

  • qualified for Division 1 1964/65
  • Relegation to Division 2 in 1964/65
    • Crosstab
    SFP TOU RCP MTZ
    Stade Français Paris 4: 1 - 2: 1
    SC Toulon 3: 1 5: 1 -
    Racing Paris - 3-0 2: 1
    FC Metz 3: 3 - 3: 2

    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