Division 2 1965/66
| Division 2 1965/66 | |
| master | Stade Reims |
| Climbers | Stade Reims Olympique Marseille |
| Relegation ↑ |
FC Limoges SEC Bastia |
| Relegated |
US Forbach US Marignane |
| Teams | 19th |
| Games | 342 + 8 relegation games |
| Gates | 988 (ø 2.89 per game) |
| Top scorer | Pierre Ferrazzi , ( FC Grenoble ) |
| ← Division 2 1964/65 | |
| ^ Division 1 1965/66 | |
The Division 2 1965/66 was the 27th staging of the second highest French football league .
The first matchday was August 22, 1965, the last on June 12, 1966. There was a winter break between mid-December and early January. Second division champions became Stade Reims .
societies
The 13 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 was also a first division relegated and five clubs that received a new professional license at this season.
Thus, the following 19 teams played for the division 2 championship this season :
- a team from the far north ( US Boulogne ),
- two from Paris and Champagne ( Racing Paris , Stade Reims ),
- three from the northeast ( US Forbach , FC Metz , Racing Club Franc-Comtois Besançon ),
- three from the west ( AS Cherbourg , FC Limoges , newcomer AS Angoulême ),
- eight from the south ( FC Grenoble , AS Béziers , SO Montpellier , the newcomers Olympique Avignon and US Marignane , Olympique Marseille , AS Aix , relegated SC Toulon ),
- two from Corsica (the newcomers AC Ajaccio and SEC Bastia ).
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the Second World War , a descent into the third highest division had been introduced over a few years, but this was no longer in force. A second division officer could relegate alone in the event that he surrendered his license or it was withdrawn from him.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 a relegation between the worst-placed first division teams who were not relegated directly and the best second division teams 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.
The promotion questions remained open almost until the last match day, before the two direct promoters were determined in Reims and Marseille. And for the relegation places, half a dozen candidates were considered before the 36th round before Limoges - as in the previous season - and professional newcomer Bastia qualified for it. Reims' season opener did not suggest that the former "flagship" of French football could play at the top, even if the young team of coach Jonquet around the indestructible Raymond Kopa strengthened themselves with some more experienced men like Antoine Groschulski , who was the top scorer in the league last year would have. The knot only burst in mid-November when the red-whites turned a 0-0 into an 8-0 against Marignane in the second half and only allowed a few slips in the aftermath. Marseille, on the other hand, where coach Zatelli also had to build up a new team, was at the top of the table almost from the start and ultimately only allowed Reims to overtake them, with three points in the direct encounter against Olympique (2: 1 and 2: 2) had picked up.
In the “table basement” there was a heterogeneous mix of teams like Aix and Forbach, a “big name” (Racing Paris) and two neoprofit teams (Ajaccio and bottom group Marignane) that had been performing poorly for years.
988 hits were scored in the 342 encounters; this corresponds to an average of 2.9 goals per game. Pierre Ferrazzi from Grenoble won the top scorer's crown with 30 goals. At the end of the season, Forbach and, after only one year, Marignane gave up their professional status; Racing Paris merged with the first division club UA Sedan-Torcy under the name Racing Paris-Sedan. For the following season , AS Cannes and Red Star Olympique, two relegated teams from Division 1 were added. In addition, the football association granted the amateur clubs EAC Chaumont and US Dunkerque a new professional license, so that the second division should then be held with 18 participants.
Closing table
| Pl. | society | Sp. | S. | U | N | Gates | Diff. | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Stade Reims | 36 | 22nd | 6th | 8th | 76:38 | +38 | 50:22 |
| 2. | Olympique Marseille | 36 | 20th | 8th | 8th | 58:31 | +27 | 48:24 |
| 3. | Limoges FC | 36 | 18th | 10 | 8th | 50:27 | +23 | 46:26 |
| 4th | SEC Bastia (N) | 36 | 18th | 9 | 9 | 60:46 | +14 | 45:27 |
| 5. | SC Toulon (A) | 36 | 17th | 10 | 9 | 56:38 | +18 | 44:28 |
| 6th | Olympique Avignon (N) | 36 | 17th | 9 | 10 | 68:42 | +26 | 43:29 |
| 7th | AS Béziers | 36 | 19th | 5 | 12 | 59:42 | +17 | 43:29 |
| 8th. | FC Metz | 36 | 15th | 12 | 9 | 54:50 | +4 | 42:30 |
| 9. | US Boulogne | 36 | 15th | 10 | 11 | 60:56 | +4 | 40:32 |
| 10. | FC Grenoble | 36 | 16 | 7th | 13 | 62:58 | +4 | 39:33 |
| 11. | AS Cherbourg | 36 | 12 | 11 | 13 | 39:50 | −11 | 35:37 |
| 12. | AS Angoulême (N) | 36 | 11 | 10 | 15th | 48:42 | +6 | 32:40 |
| 13. | SO Montpellier | 36 | 12 | 6th | 18th | 46:60 | −14 | 30:42 |
| 14th | Racing FC Besançon | 36 | 9 | 11 | 16 | 47:72 | −25 | 29:43 |
| 15th | AC Ajaccio (N) | 36 | 8th | 11 | 17th | 45:64 | −19 | 27:45 |
| 16. | US Forbach | 36 | 8th | 9 | 19th | 43:67 | −24 | 25:47 |
| 17th | Racing Paris 1 | 36 | 9 | 6th | 21st | 46:70 | −24 | 24:48 |
| 18th | AS Aix | 36 | 6th | 11 | 19th | 39:62 | −23 | 23:49 |
| 19th | US Marignane (N) | 36 | 7th | 5 | 24 | 32:73 | −41 | 19:53 |
Placement criteria: 1st points - 2nd goal difference - 3rd goals scored
| (A) | Relegated from Division 1 in 1964/65 |
| (N) | Newcomers |
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 .
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All four teams stayed in their respective leagues. |
See also
Web links
- 1965/66 season at lfp.fr
literature
- Alex Graham: Football in France. A statistical record 1894-2005. Soccer Books, Cleethorpes 2005, ISBN 1-86223-138-9
- Pascal Grégoire-Boutreau / Tony Verbicaro: Stade de Reims - une histoire sans fin. Cahiers intempestifs, Saint-Étienne 2001, ISBN 2-911698-21-5
- 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
- ↑ Grégoire-Boutreau / Verbicaro, pp. 296-298
- ↑ Grégoire-Boutreau / Verbicaro, pp. 132f. and 296f.
- ^ Alain Pécheral: La grande histoire de l'OM. Des origines à nos jours. Ed. Prolongations, o. O. 2007, ISBN 978-2-916400-07-5 , pp. 182f.
- ↑ Guillet / Laforge, p. 252