Division 2 1966/67

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Division 2 1966/67
master AC Ajaccio
Climbers AC Ajaccio
FC Metz
Relegation ↑ SEC Bastia
AS Aix
Relegated AS Cherbourg
Teams 18th
Games 306 + 8 relegation games
Gates 795  (ø 2.6 per game)
Top scorer Étienne Sansonetti , (SEC Bastia)
← Division 2 1965/66
^ Division 1 1966/67

The Division 2 1966/67 was the 28th staging of the second highest French football league . Second division champions were AC Ajaccio .

societies

The 14 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 ; in addition there were two first division relegated teams and two clubs that received a new professional license this season.

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the Second World War , a descent into the third highest division had been introduced over a few years, but this was no longer in force. A second division officer could relegate alone in the event that he surrendered his license or it was withdrawn from him.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

Two teams from Corsica played for promotion - in which Ajaccio was also successful, while Bastia failed as in the previous year in the barrages - both of which had only introduced professional football twelve months before the start of the season. With Metz, a former, long-standing first division team returned to Division 1 , while the other two teams that had long fought for the second division championship, namely Aix and Béziers, had been among the "basement children" of the second division in recent years. At the end of this year's final ranking, the two relegated from the previous year and the two professional newcomers found themselves profitably united.

In the 306 encounters 795 hits were scored; this corresponds to an average of just under 2.6 goals per game, setting a new negative record in the history of the league. Étienne Sansonetti from Bastia won the top scorer's crown with 23 goals. After the end of the season Cherbourg gave up its professional status. Red Star Olympique, the traditional club from the northern Parisian banlieue , merged with Toulouse FC ; In fact, Red Star took over the southern French, added a number of their players to their own team, continued to play their home games at the Stade Bauer in Saint-Ouen and, in particular, acquired Toulouse's place in the top division during the "Téfécé" - so the one in France Common abbreviation for the association - dissolved. For the following season , Olympique Nîmes , Stade Reims and Stade Paris FC were relegated from Division 1 . The football association also issued a new professional license to three amateur clubs - FC Lorient , AS Nancy and Bataillon Joinville , the team of the French army units based in Joinville-le-Pont , which had a battalion there especially for professional footballers in the 1950s, so that the second division should be held with 19 participants. However, Stade Paris withdrew to the amateur camp at the end of the summer break.

Closing table

Pl. society Sp. S. U N Gates Diff. Points
 1. AC Ajaccio (N)  34  18th  10  6th 052:260 +26 46:22
 2. FC Metz  34  17th  10  7th 046:260 +20 44:24
 3. SEC Bastia  34  19th  6th  9 048:340 +14 44:24
 4th AS Aix  34  15th  13  6th 059:240 +35 43:25
 5. AS Béziers  34  16  9  9 046:460  ± 0 41:27
 6th Olympique Avignon  34  14th  9  11 051:370 +14 37:31
 7th SC Toulon  34  15th  7th  12 045:440  +1 37:31
 8th. AS Angoulême  34  15th  6th  13 048:350 +13 36:32
 9. AS Cherbourg  34  12  11  11 047:520  −5 35:33
10. FC Grenoble  34  11  11  12 044:380  +6 33:35
11. Limoges FC  34  10  12  12 048:500  −2 32:36
12. Racing FC Besançon  34  12  6th  16 043:580 −15 30:38
13. US Boulogne  34  10  8th  16 039:540 −15 28:40
14th US Dunkerque (N)  34  11  6th  17th 038:650 −27 28:40
15th AS Cannes (A)  34  8th  11  15th 038:560 −18 27:41
16. Red Star Olympique (A) 1  34  9  8th  17th 032:490 −17 26:42
17th SO Montpellier  34  8th  8th  18th 032:460 −14 24:44
18th EAC Chaumont (N)  34  8th  5  21st 039:550 −16 21:47

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

1Red Star Olympique merged with the first division club Toulouse FC after the season and took over their league place in Division 1
  • Promotion to Division 1 in 1967/68
  • Participation in the relegation round
  • Relegation to the National (D3) after license return
    • (A) Relegated from Division 1 in 1965/66
    (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 .

    table
    Pl. society Sp. S. U N Gates Diff. Points
     1. AS Aix (D2)  4th  1  3  0 007: 500  +2 05: 30
     2. Toulouse FC (D1)  4th  2  1  1 003: 300  ± 0 05: 30
     3. Olympique Nîmes (D1)  4th  1  2  1 007: 600  +1 04: 40
     4th SEC Bastia (D2)  4th  1  0  3 002: 500  −3 02: 60
    Placement criteria: 1st points - 2nd goal difference - 3rd goals scored
  • qualified for Division 1 1967/68
  • Relegation to Division 2 in 1967/68
    • Crosstab
    AIX TOU NÎM BAS
    AS Aix 2-0 2: 2 -
    Toulouse FC 1: 1 - 1-0
    Olympique Nîmes 2: 2 - 3: 1
    SEC Bastia - 0: 1 1-0

    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. 142; Thierry Berthou / Collectif: Dictionnaire historique des clubs de football français. Pages de Foot, Créteil 1999, ISBN 2-913146-02-3 , Volume 2, p. 446