Division 2 1967/68
| Division 2 1967/68 | |
| master | SEC Bastia |
| Climbers | SEC Bastia Olympique Nîmes |
| Relegation ↑ | Olympique Nîmes Stade Reims |
| Relegated | Stade Paris FC |
| Teams | 18th |
| Games | 306 + 8 relegation games |
| Gates | 790 (ø 2.58 per game) |
| Top scorer |
Jacques Bonnet ( Olympique Avignon ) |
| ← Division 2 1966/67 | |
| ^ Division 1 1967/68 | |
The Division 2 1967/68 was the 29th staging of the second highest French football league .
The point games began on August 20, 1967, the last game day took place on July 5, 1968. There was a winter break between mid-December and early January. Second division champion was the SEC Bastia .
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 were also three first division relegated teams and three clubs that received a new professional license at this season.
Thus, the following 19 teams played for the division 2 championship this season :
- two teams from the far north ( US Boulogne , US Dunkerque ),
- four from Paris and Champagne (newcomer Battalion Joinville , the two relegated Stade Paris FC - who then withdrew straight into the amateur field - and Stade Reims , EAC Chaumont ),
- two from the northeast (newcomer AS Nancy , Racing Club Franc-Comtois Besançon ),
- three from the west (newcomer FC Lorient , FC Limoges , AS Angoulême ),
- seven from the south ( FC Grenoble , AS Béziers , SO Montpellier , relegated Olympique Nîmes , Olympique Avignon , SC Toulon , AS Cannes ),
- one from Corsica ( 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the Second World War , a descent into the third highest division had been introduced over a few years, but this was no longer in force. A second division officer could relegate alone in the event that he surrendered his license or it was withdrawn from him.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 and, in the event that it was identical - as this season at Joinville and Lorient - the higher number of hits made the decisive factor 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.
In his third year under professional conditions, Bastia, who had failed twice in the relegation, succeeded in promotion, and with a comfortable lead over the five main competitors. These were much tighter until the last day of the match, especially since there was only one direct promotion place because the first division was to be reduced in size. In the end, the two relegated from last year Nîmes and Reims - the latter only thanks to his outstanding goal difference - placed ahead of Avignon, Toulon and Grenoble and took part in the relegation round. Behind them, Joinville and Lorient, were two professional beginners with a special history. Joinville was the team of the French army units based in Joinville-le-Pont , which had maintained a battalion especially for professional footballers there, especially in the 1950s; Since its founding, Lorient's club history has been closely linked to a wide-ranging Breton family of football enthusiasts, from which several senior national players have emerged since amateur days with Antoine Cuissard , Julien and Yannick Stopyra and Yvon Goujon . In the lower part of the table, Cannes and Boulogne in particular fell sharply again and occupied the last two places. In contrast to Stade Paris with its early withdrawal, however, they continued to play professional games.
In the 306 encounters 790 hits were scored; this corresponds to an average of 2.58 goals per game, making this season, along with 1966/67, one of the two lowest-scoring goals in league history. Jacques Bonnet from Avignon won the top scorer's crown with 26 goals. At the end of the season, apart from Stade Paris, no other club gave up its professional status. For the following season , Racing Lens , SCO Angers , OSC Lille and AS Aix were added four relegated teams from Division 1 . In addition, the football association granted the amateur club Gazélec FC Ajaccio a new professional license, so that the second division should then be held with 21 participants.
Closing table
| Pl. | society | Sp. | S. | U | N | Gates | Diff. | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | SEC Bastia | 34 | 21st | 8th | 5 | 53:22 | +31 | 50:18 |
| 2. | Olympique Nîmes (A) | 34 | 16 | 12 | 6th | 52:24 | +28 | 44:24 |
| 3. | Reims Stadium (A) | 34 | 18th | 7th | 9 | 60:28 | +32 | 43:25 |
| 4th | Olympique Avignon | 34 | 19th | 5 | 10 | 69:48 | +21 | 43:25 |
| 5. | SC Toulon | 34 | 16 | 9 | 9 | 47:40 | +7 | 41:27 |
| 6th | FC Grenoble | 34 | 17th | 6th | 11 | 53:41 | +12 | 40:28 |
| 7th | Joinville Battalion (N) | 34 | 15th | 7th | 12 | 50:43 | +7 | 37:31 |
| 8th. | FC Lorient (N) | 34 | 12 | 13 | 9 | 33:31 | +2 | 37:31 |
| 9. | AS Angoulême 1 | 34 | 15th | 8th | 11 | 44:34 | +10 | 36:32 |
| 10. | AS Nancy (N) | 34 | 14th | 8th | 12 | 41:38 | +3 | 36:32 |
| 11. | US Dunkerque | 34 | 9 | 12 | 13 | 39:42 | −3 | 30:38 |
| 12. | EAC Chaumont | 34 | 11 | 8th | 15th | 55:65 | −10 | 30:38 |
| 13. | AS Béziers | 34 | 10 | 8th | 16 | 35:43 | −8 | 28:40 |
| 14th | Limoges FC | 34 | 9 | 8th | 17th | 38:55 | −17 | 26:42 |
| 15th | Racing FC Besançon | 34 | 8th | 10 | 16 | 30:57 | −27 | 26:42 |
| 16. | SO Montpellier | 34 | 8th | 8th | 18th | 30:47 | −17 | 24:44 |
| 17th | AS Cannes | 34 | 5 | 11 | 18th | 29:64 | −35 | 21:47 |
| 18th | US Boulogne | 34 | 6th | 6th | 22nd | 32:68 | −36 | 18:50 |
| 19th | Stade Paris FC (A) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0-0 | ± 0 | 0-0 |
Placement criteria: 1st points - 2nd goal difference - 3rd goals scored
| (A) | Relegated from Division 1 in 1966/67 |
| (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 . However, the regulations provided for a deviation from the league operation for relegation, which came into effect in 1967/68; If two or more teams were tied here and promotion or non-promotion depended on it, the better goal difference was not decisive, but the teams were initially classified according to their league affiliation and, if necessary, then according to their placement in the same division.
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See also
Web links
- 1967/68 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