Division 2 1968/69

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Division 2 1968/69
master SCO Angers
Climbers SCO Angers
AS Angoulême
Relegation ↑ AS Angoulême
Relegated Racing Lens
OSC Lille
EAC Chaumont
SO Montpellier
AS Béziers
Teams 21st
Games 420 + 3 relegation games
Gates 1,342  (ø 3.2 per game)
Top scorer Gérard Grizzetti
(AS Angoulême)
← Division 2 1967/68
^ Division 1 1968/69

The Division 2 1968/69 was the 30th staging of the second highest French football league .

The point games began on September 1, 1968, the last game day took place on June 15, 1969. There was a winter break over Christmas and New Years. Second division champions became the SCO Angers .

societies

Eligible to participate were the 16 clubs that had neither been promoted to the first division after the previous season nor had their license - voluntarily or by force - surrendered; in addition there were four first division relegated teams and a club that received a new professional license at this season.

So this season the following 21 teams played for the championship of Division 2 :

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the Second World War , a descent into the third highest division had been introduced over a few years, but this was no longer in force. A second division officer could relegate alone in the event that he surrendered his license or it was withdrawn from him.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 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 ; As a test - and only for this one season - a bonus scheme to promote attacking football was introduced, which rewarded teams that were particularly “goal-hungry” (one point for every match in which the team scored at least three goals). In the event of a tie, the goal difference was the decisive factor for the placement.

As there was once again only one direct promotion and one relegation place, a tough and close race for the first places was expected before the start of the season. In fact, the group of serious promotion candidates was reduced to just five teams early on, two of which were able to clear away in the second half of Limoges, Nancy and Toulon. And already in the spring of the two leading teams, the relegated from Angers showed a good gap to his only rival Angoulême. Thanks to their storm rows, these two had also benefited the most from the bonus point regulation, each clearly exceeded the 100-goal mark - Toulon with the third best attack only scored 75 goals - and finally had 26 and 16 points ahead of the third-placed table.
This bonus scheme had proven itself to the extent that the average number of hits per match in the second division was well above the three-goal limit for the first time in six years ; however, the football association did not extend it beyond the end of the season. It wasn't until four years later that he reintroduced them in the first and second leagues , if only for three seasons.

In the 420 encounters 1342 hits were scored; this corresponds to an average of almost 3.2 goals per game. The top scorer's crown was won by Gérard Grizzetti from Angoulême with 55 goals, who beat Jean Nicolas's previous record from the 1933/34 season by one goal; this new record was to last for more than half a century. After the end of the season five clubs gave up their professional status, three of which (Lille, Montpellier, Lens) had been there since the 1930s and Béziers since 1945; only Chaumont had only played for three years under professional conditions. The dilemma of French football in the 1960s - a few "great" footballers, often unattractive style of play, lack of success, declining audience numbers and income with high travel costs at the same time - had a particularly strong impact in the second division, and it was not just the Lille OSC that took it Consequence, rather to compete in the amateur camp than to go into debt. For the following season , AS Monaco and OGC Nice were relegated from Division 1 . The football association did not issue new professional licenses, so the second division should then be held with 16 participants.

Closing table

Pl. society Sp. S. U N Gates Diff. Points bonus total
 1. SCO Angers (A)  40  29  7th  4th 128: 450 +83 65:15 21st 86
 2. AS Angoulême  40  24  12  4th 112: 440 +68 60:20 16 76
 3. AS Nancy  40  19th  9  12 067:470 +20 47:33 13 60
 4th Limoges FC  40  20th  10  10 067:580  +9 50:30  9 59
 5. SC Toulon  40  19th  9  12 065:520 +13 47:33  9 56
 6th AS Aix (A)  40  17th  10  13 063:630  ± 0 44:36 10 54
 7th Racing Lens (A)  40  15th  13  12 073:480 +25 43:37 10 53
 8th. Stade Reims  40  19th  6th  15th 065:460 +19 44:36  9 53
 9. FC Grenoble  40  15th  13  12 064:600  +4 43:37  8th 51
10. Gazélec FC Ajaccio (N)  40  15th  8th  17th 063:620  +1 38:42 13 51
11. FC Lorient  40  18th  6th  16 061:610  ± 0 42:38  8th 50
12. Olympique Avignon  40  15th  12  13 056:530  +3 42:38  7th 49
13. Lille OSC (A)  40  14th  14th  12 056:510  +5 42:38  6th 48
14th AS Cannes  40  15th  12  13 065:590  +6 42:38  5 47
15th EAC Chaumont  40  13  8th  19th 070:790  −9 34:46 10 44
16. US Dunkerque  40  14th  5  21st 049:640 −15 33:47  6th 39
17th SO Montpellier  40  12  9  19th 042:600 −18 33:47  2 35
18th AS Béziers  40  11  5  24 048:820 −34 27:53  7th 34
19th RC Paris-Joinville  40  8th  12  20th 041:860 −45 28:52  2 30th
20th Racing FC Besançon  40  4th  11  25th 053: 126 −73 19:61  7th 26th
21st US Boulogne  40  5  7th  28 034:960 −62 17:63  3 20th

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

  • Promotion to Division 1 1969/70
  • Participation in the relegation round
  • Relegation to the National (D3) after license return
    • (A) Relegated from Division 1 in 1967/68
    (N) Newcomers

    Relegation round

    This year the barrages only took place between a first division ( AS Monaco ) and a second division (AS Angoulême). The two teams each won a game, so that a third had to decide. In this, the lower-class club prevailed.

    Result First leg Return leg Playoff
    AS Monaco 2: 4 AS Angoulême 2: 1 0: 1 0: 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
    • 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

    1. ↑ Grégoire-Boutreau / Verbicaro, pp. 302–304
    2. ↑ Guillet / Laforge, p. 252
    3. ^ Paul Hurseau / Jacques Verhaeghe: Olympique Lillois - Sporting Club Fivois - Lille OSC Alan Sutton, Joué-lès-Tours 1997, ISBN 2-84253-080-2 , pp. 120f. and 125