Division 2 1968/69
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 | |
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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 :
- four teams from the far north ( US Boulogne , US Dunkerque , the two relegated Racing Lens and OSC Lille ),
- three from Paris and Champagne (the RC Paris-Joinville , Stade Reims , Entente AC Chaumont , renamed during this season ),
- two from the northeast ( AS Nancy , Racing Club Franc-Comtois Besançon ),
- four from the west ( FC Lorient , relegated SCO Angers , FC Limoges , AS Angoulême ),
- seven from the south ( FC Grenoble , AS Béziers , SO Montpellier , Olympique Avignon , relegated AS Aix , SC Toulon , AS Cannes ),
- one from Corsica (newcomer Gazélec FC Ajaccio ).
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the Second World War , a descent into the third highest division had been introduced over a few years, but this was no longer in force. A second division officer could relegate alone in the event that he surrendered his license or it was withdrawn from him.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: 45 | +83 | 65:15 | 21st | 86 |
2. | AS Angoulême | 40 | 24 | 12 | 4th | 112: 44 | +68 | 60:20 | 16 | 76 |
3. | AS Nancy | 40 | 19th | 9 | 12 | 67:47 | +20 | 47:33 | 13 | 60 |
4th | Limoges FC | 40 | 20th | 10 | 10 | 67:58 | +9 | 50:30 | 9 | 59 |
5. | SC Toulon | 40 | 19th | 9 | 12 | 65:52 | +13 | 47:33 | 9 | 56 |
6th | AS Aix (A) | 40 | 17th | 10 | 13 | 63:63 | ± 0 | 44:36 | 10 | 54 |
7th | Racing Lens (A) | 40 | 15th | 13 | 12 | 73:48 | +25 | 43:37 | 10 | 53 |
8th. | Stade Reims | 40 | 19th | 6th | 15th | 65:46 | +19 | 44:36 | 9 | 53 |
9. | FC Grenoble | 40 | 15th | 13 | 12 | 64:60 | +4 | 43:37 | 8th | 51 |
10. | Gazélec FC Ajaccio (N) | 40 | 15th | 8th | 17th | 63:62 | +1 | 38:42 | 13 | 51 |
11. | FC Lorient | 40 | 18th | 6th | 16 | 61:61 | ± 0 | 42:38 | 8th | 50 |
12. | Olympique Avignon | 40 | 15th | 12 | 13 | 56:53 | +3 | 42:38 | 7th | 49 |
13. | Lille OSC (A) | 40 | 14th | 14th | 12 | 56:51 | +5 | 42:38 | 6th | 48 |
14th | AS Cannes | 40 | 15th | 12 | 13 | 65:59 | +6 | 42:38 | 5 | 47 |
15th | EAC Chaumont | 40 | 13 | 8th | 19th | 70:79 | −9 | 34:46 | 10 | 44 |
16. | US Dunkerque | 40 | 14th | 5 | 21st | 49:64 | −15 | 33:47 | 6th | 39 |
17th | SO Montpellier | 40 | 12 | 9 | 19th | 42:60 | −18 | 33:47 | 2 | 35 |
18th | AS Béziers | 40 | 11 | 5 | 24 | 48:82 | −34 | 27:53 | 7th | 34 |
19th | RC Paris-Joinville | 40 | 8th | 12 | 20th | 41:86 | −45 | 28:52 | 2 | 30th |
20th | Racing FC Besançon | 40 | 4th | 11 | 25th | 53: 126 | −73 | 19:61 | 7th | 26th |
21st | US Boulogne | 40 | 5 | 7th | 28 | 34:96 | −62 | 17:63 | 3 | 20th |
Placement criteria: 1st points - 2nd goal difference - 3rd goals scored
(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
- 1968/69 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. 302–304
- ↑ Guillet / Laforge, p. 252
- ^ 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