Division 2 1994/95

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Division 2 1994/95
master Olympique Marseille
Climbers EA Guingamp
FC Gueugnon
Relegated Stade Briochin , AS Beauvais ,
CS Sedan , Olympique Nîmes
Teams 22nd
Games 462
Gates 1,061  (ø 2.3 per game)
Top scorer Tony Cascarino
(Olympique Marseille)
← Division 2 1993/94
^ Division 1 1994/95

The Division 2 1994/95 was the 56th staging of the second highest French football league . It was a league with only professional teams.

The game was played from July 29, 1994 to May 31, 1995. Second division champion was Olympique Marseille , who, however, did not benefit from this title because the Marseille association refused promotion.

societies

The 15 clubs that had not been promoted to the first division or relegated to the third division (national) or lower after the previous season were eligible to participate ; there were also three first division relegated and four promoted from the national . So this season the following 22 teams played for the division 2 championship : Relegated promoted

The top three clubs were directly eligible for promotion, while the last four, also without barrages , were replaced by a corresponding number of third division promoters.

Season course

Each team played a return match against each group opponent, once in front of their own audience and once away. From this season on, the three-point rule applied ; in the event of a tie, the goal difference was decisive for the placement.

In terms of sport, the season was characterized by a four-way battle for the three promotion places, in which two relegated teams and two surprise teams - with Guingamp, a promoted team from the third division and with Gueugnon, a team that had renounced promotion around a decade and a half earlier because the club did not want to give up his amateur status - were involved that had not been expected before the start of the season. The latter two finally reached the goal, while Marseille topped the table after 42 laps, but was still not allowed to advance. The background to this was still the effects of the bribery affair of 1993 , which had led to Olympique's insolvency in 1995 and the corresponding measures on the part of the association's supervisory body Direction Nationale du Contrôle de Gestion (DNCG) .
In the lower part of the table it was even closer; The 15th was only separated by three points from the 21st, and even the bottom Nîmes had no theoretical chance of staying up until the penultimate matchday. About the ranks 18 to 20 - the 18th place was the first non-relegation place - even decided only the goal difference, and here Angers, Saint-Brieuc and Beauvais were only three goals apart.

In the 462 encounters 1,061 hits were scored; this corresponds to an average of 2.3 goals per game. The most successful goalscorer and thus the winner of the league top scorer was Tony Cascarino (Marseille) with 31 goals. The following season came with Stade Malherbe Caen and FC Sochaux only two relegated from Division 1 , because due to Marseille's non-promotion AS Saint-Étienne was allowed to keep their place in the "footballing upper house". Four teams rose from the third highest division, namely SAS Épinal , CS Louhans-Cuiseaux , FC Lorient and Stade Poitiers PEP .

Closing table

Pl. society Sp. S. U N Gates Diff. Points
 1. Olympique Marseille (A)  42  25th  9  8th 072:340 +38 84
 2. EA Guingamp  42  23  12  7th 051:320 +19 81
 3. FC Gueugnon  42  24  8th  10 062:400 +22 80
 4th Toulouse FC (A)  42  22nd  11  9 069:430 +26 77
 5. LB Châteauroux (N)  42  19th  14th  9 056:340 +22 71
 6th AS Red Star  42  19th  13  10 055:440 +11 70
 7th AS Nancy  42  15th  18th  9 046:390  +7 63
 8th. USL Dunkerque  42  14th  18th  10 042:380  +4 60
 9. SC Amiens (N)  42  15th  13  14th 059:610  −2 58
10. Olympique Alès  42  12  17th  13 044:440  ± 0 53
11. OFC Charleville  42  11  19th  12 045:490  −4 52
12. Le Mans UC  42  11  16  15th 046:480  −2 49
13. USJOA Valence  42  11  16  15th 046:520  −6 49
14th FC Mulhouse  42  12  13  17th 049:580  −9 49
15th Stade Laval  42  9  17th  16 042:560 −14 44
16. FC Perpignan (N)  42  9  17th  16 035:510 −16 44
17th Chamois Niort  42  8th  19th  15th 034:490 −15 43
18th SCO Angers (A)  42  10  12  20th 038:500 −12 42
19th Stade Briochin  42  11  9  22nd 038:530 −15 42
20th AS Beauvais  42  9  15th  18th 050:660 −16 42
21st CS Sedan  42  10  11  21st 034:600 −26 41
22nd Olympique Nîmes  42  9  11  22nd 048:600 −12 38

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

  • Promotion to Division 1 in 1995/96
  • Relegation to the National (D3)
    • (A) Relegated from Division 1 1993/94
    (N) Newcomers

    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. ↑ France Football: Olympique de Marseille. Spécial - Clubs de légende, 2008, p. 15
    2. ↑ Guillet / Laforge, p. 253