Division 2 1995/96
Division 2 1995/96 | |
master | SM Caen |
Climbers | SM Caen Olympique Marseille AS Nancy |
Relegated |
Stade Poitiers PEP , SCO Angers , USL Dunkerque , Olympique Alès |
Teams | 22nd |
Games | 462 |
Gates | 973 (ø 2.11 per game) |
Top scorer |
Tony Cascarino (Olympique Marseille) |
← Division 2 1994/95 | |
^ Division 1 1995/96 |
The Division 2 1995/96 was the 57th staging of the second highest French football league . It was a league with only professional teams.
The game was played from July 19, 1995 to May 21, 1996. Stade Malherbe Caen became second division champions .
societies
The 16 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 two first division relegated and four promoted from the national . So this season the following 22 teams played for the division 2 championship : Relegated promoted
- two from the north ( USL Dunkerque , SC Amiens )
- two from the Paris area and the Champagne-Ardenne ( AS Red Star , OFC Charleville )
- four from the northeast ( AS Nancy , newly promoted SAS Épinal , FC Mulhouse , relegated FC Sochaux )
- five from the northwest (relegated SM Caen , Stade Laval , Le Mans UC , promoted FC Lorient , SCO Angers )
- two from the center ( LB Châteauroux , CS Louhans-Cuiseaux )
- two from the southwest ( Chamois Niort , promoted Stade Poitiers PEP )
- five from the southeast ( USJOA Valence , Toulouse FC , Perpignan FC , Olympique Alès , Olympique Marseille )
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. The three-point rule applied ; in the event of a tie, the goal difference was decisive for the placement.
While Caen found its way back to the first division, Marseille needed an extra year for it; this time, however, the Olympique Association no longer refused promotion. After four seasons in the second division, Nancy also managed to return to the "footballing upper house"; Left behind was Laval, the only serious rival of these three teams until the end of the season.
At the bottom of the table, Alès was already relegated early on, while Angers, two years earlier still in the first division, was able to keep up with three competitors - including two of the four "upstarts" of the previous year - in the fight against relegation, but could not avoid it . Angers shared this sporting fate with the team from Dunkerque, who had to leave Division 2 after 30 years of uninterrupted membership in the second division and were not to return there until well into the 21st century. Poitiers finally had to go this way in the third division only because of the poorer goal difference compared to fellow promoted Épinal.
In the 462 encounters 973 hits were scored; this corresponds to an average of only 2.11 goals per game - the second lowest in the history of the second division after 1990/91 . As in the previous year, the most successful goalscorer and thus the winner of the league's top scorer's crown was Tony Cascarino from Olympique Marseille, this time with 30 goals. The following season came with the FC Gueugnon , the AS Saint-Étienne and the FC Martigues three relegated from Division 1 ; four teams rose from the third highest league, namely AS Beauvais , Stade Briochin , Association Troyes Aube Champagne (short: "ATAC") and Sporting Toulon .
Closing table
Pl. | society | Sp. | S. | U | N | Gates | Diff. | Points |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1. | SM Caen (A) | 42 | 24 | 9 | 9 | 59:34 | +25 | 81 |
2. | Olympique Marseille | 42 | 23 | 11 | 8th | 69:35 | +34 | 80 |
3. | AS Nancy | 42 | 20th | 16 | 6th | 56:23 | +33 | 76 |
4th | Stade Laval | 42 | 21st | 9 | 12 | 52:46 | +6 | 72 |
5. | Toulouse FC | 42 | 18th | 9 | 15th | 40:34 | +6 | 63 |
6th | Le Mans UC | 42 | 15th | 17th | 10 | 37:36 | +1 | 62 |
7th | AS Red Star | 42 | 16 | 13 | 13 | 56:38 | +18 | 61 |
8th. | FC Perpignan | 42 | 17th | 10 | 15th | 44:53 | −9 | 61 |
9. | LB Châteauroux | 42 | 16 | 12 | 14th | 40:35 | +5 | 60 |
10. | FC Sochaux (A) | 42 | 15th | 14th | 13 | 49:40 | +9 | 59 |
11. | CS Louhans-Cuiseaux (N) | 42 | 16 | 10 | 16 | 57:49 | +8 | 58 |
12. | FC Lorient (N) | 42 | 16 | 10 | 16 | 44:46 | −2 | 58 |
13. | SC Amiens | 42 | 13 | 15th | 14th | 43:49 | −6 | 54 |
14th | FC Mulhouse | 42 | 13 | 12 | 17th | 44:45 | −1 | 51 |
15th | USJOA Valence | 42 | 11 | 18th | 13 | 34:42 | −8 | 51 |
16. | Chamois Niort | 42 | 13 | 11 | 18th | 48:50 | −2 | 50 |
17th | OFC Charleville | 42 | 11 | 15th | 16 | 34:54 | −20 | 48 |
18th | SAS Épinal (N) | 42 | 9 | 18th | 15th | 41:46 | −5 | 45 |
19th | Poitiers Stadium PEP (N) | 42 | 9 | 18th | 15th | 36:50 | −14 | 45 |
20th | USL Dunkerque | 42 | 9 | 16 | 17th | 30:43 | −13 | 43 |
21st | SCO Angers | 42 | 7th | 16 | 19th | 31:53 | −22 | 37 |
22nd | Olympique Alès | 42 | 4th | 13 | 25th | 29:72 | −43 | 25th |
Placement criteria: 1st points - 2nd goal difference - 3rd goals scored
(A) | Relegated from Division 1 in 1994/95 |
(N) | Newcomers |
See also
Web links
- 1995/96 season at lfp.fr
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
- ↑ Guillet / Laforge, p. 253