Division 2 1995/96

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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

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  9 059:340 +25 81
 2. Olympique Marseille  42  23  11  8th 069:350 +34 80
 3. AS Nancy  42  20th  16  6th 056:230 +33 76
 4th Stade Laval  42  21st  9  12 052:460  +6 72
 5. Toulouse FC  42  18th  9  15th 040:340  +6 63
 6th Le Mans UC  42  15th  17th  10 037:360  +1 62
 7th AS Red Star  42  16  13  13 056:380 +18 61
 8th. FC Perpignan  42  17th  10  15th 044:530  −9 61
 9. LB Châteauroux  42  16  12  14th 040:350  +5 60
10. FC Sochaux (A)  42  15th  14th  13 049:400  +9 59
11. CS Louhans-Cuiseaux (N)  42  16  10  16 057:490  +8 58
12. FC Lorient (N)  42  16  10  16 044:460  −2 58
13. SC Amiens  42  13  15th  14th 043:490  −6 54
14th FC Mulhouse  42  13  12  17th 044:450  −1 51
15th USJOA Valence  42  11  18th  13 034:420  −8 51
16. Chamois Niort  42  13  11  18th 048:500  −2 50
17th OFC Charleville  42  11  15th  16 034:540 −20 48
18th SAS Épinal (N)  42  9  18th  15th 041:460  −5 45
19th Poitiers Stadium PEP (N)  42  9  18th  15th 036:500 −14 45
20th USL Dunkerque  42  9  16  17th 030:430 −13 43
21st SCO Angers  42  7th  16  19th 031:530 −22 37
22nd Olympique Alès  42  4th  13  25th 029:720 −43 25th

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

  • Promotion to Division 1 1996/97
  • Relegation to the National (D3)
  • (A) Relegated from Division 1 in 1994/95
    (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. Guillet / Laforge, p. 253