Division 2 1999/2000
Division 2 1999/2000 | |
master | Lille OSC |
Climbers | Lille OSC EA Guingamp Toulouse FC |
Relegated |
SC Amiens ASOA Valence CS Louhans-Cuiseaux |
Teams | 20th |
Games | 380 |
Gates | 835 (ø 2.2 per game) |
spectator | 2,138,200 (ø 5627 per game) |
Top scorer | Amara Traoré , ( FC Gueugnon ) |
← Division 2 1998/99 | |
^ Division 1 1999/2000 |
The Division 2 1999/2000 was the 61st staging of the second highest French football league . It was a league with only professional teams.
The game was played from July 31, 1999 to May 20, 2000. OSC Lille was second division champion .
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 ; in addition there were three first division relegated and two promoted from the national . So this season the following 20 teams played for the championship of Division 2 :
- three from the north ( OSC Lille , ES Wasquehal , SC Amiens )
- one from the greater Paris area (promoted US Créteil )
- five from the northwest ( Stade Malherbe Caen , Stade Laval , Le Mans UC , En Avant Guingamp , relegated FC Lorient )
- three from the northeast (relegated FC Sochaux , promoted CS Louhans-Cuiseaux , FC Gueugnon )
- three from the southwest ( La Berrichonne Châteauroux , Chamois Niort , relegated FC Toulouse )
- four from the southeast ( AS d'Origine Arménienne Valence , Olympique Nîmes , AS Cannes , OGC Nice )
- one from Corsica ( AC Ajaccio )
The top three clubs were directly eligible for promotion. The three worst placed participants had to relegate and were replaced by as many 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, if there was also a tie, the higher number of hits decided. After this season between Châteauroux and Le Mans there was also an identity in this regard and it was not about promotion or relegation, both teams were jointly placed eighth in the table.
The northern French from Lille achieved almost a start-to-finish victory, whereby the team was already established as champions early on and was even more than 20 points ahead of the first non-promotion place. It was tight between the two relegated last year Toulouse and Sochaux, between which finally a single point in favor of the FCT decided on the immediate return to Division 1 . The fifth-placed FC Gueugnon was the first - and well into the 21st century, the only one - to win the French league cup .
The decisions on the relegation question were also made relatively early; while last year's third division Créteil was able to assert itself in the second division, fellow promoted Louhans-Cuiseaux ended the season far behind as the bottom of the league. He was accompanied by Amiens and Valence; the latter had already been relegated in the previous year, but had subsequently benefited from the fact that a club from the national team that was eligible for promotion had been refused a license.
In the 380 encounters 835 hits were scored; this corresponds to an average of 2.2 goals per game. The most successful goalscorer and thus the winner of the league top scorer was Amara Traoré from FC Gueugnon with 17 goals. For the following season three relegated from Division 1 - AS Nancy , Le Havre AC and HSC Montpellier - were added; from the third highest league also rose three teams with SCO Angers , AS Beauvais and FC Martigues .
Closing table
Pl. | society | Sp. | S. | U | N | Gates | Diff. | Points |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1. | Lille OSC | 38 | 25th | 8th | 5 | 58:25 | +33 | 83 |
2. | EA Guingamp | 38 | 18th | 13 | 7th | 62:41 | +21 | 67 |
3. | Toulouse FC (A) | 38 | 18th | 9 | 11 | 52:31 | +21 | 63 |
4th | FC Sochaux (A) | 38 | 18th | 8th | 12 | 53:41 | +12 | 62 |
5. | FC Gueugnon | 38 | 13 | 17th | 8th | 47:34 | +13 | 56 |
6th | SM Caen | 38 | 12 | 17th | 9 | 50:37 | +13 | 53 |
7th | AC Ajaccio | 38 | 15th | 8th | 15th | 37:40 | −3 | 53 |
8th. | LB Châteauroux | 38 | 13 | 13 | 12 | 44:44 | ± 0 | 52 |
Le Mans UC | 38 | 12 | 16 | 10 | 44:44 | ± 0 | 52 | |
10. | Stade Laval | 38 | 12 | 15th | 11 | 41:40 | +1 | 51 |
11. | OGC Nice | 38 | 10 | 20th | 8th | 34:33 | +1 | 50 |
12. | AS Cannes | 38 | 12 | 12 | 14th | 33:38 | −5 | 48 |
13. | FC Lorient (A) | 38 | 12 | 11 | 15th | 32:39 | −7 | 47 |
14th | Olympique Nîmes | 38 | 11 | 12 | 15th | 39:44 | −5 | 45 |
15th | Chamois Niort | 38 | 10 | 15th | 13 | 42:49 | −7 | 45 |
16. | IT Wasquehal | 38 | 9 | 17th | 12 | 33:39 | −6 | 44 |
17th | US Créteil (N) | 38 | 11 | 11 | 16 | 36:52 | −16 | 44 |
18th | SC Amiens | 38 | 7th | 16 | 15th | 30:43 | −13 | 37 |
19th | ASOA Valence | 38 | 6th | 15th | 17th | 36:54 | −18 | 33 |
20th | CS Louhans-Cuiseaux (N) | 38 | 5 | 9 | 24 | 32:67 | −35 | 24 |
Placement criteria: 1st points - 2nd goal difference - 3rd goals scored
(A) | Relegated from Division 1 in 1998/99 |
(N) | Newcomers |
See also
Web links
- 1999/2000 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