Division 2 1999/2000

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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 :

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  5 058:250 +33 83
 2. EA Guingamp  38  18th  13  7th 062:410 +21 67
 3. Toulouse FC (A)  38  18th  9  11 052:310 +21 63
 4th FC Sochaux (A)  38  18th  8th  12 053:410 +12 62
 5. FC Gueugnon  38  13  17th  8th 047:340 +13 56
 6th SM Caen  38  12  17th  9 050:370 +13 53
 7th AC Ajaccio  38  15th  8th  15th 037:400  −3 53
 8th. LB Châteauroux  38  13  13  12 044:440  ± 0 52
 8th. Le Mans UC  38  12  16  10 044:440  ± 0 52
10. Stade Laval  38  12  15th  11 041:400  +1 51
11. OGC Nice  38  10  20th  8th 034:330  +1 50
12. AS Cannes  38  12  12  14th 033:380  −5 48
13. FC Lorient (A)  38  12  11  15th 032:390  −7 47
14th Olympique Nîmes  38  11  12  15th 039:440  −5 45
15th Chamois Niort  38  10  15th  13 042:490  −7 45
16. IT Wasquehal  38  9  17th  12 033:390  −6 44
17th US Créteil (N)  38  11  11  16 036:520 −16 44
18th SC Amiens  38  7th  16  15th 030:430 −13 37
19th ASOA Valence  38  6th  15th  17th 036:540 −18 33
20th CS Louhans-Cuiseaux (N)  38  5  9  24 032:670 −35 24

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

  • Promotion to Division 1 in 2000/01
  • Relegation to the National (D3)
    • (A) Relegated from Division 1 in 1998/99
    (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