Ligue 2 2003/04

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Ligue 2 2003/04
master AS Saint-Etienne
Climbers AS Saint-Étienne
SM Caen
FC Istres
Relegated ASOA Valence
Racing Besançon
FC Rouen
Teams 20th
Games 380
Gates 860  (ø 2.26 per game)
spectator 2,507,187  (ø 6598 per game)
Top scorer David Suarez , ( SC Amiens )
Ligue 2 2002/03
^ Ligue 1 2003/04

The Ligue 2 2003/04 was the 65th staging of the second highest French football league . It was a league with only professional teams.

The game was played from August 1, 2003 to May 22, 2004. AS Saint-Étienne became second division champions .

societies

The 14 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 three promoted from the national . Thus, the following 20 teams played for the Ligue 2 championship this season :

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.

With Saint-Étienne, the French record champions returned to the "footballing upper house"; The Verts were accompanied by the team from Caen and - for the first time in their club's history - the team from Istres . In contrast, the Merlus from Lorient failed as fourth in the table for the second time in a row just on the rise again; It was no better for the three first division relegated teams, who all had to settle for another year in Ligue 2 . In the lower region of the table, until shortly before the end of this season, eight teams had to fight against not belonging to the two teams that accompanied the "Red Devils" from Rouen , who had been beaten early, into the third division. This lot finally hit last year's climber Besançon - the team from the capital of Franche-Comté is the team with the most second division years in France until the second decade of the 21st century - and the "Armenians" from Valence .

In the 380 encounters 860 hits were scored; this corresponds to an average of almost 2.3 goals per game. The most successful goalscorer and thus the winner of the league top scorer was David Suarez from Amiens with 17 goals. For the following season came with En Avant Guingamp , Le Mans UC and HSC Montpellier three relegated from Ligue 1 ; three teams rose from the third highest division, namely FCO Dijon , Stade Brest and Stade Reims .

Closing table

Pl. society Sp. S. U N Gates Diff. Points
 1. AS Saint-Etienne  38  22nd  7th  9 044:290 +15 73
 2. SM Caen  38  20th  11  7th 056:310 +25 71
 3. FC Istres  38  19th  9  10 044:260 +18 66
 4th FC Lorient  38  17th  10  11 057:450 +12 61
 5. CS Sedan (A)  38  15th  15th  8th 042:310 +11 60
 6th AS Nancy  38  14th  13  11 045:360  +9 55
 7th Le Havre AC (A)  38  15th  10  13 044:460  −2 55
 8th. Chamois Niort  38  13  14th  11 047:440  +3 53
 9. SC Amiens  38  15th  8th  15th 043:450  −2 53
10. ES Troyes AC (A)  38  13  13  12 043:480  −5 52
11. LB Châteauroux  38  13  10  15th 044:490  −5 49
12. US Créteil  38  10  15th  13 041:470  −6 45
13. SCO Angers (N)  38  11  12  15th 036:430  −7 45
14th Clermont Foot Auvergne  38  9  17th  12 036:480 −12 44
15th Grenoble Foot  38  9  16  13 038:430  −5 43
16. FC Gueugnon  38  9  15th  14th 040:430  −3 42
17th Stade Laval  38  10  12  16 051:550  −4 42
18th ASOA Valence  38  9  13  16 045:560 −11 40
19th Racing Besançon (N)  38  8th  14th  16 037:450  −8 38
20th FC Rouen  38  5  14th  19th 027:500 −23 29

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

  • Promotion to Ligue 1 in 2004/05
  • Relegation to the National (D3)
  • (A) Relegated from Ligue 1 2002/03
    (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