Ligue 2 2003/04
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 :
- one from the north ( SC Amiens )
- three from Île-de-France and Champagne ( US Créteil Lusitanos and the two relegated CS Sedan and ES Troyes AC )
- six from the northwest (relegated Le Havre AC , promoted FC Rouen , Stade Malherbe Caen , Stade Laval , FC Lorient , promoted SCO Angers )
- three from the northeast (newly promoted Racing Besançon , AS Nancy , FC Gueugnon )
- two from the southwest ( La Berrichonne Châteauroux , Chamois Niort )
- five from the southeast ( Clermont Foot Auvergne , AS Saint-Étienne , Grenoble Foot , AS d'Origine Arménienne Valence , FC Istres )
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 | 44:29 | +15 | 73 |
2. | SM Caen | 38 | 20th | 11 | 7th | 56:31 | +25 | 71 |
3. | FC Istres | 38 | 19th | 9 | 10 | 44:26 | +18 | 66 |
4th | FC Lorient | 38 | 17th | 10 | 11 | 57:45 | +12 | 61 |
5. | CS Sedan (A) | 38 | 15th | 15th | 8th | 42:31 | +11 | 60 |
6th | AS Nancy | 38 | 14th | 13 | 11 | 45:36 | +9 | 55 |
7th | Le Havre AC (A) | 38 | 15th | 10 | 13 | 44:46 | −2 | 55 |
8th. | Chamois Niort | 38 | 13 | 14th | 11 | 47:44 | +3 | 53 |
9. | SC Amiens | 38 | 15th | 8th | 15th | 43:45 | −2 | 53 |
10. | ES Troyes AC (A) | 38 | 13 | 13 | 12 | 43:48 | −5 | 52 |
11. | LB Châteauroux | 38 | 13 | 10 | 15th | 44:49 | −5 | 49 |
12. | US Créteil | 38 | 10 | 15th | 13 | 41:47 | −6 | 45 |
13. | SCO Angers (N) | 38 | 11 | 12 | 15th | 36:43 | −7 | 45 |
14th | Clermont Foot Auvergne | 38 | 9 | 17th | 12 | 36:48 | −12 | 44 |
15th | Grenoble Foot | 38 | 9 | 16 | 13 | 38:43 | −5 | 43 |
16. | FC Gueugnon | 38 | 9 | 15th | 14th | 40:43 | −3 | 42 |
17th | Stade Laval | 38 | 10 | 12 | 16 | 51:55 | −4 | 42 |
18th | ASOA Valence | 38 | 9 | 13 | 16 | 45:56 | −11 | 40 |
19th | Racing Besançon (N) | 38 | 8th | 14th | 16 | 37:45 | −8 | 38 |
20th | FC Rouen | 38 | 5 | 14th | 19th | 27:50 | −23 | 29 |
Placement criteria: 1st points - 2nd goal difference - 3rd goals scored
(A) | Relegated from Ligue 1 2002/03 |
(N) | Newcomers |
See also
Web links
- 2003/04 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