Ligue 2 2004/05
Ligue 2 2004/05 | |
master | AS Nancy |
Climbers | AS Nancy Le Mans UC ES Troyes AC |
Relegated |
SCO Angers Chamois Niort |
Teams | 20th |
Games | 380 |
Gates | 848 (ø 2.23 per game) |
spectator | 2,511,708 (ø 6610 per game) |
Top scorer | Bakari Koné , ( FC Lorient ) |
← Ligue 2 2003/04 | |
^ Ligue 1 2004/05 |
The Ligue 2 2004/05 was the 66th staging of the second highest French football league . It was a league with only professional teams.
The game was played from August 6, 2004 to May 27, 2005. AS Nancy 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 )
- four from Île-de-France and Champagne ( US Créteil Lusitanos , promoted Stade Reims , CS Sedan , ES Troyes AC )
- seven from the northwest ( Le Havre AC , Stade Laval , the two relegated Le Mans UC and En Avant Guingamp , promoted Stade Brest , FC Lorient , SCO Angers )
- three from the northeast ( AS Nancy , newly promoted FCO Dijon , FC Gueugnon )
- two from the southwest ( La Berrichonne Châteauroux , Chamois Niort )
- three from the southeast ( Clermont Foot Auvergne , Grenoble Foot , relegated HSC Montpellier )
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.
The three later promoted teams had already separated themselves so far from the chasing field several game days before the end of the season that they could play the second division championship relatively “relaxed” among themselves. In the end, Nancy was ahead of the game, while Le Mans - after just one year in L2 - and Troyes finished tied on points. Behind them was a group of six teams, which included the two other relegated teams from the previous year (Guingamp and Montpellier) and two teams that had competed in third class twelve months earlier (Dijon and Brest). The third previous year's climber, the red-whites from Reims , was also able to secure its membership in the second division for another season.
In the 380 encounters 848 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 Bakari Koné from Lorient with 24 goals, who had scored more than half of all goals of his team. The following season came with Stade Malherbe Caen , SC Bastia and FC Istres three relegated from Ligue 1 ; Only two teams rose from the third-highest league, namely Valenciennes-Anzin FC and - after 16 years of absence from professional football from this particularly traditional club - FC Sète . The national runner-up (D3) , AS d'Origine Arménienne Valence , did not receive a license for the second division after the end of the season for financial reasons; as a result, the table eighteenth Clermont did not have to relegate.
Closing table
Pl. | society | Sp. | S. | U | N | Gates | Diff. | Points |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1. | AS Nancy | 38 | 21st | 8th | 9 | 54:33 | +21 | 71 |
2. | Le Mans UC (A) | 38 | 20th | 8th | 10 | 51:30 | +21 | 68 |
3. | ES Troyes AC | 38 | 20th | 8th | 10 | 61:48 | +13 | 68 |
4th | FCO Dijon (N) | 38 | 14th | 15th | 9 | 44:34 | +10 | 57 |
5. | LB Châteauroux | 38 | 14th | 15th | 9 | 51:43 | +8 | 57 |
6th | CS Sedan | 38 | 16 | 9 | 13 | 38:38 | ± 0 | 57 |
7th | EA Guingamp (A) | 38 | 15th | 11 | 12 | 53:43 | +10 | 56 |
8th. | HSC Montpellier (A) | 38 | 15th | 10 | 13 | 44:39 | +5 | 55 |
9. | Stade Brest (N) | 38 | 13 | 16 | 9 | 38:34 | +4 | 55 |
10. | FC Lorient | 38 | 14th | 8th | 16 | 47:51 | −4 | 50 |
11. | Grenoble Foot | 38 | 12 | 12 | 14th | 45:50 | −5 | 48 |
12. | FC Gueugnon | 38 | 12 | 12 | 14th | 30:40 | −10 | 48 |
13. | SC Amiens | 38 | 11 | 14th | 13 | 41:41 | ± 0 | 47 |
14th | Stade Laval | 38 | 13 | 8th | 17th | 43:51 | −8 | 47 |
15th | US Créteil | 38 | 11 | 13 | 14th | 42:38 | +4 | 46 |
16. | Reims Stadium (N) | 38 | 10 | 13 | 15th | 34:55 | −21 | 43 |
17th | Le Havre AC | 38 | 11 | 9 | 18th | 28:42 | −14 | 42 |
18th | Clermont Foot Auvergne | 38 | 8th | 15th | 15th | 34:39 | −5 | 39 |
19th | SCO Angers | 38 | 8th | 14th | 16 | 32:44 | −12 | 38 |
20th | Chamois Niort | 38 | 9 | 8th | 21st | 38:55 | −17 | 35 |
Placement criteria: 1st points - 2nd goal difference - 3rd goals scored
(A) | Relegated from Ligue 1 in 2003/04 |
(N) | Newcomers |
See also
Web links
- 2004/05 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