LIGUE 2

'Ligue 2' is the second division of French football. It is one of two divisions making up the LFP, the other being Ligue 1, which is France's top division.
The 20 clubs that make up Ligue 2 play each other twice during the season, creating a 38-match schedule. At the end of the season, the top three clubs are promoted to Ligue 1 for the following season, while the bottom three clubs of Ligue 1 are relegated to Ligue 2. The bottom three teams of Ligue 2 are relegated to the Championnat National.

Contents

Previous winners

Top goalscorers

References

See also

External links

Previous winners

★ 1933/34 : Red Star Paris ★ 1934/35 : Metz ★ 1935/36 : Rouen ★ 1936/37 : Marseille ★ 1937/38 : Lens ★ 1938/39 : Red Star Paris ★ 1939~45 : 'Not held' ★ 1945/46 : Nancy ★ 1946/47 : Sochaux ★ 1947/48 : Nice ★ 1948/49 : Lens (inofficial: 1. FC Saarbrücken) ★ 1949/50 : Nîmes ★ 1950/51 : Lyon ★ 1951/52 : Stade Français ★ 1952/53 : Toulouse ★ 1953/54 : Lyon ★ 1954/55 : Sedan Paris ★ 1955/56 : Rennes ★ 1956/57 : Alès ★ 1957/58 : Nancy ★ 1958/59 : Le Havre ★ 1959/60 : Grenoble ★ 1960/61 : SO Montpellier

★ 1961/62 : Grenoble ★ 1962/63 : Saint-Étienne ★ 1963/64 : Lille ★ 1964/65 : Nice ★ 1965/66 : Reims ★ 1966/67 : Ajaccio ★ 1967/68 : Bastia ★ 1968/69 : Angers ★ 1969/70 : Nice ★ 1970/71 : Paris Saint-Germain ★ 1971/72 : Valenciennes ★ 1972/73 : Lens ★ 1973/74 : Lille ★ 1974/75 : Nancy ★ 1975/76 : Angers ★ 1976/77 : Strasbourg ★ 1977/78 : Lille ★ 1978/79 : Gueugnon ★ 1979/80 : Auxerre ★ 1980/81 : Brest ★ 1981/82 : Toulouse ★ 1982/83 : Rennes ★ 1983/84 : Tours

★ 1984/85 : Le Havre ★ 1985/86 : RC Paris ★ 1986/87 : Montpellier ★ 1987/88 : Strasbourg ★ 1988/89 : Lyon ★ 1989/90 : Nancy ★ 1990/91 : Le Havre ★ 1991/92 : Bordeaux ★ 1992/93 : Martigues ★ 1993/94 : Nice ★ 1994/95 : Marseille ★ 1995/96 : Caen ★ 1996/97 : Châteauroux ★ 1997/98 : Nancy ★ 1998/99 : Saint-Étienne ★ 1999/00 : Lille ★ 2000/01 : Sochaux ★ 2001/02 : Ajaccio ★ 2002/03 : Toulouse ★ 2003/04 : Saint-Étienne ★ 2004/05 : Nancy ★ 2005/06 : Valenciennes ★ 2006/07 : Metz

Top goalscorers

'Year'	'Goals'	'Top scorer(s)'	'Club(s)'
1934	'54 goals'	Jean Nicolas	FC Rouen
1935	'30 goals'	Jean Nicolas	FC Rouen
1936	'45 goals'	Jean Nicolas	FC Rouen
1937	'30 goals'	Viktor Spechtl	RC Lens
1938	'29 goals'	Hugo Lammana	CA Paris
1939	'39 goals'	Harold Newell ''Planques''	US Boulogne Toulouse FC (1937)
''World War II''
1946	'27 goals'	''Campiglia''	SCO Angers
1947	'45 goals'	Jozef "Pépé" Humpal	FC Sochaux
1948	'28 goals'	Henri Arnaudeau	Girondins de Bordeaux
1949	'41 goals'	Camille Libar	Girondins de Bordeaux
1950	'27 goals'	Edmund Haan	Nîmes Olympique
1951	'23 goals'	Thadée Cisowski	FC Metz
1952	'34 goals'	Egon Jonsson	Stade Français football
1953	'27 goals'	Bror Mellberg	Toulouse FC (1937)
1954	'36 goals'	Jean Courteaux	RC Paris
1955	'40 goals'	Petrus Van Rhijn	Valenciennes Football Club
1956	'32 goals'	Petrus Van Rhijn	Valenciennes Football Club
1957	'27 goals'	Fernand Devlaeminck	Lille OSC
1958	'29 goals'	Egon Jonsson	FC Nancy
1959	'31 goals'	Petrus Van Rhijn	Stade Français football
1960	'29 goals'	''Corbel''	FC Rouen
1961	'28 goals'	Casimir Kozakiewicz	RC Strasbourg
1962	'21 goals'	Serge Masnaghetti	Valenciennes Football Club
1963	'24 goals'	Ernesto Gianella	AS Béziers (football)
1964	'21 goals'	Abderrhamane Soukhane	Le Havre AC
1965	'22 goals'	Anton Groschulski	Red Star Saint-Ouen
1966	'30 goals'	Pierre Ferrazzi	Grenoble Foot 38
1967	'23 goals'	Etienne Sansonetti	SC Bastia
1968	'26 goals'	Jacques Bonnet	Avignon Football 84
1969	'55 goals'	Gérard Grizetti	AS Angoulême
1970	'21 goals'	Robert Blanc	FC Nancy
1971	'20 goals' '20 goals' '20 goals'	Nord : Yves Triantafyllos Centre : Robert Blanc Sud : Emmanuel Koum	US Boulogne Limoges Foot 87 AS Monaco
1972	'20 goals' '28 goals' '40 goals'	Gr. A : Pierre Pleimelding Gr. B : Yves-Marie Joseph Gr. C : Marco Molitor	Troyes AC Valenciennes Football Club RC Strasbourg
1973	'21 goals' '31 goals'	Gr. A : Eugeniusz Faber Gr. B : Gérard Tonnel	RC Lens Troyes AC
1974	'26 goals' '24 goals'	Gr. A : Erwin Wilczek Gr. B : Nestor Combin	Valenciennes Football Club Red Star Saint-Ouen
1975	'25 goals' '28 goals'	Gr. A : Georges Tripp Gr. B : Jean Martinez	Stade Laval AS Nancy
1976	'22 goals' '25 goals'	Gr. A : Bozidar Antic Gr. B : Marc Berdoll	SM Caen SCO Angers
1977	'30 goals' '24 goals'	Gr. A : Delio Onnis Gr. B : Albert Gemmrich	AS Monaco RC Strasbourg
1978	'19 goals' '23 goals'	Gr. A : ''Giudicelli'' Gr. B : Jean-Claude Garnier Gr. B : Pierre-Antoine Dossevi	Olympique Alès USL Dunkerque Tours FC
1979	'24 goals' '26 goals'	Gr. A : Antoine Trivino Gr. B : Patrice Martet	FC Gueugnon Stade Brestois
1980	'16 goals' '19 goals'	Gr. A : Alain Polaniok Gr. A : Bernard Ferrigno Gr. B : Jacky Vergnes Gr. B : Robert Pintenat	Stade de Reims Tours FC Montpellier HSC Toulouse FC
1981	'32 goals' '22 goals'	Gr. A : Robert Pintenat Gr. B : Marcel Campagnac	Toulouse FC Sporting Club Abbeville
1982	'18 goals' '25 goals'	Gr. A : Marc Pascal Gr. B : Zarko Olaveric Gr. B : Isiaka Ouattara	Olympique de Marseille Le Havre AC FC Mulhouse
1983	'28 goals' '18 goals'	Gr. A : Wlodzimierz Lubanski Gr. B : Christian Dalger	Valenciennes Football Club Sporting Toulon Var
1984	'23 goals' '23 goals'	Gr. A : Mario Relmy Gr. B : Omar Da Fonseca	Limoges Foot 87 Tours FC
1985	'27 goals' '28 goals'	Gr. A : John Eriksen Gr. B : Jorge Dominguez	FC Mulhouse OGC Nice
1986	'22 goals' '29 goals'	Gr. A : Jean-Marc Valadier Gr. B : Eugene N'Goy Kabongo	Montpellier HSC RC Paris
1987	'22 goals' '21 goals'	Gr. A : Zvonko Kurbos Gr. B : Gaspard N'Gouete	FC Mulhouse SC Bastia
1988	'18 goals'   '26 goals'	Gr. A : Jean-Pierre Orts Gr. A : Stéphane Paille Gr. B : Patrice Martet	Olympique Lyonnais FC Sochaux FC Rouen
1989	'22 goals' '27 goals'	Gr. A : Roberto Cabanas Gr. B : Robby Langers	Stade Brestois US Orléans
1990	'26 goals' '21 goals'	Gr. A : Didier Monczuk Gr. B : Jean-Pierre Orts	RC Strasbourg FC Rouen
1991	'23 goals' '19 goals'	Gr. A : Didier Monczuk Gr. B : Christophe Lagrange	RC Strasbourg SCO Angers
1992	'22 goals' '21 goals'	Gr. A : Jean-Pierre Orts Gr. B : Didier Monczuk	FC Rouen RC Strasbourg
1993	'21 goals' '18 goals'	Gr. A : Franck Priou Gr. B : Jean-Pierre Orts	AS Cannes FC Rouen
1994	'27 goals'	Yannick Le Saux	Stade Briochin
1995	'31 goals'	Tony Cascarino	Olympique Marseille
1996	'30 goals'	Tony Cascarino	Olympique Marseille
1997	'23 goals'	Samuel Michel	FC Sochaux
1998	'20 goals'	Reginald Ray (footballer)	Le Mans Union Club 72
1999	'20 goals'	Hamed Diallo	Stade Laval
2000	'17 goals'	Amara Traoré	FC Gueugnon
2001	'21 goals'	Francileudo Santos	FC Sochaux
2002	'18 goals'	Hamed Diallo	Amiens SC
2003	'20 goals'	Cédric Fauré	Toulouse FC
2004	'17 goals'	David Suarez	Amiens SC
2005	'24 goals'	Bakary Koné	FC Lorient
2006	'16 goals'	Jean-Michel Lesage	Le Havre AC
		Steve Savidan	Valenciennes Football Club
2007	'18 goals'	Jean-Michel Lesage	Le Havre AC
		Kandia Traore	Le Havre AC

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References

1. http://www.rsssf.com/tablesf/fran2tops.html

See also

★ Sports league attendances

External links

★ Official LFP site ''(French)''