Division 1 Féminine
The Division 1 Féminine or short D1F is the highest division in the French women's football. It was founded in 1992, was until 2002 the official name Championnat National 1 A and currently comprises twelve teams. Prior to founding the League championship was played in a tournament final form since 1974/75. For this first finals following eight women's teams had qualified: FC Bergerac, SC Caluire Saint- Clair, ARC Cavaillon, FC Metz, Arago Sports Orléans, the first French champions Stade Reims, Rouen FC and FC Vendenheim.
On March 21, 2013, the French occupied League due to the success of their representatives in the UEFA Women's Champions League for the first time since their introduction to the first rank in the UEFA five year ranking - ahead of the German and the Swedish top division.
Mode
In the course of a season, each team meets twice every other team. This one has home advantage again. Unlike most international leagues are there for a victory four instead of three points. A draw will be rewarded with two instead of one point. Even in defeat, there is a place zero points. Champion and runner-up will qualify for the UEFA Women's Champions League, while the two last-place teams must stay 2 Feminin in the division.
At the end of the 2010/11 season saw the first three relegated from the D1F because the second division since the beginning of this season consists of three instead of two groups, the group winners will have the right to direct ascent.
The current season (2013 /14)
This season, the league continues to follow participants together:
- Arras FCF
- EA Guingamp
- FCF Henin- Beaumont ( climber )
- Juvisy FCF
- Olympique Lyon ( defending champion )
- Montpellier HSC
- AS Muret ( climber )
- Paris Saint- Germain FC
- Rodez AF
- AS Saint- Étienne
- ASJ Soyaux ( climber )
- FF Yzeure Allier Auvergne
At the end of the previous season Olympique Lyonnais won for the seventh time in a row the title, and this as once two years ago without a single point loss. With ten points behind followed by Paris, thus also qualified for the UEFA Women's Champions League 2013/14. The places three and four occupied the previous year's runner-up Juvisy and Montpellier; Yzeure, Saint- Étienne, and Guingamp Rodez formed the mid-table. Up Arras also held the League, while FC Vendenheim the two newcomers Issy FF and FC Toulouse had to accompany in the second division.
For the season 2013/14 the FCF Henin- Beaumont, ASJ Soyaux and AS Muret returned to the D1F; these three women's machinations were in the summer of 2012 from the first descended together to the second division. First match is September 1, 2013, the season ends with the Round 22 on June 1, 2014.
History of Championships
The first four decades of French championships can be divided into a few sections in which dominated one or two women's machinations. In the first eight payouts from 1974 this Stade Reims, which was represented in all the playoffs until 1982 and won five of them, as well as the AS Étroeungt were ( in four final appearances victorious three times). There followed the period of dominance of VGA Saint -Maur; the women from the capital region brought it 1983-1990 to six league titles, interrupted only by a respective success of ASJ Soyaux, who lost four other finals, and CS Saint -Brieuc. Saint- Maur's last finals (1991 ) coincided with the beginning of the supremacy of FC Lyon and Juvisy FCF, until 1998, almost alternately secured the French championship - both in recent years in which this age or in a mixture of group matches was held and a final round in the knockout mode, as introduced in 1992 pure league play. From 1998 to 2006 France Football champions came first for four consecutive years from Toulouse ( TOAC or TFC ), followed by two each from Montpellier and turn from Juvisy FCF. As of 2007, finally began the uninterrupted series from seven title wins by the women of Olympique Lyon; for Juvisy (three times), Montpellier and Paris Saint- Germain ( twice each ) were in each case just runner-up.
Overall, the history of French women's football in four decades only eleven different Champion Clubs' - and when you consider that it had come in Toulouse and Lyon for changing the winning team to the larger local club, even just nine. The longest-running success ( see also the " league table " below), of course, the Women's Association of Juvisy -sur -Orge claim for themselves, because since 1992 there was only one season in which the JFCF not among the top three team of France was - that was the 2010/11 season when the women from the 15,000 - resident community only were fourth the final table.
Prior to the founding of the League
Championnat National 1 A or Division 1 Féminine
Most successful clubs
Overall, since 1974/75
- 7 Title: Olympique Lyon
- 6 Title: VGA Saint -Maur, Juvisy FCF
- 5 Title: Stade Reims
- 4 Title: FC Lyon
- 3 Title: AS Étroeungt, Toulouse OAC
- 2 Title: Montpellier HSC
- 1 Title: CS Saint -Brieuc, ASJ Soyaux, FC Toulouse
Since the introduction of N1A or D1F
- 7 Title: Olympique Lyon
- 5 Title: Juvisy FCF
- 3 Title: FC Lyon, Toulouse OAC
- 2 Title: Montpellier HSC
- 1 Title: Toulouse FC
" League table "
The following table reflects only the seasons since the introduction of a single-track top division (since 1992/ 93). So far this league has always comprises twelve participants. The scores of the teams involved are for the entire period was calculated according to the three-point rule, even if in fact until 1994 /95, the two- and since 1998/99 was the four-point rule, or applies. From the association pronounced point deductions were in the "Eternal table" taken into account.
Teams that play in the currently ongoing season (2013 /14) in Division 1 are highlighted in pink. Highlighted in yellow are those that are no longer participating in the Women's League of operation because their women's sections were changed to a local rival in which up to then no women's football had been operated; this was the case in Toulouse ( OAC → FC ), Montpellier (Le Crès → HSC ), (a ) Lyon ( FC → Olympique ), Saint- Étienne (Racing → AS), and finally - a special case, because cities across - between Saint- Brieuc and Guingamp. For pure name change from clubs of the last name is not specified. The columns " seasons " and " Last " will be constantly updated (along with points, titles and placements) until the end of the current season.