Ligue 2

The Ligue 2 ( officially Ligue 2 Orange, short L2 or D2) is the second- highest division of French football. It exists as a professional league since the 1933/34 season was 1970-1993, an "open league," the amateur teams were allowed to participate, and was called to 2002 Division 2

You have up to and including the 2012/ 13 teams of 155 clubs belong, including the longest for each at least forty years of racing Besançon ( 42, of which 41 seasons from 1945/46, in unbroken succession ), AS Cannes ( 41 ) and AS Béziers ( 40 ).

Mode

Each club denies one home and one away match against every other team in the league. It is also here the three- point rule; with point tie, the better goal difference, and this is equal, the greater number of goals scored. In previous decades, there were varying numbers of promotion and relegation places; partially existed a combination of fixed relegation places (eg the first two ) and playoff games ( Barrages ) between the next highest scoring teams in the D2 against the third ( and fourth ) last of the D1. Since 1997 is that the three best teams of the season, on - relegated to the Ligue 1, the three worst in the nation (D3).

Main Round is the Friday evening; a supposedly attractive meeting will be held in accordance with the wishes of the pay-TV channels only on Monday evening. In the second division National Cup clubs in the 7th round must - ie before the actual main competition ( " Compétition propre " ) - to intervene.

Teams in the current season

See the main article Ligue 2 2012/13.

At the end of the season 2012/13 AS Monaco succeeded as Tabellenerstem the second attempt to return to the top flight; it was accompanied by EA Guingamp and FC Nantes. At the bottom of the descent of the newcomer GFC Ajaccio stable at a relatively early stage, then the CS Sedan, during the Le Mans FC had also possessed a theoretical chance of relegation until the final day. During the summer break Sedan and Le Mans were then zwangsrelegiert for financial reasons, even in the amateur field. Second league scorer Mustapha Yatabaré from Guingamp with 23 goals before Filip Djordjevic from Nantes ( 20).

In the 2013/14 season supplement the Erstligaabsteiger Stade Brest, Nancy, and, after only one year in Division 1, the ES Troyes AC in Ligue 2, the panel; from the third division are U.S. Créteil, FC Metz and CA Bastia, the second time in succession managed a climb, do so. Only three of the twenty teams ( Clermont, Créteil and Bastia) were never first division. The second division takes on 9 August 2013, the operation of gambling.

Foreign Players

It is also true in the second division, that France is a magnet for foreign footballers. In the 2010/11 season had at the 20 clubs more than a third of the players no French nationality; However, subject to those derived from any of the States of the EEA, with the EU and associated territories of France's overseas territories or regions, not the foreigner restrictions of the relevant association.

The lion's share of the 158 "Football immigrants " came from the north-west (87 players ) and the central and eastern (32 ) Africa; Algeria ( 16) Senegal ( 15), Cameroon (12 ), Mali (11 ), Morocco and the Ivory coast ( 10) presented the largest groups here. For other European countries were a total of 24 players ( including five Serbs and three Croats, Portuguese and Belgians ). Ten Americans (six Brazilians ) and five Asians completed this list.

History

The Ligue 2 has her face changed more frequently than the top flight. There are several reasons for this: the football until at least the 1980s not as strongly rooted in France in viewer popularity and media attention that for much more than about two dozen clubs a viable financial basis would have been, especially since the fact that France is a large area and is not as densely populated as Germany, leading to increased travel distances and travel costs and less spectator -oriented local derbies possible.

The non- discrepancy between the relatively high cost and low revenue with the result that D2 is not a longer periods of time, but multi-track was arranged:

Two groups ( North and South) 1933/34, 1945/46, 1972-1993
Three groups ( north, center and south) 1970-1972
Four groups (North, East, South and West) 1937/38, with a subsequent " Master Round " ( final phase ) of the four top-ranked teams

From 1970 to 1992, the Division 2 was an "open" league, were allowed to compete in both amateur and professional clubs; prior to 1970 and again from 1992 is a pure professional league.

In the season 1948/49, played for short-term withdrawal of AS Angoulême way 1.FC Saarbrücken FC Sarrebruck in D2 - very successful, but only out of competition: why is the official final table this season and only 19 participants ( with Racing Lens and Girondins Bordeaux -AS du Port in positions one and two ). Had the 38 matches of the Saarland been counted, the two climbers Sarrebruck and Bordeaux should have been hot. (For the political- historical background of this intermezzo see here.)

The founding clubs 1933

Like the clubs of a year earlier launched top division to include the 23 founding clubs of Division 2 - if they still exist - and rightly one of the pioneers of professional football in France. These were in the northern group Amiens AC, RC Calais, Le Havre AC, FC Metz *, FC Mulhouse *, RC Roubaix, Rouen, U.S. Saint -Servan -Saint -Malo, Racing Strasbourg, U.S. Tourcoing, U.S. Valenciennes and Paris Red Star Olympique * and the * Club Français. In the southern group Olympique Alès *, SO Beziers, FC Hyères *, FC Lyon, AS Monaco, AS Saint- Étienne and Bordeaux played the Club Deportivo Español and the SC de la Bastidienne; these two merged after the end of the first season for FC Hispano- Bastidienne Bordeaux.

Also 1933/34, approved the U.S. were Suisse in Paris and the FC Arménienne from Lyon; U.S. Suisse withdrew while, Lyon before the start of the season back.

The here above with a * marked six teams were already in the previous year of the founding members of the Division 1, from which they had descended.

Master and losers

So far, 39 teams split the 74 official title of second-division champion, both group winners of the first season will be ( 1933/34 ) referred to as the season champion. Most commonly this succeeded Le Havre AC ( five items), followed by Racing Lens, OGC Nice, Lille and Nancy (four each ) and SO / HSC Montpellier, OU / Olympique Lyon, Toulouse FC and AS Saint- Étienne (three ); eleven other teams brought it to two D2 Championships.

AS Troyes - Savinienne (all optional)

Racing Paris (due to merger with UA Sedan- Torcy first division )

Red Star Olympique (due to merger with first division side Toulouse FC )

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