1973–74 French Division 2
The 1973–74 French Division 2 was the 33rd season since its establishment. It was constituted by two groups (A and B) with 18 clubs each. The winners of each group won promotion to the 1974–75 French Division 1. Additionally, the winners met in a two-legged championship play–off. The victor was crowned champion and awarded the trophy. Meanwhile, the runners-up of both groups faced each other in a two-legged play-off, with the victor claiming the last promotion spot. On the other hand, the bottom three clubs of each group were relegated to the , while Ajaccio abandoned its professional status and joined them. The season began on 1 July 1973 and ended on 5 June 1974. The winter break was in effect from 22 December 1973 to 12 January 1974. Two points were awarded for a win, with no points for a loss. If the match was drawn, each team received one point. Likewise, this season was the first time that bonus points were awarded: any team scoring three or more goals in a match rece ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ligue 2
Ligue 2 (, League 2), also known as Ligue 2 BKT due to sponsorship reasons, is a French professional football league. The league serves as the second division of French football and is one of two divisions making up the Ligue de Football Professionnel (LFP), the other being Ligue 1, the country's top football division. Contested by 18 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with both Ligue 1 and the third division Championnat National. Seasons run from August to May, with teams playing 34 games each, totalling 306 games in the season. Most games are played on Fridays and Mondays, with a few games played during weekday and weekend evenings. Play is regularly suspended the last weekend before Christmas for two weeks before returning in the second week of January. Ligue 2 was founded a year after the creation of the first division in 1933 under the name ''Division 2'' and has served as the second division of French football ever since. The name lasted until 2 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Penalty Shoot-out (association Football)
In association football, a penalty shoot-out (previously known as kicks from the penalty mark) is a tie-breaking method to determine which team is awarded victory in a match that cannot end in a tie (draw), draw, when the score is tied after the normal time as well as Overtime (sports)#Association football, extra time (if used) has expired. For example, in a FIFA World Cup, penalties are used in elimination matches; the round of 32, the round of 16, the quarter-finals, the semi-finals, and the final (competition), final. In a penalty shoot-out, each team takes turns shooting at goal from the penalty mark, with the goal defended only by the opposing team's Goalkeeper (association football), goalkeeper. Each team has five shots which must be taken by different players; the team that makes more successful kicks is declared the victor. Shoot-outs finish as soon as one team has an insurmountable lead. If scores are level after five pairs of shots, the shootout progresses into additiona ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Blois Foot 41
Blois Football 41 (, "Quarante-et-un") is a French football club based in Blois, Centre-Val de Loire. In 1999, Association amicale de la jeunesse blésoise (commonly abbreviated as AAJB or AAJ Blois) has founded in 1912 merged with Blois Union Sportive, founded in 1984, to form the current club. They currently play in Championnat National 2, the fourth level of French football. Blois spent nine seasons in Division 2 between 1970 and 1982. The team plays at Allées Jean Leroi Municipal Stadium in Blois. Honours * Champion Championnat National 3 (Centre-Val de Loire Group): 2018 * Champion Championnat de France Amateur de Football (Centre-West Group): 1970 * Champion Championnat de France de football de Division 3 (West Group): 1978 * Champion DH Centre: 1933, 1955, 1990, 2004, 2016 * 1/4 finalists of the Coupe de France in 1971 (home: Blois-Marseille 2–4 and away: Marseille-Blois 9–1) * Champion DH centre féminin: 2007 Current squad References ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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AC Cambrai
Athletic Club Cambrésien is a French association football team founded in 1919. They are based in Cambrai, France and play in the Division d'Honneur Nord Pas de Calais in the French football league system. They play at the Stade de la Liberté in Cambrai Cambrai (, ; ; ), formerly Cambray and historically in English Camerick or Camericke, is a city in the Nord department and in the Hauts-de-France region of France on the Scheldt river, which is known locally as the Escaut river. A sub-pref .... Honours * Runner-up of Amateur French Championship: 1966 * Champion of Division d'Honneur Nord : 1964, 1984 Current squad References Football clubs in France Association football clubs established in 1919 1919 establishments in France AC Cambrai Sport in Nord (French department) Football clubs in Hauts-de-France {{France-footyclub-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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EDS Montluçon
EDS or Eds may refer to: Organisations * Electronic Data Systems, a defunct American technology company * Ehlers-Danlos Society, a medical charity Education * Episcopal Divinity School, an Episcopal Seminary in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US * Evansville Day School, an independent college-prep school in Evansville, Indiana, US * University of Ottawa English Debating Society, Canada Politics * Environmental Defence Society, a New Zealand environmental organisation * European Democrat Students, a centre-right political students union * European Democratic Party (Czech Republic) (), a Czech political party Science and technology * Electrodynamic suspension * Elliptic divisibility sequence * Energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy * Effluent decontamination system Chemistry * Estradiol distearate * Ethane dimethanesulfonate Computing * Electronic Document System, an early hypertext system * Evolution Data Server, data management server in GNOME * Extended Data Services, a data tra ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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FC Chaumont
Chaumont Football Club is a French association football club founded in 1957. The club is based in Chaumont, Haute-Marne and its home stadium is the Stade Georges Dodin in the town, which has a capacity of 5,000 spectators. It had professional status from 1966 to 1969 and from 1970 to 1991. As of the 2009–10 season, the club plays in the Championnat de France amateur 2 Group C, the fifth tier of French football. It is managed by former AJ Auxerre and Olympique de Marseille Olympique de Marseille (, ; , ), also known simply as Marseille, or by the abbreviation OM (, ), is a French professional Association football, football club based in Marseille which competes in Ligue 1, the French football league system, top f ... defender, Stéphane Mazzolini. Honours Domestic Management Managerial history Notable players External links * old official website Chaumont FC results 1962-2012{{in lang, fr Sport in Haute-Marne 1957 establishments in France Association ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Bourges Football
Bourges 18 was a association football, football club based in Bourges, France. In the summer of 2008, FC Bourges, which formerly spent eleven seasons in the Ligue 2, Division 2, merged with Bourges-Asnières 18 to create Bourges 18. The club's colours were red and blue. In 2021, a merger with Bourges Foot created the new club Bourges Foot 18. History * 1966: ''Foyer Saint-François Bourges'' and ''Racing Club de Bourges'' were amalgamated to form ''FC Bourges''. * 1970–1994: The club played intermittently in the Ligue 2, Division 2 * 1994–1998: The club played in the Championnat National but went bankrupt in January 1998, and was henceforth known as ''FC Bourges 18'' * 2005: after another bankruptcy, the club changed its name to ''Bourges Football Olympique Club'' * 2006: The club is renamed once more and becomes ''Bourges Football'' * 2008: ''Bourges Football'' and ''Bourges Asnières 18'' amalgamate to become ''Bourges 18''. *2021: ''Bourges 18'' and ''Bourges Foot'' merge to ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Stade Brestois 29
Stade Brestois 29, commonly known as Stade Brestois or simply Brest,''Stade Brest'', used by some English-speaking media outlets and journalists, is not a grammatically correct name for the club. is a French professional football club based in Brest. It was founded in 1950 following the merger of five local patronages, including Armoricaine de Brest, founded in 1903. The club has competed in Ligue 1, the top division of French football, ever since being promoted to the top flight during the 2018–19 season. In its early years, Brest made a rapid rise in the hierarchy of regional football, to the point of being promoted to the Championnat de France Amateur in 1958. The club joined the Division 2 in 1970, then finally reached the Division 1 in 1979. It experienced its sporting peak between 1981 and 1991 under the presidency of François Yvinec, playing nine seasons in the highest tier in ten years. In 1991, the club was demoted before filing for bankruptcy a few months lat ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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USL Dunkerque
Union Sportive du Littoral de Dunkerque () is a Association football, football club based in Dunkirk, France. It competes in Ligue 2, having achieved promotion from the Championnat National in the 2022–23 Championnat National, 2022–23 season. The club colours are blue and white, and home matches are played at the Stade Marcel-Tribut. The club was founded in 1909 under the name of Union Sportive Dunkerque-Malo from a merger of two local teams, Stade Dunkerquois and Union Sportive de Malo-les-Bains. The latter, founded in 1900, had been the most widely supported club in the Dunkirk area and was based in the neighbouring town of Malo-les-Bains (later annexed by the city of Dunkirk in 1970). US Dunkerque-Malo then became Union Racing Dunkerque-Malo after merging with Racing Club de Dunkerque in 1927, Olympique Dunkerquois after merging with Amis de la Balle Dunkerquoise in 1933 and Union Sportive de Dunkerque after merging with Dunkerque Étudiant Club in 1954. The club adopted ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Besançon RC
Besançon (, ; , ; archaic ; ) is the capital of the Departments of France, department of Doubs in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. The city is located in Eastern France, close to the Jura Mountains and the border with Switzerland. Capital of the historic and cultural region of Franche-Comté, Besançon is home to the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté regional council headquarters, and is an important administrative centre in the region. It is also the seat of one of the fifteen French ecclesiastical provinces and one of the two 1st Armored Division (France), divisions of the French Army. In 2022 the city had a population of 120,057, in a metropolitan area of 284,474, the second in the region in terms of population. Established in a meander of the river Doubs (river), Doubs, the city was already important during the Gallo-Roman era under the name of ''Vesontio'', capital of the Sequani. Its geography and specific history turned it into a military stronghold, a garrison city, a p ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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FC Lorient
Football Club Lorient Bretagne Sud (;), commonly referred to as FC Lorient (), is a French professional association football club based in Lorient, Brittany. The club was founded in 1926 and currently competes in Ligue 2, having been relegated from Ligue 1 at the end of the 2023–24 Ligue 1, 2023–24 season. Lorient plays its home matches at the Stade Yves Allainmat, named after the former mayor of Lorient. The stadium is surnamed Stade du Moustoir because of its location within the city. The team is managed by Olivier Pantaloni. Lorient had a relatively bleak history nationally before 1998 when the club made its first appearance in Ligue 1 in the 1998–99 Division 1, 1998–99 season. Before that, Lorient spent most of its life as an amateur club. Lorient's achieved its biggest honour in 2002 when the club won the Coupe de France defeating SC Bastia, Bastia 1–0 in 2002 Coupe de France Final, the final. Lorient has never won Ligue 1, but has won the Championnat National earn ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Stade Lavallois
Stade Lavallois Mayenne Football Club (), also referred to as Stade Lavallois or simply Laval,Stade Laval, used by some English-speaking media outlets and journalists, is not a grammatically correct name for the club. is a Football in France, French association football club based in Laval, Mayenne, Laval in western France. The club was formed on 17 July 1902 and currently plays in Ligue 2, the second level of Football in France, French football. Laval plays its home matches at the Stade Francis Le Basser located in the city. History The club was founded in 1902 by Joseph Gemain, a passionate supporter of the sport of football. Émile Sinoir was installed as the club's first president. At that time, players were supplied with red tops and black shorts and matches were played at Senelle, a district of Laval. Laval's first official match was against nearby Stade Rennais F.C., Rennes. In 1903, the club participated in the Breton championship for the first time, and the red and blac ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |