2017–18 Ligue 2
Season | 2017–18 |
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Champions | Reims |
Promoted | Reims Nîmes |
Relegated | Bourg-Péronnas Quevilly-Rouen Tours |
Matches played | 380 |
Goals scored | 1035 (2.72 per match) |
Top goalscorer | 24 goals Umut Bozok, Nîmes |
Biggest home win | Lorient 6–0 Bourg-Péronnas (4 May 2018) |
Biggest away win | Bourg-Péronnas 0–6 Lens (13 October 2017) |
Highest scoring | Bourg-Péronnas 5–4 AC Ajaccio (2 March 2018) |
Highest attendance | 35,520 Lens vs Reims (21 October 2017) |
Lowest attendance | 588 Quevilly-Rouen vs Bourg-Péronnas (11 August 2017) |
Average attendance | 6,484[1] |
← 2016–17
2018–19 →
All statistics correct as of 21:43, 11 May 2018 (UTC). |
The 2017–18 Ligue 2 (referred to as the Domino's Ligue 2 for sponsorship reasons[2]) season was the 79th season since its establishment.
Contents
Teams
There are 20 clubs in the league, with three promoted teams from Championnat National replacing the three teams that were relegated from Ligue 2 following the 2016–17 season. All clubs that secured Ligue 2 status for the season were subject to approval by the DNCG before becoming eligible to participate.
Team changes
Promoted from 2016–17 Championnat National Relegated from 2016–17 Ligue 1 |
Promoted to 2017–18 Ligue 1 Relegated to 2017–18 Championnat National |
Stadia and locations
Club | Location | Venue | Capacity |
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AC Ajaccio | Ajaccio | Stade François Coty | 10,446 |
Auxerre | Auxerre | Stade de l'Abbé-Deschamps | 21,379 |
Bourg-Péronnas | Bourg-en-Bresse | Stade Marcel-Verchère | 11,400 |
Brest | Brest | Stade Francis-Le Blé | 15,097 |
Châteauroux | Châteauroux | Stade Gaston Petit | 17,173 |
Clermont Foot | Clermont-Ferrand | Stade Gabriel Montpied | 11,980 |
Gazélec Ajaccio | Ajaccio | Stade Ange Casanova | 8,000 |
Le Havre | Le Havre | Stade Océane | 25,000 |
Lens | Lens | Stade Bollaert-Delelis | 38,223 |
Lorient | Lorient | Stade du Moustoir | 18,890 |
Nancy | Tomblaine | Stade Marcel Picot | 20,087 |
Nîmes | Nîmes | Stade des Costières | 18,482 |
Niort | Niort | Stade René Gaillard | 10,886 |
Orléans | Orléans | Stade de la Source | 7,000 |
Paris FC | Paris | Stade Charléty | 20,000 |
Quevilly-Rouen | Le Petit-Quevilly | Stade Robert Diochon | 12,018 |
Reims | Reims | Stade Auguste Delaune | 21,684 |
Sochaux | Montbéliard | Stade Auguste Bonal | 20,000 |
Tours | Tours | Stade de la Vallée du Cher | 16,247 |
Valenciennes | Valenciennes | Stade du Hainaut | 25,172 |
Personnel and kits
1Subject to change during the season.
Managerial changes
Team | Outgoing manager | Manner of departure | Date of vacancy | Position in table | Incoming manager | Date of appointment |
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Reims | Michel Der Zakarian | Signed by Montpellier | 23 May 2017[3] | Pre-season | David Guion | 25 May 2017[4] |
Lorient | Bernard Casoni | Sacked | 30 May 2017 | Mickaël Landreau | 30 May 2017[5] | |
Sochaux | Albert Cartier | Resigned | 1 June 2017 | Peter Zeidler | 2 June 2017[6] | |
Gazélec Ajaccio | Jean-Luc Vannuchi | Resigned | 26 May 2017 | Albert Cartier | 30 May 2017[7] | |
Auxerre | Cédric Daury | Appointed as Sporting Director | 1 June 2017 | Francis Gillot | 1 June 2017[8] | |
Châteauroux | Michel Estevan | Sacked | 1 June 2017 | Jean-Luc Vasseur | 2 June 2017[9] | |
Lens | Alain Casanova | Sacked | 20 August 2017[10] | 19th | Éric Sikora | 20 August 2017 |
Nancy | Pablo Correa | Sacked | 29 August 2017[11] | 16th | Vincent Hognon | 30 August 2017[12] |
Clermont Foot | Corinne Diacre | Signed by France women | 30 August 2017 [13] | 8th | Pascal Gastien | 1 September 2017[14] |
Valenciennes | Faruk Hadžibegić | Sacked | 26 September 2017[15] | 14th | Réginald Ray | 14 October 2017[16] |
Tours | Gilbert Zoonekynd | Sacked | 16 October 2017[17] | 20th | Jorge Costa | 22 November 2017[18] |
Auxerre | Francis Gillot | Sacked | 9 December 2017[19] | 16th | Pablo Correa | 21 December 2017[20] |
Nancy | Vincent Hognon | Sacked | 22 January 2018 | 17th | Patrick Gabriel (caretaker) | 28 January 2018 |
Niort | Denis Renaud | Sacked | 26 February 2018 | 14th | Jean-Philippe Faure (caretaker) | 26 February 2018 |
Nancy | Patrick Gabriel (caretaker) | End of caretaker | 3 April 2018 | 18th | Didier Tholot | 3 April 2018 |
League table
Template:2017–18 Ligue 2 table
Results
Home \ Away | GAZ | ACA | AUX | BPE | BRS | CHA | CLR | LHA | RCL | LOR | NAL | NMS | NRT | ORL | PAR | QUR | REI | SOC | TOU | VAL |
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Gazélec Ajaccio | — | 0–1 | 3–1 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 0–2 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 3–2 | 3–4 |
Ajaccio | 2–0 | — | 3–1 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 3–2 | 2–0 | 1–4 | 2–2 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 0–1 | 3–2 | 2–1 | 3–0 |
Auxerre | 0–1 | 1–1 | — | 3–1 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 5–0 | 1–3 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 1–4 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 2–0 |
Bourg-Péronnas | 2–0 | 5–4 | 1–1 | — | 2–4 | 3–0 | 0–2 | 2–1 | 0–6 | 2–2 | 3–2 | 2–2 | 0–1 | 4–0 | 1–2 | 3–5 | 0–2 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 1–3 |
Brest | 0–0 | 2–3 | 1–1 | 3–0 | — | 2–3 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 3–0 | 2–1 | 0–2 | 2–0 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 1–3 | 3–1 |
Châteauroux | 4–1 | 0–2 | 1–2 | 3–1 | 2–2 | — | 0–2 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 3–2 | 3–1 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 0–1 |
Clermont | 1–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 4–1 | 1–2 | 1–1 | — | 3–0 | 1–0 | 0–2 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 4–2 | 2–2 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 0–2 | 2–0 | 3–0 |
Le Havre | 2–1 | 2–0 | 4–1 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2–1 | — | 1–0 | 3–2 | 3–0 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 0–2 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 1–0 |
Lens | 2–0 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 0–1 | 2–4 | 2–1 | 0–1 | 3–3 | — | 2–3 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 3–1 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 1–1 |
Lorient | 4–1 | 2–0 | 1–3 | 6–0 | 4–2 | 3–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | — | 0–0 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 3–1 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 0–1 |
Nancy | 1–0 | 2–2 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 2–2 | 4–1 | 2–2 | 0–3 | 1–1 | 0–2 | — | 0–2 | 0–0 | 3–0 | 0–1 | 1–2 | 0–2 | 2–2 | 3–1 | 3–0 |
Nîmes | 4–0 | 1–1 | 3–0 | 4–0 | 4–0 | 3–0 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 0–0 | — | 1–5 | 4–1 | 2–1 | 4–1 | 0–1 | 0–2 | 2–2 | 1–0 |
Niort | 4–1 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 0–2 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 2–2 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 1–4 | — | 2–3 | 0–2 | 2–1 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 1–2 |
Orléans | 2–0 | 0–0 | 2–3 | 5–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 1–2 | 3–1 | 1–4 | 3–1 | — | 1–1 | 2–1 | 0–2 | 3–3 | 1–1 | 3–4 |
Paris | 0–0 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–3 | 2–2 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 0–1 | 1–0 | — | 2–0 | 0–3 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 3–2 |
Quevilly-Rouen | 0–2 | 0–1 | 4–1 | 1–4 | 1–4 | 0–1 | 0–2 | 0–2 | 1–2 | 3–0 | 2–0 | 1–3 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 0–4 | — | 1–2 | 1–1 | 4–0 | 2–2 |
Reims | 5–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 3–0 | 0–1 | 4–0 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 3–1 | 0–1 | 3–0 | 2–2 | 3–1 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 2–1 | — | 3–0 | 1–0 | 5–1 |
Sochaux | 4–1 | 1–6 | 0–4 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 1–5 | 1–3 | 3–2 | 3–2 | 0–2 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 3–2 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 2–4 | — | 0–0 | 3–1 |
Tours | 1–2 | 1–3 | 0–2 | 3–2 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0–3 | 4–2 | 3–1 | 1–2 | 0–4 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 2–2 | 0–1 | 0–1 | — | 1–2 |
Valenciennes | 1–1 | 2–0 | 0–2 | 2–2 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 4–2 | 0–1 | 1–2 | 4–1 | 0–1 | 2–4 | 1–1 | 1–3 | 2–2 | 2–0 | — |
Promotion play-offs
A promotion play-off competition was held at the end of the season, involving the 3rd, 4th and 5th-placed teams in 2017–18 Ligue 2, and the 18th-placed team in 2017–18 Ligue 1.
The quarter-final was played on 15 May, the semi-final on 18 May and the final on 23 and 27 May 2018.[21]
Quarter-final | Semi-final | Final | |||||||||||
3 | Ajaccio (pen.) | 2 (5) | |||||||||||
4 | Le Havre | 2 | 4 | Le Havre | 2 (3) | ||||||||
5 | Brest | 0 | 3 | Ajaccio | |||||||||
18 | Toulouse | ||||||||||||
2 | |||||||||||||
3 |
Quarter-final
Semi-final
Ajaccio | 2–2 (a.e.t.) | Le Havre |
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http://www.lfp.fr/ligue2/article/ajaccio-rejoint-toulouse-en-barrages.htm | Mateta 36', 111' (pen.) | |
Penalties | ||
* Selemani | 5–3 | * Ferhat |
- Notes
Relegation play-offs
A relegation play-off was held at the end of the season between the 18th-placed Ligue 2 team and the 3rd-placed team of 2017–18 Championnat National. This was played over two legs on 22 and 27 May 2018.[21]
22 May 2018
20:45 |
Grenoble | 2–1 | Bourg-Péronnas |
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Sotoca 1' Elogo 69' Belvito 83' |
http://uk.scoresway.com/?sport=soccer&page=match&id=2785335 | Bègue 45+1' |
Stade des Alpes, Grenoble
Referee: Nicolas Rainville |
27 May 2018
18:00 |
Bourg-Péronnas | 0–0 | Grenoble |
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Sarr 90+5' | http://uk.scoresway.com/?sport=soccer&page=match&id=2785336 |
Grenoble are promoted to 2018–19 Ligue 2
Top scorers
- As of 11 May 2018 [24]
Rank | Player | Club | Goals |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Umut Bozok | Nîmes | 24 |
2 | Rachid Alioui | Nîmes | 17 |
Theoson Siebatcheu | Reims | ||
Jean-Philippe Mateta | Le Havre | ||
5 | Dona Ndoh | Niort | 15 |
6 | Ludovic Ajorque | Clermont | 14 |
Pablo Chavarría | Reims | ||
8 | Ghislain Gimbert | Ajaccio | 13 |
Riad Nouri | Ajaccio | ||
10 | Florian Martin | Sochaux | 12 |
Yoane Wissa | Ajaccio/Lorient | ||
Yannick Gomis | Orléans | ||
Malik Tchokounté | Paris |
Number of teams by regions
Teams | Region | Team(s) |
---|---|---|
3 | Centre-Val de Loire | Châteauroux, Orléans, and Tours |
2 | 23x15px Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | Clermont and Bourg-Péronnas |
23x15px Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | Auxerre and Sochaux | |
Brittany | Brest and Lorient | |
Corsica | Ajaccio and Gazélec Ajaccio | |
23x15px Grand Est | Nancy and Reims | |
23x15px Hauts-de-France | Lens and Valenciennes | |
Normandy | Le Havre and Quevilly-Rouen | |
1 | Île-de-France | Paris FC |
Nouvelle-Aquitaine | Niort | |
Occitanie | Nîmes |
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