1952–53 French Division 1

Division Nationale
Season1952–53

Stade de Reims won Division 1 season 1952/1953 of the French Association Football League with 48 points.

Participating teams

Final table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Stade de Reims (C) 34 22 4 8 86 36 +50 48
2 FC Sochaux-Montbéliard 34 18 8 8 72 58 +14 44
3 Bordeaux 34 19 5 10 79 56 +23 43
4 Lille OSC 34 15 10 9 61 43 +18 40 Winner of Coupe de France
5 Nîmes Olympique 34 17 6 11 62 47 +15 40
6 Olympique de Marseille 34 15 7 12 62 53 +9 37
7 RC Lens 34 13 8 13 50 48 +2 34
8 FC Nancy 34 16 2 16 48 58 −10 34
9 Stade français (football) 34 12 9 13 54 51 +3 33
10 FC Sète 34 13 7 14 42 49 −7 33
11 AS Saint-Etienne 34 11 8 15 44 59 −15 30
12 FC Metz 34 11 7 16 44 48 −4 29
13 OGC Nice 34 12 5 17 49 57 −8 29
14 Le Havre AC 34 11 7 16 47 63 −16 29
15 CO Roubaix-Tourcoing 34 9 10 15 42 49 −7 28
16 Stade Rennais UC (R) 34 10 8 16 37 56 −19 28 Relegated to Division 2
17 RC Paris (R) 34 11 6 17 40 64 −24 28
18 SO Montpellier (R) 34 8 9 17 43 67 −24 25
Source:
Rules for classification: Victory: 2 points, Draw: 1 point, Defeat: 0 points
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Promoted from Division 2, who will play in Division 1 season 1953/1954

Results

Home \ Away BOR LHA RCL LIL OM MET SOM FCN NIC NMS RCP REI REN CRT STE SÉT SOC SFF
Bordeaux 6–0 2–0 1–5 2–0 4–0 6–0 4–1 7–3 3–2 3–1 1–0 7–0 4–2 0–0 3–0 4–1 2–1
Le Havre 3–1 1–0 0–1 2–1 3–0 1–1 0–1 2–0 1–1 4–1 3–4 1–1 2–0 3–0 2–0 2–2 1–3
Lens 1–1 2–0 0–3 1–1 3–1 2–1 4–1 2–0 2–1 2–1 1–3 5–0 1–3 1–2 3–0 5–1 1–1
Lille 0–0 3–1 0–0 2–0 1–2 2–2 6–2 1–1 3–2 3–0 2–5 1–1 2–1 0–2 5–0 3–1 2–1
Marseille 3–0 3–1 1–1 3–0 3–0 5–1 4–3 3–1 4–1 3–0 2–1 2–2 4–2 1–0 3–3 1–6 1–0
Metz 0–2 6–1 3–0 0–3 1–3 1–1 2–0 2–0 2–0 0–2 0–0 2–1 1–1 5–0 0–1 1–2 2–0
Montpellier 4–1 2–1 2–1 1–1 2–1 1–1 0–1 2–1 2–5 0–1 2–6 2–2 1–1 2–0 1–1 2–3 0–3
Nancy 3–0 0–3 1–3 1–3 1–0 1–0 3–0 2–1 2–0 1–0 1–1 1–2 1–0 3–2 0–1 1–2 5–1
Nice 1–2 0–2 3–1 0–0 3–1 1–2 0–0 2–1 2–0 1–2 0–4 3–1 4–1 2–0 3–2 5–3 2–1
Nîmes 5–1 7–1 0–0 2–0 2–0 2–1 4–2 2–1 1–0 4–2 1–0 2–0 1–0 0–0 3–1 2–0 0–0
Racing Paris 3–3 1–1 1–1 1–0 1–1 0–2 2–1 1–2 1–3 1–2 1–3 2–0 0–2 2–1 2–1 2–1 2–2
Reims 2–3 5–0 5–0 1–1 3–1 2–1 3–2 0–2 3–1 2–0 5–1 5–1 1–0 2–0 2–0 3–0 1–2
Rennes 1–0 2–0 3–2 1–1 3–1 4–2 0–1 0–1 0–0 2–0 1–0 0–1 3–2 0–1 3–0 1–1 0–0
Roubaix-Tourcoing 3–1 0–0 0–1 1–2 0–0 1–0 1–0 2–2 2–2 2–4 0–1 1–1 3–2 2–0 2–0 2–2 0–0
Saint-Étienne 1–1 1–0 2–3 2–1 2–2 2–2 2–0 6–0 2–1 4–2 3–1 2–6 1–0 1–1 2–2 1–3 1–1
Sète 2–0 3–1 2–0 3–1 2–0 0–0 1–0 1–2 1–0 1–1 0–1 2–1 2–0 1–0 5–0 0–0 2–2
Sochaux 8–2 3–2 1–0 3–3 2–1 1–1 2–1 1–0 3–2 1–1 3–3 1–0 2–0 3–1 3–0 4–2 1–3
Stade Français 0–2 2–2 1–1 2–0 2–3 2–1 2–4 4–1 0–1 4–2 5–0 1–5 2–0 1–3 2–1 2–0 1–2
Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top goalscorers

Rank Player Club Goals
1 Gunnar Andersson Marseille 35
2 Bram Appel Reims 30
3 Abdesselem Ben Mohamed Bordeaux 22
4 Jean Saunier Le Havre 19
5 Édouard Kargu Bordeaux 18
6 Georges Dupraz Montpellier 17
René Gardien Sochaux
Alberto Muro Sochaux
9 Rachid Belaïd Nancy 16
10 Egon Jonsson Stade Français 14
Henri Fontaine Sète

References