Ligue 2 is the second division of French football. It is one of two divisions making up the LFP, the other being Ligue 1, which is France's top division.

The 20 clubs that make up Ligue 2 play each other twice during the season, creating a 38-match schedule. At the end of the season, the top three clubs are promoted to Ligue 1 for the following season, while the bottom three clubs of Ligue 1 are relegated to Ligue 2. The bottom three teams of Ligue 2 are relegated to Championnat National.

Ligue 2 teams for 2009–10 season

• Athletic Club Ajaccio
• Angers Sporting Club de l'Ouest
• Athletic Club Arles-Avignon
• Sporting Club de Bastia
• Stade Brestois 29
• Stade Malherbe de Caen
• La Berrichonne de Châteauroux
• Clermont Foot
• Dijon Football Côte d'Or
• En Avant de Guingamp
• Football Club Istres Ouest Provence
• Stade Lavallois Mayenne Football Club
• Le Havre Athletic Club Football Association
• Football Club de Metz
• Football Club de Nantes
• Nîmes Olympique
• Club Sportif Sedan Ardennes
• Racing Club de Strasbourg
• Tours Football Club
• Vannes Olympique Club

Previous winners

Year	Winner	Runner Up
1934-35	Metz	Valenciennes
1935-36	Rouen	RC Roubaix
1936-37	Lens	Valenciennes
1937-38	Le Havre	Saint-Etienne
1938-39	Red Star Paris	Stade Rennes
1939-45	World War II
1946-47	Sochaux	Ales
1947-48	Nice	Colmar
1948-49*	Lens	Bordeaux
1949-50	Nimes	Le Havre
1950-51	Lyon	Metz
1951-52	Stade Francais Paris	Montpellier
1952-53	Toulouse	Monaco
1953-54	Lyon	Troyes
1954-55	Sedan-Torcy	Red Star Paris
1955-56	Rennes	Angers
1956-57	Ales	Beziers
1957-58	Nancy	Rennes
1958-59	Le Havre	Stade Francais Paris
1959-60	Grenoble	Nancy
1960-61	Montpellier	Metz
1961-62	Grenoble	Valenciennes
1962-63	Saint-Etienne	Nantes
1963-64	Lille	Sochaux
1964-65	Nice	Red Star Paris
1965-66	Stade Reims	Marseille
1966-67	AC Ajaccio	Metz
1967-68	Bastia	Nimes
1968-69	Angers	Angouleme
1969-70	Nice	Nancy
1970-93	Two Groups
1993-94	Nice	Rennes
1994-95	Marseille	Guingamp
1995-96	Caen	Marseille
1996-97	Chateauroux	Toulouse
1997-98	Nancy	Lorient
1998-99	Saint-Etienne	Sedan
1999-00	Lille	Guingamp
2000-01	Sochaux	Lorient
2001-02	AC Ajaccio	Strasbourg
2002-03	Toulouse	Le Mans
2003-04	Saint-Etienne	Caen
2004-05	Nancy	Le Mans
2005-06	Valenciennes	Sedan
2006-07	Metz	Caen
2007-08	Le Havre	Nantes
2008-09	Lens	Montpellier

* In 1948-49 1. FC Saarbrücken won the division they attended under the name FC Sarrebruck, but as a German team their points were ignored in the final standings.

Top goalscorers

Year	Goals	Top scorer(s)	Club(s)
1934	54 goals	Jean Nicolas	FC Rouen
1935	30 goals	Jean Nicolas	FC Rouen
1936	45 goals	Jean Nicolas	FC Rouen
1937	30 goals	Viktor Spechtl	RC Lens
1938	29 goals	Hugo Lammana	CA Paris
1939	39 goals	Harold Newell Planques	US Boulogne Toulouse FC
World War II
1946	27 goals	Campiglia	SCO Angers
1947	45 goals	Jozef "Pépé" Humpal	FC Sochaux
1948	28 goals	Henri Arnaudeau	Girondins de Bordeaux
1949	41 goals	Camille Libar	Girondins de Bordeaux
1950	27 goals	Edmund Haan	Nîmes Olympique
1951	23 goals	Thadée Cisowski	FC Metz
1952	34 goals	Egon Jonsson	Stade Français football
1953	27 goals	Bror Mellberg	Toulouse FC
1954	36 goals	Jean Courteaux	RC Paris
1955	40 goals	Petrus Van Rhijn	Valenciennes Football Club
1956	32 goals	Petrus Van Rhijn	Valenciennes Football Club
1957	27 goals	Fernand Devlaeminck	Lille OSC
1958	29 goals	Egon Jonsson	FC Nancy
1959	31 goals	Petrus Van Rhijn	Stade Français football
1960	29 goals	Corbel	FC Rouen
1961	28 goals	Casimir Kozakiewicz	RC Strasbourg
1962	21 goals	Serge Masnaghetti	Valenciennes Football Club
1963	24 goals	Ernesto Gianella	AS Béziers
1964	21 goals	Abderrahmane Soukhane	Le Havre AC
1965	22 goals	Anton Groschulski	Red Star Saint-Ouen
1966	30 goals	Pierre Ferrazzi	Grenoble Foot 38
1967	23 goals	Etienne Sansonetti	SC Bastia
1968	26 goals	Jacques Bonnet	Avignon Football 84
1969	55 goals	Gérard Grizetti	AS Angoulême
1970	21 goals	Robert Blanc	FC Nancy
1971	20 goals 20 goals 20 goals	Nord : Yves Triantafyllos Centre : Robert Blanc Sud : Emmanuel Koum	US Boulogne Limoges Foot 87 AS Monaco
1972	20 goals 28 goals 40 goals	Gr. A : Pierre Pleimelding Gr. B : Yegba Maya Joseph Gr. C : Marc Molitor	Troyes AC Valenciennes Football Club RC Strasbourg
1973	21 goals 31 goals	Gr. A : Eugeniusz Faber Gr. B : Gérard Tonnel	RC Lens Troyes AC
1974	26 goals 24 goals	Gr. A : Erwin Wilczek Gr. B : Nestor Combin	Valenciennes Football Club Red Star Saint-Ouen
1975	25 goals 28 goals	Gr. A : Georges Tripp Gr. B : Jean Martinez	Stade Laval AS Nancy
1976	22 goals 25 goals	Gr. A : Bozidar Antic Gr. B : Marc Berdoll	SM Caen SCO Angers
1977	30 goals 24 goals	Gr. A : Delio Onnis Gr. B : Albert Gemmrich	AS Monaco RC Strasbourg
1978	19 goals 23 goals	Gr. A : Giudicelli Gr. B : Jean-Claude Garnier Gr. B : Pierre-Antoine Dossevi	Olympique Alès USL Dunkerque Tours FC
1979	24 goals 26 goals	Gr. A : Antoine Trivino Gr. B : Patrice Martet	FC Gueugnon Stade Brestois
1980	16 goals 19 goals	Gr. A : Alain Polaniok Gr. A : Bernard Ferrigno Gr. B : Jacky Vergnes Gr. B : Robert Pintenat	Stade de Reims Tours FC Montpellier HSC Toulouse FC
1981	32 goals 22 goals	Gr. A : Robert Pintenat Gr. B : Marcel Campagnac	Toulouse FC Sporting Club Abbeville
1982	18 goals 25 goals	Gr. A : Marc Pascal Gr. B : Zarko Olaveric Gr. B : Isiaka Ouattara	Olympique de Marseille Le Havre AC FC Mulhouse
1983	28 goals 18 goals	Gr. A : Wlodzimierz Lubanski Gr. B : Christian Dalger	Valenciennes Football Club Sporting Toulon Var
1984	23 goals 23 goals	Gr. A : Mario Relmy Gr. B : Omar Da Fonseca	Limoges Foot 87 Tours FC
1985	27 goals 28 goals	Gr. A : John Eriksen Gr. B : Jorge Dominguez	FC Mulhouse OGC Nice
1986	22 goals 29 goals	Gr. A : Jean-Marc Valadier Gr. B : Eugene N'Goy Kabongo	Montpellier HSC RC Paris
1987	22 goals 21 goals	Gr. A : Zvonko Kurbos Gr. B : Gaspard N'Gouete	FC Mulhouse SC Bastia
1988	18 goals   26 goals	Gr. A : Jean-Pierre Orts Gr. A : Stéphane Paille Gr. B : Patrice Martet	Olympique Lyonnais FC Sochaux FC Rouen
1989	22 goals 27 goals	Gr. A : Roberto Cabanas Gr. B : Robby Langers	Stade Brestois US Orléans
1990	26 goals 21 goals	Gr. A : Didier Monczuk Gr. B : Jean-Pierre Orts	RC Strasbourg FC Rouen
1991	23 goals 19 goals	Gr. A : Didier Monczuk Gr. B : Christophe Lagrange	RC Strasbourg SCO Angers
1992	22 goals 21 goals	Gr. A : Jean-Pierre Orts Gr. B : Didier Monczuk	FC Rouen RC Strasbourg
1993	21 goals 18 goals	Gr. A : Franck Priou Gr. B : Jean-Pierre Orts	AS Cannes FC Rouen
1994	27 goals	Yannick Le Saux	Stade Briochin
1995	31 goals	Tony Cascarino	Olympique Marseille
1996	30 goals	Tony Cascarino	Olympique Marseille
1997	23 goals	Samuel Michel	FC Sochaux
1998	20 goals	Reginald Ray	Le Mans Union Club 72
1999	20 goals	Hamed Diallo	Stade Laval
2000	17 goals	Amara Traoré	FC Gueugnon
2001	21 goals	Francileudo Santos	FC Sochaux
2002	18 goals	Hamed Diallo	Amiens SC
2003	20 goals	Cédric Fauré	Toulouse FC
2004	17 goals	David Suarez	Amiens SC
2005	24 goals	Bakary Koné	FC Lorient
2006	16 goals	Jean-Michel Lesage	Le Havre AC
	Steve Savidan	Valenciennes Football Club
2007	18 goals	Jean-Michel Lesage	Le Havre AC
	Kandia Traore	Le Havre AC
2008	28 goals	Guillaume Hoarau	Le Havre AC
2009	18 goals	Grégory Thil	US Boulogne

See also

• Sports league attendances

References

External links

• Official site:
  • French
  • English
• Ligue 2 fixtures, live results, standings and detailed statistics