1958–59 French Division 1 Explained

Season:	1958–59
Nextseason:	1959–60

OGC Nice won Division 1 season 1958/1959 of the French Association Football League with 56 points.

Participating teams

• Olympique Alès
• Angers SCO
• RC Lens
• Lille OSC
• Limoges FC
• Olympique Lyonnais
• Olympique de Marseille
• AS Monaco
• FC Nancy
• OGC Nice
• Nîmes Olympique
• RC Paris
• Stade de Reims
• Stade Rennais UC
• AS Saint-Etienne
• UA Sedan-Torcy
• FC Sochaux-Montbéliard
• RC Strasbourg
• Toulouse FC
• US Valenciennes-Anzin

Final table

Promoted from Division 2, who will play in Division 1 season 1959/1960

• Le Havre AC: Champion of Division 2, (Winner of Coupe de France)
• Stade Français FC: runner-up of Division 2
• SC Toulon: Third place
• Bordeaux: Fourth place

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Thadée Cisowski	Racing Paris	30
2	Hassan Akesbi	Nîmes	24
	Just Fontaine	Reims
4	Mahi Khennane	Rennes	23
5	Roger Piantoni	Reims	20
6	Henri Skiba	Nîmes	19
	N'Ganga Samuel Edimo	Sochaux
	Antoine Groschulski	Strasbourg
9	Stéphane Bruey	Angers	18
	Jacques Foix	Nice
	Eugène Njo-Léa	Saint-Étienne
	Ginès Liron	Valenciennes

OGC Nice Winning Squad 1958-'59

Goal

• Georges Lamia

Defence

• André Chorda
• Alain Cornu
• César Hector Gonzales
• Alphonse Martinez
• Guy Poitevin

Midfield

• Ferenc Kocsur
• François Milazzo
• Vincent Scanella

Attack

• Jean-Pierre Alba
• Oumar Barrou
• Jacques Faivre
• Jacques Foix
• Alberto Muro
• Victor Nurenberg

Unknown

• René Vergé

Management

• Jean Luciano (Coach)

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References

• Division 1 season 1958-1959 at pari-et-gagne.com

Notes and References

1. Web site: OGC Nice official site . 2008-03-16 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100205123650/http://ogcnice.com/histoire/champions_1959.php . 2010-02-05 . dead .