2007–08 Luxembourg National Division Explained

Competition:Luxembourg National Division
Season:2007–08
Winners:F91 Dudelange (7th titles)
Continentalcup1:Champions League
Continentalcup1 Qualifiers:F91 Dudelange
Continentalcup2:UEFA Cup
Continentalcup2 Qualifiers:Racing FC (via cup)
Grevenmacher
Continentalcup3:Intertoto Cup
Continentalcup3 Qualifiers:Etzella Ettelbruck
Relegated:Pétange
Victoria Rosport
Wiltz 71
League Topscorer:Emmanuel Coquelet (20 goals)
Prevseason:2006–07
Nextseason:2008–09

The 2007–08 Luxembourg National Division was the 94th season of top level association football in Luxembourg. The competition ran from August 2007 to 31 May 2008. F91 Dudelange won their fourth consecutive title.

Teams

Club Town 2006–07 Season
FC Avenir BeggenBeggenDivision of Honour, 2nd
FC Differdange 03Differdange3rd
F91 DudelangeDudelange1st
FC Etzella EttelbruckEttelbruck2nd
CS GrevenmacherGrevenmacher6th
Jeunesse EschEsch-sur-Alzette9th
UN Käerjéng 97Bascharage8th
CS PétangePétange10th
FC Progrès NiedercornNiederkorn7th
Racing FC Union LuxembourgLuxembourg City4th
FC RM Hamm BenficaLuxembourg CityDivision of Honour, 1st
FC Swift HesperangeHesperange5th
FC Victoria RosportRosport12th
FC Wiltz 71Wiltz11th

Format

As in 2006–07, the 2007–08 season involved a round-robin among the fourteen teams. Thus, each team played 26 games over the course of the calendar.

The bottom two teams were relegated automatically; these teams were CS Pétange and FC Victoria Rosport. The third-bottom (twelfth-placed) team was required to take part in a play-off with the third-placed team from the Division of Honour for the place in the National Division the following season. In the event, FC Wiltz 71 finished third-bottom, and lost the play-off to Sporting Steinfort.

European qualification

Luxembourg was assigned one spot in the first qualifying round of the UEFA Champions League, for the league champions, F91 Dudelange. It has also been assigned two spots in the first qualifying round of the UEFA Cup, for the runners-up, Racing FC Union Luxembourg, and the Luxembourg Cup winners. If, as happened two seasons previously, the league champions and runners-up had both reach the cup final, the second UEFA Cup spot would have gone to the team placed third in the league. However, in the event, neither of the top two clubs reached the semi-finals, and the cup-winners spot went to CS Grevenmacher. Jeunesse Esch have not applied to play in the 2008 UEFA Intertoto Cup, so Etzella Ettelbruck have qualified in Jeunesse's place.

Relegation play-off

As a result of their victory, Sporting Steinfort were promoted to the National Division for the 2008–09 season, and FC Wiltz 71 relegated to the Division of Honour.

Top goalscorers

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RankPlayerClubGoals
1 Emmanuel CoqueletF91 Dudelange20
2 Aoued AouaïchiaRM Hamm Benfica18
Daniel da MotaEtzella Ettelbruck
4 Daniel HussCS Grevenmacher16
5 Didier ChaillouProgrès Niedercorn15
6 Aderito MedinaAvenir Beggen14
7 Sergio PupovacRacing FC12
Tomas GruszczynskiF91 Dudelange
9 Stephane MartineRacing FC11
10 Loïc CantonnetJeunesse Esch10
Soriba CamaraRacing FC
Pierre PiskorFC Differdange 03