2018–19 Championnat National 2 Explained

Competition:Championnat National 2
Season:2018–19
Dates:11 August 2018 – 25 May 2019
Winners:Créteil
Promoted:Créteil
Toulon
Le Puy
Bastia-Borgo
Relegated:11 teams
(see outcomes section)
League Topscorer:27 goals
Pape Ibnou Ba, Athlético Marseille
Biggest Home Win:Lyon (res) 6–0 Pontarlier
Group A, Round 4, 1 September 2018
Lyon (res) 6–0 Fréjus Saint-Raphaël
Group A, Round 6, 15 September 2018
Biggest Away Win:Arras 0–6 Créteil
Group D, Round 19, 16 February 2019
Highest Scoring:9 goals Saint-Priest 2–7 Jura Sud
Group A, Round 15, 22 December 2018
Grasse 3–6 Olympic Marseille (res)
Group A, Round 26, 20 April 2019
Fleury 5–4 Arras
Group D, Round 30, 25 May 2019
Updated:09:10, 4 June 2019 (UTC)
Prevseason:2017–18
Nextseason:2019–20

The 2018–19 Championnat National 2 is the 21st season of the fourth tier in the French football league system in its current format. The competition is contested by 64 clubs split geographically across 4 groups of 16 teams each. The teams included amateur clubs (although a few are semi-professional) and the reserve teams of professional clubs.

Teams

On 13 July, the FFF ratified the constitution of the competition, and published the groups as follows:[1]

League tables

Group D

Season Outcomes

Champions and promotions

The champion of Championnat National 2 is decided by measuring performance of each group winner in matches against the top 6 clubs in their group.

[2]

width=20 width=165 Teamwidth=20 width=20 width=20 width=20 width=20
1Créteil101521513
2Nantes (res)101201010
3Le Puy1012099
4Toulon1012088

Créteil are champions of 2018–19 Championnat National 2 and are promoted to 2019–20 Championnat National.

Le Puy, Toulon and Bastia-Borgo are promoted to 2019–20 Championnat National.

Relegation

Monaco (res), Pontarlier, Nice (res), Nîmes (res), Bordeaux (res), Mont-de-Marsan, Furiana-Agliani, Boulogne-Billancourt, Le Havre (res), Haguenau, Feignies Aulnoye and Arras finished in the relegation places and will be relegated to 2019–20 Championnat National 3 subject to any reprieves in the next section.

Reprieves

Any reprieves required due to administrative relegations, mergers or clubs folding are decided by taking, in order, the 14th placed clubs ranked by order of their record against clubs finishing 9th to 13th position in their group, followed by the 15th placed clubs ranked by order of their record against clubs finishing in 10th to 14th position in their group.[3]

On 24 May 2019, Paris Saint-Germain (res) announced they would not be registering for Championnat National 2 next season, meaning an automatic reprieve for the best 14th placed team, Monaco (res).[4]

Also on 24 May 2019, the body responsible for governance of clubs in French football, the DNCG, administratively relegated Mantes due to financial arrears.[5] The club successfully appealed this decision on 3 July 2019.[6]

On 4 June 2019, the DNCG administratively relegated Jura Sud, subject to appeal.[7] The club successfully appealed this decision, as announced on 8 July 2019.[8]

On 12 June 2019, the DNCG administratively relegated Martigues, subject to appeal.[9] The club successfully appealed this decision on 3 July 2019.

On 25 June 2019, the DNCG administratively relegated Athlético Marseille, subject to appeal, and also gave Tours an administrative relegation on top of their relegation from Championnat National, subject to appeal.[10] This was confirmed at appeal on 11 July 2019, confirming the reprieve of Nîmes (res).[11]

On 11 July 2019, the DNCG appeal committee confirmed the earlier decision of the DNCG to give an administrative relegation to Tours FC in addition to their sporting relegation from 2018–19 Championnat National, meaning they will play in Championnat National 3 for the 2019–20 season, which causes the reprieve of Haguenau.

Best 14th placed team

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1Monaco (res)1015-1Reprieved
2Nîmes (res)1014-1Reprieved
3Haguenau10121Reprieved
4Furiana-Agliani109-3

Best 15th placed team

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1Feignies Aulnoye10121
2Pontarlier1011-11
3Boulogne-Billancourt109-4
4Bordeaux (res)109-4

Top scorers

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RankPlayerClubGoals
1 Pape Ibnou BâAthlético Marseille27
2 Benjamin GenghiniSchiltigheim21
Sébastien PersicoSaint-Malo
4 Gwenn FoulonBastia-Borgo18
5 Tony Do Pilar PatraoLe Puy17
Steve PapinChartres
7 Achille AnaniMarseille Endoume16
Cedric OdzoumoBastia-Borgo
Jérémy BekhechiSedan
10 Jordan PopineauBlois14

Notes and References

  1. Web site: National 2 : Composition des Groupes 2018/2019. fr. FFF.fr. 13 July 2018. 13 July 2018.
  2. Web site: Champion de N2. foot-national.com. fr. 25 May 2019. 25 May 2019.
  3. Web site: N2 : Les promus et relégués de la saison 2018/2019. foot-national.com. fr. 25 May 2019. 26 May 2019. 25 May 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190525202951/http://www.foot-national.com/foot-n2-les-promus-et-relegues-de-la-saison-20182019-118393.html. dead.
  4. Web site: La bombe du PSG qui abandonne la N2, le meilleur 14ème sauvé. foot-national.com. fr. 24 May 2019.
  5. Web site: Yvelines, Mantes-la-Jolie : Le FC Mantois relégué en N3 par la DNCG. actu.fr. fr. 24 May 2019. 5 June 2019.
  6. Web site: DNCG : Les décisions de la commission d'appel connues (off.). foot-national.com. fr. 3 July 2019.
  7. Web site: DNCG : Un club rétrogradé en N3, les décisions de la semaine. foot-national.com. fr. 4 June 2019. 5 June 2019.
  8. Web site: DNCG : Les décisions de la commission d'appel sont tombées (off). foot-national.com. fr. 8 July 2019.
  9. Web site: DNCG : Les décisions de la semaine, un club de N2 rétrogradé, un interdit de monter. foot-national.com. fr. 12 June 2019.
  10. Web site: Athletico Marseille et Tours rétrogradés en National 3. foot-national.com. fr. 25 June 2019.
  11. Web site: DNCG. Tours et l’Athlético Marseille rétrogradés en National 3, Saint-Nazaire en Régional 1. footamateur.fr. fr. 11 July 2019.
  12. Web site: National2. Soccerway. 3 June 2020.