1951–52 French Division 1 Explained

Season:	1951–52
Nextseason:	1952–53

OGC Nice won Division 1 season 1951/1952 of the French Association Football League with 46 points.

Participating teams

• Bordeaux
• Le Havre AC
• RC Lens
• Lille OSC
• Olympique Lyonnais
• Olympique de Marseille
• FC Metz
• FC Nancy
• OGC Nice
• Nîmes Olympique
• RC Paris
• Stade de Reims
• Stade Rennais UC
• CO Roubaix-Tourcoing
• AS Saint-Etienne
• FC Sète
• FC Sochaux-Montbéliard
• RC Strasbourg

Final table

Promoted from Division 2, who will play in Division 1 season 1952/1953

• Stade français (football): Champion of Division 2
• SO Montpellier: Runner-up

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Gunnar Andersson	Marseille	31
2	Lambertus De Harder	Bordeaux	25
	Marcel Rouvière	Nîmes
4	Jean Saunier	Le Havre	20
	André Strappe	Lille
6	Maurice Singier	Sète	19
7	Wilhelm Van Lent	Lens	18
8	Léon Deladerrière	Nancy	17
9	Jean-Jacques Kretschmar	Roubaix-Tourcoing	16
	André Lukac	Bordeaux

OGC Nice Winning Squad 1951-'52

Goal

• Marcel Domingo
• Marcel Lupi

Defence

• Ahmed Firoud
• César Hector Gonzales
• Alphonse Martinez
• Serge Pedini
• Guy Poitevin

Midfield

• Jean Belver
• Abdelaziz Ben Tifour
• Désiré Carré
• Léon Rossi

Attack

• Pär Bengtsson
• Antoine Bonifaci
• Luis Carniglia
• Georges Cesari
• Jean Courteaux
• Victor Nuremberg

Management

• Numa Andoire (Coach)

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References

• Division 1 season 1951-1952 at pari-et-gagne.com

Notes and References

1. Web site: OGC Nice official site . 2008-03-16 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100205123618/http://ogcnice.com/histoire/champions_1952.php . 2010-02-05 . dead .