Season | 2013–14 |
---|---|
Champions | Metz |
Promoted | Metz Lens Caen |
Relegated | CA Bastia Istres |
Matches played | 380 |
Goals scored | 939 (2.47 per match) |
Top goalscorer | Andy Delort and Mathieu Duhamel (24 goals)[1] |
Biggest home win | Troyes 6–1 CA Bastia (4 October 2013)[2] |
Biggest away win | Châteauroux 0–4 Tours (16 August 2013)[3] CA Bastia 1–5 Caen (13 December 2013)[4] |
Highest scoring | Le Havre 6–2 Lens (14 September 2013)[5] |
Longest winning run | 7 matches: Metz[6] |
Longest unbeaten run | 12 matches: Caen[6] |
Longest winless run | 13 matches: CA Bastia[6] |
Highest attendance | 40,740 Lens 0–1 Brest (9 May 2014)[7] |
Lowest attendance | 1,021 CA Bastia 2–2 Le Havre (24 January 2014)[8] |
Average attendance | 7,915[7] |
← 2012–13 2014–15 → |
The 2013–14 Ligue 2 was the 75th season of second-tier football in France. The season began on 2 August 2013 and ended on 16 May 2014, with the winter break in effect between 20 December and 10 January.[9]
Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players and managers may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
1Subject to change during the season.
Team | Outgoing head coach | Manner of departure |
Date of vacancy |
Position in table |
Incoming head coach | Date of appointment |
Position in table |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Brest | Corentin Martins | End of tenure as caretaker | 31 May 2013 | Off-season | Alex Dupont | 31 May 2013[11] | Off-season |
Tours | Bernard Blaquart | Resigned | 23 June 2013[12] | Off-season | Olivier Pantaloni | 25 June 2013 | Off-season |
Lens | Éric Sikora | Sacked | 25 June 2013 | Off-season | Antoine Kombouaré | 25 June 2013[13] | Off-season |
Nancy | Patrick Gabriel | Sacked | 12 October 2013 | 15th | Pablo Correa | 12 October 2013[14] | 15th |
Châteauroux | Didier Tholot | Sacked | 28 October 2013[15] | 17th | Jean-Louis Garcia | 28 October 2013[16] | 17th |
Nîmes | Victor Zvunka | Sacked | 19 December 2013[17] | 19th | René Marsiglia | 26 December 2013[17] | 19th |
Laval | Philippe Hinschberger | Sacked | 24 February 2014 | 19th | Denis Zanko | 24 February 2014[18] | 19th |
Auxerre | Bernard Casoni | Sacked | 17 March 2014[19] | 15th | Jean-Luc Vannuchi | 17 March 2014[20] | 15th |
Istres | José Pasqualetti | Sacked | 24 March 2014 | 17th | Frédéric Arpinon | 24 March 2014[21] | 17th |
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion or Relegation |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Metz (C, P) | 38 | 22 | 10 | 6 | 55 | 28 | +27 | 76 | Promotion to Ligue 1 |
2 | Lens (P) | 38 | 17 | 14 | 7 | 58 | 40 | +18 | 65 | Promoted officially but with some conditions.[22] |
3 | Caen (P) | 38 | 18 | 10 | 10 | 65 | 44 | +21 | 64 | Promotion to Ligue 1 |
4 | Nancy | 38 | 16 | 13 | 9 | 47 | 37 | +10 | 61 | |
5 | Niort | 38 | 15 | 13 | 10 | 51 | 47 | +4 | 58 | |
6 | Dijon | 38 | 14 | 15 | 9 | 53 | 42 | +11 | 57 | |
7 | Brest | 38 | 15 | 11 | 12 | 38 | 32 | +6 | 56 | |
8 | Tours | 38 | 15 | 10 | 13 | 63 | 56 | +7 | 55 | |
9 | Angers | 38 | 14 | 13 | 11 | 46 | 45 | +1 | 55 | |
10 | Troyes | 38 | 15 | 7 | 16 | 56 | 44 | +12 | 52 | |
11 | Créteil | 38 | 12 | 14 | 12 | 57 | 58 | −1 | 50 | |
12 | Le Havre | 38 | 11 | 15 | 12 | 43 | 43 | 0 | 48 | |
13 | Arles-Avignon | 38 | 10 | 16 | 12 | 36 | 38 | −2 | 46 | |
14 | Clermont | 38 | 10 | 15 | 13 | 31 | 38 | −7 | 45 | |
15 | Nîmes | 38 | 10 | 14 | 14 | 49 | 54 | −5 | 44 | |
16 | Auxerre | 38 | 10 | 13 | 15 | 35 | 45 | −10 | 43 | |
17 | Laval | 38 | 10 | 12 | 16 | 44 | 52 | −8 | 42 | |
18 | Châteauroux | 38 | 10 | 10 | 18 | 43 | 59 | −16 | 40 | Spared due to the DNCG’s rulings. |
19 | Istres (R) | 38 | 9 | 9 | 20 | 48 | 74 | −26 | 36 | Relegated, but later readmitted and later relegated. |
20 | CA Bastia (R) | 38 | 4 | 12 | 22 | 21 | 63 | −42 | 24 | Relegation to Championnat National |
Rank | Player | Club | Goals |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Andy Delort | Tours | 24 |
Mathieu Duhamel | Caen | ||
3 | Diafra Sakho | Metz | 20 |
4 | Christian Bekamenga | Laval | 18 |
Emiliano Sala | Niort | ||
6 | Ghislain Gimbert | Troyes | 14 |
Yeni Ngbakoto | Metz | ||
8 | Jeff Louis | Nancy | 12 |
Yoann Touzghar | Lens |
Source: Official Goalscorers' Standings