2007–08 Ligue 2

69th season of the second-tier football league in France

Football league season

Ligue 2Season| 2007–08

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Champions| Le Havre
Promoted| Nantes
Grenoble
Relegated| Niort
Libourne-Saint-Seurin
Gueugnon
Top goalscorer|  Guillaume Hoarau (28)

← 2006–07

2008–09 →

The Ligue 2 season 2007–08 was the sixty-sixth[1] since its establishment, and started in August 2007. The fixtures were announced in June 2007.

FC Metz, the champions of Ligue 2, SM Caen, and RC Strasbourg were promoted to France's top division Ligue 1. Whereas, Troyes AC, CS Sedan, and FC Nantes were relegated to Ligue 2. The first matches of the season were played on 27 July 2007, and the season ended on 16 May 2008. The new Ligue 2 champions were crowned on 2 May 2008 when Le Havre AC drew with Montpellier HSC following FC Nantes's loss to Amiens SC that same day. As champions, Le Havre will be promoted to France's highest football division Ligue 1 for the upcoming 2008-09 season. For finishing in 2nd place and 3rd, both FC Nantes and Grenoble Foot 38 achieved promotion as well.

The relegation places were filled by FC Gueugnon, who were relegated after losing to AC Ajaccio on 18 April 2008. FC Libourne-Saint-Seurin, who were relegated after to CS Sedan on 2 May 2008 and Chamois Niortais FC, who were relegated on the final day after losing to US Boulogne who were occupying the last relegation place coming into the final day.

## 20 participating teams

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* AC Ajaccio
* Amiens SC
* Angers SCO
* US Boulogne
* SC Bastia
* Stade Brestois
* LB Châteauroux
* Clermont Foot
* Dijon FCO
* Grenoble Foot 38
* FC Gueugnon
* En Avant Guingamp
* Le Havre AC
* FC Libourne-Saint-Seurin
* Montpellier HSC
* FC Nantes Atlantique
* Chamois Niortais FC
* Stade de Reims
* CS Sedan Ardennes
* Troyes AC

## League table

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Pos | Team  | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion or Relegation

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1  | Le Havre (C, P) | 38  | 22  | 12  | 4  | 66  | 30  | +36  | 78  | Promotion to Ligue 1
2  | Nantes (P) | 38  | 19  | 13  | 6  | 58  | 34  | +24  | 70
3  | Grenoble (P) | 38  | 17  | 12  | 9  | 44  | 30  | +14  | 63
4  | Sedan | 38  | 15  | 13  | 10  | 46  | 40  | +6  | 58  |
5  | Clermont | 38  | 14  | 15  | 9  | 50  | 41  | +9  | 57
6  | Troyes | 38  | 15  | 12  | 11  | 46  | 44  | +2  | 57
7  | Brest | 38  | 15  | 12  | 11  | 38  | 38  | 0  | 57
8  | Montpellier | 38  | 14  | 12  | 12  | 43  | 32  | +11  | 54
9  | Ajaccio | 38  | 14  | 12  | 12  | 37  | 41  | −4  | 54
10  | Angers | 38  | 13  | 14  | 11  | 39  | 35  | +4  | 53
11  | SC Bastia | 38  | 14  | 9  | 15  | 45  | 46  | −1  | 49[a]
12  | Guingamp | 38  | 11  | 15  | 12  | 41  | 37  | +4  | 48
13  | Stade Reims | 38  | 12  | 10  | 16  | 44  | 52  | −8  | 46
14  | Amiens | 38  | 11  | 12  | 15  | 49  | 51  | −2  | 45
15  | Châteauroux | 38  | 11  | 12  | 15  | 34  | 42  | −8  | 45
16  | Boulogne | 38  | 12  | 7  | 19  | 37  | 54  | −17  | 43
17  | Dijon | 38  | 9  | 15  | 14  | 32  | 51  | −19  | 42
18  | Niort (R) | 38  | 11  | 8  | 19  | 38  | 48  | −10  | 41  | Relegation to Championnat National
19  | Libourne-Saint-Seurin (R) | 38  | 7  | 11  | 20  | 41  | 62  | −21  | 32
20  | Gueugnon (R) | 38  | 5  | 12  | 21  | 39  | 59  | −20  | 27

Source: Ligue 2
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. ^ Bastia have been deducted two points by the Discipline Commission following an incident away to Libourne-Saint-Seurin on September 14, 2007.

## Results

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Home \ Away  | AJA | AMI | ANG | BAS | BOU | BRS | CHA | CLR | DIJ | GRE | GUE | GUI | LHA | LIB | MHS | NAN | NRT | REI | SED | TRO

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Ajaccio |  | 1–0  | 1–1  | 1–3  | 2–2  | 1–1  | 0–1  | 3–1  | 1–1  | 2–1  | 2–0  | 1–1  | 0–3  | 2–3  | 2–1  | 2–1  | 2–1  | 0–0  | 2–1  | 1–0
Amiens | 4–0  |  | 2–0  | 1–1  | 2–1  | 1–1  | 1–2  | 0–0  | 2–2  | 1–2  | 4–4  | 3–1  | 1–3  | 1–0  | 1–1  | 2–1  | 0–2  | 1–0  | 2–1  | 0–0
Angers | 1–0  | 2–0  |  | 1–1  | 2–1  | 0–0  | 3–0  | 2–1  | 0–0  | 0–2  | 2–0  | 2–1  | 1–2  | 1–0  | 1–1  | 0–0  | 1–1  | 1–0  | 1–1  | 0–1
Bastia | 0–1  | 1–0  | 0–1  |  | 4–0  | 4–0  | 2–3  | 0–0  | 0–0  | 0–0  | 1–0  | 0–1  | 0–2  | 2–1  | 1–1  | 0–1  | 2–2  | 1–2  | 3–1  | 1–0
Boulogne | 0–0  | 2–1  | 1–0  | 2–0  |  | 2–0  | 1–3  | 1–2  | 0–1  | 0–1  | 0–0  | 0–2  | 0–3  | 1–0  | 2–0  | 4–0  | 1–0  | 1–0  | 0–1  | 1–2
Brest | 0–1  | 1–0  | 1–0  | 3–1  | 3–0  |  | 2–1  | 1–1  | 0–0  | 1–0  | 2–1  | 1–1  | 0–2  | 1–0  | 1–0  | 1–2  | 4–2  | 1–0  | 1–1  | 0–0
Châteauroux | 0–0  | 1–1  | 2–2  | 1–1  | 1–0  | 1–2  |  | 1–0  | 2–0  | 1–0  | 1–1  | 0–0  | 0–0  | 2–0  | 1–0  | 1–2  | 1–0  | 0–1  | 1–1  | 1–3
Clermont | 2–0  | 4–2  | 2–0  | 2–3  | 0–0  | 1–0  | 0–0  |  | 3–0  | 0–0  | 1–0  | 3–3  | 1–0  | 1–1  | 3–2  | 2–1  | 1–0  | 4–1  | 2–1  | 1–2
Dijon | 1–1  | 1–0  | 1–3  | 2–1  | 0–2  | 2–2  | 0–0  | 3–1  |  | 0–0  | 2–1  | 1–0  | 2–3  | 3–1  | 0–2  | 0–0  | 1–3  | 2–2  | 1–1  | 2–2
Grenoble | 0–0  | 2–2  | 0–0  | 1–0  | 1–2  | 3–1  | 0–0  | 2–0  | 2–0  |  | 3–1  | 0–0  | 0–2  | 1–0  | 2–0  | 0–3  | 3–1  | 2–0  | 0–0  | 2–0
Gueugnon | 0–2  | 1–2  | 2–1  | 0–1  | 0–1  | 0–1  | 3–1  | 1–1  | 3–0  | 1–1  |  | 0–1  | 3–4  | 2–2  | 1–2  | 1–1  | 1–0  | 0–1  | 2–3  | 1–1
Guingamp | 1–1  | 1–0  | 1–0  | 0–1  | 4–2  | 1–0  | 2–2  | 0–0  | 0–0  | 1–2  | 0–1  |  | 1–1  | 1–1  | 0–2  | 0–0  | 0–0  | 2–1  | 2–1  | 5–0
Le Havre | 2–0  | 2–2  | 3–2  | 6–0  | 2–0  | 1–1  | 2–0  | 1–0  | 1–0  | 0–0  | 4–1  | 2–1  |  | 1–1  | 0–0  | 1–0  | 1–1  | 2–0  | 0–0  | 0–0
Libourne-St-Seurin | 1–2  | 2–5  | 1–1  | 2–4  | 2–2  | 0–0  | 1–0  | 1–1  | 2–0  | 1–2  | 2–0  | 2–1  | 3–1  |  | 1–3  | 2–3  | 0–2  | 1–1  | 1–1  | 2–0
Montpellier | 1–0  | 2–0  | 1–0  | 2–1  | 3–0  | 2–1  | 1–0  | 2–3  | 1–1  | 0–1  | 0–0  | 0–0  | 0–0  | 5–0  |  | 0–0  | 1–0  | 0–0  | 0–0  | 3–0
Nantes | 2–1  | 3–1  | 1–1  | 2–0  | 3–0  | 3–0  | 2–1  | 2–2  | 2–1  | 1–0  | 0–0  | 1–1  | 0–1  | 2–2  | 1–1  |  | 1–1  | 5–0  | 2–1  | 2–0
Niort | 2–0  | 1–3  | 0–1  | 1–3  | 2–1  | 0–1  | 2–1  | 1–0  | 3–0  | 2–1  | 2–2  | 1–3  | 0–3  | 2–1  | 1–0  | 0–1  |  | 0–1  | 0–1  | 0–0
Reims | 0–0  | 0–0  | 0–1  | 1–2  | 4–1  | 0–0  | 2–0  | 0–0  | 0–1  | 3–4  | 2–1  | 3–2  | 3–3  | 2–1  | 2–1  | 3–3  | 3–1  |  | 3–1  | 0–1
Sedan | 2–1  | 1–1  | 2–2  | 0–0  | 1–1  | 2–0  | 2–1  | 2–2  | 0–1  | 2–1  | 3–1  | 1–0  | 2–1  | 1–0  | 3–1  | 1–2  | 1–0  | 2–1  |  | 0–1
Troyes | 0–1  | 1–0  | 2–2  | 2–0  | 2–2  | 1–3  | 2–0  | 2–2  | 3–0  | 2–2  | 2–2  | 1–0  | 4–1  | 2–0  | 2–1  | 0–2  | 1–1  | 4–2  | 0–1  |

Source: Ligue 2
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

## Top goalscorers

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Last updated May 16, 2008

The top goalscorer was awarded to Le Havre AC's Guillaume Hoarau finishing with a stunning 28 goals averaging a goal per 118 minutes.

Rank  | Player  | Club  | Goals

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1  |  Guillaume Hoarau | Le Havre | 28
2  |  Grégory Thil | Boulogne | 16
Cédric Fauré | Reims
4  |  Titi Buengo | Amiens | 14
5  |  Nassim Akrour | Grenoble | 13
6  |  Paul Alo'o | Angers | 12
Xavier Pentecôte | Bastia
Stéphane Noro | Troyes
9  |  Souleymane Camara | Montpellier | 11
Claudiu Keșerü | Libourne-Saint-Seurin

## Managers

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Club | Head coach

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Ajaccio  |  Gernot Rohr
Amiens  |  Ludovic Batelli
Angers  |  Jean-Louis Garcia
Bastia  |  Bernard Casoni
Boulogne  |  Philippe Montanier
Brest  |  Pascal Janin
Châteauroux  |  Cédric Daury then Christian Sarramagna
Clermont  |  Didier Ollé-Nicolle
Dijon  |  Serge Romano then  Faruk Hadžibegić
Grenoble  |  Mehmed Baždarević
Gueugnon  |  Alain Ravera then Alex Dupont
Guingamp  |  Patrick Rémy then Victor Zvunka
Le Havre  |  Jean Marc Nobilo
Libourne-Saint-Seurin  |  Didier Tholot
Montpellier  |  Rolland Courbis
Nantes  |  Michel Der Zakarian
Niort  |  Jacky Bonnevay then Samuel Michel
Stade Reims  |  Thierry Froger
Sedan  |  José Pasqualetti
Troyes  |  Denis Troch

## Stadia

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Last updated August 8, 2008

Team  | Stadium  | Capacity  | Avg. attendance

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AC Ajaccio | Stade François Coty | 12,000 | 2,218
Amiens SC | Stade de la Licorne | 12,097 | 9,427
Angers SCO | Stade Jean Bouin | 17,000 | 6,973
SC Bastia | Stade Armand Cesari | 12,000 | 2,685
US Boulogne | Stade de la Libération | 7,300 | 5,180
Stade Brest 29 | Stade Francis-Le Blé | 10,189 | 5,730
LB Châteauroux | Stade Gaston Petit | 17,173 | 6,520
Clermont Foot | Stade Gabriel Montpied | 10,363 | 5,368
Dijon FCO | Stade Gaston Gérard | 7,900 | 4,890
Grenoble Foot 38 | Stade des Alpes | 20,000 | 9,999
FC Gueugnon | Stade Jean Laville | 13,827 | 2,830
En Avant Guingamp | Stade du Roudourou | 18,126 | 9,043
Le Havre AC | Stade Jules Deschaseaux | 16,454 | 11,632
FC Libourne-Saint-Seurin | Stade Jean-Antoine Moueix | 8,000 | 2,608
Montpellier HSC | Stade de la Mosson | 32,900 | 7,247
FC Nantes | Stade de la Beaujoire | 32,285 | 22,771
Chamois Niortais FC | Stade René Gaillard | 10,988 | 5,358
Stade Reims | Stade Auguste Delaune | 25,000 | 6,861
CS Sedan Ardennes | Stade Louis Dugauguez | 23,189 | 9,590
Troyes AC | Stade de l'Aube | 21,877 | 10,110

## References

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1. ^ "The Ligue 2 season". Archived from the original on 2009-10-20. Retrieved 2008-04-26.

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