1938–39 French Division 1

Division Nationale
Season1938–39
ChampionsFC Sète
2nd title
RelegatedAntibes
Roubaix
Matches played240
Goals scored766 (3.19 per match)
Top goalscorerRoger Courtois (27)
Désiré Koranyi (27)

FC Sète won Division 1 season 1938/1939, the last professional football season before World War II, of the French Association Football League.

Participating teams

Final table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GAv Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Sète (C) 30 19 4 7 65 36 1.806 42
2 Marseille 30 18 4 8 56 34 1.647 40
3 Racing Paris 30 15 8 7 58 43 1.349 38
4 Saint-Étienne 30 14 7 9 46 30 1.533 35
5 Lillois[a] 30 14 6 10 42 38 1.105 34
6 Sochaux 30 14 4 12 65 39 1.667 32
7 Lens 30 11 9 10 51 42 1.214 31
8 Metz 30 12 7 11 49 46 1.065 31
9 Fives[a] 30 13 5 12 57 54 1.056 31
10 Strasbourg 30 10 8 12 39 43 0.907 28
11 Le Havre 30 11 6 13 48 59 0.814 28
12 Cannes 30 11 5 14 47 62 0.758 27
13 Excelsior[b] 30 8 8 14 60 71 0.845 24
14 Rouen 30 6 9 15 31 48 0.646 21
15 Antibes (R) 30 6 9 15 21 54 0.389 21 Relegation to French Division 2
16 Roubaix[b] 30 4 9 17 31 67 0.463 17 Merged into Roubaix-Tourcoing
Source: gallica.bnf.fr
Rules for classification: Victory: 2 points, Draw: 1 point, Defeat: 0 points
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:
  1. ^ a b During World War II, Lillois and Fives merged to from Lille OSC, which took both the clubs' place in Division 1 after the war ended.
  2. ^ a b During World War II, Excelsior and Roubaix merged into CO Roubaix-Tourcoing, which took Excelsior's place in Division 1 after the war ended.

Promoted from Division 2, who would play in Division 1 season 1945/1946 (With the beginning of World War II, relegations and promotions are only taken into account after the end of the war i.e. for season 1945/1946)

Results

Home \ Away FCA CAN EAR SCF LHA RCL LIL OM MET RCP RCR ROU STE SÉT SOC RCS
Antibes 0–0 3–0 0–3 1–0 1–0 0–3 2–2 1–1 1–1 1–0 0–0 0–4 0–2 0–0 1–1
Cannes 3–0 2–1 1–5 3–2 2–1 1–2 2–4 2–1 1–2 4–1 2–0 1–2 3–2 0–0 1–1
Excelsior Roubaix 0–2 3–5 3–1 3–3 0–1 1–1 1–2 3–1 6–2 4–2 1–1 1–0 2–3 3–2 6–1
Fives 4–1 3–1 4–2 7–3 0–4 3–1 0–0 1–1 0–1 1–3 1–0 3–2 1–3 2–4 2–0
Le Havre 2–0 3–0 1–3 0–0 2–2 1–0 2–0 0–3 2–1 5–2 1–1 0–0 2–1 2–1 2–1
Lens 1–1 6–2 2–2 4–2 3–1 2–3 2–1 1–1 3–1 0–2 1–0 1–2 2–2 1–1 1–1
Olympique Lillois 2–0 4–3 1–2 1–0 2–0 0–1 3–2 0–2 2–1 5–3 3–1 1–0 2–0 0–1 0–1
Marseille 5–2 0–1 4–2 2–0 0–2 2–0 2–0 5–1 5–2 6–0 1–0 3–1 1–1 1–0 1–0
Metz 6–0 2–1 1–1 1–3 2–1 1–1 0–1 5–1 3–0 1–0 2–2 1–0 0–2 0–3 2–1
Racing Paris 3–0 5–1 3–1 2–2 3–0 1–0 2–2 1–1 3–2 1–1 3–0 1–1 3–0 6–1 3–2
Racing Roubaix 2–2 1–1 1–1 3–3 1–1 1–5 0–0 1–0 1–2 0–3 1–2 2–2 1–0 1–4 2–0
Rouen 0–1 2–1 2–2 1–3 1–4 3–0 0–0 1–2 2–2 3–1 0–0 0–2 0–1 1–0 1–1
Saint-Étienne 1–0 2–0 2–2 2–0 4–2 1–1 2–0 1–0 0–1 0–1 5–0 2–1 3–1 2–1 0–0
Sète 4–0 3–0 2–0 3–2 2–2 2–2 1–2 6–3 5–0 3–1 2–0 2–1 2–1 2–0 2–0
Sochaux 2–0 7–3 8–0 5–2 8–0 0–2 4–1 2–0 0–1 1–0 3–1 2–0 1–2 1–1 2–0
Strasbourg 2–1 1–3 3–1 3–1 3–1 3–2 1–2 1–0 0–0 1–1 2–0 5–1 1–1 1–3 2–0
Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top goalscorers

Rank Player Club Goals
1 France Switzerland Roger Courtois Sochaux 27
France Hungary Désiré Koranyi Sète
3 France Norbert Van Caeneghem Fives 24
4 France Austria Henri Hiltl Excelsior Roubaix 18
5 France Emmanuel Aznar Marseille 16
France Antoine Franceschetti Cannes
Switzerland Alessandro Frigerio Le Havre
France Austria Ignace Tax Saint-Étienne

References