1952–53 French Division 1

Division Nationale

Season	1952–53
← 1951–52 1953–54 →

Stade de Reims won Division 1 season 1952/1953 of the French Association Football League with 48 points.

Participating teams

• Bordeaux
• Le Havre AC
• RC Lens
• Lille OSC
• Olympique de Marseille
• FC Metz
• SO Montpellier
• 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
• Stade français (football)

Bordeaux

Le Havre

Lens      

Lille

Marseille

Metz

Montpellier

Nancy

Nice

Nîmes

RC Paris

Reims

Rennes

Roubaix-Tourcoing

Sète

Stade Français

St. Étienne

Sochaux

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Location of teams in 1952–53 Division 1

Final table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Stade de Reims (C)	34	22	4	8	86	36	+50	48
2	FC Sochaux-Montbéliard	34	18	8	8	72	58	+14	44
3	Bordeaux	34	19	5	10	79	56	+23	43
4	Lille OSC	34	15	10	9	61	43	+18	40	Winner of Coupe de France
5	Nîmes Olympique	34	17	6	11	62	47	+15	40
6	Olympique de Marseille	34	15	7	12	62	53	+9	37
7	RC Lens	34	13	8	13	50	48	+2	34
8	FC Nancy	34	16	2	16	48	58	−10	34
9	Stade français (football)	34	12	9	13	54	51	+3	33
10	FC Sète	34	13	7	14	42	49	−7	33
11	AS Saint-Etienne	34	11	8	15	44	59	−15	30
12	FC Metz	34	11	7	16	44	48	−4	29
13	OGC Nice	34	12	5	17	49	57	−8	29
14	Le Havre AC	34	11	7	16	47	63	−16	29
15	CO Roubaix-Tourcoing	34	9	10	15	42	49	−7	28
16	Stade Rennais UC (R)	34	10	8	16	37	56	−19	28	Relegated to Division 2
17	RC Paris (R)	34	11	6	17	40	64	−24	28
18	SO Montpellier (R)	34	8	9	17	43	67	−24	25

Source: Footballdatabase.eu
Rules for classification: Victory: 2 points, Draw: 1 point, Defeat: 0 points
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Promoted from Division 2, who will play in Division 1 season 1953/1954

• Toulouse FC: Champion of Division 2
• AS Monaco: Runner-up
• RC Strasbourg: Third place

Results

Home \ Away	BOR	LHA	RCL	LIL	OM	MET	SOM	FCN	NIC	NMS	RCP	REI	REN	CRT	STE	SÉT	SOC	SFF
Bordeaux		6–0	2–0	1–5	2–0	4–0	6–0	4–1	7–3	3–2	3–1	1–0	7–0	4–2	0–0	3–0	4–1	2–1
Le Havre	3–1		1–0	0–1	2–1	3–0	1–1	0–1	2–0	1–1	4–1	3–4	1–1	2–0	3–0	2–0	2–2	1–3
Lens	1–1	2–0		0–3	1–1	3–1	2–1	4–1	2–0	2–1	2–1	1–3	5–0	1–3	1–2	3–0	5–1	1–1
Lille	0–0	3–1	0–0		2–0	1–2	2–2	6–2	1–1	3–2	3–0	2–5	1–1	2–1	0–2	5–0	3–1	2–1
Marseille	3–0	3–1	1–1	3–0		3–0	5–1	4–3	3–1	4–1	3–0	2–1	2–2	4–2	1–0	3–3	1–6	1–0
Metz	0–2	6–1	3–0	0–3	1–3		1–1	2–0	2–0	2–0	0–2	0–0	2–1	1–1	5–0	0–1	1–2	2–0
Montpellier	4–1	2–1	2–1	1–1	2–1	1–1		0–1	2–1	2–5	0–1	2–6	2–2	1–1	2–0	1–1	2–3	0–3
Nancy	3–0	0–3	1–3	1–3	1–0	1–0	3–0		2–1	2–0	1–0	1–1	1–2	1–0	3–2	0–1	1–2	5–1
Nice	1–2	0–2	3–1	0–0	3–1	1–2	0–0	2–1		2–0	1–2	0–4	3–1	4–1	2–0	3–2	5–3	2–1
Nîmes	5–1	7–1	0–0	2–0	2–0	2–1	4–2	2–1	1–0		4–2	1–0	2–0	1–0	0–0	3–1	2–0	0–0
Racing Paris	3–3	1–1	1–1	1–0	1–1	0–2	2–1	1–2	1–3	1–2		1–3	2–0	0–2	2–1	2–1	2–1	2–2
Reims	2–3	5–0	5–0	1–1	3–1	2–1	3–2	0–2	3–1	2–0	5–1		5–1	1–0	2–0	2–0	3–0	1–2
Rennes	1–0	2–0	3–2	1–1	3–1	4–2	0–1	0–1	0–0	2–0	1–0	0–1		3–2	0–1	3–0	1–1	0–0
Roubaix-Tourcoing	3–1	0–0	0–1	1–2	0–0	1–0	1–0	2–2	2–2	2–4	0–1	1–1	3–2		2–0	2–0	2–2	0–0
Saint-Étienne	1–1	1–0	2–3	2–1	2–2	2–2	2–0	6–0	2–1	4–2	3–1	2–6	1–0	1–1		2–2	1–3	1–1
Sète	2–0	3–1	2–0	3–1	2–0	0–0	1–0	1–2	1–0	1–1	0–1	2–1	2–0	1–0	5–0		0–0	2–2
Sochaux	8–2	3–2	1–0	3–3	2–1	1–1	2–1	1–0	3–2	1–1	3–3	1–0	2–0	3–1	3–0	4–2		1–3
Stade Français	0–2	2–2	1–1	2–0	2–3	2–1	2–4	4–1	0–1	4–2	5–0	1–5	2–0	1–3	2–1	2–0	1–2

Source: Footballdatabase.eu
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Gunnar Andersson	Marseille	35
2	Bram Appel	Reims	30
3	Abdesselem Ben Mohamed	Bordeaux	22
4	Jean Saunier	Le Havre	19
5	Édouard Kargu	Bordeaux	18
6	Georges Dupraz	Montpellier	17
	René Gardien	Sochaux
	Alberto Muro	Sochaux
9	Rachid Belaïd	Nancy	16
10	Egon Jonsson	Stade Français	14
	Henri Fontaine	Sète

References

• Division 1 season 1952-1953 at pari-et-gagne.com