1956–57 French Division 1

Division Nationale

Season	1956–57
Champions	Saint-Étienne
Relegated	Stade Rennais Strasbourg Nancy
European Cup	Saint-Étienne
← 1955–56 1957–58 →

AS Saint-Etienne won Division 1 season 1956/1957 of the Professional Football League with 49 points.

Participating teams

• Angers SCO
• RC Lens
• Olympique Lyonnais
• Olympique de Marseille
• FC Metz
• AS Monaco
• FC Nancy
• OGC Nice
• Nîmes Olympique
• RC Paris
• Stade de Reims
• Stade Rennais UC
• AS Saint-Etienne
• UA Sedan-Torcy
• FC Sochaux-Montbéliard
• RC Strasbourg
• Toulouse FC
• US Valenciennes-Anzin

Angers

Lens      

Lyon

Marseille

Metz

AS Monaco

Nancy

Nice

Nîmes

RC Paris

Reims

Rennes

St. Étienne

Sedan

Sochaux

Strasbourg

Toulouse

Valenciennes

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Location of teams in 1956–57 Division 1

Final table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	AS Saint-Etienne (C)	34	20	9	5	88	45	+43	49	European Cup
2	RC Lens	34	21	3	10	77	49	+28	45
3	Stade de Reims	34	18	7	9	73	47	+26	43
4	RC Paris	34	17	8	9	86	55	+31	42
5	AS Monaco	34	17	6	11	57	44	+13	40
6	Olympique de Marseille	34	16	7	11	60	53	+7	39
7	FC Sochaux-Montbéliard	34	14	5	15	63	62	+1	33
8	Toulouse FC	34	12	8	14	61	49	+12	32	Winner of Coupe de France
9	UA Sedan-Torcy	34	9	14	11	51	59	−8	32
10	Nîmes Olympique	34	13	5	16	52	56	−4	31
11	Angers SCO	34	10	11	13	42	51	−9	31
12	Olympique Lyonnais	34	13	4	17	45	53	−8	30
13	OGC Nice	34	11	8	15	59	72	−13	30
14	US Valenciennes-Anzin	34	10	9	15	43	72	−29	29
15	FC Metz	34	9	10	15	51	58	−7	28
16	Stade Rennais UC (R)	34	11	5	18	36	63	−27	27	Relegated to Division 2
17	RC Strasbourg (R)	34	9	8	17	43	66	−23	26
18	FC Nancy (R)	34	8	9	17	43	76	−33	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 1957/1958

• Olympique Alès: Champion of Division 2
• AS Béziers: runner-up
• Lille OSC: Third place

Results

Home \ Away	ANG	RCL	OL	OM	MET	ASM	FCN	NIC	NMS	RCP	REI	REN	STE	SED	SOC	RCS	TOU	VAL
Angers		1–0	0–2	2–2	0–3	0–2	3–0	0–1	1–1	1–1	2–2	2–0	0–1	0–0	4–0	4–1	2–5	2–0
Lens	0–3		3–1	2–0	3–1	3–1	3–1	6–1	4–0	2–0	2–1	3–0	0–2	1–0	3–1	0–2	4–1	0–0
Lyon	2–1	3–0		2–0	1–0	1–0	0–1	1–0	4–1	1–2	0–3	2–0	1–3	1–1	0–1	3–1	1–3	1–0
Marseille	0–0	1–4	3–2		3–3	2–0	3–1	3–1	3–1	0–3	1–2	1–0	4–3	3–0	2–3	3–1	3–0	4–1
Metz	0–1	1–5	3–1	1–0		1–2	1–1	3–3	3–1	2–2	2–5	1–1	1–2	3–1	1–3	2–0	4–1	2–2
Monaco	1–1	1–2	2–0	1–0	2–1		0–2	2–1	4–1	1–1	1–1	4–0	3–1	2–1	2–1	1–2	1–1	6–0
Nancy	2–2	0–2	0–2	0–1	0–2	0–2		4–2	1–0	2–5	0–0	4–0	1–7	3–2	1–3	3–3	1–1	1–4
Nice	1–1	3–2	1–0	1–3	1–1	0–2	3–2		5–2	1–1	2–1	0–2	2–2	1–0	4–2	1–0	1–0	2–2
Nîmes	3–1	2–3	2–0	2–0	1–1	3–1	4–0	3–2		4–2	1–2	2–1	0–0	2–1	3–0	4–1	0–1	2–3
Racing Paris	6–2	5–0	1–2	1–3	4–1	2–1	6–1	3–2	0–0		4–2	3–0	1–2	1–2	3–1	2–0	6–2	3–1
Reims	1–2	3–2	4–1	1–1	2–1	5–1	4–1	3–1	2–0	2–4		3–1	4–5	0–1	1–0	3–1	2–0	1–1
Rennes	4–1	1–4	2–1	1–1	1–0	0–1	0–3	2–3	2–1	2–2	1–1		1–0	2–0	2–0	2–1	1–0	3–0
Saint-Étienne	3–0	3–1	3–2	6–3	2–0	0–1	6–1	4–2	4–0	3–1	0–0	2–0		2–2	6–0	2–2	0–0	5–4
Sedan	1–1	4–4	2–2	1–1	3–2	3–3	1–1	3–3	1–0	1–1	0–4	1–1	2–6		1–0	3–1	1–1	3–0
Sochaux	0–0	2–2	3–1	3–0	1–1	1–1	3–1	4–2	3–1	3–5	2–0	3–1	1–1	5–2		6–0	1–3	4–0
Strasbourg	0–2	1–4	2–0	2–3	1–0	2–4	0–0	2–2	0–4	2–1	1–3	2–0	1–1	0–0	3–2		0–0	6–0
Toulouse FC	5–0	1–2	2–2	0–1	1–2	3–0	1–2	4–3	0–1	3–3	4–0	6–0	3–0	2–3	2–0	1–1		4–0
Valenciennes	1–0	2–1	1–2	2–2	1–1	2–1	0–0	2–1	0–0	3–1	1–5	5–2	1–1	0–4	3–1	0–1	1–0

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

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Thadée Cisowski	Racing Paris	33
2	Just Fontaine	Reims	30
3	Egon Johnsson	Lens	29
	Eugène Njo-Léa	Saint-Étienne
5	Rachid Mekloufi	Saint-Étienne	25
6	Gunnar Andersson	Marseille	23
7	Hassan Akesbi	Nîmes	20
8	Maryan Wisniewski	Lens	17
	Pierre Grillet	Racing Paris
	René Gardien	Sochaux

References

• Division 1 season 1956-1957 at pari-et-gagne.com