1985–86 French Division 2

Division 2
Season	1985–86
	← 1984–85 1986–87 →

Statistics of Division 2 in the 1985–86 season.

Overview

It was contested by 36 teams, and Saint-Étienne and Paris won the championship.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Saint-Étienne	34	18	10	6	50	29	+21	46	Promoted
2	Olympique Alès	34	16	9	9	33	22	+11	41
3	Olympique Lyonnais	34	14	12	8	47	31	+16	40
4	Sète	34	15	10	9	33	28	+5	40
5	Montpellier	34	15	9	10	61	49	+12	39
6	Nîmes Olympique	34	14	10	10	61	35	+26	38
7	Le Puy	34	14	7	13	52	41	+11	35
8	Béziers	34	13	9	12	43	38	+5	35
9	Tours	33	11	12	10	39	37	+2	34
10	Gueugnon	34	12	9	13	32	39	−7	33
11	Martigues	34	11	10	13	35	45	−10	32
12	Cannes	34	8	15	11	35	41	−6	31
13	Thonon	34	9	13	12	26	35	−9	31
14	Montceau	34	13	4	17	39	44	−5	30
15	Istres	34	8	14	12	39	47	−8	30
16	Red Star Paris	34	8	14	12	30	42	−12	30
17	Chaumont	34	9	8	17	35	58	−23	26	Relegated
18	Grenoble	33	5	9	19	31	62	−31	19	Relegated

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	RC Paris	34	24	8	2	78	24	+54	56	Promoted
2	Mulhouse	34	20	10	4	64	32	+32	50
3	En Avant Guingamp	34	17	13	4	68	35	+33	47
4	Stade Reims	34	17	9	8	49	37	+12	43
5	Chamois Niort	34	14	9	11	40	36	+4	37
6	Caen	34	14	9	11	33	31	+2	37
7	Orléans	34	12	9	13	39	42	−3	33
8	Stade Quimpérois	34	11	10	13	38	43	−5	32
9	Abbeville	34	12	6	16	41	60	−19	30
10	Limoges	34	11	7	16	40	43	−3	29
11	Beauvais	34	11	7	16	35	52	−17	29
12	Valenciennes	34	9	10	15	45	50	−5	28
13	Dunkerque	34	9	10	15	31	37	−6	28
14	Besançon	34	10	8	16	39	46	−7	28
15	Angers	34	11	6	17	32	47	−15	28
16	Lorient	34	11	6	17	28	53	−25	28	Relegated
17	Rouen	34	11	5	18	32	43	−11	27
18	CS Sedan Ardennes	34	7	8	19	26	47	−21	22

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Racing Paris	4–3	Saint-Étienne	3–2	1–1 (a.e.t.)

Rank	Player	Club (Grp)	Goals
1	Eugène Kabongo	Racing Paris (B)	30
2	Andrzej Szarmach	Guingamp (B)	26
3	Jean-Marc Valadier	Montpellier (A)	22
3	Marco Morgante	Mulhouse (B)	22
5	Milan Ćalasan	Orléans (B)	17
5	Simo Nikolić	Béziers (A)	17
7	Juan Carlos Acosta	Le Puy (A)	16
8	Hervé Guégan	Guingamp (B)	15
8	Dušan Savić	Cannes (A)	15
10	Philippe N'Dioro	Limoges (B)	14
	Franck Priou	Istres (A)
	Christian Perez	Nîmes (A)
	Jean-Pierre Orts	Nîmes (A)

v t e Division 2 / Ligue 2 seasons
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Ligue 2 (2002–present)	2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20 2020–21 2021–22 2022–23 2023–24 2024–25
List of French second division champions