1959–60 French Division 1

Division Nationale

Season	1959–60
← 1958–59 1960–61 →

Stade de Reims won Division 1 season 1959/1960 of the French Association Football League with 60 points.

Participating teams

• Angers SCO
• Bordeaux
• Le Havre AC
• RC Lens
• Limoges FC
• Olympique Lyonnais
• AS Monaco
• OGC Nice
• Nîmes Olympique
• RC Paris
• Stade de Reims
• Stade Rennais UC
• AS Saint-Etienne
• UA Sedan-Torcy
• FC Sochaux-Montbéliard
• Stade Français FC
• RC Strasbourg
• SC Toulon
• Toulouse FC
• US Valenciennes-Anzin

Angers

Bordeaux

Le Havre

Limoges

Lens      

Lyon

AS Monaco

Nice

Nîmes

RC Paris

Reims

Rennes

St. Étienne

Sedan

Sochaux

Stade Français

Strasbourg

Toulon

Toulouse

Valenciennes

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Location of teams in 1959–60 Division 1

Final table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Reims (C)	38	26	8	4	109	46	+63	60	Qualified for the European Cup
2	Nîmes	38	22	9	7	78	43	+35	53
3	Racing Paris	38	19	11	8	118	56	+62	49
4	Monaco	38	19	7	12	70	45	+25	45	Qualified for the Cup Winners' Cup
5	Toulouse	38	19	6	13	74	61	+13	44
6	Lens	38	18	8	12	55	57	−2	44
7	Le Havre	38	15	12	11	63	68	−5	42
8	Valenciennes	38	16	8	14	65	60	+5	40
9	Nice	38	17	6	15	71	74	−3	40
10	Limoges	38	14	10	14	46	46	0	38
11	Sedan	38	12	13	13	62	62	0	37
12	Saint-Étienne	38	12	12	14	62	65	−3	36
13	Angers	38	13	10	15	60	67	−7	36
14	Stade Français	38	14	6	18	59	70	−11	34
15	Rennes	38	13	7	18	47	59	−12	33
16	Lyon	38	10	11	17	41	52	−11	31	Invited for the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup
17	Sochaux (R)	38	8	11	19	40	67	−27	27	Relegated to Division 2
18	Toulon (R)	38	9	7	22	50	85	−35	25
19	Strasbourg (R)	38	9	7	22	55	92	−37	25
20	Bordeaux (R)	38	7	7	24	52	102	−50	21

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 1960/1961

• FC Grenoble: Champion of Division 2
• FC Nancy: runner-up of Division 2
• FC Rouen: Third place
• AS Troyes-Savinienne: Fourth place

Results

Home \ Away	ANG	BOR	LHA	RCL	LFC	OL	ASM	NIC	NMS	RCP	REI	REN	STE	SED	SOC	SFF	RCS	SCT	TOU	VAL
Angers		4–1	4–2	4–1	1–0	1–1	1–1	2–2	0–0	0–0	6–1	2–0	3–3	0–0	1–0	3–0	3–1	3–2	2–0	1–2
Bordeaux	1–1		0–1	2–3	2–1	2–2	4–2	0–3	1–3	1–5	2–1	0–1	0–0	1–4	6–4	3–3	0–1	2–1	3–5	3–7
Le Havre	5–0	2–0		3–1	2–0	1–2	2–0	3–1	0–3	2–2	2–2	4–2	0–0	3–3	2–2	1–2	2–1	2–0	0–3	3–2
Lens	4–2	3–1	1–1		0–0	1–0	1–2	1–0	3–1	3–2	2–5	1–0	0–0	1–1	3–1	3–2	2–1	6–2	4–0	1–0
Limoges	2–0	3–0	0–0	1–2		0–1	0–2	2–1	2–1	1–0	2–2	1–2	2–1	2–2	1–0	1–0	8–0	2–0	2–1	1–1
Lyon	2–0	2–2	1–1	0–1	1–0		0–4	0–2	1–2	0–0	0–1	0–0	0–0	0–1	3–1	0–0	3–2	1–2	1–2	3–0
Monaco	2–1	5–0	0–1	2–1	0–0	4–1		2–0	0–1	3–3	2–2	5–0	1–1	2–1	1–0	3–0	4–2	1–3	3–0	1–0
Nice	1–5	2–1	2–2	3–0	3–3	2–1	3–2		2–1	2–5	1–4	3–1	2–0	3–0	3–0	1–3	2–3	4–2	1–0	1–1
Nîmes	1–1	4–0	4–1	0–0	2–0	2–2	5–1	5–1		0–2	0–3	3–0	2–0	2–0	2–1	3–1	2–1	4–1	2–2	3–0
Racing Paris	4–1	6–1	9–0	3–0	4–0	4–0	1–1	1–2	1–2		3–3	0–2	4–0	2–3	8–0	1–1	2–2	7–1	1–3	6–4
Reims	6–0	8–2	8–2	5–1	1–0	3–0	2–1	2–2	1–2	0–0		2–1	3–0	1–0	4–1	4–0	5–0	3–0	5–2	2–1
Rennes	2–3	1–0	2–2	2–0	0–2	1–2	1–2	3–1	1–1	3–2	0–1		0–0	1–2	0–1	2–3	4–0	3–3	1–0	2–1
Saint-Étienne	1–1	4–2	3–1	6–0	2–0	2–1	1–0	4–1	2–2	3–4	2–5	2–1		3–3	0–3	1–1	7–3	3–1	3–3	3–1
Sedan	2–0	2–3	0–3	2–2	0–0	0–0	2–1	2–0	2–3	1–4	1–3	2–0	3–1		2–1	2–1	2–2	1–2	3–4	2–2
Sochaux	2–0	0–0	0–0	1–0	0–0	1–3	1–0	1–2	1–1	3–6	1–2	2–2	2–0	0–0		3–2	1–1	1–2	0–2	0–0
Stade Français	2–0	0–2	0–1	0–1	2–3	2–1	3–2	2–3	0–0	3–3	0–3	1–2	3–2	1–5	2–1		2–1	3–1	3–1	1–2
Strasbourg	4–2	2–1	1–2	0–0	1–3	2–1	0–2	1–4	1–3	2–5	1–3	1–1	3–0	3–3	0–1	2–5		3–2	2–0	0–0
Toulon	1–0	2–0	3–3	1–1	3–1	1–1	0–3	1–1	3–2	1–3	1–1	0–1	0–1	2–1	2–2	1–2	1–4		0–1	1–2
Toulouse	5–1	2–1	2–1	1–0	6–0	1–0	1–1	4–1	2–3	1–1	2–2	1–2	2–1	1–1	3–0	1–3	2–1	3–0		2–1
Valenciennes	3–1	2–2	2–0	0–1	0–0	1–4	0–2	4–3	3–1	1–4	3–0	2–0	2–0	2–1	1–1	1–0	2–0	3–1	5–3

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

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Just Fontaine	Reims	28
2	Thadée Cisowski	Racing Paris	27
3	Ginès Liron	Saint-Étienne	23
4	Hassan Akesbi	Nîmes	22
	Bernard Rahis	Nîmes
	Petrus Van Rhijn	Stade Français
	Joseph Ujlaki	Racing Paris
8	Laurent Robuschi	Bordeaux	20
9	Roger Piantoni	Reims	18
10	Jean Topka	Racing Paris	17
	Ernie Schultz	Toulouse FC

References

• Division 1 season 1959-1960 at pari-et-gagne.com