1995–96 French Division 2

57th season of the second-tier football league in France Football league season

Division 2
Season	1995–96
Champions	SM Caen
Promoted	SM Caen Olympique de Marseille AS Nancy
Relegated	Stade Poitevin USL Dunkerque Angers SCO Olympique Alès
Matches played	462
Top goalscorer	Tony Cascarino (30 goals)
← 1994–95 1996–97 →

The Division 2 season 1995/1996, organised by the LNF was won by SM Caen and saw the promotions of SM Caen, Olympique de Marseille and AS Nancy, whereas Stade Poitevin, USL Dunkerque, Angers SCO and Olympique Alès were relegated to National.

22 participating teams

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or Relegation
1	Caen (C, P)	42	24	9	9	59	34	+25	81	Promotion to French Division 1
2	Marseille (P)	42	23	11	8	69	35	+34	80
3	Nancy (P)	42	20	16	6	56	23	+33	76
4	Laval	42	21	9	12	52	46	+6	72
5	Toulouse	42	18	9	15	40	34	+6	63
6	Le Mans	42	15	17	10	37	36	+1	62
7	Red Star	42	16	13	13	56	38	+18	61
8	Perpignan	42	17	10	15	44	53	−9	61
9	Châteauroux	42	16	12	14	40	35	+5	60
10	Sochaux	42	15	14	13	49	40	+9	59
11	Louhans-Cuiseaux	42	16	10	16	57	49	+8	58
12	Lorient	42	16	10	16	44	46	−2	58
13	Amiens	42	13	15	14	43	49	−6	54
14	Mulhouse	42	13	12	17	44	45	−1	51
15	Valence	42	11	18	13	34	42	−8	51
16	Niort	42	13	11	18	48	50	−2	50
17	Charleville	42	11	15	16	34	54	−20	48
18	Épinal	42	9	18	15	41	46	−5	45
19	Poitiers (R)	42	9	18	15	36	50	−14	45	Relegation to Championnat National 1
20	Dunkerque (R)	42	9	16	17	30	43	−13	43
21	Angers (R)	42	7	16	19	31	53	−22	37
22	Alès (R)	42	4	13	25	29	72	−43	25

Source: Ligue 2
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated

Recap

Promoted to L1 : SM Caen, Olympique de Marseille, AS Nancy
Relegated to L2 : FC Gueugnon, AS Saint-Étienne, FC Martigues
Promoted to L2 : Stade Briochin, Troyes AC, Sporting Toulon Var, AS Beauvais
Relegated to National : Stade Poitevin, USL Dunkerque, Angers SCO, Olympique Alès

Results

Home \ Away	ALÈ	AMI	ANG	CAE	CHR	CHA	DUN	ÉPI	LAV	MFC	LOR	LOU	OM	MUL	NAL	NRT	PER	POI	RS	SOC	TFC	VLN
Alès		1–2	2–0	1–1	0–0	0–1	1–1	0–0	0–1	1–1	1–2	1–1	0–0	0–3	0–0	1–1	1–2	4–1	2–2	1–3	0–1	1–1
Amiens	3–0		1–1	1–1	0–0	1–0	2–1	1–0	0–3	1–1	3–2	0–1	1–2	1–0	1–1	2–1	3–2	2–2	0–2	0–1	0–1	0–1
Angers	2–2	0–2		2–1	0–2	0–1	1–1	1–1	3–0	0–0	1–1	1–1	1–1	2–0	1–2	0–2	2–0	0–0	1–2	0–0	0–1	1–1
Caen	1–0	3–0	2–0		2–1	1–0	2–2	3–1	1–2	1–0	3–0	2–0	2–0	3–1	1–0	3–1	2–0	2–0	2–1	1–0	2–0	3–0
Charleville	2–2	2–1	1–1	0–0		0–0	1–1	1–1	1–0	0–0	1–3	0–1	3–1	1–2	0–3	1–0	1–0	0–0	0–2	1–0	1–2	1–1
Châteauroux	2–0	1–2	2–0	0–1	3–0		2–1	3–0	1–0	1–0	1–0	1–1	4–2	3–1	0–0	0–1	2–0	0–0	2–1	1–1	1–0	0–0
Dunkerque	0–1	0–0	1–0	0–1	0–0	2–0		1–1	2–2	0–0	0–1	1–0	1–2	1–0	0–1	0–1	2–1	1–1	0–0	0–1	1–0	2–0
Épinal	3–1	0–0	5–1	4–0	1–1	3–0	0–0		1–0	3–3	1–2	2–1	2–0	1–1	2–2	2–1	0–1	2–0	0–0	0–0	0–2	0–0
Laval	1–0	4–1	2–1	1–1	3–0	0–0	1–2	2–1		2–0	1–0	3–1	1–3	2–1	0–0	2–1	1–1	1–0	3–2	2–0	1–1	2–1
Le Mans	0–1	0–0	1–0	1–0	3–2	0–0	2–0	1–0	0–0		1–0	0–0	1–2	0–1	2–1	2–1	1–1	2–0	1–1	1–0	2–1	1–1
Lorient	2–0	1–1	2–0	1–1	3–0	2–4	1–2	0–0	2–0	3–0		2–1	0–1	0–0	0–0	2–1	0–2	0–1	2–0	0–3	2–0	2–0
Louhans-Cuiseaux	2–1	0–0	3–0	0–2	2–1	3–1	1–0	2–2	4–1	0–2	2–0		3–1	2–1	0–1	3–0	4–1	3–0	0–4	4–0	1–2	2–2
Marseille	4–0	2–0	0–0	1–0	4–0	1–0	0–0	3–0	5–0	3–1	1–1	2–0		1–0	2–0	2–1	5–1	3–0	2–1	4–1	1–1	2–2
Mulhouse	3–0	3–1	0–0	0–0	1–3	2–1	0–0	2–1	1–1	2–0	3–0	3–2	2–0		0–1	3–3	1–1	3–1	0–0	1–0	0–0	1–1
Nancy	1–0	1–1	1–1	3–0	3–0	0–0	3–0	3–0	1–0	3–0	0–1	1–1	2–0	1–1		4–0	2–0	1–0	0–0	2–0	2–3	2–0
Niort	5–1	2–0	0–1	1–1	0–1	0–0	2–1	0–0	2–1	2–3	1–0	0–0	0–0	1–0	2–3		0–1	0–0	2–3	2–2	1–0	5–0
Perpignan	3–2	2–0	0–2	1–0	0–0	1–0	1–1	1–0	2–0	0–1	1–1	1–0	0–2	2–1	2–1	1–0		1–1	2–0	2–4	0–1	1–0
Poitiers	3–0	1–3	2–1	0–1	2–1	2–1	3–0	1–1	0–1	2–2	1–1	2–2	0–0	2–0	0–2	1–1	1–2		2–1	2–0	1–1	0–0
Red Star	6–0	1–4	2–0	2–1	1–2	0–0	0–0	2–0	0–1	0–0	4–0	2–1	2–2	3–0	1–1	0–1	0–0	3–0		0–0	2–0	1–0
Sochaux	2–0	0–0	4–1	4–2	4–0	0–0	2–0	3–0	2–2	0–0	1–1	2–0	1–0	1–0	1–1	0–0	4–4	0–0	0–1		0–1	2–1
Toulouse	2–0	2–2	0–1	1–2	0–1	2–0	4–2	0–1	1–2	0–1	0–1	0–2	0–0	1–0	0–0	2–0	0–0	0–0	3–1	1–0		2–0
Valence	1–0	0–0	1–1	1–1	1–1	4–1	1–0	0–0	1–0	0–0	2–0	1–0	0–2	1–0	0–0	1–3	4–0	1–1	1–0	1–0	0–1

Source: Ligue 2
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Tony Cascarino	Marseille	30
2	Franck Priou	Caen	24
3	Samuel Lobé	Laval	20
4	Patrick Van Kets	Le Mans	17
	Walquir Mota	Niort
	Étienne Mendy	Sochaux
7	Olivier Pickeu	Amiens	16
	Koffi Fiawoo	Louhans-Cuiseaux
	Éric Rabésandratana	Nancy
	Stéphane Crucet	Perpignan
	Steve Marlet	Red Star

External links

RSSSF archives of results

v t e Division 2 / Ligue 2 seasons
Division 2 (1933–2002)	1933–34 1934–35 1935–36 1936–37 1937–38 1938–39 1939–40 1940–41 1941–42 1942–43 1943–44 1944–45 1945–46 1946–47 1947–48 1948–49 1949–50 1950–51 1951–52 1952–53 1953–54 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02
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

1995–96 in French football

« 1994–95 1996–97 »

Domestic leagues	Division 1 Division 2 National 1
Domestic cups	Coupe de France (Final) Coupe de la Ligue (Final) Trophée des Champions
European	Champions League Men Cup Winners' Cup UEFA Cup

Club seasons
Division 1	Auxerre Bastia Bordeaux Cannes Gueugnon Guingamp Le Havre Lens Lille Lyon Martigues Metz Monaco Montpellier Nantes Nice Paris Saint-Germain Rennes Saint-Étienne Strasbourg
Division 2	Marseille

International competition
Men	UEFA Euro 1996 Group B UEFA Euro 1996 knockout stage

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