2003–04 Ligue 2

Ligue 2
Season	2003–04
	← 2002–03 2004–05 →

The Ligue 2 season 2003–04, organised by the LFP was won by AS Saint-Étienne and saw the promotions of AS Saint-Étienne, SM Caen and FC Istres, whereas ASOA Valence, Besançon RC and FC Rouen were relegated to National.

20 participating teams

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or Relegation
1	Saint-Étienne (C, P)	38	22	7	9	44	29	+15	73	Promotion to Ligue 1
2	Caen (P)	38	20	11	7	56	31	+25	71
3	Istres (P)	38	19	9	10	44	26	+18	66
4	Lorient	38	17	10	11	57	45	+12	61
5	Sedan	38	15	15	8	42	31	+11	60
6	Nancy	38	14	13	11	45	36	+9	55
7	Le Havre	38	15	10	13	44	46	−2	55
8	Niort	38	13	14	11	47	44	+3	53
9	Amiens	38	15	8	15	43	45	−2	53
10	Troyes	38	13	13	12	43	48	−5	52
11	Châteauroux	38	13	10	15	44	49	−5	49	Qualification for the UEFA Cup first round^[a]
12	Créteil	38	10	15	13	41	47	−6	45
13	Angers	38	11	12	15	36	43	−7	45
14	Clermont	38	9	17	12	36	48	−12	44
15	Grenoble	38	9	16	13	38	43	−5	43
16	Gueugnon	38	9	15	14	40	43	−3	42
17	Laval	38	10	12	16	51	55	−4	42
18	Valence (R)	38	9	13	16	45	56	−11	40	Relegation to Championnat National [fr]
19	Besançon (R)	38	8	14	16	37	45	−8	38
20	Rouen (R)	38	5	14	19	27	50	−23	29

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

↑ Since the Coupe de France winners Paris Saint-Germain qualified for the Champions League, their place in the UEFA Cup went to Châteauroux, who were the Coupe de France runners-up.

Results

Home \ Away	AMI	ANG	BES	CAE	CHA	CLE	CRE	GRE	GUE	IST	LAV	LHA	LOR	NAL	NRT	ROU	STE	SED	TRO	VLN
Amiens		1–0	1–0	0–3	0–0	1–2	1–0	0–1	1–0	0–0	3–4	2–0	1–0	2–1	2–3	2–1	1–2	1–1	1–1	2–2
Angers	1–2		2–1	0–1	2–0	0–0	2–0	1–1	2–1	1–0	3–2	3–1	1–1	2–0	0–0	0–1	1–1	0–0	2–0	0–2
Besançon	0–2	2–0		0–1	3–1	1–1	0–0	3–1	1–1	0–1	2–2	1–1	1–1	1–3	4–0	3–0	0–1	1–1	0–1	1–1
Caen	2–1	1–0	1–1		1–0	1–2	1–2	0–0	2–1	2–1	1–2	3–1	2–0	2–0	2–2	1–1	1–0	1–0	3–0	4–1
Châteauroux	4–1	4–1	0–0	1–1		2–2	1–3	0–0	3–2	1–0	2–1	2–1	2–2	0–0	0–0	2–0	2–0	2–0	1–1	3–0
Clermont	0–2	4–1	0–2	2–2	0–1		2–0	2–0	1–0	1–1	2–1	1–1	0–4	0–1	0–1	0–0	0–3	0–1	0–0	1–1
Créteil	1–1	1–1	1–1	0–0	1–0	5–1		1–1	1–1	0–2	3–0	2–3	1–0	1–0	2–2	0–0	1–0	0–1	1–2	2–1
Grenoble	1–0	0–0	0–0	2–1	4–1	0–0	1–1		2–2	0–1	1–1	2–0	1–1	2–3	0–1	0–0	2–2	0–0	1–2	4–3
Gueugnon	0–1	1–1	1–0	0–0	2–0	0–0	1–1	0–2		1–0	1–1	1–2	1–1	0–0	1–2	2–1	0–1	0–0	1–1	2–0
Istres	1–0	1–0	0–1	3–1	2–1	2–0	2–0	2–0	2–1		2–1	2–0	1–0	2–0	2–2	0–0	0–2	2–0	0–0	3–1
Laval	1–2	3–3	1–3	1–0	2–0	2–3	3–1	2–0	1–2	0–0		1–1	2–2	2–0	0–1	0–0	2–0	2–0	4–0	2–2
Le Havre	0–1	1–0	2–0	1–1	3–2	1–1	1–1	1–0	5–0	0–0	3–2		1–0	0–0	1–1	2–0	1–0	3–0	3–0	1–0
Lorient	3–1	2–0	2–0	2–3	0–1	1–1	0–3	2–1	0–5	2–1	1–0	2–0		2–0	4–2	4–1	2–0	1–1	1–0	3–1
Nancy	0–0	2–1	3–0	0–2	2–0	3–4	2–0	0–0	0–2	2–1	1–1	4–1	1–1		1–0	2–1	0–1	2–0	3–0	1–1
Niort	0–0	0–1	3–0	0–3	0–0	3–1	3–0	1–1	1–3	2–1	4–0	0–0	1–2	2–2		2–1	0–1	1–1	2–1	1–0
Rouen	2–1	3–1	1–1	1–2	1–4	0–0	1–1	0–2	0–0	1–3	1–1	4–0	0–1	1–1	2–1		0–1	0–1	0–1	1–1
Saint-Étienne	0–2	0–0	2–1	1–0	2–1	0–0	3–2	1–0	1–1	0–0	2–0	2–0	2–1	0–0	2–1	2–0		0–2	2–3	1–0
Sedan	3–1	1–0	2–0	0–0	2–0	1–1	4–0	4–1	1–1	3–1	1–0	2–0	2–1	0–4	1–1	0–0	1–2		3–0	0–0
Troyes	3–2	2–2	1–1	2–2	4–0	2–0	0–0	3–2	2–1	0–2	0–0	2–0	3–3	1–1	1–0	3–0	0–1	0–0		0–1
Valence	2–1	0–1	3–1	0–2	3–0	1–1	2–2	1–2	3–1	0–0	2–1	1–2	1–2	0–0	1–1	2–1	1–3	2–2	2–1

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

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	David Suarez	Amiens	17
2	Laurent Dufresne	Nancy	16
3	Bertrand Fayolle	Valence	15
3	Guilherme Mauricio	Laval	15
5	Hervé Bugnet	Le Havre	13
6	Cyrille Watier	Caen	12
	Mansour Boutabout	Gueugnon
	Marc-Éric Gueï	Châteauroux
	Robert Malm	Grenoble
	Jacques Rémy	Istres

Attendances

#	Club	Average
1	Saint-Étienne	21,950
2	Caen	12,635
3	Sedan	9,426
4	Le Havre	8,228
5	Lorient	7,952
6	Amiens	7,859
7	La Berrichonne	6,750
8	Nancy	6,362
9	Clermont	6,111
10	ESTAC	6,089
11	Rouen	5,911
12	Angers	5,408
13	Grenoble	5,197
14	Chamois niortais	4,586
15	Gueugnon	3,891
16	Stade lavallois	3,846
17	Besançon	3,733
18	Valence	2,910
19	Istres	2,102
20	Créteil	1,965

Source:^[1]

References

↑ https://www.european-football-statistics.co.uk/attn/archive/fra/avefra04.htm

External links

[table_note_res_ELPR0.81395957377458-1] Since the Coupe de France winners Paris Saint-Germain qualified for the Champions League, their place in the UEFA Cup went to Châteauroux, who were the Coupe de France runners-up.

[2] ttps://www.european-football-statistics.co.uk/attn/archive/fra/avefra04.htm

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