1963–64 French Division 1

AS Saint-Étienne won Division 1 season 1963/1964 of the French Association Football League with 44 points.

Division Nationale

Season	1963–64
← 1962–63 1964–65 →

Participating teams

• Angers SCO
• Bordeaux
• RC Lens
• Olympique Lyonnais
• AS Monaco
• FC Nantes
• OGC Nice
• Nîmes Olympique
• RC Paris
• Stade de Reims
• Stade Rennais UC
• FC Rouen
• AS Saint-Étienne
• UA Sedan-Torcy
• Stade Français FC
• RC Strasbourg
• Toulouse FC
• US Valenciennes-Anzin

Angers

Bordeaux

Lens      

Lyon

AS Monaco

Nantes

Nice

Nîmes

RC Paris

Reims

Rennes

Rouen

St-Étienne

Sedan

Stade Français

Strasbourg

Toulouse

Valenciennes

Location of teams in 1963–64 Division 1

Final table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Saint-Étienne (C)	34	18	8	8	71	48	+23	44	Qualification to European Cup preliminary round
2	Monaco	34	17	7	10	62	45	+17	41
3	Lens	34	17	6	11	71	46	+25	40
4	Lyon	34	15	9	10	58	53	+5	39	Qualification to Cup Winners' Cup first round[a]
5	Toulouse	34	13	11	10	56	54	+2	37
6	Valenciennes	34	14	7	13	49	39	+10	35
7	Bordeaux	34	13	8	13	55	58	−3	34	Invited to Inter-Cities Fairs Cup
8	Nantes	34	13	8	13	51	59	−8	34
9	Strasbourg	34	11	11	12	43	41	+2	33	Invited to Inter-Cities Fairs Cup
10	Angers	34	11	11	12	54	62	−8	33
11	Rennes	34	12	9	13	54	65	−11	33
12	Sedan	34	14	4	16	62	52	+10	32
13	Nîmes	34	12	8	14	45	45	0	32
14	Rouen	34	12	8	14	50	51	−1	32
15	Stade Français (O)	34	13	6	15	48	53	−5	32	Inter-Cities Fairs Cup and qualification to relegation play-offs
16	Racing Paris (R)	34	12	7	15	66	76	−10	31	Qualification to relegation play-offs
17	Reims (R)	34	8	11	15	37	56	−19	27	Relegation to French Division 2
18	Nice (R)	34	7	9	18	45	74	−29	23

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Rules for classification: Victory: 2 points, Draw: 1 point, Defeat: 0 points
(C) Champions; (O) Play-off winners; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. Lyon qualified for 1964–65 European Cup Winners' Cup as winners of the 1963–64 Coupe de France.

Promoted from Division 2, who will play in Division 1 season 1964/1965

• Lille OSC: Champion
• FC Sochaux-Montbéliard: runner-up
• SC Toulon: Fourth place (FC Metz (3rd) did not qualify)

Results

Home \ Away	ANG	BOR	RCL	OL	ASM	NAN	NIC	NMS	RCP	REI	REN	ROU	STE	SED	SFF	RCS	TOU	VAL
Angers		1–1	1–2	1–1	4–4	3–3	0–3	0–1	2–1	3–1	1–1	3–0	3–1	1–0	1–3	1–1	4–3	2–2
Bordeaux	3–0		1–1	4–0	0–0	2–0	6–2	2–2	2–2	4–2	3–1	2–0	2–3	3–2	4–1	2–0	2–1	0–3
Lens	4–0	8–1		1–2	0–0	2–0	2–1	4–2	10–2	2–1	5–0	0–2	4–2	3–1	3–0	2–1	2–1	2–0
Lyon	2–2	3–1	1–1		5–1	1–1	0–0	2–1	5–1	3–1	4–2	0–1	4–5	2–0	2–0	1–1	1–2	1–1
Monaco	0–1	2–0	5–0	0–1		3–1	0–0	2–0	5–3	1–0	3–2	2–1	2–1	3–1	0–1	4–2	5–0	3–0
Nantes	1–0	4–1	2–1	3–1	1–3		3–0	2–1	1–0	0–0	2–1	7–1	1–3	2–2	3–1	2–1	2–2	3–1
Nice	3–1	2–0	3–2	1–2	0–2	1–2		3–2	1–1	1–1	0–2	2–0	1–1	2–4	3–1	1–1	2–4	1–3
Nîmes	2–0	0–0	1–1	5–0	1–0	3–0	0–0		3–1	4–0	3–1	0–2	0–2	4–2	3–0	1–1	1–0	2–0
Racing Paris	3–4	3–1	3–2	1–3	1–5	3–0	3–2	5–0		2–1	0–2	2–2	1–3	2–2	3–2	3–0	1–1	1–3
Reims	1–1	1–0	1–0	2–2	2–3	1–1	2–0	0–0	1–4		3–3	0–0	3–1	1–0	0–3	0–0	1–3	1–4
Rennes	2–4	2–2	0–0	2–3	2–1	3–1	3–1	3–1	2–2	2–0		2–1	1–1	1–0	4–3	0–0	4–2	2–1
Rouen	0–0	0–0	3–0	2–2	4–0	5–2	3–0	1–0	1–2	3–4	3–1		0–0	2–2	2–0	3–0	2–1	0–4
Saint-Étienne	2–2	4–0	1–0	2–1	4–1	6–1	2–2	3–0	2–1	1–1	3–0	1–0		2–1	0–1	2–2	7–1	1–1
Sedan	2–1	2–4	2–3	2–0	4–0	2–0	8–1	3–1	1–0	2–0	5–0	2–1	3–0		2–0	2–1	1–1	0–2
Stade Français	2–2	2–0	1–0	1–2	1–0	4–0	2–2	0–0	2–3	0–2	4–2	5–2	1–3	3–2		1–0	0–0	0–2
Strasbourg	2–1	3–1	1–2	5–0	1–1	0–0	2–1	3–0	2–1	1–2	2–1	1–0	2–0	2–0	1–1		1–1	1–0
Toulouse FC	4–0	0–1	4–2	1–0	1–1	1–0	2–1	1–1	2–2	0–0	1–1	2–2	4–0	2–0	0–2	3–2		2–1
Valenciennes	1–3	1–0	0–0	0–1	0–0	0–0	7–2	1–0	1–3	2–1	0–0	2–1	1–2	2–0	0–0	1–0	2–3

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Relegation play-offs

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		SFF	TOU	RCP	MET
1	Stade Français	4	2	1	1	10	8	+2	5	Qualification to French Division 1		—	4–1		2–1
2	Toulon	4	2	0	2	9	9	0	4			3–1	—	5–1
3	Racing Paris	4	2	0	2	8	9	−1	4	Qualification to French Division 2			3–0	—	2–1
4	Metz	4	1	1	2	8	9	−1	3			3–3		3–2	—

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
Victory: 2 points, Draw: 1 point, Defeat: 0 points

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Ahmed Oudjani	Lens	30
2	André Guy	Saint-Étienne	28
3	Néstor Combin	Lyon	23
4	Lucien Cossou	Monaco	21
5	Jean Deloffre	Lens	18
	Mohamed Salem	Sedan
7	Rachid Mekhloufi	Saint-Étienne	16
8	Héctor De Bourgoing	Bordeaux	15
	Guy Van Sam	Racing Paris
10	Stéphane Bruey	Angers	14
	Giovanni Pellegrini	Rennes
	N'Ganga Samuel Edimo	Toulouse FC

References

• Division 1 season 1963-1964 at pari-et-gagne.com