2013–14 Ligue 2

The 2013–14 Ligue 2 was the 75th season of second-tier football in France. The season began on 2 August 2013 and ended on 16 May 2014, with the winter break in effect between 20 December and 10 January.^[9]

Ligue 2

Season	2013–14
Champions	Metz
Promoted	Metz Lens Caen
Relegated	CA Bastia Istres
Matches played	380
Goals scored	939 (2.47 per match)
Top goalscorer	Andy Delort and Mathieu Duhamel (24 goals)[1]
Biggest home win	Troyes 6–1 CA Bastia (4 October 2013)[2]
Biggest away win	Châteauroux 0–4 Tours (16 August 2013)[3] CA Bastia 1–5 Caen (13 December 2013)[4]
Highest scoring	Le Havre 6–2 Lens (14 September 2013)[5]
Longest winning run	7 matches: Metz[6]
Longest unbeaten run	12 matches: Caen[6]
Longest winless run	13 matches: CA Bastia[6]
Highest attendance	40,740 Lens 0–1 Brest (9 May 2014)[7]
Lowest attendance	1,021 CA Bastia 2–2 Le Havre (24 January 2014)[8]
Average attendance	7,915[7]
← 2012–13 2014–15 →

Teams

Stadia and locations

Angers

Arles

Auxerre

Brest

CA Bastia

Caen

Châteauroux

Clermont

Créteil

Dijon

Istres

Laval

Le Havre

Lens

Metz

Nancy

Nîmes

Niort

Tours

Troyes

Location of teams in 2013–14 Ligue 2

Club	Location	Venue	Capacity[10]	Av. Att.[10]
Angers	Angers	Stade Jean Bouin	17,835	8,358
Arles-Avignon	Avignon	Parc des Sports	17,518	2,012
Auxerre	Auxerre	Stade de l'Abbé-Deschamps	21,379	4,571
CA Bastia	Bastia	Stade Armand Cesari[a]	16,078	1,742
Brest	Brest	Stade Francis-Le Blé	15,583	7,397
Caen	Caen	Stade Michel d'Ornano	21,215	10,794
Châteauroux	Châteauroux	Stade Gaston Petit	17,072	4,859
Clermont	Clermont-Ferrand	Stade Gabriel Montpied	11,980	3,710
Créteil	Créteil	Stade Dominique Duvauchelle	12,150	2,373
Dijon	Dijon	Stade Gaston Gérard	16,098	8,272
Istres	Istres	Stade Parsemain	17,559	2,300
Laval	Laval	Stade Francis Le Basser	18,467	4,867
Le Havre	Le Havre	Stade Océane	25,278	7,249
Lens	Lens	Stade Félix-Bollaert	41,233	31,016
Metz	Metz	Stade Saint-Symphorien	26,661	13,919
Nancy	Tomblaine	Stade Marcel Picot	20,087	14,678
Nîmes	Nîmes	Stade des Costières	18,482	4,961
Niort	Niort	Stade René Gaillard	10,406	4,384
Tours	Tours	Stade de la Vallée du Cher	16,327	5,678
Troyes	Troyes	Stade de l'Aube	20,842	10,029

1. CA Bastia played their home matches at the Stade Armand Cesari, the home of SC Bastia, since their own stadium, Stade Erbajolo, did not meet the required standards to host Ligue 2 football.

Personnel and kits

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players and managers may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Team	Manager1	Captain1	Kit Manufacturer1	Main Sponsor1
Angers	Stéphane Moulin	Grégory Malicki	Kappa	Scania
Arles-Avignon	Noël Tosi	Ludovic Butelle	Legea	Groupe Nicollin
Auxerre	Jean-Luc Vannuchi	Adama Coulibaly	Airness	Maisons Pierre
Brest	Alex Dupont	Ahmed Kantari	Nike	Quéguiner
CA Bastia	Stéphane Rossi	Rémy Arnoux	Erreà	Corsicatour
Caen	Patrice Garande	Jérémy Sorbon	Nike	GDE Recyclage
Châteauroux	Jean-Louis Garcia	Massamba Sambou	Nike	Le Seyec
Clermont	Régis Brouard	Jean-François Rivière	Patrick Sport	Crédit Mutuel
Créteil	Jean-Luc Vasseur	Sebastien Gondouin	Nike	SFB Béton
Dijon	Olivier Dall'Oglio	Cédric Varrault	Kappa	Doras
Istres	Frédéric Arpinon	Nassim Akrour	Duarig	Kertel
Laval	Denis Zanko	Fabrice Levrat	Duarig	Lactel
Le Havre	Erick Mombaerts	Yohann Rivière	Nike	System U
Lens	Antoine Kombouaré	Yohan Demont	adidas	Invicta
Metz	Albert Cartier	Gregory Proment	Nike	Moselle
Nancy	Pablo Correa	André Luiz	Nike	Odalys Vacances
Nîmes	René Marsiglia	Benoît Poulain	Erreà	Mac Dan
Niort	Pascal Gastien	Mouhamadou Diaw	Puma	Restaurant Le Billon (home), Cheminées Poujoulat (away)
Tours	Olivier Pantaloni	Julien Cardy	Duarig	Invicta
Troyes	Jean-Marc Furlan	Eloge Enza Yamissi	Duarig	Afflelou

¹Subject to change during the season.

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing head coach	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming head coach	Date of appointment	Position in table
Brest	Corentin Martins	End of tenure as caretaker	31 May 2013	Off-season	Alex Dupont	31 May 2013[11]	Off-season
Tours	Bernard Blaquart	Resigned	23 June 2013[12]	Off-season	Olivier Pantaloni	25 June 2013	Off-season
Lens	Éric Sikora	Sacked	25 June 2013	Off-season	Antoine Kombouaré	25 June 2013[13]	Off-season
Nancy	Patrick Gabriel	Sacked	12 October 2013	15th	Pablo Correa	12 October 2013[14]	15th
Châteauroux	Didier Tholot	Sacked	28 October 2013[15]	17th	Jean-Louis Garcia	28 October 2013[16]	17th
Nîmes	Victor Zvunka	Sacked	19 December 2013[17]	19th	René Marsiglia	26 December 2013[17]	19th
Laval	Philippe Hinschberger	Sacked	24 February 2014	19th	Denis Zanko	24 February 2014[18]	19th
Auxerre	Bernard Casoni	Sacked	17 March 2014[19]	15th	Jean-Luc Vannuchi	17 March 2014[20]	15th
Istres	José Pasqualetti	Sacked	24 March 2014	17th	Frédéric Arpinon	24 March 2014[21]	17th

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or Relegation
1	Metz (C, P)	38	22	10	6	55	28	+27	76	Promotion to Ligue 1
2	Lens (P)	38	17	14	7	58	40	+18	65	Promoted officially but with some conditions.[22]
3	Caen (P)	38	18	10	10	65	44	+21	64	Promotion to Ligue 1
4	Nancy	38	16	13	9	47	37	+10	61
5	Niort	38	15	13	10	51	47	+4	58
6	Dijon	38	14	15	9	53	42	+11	57
7	Brest	38	15	11	12	38	32	+6	56
8	Tours	38	15	10	13	63	56	+7	55
9	Angers	38	14	13	11	46	45	+1	55
10	Troyes	38	15	7	16	56	44	+12	52
11	Créteil	38	12	14	12	57	58	−1	50
12	Le Havre	38	11	15	12	43	43	0	48
13	Arles-Avignon	38	10	16	12	36	38	−2	46
14	Clermont	38	10	15	13	31	38	−7	45
15	Nîmes	38	10	14	14	49	54	−5	44
16	Auxerre	38	10	13	15	35	45	−10	43
17	Laval	38	10	12	16	44	52	−8	42
18	Châteauroux	38	10	10	18	43	59	−16	40	Spared due to the DNCG’s rulings.
19	Istres (R)	38	9	9	20	48	74	−26	36	Relegated, but later readmitted and later relegated.
20	CA Bastia (R)	38	4	12	22	21	63	−42	24	Relegation to Championnat National

Source: Ligue 2
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated

Results

Home \ Away	ANG	ACAA	AUX	CAB	BRS	CAE	CHA	CLR	CRE	DIJ	IST	LVL	LHA	RCL	MET	NAL	NMS	NRT	TOU	TRO
Angers		1–0	2–0	1–0	2–1	1–2	1–0	0–2	2–2	0–0	1–0	1–1	1–0	1–2	2–2	1–1	2–3	2–0	1–1	1–1
Arles-Avignon	3–0		0–2	0–0	1–0	3–2	1–1	1–0	2–1	0–0	2–2	1–1	2–0	1–1	1–0	1–2	1–1	0–0	1–0	3–0
Auxerre	1–2	1–1		1–0	0–0	3–2	2–0	0–2	1–1	2–2	1–0	2–0	2–1	1–2	0–3	0–0	1–1	2–0	4–0	0–0
CA Bastia	1–1	2–2	0–0		0–1	1–5	1–4	1–1	3–1	0–0	2–2	1–1	0–0	0–2	0–2	1–2	0–0	0–3	1–2	1–0
Brest	1–0	2–0	1–0	2–0		0–1	3–0	2–0	1–2	0–0	3–1	2–1	1–1	0–1	0–3	0–0	1–1	0–1	2–0	1–1
Caen	1–1	1–0	1–0	6–1	0–0		1–1	2–1	3–0	3–1	4–0	2–1	1–0	1–0	0–2	1–2	1–1	3–1	1–3	1–1
Châteauroux	0–1	2–0	2–0	2–0	3–3	0–2		3–0	0–2	3–1	2–0	1–1	2–2	1–1	0–1	0–3	2–0	3–0	0–4	2–1
Clermont	1–1	1–1	1–1	2–0	1–0	2–2	1–1		0–0	0–1	2–0	2–1	0–1	0–0	0–0	1–0	1–0	0–1	2–1	0–3
Créteil	0–0	1–1	0–2	3–0	0–0	1–2	3–2	2–0		1–3	2–2	4–0	2–0	2–3	3–2	1–1	1–1	1–1	2–1	0–3
Dijon	1–3	1–1	1–0	3–0	3–0	2–2	2–1	1–0	2–2		4–1	1–0	1–2	1–1	2–2	1–0	5–1	2–2	2–0	2–1
Istres	2–4	1–0	1–1	1–1	3–1	2–3	0–0	1–1	3–2	2–4		3–0	0–1	1–6	1–2	0–0	4–2	2–1	1–0	0–2
Laval	4–1	1–1	3–0	2–0	2–1	1–2	2–2	0–0	5–1	0–0	3–4		2–2	0–2	0–0	1–0	1–3	2–4	1–0	2–1
Le Havre	1–2	2–1	2–0	1–0	0–1	1–1	0–0	0–1	3–1	0–0	1–0	1–1		6–2	1–1	1–1	0–1	1–2	2–2	2–1
Lens	0–0	3–0	4–1	1–0	0–1	2–1	2–0	1–1	1–1	2–2	1–2	0–0	1–1		3–2	1–1	1–0	2–0	2–2	1–0
Metz	1–0	1–0	3–0	1–0	2–1	2–1	1–0	1–0	1–1	2–0	2–1	1–0	3–0	0–1		3–0	2–2	1–1	1–1	1–0
Nancy	3–1	0–0	0–0	0–1	0–1	1–1	2–0	3–2	2–2	2–1	3–1	2–1	3–2	1–0	0–1		1–0	1–1	2–3	2–1
Nîmes	0–2	1–2	2–2	0–1	1–1	2–1	3–1	1–1	2–3	1–1	1–0	2–1	0–0	3–3	0–0	0–1		4–1	3–0	3–2
Niort	2–1	1–0	1–0	1–1	1–2	0–0	4–0	0–0	2–1	2–0	3–1	0–1	1–1	2–2	2–0	2–2	2–1		3–2	1–1
Tours	2–0	2–2	2–2	1–0	1–1	2–1	5–2	3–0	1–2	1–0	2–2	2–0	2–2	3–1	4–2	1–3	3–1	1–1		1–2
Troyes	3–3	1–0	2–0	6–1	0–2	2–1	3–0	2–2	0–3	2–0	4–1	0–1	0–1	1–0	0–1	2–0	2–1	4–1	1–2

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

Statistics

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Andy Delort	Tours	24
	Mathieu Duhamel	Caen
3	Diafra Sakho	Metz	20
4	Christian Bekamenga	Laval	18
	Emiliano Sala	Niort
6	Ghislain Gimbert	Troyes	14
	Yeni Ngbakoto	Metz
8	Jeff Louis	Nancy	12
	Yoann Touzghar	Lens

Source: Official Goalscorers' Standings