1958–59 French Division 1

Division Nationale

Season	1958–59
← 1957–58 1959–60 →

OGC Nice won Division 1 season 1958/1959 of the French Association Football League with 56 points.

Participating teams

• Olympique Alès
• Angers SCO
• RC Lens
• Lille OSC
• Limoges FC
• Olympique Lyonnais
• Olympique de Marseille
• AS Monaco
• FC Nancy
• OGC Nice
• Nîmes Olympique
• RC Paris
• Stade de Reims
• Stade Rennais UC
• AS Saint-Etienne
• UA Sedan-Torcy
• FC Sochaux-Montbéliard
• RC Strasbourg
• Toulouse FC
• US Valenciennes-Anzin

Alès

Angers

Lens      

Lille

Limoges

Lyon

Marseille

AS Monaco

Nancy

Nice

Nîmes

RC Paris

Reims

Rennes

St. Étienne

Sedan

Sochaux

Strasbourg

Toulouse

Valenciennes

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Location of teams in 1958–59 Division 1

Final table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	OGC Nice (C)	38	24	8	6	80	38	+42	56	European Cup
2	Nîmes Olympique	38	21	11	6	75	40	+35	53
3	RC Paris	38	18	13	7	84	47	+37	49
4	Stade de Reims	38	19	10	9	84	59	+25	48
5	FC Sochaux-Montbéliard	38	17	9	12	70	64	+6	43
6	AS Saint-Etienne	38	16	8	14	68	73	−5	40
7	Angers SCO	38	13	13	12	66	58	+8	39
8	AS Monaco	38	14	11	13	52	51	+1	39
9	Olympique Lyonnais	38	16	7	15	62	68	−6	39	Inter-Cities Fairs Cup
10	UA Sedan-Torcy	38	12	14	12	65	53	+12	38
11	RC Strasbourg	38	14	10	14	65	76	−11	38
12	Stade Rennais UC	38	13	10	15	61	61	0	36
13	US Valenciennes-Anzin	38	13	10	15	53	63	−10	36
14	Toulouse FC	38	12	11	15	59	59	0	35
15	Limoges FC	38	12	10	16	48	57	−9	34
16	RC Lens	38	12	8	18	56	66	−10	32
17	FC Nancy (R)	38	10	9	19	58	79	−21	29	Relegated to Division 2
18	Lille OSC (R)	38	9	11	18	56	78	−22	29
19	Olympique Alès (R)	38	8	8	22	45	83	−38	24
20	Olympique de Marseille (R)	38	6	11	21	50	84	−34	23

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 1959/1960

• Le Havre AC: Champion of Division 2, (Winner of Coupe de France)
• Stade Français FC: runner-up of Division 2
• SC Toulon: Third place
• Bordeaux: Fourth place

Results

Home \ Away	ALÈ	ANG	RCL	LIL	LFC	OL	OM	ASM	FCN	NIC	NMS	RCP	REI	REN	STE	SED	SOC	RS	TOU	VAL
Alès		1–3	2–6	1–2	0–2	1–2	2–1	2–1	0–3	0–0	0–4	1–1	3–6	0–1	1–1	1–1	2–1	1–0	1–0	3–0
Angers	1–0		2–2	2–0	4–0	3–1	3–2	0–0	4–2	1–2	1–1	1–2	3–0	0–0	0–1	3–1	1–1	2–2	3–1	4–0
Lens	2–4	1–1		2–2	1–1	2–1	4–1	2–1	2–4	0–0	0–1	2–1	2–1	2–0	0–2	0–2	3–2	6–0	0–1	2–0
Lille	5–0	1–1	1–1		2–0	2–1	2–2	2–2	2–0	0–0	0–0	1–6	0–2	4–4	2–4	0–3	3–0	2–3	3–2	6–1
Limoges	2–2	2–2	2–1	5–0		1–0	1–0	2–1	0–0	0–2	3–2	1–1	2–2	2–4	4–0	1–1	1–2	1–2	0–0	1–0
Lyon	1–1	1–0	2–0	1–0	2–1		1–1	4–1	1–3	1–0	2–1	3–2	1–5	5–2	2–0	4–3	2–0	2–2	1–1	2–2
Marseille	2–1	2–3	0–2	0–0	2–0	1–1		0–2	4–2	2–0	0–2	1–2	2–3	1–3	4–1	1–1	0–0	3–3	1–1	3–1
Monaco	1–1	1–0	0–0	3–0	0–0	4–1	2–0		1–0	1–1	1–1	4–1	0–2	1–0	0–3	0–3	1–0	2–1	1–0	2–1
Nancy	3–0	3–2	2–1	1–1	0–2	4–3	2–2	2–2		3–6	2–1	1–2	3–5	2–1	0–1	0–1	2–2	0–1	0–1	1–1
Nice	4–2	0–3	3–1	2–1	3–1	2–0	6–1	2–0	3–0		2–0	3–2	4–0	2–0	1–0	3–1	5–0	4–2	3–2	1–0
Nîmes	3–0	5–3	4–2	3–0	3–0	4–1	1–1	1–0	1–0	1–1		0–0	2–2	3–0	2–1	2–2	2–1	1–1	3–1	2–0
Racing Paris	5–2	5–0	5–0	7–2	4–1	2–2	2–1	2–0	4–4	1–1	2–2		0–1	1–0	2–2	1–1	0–2	5–2	2–0	3–0
Reims	1–1	1–1	4–1	4–3	1–0	1–2	2–1	3–2	7–1	1–2	3–1	0–0		4–0	3–0	1–1	1–3	2–3	3–1	2–1
Rennes	4–2	3–2	1–1	3–0	0–1	2–4	2–2	2–1	3–1	0–3	1–2	0–1	2–2		0–2	3–1	4–0	2–2	3–0	4–0
Saint-Étienne	1–0	1–1	3–0	1–0	2–1	2–0	4–2	3–5	4–0	3–4	0–1	3–3	4–4	2–2		2–1	4–3	1–5	4–3	1–1
Sedan	2–0	2–2	1–2	1–1	3–1	3–1	6–1	2–2	1–2	1–0	1–2	0–3	0–0	1–1	5–0		0–1	1–3	1–1	4–0
Sochaux	4–5	2–1	2–1	2–3	3–1	5–3	5–1	3–2	2–1	1–0	3–2	1–1	3–1	2–1	3–1	2–2		3–0	2–2	1–1
Strasbourg	2–0	4–2	1–0	2–0	1–1	3–0	3–1	1–1	1–1	2–2	1–5	0–2	0–2	0–1	3–3	1–3	2–1		1–2	3–2
Toulouse FC	4–2	1–1	3–1	3–1	2–1	0–1	3–0	1–2	3–2	2–2	2–4	1–1	1–1	1–1	2–0	4–1	1–1	5–1		1–2
Valenciennes	1–0	4–0	3–1	3–2	2–3	1–0	5–1	2–2	1–1	2–1	0–0	1–0	3–1	1–1	3–1	1–1	1–1	4–1	2–0

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

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Thadée Cisowski	Racing Paris	30
2	Hassan Akesbi	Nîmes	24
	Just Fontaine	Reims
4	Mahi Khennane	Rennes	23
5	Roger Piantoni	Reims	20
6	Henri Skiba	Nîmes	19
	N'Ganga Samuel Edimo	Sochaux
	Antoine Groschulski	Strasbourg
9	Stéphane Bruey	Angers	18
	Jacques Foix	Nice
	Eugène Njo-Léa	Saint-Étienne
	Ginès Liron	Valenciennes

OGC Nice Winning Squad 1958-'59

Goal

• Georges Lamia

Defence

• André Chorda
• Alain Cornu
• César Hector Gonzales
• Alphonse Martinez
• Guy Poitevin

Midfield

• Ferenc Kocsur
• François Milazzo
• Vincent Scanella

Attack

• Jean-Pierre Alba
• Oumar Barrou
• Jacques Faivre
• Jacques Foix
• Alberto Muro
• Victor Nurenberg

Unknown

• René Vergé

Management

• Jean Luciano (Coach)

References

• Division 1 season 1958-1959 at pari-et-gagne.com