1997–98 AJ Auxerre season

Auxerre
1997–98 season
President	Jean-Claude Hamel
Head coach	Guy Roux
Stadium	Stade de l'Abbé-Deschamps
Division 1	7th
Coupe de France	Second round
Coupe de la Ligue	Semi-finals
Intertoto Cup	Winners
UEFA Cup	Quarter-finals
Top goalscorer	League: ; Stéphane Guivarc'h (21); All: ; Stéphane Guivarc'h (46)
Average home league attendance	10,974
	← 1996–97 1998–99 →

The 1997–98 season was the 92nd season in the existence of AJ Auxerre and the club's 18th consecutive season in the top-flight of French football. In addition to the domestic league, Auxerre participated in this season's editions of the Coupe de France, the Coupe de la Ligue, the UEFA Intertoto Cup and UEFA Cup.^[2]

Season summary

Auxerre dropped one place in the final table to 7th. They had better success in the cup competitions, reaching the semi-finals of the Coupe de la Ligue and the quarter-finals of the UEFA Cup, winning the Intertoto Cup in the process. Instrumental to Auxerre's success was the form of Stéphane Guivarc'h, who scored 21 league goals to win the Golden Boot; Guivarc'h added 24 further goals across the cups to finish with an astonishing 45 goals in all competitions.

Players

First-team squad

Squad at end of season^[3]^[2]

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


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	FRA	Lionel Charbonnier
16	GK	FRA	Fabien Cool
12	DF	FRA	Éric Assati
20	DF	FRA	Laurent Ciechelski
5	DF	FRA	Frédéric Danjou
2	DF	FRA	Alain Goma
13	DF	FRA	Jean-Sébastien Jaurès
22	DF	FRA	Frédéric Jay
14	DF	FRA	Cyril Jeunechamp
3	DF	FRA	Franck Rabarivony
21	DF	FRA	Johan Radet
19	DF	FRA	David Recorbet
4	DF	FRA	Franck Silvestre
27	DF	NGA	Michael Yobo
25	MF	TOG	Kuami Agboh
11	MF	FRA	Bernard Diomède


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
6	MF	FRA	Christian Henna
8	MF	FRA	Yann Lachuer
7	MF	FRA	Sabri Lamouchi
10	MF	FRA	Antoine Sibierski
24	MF	FRA	Benjamin Nivet
32	MF	MAR	Tarik Sektioui
29	MF	FIN	Teemu Tainio
28	FW	FRA	Xavier Chalier
26	MF	FRA	Arnaud Gonzalez
33	FW	FRA	Sébastien Heitzmann
15	FW	FRA	Fabrice Lepaul
23	FW	FRA	Lilian Compan
18	FW	FRA	Thomas Deniaud
9	FW	FRA	Stéphane Guivarc'h
17	FW	FRA	Steve Marlet

Reserves

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


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—	MF	FRA	Nicolas Marin


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—	FW	FRA	Djibril Cissé

Competitions

Division 1

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
5	Bordeaux	34	15	11	8	49	41	+8	56	Qualification to UEFA Cup first round
6	Lyon	34	16	5	13	39	37	+2	53	Qualification to UEFA Cup first round
7	Auxerre	34	14	9	11	55	45	+10	51	Qualification to Intertoto Cup third round
8	Paris Saint-Germain	34	14	8	12	43	35	+8	50	Qualification to Cup Winners' Cup first round^[a]
9	Bastia	34	13	11	10	36	31	+5	50	Qualification to Intertoto Cup second round

Source: Ligue 1
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
Notes:

^ Paris Saint-Germain qualified for the 1998–99 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup as winners of the 1997–98 Coupe de France and 1997–98 Coupe de la Ligue.

Intertoto Cup

Group stage

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	AUX	LS	ANT	NSL	ARD
1	Auxerre	4	3	1	0	19	2	+17	10	Advanced to semi-finals	—	1–1	5–0	—	—
2	Lausanne Sports	4	2	2	0	13	4	+9	8		—	—	—	4–1	6–0
3	Royal Antwerp	4	2	1	1	7	7	0	7		—	2–2	—	4–0	—
4	Nea Salamis Famagusta	4	1	0	3	6	19	−13	3		1–10	—	—	—	4–1
5	Ards	4	0	0	4	1	14	−13	0		0–3	—	0–1	—	—

Source: rsssf.com

28 June 1997 1	Auxerre	1–1	Lausanne Sports	Auxerre, France
	Guivarc'h 38'		Ohrel 45' (pen.)	Stadium: Stade Abbé-Deschamps Attendance: 3,917 Referee: Emanuel Zammit (Malta)

5 July 1997 2	Ards	0–3	Auxerre	Newtownards, Northern Ireland
			Compan 65' Sibierski 79' Guivarc'h 89'	Stadium: Castlereagh Park Referee: Zoran Arsić (FR Yugoslavia)

12 July 1997 3	Auxerre	5–0	Royal Antwerp	Auxerre, France
	Diomède 11', 30' Marlet 25' Guivarc'h 59', 72'			Stadium: Stade Abbé-Deschamps Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Attila Juhos (Hungary)

19 July 1997 4	Nea Salamis Famagusta	1–10	Auxerre	Larnaca, Cyprus
	Demetriou 86'		Guivarc'h 13', 20', 24', 54', 84' Diomède 51', 81' Lachuer 66', 77' Marlet 70'	Stadium: Ammochostos Stadium Attendance: 400 Referee: Gerry Perry (Ireland)

Semi-finals

26 July 1997 First leg	Auxerre	3–0	Torpedo Moscow	Auxerre, France
21:00	Goma 43' Diomède 58' Marlet 64'	Report		Stadium: Stade Abbé-Deschamps Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Karol Ihring (Slovakia)

30 July 1997 Second leg	Torpedo Moscow	4–1 (4–4a agg.)	Auxerre	Moscow, Russia
17:00	Gashkin 23' Mashkarin 36' Samarone 50' Carlos Alberto 88' (pen.)	Report	Guivarc'h 43'	Stadium: Eduard Streltsov Stadium Attendance: 3,000 Referee: László Vagner (Hungary)

Finals

12 August 1997 First leg	Duisburg	0–0	Auxerre	Duisburg, Germany
20:20		Report		Stadium: Wedaustadion Attendance: 9,350 Referee: Sándor Puhl (Hungary)

26 August 1997 Second leg	Auxerre	2–0 (2–0 agg.)	Duisburg	Auxerre, France
21:00	Diomède 56' Jeunechamp 83'	Report		Stadium: Stade de l'Abbé-Deschamps Attendance: 9,000 Referee: Anders Frisk (Sweden)

UEFA Cup

First round

16 September 1997 First leg	Deportivo La Coruña	1–2	Auxerre	A Coruña, Spain
21:00	Djalminha 87'	Report	Diomède 72' Guivarc'h 84'	Stadium: Riazor Attendance: 24,000 Referee: Georg Dardenne (Germany)

30 September 1997 Second leg	Auxerre	0–0 (2–1 agg.)	Deportivo La Coruña	Auxerre, France
20:00		Report		Stadium: Stade de l'Abbé-Deschamps Attendance: 18,000 Referee: Nikolai Levnikov (Russia)

Second round

21 October 1997 First leg	Auxerre	3–1	OFI Crete	Auxerre, France
20:30	Sibierski 15' Guivarc'h 61', 90'	Report	Nioplias 13'	Stadium: Stade de l'Abbé-Deschamps Attendance: 21,000 Referee: Miroslav Radoman (FR Yugoslavia)

4 November 1997 Second leg	OFI Crete	3–2 (4–5 agg.)	Auxerre	Heraklion, Greece
20:00	Papadopoulos 57', 75' (pen.) Anastasiou 90'	Report	Guivarc'h 37' Deniaud 60'	Stadium: Theodoros Vardinogiannis Stadium Attendance: 9,000 Referee: Mario van der Ende (Netherlands)

Third round

25 November 1997 First leg	Twente	0–1	Auxerre	Enschede, Netherlands
18:45		Report	Diomède 70'	Stadium: De Grolsch Veste Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Terje Hauge (Norway)

9 December 1997 Second leg	Auxerre	2–0 (3–0 agg.)	Twente	Auxerre, France
20:00	Diomède 3' Guivarc'h 82' (pen.)	Report		Stadium: Stade de l'Abbé-Deschamps Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Aron Huzu (Romania)

Quarter-finals

3 March 1998 First leg	Lazio	1–0	Auxerre	Rome, Italy
20:00	Casiraghi 64'	Report		Stadium: Stadio Olimpico Attendance: 40,000 Referee: Michel Piraux (Belgium)

17 March 1998 Second leg	Auxerre	2–2 (2–3 agg.)	Lazio	Auxerre, France
20:15	Guivarc'h 39', 81'	Report	Mancini 8' (pen.) Gottardi 13'	Stadium: Stade de l'Abbé-Deschamps Attendance: 22,000 Referee: Antonio Jesús López Nieto (Spain)

References

^ "Ligue 1 1997/1998 » Attendance » Home matches". Worldfootball.net. Retrieved 20 June 2021.
^ ^a ^b "Auxerre 1997/1998". Footballdatabase.eu. Retrieved 20 June 2021.
^ "AJ Auxerre - Squad 1997/1998". worldfootball.net.

[table_note_res_CWC0.58154913297927-4] Paris Saint-Germain qualified for the 1998–99 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup as winners of the 1997–98 Coupe de France and 1997–98 Coupe de la Ligue.

[attendance-1] "Ligue 1 1997/1998 » Attendance » Home matches". Worldfootball.net. Retrieved 20 June 2021.

[foot98-2] "Auxerre 1997/1998". Footballdatabase.eu. Retrieved 20 June 2021.

[3] "AJ Auxerre - Squad 1997/1998". worldfootball.net.

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