1979–80 French Division 1

Division 1

Season	1979–80
Dates	26 July 1979 – 27 May 1980
Champions	Nantes (5th title)
Relegated	Marseille Brest
European Cup	Nantes
UEFA Cup	Sochaux Saint-Étienne
Cup Winners' Cup	Monaco
Matches played	380
Goals scored	1,073 (2.82 per match)
Top goalscorer	Erwin Kostedde (21) Delio Onnis (21)
← 1978–79 1980–81 →

FC Nantes won Division 1 season 1979/1980 of the French Association Football League with 57 points.

Participating teams

• Angers SCO
• SEC Bastia
• Bordeaux
• Stade Brest
• Stade Lavallois
• RC Lens
• Lille
• Olympique Lyonnais
• Olympique de Marseille
• FC Metz
• AS Monaco
• AS Nancy
• FC Nantes Atlantique
• OGC Nice
• Nîmes Olympique
• Paris Saint-Germain FC
• AS Saint-Etienne
• FC Sochaux
• RC Strasbourg
• US Valenciennes-Anzin

Angers

Bastia

Bordeaux

Brest

Laval

Lens

Lille

Lyon

Marseille

Metz

AS Monaco

Nancy

Nantes

Nice

Nîmes

PSG

St-Étienne

Sochaux

Strasbourg

Valenciennes

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Location of teams in 1979–80 Division 1

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Nantes (C)	38	26	5	7	76	30	+46	57	Qualification to European Cup first round
2	Sochaux	38	24	6	8	76	36	+40	54	Qualification to UEFA Cup first round
3	Saint-Étienne	38	23	8	7	73	50	+23	54
4	Monaco	38	21	8	9	61	30	+31	50	Qualification to Cup Winners' Cup first round
5	Strasbourg	38	17	9	12	58	50	+8	43
6	Bordeaux	38	16	8	14	64	53	+11	40
7	Paris Saint-Germain	38	15	10	13	59	52	+7	40
8	Valenciennes	38	14	12	12	47	47	0	40
9	Lens	38	14	10	14	51	51	0	38
10	Nîmes	38	15	8	15	45	50	−5	38
11	Nancy	38	15	7	16	55	61	−6	37
12	Laval	38	15	5	18	57	55	+2	35
13	Lille	38	12	11	15	45	49	−4	35
14	Angers	38	14	7	17	45	55	−10	35
15	Nice	38	13	6	19	53	62	−9	32
16	Bastia	38	14	4	20	39	51	−12	32
17	Metz	38	12	8	18	45	60	−15	32
18	Lyon (O)	38	10	9	19	43	65	−22	29	Qualification to relegation play-offs
19	Marseille (R)	38	9	6	23	45	78	−33	24	Relegation to French Division 2
20	Brest (R)	38	4	7	27	35	87	−52	15

Source: Footballdatabase.eu
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
Victory: 2 points, Draw: 1 point, Defeat: 0 points
(C) Champions; (O) Play-off winners; (R) Relegated
Notes:

Promoted from Division 2, who will play in Division 1 season 1980/1981

• Auxerre: Champion of Division 2, winner of Division 2 group B
• FC Tours: Runner-up, winner of Division 2 group A

Results

Home \ Away	ANG	BAS	BOR	BRS	LVL	RCL	LIL	OL	OM	MET	ASM	NAL	NAN	NIC	NMS	PSG	STE	SOC	RCS	VAL
Angers		3–1	3–0	2–0	3–1	2–1	2–0	1–1	3–1	2–0	1–4	1–0	0–1	2–3	0–1	1–2	0–2	1–3	1–0	2–1
Bastia	1–1		2–1	1–0	2–1	1–2	4–0	2–0	2–0	0–1	2–0	2–2	1–0	3–0	2–0	1–0	0–1	0–1	2–1	2–1
Bordeaux	2–1	2–1		4–1	4–1	1–1	1–1	3–0	2–0	1–3	3–1	4–1	1–3	3–1	2–1	0–1	5–1	2–3	1–3	7–0
Brest	0–1	3–0	0–1		2–2	0–0	1–1	5–1	7–2	1–3	1–2	3–3	0–1	1–0	2–2	0–4	0–2	1–2	2–5	1–5
Laval	3–2	3–0	1–0	3–0		0–0	2–0	1–2	3–0	3–2	0–2	0–1	0–2	3–0	3–1	3–1	2–3	3–3	0–0	3–0
Lens	2–0	2–0	2–1	3–0	1–0		5–3	1–1	4–1	4–1	0–3	4–0	1–3	0–1	1–0	1–1	4–3	2–0	1–1	1–1
Lille	0–0	2–0	0–1	1–0	2–0	0–0		1–0	1–1	3–0	3–1	2–0	1–1	4–3	4–0	4–2	0–2	1–1	2–0	0–1
Lyon	0–1	1–1	1–1	3–0	2–0	1–1	4–2		1–0	1–0	0–1	2–1	1–2	2–2	2–1	1–1	0–0	3–1	0–2	3–1
Marseille	3–1	2–1	1–1	3–0	0–2	3–1	2–0	3–1		1–0	0–3	2–2	0–1	3–1	0–1	0–2	3–5	1–1	1–3	3–6
Metz	0–1	0–2	1–1	0–0	1–4	2–1	2–0	5–2	3–2		0–0	2–1	0–0	2–0	0–0	5–2	1–2	0–0	0–0	1–0
Monaco	3–0	1–0	0–0	4–0	2–1	2–0	0–1	4–0	1–0	3–0		3–0	2–1	2–1	0–0	2–2	2–1	0–1	4–1	0–1
Nancy	1–0	3–1	3–1	5–1	2–1	1–1	1–0	1–0	5–0	0–1	2–1		0–2	1–2	1–0	3–2	1–1	1–2	3–4	1–0
Nantes	3–1	1–0	4–1	3–0	4–1	3–0	1–0	3–0	4–1	4–1	0–0	2–0		5–0	4–1	4–2	2–0	3–2	2–1	0–0
Nice	0–0	2–1	0–0	3–0	0–1	1–0	0–0	3–1	0–3	4–2	1–2	1–1	1–2		1–2	3–0	2–4	1–2	6–1	2–0
Nîmes	1–1	2–0	2–0	2–0	2–0	3–1	3–2	3–2	0–0	2–1	1–1	4–2	2–1	0–1		2–0	0–1	2–0	0–0	1–1
Paris SG	1–1	1–1	0–1	0–0	3–1	3–0	2–2	2–1	2–1	2–0	2–1	1–2	1–0	2–2	4–0		2–2	3–1	1–0	3–0
Saint-Étienne	3–3	2–0	3–3	2–1	3–1	3–1	0–0	2–0	3–1	2–1	2–1	2–2	4–2	2–1	3–1	2–0		2–1	2–1	0–1
Sochaux	4–0	3–0	2–0	7–0	2–0	3–0	3–0	3–1	3–0	4–0	1–2	5–1	1–0	2–1	2–1	1–0	4–1		1–1	0–1
Strasbourg	4–0	1–0	4–0	2–1	0–3	0–1	3–2	3–1	1–1	3–2	1–1	1–0	2–2	2–3	1–0	2–1	1–0	0–1		2–1
Valenciennes	2–1	5–0	0–3	2–1	1–1	3–1	0–0	1–1	1–0	2–2	0–0	0–1	1–0	1–0	4–1	1–1	0–0	1–1	1–1

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

Relegation play-offs

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Lyon	8–4	Avignon	6–0	2–4

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Erwin Kostedde	Laval	21
	Delio Onnis	Monaco
3	Pierre Pleimelding	Lille	18
4	Drago Vabec	Brest	17
5	Michel Platini	Saint-Étienne	16
6	Yves Ehrlacher	Lens	15
	Nenad Bjeković	Nice
	Johnny Rep	Saint-Étienne
	Bernard Genghini	Sochaux
10	Yannick Stopyra	Sochaux	14

References

• Division 1 season 1979-1980 at pari-et-gagne.com