1991–92 French Division 1

Division 1

Season	1991–92
Champions	Marseille (8th title)
Relegated	Rennes Cannes Nancy
Champions League	Marseille
Cup Winners’ Cup	Monaco
UEFA Cup	Paris Saint-Germain Auxerre Caen
Matches played	380
Goals scored	796 (2.09 per match)
Top goalscorer	Jean-Pierre Papin (27)
← 1990–91 1992–93 →

Olympique de Marseille won Division 1 season 1991/1992 of the French Association Football League with 58 points.

Participating teams

• Auxerre
• SM Caen
• AS Cannes
• Le Havre AC
• Lens
• Lille
• Olympique Lyonnais
• Olympique Marseille
• FC Metz
• AS Monaco
• Montpellier HSC
• AS Nancy
• FC Nantes Atlantique
• Nîmes Olympique
• Paris Saint-Germain FC
• Stade Rennais
• AS Saint-Etienne
• FC Sochaux-Montbéliard
• Sporting Toulon Var
• Toulouse FC

Auxerre

Caen

Cannes

Le Havre

Lens      

Lille

Lyon

Marseille

Metz

AS Monaco

Montpellier

Nancy

Nantes

Nîmes

PSG

Rennes

St-Étienne

Sochaux

Toulon

Toulouse

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Location of teams in 1991–92 Division 1

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Marseille (C)	38	23	12	3	67	21	+46	58	Qualification to Champions League first round
2	Monaco	38	22	8	8	55	33	+22	52	Qualification to Cup Winners' Cup first round
3	Paris Saint-Germain	38	15	17	6	43	27	+16	47	Qualification to UEFA Cup first round
4	Auxerre	38	16	12	10	55	32	+23	44
5	Caen	38	17	10	11	45	44	+1	44
6	Montpellier	38	12	18	8	40	32	+8	42
7	Le Havre	38	13	16	9	35	32	+3	42
8	Lens	38	11	17	10	36	30	+6	39
9	Nantes	38	12	14	12	37	39	−2	38
10	Saint-Étienne	38	13	11	14	42	37	+5	37
11	Toulouse	38	11	14	13	33	40	−7	36
12	Metz	38	12	11	15	42	43	−1	35
13	Lille	38	11	13	14	31	34	−3	35
14	Toulon	38	13	6	19	41	55	−14	32
15	Nîmes	38	9	14	15	31	50	−19	32
16	Lyon	38	10	11	17	25	39	−14	31
17	Sochaux	38	9	13	16	35	50	−15	31
18	Rennes (R)	38	6	17	15	25	42	−17	29	Qualification to relegation play-offs
19	Cannes (R)	38	8	12	18	34	48	−14	28	Relegation to French Division 2
20	Nancy (R)	38	10	8	20	43	67	−24	28

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; (R) Relegated
Notes:

Promoted from Ligue 2, who will play in Division 1 season 1992/1993

• Bordeaux:Champion of Division 2, winner of Division 2 group B
• Valenciennes FC:Runner-up, winner of Division 2 group A
• RC Strasbourg:Third place, winner of barrages against Stade Rennais

Results

Home \ Away	AUX	CAE	CAN	LHA	RCL	LIL	OL	OM	MET	ASM	MHS	NAL	FCN	NMS	PSG	REN	STE	SOC	SCT	TFC
Auxerre		5–1	3–1	3–0	1–0	1–0	3–0	1–1	3–0	1–1	1–0	3–1	2–2	0–0	2–2	3–1	2–0	4–0	1–0	3–0
Caen	1–0		3–1	2–1	2–0	3–3	1–0	1–3	1–0	1–0	0–0	5–1	1–1	2–0	2–0	0–0	1–0	1–1	4–1	1–0
Cannes	1–1	2–0		0–0	2–1	1–1	0–0	1–2	1–1	1–2	2–0	1–1	2–0	0–0	1–1	3–1	0–2	2–1	0–1	2–0
Le Havre	1–0	0–1	1–0		1–0	0–0	1–0	0–2	0–0	3–0	3–1	1–2	1–1	1–1	1–1	0–0	2–1	1–0	3–0	1–1
Lens	0–0	0–0	1–1	0–0		0–0	4–2	2–1	0–2	0–1	1–1	1–0	0–0	0–0	1–0	0–0	1–1	1–1	2–1	4–0
Lille	1–0	1–2	0–0	0–0	1–2		1–0	0–1	0–2	1–2	1–0	2–1	0–0	1–1	0–0	1–1	2–0	0–0	1–0	3–1
Lyon	1–0	2–2	0–0	0–2	1–1	1–0		1–1	0–0	2–0	1–0	2–1	0–1	1–0	0–1	3–1	0–0	0–1	1–1	1–0
Marseille	2–0	5–0	2–0	2–0	1–1	1–0	0–0		2–0	1–1	0–0	4–0	4–0	4–2	0–0	5–1	2–0	2–2	0–1	2–0
Metz	2–1	1–2	1–2	1–1	3–2	1–0	1–1	0–0		2–0	1–3	0–1	1–1	4–0	0–0	0–0	1–0	3–1	4–1	4–0
Monaco	2–0	2–1	3–1	0–2	0–0	1–0	1–0	0–3	3–1		1–1	4–1	1–0	1–1	1–0	3–1	2–0	2–0	3–0	0–2
Montpellier	1–1	3–1	3–0	2–2	0–0	0–0	3–0	0–0	1–0	1–4		2–0	2–1	0–0	1–1	0–0	2–0	3–2	1–0	0–0
Nancy	2–1	3–0	1–0	1–3	3–1	1–2	0–0	1–3	1–3	1–4	3–1		3–1	2–3	0–0	1–1	0–2	3–1	0–0	1–1
Nantes	2–0	2–1	1–0	0–0	1–0	1–2	3–0	0–1	4–1	1–4	0–0	0–0		3–2	0–0	1–0	1–0	0–0	1–2	1–1
Nîmes	0–0	0–1	2–1	1–0	0–2	1–0	2–1	1–2	1–0	0–1	2–1	1–2	0–0		0–1	1–2	1–1	2–2	1–0	2–2
Paris SG	1–1	3–1	3–2	1–1	1–0	2–0	3–0	0–0	3–0	2–0	1–1	1–0	1–1	2–0		1–0	0–0	2–0	2–3	0–0
Rennes	1–1	1–0	0–0	0–2	0–0	2–3	0–2	1–2	3–1	0–0	0–2	3–1	0–1	1–1	0–0		0–0	2–0	0–0	1–1
Saint-Étienne	1–1	1–1	2–0	4–0	0–4	1–1	1–2	1–1	2–0	0–1	1–1	3–0	2–1	3–0	3–0	0–1		2–1	3–1	2–1
Sochaux	1–0	2–0	1–0	0–0	1–2	2–1	1–0	2–3	0–0	1–3	1–1	2–2	3–1	1–1	0–2	0–0	1–0		2–0	0–0
Toulon	0–3	0–0	4–3	4–0	0–1	1–2	1–0	1–0	1–1	1–1	0–1	4–2	0–2	5–0	2–5	1–0	1–2	2–0		1–0
Toulouse	2–3	0–0	2–0	0–0	1–1	1–0	1–0	0–2	1–0	0–0	1–1	1–0	2–1	0–1	3–0	2–0	1–1	2–1	3–0

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
Rennes	1–4	Strasbourg	0–0	1–4

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Jean-Pierre Papin	Marseille	27
2	François Calderaro	Metz	19
3	George Weah	Monaco	18
4	Stéphane Paille	Caen	14
	Fabrice Divert	Montpellier
6	Abedi Pele	Marseille	12
	Christian Perez	Paris Saint-Germain
	Leonardo Rodriguez	Toulon
9	Christophe Cocard	Auxerre	11
10	Jean-Marc Ferreri	Auxerre	9
	Youri Djorkaeff	Monaco
	Jean-Philippe Sechet	Nancy
	David Zitelli	Nancy

Olympique de Marseille Winning Squad 1991–'92

Goal Keeper

• Pascal Olmeta

Defence

• Manuel Amoros
• Jocelyn Angloma
• Pascal Baills
• Basile Boli
• Bernard Casoni
• Marcel Desailly
• Eric Di Meco
• Carlos Mozer

Midfield

• Alain Boghossian
• Didier Deschamps
• Jean-Philippe Durand
• Patrice Eyraud
• Jean-Christophe Marquet
• Franck Sauzée
• Trevor Steven
• Dragan Stojkovic (on loan)

Attack

• Marc Libbra
• Jean-Pierre Papin
• Abedi Pele
• Chris Waddle
• Daniel Xuereb

Management

• Tomislav Ivic, later Raymond Goethals(Coach)