2004–05 Ligue 2

Ligue 2
Season	2004–05
	← 2003–04 2005–06 →

The Ligue 2 season 2004/2005, organised by the LFP was won by AS Nancy and saw the promotions of AS Nancy, Le Mans UC72 and Troyes AC, whereas Angers SCO and SC Bastia were relegated to National.

20 participating teams

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or Relegation
1	Nancy (C, P)	38	21	8	9	54	33	+21	71	Promotion to Ligue 1
2	Le Mans (P)	38	20	8	10	51	30	+21	68
3	Troyes (P)	38	20	8	10	61	48	+13	68
4	Dijon	38	14	15	9	44	34	+10	57
5	Châteauroux	38	14	15	9	51	43	+8	57
6	Sedan	38	16	9	13	38	38	0	57
7	Guingamp	38	15	11	12	53	43	+10	56
8	Montpellier	38	15	10	13	44	39	+5	55
9	Brest	38	13	16	9	38	34	+4	55
10	Lorient	38	14	8	16	47	51	−4	50
11	Grenoble	38	12	12	14	45	50	−5	48
12	Gueugnon	38	12	12	14	30	40	−10	48
13	Amiens	38	11	14	13	41	41	0	47
14	Laval	38	13	8	17	43	51	−8	47
15	Créteil	38	11	13	14	42	38	+4	46
16	Reims	38	10	13	15	34	55	−21	43
17	Le Havre	38	11	9	18	28	42	−14	42
18	Clermont	38	8	15	15	34	39	−5	39
19	Niort (R)	38	10	8	20	40	52	−12	38	Relegation to Championnat National [fr]
20	Angers (R)	38	8	14	16	32	44	−12	38	Relegation to Championnat National [fr]

Source: Ligue 2
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated

Results

Home \ Away	AMI	ANG	BRS	CHA	CLE	CRE	DIJ	GRE	GUE	GUI	LAV	LHA	MFC	LOR	MHS	NAL	NRT	REI	SED	TRO
Amiens		0–2	1–0	2–2	1–1	0–0	2–1	0–2	4–0	1–1	2–1	1–2	0–0	0–0	2–0	0–3	4–1	1–1	1–2	3–2
Angers	3–2		1–0	1–2	1–1	1–1	2–2	0–0	1–1	1–0	0–1	0–2	0–2	2–0	0–1	1–1	1–2	3–0	2–2	2–1
Brest	1–1	1–0		0–0	1–2	1–0	1–1	1–1	0–0	2–2	2–1	1–0	1–0	0–0	1–1	3–2	1–0	4–2	2–0	1–1
Châteauroux	1–0	1–1	1–2		1–1	2–2	2–1	1–1	0–0	2–0	1–0	4–1	1–3	3–0	2–0	0–0	2–0	1–1	0–0	3–1
Clermont	0–0	0–0	0–0	2–0		0–1	0–0	5–0	0–2	2–1	3–1	0–1	0–0	2–0	0–0	0–0	2–0	0–0	0–1	1–3
Créteil	1–0	2–0	2–3	3–1	1–1		1–1	0–0	3–0	1–1	3–1	0–2	1–0	2–0	3–3	2–1	0–1	4–0	2–0	0–1
Dijon	2–1	1–0	2–2	3–0	2–2	1–0		2–1	0–0	1–1	0–0	0–0	0–2	0–0	1–0	0–1	2–1	0–0	1–0	1–1
Grenoble	1–1	0–0	0–2	2–0	1–0	1–1	1–3		2–1	4–2	2–1	2–1	2–1	1–2	0–0	1–1	5–1	2–0	0–0	1–2
Gueugnon	1–1	1–0	1–0	1–3	2–0	1–0	0–1	1–0		0–0	1–1	1–0	0–0	2–1	2–1	0–2	2–1	1–1	0–0	1–2
Guingamp	2–1	1–0	1–2	2–0	3–1	2–0	0–1	3–1	2–0		2–1	1–0	2–1	1–1	3–1	3–2	3–1	2–0	4–0	0–1
Laval	1–0	1–1	2–1	2–3	4–3	0–0	2–1	3–1	1–0	1–0		0–1	1–2	0–0	1–3	1–2	1–0	1–2	2–2	2–1
Le Havre	1–0	0–0	0–0	0–1	0–0	1–1	1–0	2–1	0–1	2–2	1–1		0–1	3–1	0–1	0–0	1–2	3–1	0–0	1–0
Le Mans	1–1	3–0	1–1	0–2	2–2	1–0	2–1	1–0	1–2	0–0	3–0	1–0		3–1	2–0	1–2	1–0	0–0	3–0	2–3
Lorient	1–2	1–2	3–0	2–1	1–0	3–1	0–2	2–0	3–2	1–1	1–1	2–0	1–2		1–2	1–1	3–1	3–1	2–1	1–2
Montpellier	0–2	2–1	1–0	0–0	1–0	0–0	4–2	3–1	1–1	1–1	3–1	3–0	2–0	0–1		1–1	2–0	0–0	0–1	3–4
Nancy	1–2	3–1	1–0	1–1	2–1	1–0	2–0	2–0	1–0	2–1	0–1	1–0	1–3	1–0	1–0		3–1	3–1	1–2	1–0
Niort	3–1	0–0	1–1	0–0	0–2	2–2	0–0	1–3	1–1	1–0	2–0	6–1	0–3	4–0	0–1	1–2		0–1	3–0	0–1
Reims	0–0	1–1	0–0	1–1	3–0	2–1	0–5	1–1	2–1	3–2	2–0	3–0	0–1	1–4	0–2	0–4	2–0		0–0	2–0
Sedan	0–1	1–0	0–0	2–1	2–0	1–0	0–1	1–2	3–0	3–0	0–3	1–0	1–2	3–2	2–0	2–0	0–0	2–0		2–1
Troyes	0–0	4–1	2–0	5–5	1–0	2–1	2–2	2–2	1–0	1–1	0–2	2–1	2–0	1–2	2–1	2–1	1–1	2–0	2–1

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

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Bakari Koné	Lorient	24
2	Sébastien Grax	Troyes	16
3	Élie Kroupi	Nancy	14
4	Moumouni Dagano	Guingamp	13
	Cédric Fauré	Guingamp
	James Fanchone	Le Mans
	Benjamin Nivet	Troyes
8	Robert Malm	Brest	12
8	Rui Pataca	Créteil	12
10	Laurent Dufresne	Nancy	11

External links

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