Group B. Three teams fought for promotion, 4 teams were relegated.
Le Puy – last with 25 points and relegated.
Clermont-Ferrand FC – 17th with 31 points and out. Szarmach was not used to going down as a player, but coaching was another thing.
Rodez – 16th with 33 points and relegated.
Sete – 15th with 38 points and relegated. Unfortunate… if they were in Group A, they would have been safe. Here… going down and on goal-difference on top of it.
Chamois Niort – 14th with 38 points. Lucky survivors – they had 3-goals better goal-difference than Sete, the difference between life and death.
Istres – 13th with 39 points.
Annecy – 12th with 42 points.
Grenoble – 11th with 42 points.
Orleans – 10th with 43 points.
Montceau – 9th with 43 points.
Olympique Ales – 8th with 46 points.
Cuiseaux-Louhans – 7th with 47 points.
Dijon – 6th with 49 points.
Bastia – 5th with 51 points.
Martiques – 4th with 58 points.
Le Havre – tried hard to return to the top division, but at the end no luck – 3rd with 65 points.
Nimes Olympique – one of the three strong teams, entangled in the battle for promotion, but no luck – 2nd with 66 points.
Olympique Lyon – clinched 1st place with 68 points. 19 wins, 11 ties, 4 losses, 66-22 goal-difference. Under the old point system they would have been also 1st, so it was just victory by all accounts. Seemingly, the terrible decline ended and Lyon was going back to their familiar top league environment. The squad needed significant reinforcement, but former stars Raymond Domenech and Bernard Lacombe did good job as coaches.
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