France. The championship was perhaps no different than before, but there was clear understanding that French football was ascending. But there was peculiarity: on club level, there was no big change – it was still pleasant, mellow, fairly equal championship with inevitable change of guard. St. Etienne and Nantes were slowly going down, Bordeaux and Paris SG were going up. No superclubs dominating the domestic scene – typically French.
Third division – lots of first-division clubs here: their second teams. The rest – small fry, save for Racing (Paris). Which had insignificant season.
Racing still lost in Third Division .