Second Division, Group B. One favourite and one outsider.
CS Sedan-Ardennes – last with 22 points and relegated.
FC Rouen – 17th with 27 points and relegated.
FC Lorient – unlucky: 16th with 28 points and relegated on worse goal-difference.
SCO Angers – 15th with 28 points.
RCFC Besancon – 14th with 28 points.
US Dunkerque – 13th with 28 points.
US Valenciennes – 12th with 28 points.
AS Beauvais – 11th with 29 points.
FC Limoges – 10th with 29 points.
SC Abbeville – 9th with 30 points.
Stade Quimper – 8th with 32 points.
US Orleans – 7th with 33 points.
Stade Malherbe Caen – 6th with 37 points.
Chamois Niort – 5th with 37 points.
Stade Reims – 4th with 43 points. Carlos Bianchi back in Reims, no longer as great goalscorer, but coaching them. A beginning of successful coaching career, eventually reaching its peak in his native Argentina.
En Avant Guingamp – 3rd with 47 points. Unlike Group A, Group B virtually had no famous veterans – only Szarmach.
FC Mulhouse – 2nd with 50 points. Incapable of competing for top position, but strong enough season to have a chance for promotion – Mulhouse went to the promotion/relegation play-off against the 18th in First Division, Nancy, but lost it and remained in Second Division.
Racing Club easily won the championship after 24 wins, 8 ties, and only 2 lost games. 78-24 goal-difference and 56 points. The involvement of Matra, not merely a sponsor, but more directly involved with the club, was bringing results. Recovery from the big decline started in the late 1960s was going to take time, of course – so far: promotion to First Division. There was no other way. The squad was also getting stronger little by little – now Bossis was leading it. The Yugoslav star of the 1960s Takac successfully coached Racing this season, but Matra’s ambitions were big and that was still a step in the building process. Anyhow, Racing club was returning to First Division after many years of mediocrity.