1952–53 French Division 1

Stade de Reims won Division 1 season 1952/1953 of the French Association Football League with 48 points.

Division Nationale

Season	1952–53
← 1951–52 1953–54 →

Participating teams

• Bordeaux
• Le Havre AC
• RC Lens
• Lille OSC
• Olympique de Marseille
• FC Metz
• SO Montpellier
• FC Nancy
• OGC Nice
• Nîmes Olympique
• RC Paris
• Stade de Reims
• Stade Rennais UC
• CO Roubaix-Tourcoing
• AS Saint-Etienne
• FC Sète
• FC Sochaux-Montbéliard
• Stade français (football)

Bordeaux

Le Havre

Lens      

Lille

Marseille

Metz

Montpellier

Nancy

Nice

Nîmes

RC Paris

Reims

Rennes

Roubaix-Tourcoing

Sète

Stade Français

St. Étienne

Sochaux

Location of teams in 1952–53 Division 1

Final table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GAv	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Reims (C)	34	22	4	8	86	36	2.389	48
2	Sochaux	34	18	8	8	72	58	1.241	44
3	Bordeaux	34	19	5	10	79	56	1.411	43
4	Lille	34	15	10	9	61	43	1.419	40
5	Nîmes	34	17	6	11	62	47	1.319	40
6	Marseille	34	15	7	12	62	53	1.170	37
7	Lens	34	13	8	13	50	48	1.042	34
8	Nancy	34	16	2	16	48	58	0.828	34
9	Stade Français	34	12	9	13	54	51	1.059	33
10	Sète	34	13	7	14	42	49	0.857	33
11	Saint-Étienne	34	11	8	15	44	59	0.746	30
12	Metz	34	11	7	16	44	48	0.917	29
13	Nice	34	12	5	17	49	57	0.860	29
14	Le Havre	34	11	7	16	47	63	0.746	29
15	Roubaix-Tourcoing	34	9	10	15	42	49	0.857	28
16	Rennes (R)	34	10	8	16	37	56	0.661	28	Qualification to relegation play-offs
17	Racing Paris (R)	34	11	6	17	40	64	0.625	28	Relegation to French Division 2
18	Montpellier (R)	34	8	9	17	43	67	0.642	25

Source:
Rules for classification: Victory: 2 points, Draw: 1 point, Defeat: 0 points
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Promoted from Division 2, who will play in Division 1 season 1953/1954

• Toulouse FC: Champion of Division 2
• AS Monaco: Runner-up
• RC Strasbourg: Third place

Results

Home \ Away	BOR	LHA	RCL	LIL	OM	MET	SOM	FCN	NIC	NMS	RCP	REI	REN	CRT	STE	SÉT	SOC	SFF
Bordeaux		6–0	2–0	1–5	2–0	4–0	6–0	4–1	7–3	3–2	3–1	1–0	7–0	4–2	0–0	3–0	4–1	2–1
Le Havre	3–1		1–0	0–1	2–1	3–0	1–1	0–1	2–0	1–1	4–1	3–4	1–1	2–0	3–0	2–0	2–2	1–3
Lens	1–1	2–0		0–3	1–1	3–1	2–1	4–1	2–0	2–1	2–1	1–3	5–0	1–3	1–2	3–0	5–1	1–1
Lille	0–0	3–1	0–0		2–0	1–2	2–2	6–2	1–1	3–2	3–0	2–5	1–1	2–1	0–2	5–0	3–1	2–1
Marseille	3–0	3–1	1–1	3–0		3–0	5–1	4–3	3–1	4–1	3–0	2–1	2–2	4–2	1–0	3–3	1–6	1–0
Metz	0–2	6–1	3–0	0–3	1–3		1–1	2–0	2–0	2–0	0–2	0–0	2–1	1–1	5–0	0–1	1–2	2–0
Montpellier	4–1	2–1	2–1	1–1	2–1	1–1		0–1	2–1	2–5	0–1	2–6	2–2	1–1	2–0	1–1	2–3	0–3
Nancy	3–0	0–3	1–3	1–3	1–0	1–0	3–0		2–1	2–0	1–0	1–1	1–2	1–0	3–2	0–1	1–2	5–1
Nice	1–2	0–2	3–1	0–0	3–1	1–2	0–0	2–1		2–0	1–2	0–4	3–1	4–1	2–0	3–2	5–3	2–1
Nîmes	5–1	7–1	0–0	2–0	2–0	2–1	4–2	2–1	1–0		4–2	1–0	2–0	1–0	0–0	3–1	2–0	0–0
Racing Paris	3–3	1–1	1–1	1–0	1–1	0–2	2–1	1–2	1–3	1–2		1–3	2–0	0–2	2–1	2–1	2–1	2–2
Reims	2–3	5–0	5–0	1–1	3–1	2–1	3–2	0–2	3–1	2–0	5–1		5–1	1–0	2–0	2–0	3–0	1–2
Rennes	1–0	2–0	3–2	1–1	3–1	4–2	0–1	0–1	0–0	2–0	1–0	0–1		3–2	0–1	3–0	1–1	0–0
Roubaix-Tourcoing	3–1	0–0	0–1	1–2	0–0	1–0	1–0	2–2	2–2	2–4	0–1	1–1	3–2		2–0	2–0	2–2	0–0
Saint-Étienne	1–1	1–0	2–3	2–1	2–2	2–2	2–0	6–0	2–1	4–2	3–1	2–6	1–0	1–1		2–2	1–3	1–1
Sète	2–0	3–1	2–0	3–1	2–0	0–0	1–0	1–2	1–0	1–1	0–1	2–1	2–0	1–0	5–0		0–0	2–2
Sochaux	8–2	3–2	1–0	3–3	2–1	1–1	2–1	1–0	3–2	1–1	3–3	1–0	2–0	3–1	3–0	4–2		1–3
Stade Français	0–2	2–2	1–1	2–0	2–3	2–1	2–4	4–1	0–1	4–2	5–0	1–5	2–0	1–3	2–1	2–0	1–2

Source:
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
Strasbourg	7–1	Rennes	4–0	3–1

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Gunnar Andersson	Marseille	35
2	Bram Appel	Reims	30
3	Abdesselem Ben Mohamed	Bordeaux	22
4	Jean Saunier	Le Havre	19
5	Édouard Kargu	Bordeaux	18
6	Georges Dupraz	Montpellier	17
	René Gardien	Sochaux
	Alberto Muro	Sochaux
9	Rachid Belaïd	Nancy	16
10	Egon Jonsson	Stade Français	14
	Henri Fontaine	Sète

Attendances

#	Club	Average
1	Racing	20,695
2	Marseille	17,569
3	Stade français	17,367
4	Girondins	15,167
5	Nice	13,344
6	LOSC	13,334
7	Lens	12,112
8	Reims	9,968
9	Nîmes	9,662
10	Saint-Étienne	9,502
11	Le Havre	9,413
12	Stade rennais	9,235
13	Roubaix-Tourcoing	8,171
14	MHSC	8,045
15	Nancy	7,861
16	Metz	7,560
17	Sochaux	7,367
18	Sète	5,385

Source:

References

• Division 1 season 1952-1953 at pari-et-gagne.com