1976–77 French Division 1

Division 1

Season	1976–77
Dates	6 August 1976 – 8 June 1977
Champions	Nantes (4th title)
Relegated	Angers Lille Rennes
European Cup	Nantes
Cup Winners' Cup	Saint-Étienne
UEFA Cup	Lens Bastia
Matches played	380
Goals scored	1,125 (2.96 per match)
Top goalscorer	Carlos Bianchi (28 goals)
← 1975–76 1977–78 →

FC Nantes won Division 1 season 1976/1977 of the French Association Football League with 58 points.

Participating teams

• Angers SCO
• SEC Bastia
• Bordeaux
• Stade Lavallois
• RC Lens
• Lille
• Olympique Lyonnais
• Olympique de Marseille
• FC Metz
• AS Nancy
• FC Nantes
• OGC Nice
• Nîmes Olympique
• Paris Saint-Germain FC
• Stade de Reims
• Stade Rennais FC
• AS Saint-Étienne
• FC Sochaux-Montbéliard
• Troyes AF
• US Valenciennes-Anzin

Angers

Bastia

Bordeaux

Laval

Lens

Lille

Lyon

Marseille

Metz

Nancy

Nantes

Nice

Nîmes

PSG

Reims

Rennes

St-Étienne

Sochaux

Troyes

Valenciennes

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Location of teams in 1976–77 Division 1

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Nantes (C)	38	25	8	5	80	40	+40	58	Qualification to European Cup first round
2	Lens	38	19	11	8	73	53	+20	49	Qualification to UEFA Cup first round
3	Bastia	38	20	7	11	82	53	+29	47
4	Nancy	38	18	9	11	78	53	+25	45
5	Saint-Étienne	38	17	11	10	55	36	+19	45	Qualification to Cup Winners' Cup first round[a]
6	Lyon	38	17	10	11	54	47	+7	44
7	Nice	38	19	6	13	60	54	+6	44
8	Metz	38	17	9	12	67	54	+13	43
9	Paris Saint-Germain	38	17	8	13	65	55	+10	42
10	Bordeaux	38	15	8	15	66	57	+9	38
11	Reims	38	12	12	14	53	60	−7	36
12	Marseille	38	14	8	16	48	63	−15	36
13	Nîmes	38	12	10	16	45	56	−11	34
14	Sochaux	38	12	10	16	44	56	−12	34
15	Troyes	38	13	7	18	41	59	−18	33
16	Laval	38	11	10	17	46	62	−16	32
17	Valenciennes	38	9	13	16	41	56	−15	31
18	Angers (R)	38	8	11	19	44	65	−21	27	Relegation to French Division 2
19	Lille (R)	38	7	7	24	40	67	−27	21
20	Rennes (R)	38	6	9	23	43	79	−36	21

Source: Footballdatabase.eu
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
Victory: 2 points, Draw: 1 point, Defeat: 0 points
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. Saint-Etienne qualified for 1977–78 European Cup Winners' Cup as winners of the 1976–77 Coupe de France.

Promoted from Division 2, who will play in Division 1 season 1977/1978

• RC Strasbourg: Champion of Division 2, winner of Division 2 group B
• AS Monaco: Runner-up, winner of Division 2 group A
• FC Rouen: Third place, winner of barrages

Results

Home \ Away	ANG	BAS	BOR	LVL	RCL	LIL	OL	OM	MET	NAL	NAN	NIC	NMS	PSG	REI	REN	STE	SOC	TRO	VAL
Angers		0–3	0–0	1–1	3–2	3–0	0–1	1–2	0–2	3–1	2–2	5–0	0–0	0–2	1–2	1–0	4–2	1–1	1–2	0–0
Bastia	5–1		4–1	3–1	3–2	1–1	3–0	4–0	2–0	3–2	3–0	2–0	5–0	5–2	3–2	3–1	1–1	2–0	3–0	4–0
Bordeaux	4–1	1–0		0–1	5–2	2–1	1–2	5–0	3–3	2–0	1–2	3–1	0–0	5–2	3–1	2–1	2–0	2–1	3–0	0–0
Laval	2–0	3–1	0–0		1–3	1–0	3–0	2–1	1–1	1–1	1–2	1–0	0–1	2–1	0–0	0–0	3–1	0–2	1–1	1–1
Lens	2–0	4–3	3–3	2–1		4–2	2–0	1–0	4–1	1–1	1–1	1–1	3–0	3–3	2–2	3–1	1–1	2–1	3–1	1–0
Lille	0–1	0–3	2–2	3–2	0–1		3–0	2–0	2–0	1–1	1–3	0–2	1–2	2–0	2–1	2–2	1–0	1–1	3–1	1–1
Lyon	1–1	1–1	1–0	2–0	3–3	1–0		2–1	1–0	2–1	2–0	4–1	4–0	1–1	2–1	1–2	0–2	3–0	0–0	2–0
Marseille	2–1	4–1	1–1	2–1	2–2	3–2	3–1		3–1	2–4	1–1	0–1	1–0	2–1	0–1	3–2	1–0	1–1	2–0	1–1
Metz	4–2	1–1	4–2	5–3	0–1	3–1	2–0	3–0		3–0	1–2	2–2	2–0	3–1	2–0	1–0	0–0	2–0	2–1	2–2
Nancy	1–1	4–1	7–3	4–1	1–1	3–0	0–0	2–0	4–1		3–0	1–4	3–1	1–2	4–2	3–2	2–0	3–0	2–0	3–0
Nantes	3–0	3–1	2–0	4–0	1–1	3–1	3–0	3–0	3–2	3–1		6–1	1–0	3–3	1–1	3–1	3–0	2–1	2–1	3–1
Nice	4–1	5–0	2–1	2–1	1–0	2–0	1–2	2–2	2–4	2–0	1–2		1–0	1–0	2–3	4–0	2–0	1–0	2–0	2–1
Nîmes	3–1	3–1	3–2	4–2	0–2	1–0	1–1	2–3	1–1	2–2	0–0	3–2		3–0	1–1	6–2	1–1	0–1	2–0	2–2
Paris SG	2–0	2–2	2–1	5–0	3–1	2–1	2–4	1–1	3–1	2–0	0–1	3–0	0–0		2–1	3–1	2–0	1–0	2–1	1–2
Reims	2–1	1–1	2–1	1–0	2–0	3–1	1–1	1–0	0–2	3–3	0–2	0–1	2–0	2–3		3–0	2–2	1–1	1–3	3–0
Rennes	4–2	1–1	0–2	1–3	2–1	3–1	2–2	2–1	2–3	0–3	2–1	0–0	0–1	1–1	2–2		0–1	2–2	2–2	0–2
Saint-Étienne	1–1	2–1	2–0	3–1	3–0	2–0	1–1	4–0	0–0	3–2	2–0	2–0	2–0	1–0	0–0	4–0		2–0	4–0	5–0
Sochaux	1–1	2–0	1–0	1–1	1–5	4–2	2–1	1–2	1–0	0–3	2–6	1–2	2–1	1–1	2–2	2–1	4–0		2–0	2–1
Troyes	1–1	1–0	0–1	2–1	0–2	1–0	0–3	0–0	3–2	0–1	2–3	2–2	3–1	2–1	4–1	2–1	0–0	1–0		2–1
Valenciennes	0–2	1–2	3–2	1–2	0–1	1–0	3–2	3–1	1–1	1–1	0–0	1–1	2–0	0–3	5–0	2–0	1–1	0–0	1–2

Source: Footballdatabase.eu
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals[1]
1	Carlos Bianchi	Reims	28
2	Michel Platini	Nancy	25
3	Nico Braun	Metz	23
4	Hugo Curioni	Metz	22
	Mustapha Dahleb	Paris Saint-Germain
6	Dragan Džajić	Bastia	21
	François Félix	Bastia
	Bernard Lacombe	Lyon
9	Jacques Vergnes	Laval	19
	Nenad Bjeković	Nice

References

1. (in French) Football: D1 le classement des buteurs SAISON 1976-77

• Division 1 season 1976-1977 at pari-et-gagne.com