2013–14 Ligue 2
# 2013–14 Ligue 2

The 2013–14 Ligue 2 was the 75th season of second-tier football in France. The season began on 2 August 2013 and ended on 16 May 2014, with the winter break in effect between 20 December and 10 January.

## Teams

### Stadia and locations

| Club | Location | Venue | Capacity | Av. Att. |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Angers | Angers | Stade Jean Bouin | 17,835 | 8,358 |
| Arles-Avignon | Avignon | Parc des Sports | 17,518 | 2,012 |
| Auxerre | Auxerre | Stade de l'Abbé-Deschamps | 21,379 | 4,571 |
| CA Bastia | Bastia | Stade Armand Cesari | 16,078 | 1,742 |
| Brest | Brest | Stade Francis-Le Blé | 15,583 | 7,397 |
| Caen | Caen | Stade Michel d'Ornano | 21,215 | 10,794 |
| Châteauroux | Châteauroux | Stade Gaston Petit | 17,072 | 4,859 |
| Clermont | Clermont-Ferrand | Stade Gabriel Montpied | 11,980 | 3,710 |
| Créteil | Créteil | Stade Dominique Duvauchelle | 12,150 | 2,373 |
| Dijon | Dijon | Stade Gaston Gérard | 16,098 | 8,272 |
| Istres | Istres | Stade Parsemain | 17,559 | 2,300 |
| Laval | Laval | Stade Francis Le Basser | 18,467 | 4,867 |
| Le Havre | Le Havre | Stade Océane | 25,278 | 7,249 |
| Lens | Lens | Stade Félix-Bollaert | 41,233 | 31,016 |
| Metz | Metz | Stade Saint-Symphorien | 26,661 | 13,919 |
| Nancy | Tomblaine | Stade Marcel Picot | 20,087 | 14,678 |
| Nîmes | Nîmes | Stade des Costières | 18,482 | 4,961 |
| Niort | Niort | Stade René Gaillard | 10,406 | 4,384 |
| Tours | Tours | Stade de la Vallée du Cher | 16,327 | 5,678 |
| Troyes | Troyes | Stade de l'Aube | 20,842 | 10,029 |

* ↑ CA Bastia played their home matches at the Stade Armand Cesari, the home of SC Bastia, since their own stadium, Stade Erbajolo, did not meet the required standards to host Ligue 2 football.

### Personnel and kits

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players and managers may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

| Team | $Manager^1$ | $Captain^1$ | Kit $Manufacturer^1$ | Main $Sponsor^1$ |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Angers | Stéphane Moulin | Grégory Malicki | Kappa | Scania |
| Arles-Avignon | Noël Tosi | Ludovic Butelle | Legea | Groupe Nicollin |
| Auxerre | Jean-Luc Vannuchi | Adama Coulibaly | Airness | Maisons Pierre |
| Brest | Alex Dupont | Ahmed Kantari | Nike | Quéguiner |
| CA Bastia | Stéphane Rossi | Rémy Arnoux | Erreà | Corsicatour |
| Caen | Patrice Garande | Jérémy Sorbon | Nike | GDE Recyclage |
| Châteauroux | Jean-Louis Garcia | Massamba Sambou | Nike | Le Seyec |
| Clermont | Régis Brouard | Jean-François Rivière | Patrick Sport | Crédit Mutuel |
| Créteil | Jean-Luc Vasseur | Sebastien Gondouin | Nike | SFB Béton |
| Dijon | Olivier Dall'Oglio | Cédric Varrault | Kappa | Doras |
| Istres | Frédéric Arpinon | Nassim Akrour | Duarig | Kertel |
| Laval | Denis Zanko | Fabrice Levrat | Duarig | Lactel |
| Le Havre | Erick Mombaerts | Yohann Rivière | Nike | System U |
| Lens | Antoine Kombouaré | Yohan Demont | adidas | Invicta |
| Metz | Albert Cartier | Gregory Proment | Nike | Moselle |
| Nancy | Pablo Correa | André Luiz | Nike | Odalys Vacances |
| Nîmes | René Marsiglia | Benoît Poulain | Erreà | Mac Dan |
| Niort | Pascal Gastien | Mouhamadou Diaw | Puma | Restaurant Le Billon (home), Cheminées Poujoulat (away) |
| Tours | Olivier Pantaloni | Julien Cardy | Duarig | Invicta |
| Troyes | Jean-Marc Furlan | Eloge Enza Yamissi | Duarig | Afflelou |

$^1Subject$ to change during the season.

### Managerial changes

| Team | Outgoing head coach | Manner of departure | Date of vacancy | Position in table | Incoming head coach | Date of appointment | Position in table |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Brest | Corentin Martins | End of tenure as caretaker | 31 May 2013 | Off-season | Alex Dupont | 31 May 2013 | Off-season |
| Tours | Bernard Blaquart | Resigned | 23 June 2013 | Off-season | Olivier Pantaloni | 25 June 2013 | Off-season |
| Lens | Éric Sikora | Sacked | 25 June 2013 | Off-season | Antoine Kombouaré | 25 June 2013 | Off-season |
| Nancy | Patrick Gabriel | Sacked | 12 October 2013 | 15th | Pablo Correa | 12 October 2013 | 15th |
| Châteauroux | Didier Tholot | Sacked | 28 October 2013 | 17th | Jean-Louis Garcia | 28 October 2013 | 17th |
| Nîmes | Victor Zvunka | Sacked | 19 December 2013 | 19th | René Marsiglia | 26 December 2013 | 19th |
| Laval | Philippe Hinschberger | Sacked | 24 February 2014 | 19th | Denis Zanko | 24 February 2014 | 19th |
| Auxerre | Bernard Casoni | Sacked | 17 March 2014 | 15th | Jean-Luc Vannuchi | 17 March 2014 | 15th |
| Istres | José Pasqualetti | Sacked | 24 March 2014 | 17th | Frédéric Arpinon | 24 March 2014 | 17th |

## League table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion or Relegation |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Metz (C, P) | 38 | 22 | 10 | 6 | 55 | 28 | +27 | 76 | Promotion to Ligue 1 |
| 2 | Lens (P) | 38 | 17 | 14 | 7 | 58 | 40 | +18 | 65 | Promoted officially but with some conditions. |
| 3 | Caen (P) | 38 | 18 | 10 | 10 | 65 | 44 | +21 | 64 | Promotion to Ligue 1 |
| 4 | Nancy | 38 | 16 | 13 | 9 | 47 | 37 | +10 | 61 | |
| 5 | Niort | 38 | 15 | 13 | 10 | 51 | 47 | +4 | 58 | |
| 6 | Dijon | 38 | 14 | 15 | 9 | 53 | 42 | +11 | 57 | |
| 7 | Brest | 38 | 15 | 11 | 12 | 38 | 32 | +6 | 56 | |
| 8 | Tours | 38 | 15 | 10 | 13 | 63 | 56 | +7 | 55 | |
| 9 | Angers | 38 | 14 | 13 | 11 | 46 | 45 | +1 | 55 | |
| 10 | Troyes | 38 | 15 | 7 | 16 | 56 | 44 | +12 | 52 | |
| 11 | Créteil | 38 | 12 | 14 | 12 | 57 | 58 | −1 | 50 | |
| 12 | Le Havre | 38 | 11 | 15 | 12 | 43 | 43 | 0 | 48 | |
| 13 | Arles-Avignon | 38 | 10 | 16 | 12 | 36 | 38 | −2 | 46 | |
| 14 | Clermont | 38 | 10 | 15 | 13 | 31 | 38 | −7 | 45 | |
| 15 | Nîmes | 38 | 10 | 14 | 14 | 49 | 54 | −5 | 44 | |
| 16 | Auxerre | 38 | 10 | 13 | 15 | 35 | 45 | −10 | 43 | |
| 17 | Laval | 38 | 10 | 12 | 16 | 44 | 52 | −8 | 42 | |
| 18 | Châteauroux | 38 | 10 | 10 | 18 | 43 | 59 | −16 | 40 | Spared due to the DNCG’s rulings. |
| 19 | Istres (R) | 38 | 9 | 9 | 20 | 48 | 74 | −26 | 36 | Relegated, but later readmitted and later relegated. |
| 20 | CA Bastia (R) | 38 | 4 | 12 | 22 | 21 | 63 | −42 | 24 | Relegation to Championnat National |

## Results

| Home \ Away | ANG | ACAA | AUX | CAB | BRS | CAE | CHA | CLR | CRE | DIJ | IST | LVL | LHA | RCL | MET | NAL | NMS | NRT | TOU | TRO |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Angers | | 1–0 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 0–2 | 2–2 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 2–2 | 1–1 | 2–3 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 |
| Arles-Avignon | 3–0 | | 0–2 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 3–2 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 2–2 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 3–0 |
| Auxerre | 1–2 | 1–1 | | 1–0 | 0–0 | 3–2 | 2–0 | 0–2 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 1–2 | 0–3 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 4–0 | 0–0 |
| CA Bastia | 1–1 | 2–2 | 0–0 | | 0–1 | 1–5 | 1–4 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 0–0 | 2–2 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 0–2 | 0–2 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 0–3 | 1–2 | 1–0 |
| Brest | 1–0 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 | | 0–1 | 3–0 | 2–0 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 3–1 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 0–3 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 1–1 |
| Caen | 1–1 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 6–1 | 0–0 | | 1–1 | 2–1 | 3–0 | 3–1 | 4–0 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 0–2 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 1–3 | 1–1 |
| Châteauroux | 0–1 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 3–3 | 0–2 | | 3–0 | 0–2 | 3–1 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 0–3 | 2–0 | 3–0 | 0–4 | 2–1 |
| Clermont | 1–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 2–2 | 1–1 | | 0–0 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 0–3 |
| Créteil | 0–0 | 1–1 | 0–2 | 3–0 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 3–2 | 2–0 | | 1–3 | 2–2 | 4–0 | 2–0 | 2–3 | 3–2 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 0–3 |
| Dijon | 1–3 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 3–0 | 2–2 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 2–2 | | 4–1 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 1–0 | 5–1 | 2–2 | 2–0 | 2–1 |
| Istres | 2–4 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 2–3 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 3–2 | 2–4 | | 3–0 | 0–1 | 1–6 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 4–2 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 0–2 |
| Laval | 4–1 | 1–1 | 3–0 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 1–2 | 2–2 | 0–0 | 5–1 | 0–0 | 3–4 | | 2–2 | 0–2 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 1–3 | 2–4 | 1–0 | 2–1 |
| Le Havre | 1–2 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 3–1 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | | 6–2 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 1–2 | 2–2 | 2–1 |
| Lens | 0–0 | 3–0 | 4–1 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 1–1 | | 3–2 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 2–2 | 1–0 |
| Metz | 1–0 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 0–1 | | 3–0 | 2–2 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 1–0 |
| Nancy | 3–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 3–2 | 2–2 | 2–1 | 3–1 | 2–1 | 3–2 | 1–0 | 0–1 | | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2–3 | 2–1 |
| Nîmes | 0–2 | 1–2 | 2–2 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 3–1 | 1–1 | 2–3 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 3–3 | 0–0 | 0–1 | | 4–1 | 3–0 | 3–2 |
| Niort | 2–1 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 4–0 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 3–1 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 2–0 | 2–2 | 2–1 | | 3–2 | 1–1 |
| Tours | 2–0 | 2–2 | 2–2 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 5–2 | 3–0 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 2–2 | 2–0 | 2–2 | 3–1 | 4–2 | 1–3 | 3–1 | 1–1 | | 1–2 |
| Troyes | 3–3 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 6–1 | 0–2 | 2–1 | 3–0 | 2–2 | 0–3 | 2–0 | 4–1 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 4–1 | 1–2 | |
