2001–02 French Division 1

Lyon won Division 1 season 2001/2002 of the French Association Football League with 66 points. The title was decided in the very final game of the season when Lyon defeated erstwhile championship leaders Lens at Stade Gerland. Lyon had to win the match to take the title, and won 3–1, ending Lens's title dream. It was Lyon's first league championship, and it began their record seven successive league titles.

Season2001–02

Dates27 July 2001 –
4 May 2002

ChampionsLyon (1st title)

RelegatedMetz
Lorient

Quick facts Season, Dates ...

Division 1
Season	2001–02
Dates	27 July 2001 – 4 May 2002
Champions	Lyon (1st title)
Relegated	Metz Lorient
Matches	306
Goals	736 (2.41 per match)
Best Player	Pauleta
Top goalscorer	Djibril Cissé (22 goals)
← 2000–01 2002–03 (Ligue 1) →

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Participating teams

Lens

Location of teams in 2001–02 Ligue 1

League table

More information Pos, Team ...

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Lyon (C)	34	20	6	8	62	32	+30	66	Qualification to Champions League first group stage
2	Lens	34	18	10	6	55	30	+25	64	Qualification to Champions League first group stage
3	Auxerre	34	16	11	7	48	38	+10	59	Qualification to Champions League third qualifying round
4	Paris Saint-Germain	34	15	13	6	43	24	+19	58	Qualification to UEFA Cup first round
5	Lille	34	15	11	8	39	32	+7	56	Qualification to Intertoto Cup third round
6	Bordeaux	34	14	8	12	34	31	+3	50	Qualification to UEFA Cup first round^[a]
7	Troyes	34	13	8	13	40	35	+5	47	Qualification to Intertoto Cup second round
8	Sochaux	34	12	10	12	41	40	+1	46	Qualification to Intertoto Cup second round
9	Marseille	34	11	11	12	34	39	−5	44
10	Nantes	34	12	7	15	35	41	−6	43
11	Bastia	34	12	5	17	38	44	−6	41
12	Rennes	34	11	8	15	40	51	−11	41
13	Montpellier	34	9	13	12	28	31	−3	40
14	Sedan	34	8	15	11	35	39	−4	39
15	Monaco	34	9	12	13	36	41	−5	39
16	Guingamp	34	9	8	17	34	57	−23	35
17	Metz (R)	34	9	6	19	31	47	−16	33	Relegation to Ligue 2
18	Lorient (R)	34	7	10	17	43	64	−21	31	UEFA Cup first round and relegated to Ligue 2^[b]

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Source: Ligue 1
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

[a]
Bordeaux was qualified for the 2002–03 UEFA Cup as winners of the 2001–02 Coupe de la Ligue.
[b]
Lorient was qualified for the 2002–03 UEFA Cup as winners of the 2001–02 Coupe de France.

Promoted from Ligue 2, who will play in Ligue 1 season 2002/2003

AC Ajaccio : champion of Ligue 2
RC Strasbourg : runners-up
OGC Nice : third place
Le Havre AC : fourth place

Position by round

More information Team ╲ Round, Lyon ...

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34
Team ╲ Round
Lyon	16	8	4	3	2	3	3	4	1	3	3	4	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	1
Lens	4	1	1	1	1	2	1	3	4	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2
Auxerre	1	3	2	2	3	1	2	1	2	4	4	3	4	3	4	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	4	3	3	3
PSG	12	13	8	7	4	6	5	6	8	8	8	7	8	8	8	7	5	5	5	6	5	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	3	4	4	4
Lille	11	4	6	4	5	4	4	2	3	1	2	2	2	4	3	3	4	4	4	4	6	6	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5
Bordeaux	3	5	7	10	12	14	12	7	6	6	7	5	5	7	5	5	6	6	6	5	4	5	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6
Troyes	2	6	9	5	7	9	13	9	10	7	6	8	7	6	6	6	8	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7
Sochaux	6	2	3	6	6	5	6	5	5	5	5	6	6	5	7	8	7	8	8	8	9	9	9	9	9	12	9	8	8	8	8	8	8	8
Marseille	9	12	15	16	16	16	17	16	17	14	14	15	13	14	9	10	10	10	10	12	12	12	12	13	12	8	10	9	10	10	12	10	9	9
Nantes	15	17	17	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	17	14	14	13	12	13	14	14	14	13	12	11	9	11	10
Bastia	10	14	16	11	9	7	7	8	7	9	11	13	9	11	14	15	13	11	11	13	13	13	14	14	14	13	13	13	14	13	14	13	14	11
Rennais	18	18	12	8	13	10	9	14	16	13	10	11	14	9	10	11	12	12	14	14	15	18	16	16	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	12
Montpellier	8	11	5	9	11	12	10	13	14	16	16	14	16	13	13	9	9	9	9	9	8	8	8	8	8	10	11	12	12	14	13	14	10	13
Sedan	7	16	14	15	14	13	11	17	15	17	17	17	17	17	17	16	16	14	12	11	11	10	11	10	10	9	12	10	9	9	9	11	13	14
Monaco	13	15	18	17	17	15	15	10	13	10	12	10	11	10	12	12	14	15	13	10	10	11	10	11	11	11	8	11	11	11	10	12	12	15
Guingamp	17	10	10	13	10	11	14	15	11	12	9	12	12	12	11	14	11	13	15	15	16	16	15	15	17	16	17	16	16	16	18	17	17	16
Metz	14	7	13	14	15	17	16	12	12	15	15	16	15	16	15	13	15	16	16	16	17	15	17	17	16	17	18	18	18	17	16	16	16	17
Loreint	5	9	11	12	8	8	8	11	9	11	13	9	10	15	16	17	17	17	17	18	18	17	18	18	18	18	16	17	17	18	17	18	18	18

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	Champions of 2001-02 Division 1
	Qualified for UEFA Champions League
	Qualified for UEFA Cup
	Relegation to Ligue 2

First match(es) will be played on ?. Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Results

More information Home \ Away, AUX ...

Home \ Away	AUX	BAS	BOR	GUI	RCL	LIL	LOR	OL	OM	MET	ASM	MHS	NAN	PSG	REN	SED	SOC	TRO
Auxerre		1–0	0–1	2–2	1–0	2–1	2–2	0–1	2–0	3–2	2–0	1–0	2–1	1–1	2–3	2–1	2–0	1–3
Bastia	0–1		1–2	3–0	3–1	1–0	3–1	1–2	1–0	1–2	1–0	3–0	0–2	0–1	1–2	1–1	3–0	2–0
Bordeaux	1–1	2–1		2–0	2–1	0–0	2–1	0–1	0–0	1–0	0–0	3–1	2–0	1–0	2–1	2–1	0–1	2–3
Guingamp	0–0	1–0	2–1		1–0	0–0	4–3	2–4	1–0	0–2	2–1	2–2	1–0	0–1	1–1	1–2	0–0	1–0
Lens	1–1	7–0	0–0	4–1		1–1	1–1	2–0	2–0	2–2	1–0	2–0	3–0	1–1	2–0	1–0	3–0	0–0
Lille	2–3	2–1	2–2	1–0	0–1		3–1	2–0	2–0	2–0	1–1	2–1	1–0	1–0	1–0	1–1	1–2	1–0
Lorient	0–1	0–0	0–2	6–2	2–3	2–4		0–3	2–2	1–0	2–0	1–0	1–2	1–1	2–0	1–1	1–1	1–0
Lyon	3–0	0–0	1–0	3–0	3–1	4–2	2–0		4–0	4–1	1–0	0–0	4–1	3–0	4–0	2–0	1–1	3–1
Marseille	3–0	2–2	0–0	2–1	1–2	0–0	3–2	0–0		1–0	1–1	1–0	2–0	1–0	2–1	2–1	4–2	0–1
Metz	2–0	0–1	1–2	2–4	0–1	0–1	1–1	2–0	0–2		1–0	0–0	2–0	0–2	3–1	2–3	2–0	2–1
Monaco	1–1	1–1	3–1	3–1	3–0	2–2	1–0	2–1	1–1	2–2		0–0	1–2	2–2	3–1	2–0	0–1	2–0
Montpellier	0–0	2–1	0–0	2–1	1–2	2–0	1–3	3–0	1–1	3–0	1–1		3–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	2–0
Nantes	2–2	1–2	2–1	2–0	1–2	0–1	2–0	3–0	3–1	0–0	2–1	1–2		1–2	3–1	1–1	0–0	1–0
Paris SG	0–0	1–0	1–0	1–1	2–2	0–0	5–0	2–2	0–0	2–0	1–2	0–0	1–1		3–0	3–0	1–0	3–1
Rennes	0–5	2–1	1–0	2–1	1–2	4–0	1–1	2–2	2–1	0–0	3–0	2–0	2–0	1–2		1–0	1–1	0–1
Sedan	3–3	0–2	1–0	1–1	1–1	1–1	5–0	2–1	1–1	2–0	0–0	2–0	0–0	1–2	0–0		2–1	0–0
Sochaux	1–2	4–1	2–0	1–0	0–2	0–0	2–2	2–1	3–0	2–0	3–0	0–1	0–1	0–2	4–3	3–0		2–2
Troyes	1–2	3–0	2–0	3–0	1–1	0–1	4–2	0–2	1–0	2–0	3–0	2–0	0–0	1–0	1–1	1–1	2–2

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Source: Ligue 1
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top goalscorers

More information Rank, Player ...

Rank	Player	Club	Goals^[1]
1	Djibril Cissé	Auxerre	22
1	Pauleta	Bordeaux	22
3	Jean-Claude Darcheville	Lorient	19
4	Nicolas Goussé	Troyes	15
5	Shabani Nonda	Monaco	14
	Pierre-Alain Frau	Sochaux
	Sonny Anderson	Lyon
	Tony Vairelles	Bastia
9	Daniel Moreira	Lens	11
9	Bruno Cheyrou	Lille	11

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Attendances

Source:^[2]

More information No., Club ...

No.	Club	Average attendance	Change	Highest
1	Olympique de Marseille	50,072	-1.4%	58,000
2	Paris Saint-Germain FC	41,040	-4.0%	45,000
3	RC Lens	37,506	-5.4%	40,811
4	Olympique lyonnais	34,844	0.3%	42,000
5	FC Nantes	33,385	3.0%	36,000
6	Girondins de Bordeaux	27,867	-5.5%	33,000
7	FC Metz	17,935	-2.5%	25,697
8	Stade rennais	17,877	-7.8%	22,656
9	LOSC	17,837	4.4%	20,380
10	CS Sedan	16,582	14.7%	22,008
11	FC Sochaux	16,477	27.2%	19,907
12	ESTAC	13,926	-4.9%	18,000
13	MHSC	13,864	57.2%	30,000
14	AJ Auxerre	12,248	16.5%	20,000
15	EA Guingamp	12,201	-7.0%	16,400
16	FC Lorient	12,163	79.7%	18,000
17	AS Monaco	8,543	-5.5%	15,000
18	SC Bastia	7,221	-2.7%	11,640

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2001–02 French Division 1

Participating teams

League table

Position by round

Results

Top goalscorers

Attendances

References

External links

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