Division 11997/1998

Season

Tier : 1

Type of clubs : A

Country : France

Games played : 306

Goals scored : 722 (2.36 goals per match )

Yellow cards : 1074

Red cards : 58

50%
Home victories

25%
Draws

25%
Away victories

Players age average : 26.16 years

Number of players participating : 455

Promoted : Toulouse FC, Châteauroux

Relegated to lower tier : Lille, Nice, Nancy, Caen

Division 1 1997/1998's fixtures and results

Round 34

May 09, 1998

30'Cyrille Pouget (p)

59'Damir Cakar

41'Christophe Le Roux

48'Abdelhafid Tasfaout

57'Daniel Moreira

85'Daniel Moreira

General rankingLast updated on 09/05/1998

		pts	m	v	d	l	GF	GA	diff
1	Lens	68	34	21	5	8	55	30	+25
2	Metz	68	34	20	8	6	48	28	+20
3	Monaco	59	34	18	5	11	51	33	+18
4	Marseille	57	34	16	9	9	47	27	+20
5	Bordeaux	56	34	15	11	8	49	41	+8
6	Lyon	53	34	16	5	13	39	37	+2
7	Auxerre	51	34	14	9	11	55	45	+10
8	Paris SG	50	34	14	8	12	43	35	+8
9	Bastia	50	34	13	11	10	36	31	+5
10	Le Havre	44	34	10	14	10	38	35	+3
11	Nantes	41	34	11	8	15	35	41	-6
12	Montpellier	41	34	10	11	13	32	42	-10
13	Strasbourg	37	34	9	10	15	39	43	-4
14	Rennes	36	34	9	9	16	36	48	-12
15	Toulouse FC	36	34	9	9	16	26	46	-20
16	Guingamp	35	34	9	8	17	30	42	-12
17	Châteauroux	31	34	8	7	19	31	59	-28
18	Cannes	28	34	7	7	20	32	59	-27

Latest transfers

May 01, 1998
Guy Calleja entr.( libre)		Cannes

January 21, 1998
Corentin Martins ( Deportivo)		RCS

January 16, 1998
Ardian Kozniku ( APOEL)		Bastia
Walter Kogler ( Salzburg)		Cannes

January 15, 1998
Kaba Diawara ( Bordeaux)		Rennes
Cédric Mouret ( Cannes)		Marseille
Yannick Fischer ( Cannes)		Marseille
Ludovic Giuly ( Lyon)		Monaco

January 14, 1998
Patrick Blondeau ( S Wednesday)		Bordeaux
Mihaly Toth ( Beerschot)		Metz

January 07, 1998
Jeong-won Seo ( Sangmu)		RCS

January 05, 1998
Pierre Laurent ( Leeds U-23)		Bastia

January 04, 1998
Marc Delaroche ( Caen)		Bordeaux

January 03, 1998
Hubert Fournier ( M'gladbach)		Lyon

All transfers

The best XI according to FBDB Index

Warmuz

Guillaume Warmuz

France

B.date22/05/1970

Age56 years

H1m86

Sikora

Éric Sikora

France

B.date04/02/1968

Age58 years

H1m81

Blanc

Laurent Blanc

France

B.date19/11/1965

Age61 years

H1m90

Kastendeuch

Sylvain Kastendeuch

France

B.date31/08/1963

Age63 years

H1m80

Gaillot

Philippe Gaillot

France

B.date28/02/1965

Age61 years

H1m83

Blanchard

Jocelyn Blanchard

France

B.date28/05/1972

Age54 years

H1m75

Lamouchi

Sabri Lamouchi

France

B.date09/11/1971

Age55 years

H1m75

Pavon

Michel Pavon

France

B.date07/11/1968

Age58 years

H1m82

Ziani

Stéphane Ziani

France

B.date09/12/1971

Age55 years

H1m67

Laslandes

Lilian Laslandes

France

B.date04/09/1971

Age55 years

H1m86

Drobnjak

Anto Drobnjak

Serbia

B.date21/09/1968

Age58 years

H1m86

Your best XI

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One match scorers

Anto Drobnjakhas scored 3 goals during the match Marseille 2-3 Lens (22/08/1997)

Anto Drobnjakhas scored 3 goals during the match Lens 5-4 Cannes (15/11/1997)

Marco Grassihas scored 3 goals during the match Lens 5-4 Cannes (15/11/1997)

Stéphane Guivarc'hhas scored 3 goals during the match Auxerre 3-1 Toulouse FC (21/01/1998)

David Trezeguethas scored 3 goals during the match Monaco 4-0 Montpellier (24/01/1998)

Lionel Prathas scored 3 goals during the match Le Havre 5-0 Châteauroux (04/02/1998)

Sylvain Wiltordhas scored 3 goals during the match Bordeaux 4-2 Guingamp (07/03/1998)

Tony Vairelleshas scored 3 goals during the match Lens 5-1 Bastia (25/04/1998)

Individual rankingsLast updated on 02/04/2026 at 18:45

Scorers

Assists

Games

clean sheets

Fair play

Scorers as subs

Scorers + Assists

Newcomers

Player	Goals	pen.	eff.	Min.p.	M.p.	Start	Home	Away	1H	2H	Team %	Last goal
Stéphane Guivarc'h	21	3	137	2880	32	32	18	3	10	11	38%	18/04/1998
David Trezeguet	18	1	102	1840	27	20	13	5	7	11	35%	09/05/1998
Victor Ikpeba	16	0	144	2311	30	27	5	11	6	10	31%	09/05/1998
Anto Drobnjak	14	2	165	2309	32	31	7	7	10	4	27%	25/04/1998
Lilian Laslandes	14	0	196	2743	33	32	8	6	5	9	30%	09/05/1998
Marco Simone	13	0	190	2474	28	28	8	5	5	8	33%	09/05/1998
Bruno Rodriguez	13	1	208	2701	31	31	11	2	6	7	27%	09/05/1998
Jocelyn Gourvennec	12	3	238	2858	33	33	7	5	3	9	34%	17/04/1998
Robert Pirès	11	2	232	2556	31	30	5	6	5	6	23%	20/01/1998
Stéphane Ziani	11	2	246	2701	32	32	7	4	6	5	21%	15/03/1998
Laurent Blanc	11	3	254	2790	31	31	7	4	7	4	24%	29/03/1998
Xavier Gravelaine	10	0	236	2364	29	28	6	4	6	4	22%	13/02/1998
Raí	10	5	257	2567	29	29	7	3	3	7	25%	28/03/1998
Joël Tiéhi	10	1	211	2110	28	26	7	3	6	4	40%	07/04/1998
Alain Caveglia	10	0	216	2158	28	26	4	6	5	5	26%	18/04/1998

Rankings

Form

Home

Away

Second legs

Attendances

Offense

Defense

First half

Second half

Fair play

1	Lens	V 3-0 Paris SG15/03/1998	VMetz 0-2 29/03/1998	V 3-0 Rennes07/04/1998	VCannes 0-2 17/04/1998	V 5-1 Bastia25/04/1998	DAuxerre 1-1 09/05/1998
2	Metz	VMontpellier 0-1 13/03/1998	L 0-2 Lens29/03/1998	VGuingamp 0-1 08/04/1998	V 3-2 Nantes17/04/1998	VToulouse FC 0-1 25/04/1998	V 1-0 Lyon09/05/1998
3	Bordeaux	VNantes 1-2 13/03/1998	V 3-1 Toulouse FC28/03/1998	DLyon 1-1 07/04/1998	VParis SG 0-1 18/04/1998	V 1-0 Châteauroux25/04/1998	LMonaco 5-2 09/05/1998
4	Strasbourg	V 3-1 Rennes13/03/1998	VAuxerre 1-2 28/03/1998	D 1-1 Bastia07/04/1998	L 0-1 Le Havre18/04/1998	DMarseille 0-0 25/04/1998	V 3-0 Montpellier09/05/1998
5	Le Havre	V 2-0 Cannes13/03/1998	LBastia 2-0 28/03/1998	D 2-2 Auxerre07/04/1998	VStrasbourg 0-1 18/04/1998	VGuingamp 1-2 25/04/1998	D 1-1 Marseille09/05/1998
6	Monaco	LAuxerre 3-1 13/03/1998	V 1-0 Guingamp28/03/1998	DNantes 1-1 07/04/1998	L 0-1 Toulouse FC18/04/1998	VParis SG 1-2 25/04/1998	V 5-2 Bordeaux09/05/1998
7	Bastia	LMarseille 1-0 15/03/1998	V 2-0 Le Havre28/03/1998	DStrasbourg 1-1 07/04/1998	V 2-1 Montpellier18/04/1998	LLens 5-1 25/04/1998	V 2-1 Nantes09/05/1998
8	Lyon	VToulouse FC 0-2 13/03/1998	LParis SG 3-0 28/03/1998	D 1-1 Bordeaux07/04/1998	VChâteauroux 2-3 18/04/1998	V 2-0 Cannes25/04/1998	LMetz 1-0 09/05/1998
9	Auxerre	V 3-1 Monaco13/03/1998	L 1-2 Strasbourg28/03/1998	DLe Havre 2-2 07/04/1998	V 2-1 Marseille18/04/1998	DMontpellier 1-1 25/04/1998	D 1-1 Lens09/05/1998
10	Rennes	LStrasbourg 3-1 13/03/1998	V 2-0 Montpellier28/03/1998	LLens 3-0 07/04/1998	L 1-2 Guingamp18/04/1998	DNantes 1-1 25/04/1998	V 1-0 Toulouse FC09/05/1998
11	Guingamp	D 0-0 Châteauroux13/03/1998	LMonaco 1-0 28/03/1998	L 0-1 Metz08/04/1998	VRennes 1-2 18/04/1998	L 1-2 Le Havre25/04/1998	VCannes 1-3 09/05/1998
12	Marseille	V 1-0 Bastia15/03/1998	DCannes 3-3 29/03/1998	D 0-0 Paris SG08/04/1998	LAuxerre 2-1 18/04/1998	D 0-0 Strasbourg25/04/1998	DLe Havre 1-1 09/05/1998
13	Châteauroux	DGuingamp 0-0 13/03/1998	L 1-2 Nantes28/03/1998	DToulouse FC 1-1 07/04/1998	L 2-3 Lyon18/04/1998	LBordeaux 1-0 25/04/1998	V 2-1 Paris SG09/05/1998
14	Nantes	L 1-2 Bordeaux13/03/1998	VChâteauroux 1-2 28/03/1998	D 1-1 Monaco07/04/1998	LMetz 3-2 17/04/1998	D 1-1 Rennes25/04/1998	LBastia 2-1 09/05/1998
15	Montpellier	L 0-1 Metz13/03/1998	LRennes 2-0 28/03/1998	V 1-0 Cannes07/04/1998	LBastia 2-1 18/04/1998	D 1-1 Auxerre25/04/1998	LStrasbourg 3-0 09/05/1998
16	Toulouse FC	L 0-2 Lyon13/03/1998	LBordeaux 3-1 28/03/1998	D 1-1 Châteauroux07/04/1998	VMonaco 0-1 18/04/1998	L 0-1 Metz25/04/1998	LRennes 1-0 09/05/1998
17	Paris SG	LLens 3-0 15/03/1998	V 3-0 Lyon28/03/1998	DMarseille 0-0 08/04/1998	L 0-1 Bordeaux18/04/1998	L 1-2 Monaco25/04/1998	LChâteauroux 2-1 09/05/1998
18	Cannes	LLe Havre 2-0 13/03/1998	D 3-3 Marseille29/03/1998	LMontpellier 1-0 07/04/1998	L 0-2 Lens17/04/1998	LLyon 2-0 25/04/1998	L 1-3 Guingamp09/05/1998

Longest streaksLast updated on 01/04/2026 at 11:06

Winning streak

Loosing streak

Drawing streak

Drawless streak

Unbeaten streak

Winless streak

Invincibility streak

Goalless streak

Conceding streak

Scoring streak

	Series	Running
Lens	7
Monaco	7	2
Metz	5	4
Bordeaux	4
Lyon	4
Auxerre	4
Montpellier	4
Guingamp	3
Paris SG	3
Marseille	3
Nantes	3
Toulouse FC	2
Bastia	2
Le Havre	2
Strasbourg	2
Rennes	2
Cannes	2
Châteauroux	1

Ranking matchday by matchdayLast updated on 01/04/2026 at 11:06

Team \ Rd	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
Lens	1	8	9	4	5	7	10	8	5	5	7	5	6	7	6	6	6	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	4	4	4	2	2	1	1	1	1	1
Metz	5	1	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	3	3	2	3	1	2	2	2	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	1	1	2	2	2	2	2
Monaco	11	12	7	12	14	10	8	7	4	6	4	6	7	5	5	5	3	1	1	1	3	3	3	2	3	3	3	4	4	4	4	4	4	3
Marseille	2	3	3	5	6	4	7	4	8	7	5	4	4	4	3	1	2	4	4	4	4	4	4	3	1	1	1	3	3	3	3	3	3	4
Bordeaux	5	11	11	6	4	5	4	6	3	3	3	3	2	2	4	4	5	6	6	6	7	6	7	7	8	7	8	6	6	6	6	5	5	5
Lyon	11	9	12	8	10	13	11	9	10	8	10	10	11	11	10	9	9	9	9	9	9	8	8	6	6	6	6	7	7	7	7	7	6	6
Auxerre	18	17	13	9	12	6	9	11	11	11	9	7	5	6	7	8	8	8	7	7	6	7	6	8	7	8	9	8	8	8	8	8	7	7
Paris SG	4	2	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	1	1	1	1	2	4	3	3	3	2	2	2	4	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	6	8	8
Bastia	5	4	4	3	3	3	3	3	6	4	6	8	8	10	8	7	7	7	8	8	8	9	9	9	9	9	7	9	9	9	9	9	9	9
Le Havre	15	7	7	13	15	15	15	15	18	17	17	17	17	16	16	16	17	16	17	14	14	15	14	13	12	12	12	12	11	12	12	10	10	10
Nantes	11	15	17	16	11	11	12	12	14	13	15	14	13	12	12	13	15	12	13	13	13	12	12	11	11	10	10	11	12	10	10	11	11	11
Montpellier	9	14	14	10	8	12	13	13	13	15	12	11	10	8	9	10	10	11	11	11	11	11	10	10	10	11	11	10	10	11	11	12	12	12
Strasbourg	9	6	6	11	8	14	14	14	16	12	14	13	14	14	15	14	13	14	14	16	15	16	17	17	16	17	16	17	14	13	13	14	14	13
Rennes	11	18	16	15	16	16	16	16	12	14	16	16	15	15	17	17	16	17	16	17	18	18	18	15	15	16	14	14	15	14	15	15	15	14
Toulouse FC	5	4	4	7	7	8	5	10	7	9	8	9	9	9	11	11	11	10	10	10	10	10	11	12	13	13	13	13	13	15	14	13	13	15
Guingamp	2	10	10	14	13	9	6	4	9	10	11	12	12	13	13	12	12	13	12	12	12	13	13	14	14	14	15	15	16	16	16	16	16	16
Châteauroux	17	13	15	17	18	18	17	17	15	16	13	15	16	17	14	15	14	15	15	15	16	14	15	16	17	15	17	18	18	18	18	18	18	17
Cannes	15	16	18	18	17	17	18	18	17	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	17	17	16	18	18	18	18	16	17	17	17	17	17	18

Goals per quarterLast updated on 01/04/2026 at 11:06

Minutes	Goals
0 - 15	92
Best scorer : Laurent Blanc - 4 Goals
16 - 30	103
Best scorer : Anto Drobnjak - 5 Goals
31 - 45+	117
Best scorer : Stéphane Guivarc'h - 5 Goals
46 - 60	127
Best scorer : Lilian Laslandes - 5 Goals
61 - 75	132
Best scorer : Stéphane Guivarc'h - 4 Goals
76 - 90+	151
Best scorer : David Trezeguet - 9 Goals

Most frequent scoresLast updated on 01/04/2026 at 11:06

Score	Frequence
0 - 0	26 times
1 - 0	69 times
1 - 1	40 times
2 - 0	46 times
2 - 1	45 times
2 - 2	9 times
3 - 0	18 times
3 - 1	18 times
3 - 2	15 times

Score	Frequence
3 - 3	1 times
4 - 0	6 times
4 - 1	3 times
4 - 2	3 times
4 - 4	1 times
5 - 0	2 times
5 - 1	2 times
5 - 2	1 times
5 - 4	1 times

Goals scored per matchdayLast updated on 01/04/2026 at 11:06

General statistics by teamLast updated on 02/04/2026 at 18:45

	Participants	Different First XI	Different Scorers	Best scorer
Cannes	34	32	15	Marco Grassi (6 goals)
Auxerre	29	27	13	Stéphane Guivarc'h (21 goals)
Strasbourg	29	29	12	Pascal Nouma (8 goals)
Le Havre	28	25	11	Cyrille Pouget (7 goals)
Rennes	28	28	12	Nicolas Goussé (9 goals)
Lyon	27	31	12	Alain Caveglia (10 goals)
Paris SG	27	28	10	Marco Simone (13 goals)
Bastia	26	33	14	Ermin Siljak (5 goals)
Marseille	26	31	13	Laurent Blanc (11 goals)
Châteauroux	26	31	12	Laurent Dufresne (6 goals)
Monaco	26	33	10	David Trezeguet (18 goals)
Montpellier	24	29	14	Ibrahima Bakayoko (7 goals)
Toulouse FC	24	30	9	Joël Tiéhi (10 goals)
Nantes	24	31	10	Jocelyn Gourvennec (12 goals)
Bordeaux	23	32	13	Lilian Laslandes (14 goals)
Guingamp	23	28	9	Daniel Moreira (8 goals)
Metz	21	20	13	Bruno Rodriguez (13 goals)
Lens	20	28	10	Anto Drobnjak (14 goals)

Teams ages statisticsLast updated on 29/03/2026 at 15:02

	Average age	Oldest player	Youngest player
Cannes	23.7	Adick Koot (33 years)	Sébastien Frey (16 years)
Rennes	23.9	Philippe Lévenard (31 years)	Anthony Réveillère (17 years)
Bordeaux	24	Stanley Menzo (33 years)	Peter Luccin (17 years)
Monaco	24.4	Éric Di Meco (33 years)	Philippe Christanval (18 years)
Auxerre	24.4	Lionel Charbonnier (30 years)	Teemu Tainio (17 years)
Nantes	24.5	Serge Le Dizet (32 years)	Salomon Olembé (16 years)
Lyon	24.6	Daniel Bravo (33 years)	Steed Malbranque (16 years)
Châteauroux	24.8	Amara Traoré (31 years)	Florent Malouda (16 years)
Bastia	25.1	Lubomir Moravcik (31 years)	François Modesto (18 years)
Strasbourg	25.4	Alexander Vencel (29 years)	Rafik Mezriche (18 years)
Guingamp	25.6	Gheorghe Mihali (31 years)	Rudy Perron (19 years)
Le Havre	25.6	Thierry Uvenard (32 years)	Jean-Alain Boumsong (17 years)
Lens	25.7	Hervé Arsène (33 years)	Aboubacar Sankharé (18 years)
Montpellier	25.8	Bruno Martini (34 years)	Toifilou Maoulida (17 years)
Metz	26.1	Sylvain Kastendeuch (33 years)	Grégory Proment (18 years)
Toulouse FC	26.3	Joël Tiéhi (32 years)	Patrice Maurel (18 years)
Paris SG	26.5	Paul Le Guen (32 years)	Fabrice Kelban (18 years)
Marseille	26.5	Andreas Köpke (34 years)	Cédric Mouret (18 years)

Countries statisticsLast updated on 31/03/2026 at 03:37

	Number of games played	Number of players	Number of goals scored
France	6087	313	479
Serbia	150	8	26
Ivory Coast	137	10	22
Cameroon	120	7	11
Algeria	120	9	10
Guinea	109	6	6
Madagascar	91	4	1
Brazil	89	5	11
Senegal	87	6	8
Poland	84	5	2
Belgium	83	5	6
Netherlands	78	5	11
Nigeria	71	4	19
Germany	59	3	2
Denmark	56	4	3
Italy	49	2	22
Morocco	49	4	0
Czech Republic	45	2	8
Slovakia	44	2	2
Liberia	44	3	2