1960–61 French Division 1

Division Nationale

Season	1960–61
Champions	Monaco (1st title)
Relegated	Grenoble Limoges Valenciennes Troyes
European Cup	Monaco
Cup Winners' Cup	Sedan
Inter-Cities Fairs Cup	Lyon
Matches	380
Goals	1,196 (3.15 per match)
Top goalscorer	Roger Piantoni (28)
← 1959–60 1961–62 →

AS Monaco won Division 1 season 1960/1961 of the French Association Football League with 57 points.

Participating teams

• Angers SCO
• FC Grenoble
• Le Havre AC
• RC Lens
• Limoges FC
• Olympique Lyonnais
• AS Monaco
• FC Nancy
• OGC Nice
• Nîmes Olympique
• RC Paris
• Stade de Reims
• Stade Rennais UC
• FC Rouen
• AS Saint-Etienne
• UA Sedan-Torcy
• Stade Français FC
• Toulouse FC
• AS Troyes-Savinienne
• US Valenciennes-Anzin

Angers

Grenoble

Le Havre

Limoges

Lens      

Lyon

AS Monaco

Nancy

Nice

Nîmes

RC Paris

Reims

Rennes

Rouen

St. Étienne

Sedan

Stade Français

Toulouse

Troyes

Valenciennes

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Location of teams in 1960–61 Division 1

Final table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GAv	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Monaco (C)	38	26	5	7	77	42	1.833	57	Qualification to European Cup preliminary round
2	Racing Paris	38	23	10	5	93	57	1.632	56
3	Reims	38	23	4	11	78	44	1.773	50
4	Rouen	38	21	4	13	56	42	1.333	46
5	Saint-Étienne	38	16	11	11	60	54	1.111	43
6	Nîmes	38	17	8	13	70	61	1.148	42
7	Angers	38	16	8	14	64	56	1.143	40
8	Nancy	38	13	13	12	55	52	1.058	39
9	Sedan	38	15	8	15	64	63	1.016	38	Qualification to Cup Winners' Cup preliminary round
10	Lens	38	14	9	15	50	54	0.926	37
11	Le Havre	38	13	10	15	61	62	0.984	36
12	Toulouse	38	13	10	15	49	58	0.845	36
13	Nice	38	13	8	17	66	73	0.904	34
14	Rennes	38	12	10	16	52	59	0.881	34
15	Lyon	38	13	8	17	60	71	0.845	34	Invited to Inter-Cities Fairs Cup
16	Stade Français	38	12	8	18	52	59	0.881	32
17	Grenoble (R)	38	8	15	15	47	55	0.855	31	Relegation to French Division 2
18	Limoges (R)	38	11	8	19	55	69	0.797	30
19	Valenciennes (R)	38	12	6	20	35	57	0.614	30
20	Troyes-Savinienne (R)	38	5	5	28	52	108	0.481	15

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Promoted from Division 2, who will play in Division 1 season 1961/1962

• SO Montpellier:Champion of Division 2
• FC Metz:runner-up of Division 2
• FC Sochaux-Montbéliard: Third place
• RC Strasbourg: Fourth place, Inter-Cities Fairs Cup

Results

Home \ Away	ANG	GRE	LHA	RCL	LFC	OL	ASM	FCN	NIC	NMS	RCP	REI	REN	ROU	STE	SED	SFF	TOU	TRO	VAL
Angers		2–2	1–0	3–2	4–0	3–0	1–4	1–2	5–0	4–2	0–3	3–2	1–1	1–3	2–4	0–0	1–0	1–1	5–1	3–1
Grenoble	0–0		0–1	2–1	2–0	2–2	0–0	2–2	3–1	1–2	0–2	3–2	1–1	0–0	1–1	6–3	1–0	4–0	1–0	0–0
Le Havre	0–0	1–1		3–2	2–1	3–2	1–1	1–1	3–2	3–0	2–2	2–1	3–2	0–2	2–1	1–0	0–0	3–0	5–2	0–1
Lens	2–2	1–1	2–1		1–1	0–1	0–1	1–0	1–0	2–1	1–3	2–0	3–1	1–0	1–3	0–0	2–2	3–1	1–0	2–0
Limoges	1–3	1–0	2–1	5–2		3–1	1–5	0–0	4–2	4–1	0–1	0–1	0–0	3–2	1–1	1–2	4–3	1–1	1–0	2–1
Lyon	1–1	1–1	1–3	1–2	2–1		2–0	0–1	4–3	2–2	4–2	0–2	4–0	4–1	2–2	1–1	2–1	1–0	5–2	0–0
Monaco	2–0	1–0	2–2	2–1	3–2	3–1		2–0	5–1	3–0	3–0	2–0	3–0	1–0	3–0	2–0	2–4	3–1	5–0	1–0
Nancy	0–2	1–1	0–0	2–2	0–0	2–1	0–4		3–3	2–2	1–1	2–0	2–0	0–1	2–2	2–1	5–1	1–0	3–2	4–0
Nice	3–2	4–2	3–3	1–0	2–1	2–2	6–0	1–4		0–1	0–1	1–4	3–1	3–0	1–0	3–1	0–0	1–1	1–1	2–0
Nîmes	3–2	2–2	2–1	1–2	3–2	3–0	1–1	3–4	4–1		2–2	2–0	1–0	3–1	0–2	5–0	4–3	3–0	2–0	2–0
Racing Paris	5–3	6–3	4–4	3–2	3–1	3–2	3–0	2–0	4–2	3–2		1–1	0–2	0–1	4–2	2–0	3–1	3–0	3–3	1–1
Reims	1–0	1–0	2–0	1–0	2–2	2–0	3–0	3–0	3–0	5–1	5–3		1–1	3–1	0–1	4–3	2–0	4–2	3–1	4–0
Rennes	2–0	1–0	3–2	4–2	3–2	6–1	1–3	1–0	1–2	0–0	1–1	2–2		0–0	2–2	2–0	0–2	3–2	2–2	1–2
Rouen	1–0	2–0	3–1	6–2	3–1	0–1	2–3	3–1	1–0	2–1	0–3	2–1	1–0		1–0	1–0	0–0	7–0	1–0	3–0
Saint-Étienne	2–2	3–1	2–1	1–0	3–1	4–2	0–1	1–1	0–0	2–1	1–2	3–1	1–3	1–1		0–0	2–0	1–0	7–1	1–0
Sedan	1–2	3–0	2–1	0–0	1–1	2–1	4–1	2–1	4–3	1–3	1–3	0–4	2–1	4–0	2–2		4–0	1–1	4–1	2–1
Stade Français	1–0	1–0	3–1	0–0	0–1	3–1	1–1	0–2	1–3	2–1	3–3	0–1	3–1	0–1	5–0	3–1		1–3	2–1	3–0
Toulouse	3–1	2–1	4–1	0–0	2–1	2–0	3–0	2–2	0–0	0–0	1–1	3–1	2–0	2–0	0–1	0–2	1–0		3–3	2–2
Troyes	1–2	3–3	4–3	1–3	3–2	2–3	0–1	2–1	0–5	0–2	1–4	1–4	2–3	0–2	4–0	3–7	5–3	0–3		0–2
Valenciennes	0–1	1–0	1–0	0–1	3–1	1–2	1–3	2–1	3–1	2–2	1–3	0–2	1–0	2–1	3–1	1–3	0–0	1–2	1–0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Roger Piantoni	Reims	28
2	Antoine Keller	Troyes	23
3	Hassan Akesbi	Nîmes	21
	Joseph Ujlaki	Racing Paris
5	Hector De Bourgoing	Nice	20
	Jacques Faivre	Rennes
7	Lucien Cossou	Monaco	18
8	Yvon Douis	Le Havre	17
9	Mohamed Salem	Sedan	16
10	Nestor Combin	Lyon	15
	Alberto Muro	Nancy
	Jean-Jacques Marcel	Racing Paris
	Norbert Eschmann	Stade Français

References

• Division 1 season 1960-1961 at pari-et-gagne.com