2003–04 Ligue 2

The Ligue 2 season 2003–04, organised by the LFP was won by AS Saint-Étienne and saw the promotions of AS Saint-Étienne, SM Caen and FC Istres, whereas ASOA Valence, Besançon RC and FC Rouen were relegated to National.

Ligue 2

Season	2003–04
← 2002–03 2004–05 →

20 participating teams

• Amiens
• Angers
• Besançon
• Caen
• Châteauroux
• Clermont
• Créteil
• Grenoble
• Gueugnon
• Istres
• Laval
• Le Havre
• Lorient
• Nancy
• Niort
• Rouen
• Saint-Étienne
• Sedan
• Troyes
• Valence

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or Relegation
1	Saint-Étienne (C, P)	38	22	7	9	44	29	+15	73	Promotion to Ligue 1
2	Caen (P)	38	20	11	7	56	31	+25	71
3	Istres (P)	38	19	9	10	44	26	+18	66
4	Lorient	38	17	10	11	57	45	+12	61
5	Sedan	38	15	15	8	42	31	+11	60
6	Nancy	38	14	13	11	45	36	+9	55
7	Le Havre	38	15	10	13	44	46	−2	55
8	Niort	38	13	14	11	47	44	+3	53
9	Amiens	38	15	8	15	43	45	−2	53
10	Troyes	38	13	13	12	43	48	−5	52
11	Châteauroux	38	13	10	15	44	49	−5	49
12	Créteil	38	10	15	13	41	47	−6	45
13	Angers	38	11	12	15	36	43	−7	45
14	Clermont	38	9	17	12	36	48	−12	44
15	Grenoble	38	9	16	13	38	43	−5	43
16	Gueugnon	38	9	15	14	40	43	−3	42
17	Laval	38	10	12	16	51	55	−4	42
18	Valence (R)	38	9	13	16	45	56	−11	40	Relegation to Championnat National [fr]
19	Besançon (R)	38	8	14	16	37	45	−8	38
20	Rouen (R)	38	5	14	19	27	50	−23	29

Source: Ligue 2
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated

Results

Home \ Away	AMI	ANG	BES	CAE	CHA	CLE	CRE	GRE	GUE	IST	LAV	LHA	LOR	NAL	NRT	ROU	STE	SED	TRO	VLN
Amiens		1–0	1–0	0–3	0–0	1–2	1–0	0–1	1–0	0–0	3–4	2–0	1–0	2–1	2–3	2–1	1–2	1–1	1–1	2–2
Angers	1–2		2–1	0–1	2–0	0–0	2–0	1–1	2–1	1–0	3–2	3–1	1–1	2–0	0–0	0–1	1–1	0–0	2–0	0–2
Besançon	0–2	2–0		0–1	3–1	1–1	0–0	3–1	1–1	0–1	2–2	1–1	1–1	1–3	4–0	3–0	0–1	1–1	0–1	1–1
Caen	2–1	1–0	1–1		1–0	1–2	1–2	0–0	2–1	2–1	1–2	3–1	2–0	2–0	2–2	1–1	1–0	1–0	3–0	4–1
Châteauroux	4–1	4–1	0–0	1–1		2–2	1–3	0–0	3–2	1–0	2–1	2–1	2–2	0–0	0–0	2–0	2–0	2–0	1–1	3–0
Clermont	0–2	4–1	0–2	2–2	0–1		2–0	2–0	1–0	1–1	2–1	1–1	0–4	0–1	0–1	0–0	0–3	0–1	0–0	1–1
Créteil	1–1	1–1	1–1	0–0	1–0	5–1		1–1	1–1	0–2	3–0	2–3	1–0	1–0	2–2	0–0	1–0	0–1	1–2	2–1
Grenoble	1–0	0–0	0–0	2–1	4–1	0–0	1–1		2–2	0–1	1–1	2–0	1–1	2–3	0–1	0–0	2–2	0–0	1–2	4–3
Gueugnon	0–1	1–1	1–0	0–0	2–0	0–0	1–1	0–2		1–0	1–1	1–2	1–1	0–0	1–2	2–1	0–1	0–0	1–1	2–0
Istres	1–0	1–0	0–1	3–1	2–1	2–0	2–0	2–0	2–1		2–1	2–0	1–0	2–0	2–2	0–0	0–2	2–0	0–0	3–1
Laval	1–2	3–3	1–3	1–0	2–0	2–3	3–1	2–0	1–2	0–0		1–1	2–2	2–0	0–1	0–0	2–0	2–0	4–0	2–2
Le Havre	0–1	1–0	2–0	1–1	3–2	1–1	1–1	1–0	5–0	0–0	3–2		1–0	0–0	1–1	2–0	1–0	3–0	3–0	1–0
Lorient	3–1	2–0	2–0	2–3	0–1	1–1	0–3	2–1	0–5	2–1	1–0	2–0		2–0	4–2	4–1	2–0	1–1	1–0	3–1
Nancy	0–0	2–1	3–0	0–2	2–0	3–4	2–0	0–0	0–2	2–1	1–1	4–1	1–1		1–0	2–1	0–1	2–0	3–0	1–1
Niort	0–0	0–1	3–0	0–3	0–0	3–1	3–0	1–1	1–3	2–1	4–0	0–0	1–2	2–2		2–1	0–1	1–1	2–1	1–0
Rouen	2–1	3–1	1–1	1–2	1–4	0–0	1–1	0–2	0–0	1–3	1–1	4–0	0–1	1–1	2–1		0–1	0–1	0–1	1–1
Saint-Étienne	0–2	0–0	2–1	1–0	2–1	0–0	3–2	1–0	1–1	0–0	2–0	2–0	2–1	0–0	2–1	2–0		0–2	2–3	1–0
Sedan	3–1	1–0	2–0	0–0	2–0	1–1	4–0	4–1	1–1	3–1	1–0	2–0	2–1	0–4	1–1	0–0	1–2		3–0	0–0
Troyes	3–2	2–2	1–1	2–2	4–0	2–0	0–0	3–2	2–1	0–2	0–0	2–0	3–3	1–1	1–0	3–0	0–1	0–0		0–1
Valence	2–1	0–1	3–1	0–2	3–0	1–1	2–2	1–2	3–1	0–0	2–1	1–2	1–2	0–0	1–1	2–1	1–3	2–2	2–1

Source: Ligue 2
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	David Suarez	Amiens	17
2	Laurent Dufresne	Nancy	16
3	Bertrand Fayolle	Valence	15
	Guilherme Mauricio	Laval
5	Hervé Bugnet	Le Havre	13
6	Cyrille Watier	Caen	12
	Mansour Boutabout	Gueugnon
	Marc-Éric Gueï	Châteauroux
	Robert Malm	Grenoble
	Jacques Rémy	Istres

External links

• Official attendance on LFP site^{[permanent dead link]}