# 1990–91 French Division 1

The 1990–91 Division 1 season was won by Marseille, with 55 points, for the third year in a row. A total of 20 clubs competed in the league. PSG, Brest and Nice were all administratively relegated to Division 2 due to financial difficulties at the end of the season despite all finishing above the relegation zone.

## Participating teams

* AJ Auxerre
* FC Girondins de Bordeaux
* Stade Brestois 29
* Stade Malherbe Caen
* AS Cannes
* Lille OSC
* Olympique Lyonnais
* Olympique de Marseille
* FC Metz
* AS Monaco FC
* Montpellier HSC
* AS Nancy
* FC Nantes Atlantique
* OGC Nice
* Paris Saint-Germain F.C.
* Stade Rennais
* AS Saint-Etienne
* FC Sochaux-Montbéliard
* Sporting Toulon Var
* Toulouse FC

## League table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Marseille (C) | 38 | 22 | 11 | 5 | 67 | 28 | +39 | 77 | Qualification to European Cup first round |
| 2 | Monaco | 38 | 20 | 11 | 7 | 51 | 30 | +21 | 71 | Qualification to Cup Winners' Cup first round |
| 3 | Auxerre | 38 | 19 | 10 | 9 | 63 | 36 | +27 | 67 | Qualification to UEFA Cup first round |
| 4 | Cannes | 38 | 12 | 17 | 9 | 32 | 28 | +4 | 53 | Qualification to UEFA Cup first round |
| 5 | Lyon | 38 | 15 | 11 | 12 | 39 | 44 | −5 | 56 | Qualification to UEFA Cup first round |
| 6 | Lille | 38 | 11 | 17 | 10 | 39 | 37 | +2 | 50 | |
| 7 | Montpellier | 38 | 12 | 14 | 12 | 44 | 35 | +9 | 50 | |
| 8 | Caen | 38 | 13 | 12 | 13 | 38 | 36 | +2 | 51 | |
| 9 | Paris Saint-Germain | 38 | 13 | 12 | 13 | 40 | 42 | −2 | 51 | |
| 10 | Bordeaux (R) | 38 | 11 | 15 | 12 | 34 | 32 | +2 | 48 | Administratively relegated to French Division 2 |
| 11 | Brest (R) | 38 | 11 | 15 | 12 | 45 | 46 | −1 | 48 | Administratively relegated to French Division 2 |
| 12 | Metz | 38 | 12 | 12 | 14 | 44 | 51 | −7 | 48 | |
| 13 | Saint-Étienne | 38 | 13 | 9 | 16 | 40 | 46 | −6 | 48 | |
| 14 | Nice (R) | 38 | 10 | 14 | 14 | 40 | 42 | −2 | 44 | Administratively relegated to French Division 2 |
| 15 | Nantes | 38 | 9 | 16 | 13 | 34 | 44 | −10 | 43 | |
| 16 | Toulon | 38 | 9 | 16 | 13 | 31 | 41 | −10 | 43 | |
| 17 | Nancy | 38 | 11 | 11 | 16 | 38 | 58 | −20 | 44 | |
| 18 | Sochaux | 38 | 8 | 16 | 14 | 24 | 33 | −9 | 40 | |
| 19 | Toulouse | 38 | 8 | 15 | 15 | 33 | 45 | −12 | 39 | |
| 20 | Rennes | 38 | 7 | 14 | 17 | 29 | 51 | −22 | 35 | |
* ↑ Monaco qualified for the 1991–92 European Cup Winners' Cup as winners of the 1990–91 Coupe de France.
* 1 2 Bordeaux, Brest and Nice were administratively relegated to Division 2 due to financial difficulties.
Promoted from Division 2, who will play in 1991–92 French Division 1 season
* Le Havre AC: Champion of Division 2, winner of Division 2 group B
* Nîmes Olympique: Runner-up, winner of Division 2 group A
* Lens:Third place, winner of barrages.

## Results

| Home \ Away | AUX | BOR | BRE | CAE | CAN | LIL | OL | OM | MET | ASM | MHS | NAL | FCN | NIC | PSG | REN | STE | SOC | SCT | TFC |
| Auxerre | | 0–0 | 2–2 | 3–0 | 0–3 | 3–2 | 1–0 | 4–0 | 3–1 | 0–1 | 3–2 | 1–1 | 0–2 | 5–1 | 0–1 | 4–0 | 2–0 | 4–1 | 3–0 | 2–1 |
| Bordeaux | 1–1 | | 1–4 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 5–0 | 2–0 | 3–0 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 2–1 |
| Brest | 1–3 | 4–0 | | 5–0 | 3–2 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 3–3 | 1–0 | 4–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 2–2 | 0–0 |
| Caen | 0–1 | 2–0 | 1–2 | | 0–1 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 4–1 | 0–2 | 1–0 | 4–1 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 2–0 |
| Cannes | 0–3 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 1–1 | | 2–1 | 3–2 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 |
| Lille | 1–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 0–2 | | 1–1 | 1–0 | 4–1 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 0–2 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 3–2 | 0–1 | 4–1 | 3–0 |
| Lyon | 1–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 3–2 | 1–0 | 2–1 | | 2–2 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 3–3 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 4–1 |
| Marseille | 1–0 | 2–0 | 3–1 | 2–1 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 7–0 | | 3–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 6–2 | 6–0 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 4–1 | 3–1 | 0–0 | 3–3 | 1–0 |
| Metz | 1–0 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 2–2 | 1–2 | 0–2 | | 1–1 | 0–0 | 4–0 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 2–2 | 2–0 | 3–1 | 2–2 | 0–0 | 2–1 |
| Monaco | 0–0 | 2–0 | 5–0 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 1–3 | 2–0 | | 3–1 | 2–2 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 2–1 |
| Montpellier | 1–2 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 5–2 | 2–1 | | 5–0 | 1–1 | 3–0 | 4–0 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 2–0 |
| Nancy | 1–1 | 0–2 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 0–1 | 4–0 | 1–1 | | 3–2 | 2–1 | 0–2 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 1–1 |
| Nantes | 2–3 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 1–1 | 1–0 | | 2–2 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 |
| Nice | 1–1 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 4–1 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 3–0 | 1–1 | | 1–1 | 2–2 | 2–0 | 3–0 | 0–0 | 1–1 |
| Paris SG | 1–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 3–2 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 3–0 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 0–2 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 0–2 | | 1–1 | 4–2 | 0–2 | 4–0 | 3–0 |
| Rennes | 2–2 | 2–1 | 3–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 1–3 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 0–2 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 0–3 | 2–1 | | 0–2 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 2–0 |
| Saint-Étienne | 2–1 | 0–0 | 6–1 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 4–1 | 1–3 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 0–0 | | 2–1 | 3–0 | 1–4 |
| Sochaux | 0–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 0–2 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 4–0 | 2–0 | | 0–0 | 0–1 |
| Toulon | 2–3 | 0–2 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 3–1 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 1–0 | | 1–0 |
| Toulouse | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 3–2 | 2–2 | 2–2 | 3–1 | 0–2 | 2–1 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–1 | |

## Statistics
### Top goalscorers

| Rank | Player | Club | Goals |
| 1 | Jean-Pierre Papin | Marseille | 23 |
| 2 | Kálmán Kovács | Auxerre | 15 |
| 3 | Laurent Blanc | Montpellier | 14 |
| 3 | Enzo Scifo | Auxerre | 14 |
| 5 | Aljoša Asanović | Metz | 13 |
| 5 | François Omam-Biyik | Rennes | 13 |
| 7 | Bernard Ferrer | Brest | 12 |
| 7 | Daniel Xuereb | Montpellier | 12 |
| 9 | Fabrice Divert | Caen | 11 |
| 10 | Jules Bocandé | Nice | 10 |
| 10 | François Brisson | Lille | 10 |
| 10 | François Calderaro | Metz | 10 |
| 10 | Christophe Cocard | Auxerre | 10 |
| 10 | Fabrice Mege | Nice | 10 |
| 10 | Amara Simba | Cannes | 10 |
| 10 | Safet Sušić | Paris Saint-Germain | 10 |
| 10 | Ryszard Tarasiewicz | Nancy | 10 |
| 10 | Zlatko Vujović | Paris Saint-Germain | 10 |
| 10 | George Weah | Monaco | 10 |