# 1952–53 French Division 1

Stade de Reims won Division 1 season 1952/1953 of the French Association Football League with 48 points.

## Participating teams

* Bordeaux
* Le Havre AC
* RC Lens
* Lille OSC
* Olympique de Marseille
* FC Metz
* SO Montpellier
* FC Nancy
* OGC Nice
* Nîmes Olympique
* RC Paris
* Stade de Reims
* Stade Rennais UC
* CO Roubaix-Tourcoing
* AS Saint-Etienne
* FC Sète
* FC Sochaux-Montbéliard
* Stade français (football)

## Final table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Stade de Reims (C) | 34 | 22 | 4 | 8 | 86 | 36 | +50 | 48 | |
| 2 | FC Sochaux-Montbéliard | 34 | 18 | 8 | 8 | 72 | 58 | +14 | 44 | |
| 3 | Bordeaux | 34 | 19 | 5 | 10 | 79 | 56 | +23 | 43 | |
| 4 | Lille OSC | 34 | 15 | 10 | 9 | 61 | 43 | +18 | 40 | Winner of Coupe de France |
| 5 | Nîmes Olympique | 34 | 17 | 6 | 11 | 62 | 47 | +15 | 40 | |
| 6 | Olympique de Marseille | 34 | 15 | 7 | 12 | 62 | 53 | +9 | 37 | |
| 7 | RC Lens | 34 | 13 | 8 | 13 | 50 | 48 | +2 | 34 | |
| 8 | FC Nancy | 34 | 16 | 2 | 16 | 48 | 58 | −10 | 34 | |
| 9 | Stade français (football) | 34 | 12 | 9 | 13 | 54 | 51 | +3 | 33 | |
| 10 | FC Sète | 34 | 13 | 7 | 14 | 42 | 49 | −7 | 33 | |
| 11 | AS Saint-Etienne | 34 | 11 | 8 | 15 | 44 | 59 | −15 | 30 | |
| 12 | FC Metz | 34 | 11 | 7 | 16 | 44 | 48 | −4 | 29 | |
| 13 | OGC Nice | 34 | 12 | 5 | 17 | 49 | 57 | −8 | 29 | |
| 14 | Le Havre AC | 34 | 11 | 7 | 16 | 47 | 63 | −16 | 29 | |
| 15 | CO Roubaix-Tourcoing | 34 | 9 | 10 | 15 | 42 | 49 | −7 | 28 | |
| 16 | Stade Rennais UC (R) | 34 | 10 | 8 | 16 | 37 | 56 | −19 | 28 | Relegated to Division 2 |
| 17 | RC Paris (R) | 34 | 11 | 6 | 17 | 40 | 64 | −24 | 28 | Relegated to Division 2 |
| 18 | SO Montpellier (R) | 34 | 8 | 9 | 17 | 43 | 67 | −24 | 25 | Relegated to Division 2 |
Promoted from Division 2, who will play in Division 1 season 1953/1954
* Toulouse FC: Champion of Division 2
* AS Monaco: Runner-up
* RC Strasbourg: Third place

## Results

| Home \ Away | BOR | LHA | RCL | LIL | OM | MET | SOM | FCN | NIC | NMS | RCP | REI | REN | CRT | STE | SÉT | SOC | SFF |
| Bordeaux | | 6–0 | 2–0 | 1–5 | 2–0 | 4–0 | 6–0 | 4–1 | 7–3 | 3–2 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 7–0 | 4–2 | 0–0 | 3–0 | 4–1 | 2–1 |
| Le Havre | 3–1 | | 1–0 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 3–0 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 4–1 | 3–4 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 3–0 | 2–0 | 2–2 | 1–3 |
| Lens | 1–1 | 2–0 | | 0–3 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 2–1 | 4–1 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 1–3 | 5–0 | 1–3 | 1–2 | 3–0 | 5–1 | 1–1 |
| Lille | 0–0 | 3–1 | 0–0 | | 2–0 | 1–2 | 2–2 | 6–2 | 1–1 | 3–2 | 3–0 | 2–5 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 0–2 | 5–0 | 3–1 | 2–1 |
| Marseille | 3–0 | 3–1 | 1–1 | 3–0 | | 3–0 | 5–1 | 4–3 | 3–1 | 4–1 | 3–0 | 2–1 | 2–2 | 4–2 | 1–0 | 3–3 | 1–6 | 1–0 |
| Metz | 0–2 | 6–1 | 3–0 | 0–3 | 1–3 | | 1–1 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 0–2 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 5–0 | 0–1 | 1–2 | 2–0 |
| Montpellier | 4–1 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 1–1 | | 0–1 | 2–1 | 2–5 | 0–1 | 2–6 | 2–2 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 2–3 | 0–3 |
| Nancy | 3–0 | 0–3 | 1–3 | 1–3 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 3–0 | | 2–1 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 3–2 | 0–1 | 1–2 | 5–1 |
| Nice | 1–2 | 0–2 | 3–1 | 0–0 | 3–1 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 2–1 | | 2–0 | 1–2 | 0–4 | 3–1 | 4–1 | 2–0 | 3–2 | 5–3 | 2–1 |
| Nîmes | 5–1 | 7–1 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 4–2 | 2–1 | 1–0 | | 4–2 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 3–1 | 2–0 | 0–0 |
| Racing Paris | 3–3 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 0–2 | 2–1 | 1–2 | 1–3 | 1–2 | | 1–3 | 2–0 | 0–2 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 2–2 |
| Reims | 2–3 | 5–0 | 5–0 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 2–1 | 3–2 | 0–2 | 3–1 | 2–0 | 5–1 | | 5–1 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 3–0 | 1–2 |
| Rennes | 1–0 | 2–0 | 3–2 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 4–2 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 0–1 | | 3–2 | 0–1 | 3–0 | 1–1 | 0–0 |
| Roubaix-Tourcoing | 3–1 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 2–2 | 2–2 | 2–4 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 3–2 | | 2–0 | 2–0 | 2–2 | 0–0 |
| Saint-Étienne | 1–1 | 1–0 | 2–3 | 2–1 | 2–2 | 2–2 | 2–0 | 6–0 | 2–1 | 4–2 | 3–1 | 2–6 | 1–0 | 1–1 | | 2–2 | 1–3 | 1–1 |
| Sète | 2–0 | 3–1 | 2–0 | 3–1 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 5–0 | | 0–0 | 2–2 |
| Sochaux | 8–2 | 3–2 | 1–0 | 3–3 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 3–2 | 1–1 | 3–3 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 3–1 | 3–0 | 4–2 | | 1–3 |
| Stade Français | 0–2 | 2–2 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 2–3 | 2–1 | 2–4 | 4–1 | 0–1 | 4–2 | 5–0 | 1–5 | 2–0 | 1–3 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 1–2 | |

## Top goalscorers

| Rank | Player | Club | Goals |
| 1 | Gunnar Andersson | Marseille | 35 |
| 2 | Bram Appel | Reims | 30 |
| 3 | Abdesselem Ben Mohamed | Bordeaux | 22 |
| 4 | Jean Saunier | Le Havre | 19 |
| 5 | Édouard Kargu | Bordeaux | 18 |
| 6 | Georges Dupraz | Montpellier | 17 |
| 6 | René Gardien | Sochaux | 17 |
| 6 | Alberto Muro | Sochaux | 17 |
| 9 | Rachid Belaïd | Nancy | 16 |
| 10 | Egon Jonsson | Stade Français | 14 |
| 10 | Henri Fontaine | Sète | 14 |