List of French second division champions
Club Winners Runners-up Winning years Runner-up years
Le Havre 5 1 1937-38 , 1958-59 , 1984-85 , 1990-91 , 2007-08 1949-50
Nancy 5 1 1974-75 , 1989-90 , 1997-98 , 2004-05 , 2015-16 1969-70
Lens 4 2 1936-37 , 1948-49 , 1972-73 , 2008-09 2013-14 , 2019-20
Nice 4 1 1947-48 , 1964-65 , 1969-70 , 1993-94 1984-85
Lille 4 1 1963-64 , 1973-74 , 1977-78 , 1999-2000 1970-71
Metz 4 3 1934-35 , 2006-07 , 2013-14 , 2018-19 1950-51 , 1960-61 , 1966-67
Montpellier 3 3 1945-46 , 1960-61 , 1986-87 1951-52 , 1980-81 , 2008-09
Saint-Étienne 3 3 1962-63 , 1998-99 , 2003-04 1933-34 , 1937-38 , 1985-86
Strasbourg 3 2 1976-77 , 1987-88 , 2016-17 1971-72 , 2001-02
Lyon 3 - 1950-51 , 1953-54 , 1988-89
Rennes 2 5 1955-56 , 1982-83 1938-39 , 1957-58 , 1975-76 , 1989-90 , 1993-94
Valenciennes 2 5 1971-72 , 2005-06 1934-35 , 1936-37 , 1961-62 , 1974-75 , 1991-92
Red Star 2 3 1933-34 , 1938-39 1954-55 , 1964-65 , 1973-74
Angers 2 3 1968-69 , 1975-76 1955-56 , 1977-78 , 1992-93
Sochaux 2 2 1946-47 , 2000-01 1963-64 , 1987-88
Caen 2 2 1995-96 , 2009-10 2003-04 , 2006-07
Alès 2 1 1933-34 , 1956-57 1946-47
FC Nancy 2 1 1945-46 , 1957-58 1959-60
Reims 2 1 1965-66 , 2017-18 2011-12
Ajaccio 2 1 1966-67 , 2001-02 2010-11
Performances -- Performances by club
The French second division Champions are the winners of the second highest league of football in France, Ligue 2. The winner also earns promotion to the first division Ligue 1, as do the second-place and third-place finisher. Ligue 2 was inaugurated in the 1933-34 season under the authority of the French Football Federation. Following World War II, the league assumed its identity under the Ligue de Football Professionnel.