RC Strasbourg won Division 1 season 1978/1979 of the French Association Football League with 56 points.
Participating teams
Angers SCO SEC Bastia Bordeaux Stade Lavallois Lille Olympique Lyonnais Olympique de Marseille FC Metz AS Monaco AS Nancy FC Nantes Atlantique OGC Nice Nîmes Olympique Paris FC Paris Saint-Germain FC Stade de Reims AS Saint-Etienne FC Sochaux RC Strasbourg US Valenciennes-Anzin
League table
Promoted from Division 2, who will play in Division 1 season 1979/1980 Stade Brest:Runner-up, winner of Division 2 group B RC Lens:Third place, winner of barrages against Paris FC FC Gueugnon:Champion of Division 2, winner of Division 2 group A, will not play in Division 1 season 1979/1980 because of its amateur status.
Results
Relegation play-offs
Top goalscorers Rank Player Club Goals Football: D1 le classement des buteurs SAISON 1978-791 Carlos BianchiParis Saint-Germain272 Delio OnnisMonaco22 Éric PécoutNantes4 Pierre PleimeldingLille21 Gilbert MargueriteNîmes Dominique RocheteauSaint-Étienne7 Nenad BjekovićNice17 Albert GemmrichStrasbourg 9 Roberto CabralLille1610 Johnny RepBastia15 Žarko OlarevićLille Bernard ZénierNancy Zvonko IvezićSochaux
RC Strasbourg Winning Squad 1978-'79
Goal Dominique Dropsy Patrick Ottmann
Defence Raymond Domenech Jacky Duguépéroux (Cap.) Jacques Glassmann Jean-Jacques Marx Jacques Novi Léonard Specht Patrick Vincent
Midfield René Deutschmann Yves Ehrlacher Roger Jouve Eric Mosser Francis Piasecki Bernard Tischner Rémy Vogel Arsène Wenger
Attack Albert Gemmrich Remy Gentes Pascal Greiner Nabatingue Toko Joël Tanter Jacques Vergnes Roland Wagner André Wiss
Management Gilbert Gress (Coach)
Attendances
# Club Average 1 Strasbourg 21,086 2 Saint-Étienne 20,798 3 PSG 18,590 4 Nantes 16,146 5 LOSC 14,350 6 Marseille 13,152 7 Metz 12,914 8 Lyon 12,386 9 Nancy 11,350 10 Girondins 11,082 11 Paris FC 9,623 12 Nice 8,846 13 Stade lavallois 8,625 14 Angers 7,732 15 Nîmes 7,553 16 Valenciennes 6,933 17 Reims 6,685 18 Sochaux 5,973 19 Bastia 5,148 20 Monaco 3,931
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References
Division 1 season 1978-1979 at pari-et-gagne.com