FC Nantes won Division 1 season 1965/1966 of the French Association Football League with 60 points.
Participating teams
Angers SCO Bordeaux AS Cannes RC Lens Lille OSC Olympique Lyonnais AS Monaco FC Nantes OGC Nice Nîmes Olympique Red Star Olympique Stade Rennais UC FC Rouen AS Saint-Etienne UA Sedan-Torcy FC Sochaux-Montbéliard Stade de Paris FC RC Strasbourg Toulouse FC (1937) US Valenciennes-Anzin
League table
Promoted from Division 2, who will play in Division 1 season 1966/1967 Stade de Reims: Champion of Division 2 Olympique de Marseille: runner-up of Division 2
Merger at the end of the season UA Sedan-Torcy with RC Paris, become RC Paris-Sedan
Results
Relegation play-offs
Top goalscorers Rank Player Club Goals1 Philippe GondetNantes362 Robert HerbinSaint-Étienne263 André GuyLille22 Michel LafranceschinaSochaux5 Hector De BourgoingBordeaux21 Rachid MekloufiSaint-Étienne7 Daniel RodighiéroRennes208 Laurent RobuschiBordeaux189 Lucien CossouMonaco17 Georges LechLens
Attendances
# Club Average attendance 1 Nantes 16,707 2 Girondins 11,227 3 Stade rennais 10,724 4 Nice 9,450 5 Saint-Étienne 9,339 6 Strasbourg 8,900 7 Lens 8,631 8 LOSC 7,784 9 Rouen 7,624 10 Stade français 7,170 11 Valenciennes 7,100 12 Toulouse 7,042 13 Olympique lyonnais 7,020 14 Nîmes 7,000 15 Sedan 6,918 16 Angers 6,300 17 Red Star 6,000 18 Sochaux 5,512 19 Cannes 4,400 20 Monaco 2,700Source:
References
External links Division 1 season 1965-1966 at pari-et-gagne.com