AS Saint-Etienne won Division 1 season 1956/1957 of the Professional Football League with 49 points.
Participating teams
Angers SCO RC Lens Olympique Lyonnais Olympique de Marseille FC Metz AS Monaco FC Nancy OGC Nice Nîmes Olympique RC Paris Stade de Reims Stade Rennais UC AS Saint-Etienne UA Sedan-Torcy FC Sochaux-Montbéliard RC Strasbourg Toulouse FC US Valenciennes-Anzin
Final table
Promoted from Division 2, who will play in Division 1 season 1957/1958 Olympique Alès: Champion of Division 2 AS Béziers: runner-up Lille OSC: Third place
Results
Relegation play-offs
Top goalscorers Rank Player Club Goals1 Thadée CisowskiRacing Paris332 Just FontaineReims303 Egon JohnssonLens29 Eugène Njo-LéaSaint-Étienne5 Rachid MekloufiSaint-Étienne256 Gunnar AnderssonMarseille237 Hassan AkesbiNîmes208 Maryan WisniewskiLens17 Pierre GrilletRacing Paris René GardienSochaux
Attendances
# Club Average 1 Racing 19,186 2 Saint-Étienne 16,541 3 Marseille 16,186 4 Valenciennes 11,197 5 Stade rennais 11,085 6 Nice 11,022 7 Lens 10,923 8 Olympique lyonnais 10,778 9 Toulouse 9,461 10 Strasbourg 9,028 11 Angers 9,020 12 Nîmes 8,144 13 Reims 7,115 14 Metz 7,063 15 Nancy 6,883 16 Sedan 6,519 17 Sochaux 6,305 18 Monaco 3,787
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References
Division 1 season 1956-1957 at pari-et-gagne.com