2020–21 Championnat National

The 2020–21 Championnat National season is the 28th season since the establishment of the Championnat National, and the 22nd in its current format, which serves as the third division of the French football league system.[1]

Championnat National
Season2020–21
Dates21 August 2020 – 14 May 2021
Matches played171
Goals scored383 (2.24 per match)
Top goalscorer16 goals
Andrew Jung, Quevilly-Rouen
Biggest home winOrléans 6–1 Annecy
Round 8, 5 October 2020
Biggest away winBourg-Péronnas 0–4 Red Star
Rearranged round 4, 10 November 2020
Highest scoringCholet 5–4 Stade Briochin
Round 9, 9 October 2020
Longest winning run5 (Quevilly-Rouen)
Longest unbeaten run9 (Créteil)
Longest winless run12 (Boulogne
Sporting Club Lyon)
Longest losing run4 (Annecy)
2021–22 →
All statistics correct as of 09:28, 27 January 2021 (UTC).

Team changes

Team changes from the 2019–20 Championnat National were confirmed by the FFF on 17 July 2020.[1]

Stadia and locations
Location of teams in 2019–20 National
Club Location Venue Capacity
Annecy Annecy Parc des Sports[lower-alpha 1] 15,660
Avranches Avranches Stade René Fenouillère 2,000
SC Bastia Bastia Stade Armand Cesari 16,048
Bastia-Borgo Borgo Stade Paul-Antoniotti 1,300
Boulogne Boulogne-sur-Mer Stade de la Libération[lower-alpha 2] 15,204
Bourg-Péronnas Bourg-en-Bresse Stade Marcel-Verchère 11,400
Cholet Cholet Stade Pierre Blouen 9,000
Concarneau Concarneau Stade Guy Piriou 6,500
Créteil Créteil Stade Dominique Duvauchelle 12,150
Laval Laval Stade Francis Le Basser 18,607
Le Mans Le Mans MMArena 25,000
Sporting Club Lyon Lyon Stade de Balmont[lower-alpha 3] 5,438
Orléans Orléans Stade de la Source 7,000
Quevilly-Rouen Le Petit-Quevilly Stade Robert Diochon 12,018
Red Star Paris (Saint-Ouen) Stade Bauer 10,000
Saint-Brieuc Saint-Brieuc Fred-Aubert Stadium 10,600
Sète Sète Stade Louis Michel 8,500
Villefranche Villefranche-sur-Saône Stade Armand-Chouffet 3,200
  1. Parc des Sports is unavailable until 31 October 2020 due to structural concerns. Annecy will play their first two home games at Stade des Grangettes in Rumilly.[2][3]
  2. Boulogne will play their first home game at Stade de l'Epopée in Calais due to a new pitch being prepared at Stade de la Libération.[4]
  3. Sporting Club Lyon played their first home game at Stade Jacques Joly in Saint-Priest, due to work taking place on the pitch at Stade de Balmont.[5]

Number of teams by regions
Teams Region Team(s)
4  Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Annecy, Bourg-Péronnas, Lyon and Villefranche
3  Pays de la Loire Cholet, Laval and Le Mans
2  Brittany Concarneau and Saint-Brieuc
 Corsica Bastia and Bastia-Borgo
 Île-de-France Créteil and Red Star
 Normandy Avranches and Quevilly-Rouen
1  Centre-Val de Loire Orléans
 Hauts-de-France Boulogne
 Occitanie Sète

Impact of COVID-19 on the season

The start of the season was impacted by the ongoing COVID-19 situation. The game-week two match between Bourg-Péronnas and Annecy was postponed due to the visiting team having confirmed cases of COVID-19.[6] Game-week three matches between Annecy and Villefranche, and Quevilly-Rouen and Bourg-Péronnas were both postponed due to COVID-19 cases at Annecy and Bourg-Péronnas,[7] as was the match between Bourg-Péronnas and Red Star in game-week four, due to Bourg-Péronnas players still isolating.[8] The game-week four match between Concarneau and Cholet was postponed an hour before kick-off due to positive tests for the Concarneau trainer and captain.[9] There was a follow-on postponement for Concarneau's match with Annecy in game-week 5, Annecy's third postponement of the season.[10]

The game-week four and five matches for Orléans, against Avranches and Stade Briochin, were both postponed when Orléans were given an eight-day suspension from official matches due to positive COVID-19 cases.[11] The cases at Orléans also prompted the late postponement of the game-week 4 match between Bastia-Borgo and Boulogne, in accordance with local Corsican rules, due to Bastia-Borgo having played Orléans the previous Thursday.[12]

Positive cases at Sète caused the postponement of their game-week 5 match at Quevilly-Rouen,[13] and their game-week 6 match against Red Star,[14] whilst a local decree in Haute-Corse caused the postponement of their game-week 7 tie at SC Bastia.[15]

Laval's trip to SC Bastia in game-week 9 was postponed due to the squad isolating after a positive diagnosis.[16] Further positive tests caused the cancellation of Laval's game-week 10 match against Boulogne.[17] The match between Sporting Club Lyon and Cholet in the same round was postponed due to positive cases at Cholet.[18]

Game-week 11 saw the postponements of Annecy v Sporting Club Lyon, Quevilly-Rouen v Stade Briochin and Villefranche v Sète were postponed due to Covid cases.[19][20][21]

Four matches rearranged for the catch-up week of 28 to 30 October; Quevilly-Rouen v Bourg-Péronnas, Sète v Red Star, Annecy v Villefranche and Sporting Club Lyon v Cholet, were postponed for a second time due to Covid cases.[22][23][24]

Game-week 12 ties between Cholet and Annecy, Sporting Club Lyon and Quevilly-Rouen, and Orléans and Boulogne were postponed.[25][26][27] Game-week 13 ties between Boulogne and Avranches, and between Le Mans and Orléans were postponed.[28][29]

All of the postponed matches were caught up by 15 December 2020.[30]

League table
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Promotion or Relegation
1 SC Bastia 19 11 5 3 35 17 +18 38 Promotion to Ligue 2
2 Quevilly-Rouen 19 11 4 4 33 18 +15 37
3 Red Star 19 8 6 5 25 20 +5 30 Qualification to promotion play-offs
4 Le Mans 19 6 10 3 22 19 +3 28
5 Avranches 19 8 3 8 23 23 0 27
6 Créteil 19 6 9 4 17 16 +1 27
7 Cholet 19 7 5 7 25 28 −3 26
8 Laval 19 6 7 6 21 19 +2 25
9 Orléans 19 6 7 6 28 21 +7 25
10 Concarneau 19 5 10 4 22 21 +1 25
11 Villefranche 19 6 5 8 12 15 −3 23
12 Saint-Brieuc 19 5 8 6 17 19 −2 23
13 Bastia-Borgo 19 5 7 7 20 30 −10 22
14 Sète 19 5 7 7 17 18 −1 22
15 Bourg-Péronnas 19 4 8 7 15 22 −7 20 Relegation to National 2
16 Boulogne 19 3 9 7 14 21 −7 18
17 Annecy 19 3 8 8 22 32 −10 17
18 Sporting Club Lyon 19 2 10 7 15 24 −9 16
Updated to match(es) played on 26 January 2021. Source: Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored; 4) head-to-head goal difference; 5) fair play points

Top scorers
As of games played on 26 January 2021.[31]
Rank Player Club Goals
1 Andrew Jung Quevilly-Rouen 16
2 Wilson Isidor Bastia-Borgo 9
3 Damien Durand Red Star 8
Thomas Robinet Laval
Sébastian Da Silva SC Bastia
Ottman Dadoune Quevilly-Rouen
7 Yapo N'Chobi Cholet 7
Antony Robic SC Bastia
9 Carnegy Antoine Orléans 6
Hacene Benali Concarneau
Bilal Brahimi Le Mans
Mohamed Ouadah Laval
Gaëtan Perrin Orléans
Samuel Essende Avranches
Romain Montiel Bourg-Péronnas

References
  1. "Le calendrier du National 2020-2021" (in French). FFF.fr. 17 July 2020.
  2. "National. Le FC Annecy privé de son stade en début de saison" (in French). footamateur.fr. 11 August 2020.
  3. "Annecy : Le choix du stade de repli révélé !" (in French). foot-national.com. 17 August 2020.
  4. "National : Une rencontre délocalisée pour la 2ème journée" (in French). foot-national.com. 21 July 2020.
  5. "National | La première journée au Stade Jacques Joly" (in French). Sporting Club Lyon. 27 July 2020.
  6. "National : une nouvelle rencontre reportée en raison du Covid (off)" (in French). foot-national.com. 28 August 2020.
  7. "National: two matches postponed for the third day" (in French). foot-national.com. 31 August 2020.
  8. "National : Une nouvelle rencontre reportée" (in French). foot-national.com. 2 September 2020.
  9. "National. Le match Concarneau – Cholet reporté pour cause de Covid-19" (in French). footamateur.fr. 4 September 2020.
  10. "National : une nouvelle rencontre reportée (off)" (in French). foot-national.com. 8 September 2020.
  11. "National : Deux matchs reportés" (in French). foot-national.com. 6 September 2020.
  12. "National : Encore un match reporté à la dernière minute" (in French). foot-national.com. 7 September 2020.
  13. "Covid-19 : deux rencontres de N3 et une de National reportées" (in French). foot-national.com. 10 September 2020.
  14. "La recontre Sète - Red Star reportée" (in French). actufoot.com. 16 September 2020.
  15. "Bastia-Sète : La rencontre reportée" (in French). foot-national.com. 25 September 2020.
  16. "National : un choc du haut de tableau reporté (off)" (in French). foot-national.com. 8 October 2020.
  17. "Foot (National) – Le match Laval – Boulogne reporté" (in French). La Voix du Nord. 13 October 2020.
  18. "National : Encore un match reporté mardi" (in French). foot-national.com. 12 October 2020.
  19. "National : nouveau report en raison du Covid-19 (off)" (in French). foot-national.com. 22 October 2020.
  20. "National : plusieurs cas de Covid dans un club, sa rencontre reportée" (in French). foot-national.com. 22 October 2020.
  21. "N1 : Une rencontre reportée à son tour (off)" (in French). foot-national.com. 21 October 2020.
  22. "National : une première rencontre de reportée cette semaine (off)" (in French). foot-national.com. 26 October 2020.
  23. "National : encore une rencontre reportée en raison du Covid (off)" (in French). foot-national.com. 27 October 2020.
  24. "National : deux autres rencontres également reportées (off)" (in French). foot-national.com. 26 October 2020.
  25. "N1 : Déjà un report pour cette 12ème journée ! (off)" (in French). foot-national.com. 3 November 2020.
  26. "National : une rencontre déjà reportée (off)" (in French). foot-national.com. 5 November 2020.
  27. "N1 : Nouvelle rencontre reportée à cause du Covid !" (in French). foot-national.com. 4 November 2020.
  28. "National : une première rencontre de reportée ce vendredi (off)" (in French). foot-national.com. 12 November 2020.
  29. "National : une deuxième rencontre reportée ce vendredi (off)" (in French). foot-national.com. 12 November 2020.
  30. "N1 : Le calendrier enfin remis à jour après le match entre Annecy et Concarneau ce soir !" (in French). foot-national.com. 15 December 2020.
  31. "National 1". Soccerway. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
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