2001–02 French Division 1

64th season of French Division 1 December 2022 Division 1 27 July 2001 –4 May 2002 2001–02 Lyon (1st title) Metz Lorient Champions League UEFA Cup Intertoto Cup Pauleta Djibril Cissé (22 goals) 306 736 2000–01 2002–03 (Ligue 1) Lyon won Division 1 season 2001/2002 of the French Association Football League with 66 points. The title was decided in the very final game of the season when Lyon defeated erstwhile championship leaders Lens at Stade Gerland. Lyon had to win the match to take the title, and won 3–1, ending Lens's title dream. It was Lyon's first league championship, and it began their record seven successive league titles. Participating teams Auxerre Bastia Bordeaux Guingamp Lens Lille Lorient Lyon Marseille Metz Monaco Montpellier Nantes Paris Saint-Germain Rennes Sedan Sochaux Troyes France 350 right Location of teams in 2001–02 Ligue 1 France 47.786753 3.588664 Auxerre left France 42.39504 9.263343 Bastia left France 44.829242 -0.598253 Bordeaux left France 48.5633 -3.15 Guingamp left France 50.43285 2.814853 Lens       bottom France 50.621137 3.157519 Lille left France 47.748747 -3.369367 Lorient bottom France 45.723778 4.93225 Lyon France 43.269806 5.395922 Marseille bottom France 49.0713 6.1040 Metz right France 43.727606 7.415614 Monaco France 43.61194 3.97722 Montpellier top France 47.255631 -1.525375 Nantes France 48.841422 2.393053 PSG France 48.107458 -1.712839 Rennes France 49.7025 4.9411 Sedan right France 47.412417 6.9112 Sochaux top France 48.307561 4.098458 Troyes League table main WDL QR 5 OL Lyon C RCL Lens AUX Auxerre PSG Paris Saint-Germain LIL Lille BOR Bordeaux TRO Troyes SOC Sochaux OM Marseille FCN Nantes BAS Bastia REN Rennes MHS Montpellier SED Sedan ASM Monaco GUI Guingamp MET Metz R LOR Lorient R 20 6 8 62 32 18 10 6 55 30 16 11 7 48 38 15 13 6 43 24 15 11 8 39 32 14 8 12 34 31 13 8 13 40 35 12 10 12 41 40 11 11 12 34 39 12 7 15 35 41 12 5 17 38 44 11 8 15 40 51 9 13 12 28 31 8 15 11 35 39 9 12 13 36 41 9 8 17 34 57 9 6 19 31 47 7 10 17 43 64 green1 Qualification to Champions League first group stage CLGS CLGS green2 Qualification to Champions League third qualifying round CL3 blue1 Qualification to UEFA Cup first round UC #CCCCFF Qualification to Intertoto Cup third round IC3 #DDDDFF Qualification to Intertoto Cup second round IC2 IC2 blue1 Qualification to UEFA Cup first round UCCL Bordeaux was qualified for the 2002–03 UEFA Cup as winners of the 2001–02 Coupe de la Ligue. red1 Relegation to Ligue 2 R red1 UEFA Cup first round and relegated to Ligue 2 Lorient was qualified for the 2002–03 UEFA Cup as winners of the 2001–02 Coupe de France. IPS 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored. complete Ligue 1 Promoted from Ligue 2, who will play in Ligue 1 season 2002/2003 AC Ajaccio : champion of Ligue 2 RC Strasbourg : runners-up OGC Nice : third place Le Havre AC : fourth place Position by round table y br future Lyon 16/8/4/3/2/3/3/4/1/3/3/4/3/2/2/2/2/2/2/2/2/2/2/2/2/2/2/2/2/2/2/2/2/1 Lens 4/1/1/1/1/2/1/3/4/2/1/1/1/1/1/1/1/1/1/1/1/1/1/1/1/1/1/1/1/1/1/1/1/2 Auxerre 1/3/2/2/3/1/2/1/2/4/4/3/4/3/4/4/3/3/3/3/3/3/3/3/3/3/3/3/3/3/4/3/3/3 PSG 12/13/8/7/4/6/5/6/8/8/8/7/8/8/8/7/5/5/5/6/5/4/4/4/4/4/4/4/4/4/3/4/4/4 Lille 11/4/6/4/5/4/4/2/3/1/2/2/2/4/3/3/4/4/4/4/6/6/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5 Bordeaux 3/5/7/10/12/14/12/7/6/6/7/5/5/7/5/5/6/6/6/5/4/5/6/6/6/6/6/6/6/6/6/6/6/6 Troyes 2/6/9/5/7/9/13/9/10/7/6/8/7/6/6/6/8/7/7/7/7/7/7/7/7/7/7/7/7/7/7/7/7/7 Sochaux 6/2/3/6/6/5/6/5/5/5/5/6/6/5/7/8/7/8/8/8/9/9/9/9/9/12/9/8/8/8/8/8/8/8 Marseille 9/12/15/16/16/16/17/16/17/14/14/15/13/14/9/10/10/10/10/12/12/12/12/13/12/8/10/9/10/10/12/10/9/9 Nantes 15/17/17/18/18/18/18/18/18/18/18/18/18/18/18/18/18/18/18/17/14/14/13/12/13/14/14/14/13/12/11/9/11/10 Bastia 10/14/16/11/9/7/7/8/7/9/11/13/9/11/14/15/13/11/11/13/13/13/14/14/14/13/13/13/14/13/14/13/14/11 Rennais 18/18/12/8/13/10/9/14/16/13/10/11/14/9/10/11/12/12/14/14/15/18/16/16/15/15/15/15/15/15/15/15/15/12 Montpellier 8/11/5/9/11/12/10/13/14/16/16/14/16/13/13/9/9/9/9/9/8/8/8/8/8/10/11/12/12/14/13/14/10/13 Sedan 7/16/14/15/14/13/11/17/15/17/17/17/17/17/17/16/16/14/12/11/11/10/11/10/10/9/12/10/9/9/9/11/13/14 Monaco 13/15/18/17/17/15/15/10/13/10/12/10/11/10/12/12/14/15/13/10/10/11/10/11/11/11/8/11/11/11/10/12/12/15 Guingamp 17/10/10/13/10/11/14/15/11/12/9/12/12/12/11/14/11/13/15/15/16/16/15/15/17/16/17/16/16/16/18/17/17/16 Metz 14/7/13/14/15/17/16/12/12/15/15/16/15/16/15/13/15/16/16/16/17/15/17/17/16/17/18/18/18/17/16/16/16/17 Loreint 5/9/11/12/8/8/8/11/9/11/13/9/10/15/16/17/17/17/17/18/18/17/18/18/18/18/16/17/17/18/17/18/18/18 green1 blue1 green1 Champions of 2001-02 Division 1 green2 Qualified for UEFA Champions League green3 blue1 Qualified for UEFA Cup blue2 red1 Relegation to Ligue 2 red1 Results main FBR grey AUX BAS BOR GUI RCL LIL LOR OL OM MET ASM MHS NAN PSG REN SED SOC TRO Auxerre 1-0 0-1 2-2 1-0 2-1 2-2 0-1 2-0 3-2 2-0 1-0 2-1 1-1 2-3 2-1 2-0 1-3 Bastia 0-1 1-2 3-0 3-1 1-0 3-1 1-2 1-0 1-2 1-0 3-0 0-2 0-1 1-2 1-1 3-0 2-0 Bordeaux 1-1 2-1 2-0 2-1 0-0 2-1 0-1 0-0 1-0 0-0 3-1 2-0 1-0 2-1 2-1 0-1 2-3 Guingamp 0-0 1-0 2-1 1-0 0-0 4-3 2-4 1-0 0-2 2-1 2-2 1-0 0-1 1-1 1-2 0-0 1-0 Lens 1-1 7-0 0-0 4-1 1-1 1-1 2-0 2-0 2-2 1-0 2-0 3-0 1-1 2-0 1-0 3-0 0-0 Lille 2-3 2-1 2-2 1-0 0-1 3-1 2-0 2-0 2-0 1-1 2-1 1-0 1-0 1-0 1-1 1-2 1-0 Lorient 0-1 0-0 0-2 6-2 2-3 2-4 0-3 2-2 1-0 2-0 1-0 1-2 1-1 2-0 1-1 1-1 1-0 Lyon 3-0 0-0 1-0 3-0 3-1 4-2 2-0 4-0 4-1 1-0 0-0 4-1 3-0 4-0 2-0 1-1 3-1 Marseille 3-0 2-2 0-0 2-1 1-2 0-0 3-2 0-0 1-0 1-1 1-0 2-0 1-0 2-1 2-1 4-2 0-1 Metz 2-0 0-1 1-2 2-4 0-1 0-1 1-1 2-0 0-2 1-0 0-0 2-0 0-2 3-1 2-3 2-0 2-1 Monaco 1-1 1-1 3-1 3-1 3-0 2-2 1-0 2-1 1-1 2-2 0-0 1-2 2-2 3-1 2-0 0-1 2-0 Montpellier 0-0 2-1 0-0 2-1 1-2 2-0 1-3 3-0 1-1 3-0 1-1 3-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 2-0 Nantes 2-2 1-2 2-1 2-0 1-2 0-1 2-0 3-0 3-1 0-0 2-1 1-2 1-2 3-1 1-1 0-0 1-0 Paris SG 0-0 1-0 1-0 1-1 2-2 0-0 5-0 2-2 0-0 2-0 1-2 0-0 1-1 3-0 3-0 1-0 3-1 Rennes 0-5 2-1 1-0 2-1 1-2 4-0 1-1 2-2 2-1 0-0 3-0 2-0 2-0 1-2 1-0 1-1 0-1 Sedan 3-3 0-2 1-0 1-1 1-1 1-1 5-0 2-1 1-1 2-0 0-0 2-0 0-0 1-2 0-0 2-1 0-0 Sochaux 1-2 4-1 2-0 1-0 0-2 0-0 2-2 2-1 3-0 2-0 3-0 0-1 0-1 0-2 4-3 3-0 2-2 Troyes 1-2 3-0 2-0 3-0 1-1 0-1 4-2 0-2 1-0 2-0 3-0 2-0 0-0 1-0 1-1 1-1 2-2 complete Ligue 1 Top goalscorers Rank Player Club GoalsDivision 1 - Saison 2001-2002 - Classement des buteurs deux-zero.com 1 FRA Djibril Cissé Auxerre 22 POR Pauleta Bordeaux 3 FRA Jean-Claude Darcheville Lorient 19 4 FRA Nicolas Goussé Troyes 15 5 DR Congo Shabani Nonda Monaco 14 FRA Pierre-Alain Frau Sochaux BRA Sonny Anderson Lyon FRA Tony Vairelles Bastia 9 FRA Daniel Moreira Lens 11 FRA Bruno Cheyrou Lille Awards Individual awards Award Winner Club Ligue 1 Player of the Year POR Pauleta Bordeaux Ligue 1 Young Player of the Year FRA Djibril Cissé AJ Auxerre Ligue 1 Goalkeeper of the Year FRA Ulrich Ramé Bordeaux Ligue 1 Manager of the Year FRA Joël Muller RC Lens Team of the YearPalmarès des Oscars du Football https://web.archive.org/web/20020919102831/http://www.canalplus.fr:80/sports/emissions/oscars2002/palmares.asp Canal+ 27 September 2026GoalkeeperFRA Ulrich Ramé (Bordeaux)Defenders FRA Stéphane Pichot (Lille) FRA Philippe Mexès (Auxerre) FRA David Sommeil (Bordeaux) ARG Gabriel Heinze (Paris Saint-Germain)Midfielders FRA Stéphane Pédron (Lens) ESP Mikel Arteta (Paris Saint-Germain) FRA Jocelyn Blanchard (Lens) BRA Ronaldinho (Paris Saint-Germain)Forwards FRA Djibril Cissé (Auxerre)POR Pauleta (Bordeaux) Attendances Source:https://www.european-football-statistics.co.uk/attn/archive/fra/avefra02.htm Historical attendances European-football-statistics.co.uk August 17, 2026 No. Club Average attendance Change Highest 1 Olympique de Marseille 50,072 -1.4% 58,000 2 Paris Saint-Germain FC 41,040 -4.0% 45,000 3 RC Lens 37,506 -5.4% 40,811 4 Olympique lyonnais 34,844 0.3% 42,000 5 FC Nantes 33,385 3.0% 36,000 6 Girondins de Bordeaux 27,867 -5.5% 33,000 7 FC Metz 17,935 -2.5% 25,697 8 Stade rennais 17,877 -7.8% 22,656 9 LOSC 17,837 4.4% 20,380 10 CS Sedan 16,582 14.7% 22,008 11 FC Sochaux 16,477 27.2% 19,907 12 ESTAC 13,926 -4.9% 18,000 13 MHSC 13,864 57.2% 30,000 14 AJ Auxerre 12,248 16.5% 20,000 15 EA Guingamp 12,201 -7.0% 16,400 16 FC Lorient 12,163 79.7% 18,000 17 AS Monaco 8,543 -5.5% 15,000 18 SC Bastia 7,221 -2.7% 11,640 References External links France 2001/02 at Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation 2001–02 1 France