2007–08 Luxembourg National Division

The 2007–08 Luxembourg National Division was the 94th season of top level association football in Luxembourg. The competition ran from August 2007 to 31 May 2008. F91 Dudelange won their fourth consecutive title.

Luxembourg National Division
Season2007–08

Teams
Locations of participating teams across Luxembourg
ClubTown2006–07 Season
FC Avenir BeggenBeggenDivision of Honour, 2nd
FC Differdange 03Differdange3rd
F91 DudelangeDudelange1st
FC Etzella EttelbruckEttelbruck2nd
CS GrevenmacherGrevenmacher6th
Jeunesse EschEsch-sur-Alzette9th
UN Käerjéng 97Bascharage8th
CS PétangePétange10th
FC Progrès NiedercornNiederkorn7th
Racing FC Union LuxembourgLuxembourg City4th
FC RM Hamm BenficaLuxembourg CityDivision of Honour, 1st
FC Swift HesperangeHesperange5th
FC Victoria RosportRosport12th
FC Wiltz 71Wiltz11th

Format

As in 2006–07, the 2007–08 season involved a round-robin among the fourteen teams. Thus, each team played 26 games over the course of the calendar.

The bottom two teams were relegated automatically; these teams were CS Pétange and FC Victoria Rosport. The third-bottom (twelfth-placed) team was required to take part in a play-off with the third-placed team from the Division of Honour for the place in the National Division the following season. In the event, FC Wiltz 71 finished third-bottom, and lost the play-off to Sporting Steinfort.

European qualification

Luxembourg was assigned one spot in the first qualifying round of the UEFA Champions League, for the league champions, F91 Dudelange. It has also been assigned two spots in the first qualifying round of the UEFA Cup, for the runners-up, Racing FC Union Luxembourg, and the Luxembourg Cup winners. If, as happened two seasons previously, the league champions and runners-up had both reach the cup final, the second UEFA Cup spot would have gone to the team placed third in the league. However, in the event, neither of the top two clubs reached the semi-finals, and the cup-winners spot went to CS Grevenmacher. Jeunesse Esch have not applied to play in the 2008 UEFA Intertoto Cup, so Etzella Ettelbruck have qualified in Jeunesse's place.

Final standings
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 F91 Dudelange (C) 26 23 2 1 74 12 +62 71 Qualification to Champions League first qualifying round
2 Racing FC 26 14 8 4 50 28 +22 50 Qualification to UEFA Cup first qualifying round
3 Jeunesse Esch 26 13 6 7 51 39 +12 45
4 Etzella Ettelbruck 26 13 5 8 54 48 +6 44 Qualification to Intertoto Cup first round
5 Avenir Beggen 26 11 4 11 41 38 +3 37
6 Grevenmacher 26 10 6 10 45 36 +9 36 Qualification to UEFA Cup first qualifying round
7 Differdange 03 26 11 2 13 43 43 0 35
8 RM Hamm Benfica 26 9 5 12 32 48 −16 32
9 Swift Hesperange 26 8 7 11 36 44 −8 31
10 UN Käerjéng 97 26 8 6 12 30 40 −10 30
11 Progrès Niederkorn 26 7 7 12 31 46 −15 28
12 Wiltz 71 (R) 26 6 7 13 33 48 −15 25 Qualification to Relegation play-offs
13 Victoria Rosport (R) 26 6 6 14 29 56 −27 24 Relegation to Luxembourg Division of Honour
14 Pétange (R) 26 4 7 15 27 50 −23 19
Source: [1]
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Results
Home \ Away BEG DIF DUD ETZ GRE JEU KAE PÉT PRO RAC RMH SWI VIC WIL
Avenir Beggen 1–0 1–0 0–2 1–2 1–2 2–1 1–1 1–2 0–0 3–1 1–3 4–1 1–2
Differdange 03 2–3 2–4 3–1 0–3 3–0 5–0 2–1 1–2 3–1 2–3 2–1 2–1 4–1
F91 Dudelange 1–0 2–0 7–1 1–0 6–2 1–0 1–0 4–1 1–1 3–0 2–0 3–0 1–0
Etzella Ettelbruck 2–2 2–0 1–3 1–5 5–4 0–3 3–1 4–2 2–2 3–0 2–1 1–2 3–1
Grevenmacher 2–0 3–2 0–2 0–1 4–2 1–0 3–1 2–2 1–1 0–0 1–2 6–0 2–2
Jeunesse Esch 3–0 2–0 1–1 2–2 2–1 2–3 4–1 0–0 2–0 1–1 4–1 2–0 4–1
UN Käerjéng 97 3–3 2–2 0–4 0–0 2–1 0–1 3–0 1–1 0–1 1–2 1–5 1–1 2–1
Pétange 1–2 0–1 0–4 1–1 2–1 2–2 0–0 1–2 2–2 1–2 1–3 3–2 3–2
Progrès Niederkorn 2–1 1–0 1–5 0–3 1–3 3–2 1–3 0–0 0–1 3–0 2–2 0–0 2–2
Racing FC 1–4 0–0 0–2 3–2 4–2 3–0 2–0 4–0 3–1 3–0 1–1 4–1 3–1
RM Hamm Benfica 1–3 2–3 1–5 2–1 2–0 0–1 2–0 0–2 3–1 0–3 3–1 2–2 1–1
Swift Hesperange 2–1 1–2 0–2 1–5 1–1 1–1 0–2 2–2 1–0 1–4 2–0 0–0 1–1
Victoria Rosport 1–3 3–2 0–7 2–3 3–0 0–1 2–1 2–1 2–1 1–1 0–1 1–2 2–2
Wiltz 71 0–2 3–0 0–2 1–3 1–1 0–4 0–1 1–0 1–0 1–2 3–3 2–1 3–0
Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Relegation play-off
FC Wiltz 710–2Sporting Steinfort

As a result of their victory, Sporting Steinfort were promoted to the National Division for the 2008–09 season, and FC Wiltz 71 relegated to the Division of Honour.

Top goalscorers
Rank Player Club Goals
1 France Emmanuel Coquelet F91 Dudelange 20
2 France Aoued Aouaïchia RM Hamm Benfica 18
Luxembourg Daniel da Mota Etzella Ettelbruck
4 Luxembourg Daniel Huss CS Grevenmacher 16
5 France Didier Chaillou Progrès Niedercorn 15
6 Cape Verde Aderito Medina Avenir Beggen 14
7 France Sergio Pupovac Racing FC 12
Poland Tomas Gruszczynski F91 Dudelange
9 France Stephane Martine Racing FC 11
10 France Loïc Cantonnet Jeunesse Esch 10
Guinea Soriba Camara Racing FC
France Pierre Piskor FC Differdange 03

References
  1. "Luxembourg 2007/08". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation.
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