2005–06 Luxembourg National Division

The 2005–06 Luxembourg National Division was the 92nd season of top level association football in Luxembourg. The competition ran from 7 August 2005 to 28 May 2006. The league title was won by F91 Dudelange, who also won the Luxembourg Cup to complete the Double.

Luxembourg National Division

Season	2005–06
Champions	F91 Dudelange (5th titles)
Relegated	Avenir Beggen Rumelange
Champions League	F91 Dudelange
UEFA Cup	Jeunesse Esch Etzella Ettelbruck
Intertoto Cup	Grevenmacher
Top goalscorer	Fatih Sözen (23 goals)
← 2004–05 2006–07 →

Teams

Locations of participating teams across Luxembourg

The 2005–06 season saw the National Division's roster of twelve clubs include:

• FC Avenir Beggen
• F91 Dudelange (the reigning champions)
• FC Etzella Ettelbruck
• CS Grevenmacher
• Jeunesse Esch
• UN Käerjeng 97 (promoted from the Division of Honour)
• CS Pétange
• Racing FC Union Luxembourg
• US Rumelange (promoted from the Division of Honour)
• FC Swift Hesperange
• FC Victoria Rosport
• FC Wiltz 71

Format

The twelve teams completed the round-robin by playing each other twice (once home and once away) by 2 April. Then, the league divided into three. The top four teams were separated from the rest and formed the 'Title group' . The bottom eight teams were then subdivided into two groups of four, titled 'Relegation group A' and 'Relegation group B' . In the event, the top four were F91 Dudelange, Jeunesse Esch, FC Etzella Ettelbruck, and CS Grevenmacher.

In each of the three mini-leagues, each team played each of the three other teams in the mini-league twice (once home and once away). To these results were added the 22 results of the first stage. The overall points totals (and goal difference, etc.) were used to determine each club's position in its respective mini-league.

After calculating the final results after 28 games, F91 Dudelange, the top team in the title group, was declared the league champion. The fourth-placed team in each of the relegation groups (US Rumelange and FC Avenir Beggen in groups A and B respectively) played off against the third- and fourth-placed teams in Luxembourg's second division (FC Mondercange and FC Mamer 32), the Division of Honour. The winning team in each tie was awarded a place in the National Division in the 2006-07 season, whilst the losing team was confined to the second division. The matches were played on 28 May on neutral ground. Both National Division teams lost, thus were relegated.

2005-06 was the last season to use this format. From 2006 to 2007, a simple league round-robin will be used for the entire season.

European qualification

Luxembourg was assigned one spot in the first qualifying round of the UEFA Champions League, for the league champions; it was also assigned two spots in the first qualifying round of the UEFA Cup, for the runners-up and the winners of the Luxembourg Cup. As league champions, F91 Dudelange qualified for the Champions League. Jeunesse Esch qualified for the UEFA Cup as runners-up. In addition, as F91 Dudelange and Jeunesse Esch contested the Luxembourg Cup final, the UEFA Cup assigned to the cup winners went to FC Etzella Ettelbruck, who finished third in the league.

First phase

Table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	F91 Dudelange	22	16	3	3	63	15	+48	51	Qualification to championship stage
2	Jeunesse Esch	22	14	2	6	49	19	+30	44
3	Etzella Ettelbruck	22	13	1	8	48	36	+12	40
4	Grevenmacher	22	12	2	8	51	27	+24	38
5	Wiltz 71	22	9	7	6	36	27	+9	34	Qualification to relegation stage
6	UN Käerjéng 97	22	10	4	8	36	33	+3	34
7	Racing FC	22	10	4	8	31	30	+1	34
8	Pétange	22	10	2	10	29	33	−4	32
9	Swift Hesperange	22	6	8	8	31	37	−6	26
10	Victoria Rosport	22	6	5	11	24	42	−18	23
11	Rumelange	22	3	3	16	20	58	−38	12
12	Avenir Beggen	22	0	5	17	10	71	−61	5

Source:

Results

Home \ Away	AVE	DUD	ETZ	GRE	JEU	KAE	PÉT	RAC	RUM	SWI	VIC	WIL
Avenir Beggen		1–1	1–3	0–11	0–1	0–3	1–2	1–1	1–2	1–5	1–1	0–5
F91 Dudelange	4–1		3–1	1–2	2–0	4–0	5–1	5–0	6–1	3–1	3–0	2–0
Etzella Ettelbruck	5–0	1–0		2–1	2–1	1–3	5–0	1–3	4–1	2–1	4–2	1–2
Grevenmacher	2–0	1–1	4–1		0–2	2–1	2–1	0–2	4–0	3–0	0–1	3–1
Jeunesse Esch	8–0	0–3	3–0	4–2		2–0	0–1	4–0	5–0	1–1	2–0	1–1
UN Käerjéng 97	3–0	0–4	2–2	5–1	1–4		3–1	2–1	1–0	1–1	1–0	2–0
Pétange	2–0	0–1	1–3	1–0	1–2	2–1		1–2	4–2	1–0	2–0	1–1
Racing FC	0–0	1–0	1–0	0–2	0–1	1–0	1–3		0–2	3–0	5–0	2–2
Rumelange	4–1	0–4	0–2	0–6	1–4	3–5	1–3	1–1		1–1	0–0	1–3
Swift Hesperange	1–1	1–6	2–3	3–1	2–1	0–0	1–1	3–2	1–0		2–2	2–0
Victoria Rosport	3–0	2–4	1–2	1–4	1–0	1–1	1–0	1–3	1–0	4–3		2–2
Wiltz 71	4–0	1–1	4–3	0–0	1–3	3–1	1–0	1–2	1–0	0–0	3–0

Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Second phase

Championship stage

Table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	F91 Dudelange (C)	28	20	4	4	83	22	+61	64	Qualification to Champions League first qualifying round
2	Jeunesse Esch	28	17	2	9	58	36	+22	53	Qualification to UEFA Cup first qualifying round
3	Etzella Ettelbruck	28	16	1	11	59	47	+12	49
4	Grevenmacher	28	13	3	12	58	39	+19	42	Qualification to Intertoto Cup first round

Source:
(C) Champions

Results

Home \ Away	DUD	ETZ	GRE	JEU
F91 Dudelange		3–2	0–0	9–0
Etzella Ettelbruck	1–4		1–0	3–1
Grevenmacher	4–1	2–4		1–4
Jeunesse Esch	1–4	3–1	1–0

Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Relegation stage

Group A

Table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Wiltz 71	28	13	8	7	49	36	+13	47
2	Racing FC	28	12	5	11	40	39	+1	41
3	Swift Hesperange	28	9	9	10	41	44	−3	36
4	Rumelange (R)	28	4	4	20	25	70	−45	16	Qualification to Relegation play-offs

Source:
(R) Relegated

Results

Home \ Away	RAC	RUM	SWI	WIL
Racing FC		3–1	3–0	2–3
Rumelange	2–0		1–1	0–3
Swift Hesperange	2–0	2–0		5–1
Wiltz 71	1–1	3–1	2–0

Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Group B

Table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Pétange	28	12	4	12	39	40	−1	40
2	UN Käerjéng 97	28	10	7	11	44	46	−2	37
3	Victoria Rosport	28	8	8	12	34	50	−16	32
4	Avenir Beggen (R)	28	4	5	19	18	79	−61	17	Qualification to Relegation play-offs

Source:
(R) Relegated

Results

Home \ Away	AVE	KAE	PÉT	VIC
Avenir Beggen		3–2	1–0	1–4
UN Käerjéng 97	0–1		3–3	3–3
Pétange	2–0	3–0		1–1
Victoria Rosport	0–2	0–0	2–1

Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Relegation play-offs

28 May 2006

Avenir Beggen	2–3 (a.e.t.)	FC Mondercange

Stade rue de la Gare, Junglinster

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28 May 2006

US Rumelange	0–0 (a.e.t.)	FC Mamer 32
Penalties
	3–4

Stade Municipal, Schifflange

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Fatih Sözen	CS Grevenmacher	23
2	Joris di Gregorio	F91 Dudelange	22
	Fabrizio Rosamilia	FC Wiltz 71
4	Daniel Huss	CS Grevenmacher	18
5	Rudy Marchal	Jeunesse Esch	17
6	Daniel da Mota	Etzella Ettelbruck	16
	Stéphane Martine	F91 Dudelange
8	Tomasz Gruszczyński	F91 Dudelange	15
9	Sergio Pupovac	Racing FC	14
10	Carlo Pace	UN Käerjeng 97	13

Team changes for 2006-07 season

After the 2005–06 season ended, the league was expanded from twelve teams to fourteen. The champions and runners-up of the Division of Honour, FC Differdange 03 and FC Progrès Niedercorn, were promoted automatically. After losing their relegation play-offs, Avenir Beggen and US Rumelange were relegated and replaced by FC Mondercange and FC Mamer 32.