The 2023–24 Championnat National 2 was the 26th season of the fourth tier in the French football league system in its current format. This season the competition was contested by 56 clubs split geographically across four groups of 14 teams, a change from the previous season, as part of the restructuring of the French football league system. The teams included amateur clubs (although a few were semi-professional) and the reserve teams of professional clubs. The competition began on 28 August 2023 and concluded on 18 May 2024.
Teams On 13 July 2023, the FFF ratified the constitution of the competition, and published the groups.
Changes from the 2022–23 season are:
Teams joining the division Bourg-Péronnas, Stade Briochin, Le Puy, Paris 13 Atletico and Borgo finished in the relegation positions in 2022-23 Championnat National. Libourne, La Roche, Avoine Chinon, Cannes, Mâcon, Biesheim, Feignies Aulnoye, Vire, Dinan Léhon, Aubervilliers and Bourgoin-Jallieu were promoted as champions of their 2022–23 Championnat National 3 groups. Béziers finished top of their 2022–23 Championnat National 3 group, but were denied promotion by the DNCG, and failed to appeal successfully. Toulouse (res) were promoted as runners-up.
Teams leaving the division Rouen, Épinal, Marignane GCB, GOAL FC were champions of each group, and were promoted to 2023–24 Championnat National. Évreux, Rennes (res), Vannes, SM Caen (res), Chartres, Reims (res), Sainte-Geneviève, Metz (res), Belfort, Saint-Maur, Sète, Saint-Priest, Lyon (res), Canet Roussillon, Louhans-Cuiseaux, Vierzon, Moulins Yzeure, Stade Bordelais and Nantes (res) finished in relegation positions in 2022–23 Championnat National 2 and were relegated to 2023–24 Championnat National 3 Lyon La Duchère were administratively relegated by the DNCG to 2023–24 Championnat National 3. Poissy were excluded from national competition by the DNCG, which was confirmed on appeal.
Promotion and relegation The top team in each group will be promoted to 2024–25 Championnat National.
Due to the restructuring of the French football leagues, this season the bottom five teams in each group will be relegated to 2024–25 Championnat National 3, along with the worst performing ninth-placed team. This performance will calculated based on the performance of each ninth-placed team in matches against the teams finishing 4th to 8th.
League tables Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Top scorers
RankPlayerClubGoals1 Abdoulaye DialloToulon122 Amine MeftahAubervilliers10 Florent StevanceSaint-Quentin4 Romain EscarpitBergerac9 Sébastien Da SilvaBorgo6 Sander BenbachirHyères8 Jordan PopineauRomorantin Vincent CréhinGranville Mamadou DialloBoulogne Sofian VallaDinan Léhon FC Jean VercruysseBoulogne Farid BeziouenFC 93 Maxime BléRacing Besançon Alain ReppertBiesheim
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