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Limoges, Limoges · France · Ligue 1

Power-ranking history

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Rank (1 = best)1224Score (per-season normalised)0.00.51.059/60

Against expectation

Every French top-flight match this club has played in the Ligue 1, scored against the odds an Elo rating gave it before kick-off. Over 3 seasons from 1958-59 to 1960-61 it has fallen short of them by 0.7 match points.

Limoges FC: surplus against expectation, 1958-59 to 1960-611958-59: −0.2 league points vs expected (34 on 34.2, 2 for a win) · bar height −0.1 match points1959-60: +1.4 league points vs expected (38 on 36.6, 2 for a win) · bar height +0.7 match points1960-61: −2.5 league points vs expected (30 on 32.5, 2 for a win) · bar height −1.2 match points
1958-59one bar per season · height in match points · hover for that season1960-61
Best season against expectation
1959-60 +1.4 league pts
38 points on 36.6 expected as Limoges FC
Worst season against expectation
1960-61 2.5 league pts
30 points on 32.5 expected as Limoges FC

Season points use that season’s own scoring, two for a win before 1994-95 and three from it; the bars use match points so the whole series is comparable.The rating only starts telling you much after about 1960. Before that, knowing the era’s home-and-away split is almost as good as knowing the teams.

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Greatest games

Limoges's top matches by the club Game Score: closeness, stakes, quality and upset over one unified rating of league and European play.All-time board.

#DateStageResultScore
11961-04-30Division 1AL 2-3 v AS Troyesgame score 46.2
21959-03-15Division 1AW 3-2 v US Valenciennesgame score 45.2
32000-01-22Coupe de France · Round of 64HL 3-4 v Paris Saint-Germaingame score 43.5
41961-06-04Division 1AL 1-2 v Olympique Lyonnaisgame score 43.2
51961-05-03Division 1AL 2-3 v AS Monacogame score 42.9
61961-05-11Division 1HW 3-2 v FC Rouengame score 42.6
71959-04-26Division 1HL 1-2 v FC Sochaux-Montbéliardgame score 42.5
81960-03-27Division 1HL 0-1 v Olympique Lyonnaisgame score 42.3
91960-05-01Division 1AL 1-2 v FC Girondins de Bordeauxgame score 42.3
101960-01-03Division 1HL 1-2 v Stade Rennais FCgame score 40.6

Footprint

Tiers played
L1
Top-flight (L1) seasons
3
First season
1959
Most recent season
1961

The Heartbreak Index2.4 · #732

The Blessed · Never won it, waiting since 1959

2.4
Heartbreak
#732
of 1,139 clubs
#455
in Football
2.4
agony
The clocks
  • First major trophy since 19596.3
Heaviest wounds

relegated from the top flight, 1961 · survived a relegation scare, 1959

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Season-by-season

Most recent season first. Covers Ligue 1 only. Rows tagged "national playoff" are pre-modern formats where the workbook records only playoff participants, not round-robin standings.

1961
Division 1 (1) · P18
38 P · 11-8-19 · 55:69 · -14
30
pts
1960
Division 1 (1) · P10
38 P · 14-10-14 · 46:46 · 0
38
pts
1959
Division 1 (1) · P15
38 P · 12-10-16 · 48:57 · -9
34
pts