2005–06 Ligue 2

The Ligue 2 season 2005–06, organised by the LFP was won by Valenciennes FC and saw the promotions of Valenciennes FC, CS Sedan Ardennes and FC Lorient, whereas AC Ajaccio, RC Strasbourg and FC Metz were relegated from Ligue 1.

20 participating teams

#	Club	Played	V	D	L	gf/ga	+/-	Points
1	Valenciennes	38	21	11	6	51:28	+23	74
2	Sedan	38	19	14	5	50:32	+18	71
3	Lorient	38	18	12	8	49:26	+23	66
4	Caen	38	18	12	8	56:35	+21	66
5	Dijon	38	16	12	10	47:32	+15	60
6	Bastia	38	16	10	12	47:40	+7	58
7	Le Havre	38	13	16	9	48:41	+7	55
8	Créteil	38	13	15	10	46:33	+13	54
9	Guingamp	38	12	14	12	36:32	+4	50
10	Grenoble	38	12	12	14	42:45	-3	48
11	FC Gueugnon	38	11	15	12	29:37	-8	48
12	Montpellier	38	12	11	15	34:43	-9	47
13	Istres	38	12	11	15	33:45	-12	47
14	Reims	38	10	15	13	32:31	+1	45
15	Châteauroux	38	10	14	14	48:48	0	44
16	Amiens	38	9	16	13	32:44	-12	43
17	Brest	38	9	15	14	34:48	-14	42
18	Clermont	38	10	8	20	35:59	-24	38
19	Laval	38	9	8	21	38:59	-21	35
20	Sète	38	4	11	23	31:60	-29	23
# rank ; V victories ; D draws ; D defeats ; gf goals for ; ga goals against ; +/- goals average

Valenciennes is promoted for the second year in a row, as champion in both years, which was the first time in France.

#	Player	Club	Goals
1	Jean-Michel Lesage	Le Havre	16
-	Steve Savidan	Valenciennes	16
3	David Papys M'Bodji	Créteil	15
4	Kandia Traoré	Le Havre	14
5	Frédéric Fouret	Clermont	13
-	Guilherme Mauricio	Laval	13
7	Pierre-Yves André	Bastia	12
-	Nassim Akrour	Grenoble	12
-	Mansour Boutabout	Sedan	12
10	Stéphane Samson	Caen	11
11	Christophe Meslin	Bastia	10
-	Kemal Bourhani	Lorient	10

v t e Division 2 / Ligue 2 seasons
Division 2 (1933–2002)	1933–34 1934–35 1935–36 1936–37 1937–38 1938–39 1939–40 1940–41 1941–42 1942–43 1943–44 1944–45 1945–46 1946–47 1947–48 1948–49 1949–50 1950–51 1951–52 1952–53 1953–54 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02
Ligue 2 (2002–present)	2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16
List of French second division champions