2006 Division 1 (Senegal)

{{Infobox football league season

| competition = Division 1

| season = 2006

| winners = AS Douanes

| runner-up = ASC Diaraf

| matches = 156

| total goals = 244

| league topscorer =

| promoted = ASC Yakaar
ASC Xam Xam

| relegated = Compagnie sucrière sénégalaise
US Rail

| biggest home win =

| biggest away win =

| highest scoring =

| highest attendance =

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| prevseason = 2005

| nextseason = 2007

}}

The 2006 Division 1 season was the 41st of the competition of the first-tier football in Senegal. The tournament was organized by the Senegalese Football Federation.[https://www.rsssf.org/tabless/sene06.html 2005/06 Senegalese Premier Division season at RSSSF] The season began on 5 January and finished on 15 July. AS Douanes won their third title. AS Douanes along with Port Autonome would compete in the 2007 CAF Champions League the following season. US Ouakam who won the 2006 Senegalese Cup participated in the 2007 CAF Confederation Cup, along with US Gorée. Compagnie sucrière sénégalaise, last place of Group A relegated to the second division with 14 points as they had a penalty that cost them three points by an undetermined reason, US Rail, last place of Group B was relegated with only 9 points.

The season would feature 18 clubs. 156 matches (144 in the first phase and 12 in the second phase) were played and 244 goals were scored. Yet again since the 1990s, the season would feature the first and second phases, the first phase featured the group system with a total of 72 matches for each group, the second or final phase would consist of four clubs (instead of a playoff as did in the 1990s) with a total of 12 matches, each club played a total of six matches and the highest number of points would decide the season's champion.

ASC Port Autonome was the defending team of the title.

Participating clubs

Overview

The league was contested by 18 teams and two groups, the first phase consisted of 9 clubs in each of the two groups and the second and final phase consisted of only four clubs.

League standings

=Group A=

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!style="width: 40px;"|Pos

!style="width: 200px;"|Team

!style="width: 45px;"|Pld

!style="width: 35px;"|W

!style="width: 35px;"|D

!style="width: 35px;"|L

!style="width: 45px;"|GF

!style="width: 45px;"|GA

!style="width: 45px;"|GD

!style="width: 45px;"|Pts

style="background:#ffff30;"1style="text-align: left;"|AS Douanes16772168+828
style="background:#ffff30;"2style="text-align: left;"|ASC Diaraf|165921310+324
|3style="text-align: left;"|Guédiawaye FC164841011|
120
|4style="text-align: left;"|Stade de Mbour16484910|
120
|5style="text-align: left;"|SONACOS163103710|
319
|6style="text-align: left;"|ASC Yakaar16394109+118
|7style="text-align: left;"|Dakar Université Club1621041112|
117
|8style="text-align: left;"|ASEC Ndiambour1629548|
415
style="background:#ffc0cb;"9style="text-align: left;"|Compagnie sucrière sénégalaise -3163851113|
214

=Group B=

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!style="width: 40px;"|Pos

!style="width: 200px;"|Team

!style="width: 45px;"|Pld

!style="width: 35px;"|W

!style="width: 35px;"|D

!style="width: 35px;"|L

!style="width: 45px;"|GF

!style="width: 45px;"|GA

!style="width: 45px;"|GD

!style="width: 45px;"|Pts

style="background:#ffff30;"1style="text-align: left;"|ASC HLM169522010+1032
style="background:#ffff30;"2style="text-align: left;"|US Gorée166912112+927
|3style="text-align: left;"|ASC Port Autonome166821510+526
|4style="text-align: left;"|ASC Jeanne d'Arc167541413+126
|5style="text-align: left;"|ASC Xam Xam165561210+220
|6style="text-align: left;"|Casa Sport165471315|
219
|7style="text-align: left;"|ASC Saloum164571015|
517
style="background:#98fb98;"8style="text-align: left;"|US Ouakam164481016|
616
style="background:#ffc0cb;"9style="text-align: left;"|US Rail162311822|
149

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| bgcolor="#ffffff" align="left" | Qualification into the second phase

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| bgcolor="#ffffff" align="left" | 2007 CAF Confederation Cup

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| bgcolor="#ffffff" align="left" | Relegation to Division 2

=Second and final phase=

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{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"

!style="width: 40px;"|Pos

!style="width: 170px;"|Team

!style="width: 45px;"|Pld

!style="width: 35px;"|W

!style="width: 35px;"|D

!style="width: 35px;"|L

!style="width: 45px;"|GF

!style="width: 45px;"|GA

!style="width: 45px;"|GD

!style="width: 45px;"|Pts

style="background:#87ceeb;"1style="text-align: left;"|AS Douanes6420124+814
style="background:#e0ffff;"2style="text-align: left;"|ASC Diaraf61418807
style="background:#98fb98;"3style="text-align: left;"|US Gorée6132611|
56
|4style="text-align: left;"|ASC HLM603#45|
33

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Club

! width=30|Dou

! width=30|Dia

! width=30|Gor

! width=30|HLM

align=right|AS Douanesbgcolor="#808080"|1-02-03-2
align=right|ASC Diaraf2-2bgcolor="#808080"|2-22-1
align=right|US Gorée0-42-2bgcolor="#808080"|0-0
align=right|ASC HLM0-00-01-2bgcolor="#808080"|

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| bgcolor="#ffffff" align="left" | 2007 CAF Champions League

style="background: #98fb98" width="20" |

| bgcolor="#ffffff" align="left" | 2007 CAF Confederation Cup

|}

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!Division 1 2006
Champions

align=center|AS Douanes
3rd title

References

{{Reflist}}

{{Ligue 1 (Senegal) seasons}}

{{2006 in African football (CAF)}}

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Category:Football in Senegal

Category:Ligue 1 (Senegal) seasons

Category:2005–06 in African association football leagues