2018–19 Luxembourg National Division

Luxembourg National Division
Season	2018–19
Dates	5 August 2018 – 19 May 2019
Champions	F91 Dudelange
Relegated	RM Hamm Benfica; Rumelange
Champions League	F91 Dudelange
Europa League	Fola Esch; Jeunesse Esch
Matches played	182
Goals scored	592 (3.25 per match)
	← 2017–18 2019–20 →

The 2018–19 Luxembourg National Division was the 105th season of top-flight association football in Luxembourg. The season began on 5 August 2018 and ended on 19 May 2019.^[1]

F91 Dudelange were the defending champions from the previous season.^[2]

Teams

Rodange 91 and Esch were relegated at the end of the previous season.^[2] Etzella Ettelbruck and Rumelange joined the league this season after earning promotion from the Luxembourg Division of Honour.^[3]

Esch

Differdange 03

F91 Dudelange

FC Etzella Ettelbruck

Esch teams:
Fola Esch
Jeunesse Esch

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Locations of the 2018–19 Luxembourg National Division teams

Stadia and locations

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity
Differdange 03	Differdange	Stade Parc des Sports	2,400
F91 Dudelange	Dudelange	Stade Jos Nosbaum	2,558
Fola Esch	Esch-sur-Alzette	Stade Émile Mayrisch	3,826
FC Etzella Ettelbruck	Ettelbruck	Stade Am Deich	2,020
Hostert	Hostert	Stade Jos Becker	1,500
Jeunesse Esch	Esch-sur-Alzette	Stade de la Frontière	5,400
Mondorf-les-Bains	Mondorf-les-Bains	Stade Jeannot Mayrisch	3,600
Progrès Niederkorn	Niederkorn	Stade Jos Haupert	2,800
Racing FC	Luxembourg City	Stade Josy Barthel	9,000
US Rumelange	Rumelange	Stade Municipal	2,950
RM Hamm Benfica	Hamm, Luxembourg City	Terrain de Football Cents	2,800
UNA Strassen	Strassen	Stade Municipal de Strassen	2,000
Union Titus Pétange	Pétange	Stade Municipal de Pétange	2,400
Victoria Rosport	Rosport	VictoriArena	1,000

Source: Scoresway

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	F91 Dudelange (C)	26	18	5	3	72	33	+39	59	Qualification for the Champions League first qualifying round
2	Fola Esch	26	15	5	6	65	28	+37	50	Qualification for the Europa League first qualifying round
3	Jeunesse Esch	26	14	6	6	46	30	+16	48	Qualification for the Europa League first qualifying round
4	Progrès Niederkorn	26	13	5	8	45	35	+10	44	Qualification for the Europa League preliminary round
5	Differdange 03	26	13	5	8	35	33	+2	44
6	Racing FC	26	11	6	9	42	31	+11	39
7	UNA Strassen	26	12	3	11	46	43	+3	39
8	Union Titus Pétange	26	11	4	11	38	43	−5	37
9	Mondorf-les-Bains	26	10	5	11	39	39	0	35
10	Etzella Ettelbruck	26	7	7	12	31	44	−13	28
11	Victoria Rosport	26	7	7	12	33	49	−16	28
12	Hostert (O)	26	7	4	15	37	58	−21	25	Qualification for the relegation play-offs
13	RM Hamm Benfica (R)	26	5	4	17	29	50	−21	19	Relegation to the Luxembourg Division of Honour
14	Rumelange (R)	26	4	4	18	34	76	−42	16	Relegation to the Luxembourg Division of Honour

Source: UEFA, Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Matches won; 4) Head-to-head points; 5) Head-to-head goal difference; 6) Head-to-head goals scored; 7) Play-off.^[4]
(C) Champions; (O) Play-off winners; (R) Relegated

Positions by round

The table lists the positions of teams after each week of matches. In order to preserve chronological evolvements, any postponed matches are not included to the round at which they were originally scheduled, but added to the full round they were played immediately afterwards.

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26
Team ╲ Round
F91 Dudelange	2	7	5	8	11	6	4	4	4	3	2	3	3	3	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Fola Esch	11	13	13	13	9	12	7	7	6	5	4	2	2	1	1	2	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Jeunesse Esch	3	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	3	3	4	3	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
Progrès Niederkorn	9	6	10	10	7	4	5	5	7	6	6	5	4	4	4	4	2	4	3	4	5	5	4	5	5	4
Differdange 03	4	2	4	2	2	2	2	3	3	4	3	4	5	6	7	8	8	8	7	6	4	4	5	4	4	5
Racing FC	8	10	6	3	3	3	3	2	2	2	5	6	6	5	5	6	6	6	5	7	6	6	6	6	6	6
UNA Strassen	1	4	3	5	4	9	12	12	13	13	12	10	8	8	8	7	7	7	6	5	7	7	7	7	7	7
Union Titus Pétange	6	3	2	4	8	5	6	6	5	7	7	7	7	7	6	5	5	5	8	8	8	8	9	9	9	8
Mondorf-les-Bains	13	8	12	6	6	10	11	11	10	11	9	8	9	10	10	10	10	9	9	9	9	9	8	8	8	9
Etzella Ettelbruck	7	11	8	12	5	8	9	8	9	8	8	9	10	9	9	9	9	10	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	10
Victoria Rosport	10	12	9	11	13	14	10	9	8	9	10	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	11
Hostert	14	14	14	14	14	11	13	13	11	10	11	12	12	12	12	13	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12
RM Hamm Benfica	12	5	7	9	12	7	8	10	12	12	13	13	13	13	13	12	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13
Rumelange	5	9	11	7	10	13	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14

	Leader and Champions League first qualifying round
	Europa League first qualifying round
	Europa League preliminary round
	Relegation play-offs
	Relegation to the Luxembourg Division of Honour

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Results

Each team played every other team in the league home-and-away for a total of 26 matches each.^[5]

Home \ Away	DIF	ETZ	DUD	FOL	HOS	JEU	MON	PRO	RAC	RMH	RUM	UNA	UTP	VIC
Differdange 03	—	2–0	0–4	0–4	3–1	2–0	2–0	2–0	1–0	4–0	3–2	1–3	1–5	3–0
Etzella Ettelbruck	1–0	—	0–2	2–2	0–1	1–1	2–0	1–1	1–1	0–3	2–1	0–2	2–1	0–0
F91 Dudelange	0–2	4–2	—	1–1	4–1	1–3	1–4	4–1	2–0	5–3	2–2	1–1	6–1	2–0
Fola Esch	3–0	6–0	1–2	—	4–1	2–5	5–0	2–1	3–0	2–0	7–0	1–1	3–0	1–1
Hostert	1–1	4–0	3–4	2–3	—	2–3	1–1	0–1	0–4	1–0	4–2	1–6	0–3	0–3
Jeunesse Esch	0–0	1–0	0–3	3–1	3–0	—	1–2	1–1	1–0	4–0	3–1	1–2	1–1	1–1
Mondorf-les-Bains	0–0	1–0	1–2	2–0	2–2	0–2	—	1–0	0–3	2–2	4–3	2–2	4–1	4–0
Progrès Niederkorn	2–0	4–3	0–2	1–1	1–1	5–0	2–1	—	2–0	1–0	3–0	2–0	1–0	3–3
Racing FC	3–3	0–3	1–1	2–1	2–0	0–1	3–0	5–0	—	1–0	2–2	4–1	4–1	2–2
RM Hamm Benfica	1–1	1–1	1–3	1–2	1–2	0–2	2–1	1–2	2–0	—	0–1	1–3	2–2	1–3
Rumelange	1–2	3–5	2–9	0–3	0–4	1–1	1–3	2–1	2–1	1–3	—	0–2	0–0	3–2
UNA Strassen	2–0	2–1	0–2	0–2	3–4	0–4	1–0	2–4	1–2	0–3	4–1	—	2–1	4–0
Union Titus Pétange	0–1	1–1	1–3	2–1	2–1	3–2	1–0	1–5	0–1	3–0	2–1	3–1	—	2–0
Victoria Rosport	0–1	0–3	2–2	1–4	2–0	1–2	0–4	2–1	1–1	3–1	4–2	2–1	0–1	—

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

Relegation play-offs

A play-off was played between the twelfth-placed team in the 2018–19 Luxembourg National Division and the third-placed team in the 2018–19 Luxembourg Division of Honour for one place in the 2019–20 Luxembourg National Division.

24 May 2019

20:00

Hostert	2–0	Swift Hesperange
Peters 40' Serwy 41'	Report

Stade rue Henri Dunant

Attendance: 2,058

Referee: Ivo Torres Rocha

US Hostert remained in 2019–20 Luxenbourg National Division and FC Swift Hesperange remained in 2019–20 Luxenbourg Division d'Honneur

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Samir Hadji	Fola Esch	23
2	Mickaël Jager	UNA Strassen	14
2	David Turpel	F91 Dudelange	14
4	Marwane Benamra	Mondorf-les-Bains	13
4	Bertino Cabral	RM Hamm Benfica	13
6	Alexandar Biedermann	Victoria Rosport	12
7	Sanel Ibrahimović	F91 Dudelange	11
7	Aleksandre Karapetian	Progrès Niederkorn	11
9	Stefano Bensi	Fola Esch	10
	Kevin Holtz	Etzella Ettelbruck
	Corenthyn Lavie	US Hostert