Ligue 1 Schedule

Ligue 1 Schedule

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French Ligue 1 Schedule – July 2024

Here is the 2024-2025 Ligue 1 Schedule:

Ligue 1 Matches & Calendar

The Ligue 1 soccer schedule is the backbone of the top professional league in France and sets the stage for soccer betting on the league. Everything revolves around the French Ligue 1 schedule and these games get top billing both for bettors and for television markets, both domestically and internationally.

The Ligue 1 schedule has had changes over the years, depending on how many teams were in the league. The league began with 20 clubs but has also operated with as few as 14.

Since the 2023-2024 season, there have been 18 teams on the Ligue 1.

France Ligue 1 Fixtures To Watch

At the top of the French soccer pyramid, Ligue 1 is one of the top leagues in Europe and the world. The league has always contained between 14 and 20 teams and the top teams battle for spots in the Champions League and other prime European club competitions. The bottom teams each season get relegated to Ligue 2.

In the 2020s, some of the bigger games on the schedule featured top 5 teams going against each other. Especially in the years after Monaco and Lille won titles and PSG went for revenge.

Main Events on Ligue 1 Schedule.

Games involving PSG are always big events on the french Ligue 1 schedule. Smaller teams can circle those games, along with matches against Monaco, Marseille, Lille and Lyon as revenue makers.

French Soccer Rivalries

Historic rivalries also dot the Ligue 1 schedule such as:

• Le Classique: Is the matchup between the two highest-revenue teams in most years, PSG and Marseille. Those teams have the most wins in Ligue 1 since 1980 and their matchups are usually heated both on the field and in the stands
• Le Choc des Olympique: between Olympique Lyonnais (Lyon) and Olympique de Marseilles.
• Regional rivalries also exist with teams like Nice, Marseille, Monaco, and Montpellier in the south. Lyon and Saint Etienne are regional rivals in the east-central of France while Lens and Lille are in the north as well.

Ligue 1 Main Venues.

France has hosted the 1998 World Cup and numerous Euro Championships so fans around the world are familiar with some of the big venues used in Ligue 1.

• Marseille’s Orange Velodrome is the largest venue at nearly 70,000 fans while Lyon’s Groupama Stadium is just under 60,000.
• Stade Pierre-Mauroy, home to Lille tops 50,000 capacity, and PSG’s Parc des Princes is probably the most popular stadium in the league, holding over 45,000 fans.
• Bordeaux’s Matmut Atlantique and Saint-Etienne’s Stad Geoffroy-Guichard also top 40,000 fans.
• Monaco’s Stade Louis II isn’t massive at just 18,500 fans but its nine arches are famous and the stadium has hosted Super Cup matches