Ligue 1

Top-level football league in France

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2025 Metz defeated Reims 4-2 on aggregate in the Ligue 1 relegation/promotion play-offs, securing promotion to the 2025–26 Ligue 1 season while simultaneously relegating Reims to the 2025–26 Ligue 2.
May 29 2025 Reims lost to Metz 1–3 after extra time.
May 29 2025 Second leg of the Ligue 1 relegation play-off
May 22 2025 The 2024–25 Ligue 1 season is scheduled to conclude.
May 21 2025 First leg of the Ligue 1 relegation play-off
May 21 2025 Metz drew with Reims 1–1.
May 17 2025 Abdoulaye Touré from Le Havre scored the last goal of the 2024-25 Ligue 1 season in a match against Strasbourg
2025 Ousmane Dembélé wins his first UNFP Ligue 1 Player of the Year award as a Paris Saint-Germain forward.
2025 Désiré Doué of Paris Saint-Germain wins the Ligue 1 Young Player of the Year award for his performances in the 2024-25 Ligue 1 season.
May 3 2025 Paris Saint-Germain completed their record 39-match away unbeaten run
April 7 2025 Montpellier sacks manager Jean-Louis Gasset
2025 Marquinhos wins his tenth Ligue 1 title with Paris Saint-Germain, achieving a remarkable milestone of ten championship victories.
April 5 2025 Paris Saint-Germain mathematically secured their record-extending thirteenth Ligue 1 title with a 1-0 win against Angers, clinching the championship with six matches remaining in the season.
March 5 2025 Lyon suspends manager Paulo Fonseca
February 3 2025 Reims parts ways with manager Luka Elsner
January 30 2025 Rennes parts ways with manager Jorge Sampaoli
January 27 2025 Lyon parts ways with manager Pierre Sage
2024 Paris Saint-Germain continued its dominance by winning the most recent Ligue 1 Player of the Year awards in the 2023-24 and 2024-25 seasons.
2024 Ousmane Dembélé wins the Ligue 1 Player of the Year award while playing for Paris Saint-Germain.
2024 Kylian Mbappé completes his fifth consecutive Player of the Year award, setting a new record for the most awards won.
2024 Warren Zaïre-Emery wins the Ligue 1 Young Player of the Year award while playing for Paris Saint-Germain
2024 Paris Saint-Germain wins a record thirteenth league title in the 2024-25 season.
2024 The 2024–25 Ligue 1 season will feature a new relegation play-off format where the 16th-placed Ligue 1 team will face the winner of the Ligue 2 play-off semi-final in a two-legged confrontation to determine the final team in the top-flight league for the next season.
2024 Auxerre, Angers, and Saint-Étienne are promoted to Ligue 1 after their successful performances in the 2023–24 Ligue 2 season, returning to the top flight of French football.
2024 McDonald's takes over as the title sponsor of Ligue 1, continuing the league's tradition of corporate sponsorship.
2024 Presnel Kimpembe wins his eighth Ligue 1 title with Paris Saint-Germain, setting a record for most titles won.
2024 Marquinhos wins Ligue 1 title with Paris Saint-Germain
2024 Kylian Mbappé continues his top scorer career with Paris Saint-Germain, currently ranking 7th all-time with 191 goals.
2024 beIN Sports secures exclusive broadcasting rights for all Ligue 2 matches from 2024-25 to 2028-29
2024 Three clubs are relegated from Ligue 1 to Ligue 2 for the 2024-25 season: Clermont (18th), Lorient (17th), and Metz (16th).
December 14 2024 Saint-Étienne parts ways with manager Olivier Dall'Oglio
November 7 2024 Rennes parts ways with manager Julien Stéphan
October 20 2024 Montpellier sacks manager Michel Der Zakarian
October 17 2024 New Ligue 1 trophy designed by Mathias Kiss is announced, featuring a hexagonal base and gold-plated sphere supported by '1'-shaped columns, set to be first awarded in the 2024-25 season.
August 2024 2024–25 season of Ligue 2 commenced, featuring 20 professional football clubs competing for promotion to Ligue 1.
August 16 2024 Lee Kang-in from Paris Saint-Germain scored the first goal of the 2024-25 Ligue 1 season in a match against Le Havre
August 16 2024 The 2024–25 Ligue 1 season officially begins, marking the 87th edition of France's premier football competition.
July 2024 Start of the 2024-25 Ligue 2 season with 18 clubs, including two newly promoted teams: Red Star (1st in Championnat National) and Martigues (2nd in Championnat National).
July 18 2024 Strasbourg and Patrick Vieira part ways by mutual consent
June 10 2024 Will Still appointed as new manager of Lens
June 6 2024 Lens manager Franck Haise signs with Nice, leaving the club
June 5 2024 Lille and Paulo Fonseca part ways by mutual consent
June 2 2024 Metz drew with Saint-Étienne 2–2 after extra time.
June 2 2024 Second match of the Ligue 1 relegation play-off was played, completing the relegation determination process.
May 30 2024 Saint-Étienne beat Metz 2–1.
May 30 2024 First match of the Ligue 1 relegation play-off was played.

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