The top soccer league in France is Ligue 1 which has 20 teams competing for the championship each season. Let’s take a look at France Ligue 1 betting at the BetPhoenix sportsbook.
French Soccer Ligue 1
The top soccer league in France was once known as Division 1 and is sometimes called Le Championnat. You can kind of compare the league to the Premier League but Ligue 1 is definitely a couple notches below the Premier League but the setup is similar. There are 20 teams that are in the league with three qualifying for the Champions League while three teams are relegated. Three teams each season are promoted from Ligue 2. The Ligue 1 season starts in August and runs through May of the following season. The teams play 38 games each with most of the action occurring on the weekend. The league is actually ranked fifth in terms of national league behind the Premier League, La Liga, the Bundesliga and Serie A. Ligue 1 began in 1932 and was called National before switching to Division 1 in the next year.
Ligue 1 Teams
There have been a total of 76 teams that have played in Ligue 1. The only two not to be relegated in their history are Paris Saint-Germain and Evian but PSG began play in 1974-75 while Evian didn’t make it into Ligue 1 until the 2011-2012 season. Joining those two teams in the current Ligue 1 are Lyon, Marseille, St Etienne, Nice, Montpellier, Lille, Stade Rennes, Lorient, Bordeaux, Valenciennes, Toulouse, Bastia, AC Ajaccio, Brest, Stade de Reims, Sochaux, AS Nancy Lorraine and Troyes.
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