French Ligue 1 Season 2024/25 Preview

With Paris Saint Germain winning last season’s title, teams are in the process of beefing up their squad ahead of the new 2024/25 season.

Having ended their sponsorship with Uber Eats, the French football top tier will be known as Ligue 1 McDonald’s for sponsorship reasons. It will be the 87th season of the Ligue 1 and it will begin on 16 August 2024 and conclude on 22 May 2025.

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Round 10 Review

Monaco stuttered again as the race to wrestle Paris Saint Germain from the title continued over the weekend in French Ligue One. 

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Monaco lost their second position after being beaten by Angers as ten-man Lens narrowly lost to PSG in a round that Lille and Lyon battled to a draw. We take a look at the major talking points of the round.

Monaco a shock loss to Angers

The round started with a shock result after title challengers AS Monaco suffered a shocking 0-1 loss to a less fancied Angers on Friday night.

After a scoreless draw with Lille and a 2-1 derby defeat to Nice in round nine, Monaco had hoped to bounce back with a win before Marseille and PSG took to the field but things started going south in the first half when Jean-Eudes Aholou opened the scoring for Angers in the 29th minute; a strike that proved to be the difference in the game.

The defeat leaves Monaco, in a precautious place considering Marseille won to replace them in second spot. In stark contrast to Monaco’s fortunes, Angers have now won two games in a row. Their 4-2 win over Saint Etienne last week was their first of the season after they had drawn four and lost four of their opening eight games.

Fofana rescues a point for Lyon against Lille

Lille missed a chance to go second on the league, a day after Monaco’s loss after being held to a 1-1 draw by visiting Lyon.

A catastrophic backpass from Ainsley Maitland-Niles was pounced upon by Jonathan David, who rounded Lucas Perri and rolled the ball into an empty net. In a game that saw both sides hit the posts, Niles was to redeem himself when he produced a moment of magic that bore fruit when his stoppage-time cross was steered home by Malick Fofana to snatch Lyon a point which stretched their unbeaten away run to four matches.

Greenwood on the scoresheet as Marseille moves to Second

Mason Greenwood and Neal Maupay both scored for Marseille as they registered a 2-1 win at Nantes to move to second on the table.

Marseille took the lead when Rowe found space on the left and swerved in a low cross that picked out Neal Maupay to poke home at the far post. Tino Kadewere volleyed Nantes level after 38 minutes but wasted other good chances. Greenwood won the match when he jinked into space on the edge of the penalty area and rolled a slow, low shot inside the post in the 61st minute for his seventh league goal of the season.

The win saw Marseille overtake Monaco on the table with both clubs currently on 20 points after 10 games, six behind reigning champions Paris Saint-Germain, who beat Leans 1-0 on Saturday. 

Round 10 Results

  • Monaco 0-1 Angers
  • Lille 1-1 Lyon
  • PSG 1-0 Lens
  • Brest 0-1 Nice
  • St. Etienne 2-0 Strasbourg
  • Toulouse 1-0 Reims
  • Auxerre 4-0 Rennes
  • Le Havre 1-0 Montpellier
  • Nantes 1-2 Marseille

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Top Scorers

Greenwood’s scoring has put PSG’s Barcola under pressure in the Golden Boot race.

To find the top scorers full list, CLICK HERE.

New Entrants

As usual a total of 18 teams will be participating in the league with familiar faces Auxerre, Angers (who both return to the top flight after one year’s absence) and Saint-Étienne (who return to the top flight after two year’s absence) being the new teams in the top flight. They take the places of  Metz, Lorient and Clermont Foot (relegated after one, four and three years in the top flight, respectively) were relegated to 2024–25 Ligue 2.

Managerial Changes

The coaching world is always like a revolving door and so far, the Ligue One team has seen a few changes in the dugout.

Reims’ Samba Diawara has been replaced by Luka Elsner after the former ended his role as the caretaker manager of the team. The biggest talk of the league has been the arrival off Roberto De Zerbi formely with Premier League side Brighton and Hove Albion at Marseille. Nice has raided rivals Lens for Frank Haise who comes in to replace Francesco Farioli. Lens has moved on swiftly by appointing Begian Will Still as their new man in charge.

Lille dumped Paulo Fonseca for Bruno Genesio with Le Havre, after escaping relegation by a skin of their teeth, parting ways with Luka Elsner and bringing in Didier Digard who started work officially on 1st July 2024.

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Europe Competition Participants

By winning the title last season, PSG will be playing in the UEFA Champions League where they will be joined by Monaco and Brest. Lille will have to go through the Qualifiers in the Champions League. Nice and Lyon will be participating in the group stage of the UEFA Europa League.

New Season Fixtures

In the fixtures released by LFP in June 2024, Paris Saint-Germain will start their title defence in Le Havre on the weekend of 17-18 August. A week later, Montpellier will come to the Parc des Princes for the first home game of the season.

De Zebri will have a feeling of The Classiques come on 27 October in Marseille (Matchday 9) and 16 March in Paris (Matchday 26). Paris will host Lyon on 15 December in their last match before the winter break. They’ll restart in Monaco on 5 January 2025 for Matchday 16.

The capital club will host Le Havre and then Nice on consecutive Matchdays (30 & 31) before going to Strasbourg and Montpellier for Matchdays 32 and 33 respectively. The season will close with Ligue 2 champions AJ Auxerre coming to the capital on the weekend of 17-18 May 2025.

Round One Fixtures

·         AS Monaco v Saint Etienne

·         Stade Rennais v Olympique Lyon

·         Stade Brestois v Olympique Marseille

·         AJ Auxerre v OGC Nice

·         Stade de Reims v Lille

·         Montpellier v Strasbourg

·         Le Havre v PSG

·         Toulouse v FC Nantes

·         Angers v RC Lens

Check the Full Fixture Roster Here

Relegation play-offs

The 2024–25 season will conclude with a relegation play-off between the 16th-placed Ligue 1 team and the winner of the semi-final of the Ligue 2 play-off on a two-legged confrontation. The dates (which are yet to be confirmed) will be in May 2025.

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The article was last updated on Monday 4th November 2024

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