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.
Round 29 Review
With Paris Saint-Germain given a rest this weekend to allow them to prepare for the Champions League, it was upon those playing catch-up games to work on bettering their position in the league.
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It was an opportunity that Monaco took well as they overcame Marseille to move to second on the table in a round that had an interesting outcome at the bottom end of the table.
Reims beat Lens to boost survival hopes
Stade de Reims ended a seven-match winless away run by beating RC Lens 2-0 and moved out of the relegation play-off place and up to 14th.
Reims got their noses in front on 33 minutes, however, as patient build-up play resulted in Sergio Akieme seeing his cross inadvertently sent back to him by Lens defender Juma Bah, with Akieme duly cutting the ball back for Keito Nakamura to guide it into the roof of the net. They sealed the points late on when a breakaway by Nhoa Sangui was stroked home by Nakamura for his second of the night.
Monaco leapfrogs Marseille on the league table
Monaco beat slumping Marseille 3-0 on Saturday to take second place and boost their hopes of qualifying for next season’s Champions League.
Monaco took the lead in the 34th minute when Takumi Minamino swept home his fifth league goal of the season following some dreadful Marseille defending. The hosts doubled their advantage shortly before the hour as Breel Embolo slipped the ball past Geronimo Rulli after an excellent pass through from Vanderson. Monaco added further gloss to the scoreline and bolstered their goal difference, which could prove crucial, through Denis Zakaria’s late penalty.
The principality club now lead Marseille by one point with five matches remaining, but seventh-placed Lyon are only four points further adrift with a game in hand. Lille are fourth, two points behind Marseille and above Strasbourg on goal difference.
Champions League chasing Strasbourg and Nice fight to a draw
Strasbourg’s five-match winning run in Ligue 1 came to a dramatic end as Youssouf Ndayishimiye scored with the final touch of the game to grab Nice a 2-2 draw at the Stade de la Meinau.
Left-back Melvin Bard gave Nice a 38th-minute lead as he latched onto a ball in behind from Jonathan Clauss but Strasbourg hit back through Emmanuel Emegha’s 13th league goal of the season early in the second half, before Samuel Amo-Ameyaw completed the turnaround just three minutes later. But Burundi international Ndayishimiye pounced in the last minute of added time to move Nice up to sixth, two points behind Strasbourg.
Round 29 Results
- Lens 0-2 Reims
- Monaco 2-0 Marseille
- Toulouse 1-2 Lille
- Strasbourg 2-2 Nice
- St-Etienne 3-3 Brest
- Angers 2-0 Montpellier
- Le Havre 1-5 Rennes
- Auxerre 1-3 Lyon
Table
Top Scorers
Ousmane Dembele still leads the Golden Boot Race.
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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.
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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, 14th April 2025
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