Official Ligue 1 Football Shirts & Kit

The latest Authentic Ligue 1 club shirts: Home, Away, 3rd Kits

Current Champions: Monaco

Most Titles: Saint-Étienne (10)

Ligue 1 History

Professional football did not exist in France until 1930, when the National Council voted in favour of it's adoption. Professional football was officially implemented in 1932. In order to successfully create a professional football league in the country, the Federation limited the league to twenty clubs. In order to participate in the competition, clubs were subjected to three important criteria:

• The incoming club must have had positive results in the past.
• The incoming club must be able to pull in enough revenue to balance its finances.
• The incoming club must be able to successfully recruit at least eight professional players.

The 20 clubs were inserted into two groups of 10 with the bottom three of each group suffering relegation to Division 2. The two winners of each group would then face each other in a final held at a neutral venue. Olympique Lillois won the first final, 4-3 and became the first champions of France's new top flight of football.

Ligue 1 Format

Each team meets every other club twice during the season, once at home and once away. At the end of the season the top two finishing teams earn qualification to the Champions League, with the 3rd placed team entering the qualifying round. The fourth-placed team qualifies for the UEFA Europa League. The teams finishing 19th and 20th are automatically relegated to Ligue 2. The 2016–17 season saw the return of a relegation play-off between the 18th-placed Ligue 1 team and the 3rd-placed team in the Ligue 2 over two legs.