Ligue 1: The 1st day calendar unveiled (official)!

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By: Manu Tournoux

Ligue 1: The 1st day calendar unveiled (official)!

Make way for exercise 2025-2026. After an eventful 2024-2025 which saw Paris Saint-Germain won widely in this championship, the cards are now rebatted.

This Friday, the Professional Football League unveiled the official calendar of the 2025-2026 Ligue 1 season. The first day games will take place on August 16 and 17.

Always 18 teams, and a calendar that was formalized this Friday by the Professional Football League. With a first surprise with the presence of Olympique Lyonnais, however officially demoted in Ligue 2 by the DNCG. The LFP obviously provides that OL will manage to maintain its place in the elite.

We thus find a Lens-OL on the first day, a match necessarily intense for Pierre Sage, inducted coach of the RC Lens.

With above all a first shock between Stade Rennais and OM, an East derby between Metz and Strasbourg, and the trip of PSG to Nantes (if the match is not postponed).

Paris FC will take its first steps in Angers. Monaco will receive Le Havre, while Nice will welcome Toulouse. The schedules of these meetings have not yet been defined but the first day will be held over 3 days, on August 15, 16 and 17.

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Manu Tournoux

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