Versatile Lille defender Bafodé Diakité is the latest name linked with a big-money Sunderland move. Sunderland are reportedly pushing to sign Lille defender Bafodé Diakité, with the Black Cats said to ...

Roma are closing in on a deal to sign Lens midfielder Neil El Aynaoui, with the Giallorossi set to pay a reported figure of ...

Taking the Salzburg way to RC Lens in FranceAfter seven years in Salzburg, Samson Baidoo is moving to France, where he has ...

It's been a month since the transfer market opened and, by a quirk of the calendar, it happens that Ligue 1 will resume in a ...

The Ligue de Football Professionnel (LFP) recently announced the official launch of its new Ligue1+ channel (television and ...

Ligue 1 brands itself as “La Ligue des Talents” — under-21s play more minutes there than Europe’s other major leagues — but suffers because generations rarely stay together long as good ...

PARIS (AP) — Storied French club Lyon won its appeal against relegation on Wednesday and will stay in Ligue 1 next season.

Ligue 1 continues vital broadcast deal talks. Per French outlet L’Equipe, a group of Ligue 1 officials recently met to negotiate their TV rights deal dilemma.They have two options on their table. They ...

Ligue 1 is not in position to match the revenue stream at this time, but they are closing the gap. After QIA bought control of PSG, Al Jazeera purchased Ligue 1 television rights for the 2012 ...

Ligue 1 turning to AI to overcome ‘blind spot’ of translation "This is going to be standard operating procedure for every major sports league in the world before you know it." ...

Of all centre-backs in Ligue 1 last season, Medina carried the ball the furthest and played the most passes into the final third, completing 76.4 passes per game with an accuracy of 90.2 per cent.

All too often, Ligue 1 is described as a poor attacking league. It does have one of the lowest goal per game ratios—2.44 this season—but this is mainly down to the physical nature and ...