Championnat National

**Championnat National** (English: French National Championship), also known as **National** or **Division 3**, is the third division of French football behind Ligue 1 and Ligue 2. It is contested by 18 clubs and runs on a system of promotion and relegation with Ligue 2, the second division of French football and the Championnat National 2, the fourth division of French football. It is a semi-professional league and is run annually and is composed of professional and semi-professional clubs or amateur clubs. In January 2025, Philippe Diallo announced during a press conference the Championnat National would be renamed **Ligue 3** from the 2026–27 season, making it a professional league.

### List (2025–26 season)

|Team|Location|Stadium|Capacity|||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|Aubagne Air Bel|Aubagne||align="center"|1,000||
|Bourg-Péronnas|Bourg-en-Bresse||align="center"|11,400||
|Caen|Caen||align="center"|20,300||
|Châteauroux|Châteauroux||align="center"|17,173||
|Concarneau|Concarneau||align="center"|5,800||
|Dijon|Dijon|Stade Gaston Gérard|align="center"|15,995||
||Fleury-Mérogis|Stade Auguste Gentelet|align="center"|2,000||
||Le Puy-en-Velay|Stade Charles Massot|align="center"|4,800||
|Orléans|Orléans||align="center"|7,533||
|Paris 13 Atletico|Paris||align="center"|20,000||
|Quevilly-Rouen||rowspan="2"||rowspan="2" align="center"|12,018|
|Rouen|Rouen|||||
|Sochaux|Montbéliard||align="center"|20,005||
|Stade Briochin|Saint-Brieuc||align="center"|10,600||
|Valenciennes|Valenciennes||align="center"|25,172||
|Versailles|Versailles||align="center"|2,164||
|Villefranche|Villefranche-sur-Saône||align="center"|3,500||

## Champions

Teams in **Bold** were promoted.
|Season|Group A Winner|Group B Winner|Other promoted teams|
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
||**Guingamp**|**Châteauroux**|**Amiens** and ****|
||**Lorient**|**Épinal**|**** and **Louhans-Cuiseaux**|
||**Stade Briochin**|**Sporting Toulon Var**|**Troyes** and **Beauvais**|
||**Wasquehal**|**Nîmes**||
||**AC Ajaccio**|**Sedan Ardennes**||
||**Louhans-Cuiseaux**|****||
||**Beauvais**|**Martigues**|**Angers**|
||**Grenoble**|**Amiens**|**Istres**|
||**Clermont**|**Reims**|**** and **Toulouse**|
||**Racing Besançon**|**Angers**|**Rouen**|
||**Stade de Reims**|**Brest**|**Dijon FCO**|
||**Valenciennes**||**Sète**|
||**Niort**|**Tours**|****|
||**Clermont** (2)|**US Boulogne**|**Angers**|
||**Vannes**|**Tours**|**Nîmes**|
||**Istres**|****|**Arles**|
||****|**Reims**|**Troyes**|
||**SC Bastia**|**Amiens**|**Guingamp**|
||**Nîmes** (2)|**Niort**|****|
||****|**Metz**|****|
||**Orléans**||****|
||**Paris FC**|**Red Star**|**Bourg-Péronnas**|
||**Strasbourg**|**Orléans**|**Amiens**|
||**Châteauroux**|**Quevilly-Rouen**|**Paris FC**|
||**Red Star** (2)|****|**Grenoble**|
||****|****|**Le Mans**|
||**Pau**|****|US Boulogne|
||**SC Bastia** (2)|**Quevilly-Rouen**|Villefranche|
||****|****|Villefranche|
||**Concarneau**|****|Red Star|
||**Red Star** (3)|**Martigues**|Niort|
||**Nancy**|**Le Mans**|**US Boulogne**|
||TBD|TBD|TBD|

## Related pages

- Ligue 1
- Ligue 2

## Infobox (football league)

- **leaguename**: Championnat National
- **organiser**: French Football Federation
- **country**: France
- **teams**: 18
- **confed**: UEFA
- **level**: 3
- **promotion**: Ligue 2
- **domest cup**: Coupe de France
- **champions**: AS Nancy Lorraine, Nancy (1st title)
- **most successful club**: Red Star F.C., Red Star (3 titles)