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Ligue 1 League 1, formerly known as Division 1 and sometimes referred to as Le Championnat), is the French professional league for association football clubs. It is the country's primary football competition and serves as the top division of the French football league system. Ligue 1 is one of two divisions making up the Ligue de Football Professionnel, the other being Ligue 2. Contested by 20 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with Ligue 2. Seasons run from August to May, with teams playing 38 games each totaling 380 games in the season. Most games are played on Saturdays and Sundays, with a few games played during weekday evenings. Play is regularly suspended the last weekend before Christmas for two weeks before returning in the second week of January. Ligue 1 is one of the top national leagues, currently ranked sixth in Europe behind the Spanish La Liga, English Premier League, the German Bundesliga, the Italian Serie A and the Portuguese Primeira Liga.
Ligue 1 was inaugurated on 11 September 1932 under the name National before switching to Division 1 after a year of existence. The name lasted until 2002 before switching to its current name. The current champions are Paris Saint-Germain, who won the third title of their history in the 2012–13 season.
Ligue 1 is generally regarded as competently run, with good planning of fixtures, complete and consistently enforced rules, timely resolution of issues, and adequate escalation procedures of judicial disputes to national or international institutions. The league has faced three significant corruption scandals in its history (Antibes in 1933, Red Star in the 1950s, and Marseille in 1993) and has preserved its reputation every time through swift and appropriately severe punishment of the guilty parties.
==Clubs==
A total of 76 clubs have played in Ligue 1 from its foundation in the 1932–33 season to the start of the 2011–12 season. Currently, Marseille, Montpellier, Nice, Rennes, and Sochaux are the only founding members of the league to be playing in Ligue 1. Paris Saint-Germain and Evian are the only clubs to have not suffered points relegation. Paris Saint-Germain earned promotion to the first division for the 1974–75 season and has not faltered down since, while Evian made its debut in the league for the 2011–12 season. Paris Saint-Germain was administratively relegated by the league following its split from Paris FC in 1972, but returned to the top flight two seasons later.
===Members for 2013–14===
The following 20 clubs will compete in Ligue 1 during the 2013–14 season.
Club 	Positionin 2012–13	First season intop division	Number of seasons in Ligue 1	First season ofcurrent spell intop division	Ligue 1titles	Last Ligue 1 title
Ajaccio 	00417th 	1967–68 	12 	2011–12 	0 	—
Bastia 	00413th 	1968–69 	30 	2012–13 	0 	—
Bordeaux 	0047th 	1945–46 	60 	1992–93 	6 	2008–09
Evianb 	YYY16th 	2011–12 	3 	2011–12 	0 	–
Guingamp 	004Ligue 2: 2nd 	1945–46 	7 	2013–14 	0 	–
Lille 	0046th 	1945–46 	53 	2000–01 	3 	2010–11
Lorient 	0048th 	1998–99 	9 	2006–07 	0 	—
Lyon 	0043rd 	1951–52 	54 	1989–90 	7 	2007–08
Marseillea 	0042nd 	1932–33 	63 	1995–96 	9 	2009–10
AS Monaco 	004Ligue 2: 1st 	1953–54 	54 	2013–14 	7 	1999–2000
Montpelliera 	0109th 	1932–33 	30 	2009–10 	1 	2011–12
Nantes 	010Ligue 2: 3rd 	1932–33 	45 	2013–14 	8 	2000–01
Nicea 	0104th 	1932–33 	54 	2002–03 	4 	1958–59
Paris Saint-Germainb	0101st 	1974–75 	40 	1974–75 	3 	2012–13
Rennesa 	01012th 	1932–33 	56 	1994–95 	0 	—
Reims 	01014th 	1945–46 	30 	2012–13 	6 	1961–62
Saint-Étienne 	0105th 	1938–39 	60 	2004–05 	10 	1980–81
Sochauxa 	01015th 	1932–33 	65 	2001–02 	2 	1937–38
Toulouse 	01010th 	1982–83 	25 	2003–04 	0 	—
Valenciennes 	01011th 	1960–61 	32 	2006–07 	0 	—
a: Founding member of Ligue 1
b: Never been relegated from Ligue 1
==External links==
* Official Site 
* Ligue 1 : presentation – All time table and all results since 1932 with links to entire results and winners, second and third.
* League321.com - French football league tables, records & statistics database.
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