2019–20 Ligue 1

The 2019–20 Ligue 1 season, also known as Ligue 1 Conforama for sponsorship reasons, was a French association football tournament within Ligue 1. It was the 82nd season since its establishment. The season began on 9 August 2019 and ended abruptly on 28 April 2020.^[4]

Ligue 1

Season	2019–20
Dates	9 August 2019 – 28 April 2020
Champions	Paris Saint-Germain 9th Ligue 1 title 9th French title
Relegated	Amiens Toulouse
Champions League	Paris Saint-Germain Marseille Rennes
Europa League	Lille Nice Reims
Matches played	279
Goals scored	704 (2.52 per match)
Top goalscorer	Wissam Ben Yedder Kylian Mbappé (18 goals each)[1]
Biggest home win	Lyon 6–0 Angers (16 August 2019) Bordeaux 6–0 Nîmes (3 December 2019)
Biggest away win	Amiens 0–4 Strasbourg (23 November 2019) Nîmes 0–4 Lyon (6 December 2019) Saint-Étienne 0–4 Paris Saint-Germain (15 December 2019)
Highest scoring	Amiens 4–4 Paris Saint-Germain (15 February 2020)
Longest winning run	Marseille Paris Saint-Germain (6 matches)[2]
Longest unbeaten run	Paris Saint-Germain (15 matches)[2]
Longest winless run	Toulouse (18 matches)[2]
Longest losing run	Toulouse (11 matches)[2]
Highest attendance	65,421[2] Marseille 2–1 Lyon (10 November 2019)
Lowest attendance	3,585[2] Monaco 1–0 Angers (4 February 2020)
Total attendance	6,244,914[3]
Average attendance	22,463[3]
← 2018–19 2020–21 →

On 13 March 2020, the LFP suspended Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 indefinitely following the outbreak of COVID-19 in France.^[5] On 28 April 2020, it was announced that Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 campaigns would not resume, after the country banned all sporting events until September.^[6] On 30 April 2020, Paris Saint-Germain were awarded the championship following the cancellation of the 2019–20 season.^[7][8]

PSG topped the standings by 12 points with a game in hand at the time the league was halted. Marseille and Rennes were awarded the other two UEFA Champions League spots based on their rankings at the league's suspension. On 9 June 2020, France's highest administrative court ruled that relegation for Amiens and Toulouse was suspended for this season.^[9] This was overruled on 23 June and subsequently Amiens and Toulouse were relegated to the 2020–21 Ligue 2.^[10]

Teams

Changes

Metz and Brest were promoted from the 2018–19 Ligue 2, replacing the two relegated teams from the 2018–19 Ligue 1, Caen and Guingamp.

Stadium and locations

Amiens

Bordeaux

Angers

Brest

Dijon

Lille

Lyon

Marseille

Metz

Monaco

Montpellier

Nantes

Nice

Nîmes

PSG

Reims

Rennes

St-Étienne

Strasbourg

Toulouse

Location of teams in 2019–20 Ligue 1

Club	Location	Venue	Capacity	2018–19 season
Amiens	Amiens	Stade de la Licorne	12,097	15th
Angers	Angers	Stade Raymond Kopa	18,752	13th
Bordeaux	Bordeaux	Matmut Atlantique	42,115	14th
Brest	Brest	Stade Francis-Le Blé	15,931	Ligue 2, 2nd
Dijon	Dijon	Stade Gaston Gérard	15,995	18th
Lille	Villeneuve-d'Ascq	Stade Pierre-Mauroy	50,186	2nd
Lyon	Lyon	Groupama Stadium	59,186	3rd
Marseille	Marseille	Orange Vélodrome	67,394	5th
Metz	Metz	Stade Saint-Symphorien	25,636	Ligue 2, 1st
Monaco	Monaco	Stade Louis II	18,523	17th
Montpellier	Montpellier	Stade de la Mosson	32,900	6th
Nantes	Nantes	Stade de la Beaujoire	35,322	12th
Nice	Nice	Allianz Riviera	35,624	7th
Nîmes	Nîmes	Stade des Costières	18,482	9th
Paris Saint-Germain	Paris	Parc des Princes	48,583	1st
Reims	Reims	Stade Auguste Delaune	21,684	8th
Rennes	Rennes	Roazhon Park	29,778	10th
Saint-Étienne	Saint-Étienne	Stade Geoffroy-Guichard	41,965	4th
Strasbourg	Strasbourg	Stade de la Meinau	29,230	11th
Toulouse	Toulouse	Stadium Municipal	33,150	16th

Personnel and kits

Team	Manager	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor (front)	Shirt sponsor (back)	Shirt sponsor (sleeve)	Shorts sponsor	Socks sponsor
Amiens	Luka Elsner	Prince-Désir Gouano	Puma	Intersport, IGOL Lubrifiants, Teddy Smith	IGOL Lubrifiants	None	Winamax, E.Leclerc	None
Angers	Stéphane Moulin	Ismaël Traoré	Kappa	Scania (H)/Le Gaulois (A & 3), L'Atoll Angers, Brioche Pasquier, Actual Leader, Angers	SOS Malus	P2i	Système U	None
Bordeaux	Paulo Sousa	Benoît Costil	Puma	Bistro Régent, Intersport	Betclic	Wiśniowski	None	None
Brest	Olivier Dall'Oglio	Gaëtan Belaud	Nike	Groupe Quéguiner (H)/Yaourts Malo (A & 3), SILL (H)/Groupe Quéguiner (A & 3), Breizh Cola, GUYOT Environnement, Oceania Hotels	Groupe Océanic	None	E.Leclerc, E.Leclerc Drive	BSP Securité
Dijon	Stéphane Jobard	Júlio Tavares	Lotto	Groupe Roger Martin, DVF Group, Suez	DORAS	Leader Interim, Auteur des Williams, Coup d'Pouce	LCR, Dalkia	Caisse d'Épargne
Lille	Christophe Galtier	José Fonte	New Balance	Boulanger, Comarch, Métropole Européenne de Lille (H)/Hello Lille (A & 3)	Flunch	Midas Trend	Winamax	None
Lyon	Rudi Garcia	Memphis Depay	Adidas	Hyundai/Veolia (only in UEFA matches), Groupama, MDA Electroménager/Pulsat	Deliveroo, Groupe ALILA	Adéquat Intérim	Teddy Smith	None
Marseille	André Villas-Boas	Steve Mandanda	Puma	Uber Eats	Boulanger	Iqoniq	Hotels.com	None
Metz	Vincent Hognon	Renaud Cohade	Nike	Car Avenue, MOSL, Blue Habitat, Axia Interim	Nacon Gaming (H), Forcepower (A & 3)	Eurométropole de Metz	E.Leclerc Moselle	None
Monaco	Robert Moreno	Kamil Glik	Kappa	Fedcom	Alain Afflelou	Triangle Intérim	Orezza	None
Montpellier	Michel Der Zakarian	Vitorino Hilton	Nike	Pasinobet, FAUN-Environnement, Montpellier Métropole, Groupama	Sud de France	NG Promotion	Système U, Groupe Ilios	None
Nantes	Christian Gourcuff	Abdoulaye Toure	New Balance	Synergie, Manitou, Proginov	Groupe Millet	LNA Santé	Maisons Pierre, Flamino	None
Nice	Patrick Vieira	Dante	Macron	Ineos, Ville de Nice, Métropole Nice Côte d'Azur	Groupe Actual	None	Winamax	None
Nîmes	Bernard Blaquart	Anthony Briançon	Puma	Hectare Amenageur Lotisseur, Nîmes	Nîmes Métropole	La Région Occitanie	None	None
Paris Saint-Germain	Thomas Tuchel	Thiago Silva	Nike (H)/Air Jordan (A & T)	Accor Live Limitless	Ooredoo	QNB	None	None
Reims	David Guion	Alaixys Romao	Umbro	Maisons France Confort (H)/Hexaom (A & 3), Transports Caillot, EVA Air	Hyper U Reims Village	Triangle Intérim, Grand Reims (H), Reims (A & 3)	Crédit Agricole Nord-Est	None
Rennes	Julien Stephan	Damien da Silva	Puma	Samsic, Del Arte, Groupe Launay, Association ELA	Blot Immobilier	rennes.fr	Convivio	None
Saint-Étienne	Claude Puel	Loïc Perrin	Le Coq Sportif	AÉSIO, Loire, Groupe BYmyCAR, Groupe Atrium	Alain Afflelou	MARKAL	Desjoyaux Piscines	None
Strasbourg	Thierry Laurey	Stefan Mitrović	Adidas	ÉS Énergies (H)/CroisiEurope (A)/Hager (in UEFA matches), Hager (H), Pierre Schmidt (H)/Stoeffler (A)	CroisiEurope (H)/ÉS Énergies (A)	Würth	Eurométropole de Strasbourg, LCR	None
Toulouse	Denis Zanko	Max Gradel	Joma	Triangle Intérim, LP Promotion	Newrest	None	Mairie de Toulouse, Conseil départemental de la Haute-Garonne	None

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Brest	Jean-Marc Furlan	End of contract	17 May 2019[11]	Pre-season	Olivier Dall'Oglio	26 May 2019[12]
Metz	Frédéric Antonetti	Resigned for personal reasons	18 May 2019[13]		Vincent Hognon	18 May 2019[13]
Lyon	Bruno Génésio	End of contract	25 May 2019		Sylvinho	25 May 2019[14]
Saint-Étienne	Jean-Louis Gasset		25 May 2019		Ghislain Printant	25 May 2019[15]
Marseille	Rudi Garcia	Resigned	25 May 2019[16]		André Villas-Boas	28 May 2019[17]
Amiens	Christophe Pélissier	Signed by Lorient	29 May 2019[18]		Luka Elsner	19 June 2019[19]
Dijon	Antoine Kombouaré	Resigned	10 June 2019[20]		Stéphane Jobard	20 June 2019[21]
Nantes	Vahid Halilhodžić	Mutual consent	2 August 2019[22]		Christian Gourcuff	8 August 2019[23]
Saint-Étienne	Ghislain Printant	Sacked	4 October 2019	19th	Claude Puel	4 October 2019[24]
Lyon	Sylvinho		7 October 2019	14th	Rudi Garcia	14 October 2019[25]
Toulouse	Alain Casanova	Mutual consent	10 October 2019[26]	18th	Antoine Kombouaré	14 October 2019[27]
Monaco	Leonardo Jardim	Sacked	28 December 2019	7th	Robert Moreno	28 December 2019[28]
Toulouse	Antoine Kombouaré		5 January 2020[29]	20th	Denis Zanko	6 January 2020[30]

League table

The final standings. ^[31]

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	PPG	Qualification or relegation
1	Paris Saint-Germain (C)	27	22	2	3	75	24	+51	68	2.52	Qualification for the Champions League group stage
2	Marseille	28	16	8	4	41	29	+12	56	2.00
3	Rennes	28	15	5	8	38	24	+14	50	1.79
4	Lille	28	15	4	9	35	27	+8	49	1.75	Qualification for the Europa League group stage[a]
5	Nice	28	11	8	9	41	38	+3	41[b]	1.46[b]
6	Reims	28	10	11	7	26	21	+5	41[b]	1.46[b]	Qualification for the Europa League second qualifying round[a]
7	Lyon	28	11	7	10	42	27	+15	40	1.43
8	Montpellier	28	11	7	10	35	34	+1	40	1.43
9	Monaco	28	11	7	10	44	44	0	40	1.43
10	Strasbourg	27	11	5	11	32	32	0	38	1.41
11	Angers	28	11	6	11	28	33	−5	39	1.39
12	Bordeaux	28	9	10	9	40	34	+6	37[c]	1.32[c]
13	Nantes	28	11	4	13	28	31	−3	37[c]	1.32[c]
14	Brest	28	8	10	10	34	37	−3	34	1.21
15	Metz	28	8	10	10	27	35	−8	34	1.21
16	Dijon	28	7	9	12	27	37	−10	30	1.07
17	Saint-Étienne	28	8	6	14	29	45	−16	30	1.07
18	Nîmes[d]	28	7	6	15	29	44	−15	27	0.96
19	Amiens (R)	28	4	11	13	31	50	−19	23	0.82	Relegation to Ligue 2
20	Toulouse (R)	28	3	4	21	22	58	−36	13	0.46

Source: Ligue 1
Rules for classification: 1) Points per game; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Goal difference; 5) Goals scored; 6) Fairplay ranking.^[32][33]
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. Since the winners of the Coupe de France and the Coupe de la Ligue, Paris Saint-Germain, qualified for the Champions League, the spot given to the Coupe de France winners (Europa League group stage) was passed to the fifth-placed team and the spot given to the Coupe de la Ligue winners (Europa League second qualifying round) was passed to the sixth-placed team.
2. Nice finished ahead of Reims on head-to-head points: Nice 2–0 Reims, Reims 1–1 Nice.
3. Bordeaux finished ahead of Nantes on head-to-head points: Bordeaux 2–0 Nantes, Nantes 0–1 Bordeaux.
4. Originally, the 18th-placed Ligue 1 team would play in promotion-relegation play-offs at the end of the season with a team from Ligue 2 to decide whether they would remain in Ligue 1 for the 2020–21 season, but the play-offs were cancelled and the 18th-placed team remained in Ligue 1.

Results

Home \ Away	AMI	ANG	BOR	BRE	DIJ	LIL	OL	OM	MET	ASM	MON	FCN	NIC	NMS	PSG	REI	REN	STE	STR	TFC
Amiens	—	—	1–3	1–0	1–1	1–0	2–2	3–1	0–1	1–2	1–2	1–2	—	—	4–4	1–1	—	—	0–4	0–0
Angers	1–1	—	3–1	0–1	2–0	0–2	—	0–2	3–0	0–0	1–0	2–0	1–1	1–0	—	1–4	—	4–1	1–0	—
Bordeaux	—	—	—	2–2	2–2	—	1–2	0–0	2–0	2–1	1–1	2–0	1–1	6–0	0–1	—	—	0–1	0–1	—
Brest	2–1	0–1	1–1	—	2–0	—	2–2	—	2–0	—	—	1–1	0–0	—	1–2	1–0	0–0	3–2	5–0	1–1
Dijon	—	—	0–2	3–0	—	1–0	—	0–0	2–2	1–1	2–2	3–3	—	0–0	2–1	—	2–1	1–2	1–0	2–1
Lille	—	2–1	3–0	1–0	1–0	—	1–0	1–2	0–0	—	2–1	2–1	—	2–2	0–2	—	1–0	3–0	2–0	3–0
Lyon	0–0	6–0	1–1	—	0–0	0–1	—	—	2–0	—	—	0–1	2–1	—	0–1	—	0–1	2–0	1–1	3–0
Marseille	2–2	0–0	3–1	2–1	—	2–1	2–1	—	—	—	1–1	1–3	—	3–1	—	0–2	1–1	1–0	2–0	1–0
Metz	1–2	—	1–2	—	—	—	0–2	1–1	—	3–0	2–2	1–0	—	2–1	0–2	1–1	0–1	3–1	1–0	2–2
Monaco	3–0	1–0	—	4–1	1–0	5–1	0–3	3–4	—	—	1–0	—	3–1	2–2	1–4	1–1	3–2	—	1–3	—
Montpellier	4–2	0–0	—	4–0	2–1	—	1–0	—	1–1	3–1	—	—	2–1	1–0	1–3	—	0–1	1–0	3–0	3–0
Nantes	—	1–2	0–1	—	1–0	0–1	—	0–0	0–0	0–1	1–0	—	1–0	—	1–2	1–0	1–0	2–3	—	2–1
Nice	2–1	3–1	1–1	2–2	2–1	1–1	2–1	1–2	4–1	2–1	—	—	—	1–3	1–4	2–0	1–1	—	—	3–0
Nîmes	1–1	1–0	—	3–0	2–0	—	0–4	2–3	1–1	3–1	—	0–1	1–2	—	—	2–0	0–1	0–1	—	1–0
Paris SG	4–1	4–0	4–3	—	4–0	2–0	4–2	4–0	—	3–3	5–0	2–0	—	3–0	—	0–2	—	—	1–0	4–0
Reims	—	0–0	1–1	1–0	1–2	2–0	1–1	—	0–1	0–0	1–0	—	1–1	0–0	—	—	1–0	3–1	0–0	—
Rennes	3–1	2–1	1–0	0–0	—	1–1	—	0–1	—	—	5–0	3–2	1–2	2–1	2–1	0–1	—	2–1	—	3–2
Saint-Étienne	2–2	—	1–1	1–1	—	—	1–0	0–2	0–1	1–0	0–0	0–2	4–1	2–1	0–4	1–1	—	—	—	2–2
Strasbourg	0–0	—	—	—	—	1–2	1–2	—	1–1	2–2	1–0	2–1	1–0	4–1	—	3–0	0–2	2–1	—	4–2
Toulouse	2–0	0–2	1–3	2–5	1–0	2–1	2–3	0–2	—	1–2	—	—	0–2	—	—	0–1	0–2	—	0–1	—

Source: Ligue 1
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.

Season statistics

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals[34]
1	Wissam Ben Yedder	Monaco	18
	Kylian Mbappé	Paris Saint-Germain
3	Moussa Dembélé	Lyon	16
4	Neymar	Paris Saint-Germain	13
	Victor Osimhen	Lille
6	Habib Diallo	Metz	12
	Mauro Icardi	Paris Saint-Germain
8	Darío Benedetto	Marseille	11
	Kasper Dolberg	Nice
10	Denis Bouanga	Saint-Étienne	10
	M'Baye Niang	Rennes

Clean sheets

Rank	Player	Club	Clean sheets
1	Mike Maignan	Lille	12
	Steve Mandanda	Marseille
	Predrag Rajković	Reims
4	Ludovic Butelle	Angers	11
	Keylor Navas	Paris Saint-Germain
6	Alban Lafont	Nantes	10
7	Édouard Mendy	Rennes	9
8	Anthony Lopes	Lyon	8
	Alexandre Oukidja	Metz
	Gerónimo Rulli	Montpellier
	Matz Sels	Strasbourg

Hat-tricks

Main article: List of Ligue 1 hat-tricks

Player	Club	Against	Result	Date
Casimir Ninga	Angers	Saint-Étienne	4–1 (H)	22 September 2019
Cristian Battocchio	Brest	Strasbourg	5–0 (H)	3 December 2019
Josh Maja	Bordeaux	Nîmes	6–0 (H)	3 December 2019
Darío Benedetto	Marseille	Nîmes	3–2 (A)	28 February 2020

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External links

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