2018–19 Ligue 1

Ligue 1 2018–19
Season information
Dates	10 August 2018 – 25 May 2019
Winners	Paris Saint-Germain (8th title)
Relegated	Guingamp Guingamp
Continental cup qualifiers
Champions League	Paris Saint-Germain Lille Lyon
Europa League	Saint-Étienne Rennes Strasbourg
Season statistics
Matches played	380
Goals scored	972
Average	2.56 goals per match
Top goalscorer	Kylian Mbappé (33 goals)
Biggest home win	Paris Saint-Germain 9–0 Guingamp (19 January 2019)
Biggest away win	Caen 0–5 Saint-Étienne (16 March 2019)
Highest scoring	Paris Saint-Germain 9–0 Guingamp (19 January 2019)
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The 2018–19 Ligue 1 season was the 81st season since its establishment. The season started on 10 August 2018 and is scheduled to end on 25 May 2019. Paris Saint-Germain are the defending champions.

On 21 April, Paris Saint-Germain won their second consecutive Ligue 1 title and eighth title overall following Lille's 0–0 draw against Toulouse.

Teams

Twenty teams will compete in the league, with two or two promoted teams from Ligue 2, Nîmes and Reims, replacing the two relegated teams from the 2017–18 Ligue 1 season, Troyes and Metz.

Stadia and locations

Club	Location	Venue	Capacity
Amiens !Amiens	Amiens	Stade de la Licorne	12,097
Angers !Angers	Angers	Stade Raymond Kopa	17,835
Bordeaux !Bordeaux	Bordeaux	Matmut Atlantique	42,115
Caen !Caen	Caen	Stade Michel d'Ornano	20,453
Dijon !Dijon	Dijon	Stade Gaston Gérard	18,376
Guingamp !Guingamp	Guingamp	Stade du Roudourou	18,378
Lille !Lille	Villeneuve-d'Ascq	Stade Pierre-Mauroy	50,157
Lyon !Lyon	Décines-Charpieu	Groupama Stadium	59,186
Marseille !Marseille	Marseille	Orange Vélodrome	67,394
Monaco !Monaco	Monaco ! Monaco	Stade Louis II	18,523
Montpellier !Montpellier	Montpellier	Stade de la Mosson	32,939
Nantes !Nantes	Nantes	Stade de la Beaujoire	37,473
Nice !Nice	Nice	Allianz Riviera	35,624
Nîmes !Nîmes	Nîmes	Stade des Costières	18,482
Paris Saint-Germain !Paris Saint-Germain	Paris	Parc des Princes	48,583
Reims !Reims	Reims	Stade Auguste Delaune	21,684
Rennes !Rennes	Rennes	Roazhon Park	29,778
Saint-Étienne !Saint-Étienne	Saint-Étienne	Stade Geoffroy-Guichard	41,965
Strasbourg !Strasbourg	Strasbourg	Stade de la Meinau	29,230
Toulouse !Toulouse	Toulouse	Stadium Municipal	33,150

Personnel and kits

Team	Manager	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Main sponsor
Amiens	Pélissier, ChristopheChristophe Pélissier	Monconduit, ThomasThomas Monconduit	Puma	Intersport
Angers	Moulin, StéphaneStéphane Moulin	Traoré, IsmaëlIsmaël Traoré	Kappa	Scania (H), Bodet (A)
Bordeaux	Gomes, RicardoRicardo Gomes	Costil, BenoîtBenoît Costil	Puma	Groupe Sweetcom (H), Bistro Régent (A), Winamax (3)
Caen	Mercadal, FabienFabien Mercadal	Oniangué, PrincePrince Oniangué	Umbro	Maisons France Confort (H), Campagne de France (A & 3)
Dijon	Dall'Oglio, OlivierOlivier Dall'Oglio	Tavares, JúlioJúlio Tavares	Lotto	Roger Martin (H), Suez (A & 3)
Guingamp	Gourvennec, JocelynJocelyn Gourvennec	Kerbrat, ChristopheChristophe Kerbrat	Patrick	Servagroupe (H), Aroma Celte (A)
Lille	Galtier, ChristopheChristophe Galtier	Soumaoro, AdamaAdama Soumaoro	New Balance	Vero Moda
Lyon	Génésio, BrunoBruno Génésio	Fekir, NabilNabil Fekir	Adidas	Hyundai, Veolia (European)
Marseille	Garcia, RudiRudi Garcia	Payet, DimitriDimitri Payet	Puma	Orange
Monaco	Henry, ThierryThierry Henry	Falcao, RadamelRadamel Falcao	Nike	Fedcom
Montpellier	Michel Der Zakarian	Hilton, VitorinoVitorino Hilton	Nike	Sud de France
Nantes	Halilhodžić, VahidVahid Halilhodžić	Rongier, ValentinValentin Rongier	New Balance	Synergie
Nice	Vieira, PatrickPatrick Vieira	Bonfim, DanteDante Bonfim	Macron	Mutuelles du Soleil
Nîmes	Blaquart, BernardBernard Blaquart	Harek, FéthiFéthi Harek	Puma	Hectare
Paris Saint-Germain	Tuchel, ThomasThomas Tuchel	Silva, ThiagoThiago Silva	Nike, Air Jordan (European)	Emirates
Reims	Guion, DavidDavid Guion	Martin, MarvinMarvin Martin	Hungaria Sport	Emporio Armani
Rennes	Stéphan, JulienJulien Stéphan	André, BenjaminBenjamin André	Puma	Samsic
Saint-Étienne	Gasset, Jean-LouisJean-Louis Gasset	Perrin, LoïcLoïc Perrin	Le Coq Sportif	Aesio
Strasbourg	Laurey, ThierryThierry Laurey	Mitrović, StefanStefan Mitrović	Adidas	ÉS Énergies (H), Croisi Europe (A)
Toulouse	Casanova, AlainAlain Casanova	Gradel, Max-AlainMax-Alain Gradel	Joma	Triangle Interim

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Paris Saint-Germain	Emery, UnaiUnai Emery	Resigned	19 May 2018	Pre-season	Tuchel, ThomasThomas Tuchel	1 June 2018
Nantes	Ranieri, ClaudioClaudio Ranieri	Mutual consent	19 May 2018		Cardoso, MiguelMiguel Cardoso	13 June 2018
Nice	Favre, LucienLucien Favre		19 May 2018		Vieira, PatrickPatrick Vieira	11 June 2018
Caen	Garande, PatricePatrice Garande	End of contract	19 May 2018		Mercadal, FabienFabien Mercadal	8 June 2018
Toulouse	Debève, MickaëlMickaël Debève	Signed by Lens as assistant	14 June 2018		Casanova, AlainAlain Casanova	22 June 2018
Bordeaux	Poyet, GustavoGustavo Poyet	Sacked	17 August 2018	19th	Gomes, RicardoRicardo Gomes	5 September 2018
Nantes	Cardoso, MiguelMiguel Cardoso		1 October 2018	19th	Halilhodžić, VahidVahid Halilhodžić	1 October 2018
Monaco	Jardim, LeonardoLeonardo Jardim		11 October 2018	18th	Henry, ThierryThierry Henry	13 October 2018
Guingamp	Kombouaré, AntoineAntoine Kombouaré		6 November 2018	20th	Gourvennec, JocelynJocelyn Gourvennec	8 November 2018
Rennes	Lamouchi, SabriSabri Lamouchi		3 December 2018	14th	Stéphan, JulienJulien Stéphan	3 December 2018
Dijon	Dall'Oglio, OlivierOlivier Dall'Oglio		31 December 2018	18th	Kombouaré, AntoineAntoine Kombouaré	10 January 2019
Monaco	Henry, ThierryThierry Henry		24 January 2019	19th	Jardim, LeonardoLeonardo Jardim	25 January 2019
Bordeaux	Gomes, RicardoRicardo Gomes		26 February 2019	13th	Sousa, PauloPaulo Sousa	8 March 2019

League table

2018–19 Ligue 1 table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Notes
1	Paris Saint-Germain  (C)	38	29	4	5	105	35	+70	91	Qualification for the  Champions League group stage
2	Lille	38	22	9	7	68	33	+35	75
3	Lyon	38	21	9	8	70	47	+23	72	Qualification for the  UEFA Champions League Third qualifying round
4	Saint-Étienne	38	19	9	10	59	41	+18	66	Qualification for the  Europa League group stage
5	Marseille	38	18	7	13	60	52	+8	61
6	Montpellier	38	15	14	9	53	42	+11	59
7	Nice	38	15	11	12	30	35	−5	56
8	Reims	38	13	16	9	39	42	−3	55
9	Nîmes	38	15	8	15	57	58	−1	53
10	Rennes	38	13	13	12	55	52	+3	52	Qualification for the  Europa League group stage
11	Strasbourg	38	11	16	11	58	48	+10	49	Qualification for the Europa League second qualifying round
12	Nantes	38	13	9	16	48	48	0	48
13	Angers	38	10	16	12	44	49	−5	46
14	Bordeaux	38	10	11	17	34	42	−8	41
15	Amiens	38	9	11	18	31	52	−21	38
16	Toulouse	38	8	14	16	35	57	−22	38
17	Monaco	38	8	12	18	38	57	−19	36
18	Dijon  (Q)	38	9	7	22	31	60	−29	34	Qualification to the Relegation play-offs
19	Caen  (R)	38	7	12	19	29	54	−25	33	Relegation to Ligue 2
20	Guingamp  (R)	38	5	12	21	28	68	−40	27

Source: Ligue 1 and Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd number of goals scored.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round; (Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament

Results

Home \ Away	AMI	ANG	BOR	CAE	DIJ	GUI	LIL	OL	OM	ASM	MON	FCN	NIC	NMS	PSG	REI	REN	STE	STR	TFC
Amiens	—	0–0	0–0	1–0	1–0	2–1	2–3	0–1	1–3	0–2	1–2	1–2	1–0	2–1	0–3	4–1	2–1	2–2	0–0	0–0
Angers	0–0	—	1–2	1–1	1–0	0–1	1–0	1–2	1–1	2–2	1–0	1–0	3–0	3–4	1–2	1–1	3–3	1–1	2–2	0–0
Bordeaux	1–1	0–1	—	0–0	1–0	0–0	1–0	2–3	2–0	2–1	1–2	3–0	0–1	3–3	2–2	0–1	1–1	3–2	0–2	2–1
Caen	1–0	0–1	0–1	—	1–0	0–0	1–3	2–2	0–1	0–1	2–2	0–1	1–1	1–2	1–2	3–2	1–2	0–5	0–0	2–1
Dijon	0–0	1–3	0–0	0–2	—	2–1	1–2	0–3	1–2	2–0	1–1	2–0	0–1	0–4	0–4	1–1	3–2	0–1	2–1	2–1
Guingamp	1–2	1–0	1–3	0–0	1–0	—	0–2	2–4	1–3	1–1	1–1	0–0	0–0	2–2	1–3	0–1	2–1	0–1	1–1	1–2
Lille	2–1	5–0	1–0	1–0	1–0	3–0	—	2–2	3–0	0–1	0–0	2–1	4–0	5–0	5–1	1–1	3–1	3–1	0–0	1–2
Lyon	2–0	2–1	1–1	4–0	1–3	2–1	2–2	—	4–2	3–0	3–2	1–1	0–1	2–0	2–1	1–1	0–2	1–0	2–0	5–1
Marseille	2–0	2–2	1–0	2–0	2–0	4–0	1–2	0–3	—	1–1	1–0	1–2	1–0	2–1	0–2	0–0	2–2	2–0	3–2	4–0
Monaco	2–0	0–1	1–1	0–1	2–2	0–2	0–0	2–0	2–3	—	1–2	1–0	1–1	1–1	0–4	0–0	1–2	2–3	1–5	2–1
Montpellier	1–1	2–2	2–0	2–0	1–2	2–0	0–1	1–1	3–0	2–2	—	1–1	1–0	3–0	3–2	2–4	2–2	0–0	1–1	2–1
Nantes	3–2	1–1	1–0	1–1	3–0	5–0	2–3	2–1	3–2	1–3	2–0	—	1–2	2–4	3–2	0–0	0–1	1–1	0–1	4–0
Nice	1–0	0–0	1–0	0–1	0–4	3–0	2–0	1–0	0–1	2–0	1–0	1–1	—	2–0	0–3	0–1	2–1	1–1	1–0	1–1
Nîmes	3–0	3–1	2–1	2–0	2–0	0–0	2–3	2–3	3–1	1–0	1–1	1–0	0–1	—	2–4	0–0	3–1	1–1	2–2	0–1
Paris SG	5–0	3–1	1–0	3–0	4–0	9–0	2–1	5–0	3–1	3–1	5–1	1–0	1–1	3–0	—	4–1	4–1	4–0	2–2	1–0
Reims	2–2	1–1	0–0	2–2	0–0	2–1	1–1	1–0	2–1	1–0	0–1	1–0	1–1	0–3	3–1	—	2–0	0–2	2–1	0–1
Rennes	1–0	1–0	2–0	3–1	2–0	1–1	3–1	0–1	1–1	2–2	0–0	1–1	0–0	4–0	1–3	0–2	—	3–0	1–4	1–1
Saint-Étienne	0–0	4–3	3–0	2–1	3–0	2–1	0–1	1–2	2–1	2–0	0–1	3–0	3–0	2–1	0–1	2–0	1–1	—	2–1	2–0
Strasbourg	3–1	1–2	1–0	2–2	3–0	3–3	1–1	2–2	1–1	2–1	1–3	2–3	2–0	0–1	1–1	4–0	0–2	1–1	—	1–1
Toulouse	0–1	0–0	2–1	1–1	2–2	1–0	0–0	2–2	2–5	1–1	0–3	1–0	1–1	1–0	0–1	1–1	2–2	2–3	1–2	—

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.

Relegation play-offs

The 2018–19 season ended with a relegation play-off between the 18th-placed Ligue 1 team, Dijon, and the winner of the semi-final of the Ligue 2 play-off, Lens, on a two-legged confrontation.

30 May 2019 (2019-05-30) 20:45 CEST	Lens	1–1	Dijon	Stade Bollaert-Delelis Attendance: 37,355 Referee: Amaury Delerue
	Bellegarde  49'	Report	Kwon Chang-hoon  81'

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2 June 2019 (2019-06-02) 21:15 CEST	Dijon	3–1	Lens	Stade Gaston Gérard Attendance: 15,367 Referee: Ruddy Buquet
	Sliti  28', 90' Saïd  70'	Report	Duverne  39'

Dijon won 4–2 on aggregate and therefore both clubs remained in their respective leagues.

Season statistics

Top goalscorers Rank Player Club Goals 1 Kylian Mbappé Paris Saint-Germain 33 2 Nicolas Pépé Lille 22 3 Edinson Cavani Paris Saint-Germain 18 4 Florian Thauvin Marseille 16 5 Moussa Dembélé Lyon 15 Radamel Falcao Monaco Neymar Paris Saint-Germain 8 Andy Delort Montpellier 14 9 Jonathan Bamba Lille 13 Wahbi Khazri Saint-Étienne

Top assists Rank Player Club Assists 1 Téji Savanier Nîmes 14 2 Ángel Di María Paris Saint-Germain 11 Nicolas Pépé Lille 4 Kenny Lala Strasbourg 9 5 Memphis Depay Lyon 8 Julian Draxler Paris Saint-Germain Jonathan Ikoné Lille Lucas Ocampos Marseille Florian Thauvin Marseille 10 Dani Alves Paris Saint-Germain 7 Andy Delort Montpellier Wahbi Khazri Saint-Étienne Neymar Paris Saint-Germain Dimitri Payet Marseille Pedro Rebocho Guingamp Flavien Tait Angers Adrien Thomasson Strasbourg

Hat-tricks

Player	Club	Against	Result	Date
Nicolas Pépé	Lille	Amiens	3–2 (A)	02018-09-15-15 September 2018
Kylian Mbappé4	Paris Saint-Germain	Lyon	5–0 (H)	02018-10-07-7 October 2018
Emiliano Sala	Nantes	Toulouse	4–0 (H)	02018-10-20-20 October 2018
Edinson Cavani	Paris Saint-Germain	Monaco	4–0 (A)	02018-11-11-11 November 2018
Florian Thauvin	Marseille	Amiens	3–1 (A)	02018-11-25-25 November 2018
Edinson Cavani	Paris Saint-Germain	Guingamp	9–0 (H)	02019-01-19-19 January 2019
Kylian Mbappé	Paris Saint-Germain	Guingamp	9–0 (H)	02019-01-19-19 January 2019
Kylian Mbappé	Paris Saint-Germain	Monaco	3–1 (H)	02019-04-21-21 April 2019

Note

⁴ Player scored 4 goals

External links

• Official website

2018–19 in French football
Domestic leagues
Ligue 1 · Ligue 2 · National · National 2 · National 3
Domestic cups
Coupe de France (Preliminaries, Final) · Coupe de la Ligue (Final) · Trophée des Champions
European competitions
Champions League (Final) · Europa League (Final)
National teams
2017-18                                                        2019-20