TheFrench football champions are the winners of the highest league offootball in France,Ligue 1. Since the National Council of theFrench Football Federation voted in support of professionalism in French football in 1930, the professional football championship of France has been contested through Ligue 1, formerly known as Division 1 from 1933 to 2002.^[1][2]

Prior to this, the first division championship of French football was contested through a league run by theUnion des Sociétés Françaises de Sports Athlétiques (USFSA), an organization that supportedamateur sport. The USFSA's league run from 1894 to 1919 and awarded 22 league titles before being suspended in 1915 due toWorld War I and the creation and success of theCoupe de France, which had quickly become the country's national competition.

^[3] The USFSA returned in 1919 changing the league into numerous regional amateur leagues that awarded no league title. This system lasted from 1919 to 1926. In 1926, the first division's reins were handed over to the French Football Federation. The federation organized and ran a league composed of the regional amateur league champions called theChampionnat de France amateur from 1927 to 1929 and awarded three titles before the league was converted to the professional league that exists today in 1932.^[1]

The first champions of French football wereStandard Athletic Club, who defeatedThe White Rovers 2–0 inCourbevoie on 6 May 1894.^[4] The initial championship match was held on 29 April but finished 2–2, so the match was replayed.^[4] Standard went on to win the French championship four more times over the next seven years beforeRC Roubaix took control of the league becoming the first French club to win three straight titles beginning in 1902.^[5] Following Roubaix's success, the ownership of the amateur league title began rotating back and forth from thenorth of France to thesouth of France withMarseille eventually winning the last amateur title in 1929.^[5]

The first French football champions of the professional era wereOlympique Lillois, a predecessor ofLille, who defeatedCannes 4–3 on 14 May 1933 at theStade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir inColombes.^[5]Sète were crowned champions the following season and, in 1939, became the first professional club in France to win two titles.^[5] Following the conclusion ofWorld War II,Saint-Étienne became themodel club of the country winning four consecutive titles from 1966 to 1970.^[5] The club won all its 10 titles in a span of 25 years. Marseille repeated Saint-Étienne's feat of four consecutive titles from 1988 to 1992. It would take the clubanother 17 years to win another title. During the hiatus between Marseille's title in 1992 and the club's most recent in 2010,Lyon established themselves as a top club winning their first title in 2002. The title started a national record-breaking streak of seven successive league championships with the streak coming to an end following the2008–09 season whenBordeaux eclipsed them winning their sixth title.^[6][7]

Paris Saint-Germain have the most titles in French football, with 13, followed by Saint-Étienne and Marseille, with 10 each.^[8][9] The majority of Saint-Étienne's titles came during the 1960s and 1970s when the club was led bymanagersJean Snella,Albert Batteux, andRobert Herbin. Marseille has nine professional league titles and one amateur title which they won in the 1928–29 season.^[9] The club initially equalled Saint-Étienne's number of titles won during the 1992–93 season, but the title was stripped after it was discovered by theLigue de Football Professionnel (LFP) that the club'spresidentBernard Tapie had bribed the opposition's players.^[10][11] Tapie was later found guilty ofbribery and sentenced to two years in prison.^[12] In the 2009–10 season, Marseille equalled Saint-Étienne's number of titles, amateur or professional.^[13][14] Paris Saint-Germain won 11 of their 13 titles in a thirteen-year span from 2013 to 2025.Nantes andMonaco are fourth with eight titles each, while Lyon has seven.^[15][16][17]

Rank	Club	Winners	Runners-up	Winning seasons	Runner-up seasons
1	Paris Saint-Germain	13	9	1985–86, 1993–94, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20, 2021–22, 2022–23, 2023–24, 2024–25	1988–89, 1992–93, 1995–96, 1996–97, 1999–2000, 2003–04, 2011–12, 2016–17, 2020–21
2	Marseille	10	15	1928–29, 1936–37, 1947–48, 1970–71, 1971–72, 1988–89, 1989–90, 1990–91, 1991–92, 2009–10	1918–19, 1937–38, 1938–39, 1969–70, 1974–75, 1986–87, 1993–94, 1998–99, 2006–07, 2008–09, 2010–11, 2012–13, 2019–20, 2021–22, 2024–25
	Saint-Étienne	10	3	1956–57, 1963–64, 1966–67, 1967–68, 1968–69, 1969–70, 1973–74, 1974–75, 1975–76, 1980–81	1945–46, 1970–71, 1981–82
4	Monaco	8	8	1960–61, 1962–63, 1977–78, 1981–82, 1987–88, 1996–97, 1999–2000, 2016–17	1963–64, 1983–84, 1990–91, 1991–92, 2002–03, 2013–14, 2017–18, 2023–24
	Nantes	8	7	1964–65, 1965–66, 1972–73, 1976–77, 1979–80, 1982–83, 1994–95, 2000–01	1966–67, 1973–74, 1977–78, 1978–79, 1980–81, 1984–85, 1985–86
6	Lyon	7	5	2001–02, 2002–03, 2003–04, 2004–05, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2007–08	1994–95, 2000–01, 2009–10, 2014–15, 2015–16
7	Bordeaux	6	9	1949–50, 1983–84, 1984–85, 1986–87, 1998–99, 2008–09	1951–52, 1964–65, 1965–66, 1968–69, 1982–83, 1987–88, 1989–90, 2005–06, 2007–08
	Lille	6	7	1913–14, 1932–33, 1945–46, 1953–54, 2010–11, 2020–21	1935–36, 1947–48, 1948–49, 1949–50, 1950–51, 2004–05, 2018–19
	Reims	6	3	1948–49, 1952–53, 1954–55, 1957–58, 1959–60, 1961–62	1946–47, 1953–54, 1962–63
	Roubaix	6	2	1901–02, 1902–03, 1903–04, 1905–06, 1907–08, 1946–47	1904–05, 1906–07
11	Standard Athletic Club	5	—	1893–94, 1894–95, 1896–97, 1897–98, 1900–01
12	Nice	4	3	1950–51, 1951–52, 1955–56, 1958–59	1967–68, 1972–73, 1975–76
13	Stade Helvétique	3	1	1908–09, 1910–11, 1912–13	1909–10
	Le Havre	3	1	1898–99, 1899–1900, 1918–19	1900–01
15	RC Paris	2	6	1906–07, 1935–36	1901–02, 1902–03, 1907–08, 1910–11, 1960–61, 1961–62
	Sochaux	2	3	1934–35, 1937–38	1936–37, 1952–53, 1979–80
	Sète	2	1	1933–34, 1938–39	1913–14
18	Lens	1	5	1997–98	1955–56, 1956–57, 1976–77, 2001–02, 2022–23
	Club Français	1	4	1895–96	1897–98, 1898–99, 1899–1900, 1928–29
	Paris-Charenton	1	2	1926–27	1905–06, 1908–09
	US Tourcoing	1	1	1909–10	1927–28
	Rouen	1	1	1944–45	1912–13
	Strasbourg	1	1	1978–79	1934–35
	Gallia Club Paris	1	—	1904–05
	Saint-Raphaël	1	—	1911–12
	Stade Français	1	—	1927–28
	Auxerre	1	—	1995–96
	Montpellier	1	—	2011–12
–	The White Rovers	–	4		1893–94, 1894–95, 1895–96, 1896–97
	Nîmes	–	4		1957–58, 1958–59, 1959–60, 1971–72
	Suisse Paris	–	1		1903–04
	AS Française	–	1		1911–12
	Amiens	–	1		1926–27
	Cannes	–	1		1932–33
	Fives	–	1		1933–34
	Toulouse (1937)	–	1		1954–55
	Metz	–	1		1997–98

Notes:

• Bold indicates clubs currently playing inLigue 1.
• Lille OSC is the legal heir ofOlympique Lillois.
• Toulouse FC is not the successor toToulouse FC (1937).

Club	Winners	Runners-up	Winning seasons
Paris Saint-Germain	13	9	1985–86, 1993–94, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20, 2021–22, 2022–23, 2023–24, 2024–25
Saint-Étienne	10	3	1956–57, 1963–64, 1966–67, 1967–68, 1968–69, 1969–70, 1973–74, 1974–75, 1975–76, 1980–81
Marseille	9	13	1936–37, 1947–48, 1970–71, 1971–72, 1988–89, 1989–90, 1990–91, 1991–92, 2009–10
Monaco	8	7	1960–61, 1962–63, 1977–78, 1981–82, 1987–88, 1996–97, 1999–2000, 2016–17
Nantes	8	7	1964–65, 1965–66, 1972–73, 1976–77, 1979–80, 1982–83, 1994–95, 2000–01
Lyon	7	5	2001–02, 2002–03, 2003–04, 2004–05, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2007–08
Bordeaux	6	9	1949–50, 1983–84, 1984–85, 1986–87, 1998–99, 2008–09
Reims	6	3	1948–49, 1952–53, 1954–55, 1957–58, 1959–60, 1961–62
Lille	5	7	1932–33, 1945–46, 1953–54, 2010–11, 2020–21
Nice	4	3	1950–51, 1951–52, 1955–56, 1958–59
Sochaux	2	3	1934–35, 1937–38
Sète	2	–	1933–34, 1938–39
Lens	1	5	1997–98
RC Paris	1	2	1935–36
Strasbourg	1	1	1978–79
Roubaix-Tourcoing	1	–	1946–47
Auxerre	1	–	1995–96
Montpellier	1	–	2011–12
Nîmes	–	4	–
Cannes	–	1	–
Fives	–	1	–
Toulouse (1937)	–	1	–
Metz	–	1	–

Notes:

• Clubs inbold are competing in2024–25 Ligue 1.
• Marseille were stripped of their title by theLFP after being found guilty ofbribery in1992–93 French Division 1. No winner was declared for that season.

Notes:

• RC Paris,Marseille andOlympique Lillois are the only teams who managed to win inAmateur era and also inProfessional era.

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