Ligue 1 fixtures 2026-27

Ligue 1 games make up a season of 34 rounds in France's top football league, with 18 clubs meeting home and away from August into May, the shape it has held since 2023-24. The fixture list above shows each one by matchday, with every kick-off in WAT, EAT, SAST and GMT on one screen. For South African readers who call it soccer, it is the same French league, and the Ligue 1 hub carries its history and clubs.

Reading a fixture list should be as quick as checking which danfo goes where before you leave the house in Lagos, so the guide below explains the parts worth knowing: matchday numbers and the late kick-offs in East Africa. French league football has been a television habit for a long time. Canal+ was the league's first broadcaster, showing Nantes v Monaco on 9 November 1984, and held the rights alone for 17 years.

How Do You Find Today's Ligue 1 Games and the Weekend Fixtures?

The quickest route is the matches today filter, which lists every Ligue 1 game on the current date with its status. Each one shows as not started, live, half time or full time, and the statuses refresh in place, so a phone on a slow network does not need to reload the whole list. The weekend filter gathers a weekend's games together, and the team filter pulls one club's Ligue 1 fixtures out of the full list. So, if you only follow PSG or Marseille (OM to most fans), two taps filter the list to their games with your local time beside them.

How Do Ligue 1 Fixtures Work, and Why Do Dates Change?

Ligue 1 fixtures follow a double round robin, so every club plays the other 17 once at home and once away. The matchday number is the round in the schedule rather than the day a game is played, which is worth keeping in mind. A match that is moved keeps its original matchday number but takes a new date, and the list flags it as rearranged so the round still reads in order.

Where Can You Watch Ligue 1 Games Live in Your Country?

The channel or stream for each game sits in its match card, shown separately for Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda and South Africa. Broadcast arrangements across Africa can change between seasons, so treat the card as a pointer to check with your provider rather than a promise that a match will be shown. That being said, for most viewers the bigger question is the clock, not the channel.

Ligue 1 kicks off in French time, and that pushes the late games deep into the East African night. In the European winter, a 21:00 French kick-off starts at 23:00 for viewers in Nairobi and Kampala, 22:00 in Johannesburg, 21:00 in Lagos and 20:00 in Accra, so the final whistle in East Africa comes close to one in the morning. When France moves its clocks forward for summer, every one of those times comes an hour earlier. The fixture list marks these games as night kick-offs for East Africa, with the Nigeria and Ghana time shown beside them.

What Do the Table, 3 Points for a Win and Relegation Mean?

Every Ligue 1 game feeds the Ligue 1 table, where a win earns 3 points and a draw 1, and it updates at full time of each match (South African readers will know it as the log). From 2023-24, the top four qualified for the Champions League, fifth for the Europa League and sixth for the Conference League. At the other end, a relegation play-off has been used since 2016-17, which is why the final rounds matter at both ends of the list. Paris Saint-Germain hold the record of 14 titles, the most recent in 2025-26, with Saint-Étienne next on 10.

How Do You Add the Fixtures to Your Phone Calendar and Find Postponed Games?

Any club's fixtures can be added to your phone calendar from the team filter, and each entry carries the kick-off in your own time zone rather than French time. When a game is postponed, it stays in its original round marked postponed until the league sets a new date, and the calendar entry follows that change. The round filter is the quieter help here, since it shows one matchday together, including any game played earlier or later than the rest. Paired with the Ligue 1 results archive, it shows a club's games in date order.

Which African Players Should You Watch in Each Game?

Each round of French Ligue 1 fixtures carries a strip of African players to watch, built from the squads of the clubs involved, so it moves when players do. The history runs deep, with Liberia's George Weah, of Monaco and Paris Saint-Germain, becoming the first African Ballon d'Or winner in 1995, Jay-Jay Okocha wearing the PSG shirt from 1998 to 2002, and Abedi Pele helping Marseille win the 1992-93 Champions League, which gives Lagos and Accra their own link to the league. For readers in Kenya, Uganda and South Africa, the late French kick-offs bring those same stories into the night, so a late game in France is an evening of African football history in Nairobi, Kampala and Johannesburg. The Ligue 1 stats show where African players sit among the scorers.