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Thursday 3 March 2016

Ligue 1: French league football Ligue 1









The Ligue 1 2015/16 is the 78th season in the highest French league football of gentlemen.




As defending champion Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) started in the season, the reigning Cup holders are also the Parisians. The SCO Angers, ES Troyes AC and Gazelec Ajaccio secured promotion to the top flight and replaced the three relegated FC Évian Thonon Gaillard, RC Lens and FC Metz.

The biggest difference to recent seasons will be possibly the decreased number of relegated to Ligue. 2 Instead of three to descend from this season only two teams. However, this change is not yet decided final.

The championship started on August 7, 2015 and ends on 14 May 2016th. A total of 20 teams participated in the championship, 17 of which already in the last season played in the Ligue. 1
For this season, the LFP changed the competition system: only descend two teams (instead of the usual 3 so far) to Ligue 2, and therefore only ascend two teams in the silver category, where it applies change in normativa.3 However, the August 13, 2015, the State Council decided, at the request of the French Football Federation, keep 3 decreases in Ligue 1 and three promotions in Ligue 2 to a next resolución.4 the match schedule was sortado on June 18.