List of Ligue 1 records and statistics

The following is a list of records attained in French Football Ligue 1 since the league foundation in 1932.

Club statistics

Titles and points

• Most titles: 12, Paris Saint-Germain
• Most consecutive titles: 7, Lyon (2002–2008)
• Most points in a single season: 96, Paris Saint-Germain (2015–16)

Wins and unbeaten runs

• Most wins in a single season:
  • 38-match season: 30, Paris Saint-Germain (2015–16) and Monaco (2016–17)
  • 34-match season: 25, Saint-Étienne (1969–70)
• Most home victories in a single season: 19, Saint-Étienne (1974–75)
• Most away victories in a single season: 15, Paris Saint-Germain (2015–16)
• Most consecutive victories: 16, Monaco (between 25 February 2017 and 17 August 2017)
• Most consecutive victories in a single season: 14, Paris Saint-Germain (2018–19)
• Most consecutive home victories: 28, Saint-Étienne (between 13 March 1974 and 27 August 1975)
• Most consecutive away victories: 9, Marseille (between 15 February 2009 and 8 August 2009)
• Biggest win: Sochaux 12–1 Valenciennes (1 July 1935)
• Biggest away win: Troyes 0–9 Paris Saint-Germain (13 March 2016)
• Longest unbeaten run within a single season: 32 matches, Nantes (1994–95)
• Longest home unbeaten run: 92 matches, Nantes (between 15 May 1976 and 7 April 1981)
• Longest unbeaten run: 36 matches, Paris Saint-Germain (between 15 March 2015 and 20 February 2016)

Losses

• Fewest losses in a single season: 1, Nantes (1994–95)
• Fewest home losses in a single season: 0 (58 times)
  • Angers (1971–72)
  • Auxerre (1984–85, 1988–89, 1991–92)
  • Bastia (1972–73, 1976–77)
  • Bordeaux (1984–85, 1985–86, 1987–88, 1992–93, 2008–09)
  • Cannes (1989–90)
  • Laval (1985–86)
  • Lens (1976–77, 2001–02)
  • Lillois (1933–34)
  • Lyon (1994–95, 2001–02)
  • Marseille (1937–38, 1947–48, 1970–71, 1988–89, 1998–99)
  • Monaco (1982–83, 1992–93, 1996–97, 1999–2000)
  • Nancy (1977–78)
  • Nantes (1965–66, 1966–67, 1976–77, 1977–78, 1978–79, 1979–80, 1994–95)
  • Nîmes (1952–53, 1958–59)
  • Paris Saint-Germain (1985–86, 1993–94, 2014–15, 2016–17, 2018–19, 2021–22)
  • Racing Club (1938–39)
  • Saint-Étienne (1973–74, 1974–75, 1975–76, 1976–77)
  • Sète (1933–34, 1936–37)
  • Sochaux (1936–37, 2002–03)
  • Strasbourg (1974–75, 1977–78, 1978–79)
  • Toulouse (1953–54, 1986–87)
  • Valenciennes (1964–65)
• Fewest away losses in a single season: 0, Paris Saint-Germain (2023–24)

Top flight appearances

• Most seasons in top flight: 72, Marseille
• Most consecutive seasons in top flight: 49, Paris Saint-Germain (1974–present)

Goals

• Highest-scoring season:
  • 38-match season: 1946–47 (134 goals; 3.51 average per match)
  • 34-match season: 1948–49 (113 goals; 3.71 average per match)
• Most goals scored by a team in a single season:
  • 38-match season: 118, RC Paris (1959–60)
  • 34-match season: 102, Lille (1948–49)
• Most goals in a single match: 13
  • Sochaux 12–1 Valenciennes (1 July 1935)
  • Marseille 3–10 Saint-Étienne (16 September 1951)
  • RC Paris 11–2 Metz (19 November 1961)
• Fewest goals conceded by a team in a single season: 19, Paris Saint-Germain (2015–16)
• Fewest home goals conceded by a team in a single season: 4, Saint-Étienne (2007–08)
• Fewest away goals conceded by a team in a single season: 7, Paris Saint-Germain (2015–16)
• Best goal difference in a single season:
  • 38-match season: +83, Paris Saint-Germain (2015–16)
  • 34-match season: +62, Lille (1948–49)

Disciplinary

• Most yellow cards in a season: 654 (2002–03)
• Most red cards in a season: 131 (2002–03)
• Most red cards by a team in a single season: 14, Montpellier (2013–14)

Manager

• Most matches managed: 894, Guy Roux (890 for Auxerre (1961–2000, 2001–2005) and 4 for Lens (2007–2008))

Attendance

• Highest overall attendance in a season: 8,676,490 (2018–19; 38-match season)
• Highest average attendance in a season: 23,154 per match (2000–01; 34-match season)
• Highest overall attendance in a single matchday: 307,775 (2018–19 matchday 1; 30,778 average per match)
• Highest attendance in a single match: 78,056, Lille v. Lyon at the Stade de France (7 March 2009)

Player statistics

Most appearances

Goalscorers

Most titles won

Nine titles

• Marco Verratti (Paris Saint-Germain) (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022 and 2023)
• Marquinhos (Paris Saint-Germain) (2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024)

Eight titles

• Presnel Kimpembe (Paris Saint-Germain) (2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024)

Seven titles

• Sidney Govou, Grégory Coupet and Juninho (Lyon) (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008)
• Jean-Michel Larqué and Hervé Revelli (Saint-Étienne) (1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1974, 1975 and 1976)
• Thiago Silva (Paris Saint-Germain) (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019 and 2020)
• Kylian Mbappé (Monaco, Paris Saint-Germain) (2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024)

Goalkeeping

• Most consecutive minutes without conceding at home: Jérémie Janot for Saint-Étienne, 1,534 minutes without conceding in 2004–05 and 2005–06 seasons (17 games)
• Most consecutive minutes without conceding: Gaëtan Huard for Bordeaux, 1,176 minutes without conceding in 1992–93 season (13 games)

Goalscoring

• Most goals in a single season: Josip Skoblar, 44
  • Each season: See List of Ligue 1 top scorers
• Most goals in a single match: 7, Jean Nicolas, for Rouen against Valenciennes, 1938; André Abegglen, for Sochaux against Valenciennes, 1935
• Most games scored in a row: Vahid Halilhodžić (Nantes), 9 matches in a row (1984–1985); Zlatan Ibrahimović (Paris Saint-Germain), 9 matches in a row (2015–2016)

Other records

• Most red cards received by a player: 19, Cyril Rool
• Youngest player to appear in a match: Kalman Gerencseri, aged 15 years, 225 days (for Lens against Monaco on 21 August 1960)
• Youngest player to score a hat-trick: Jérémy Ménez, aged 17 years, 260 days (for Sochaux against Bordeaux on 22 January 2005)
• Fastest goal: 7.9 seconds, Michel Rio (for Caen against Cannes on 15 February 1992)
• Fastest hat-trick: 4 minutes and 30 seconds, Loïs Openda (for Lens against Clermont Foot on 12 March 2023)

References