For this first Ligue 1 season with 18 clubs, the resumption has been set for the weekend of August 12 and 13, 2023.
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At the end of its board meeting, the Professional Football League (LFP) adopted and unveiled, on Wednesday 9 November, the “general calendar” of the 2023-2024 season of the Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 championships.
While this exercise will see the transition to 18 clubs and 34 days in the elite, against 20 clubs and 38 days currently, the LFP explains that “sOnly the 17th day will be scheduled during the week”. This will be played on Wednesday, December 20, 2023, marking “the beginning of the winter break”. The Ligue 1 teams will then resume the weekend of January 13 and 14, 2024 for the 18th day, before continuing until the 34th and last day on Saturday May 18.
“The first leg of the Uber Eats Ligue 1 accession play-offs will take place on Thursday May 30, 2024, and the return leg will take place on Sunday June 2, 2024” specifies the LFP, about this double confrontation between the 16th in Ligue 1 and the winner of the Ligue 2 play-offs.
In the antechamber of the elite of French professional football, which will increase to 18 clubs for the 2024-2025 season, hostilities will resume on the weekend of August 5, 2023. A Christmas truce is scheduled for Tuesday December 19 and the last day is fixed for Saturday, May 18, 2024. At the end of the season, the fourth and the fifth will face each other for the play-off N.1 on Wednesday, May 21, before the winner challenges the third in the play- off N.2, Friday, May 24. “The entire general calendar of competitions 2023/2024 will be published this Thursday, November 10 following its final adoption by the Executive Committee of the FFF” concludes the LFP.