Lille just lost 4-0 at home to their old manager and nice and PSG have just signed Messi, Ramos, Wijnaldum, Hakimi and Donarumma to go with neymar, veratti, marquinhos and mbappe so ye, I think Clermont have this one in the bag
@@2kmichaeljordan438 Madrid first galacticos was abysmal after del Bosque left. Had 6 different coaches but only achieved 1 La Liga and 1 Supercopa de España during 2003-2007.
dude I from time to time follow bundes always On dormund site but they manage to bottle it every single time. even your supercup Last week Right when Dortmund was back a Bit in the game akenji makes a HORRENDOUS mistake... had to change channel after that so disapointing.
@@wellaname221 dortmund is a club which has potential to challenge bayern but unfortunately it never seems like they want to compete, they are happy to come 2nd in the league, getting in the champions league regularly only to lose and making huge profits from player sales.
I remember watching Lyon, Bordeaux, Auxerre and even Marseille (despite their controversy) in Europe. They always impressed me and played good football.
Remember following that 08/09 season on Goalissimo as a kid. Thought Marseille would win it, but they lost 3-1 to Lyon, allowing Bourdeux to sneak in and win the title. Thought Gourcuff would be the next big thing. Unfortuately, injuries and that transfer to Lyon Curtailed his Career. As a bonus, you could have mentioned Ligue 1 Champions League Peformances. For instance, Bourdeux topping a Group containing Bayern Munich and Juventus, Lyon Beating Galacticos Mdrid and reaching the Semi and Marseille beating Inter Milan in 2012. Not to mention the tight games Lyon had against united and Barcelona (1st leg at least). That united game introduced a lot of us to a certain young striker.
There was that period when Lyon faced Real in the group stage of the CL for about 4 seasons straight. Guess who had the upper hands in those head to head encounters.
As a french, i was actually surprised to found this video. I mean, even here we're joking about the 'quality' and the 'visibility' of our league. And it's pretty sad, knowing how much young talent there was, and are still present here. I'd say, it's even a very good league for young players. Ligue 1 still have more visibility than other smaller leagues, is, and without joking a platform for young African talents because of our colonial past (and i know for a fact that this continent is full of potential, just don't have the correct means there to profit of it) and finally, we don't have multiple big clubs like the PL, so it gives them more chance to, when in their club, evolving smoothly and have more play time if possible.
@@tomminho When was the last time we saw a French team winning UCL? Even that UCL victory was marred with controversies. Last time a Portuguese club won a UCL was in 2004
This illustrates a deep problem − every time a small-to-medium club reveals promising players one season, those players are immediately snatched by much richer clubs the next season, making sure that none of those small teams can ever get big or compete on the European stage. Thus the rich clubs get even richer, and can snatch even more players. It’s a vicious cycle. Only Lyon managed to be somewhat competitive in Champion’s League for a while (with Bordeaux or Monaco performing great just one time before disappearing), but I’m not sure that would be possible nowadays.
This. This is why I’m not too annoyed when billionaires buy out clubs and have them contending, it’s nice to see a new team that is able to contend to be a top team.
@@alsukharsky he was my favorite young player back there, it was delightful to watch him play. Unfortunatly, he was one of those young players that never really got where people thought he would go, same as Pastore as mentioned in the video
PSG may dominate most of the time, but keep in mind that even bottom clubs of Ligue 1 can make a difference of the title race-a scene perhaps not as frequent in other "big" leagues.
Yeah, clearly I come from a small place near Sochaux so I used to follow and support the club FC Sochaux Montbéliard (FCSM), and they were able to beat the biggest clubs and lose to the worst next week. Also they prove it in Europe where they manage to get a draw 2-2 against Inter Milan or when they beat Dortmund 4-0 in 2002-2003. There are many other examples such as Guingamp a couple of years ago in Europa League. The main issue of Ligue 1 clubs is that they have to sell players to balances their business, so what they want is to qualify to UCL or Europa league, sell their best players and not giving a fuck about the competition...But it's slowly changing with Paris not needing at all to sell and it works (final + semi-final the past 2 years), Nice bought by Jim Radcliff (billionaire and boss of Ineos in biking) that got Galtier the coach of Lille with whom he won the league last year, Monaco and Lyon that have decent budget (although they still need to sell...).
Milan somehow crashed so damn hard. like, even it's wonderkids just dissappeared too. like el shaarawy and pato. hope they can get back to the top, cause they were my fav team in italy as a kid
Lille just lost 4-0 at home to Nice so I personnally think they are heading to a season with,at best, Europa League spots,especially since they sold Maignan,but they might do better.
@@hugoumero9723 Quite funny (and sad) situation,looks so "Ligue 1"-ey. These kind of funny stories happen a few times every season in French football. For example, in May some FC Nantes fans buried a "RIP FC Kita" coffin to protest against Walder Kita leadership of the club since FC Nantes went in a relegation play-off. Nantes managed to win this play-off due to away-goal rule (At the expanse of my club) and two players agents who are friends of the club unburied this coffin to celebrate this decisive win. A few years ago,at Toulouse,some fans passed through all the stadium to fight with the club president. French football maybe exceeded English football in terms of drama since the start of the century,especially if you include all the French NT drama (Laporte,Benzema,Valbuena, Ribéry,Domenech,Knysna...)
This is a great video, but it lacks a bit of context. The year where Marseille won Ligue 1, Bordeaux completely fell apart after losing the Coupe de la Ligue final against Marseille, and then went on to lose in the quarter finals of the Champions League against Lyon. They never recovered from that. It was a crazy season in France.
I remember my hometown Brest getting first place for a short while during the 2010-11 season, after 11 games and after 13 games, just after we were promoted to Ligue 1. To give you an idea how incredible it was, imagine if Brentford was in first place come December. That's how unlikely it was, and while it didn't last, I was the happiest 10 year old kid when it happened
Btw PSG has won less Leagues in the last 15 years in France , Than Barca in Spain . So , Spain farmers league? Juve won 9 out of the last 10 Italian league trophys. So ? Farmers league? Bayern won 7 out of 10. Bundesliga farmers league??? No, saying that shit undermineds the work All clubs put in to win!!
Ligue 1 is so good that PSG can spend Billions of Euros to buy the best players in the World and yet they don't always win. When Inter dominated in the late 2000s and Juventus in the 2010s, only them won
Yeah, between 2008 and 2018 La Liga was a farmers league with Real Madrid and Barcelona ending the seasons on top and with 90+ goals scored in most cases
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As French, I find your analysis very well, congratulations ! 6 different champions yes, it isn't as yet. o/ But (I talk about suspense) Bundesluga is over-won by Munich and it's a bit boring or not exciting so.
Most of those teams were not as much "unable" to retain talents as they were counting on them to get money in. This seems like a Catch 22 for French football, because on the one hand, there is no reason for owners to push for more than European football/profit with young players and obscure talents from the continent, since they're going to get snatched away from them regardless. At the same time, you cannot really expect the league to blossom on a competitive level if you're passing on these substantial fees, mostly from the speculative Premier League, as there is not enough money apart from the big guns that are PSG and, in a more modest way, Lyon and Marseille, to keep up. As a Frenchman, and a smaller team fan (now in Ligue 2), Ligue 1 is great fun. But between the constant bad results on the European stage, PSG being the exception (but with much more money than anybody else), the exodus of the strongest talents who seek a bigger fortune, and the overall mentality, strongly supported by the negative press, there is no improvement. I would guess the main thing to change is the way football is being thought and played in France. There's quite the contradiction between the successful national team, which is losing its magical power as we speak, and the generally recognised poor level of the league, focusing on physicality and dated philopsophies, that goes in accordance with the uproar of French coaches within the league when they are criticised about that very fact, and when foreigners come in. I live in the UK and obviously there is a sense of superiority within English football fans, as the Premier League is probably the best product when it comes to football. But the notion of "product" is very important, as money has taken over and dictates most of the results we see today. Leicester winning the league, Montpellier or Monaco in France, are the only exceptions. I think it would be very optimistic to think the French league can catch up with the Premier League, or at least the Bundesliga, but there are definitely things that can be changed for it to catch the eye a bit more, even of pure PL fans that would only watch one or two Championship games on the side. To bring a point to this long monologue, I'd say my biggest hope is not necessarily to see French clubs regularly compete with the very best for UCL titles, or Ligue 1 reaching 1 billion euros or pounds in TV revenue, but to see football fans drop the money goggles for a bit, and focus on the game in its purest form, then worry about making dodgy comparisons and start sterile debates about who's a farmer, and who's worth watching.
The Premier League fanboys are so engrossed in the "English product" that they don't realise that it's actually one of the most unexciting leagues in Europe in terms of title races as there are usually the same 2 winners if you ignore Liverpool ending their drought and Leicester's fairytale season. There are supposed to be 6 big clubs yet there's never been a 3 or 4 horse race for the title, let alone 6. Hopefully this season there will be 4 teams (realistically Chelsea, Man City, Man United and Liverpool) going for the title right till the end to get us neutrals excited, something which I need whilst my (Arsenal) have another horrible season. However, English football as a whole is definitely the best as they have over 100 professional and well supported clubs which creates an exciting Cup competition too. As for Ligue 1, it'd be brilliant if clubs like Marseille, Lyon and Monaco could challenge PSG.
I remember when I was 10-11yr and watched like every major European league. I absolutely loved the champion Lille and Montpellier squad. Eden hazard was one of my favourite players at that time
It makes me laugh when people claim that Ligue 1 is a farmers league dominated by 1 team while 90% of the leagues in Europe are the same... and not for less than 10 years like Ligue 1 but for DECADES. Juventus won 10 titles last decade and more than 30 overall, same with Bayern, same with Real/Barcelona, same with Ajax, Porto/Benfica, Olympiakos, Celtics, Dinamo Zagreb, etc... The fact is: Ligue 1 was a very competitive league and is dominated by 1 team for less than 10 years, while other leagues are dominated by 1 team for decades but yet it's Ligue 1 the farmers league? And about the quality of the league claiming that the players are part time farmers, Ligue 1 has the best young players and all the big leagues especially the English come every summer in France like bloodsuckers to buy these "farmers".
Yes, it's sad. For example, Bayern have won 33% of Bundesliga titles alone. When you look at the all time board for our neighbouring leagues, you'll see that the ranking is quite tied in the number of titles per club, while the other leagues are quite... dominated outrageously... Let's not talk about La Liga, Scotland Premiership, etc
Afterwards, Ligue 1 also experienced periods of long domination (Lyon during the 2000s, Marseille during the 80s and 90s, Bordeaux during the 80s, etc.). But at least that changed, besides I think that the air of PSG will soon end if Marseille is bought by Saudi Arabia
@@gontrandjojo9747 long domination compared to Ligue 1 I mean. Winning three or four titles in a row is not nothing. But yeah I expressed myself badly because compared to a foreign point of view, it's nothing at all
Awesome video I followed Ligue one since 2008 and witnessed this crazy period usually bypassed by football fans around the globe, greetings from a new subscriber from MEXICO
Awesome video and it gave me great memories of watching Ligue 1 before PSG started dominating lol. But I can't believe you didn't mention the other key players in Montpellier's title win like Utaka, Cabella, Yanga Mbiwa & even Belhanda who was absolutely brilliant that season. There are so many solid players from that era who didn't win the title or weren't mentioned.
Great point. I was mostly trying to only highlight the main stars for each team so that the run time wouldn't be too long for this video. But you're definitely not wrong.
Fr! I remember watching the games and how many talents I’d see go through the league. Everyone else had other leagues they preferred so they wouldn’t notice the players until some big club grabbed them
I m French and honestly I m so sad to see every year out best players go to PL SeriA or LigA I m for PSG but it’s sad for Ligue 1 we have many great players but clubs always sell them cuz they don’t have money
The lack of money from our clubs is the only reason of why we cannot compete with other big European clubs, like we are the country with the most superstar production with Brazil, and like for Brazil we cannot keep them in our Ligue... Sad but money can make you seems good even if u have no talent from ur own country (talking about England ofc)
Bah après, faut aussi penser à l'envie des joueurs. Franchement si tu te mets à leurs place, entre par exemple Lille et Leicester, je pense que le choix est vite fait, car en PL ils auront beaucoup plus de visibilité, un meilleur salaire, plus de défis et...Un peu de voyage! Après ça reste triste en effet, moi personnellement, je serai bien rester. Kimpembe est bien rester lui, et regardez ou il en est!
@@fitzgeraldhaler8705 justement le choix des joueurs de partir c'est ce qui nous met dans ce cercle vicieux. Ils partent et génèrent plus d'argent aux autres ligues (marketing, victoires etc..) du coup le fossé se creuse avec nous...
@TGDS Brazil lost 7-1 to Germany because they lost their key forward and key defender/captain but people still mock them for so that excuse is no longer valid to me
Germany was a fun league to back in the day I'm remember wolfsburg stuttgart dortmund taking over bayern Munich The good days of setanta sports free German and French games
Me too! They don't even watch them to know if they're competitive or not. I mean, how can one of Europe's top 5 leagues be a farmers league. Lol for the most part they are english plastic fans who are obsessed with the EPL.
Last season had a 4 team title race! They saw 4 teams actually competing for the title and they were still like "what a Farmer's League, PSG can't even win the title against Lille". But, apparently, Liverpool or City winning months in advance somehow doesn't make the Premier League a Farmer's League
It’s because it’s English fans. It’s not to say people from other countries don’t use farmers league too, but 90% are from English fans. Why? They are too arrogant and have a superiority complex about football and their league. Which of course is ironic considering English football at the national team level does not win anything. And honestly, when I look at England’s trophy drought, I feel bad and wish the English players can win one for their country. Until I remember how English fans are..and then I realize I’m relieved they keep choking in competitions. Thank you, Italy.
Now with messi, the only thing missing is a strong stable opponent in the league, like Bayern has with Dortmund for example. Someone who at least challenges it year in year out. The problem is Lille Marseille Lyon etc, they perform one season and the next theatre out the window , sometimes not even getting into European competitions. So while they just built new stadiums and covid is starting to pass on, so their revenues will increase, these clubs need to be better managed , especially Marseille who always have so many internal struggles. If all those teams get sorted out, maybe with luck sign one or two important players, the league can become more interesting. Next season, who knows benzema could re join Lyon for example. I also want to point out the loads of players France produce. They may call it a farmers league which obviously is not, check champions league results for example, PSG was a finalist and Lyon knocked out juve and Real Madrid, and loads of players shining in the premier league are usually coming from France, mahrez for example, kante etc.
@@hanssundqvist1781 I didnt say it was last season. They did knock out all those teams. They knocked out city 2 seasons ago for example, and in the last ten years they knocked out Real Madrid and Juve as well.
The big ligue 1 teams had a very good transfer window this season, teams like Marseille, Nice, Monaco or Lyon will probably offer a good competition even though Lyon and Monaco didn’t start well this season
It happened another time before in France during the 90's with PSG 94, Nantes 95, Auxerre 96, Monaco 97, Lens 98 and Bordeaux 99 (and Marseille 93 but they were stripped of their title).
I'm a Toulouse FC supporter and this era was quite good for us. We managed to qualify for UCL for the first time ever (and only) in the last game of the 06/07 season against the rival in a incredible scenario. Next season we saved our ass from relegation at the last game,after that we qualified for Europa League with players such as Gignac ( Best Ligue 1 scorer in this season) and Sissoko. Unfortunately,we did nothing in all europeans competitions. The next seasons were decent but it all went gradually went downhill even if we had great players like Ben Yedder, Diop, or Braithwaite and we're currently in the second division but I'm sure we will go back in Ligue 1 next year.
Such a shame, you always defied the odds of relegation until recently. I remember Aurier & Gradel (forgot about Elmander too before checking) playing there.
Fun fact: The seven league titles lyon won are the only league titles they have ever won in their history. Imagine, 2001 - lyon 0 titles 2008 - 7 titles!
Say you completely took PSG out of the equation the league would still be extremely competitive at the very top. Since 2013 the winners would be Marseille, Monaco, Lyon, Lyon, Monaco, Lille, Marseille, Lille & Marseille. 60% of those leagues would finish with the top 2 being within at least 4 points of each other. Such a shame really.
PSG: dominating Lille in 2021: is this some sort of domination that I am too inconsistent to understand Lille later in 2021: insert ligue 1 title into cabinet
Excellent. If I may, maybe could have you mention that, among those clubs, some could not keep their crown 'caus they were not used to have to perform both in Ligue 1 and in Champion's League.
Cheers! That's a very good point as well. We see that in several teams across Europe that make it to the CL and suffer the next season. Squad depth plays a huge role
Tbh, generally Ligue 1 teams apart from PSG don’t really care about the European cups. They don't play them thoroughly compares to the teams in the other leagues
I was never a close follower of Ligue 1 but i remember right before PSG got oil money they were like a top 5 team, but still never anywhere near competing for the title
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My first taste of Ligue 1 was when Ronaldinho and Pedro Pauleta were at PSG. Then I started watching Monaco with the likes of Adebayor, Morientes, and Ludovic Guily.
@@doggerlander not a problem , 3 of the best 5 players in the world ply their trade in Ligue 1 now. We’re bound to attract more talent and TV deals too
Neymars getting on,Mbappe goin La Liga,Messis gone in 2 years,Haaland ain’t comin…Ligue 1 is gonna have 2 years of good viewership but it’ll die straight back down lol
The only problem with ligue 1 and the french clubs are the lack of money, like even turkey and Portugal have more money than Ligue 1's club. That's sad and that's even more when we see all those Superstar coming from those clubs but inevitably living them because the club hasn't enough money. If Ligue 1's club had better owners this Ligue would have been one of if not the most success full in Europe (BTW France has the most of professional players but are also the country who has the most players playing outside of their country, even more than Brazil) And in France some people say that Ligue 1's clubs are the only ones in Europe to not lie or falsified their papers to pay less taxes or something like that, so maybe if more club would not lie on their money, Ligue could be more competitive and keeping more their best player to compete in CL
Great vid as always, can you please make a video about Roberto baggio? Top ten footballers of all time for sure, just underrated cause of the 1994 penalty and several injuries
The least competitive leagues are the ones producing CL winners with the PL being the only exception. Bayern, Real and Barca specifically. PSG also made a CL final - so whilst the neutrals and other fans may not have much fun - it's difficult to have success any other way.
The main issue with Ligue 1 is the lack of money of their clubs, since qatari bought the psg they are stomping every other club cuz they can bring the players they want no matter the cost. And whenever there are rising stars playing in the ligue, instead of spending money to bring more good players to make a competitve team arround them they are just sold to other ligues (the last one being camavinga to the real). Ppl tend to forget that france is the country exporting the most football players in the world (even more than brazil), and still the ligue 1 clubs all lack money compared to others european major ligues. Premier ligue for example, is considered as the best ligue not because of their players but mainly because of their clubs (arsenal, chelsea, liverpool, totenham, man utd, man city, etc.), they are all huge competitive clubs with a big history, and they often play for the UCL. In ligue 1, only PSG is competitive in the UCL, and only during the last few years. Lyon was a beast back in the days but selling their best players just made them lost their strength. ASSE was prolly the most dominant L1 club in europe but it's now to old to be remembered, and Marseille is the only L1 club having won an UCL but on their last UCL they finished with 0 points (lmao they even broke a record of lose streak). Now only PSG have enough budget to play for the UCL and be competitive against other big clubs in Europe.
I don't watch too much of Ligue 1 but I'll never call it 'farmers league'. If my memory serves me right it was always a competitive and entertaining league although it was dominated by Lyon then PSG. The league has also supplied most of Europe with talented players, the same can be said of the German Bundesliga, Dutch Eredivisie and Belgian Juliper Pro League.
This year is by far the most exciting to watch tbh. Beside psg, its really hard to determine the final result between 2nd spot to 7th 8th. Also fight for relegation is pretty close
Bordeaux and Lyon both made ucl runs in the 2009/10 season and thats why their form went down in the league. Lyon went to the ucl semis that season beating bordeaux in the quarters
Also, remember when Calais RUFC, a team that played in the lowest tier of France's league sistem, reached the actual final of the Coupe de France in 2000. And were winning it 1-0 before Nantes managed to score 2 goals, one on the very last minute, to turn the game around?
Maybe we're a bit too critical about the Ligue 1, but i clearly remember those days and it was boring as fuck, the fact that we had 6 different champions don't mean it was the most competitive league in europe (or maybe it was, if you talk about points and schedule) but damn, have you watch any entire games from this period ?? Don't get me wrong it was awesome to see different champions every year but it terms of team's tactical spirit and technical skills it start from not so bad for a few individuals to clearly lame... Anyway it's a good video bc football is also about schedule and history remembers the winners. But it distorts the truth bc french football culture is an history of points (les 3 points comme dirait l'autre) and it makes it competitive, well Ligue 1 was not called "Farmer's League" for the lack of competitiveness it was so called for the lack of football, forward plays and global country interest for the beautiful game, and also cause those great brittany folks love to hate us and know it's one of the few things they are better than us !
I'm french and i can tell you i don't know if it's from internal problem or money problem or maybe both. But without qatar buying PSG, it would not surprise me to see 6 different champion, when a team start to win they sell and do poor choice or do nothing with the money. Lille was champion and is not starting really well, Rennes 2 years ago was a top team and last year failed. Marseilles was pretty bad and they are coming back. Nice is growing. Monaco and Lyon were 2 top team and start really bad. And 5 of the team i talk about could end champion of ligue 1 without PSG (Lille was previous champion)
I love Ligue 1⚽,its in my heart❤️ because of Marseille despite being the first french team to win a UCL,but i pray to god one day i will play for Marseille😊😎
Its interesting to note that Ligue produced a lot of young talent between 2006-2012 such as Ben arfa,Nasri,Eric Abidal,and Frank Ribery
Benzema as well
And Hazard
Pogba with Le Havre
Boss Benzema too
It's still doing so today! Seems some of the best players in the world all played in Ligue 1 early in their careers
That time when Toulouse and Auxerre were contenders for the Champions League. We still can't get over this anomaly.
Auxerre 2010 CL semi finalist - - - > 2012 relegated and mid table in the second tier ever since
@@MaxLeCnkerant Auxerre 2010 UCL semi finalist ? It was Lyon, not Auxerre
Also Nancy was really close to a CL qualification in 2008
@@luchogonzealaise3717 As a supporter of Marseille, that 38th game day in 2008 was nuts !
Its super capitalism.
Super capitalism has ruined football.
Lille just lost 4-0 at home to their old manager and nice and PSG have just signed Messi, Ramos, Wijnaldum, Hakimi and Donarumma to go with neymar, veratti, marquinhos and mbappe so ye, I think Clermont have this one in the bag
Huge task for Pochettino. Handling bunch of big names isn't easy
@@RafsanS15 how can you fuck up with that lineup? If there’s injuries, then sure, but this team is filled with amazing talent
@@2kmichaeljordan438 Madrid first galacticos was abysmal after del Bosque left. Had 6 different coaches but only achieved 1 La Liga and 1 Supercopa de España during 2003-2007.
clermont is doing pretty well now
luckily in football having expensive players doesnt mean that you will always win everything
Ligue 1 young players do very well in the PL. They usually do better than most from other leagues like Serie A, Bundesliga, La Liga in England
Definitely!
Tell that to Newcastle
@@man4437 What about ASM?
Pepe?
@@unbiasedsportsnews883 Mané Hazard Kanté Drogba even Hugo Lloris >>>>> the players you said
As a German im dreaming about a new title winner for 10 years now
dude I from time to time follow bundes always On dormund site but they manage to bottle it every single time. even your supercup Last week Right when Dortmund was back a Bit in the game akenji makes a HORRENDOUS mistake... had to change channel after that so disapointing.
@@wellaname221 dortmund is a club which has potential to challenge bayern but unfortunately it never seems like they want to compete, they are happy to come 2nd in the league, getting in the champions league regularly only to lose and making huge profits from player sales.
For a fact lewandowski won title 11 years
@@shikhargovil9579 It's not they don't want to they just get all of their team bought as soon as they are seen as a menace
@@noah95v99 by who? bc if u’re talking abt bayern, the last time they got a dortmund player was back in 2016
I remember watching Lyon, Bordeaux, Auxerre and even Marseille (despite their controversy) in Europe. They always impressed me and played good football.
Watch olympiques de Marseille they are the second best Ligue 1 team rn
Wait is Marseille still controversial because of that 1993 match fixing?
Marseille UCL was not concerned by the 1993 affair
This is legit the first video I have watched on this topic, amazing research and topic selection buddy.
Thanks so much! It's such an interesting story!
@@FootballIconic still a farmer league now
@@Goals4everyone stop hating bro
@@mr_niceman im just sayin facts now it is a farmer league that is the past the present is different
@@Goals4everyone wdym Lille just won the league last year?
Remember following that 08/09 season on Goalissimo as a kid. Thought Marseille would win it, but they lost 3-1 to Lyon, allowing Bourdeux to sneak in and win the title. Thought Gourcuff would be the next big thing. Unfortuately, injuries and that transfer to Lyon Curtailed his Career.
As a bonus, you could have mentioned Ligue 1 Champions League Peformances. For instance, Bourdeux topping a Group containing Bayern Munich and Juventus, Lyon Beating Galacticos Mdrid and reaching the Semi and Marseille beating Inter Milan in 2012.
Not to mention the tight games Lyon had against united and Barcelona (1st leg at least). That united game introduced a lot of us to a certain young striker.
Benzema?
There was that period when Lyon faced Real in the group stage of the CL for about 4 seasons straight. Guess who had the upper hands in those head to head encounters.
@@sluggyranks8594 Didn't stop Benzema from upgrading.
Bordeaux not Bourdeux ;)
@@MisterElPatrick maybe right first time…Bourdeux means ‘Blunderbuss’ in French.
As a french, i was actually surprised to found this video. I mean, even here we're joking about the 'quality' and the 'visibility' of our league. And it's pretty sad, knowing how much young talent there was, and are still present here. I'd say, it's even a very good league for young players. Ligue 1 still have more visibility than other smaller leagues, is, and without joking a platform for young African talents because of our colonial past (and i know for a fact that this continent is full of potential, just don't have the correct means there to profit of it) and finally, we don't have multiple big clubs like the PL, so it gives them more chance to, when in their club, evolving smoothly and have more play time if possible.
Ligue 1 is not a small league. It’s literally top 5. It’s just a way smaller league when compared to the other 4.
@@usersixnine347 nop, portuguese league and dutch league are better.
@@totisotomayor9190 no there is a top 5 and that's not for nothing...
@@totisotomayor9190maybe for u but as for the uefa and the world in genral, Ligue 1 is a Top 5 league
@@tomminho When was the last time we saw a French team winning UCL? Even that UCL victory was marred with controversies. Last time a Portuguese club won a UCL was in 2004
I'm from Montpellier and it was like a miracle. 3 years ago we were in ligue 2
Moi j'attends qu'on remonte au dessus de la 10ieme place cette année pour faire la folle 😂
This illustrates a deep problem − every time a small-to-medium club reveals promising players one season, those players are immediately snatched by much richer clubs the next season, making sure that none of those small teams can ever get big or compete on the European stage. Thus the rich clubs get even richer, and can snatch even more players. It’s a vicious cycle. Only Lyon managed to be somewhat competitive in Champion’s League for a while (with Bordeaux or Monaco performing great just one time before disappearing), but I’m not sure that would be possible nowadays.
This. This is why I’m not too annoyed when billionaires buy out clubs and have them contending, it’s nice to see a new team that is able to contend to be a top team.
@@oyunboldboldbaatar5519 exact. I am done with them taking our players then calling us farmer league after that
The streets wont forget Yoann Gourcuff💫.
this is an underrated comment my friend
They literally cannot
What does that mean? That kids were in love with Gourcuff?
@@alsukharsky yeah Gourcuff was an incredible player, termed the next Zidane. many loved him before he "burnt out"
@@alsukharsky he was my favorite young player back there, it was delightful to watch him play. Unfortunatly, he was one of those young players that never really got where people thought he would go, same as Pastore as mentioned in the video
PSG may dominate most of the time, but keep in mind that even bottom clubs of Ligue 1 can make a difference of the title race-a scene perhaps not as frequent in other "big" leagues.
Yeah, clearly I come from a small place near Sochaux so I used to follow and support the club FC Sochaux Montbéliard (FCSM), and they were able to beat the biggest clubs and lose to the worst next week. Also they prove it in Europe where they manage to get a draw 2-2 against Inter Milan or when they beat Dortmund 4-0 in 2002-2003. There are many other examples such as Guingamp a couple of years ago in Europa League. The main issue of Ligue 1 clubs is that they have to sell players to balances their business, so what they want is to qualify to UCL or Europa league, sell their best players and not giving a fuck about the competition...But it's slowly changing with Paris not needing at all to sell and it works (final + semi-final the past 2 years), Nice bought by Jim Radcliff (billionaire and boss of Ineos in biking) that got Galtier the coach of Lille with whom he won the league last year, Monaco and Lyon that have decent budget (although they still need to sell...).
But they never win it and never are a real threat to psg
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I still remember as a Milan fan when we signed Yoann Gourcuff as a vice-Kaka. Sadly, his star burnt bright too fast 🔴⚫🔴⚫🔴
Milan somehow crashed so damn hard. like, even it's wonderkids just dissappeared too. like el shaarawy and pato. hope they can get back to the top, cause they were my fav team in italy as a kid
@@doggerlander we’re getting back there
@@doggerlander We finished 2nd place last year, not so bad. But we gotta make the round of 16 at least in the UCL this year.
@@matthewhernandez8342 you'll make it.
@@marioskapetanakis I’m hoping so my friend.
Montpellier's win in 2012 was like Leicester's win in 2015 !! revenge of the Underdogs
Lille just lost 4-0 at home to Nice so I personnally think they are heading to a season with,at best, Europa League spots,especially since they sold Maignan,but they might do better.
@TGDS and they got lose by their former manager in 4-0
@@hugoumero9723 Quite funny (and sad) situation,looks so "Ligue 1"-ey. These kind of funny stories happen a few times every season in French football.
For example, in May some FC Nantes fans buried a "RIP FC Kita" coffin to protest against Walder Kita leadership of the club since FC Nantes went in a relegation play-off. Nantes managed to win this play-off due to away-goal rule (At the expanse of my club) and two players agents who are friends of the club unburied this coffin to celebrate this decisive win.
A few years ago,at Toulouse,some fans passed through all the stadium to fight with the club president.
French football maybe exceeded English football in terms of drama since the start of the century,especially if you include all the French NT drama (Laporte,Benzema,Valbuena, Ribéry,Domenech,Knysna...)
@@technikleo3797 for Domenech, did he choose his squad based on Zodiac?
Nothing feels more therapeutic than the into drums
Totally underrated comment. Here is my like !
This is a great video, but it lacks a bit of context. The year where Marseille won Ligue 1, Bordeaux completely fell apart after losing the Coupe de la Ligue final against Marseille, and then went on to lose in the quarter finals of the Champions League against Lyon. They never recovered from that. It was a crazy season in France.
Bordeaux during the season 2010 finished 1st of his group with 16 points in front of Bayern and Juventus !
Et lyon les a sorti en quart 😋
another interesting and well researched video. These ideas you have for your videos are amazing!
Cheers!
I remember my hometown Brest getting first place for a short while during the 2010-11 season, after 11 games and after 13 games, just after we were promoted to Ligue 1.
To give you an idea how incredible it was, imagine if Brentford was in first place come December. That's how unlikely it was, and while it didn't last, I was the happiest 10 year old kid when it happened
Excellent video! From a French! I dream of seeing, one day, the return of a great Stade de Reims at European level! It would be too beautiful
Ah ça va être compliqué, mais peut être un jour, qui sait. Ça ferait plaisir de voir plus de Club français en C1 ou C3.
@@fitzgeraldhaler8705 J'avoue ! Revoir le Grand Reims de L'époque ou Saint Étienne !
Btw PSG has won less Leagues in the last 15 years in France ,
Than Barca in Spain .
So , Spain farmers league?
Juve won 9 out of the last 10 Italian league trophys.
So ? Farmers league?
Bayern won 7 out of 10.
Bundesliga farmers league???
No, saying that shit undermineds the work All clubs put in to win!!
Ligue 1 is so good that PSG can spend Billions of Euros to buy the best players in the World and yet they don't always win. When Inter dominated in the late 2000s and Juventus in the 2010s, only them won
Ahahah yes, seems like numbers can be used how everyone wants
PSG never won C1 even though they spend Burundi’s GDP to build their team so yeah that’s questionnable
@@BlackHmar Let's talk about ManCity then?? Money doesn't buy LDC, and a dominating team doesn't mean bad league
Yeah, between 2008 and 2018 La Liga was a farmers league with Real Madrid and Barcelona ending the seasons on top and with 90+ goals scored in most cases
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As French, I find your analysis very well, congratulations ! 6 different champions yes, it isn't as yet. o/ But (I talk about suspense) Bundesluga is over-won by Munich and it's a bit boring or not exciting so.
Most of those teams were not as much "unable" to retain talents as they were counting on them to get money in. This seems like a Catch 22 for French football, because on the one hand, there is no reason for owners to push for more than European football/profit with young players and obscure talents from the continent, since they're going to get snatched away from them regardless. At the same time, you cannot really expect the league to blossom on a competitive level if you're passing on these substantial fees, mostly from the speculative Premier League, as there is not enough money apart from the big guns that are PSG and, in a more modest way, Lyon and Marseille, to keep up.
As a Frenchman, and a smaller team fan (now in Ligue 2), Ligue 1 is great fun. But between the constant bad results on the European stage, PSG being the exception (but with much more money than anybody else), the exodus of the strongest talents who seek a bigger fortune, and the overall mentality, strongly supported by the negative press, there is no improvement. I would guess the main thing to change is the way football is being thought and played in France.
There's quite the contradiction between the successful national team, which is losing its magical power as we speak, and the generally recognised poor level of the league, focusing on physicality and dated philopsophies, that goes in accordance with the uproar of French coaches within the league when they are criticised about that very fact, and when foreigners come in.
I live in the UK and obviously there is a sense of superiority within English football fans, as the Premier League is probably the best product when it comes to football. But the notion of "product" is very important, as money has taken over and dictates most of the results we see today. Leicester winning the league, Montpellier or Monaco in France, are the only exceptions. I think it would be very optimistic to think the French league can catch up with the Premier League, or at least the Bundesliga, but there are definitely things that can be changed for it to catch the eye a bit more, even of pure PL fans that would only watch one or two Championship games on the side.
To bring a point to this long monologue, I'd say my biggest hope is not necessarily to see French clubs regularly compete with the very best for UCL titles, or Ligue 1 reaching 1 billion euros or pounds in TV revenue, but to see football fans drop the money goggles for a bit, and focus on the game in its purest form, then worry about making dodgy comparisons and start sterile debates about who's a farmer, and who's worth watching.
The Premier League fanboys are so engrossed in the "English product" that they don't realise that it's actually one of the most unexciting leagues in Europe in terms of title races as there are usually the same 2 winners if you ignore Liverpool ending their drought and Leicester's fairytale season. There are supposed to be 6 big clubs yet there's never been a 3 or 4 horse race for the title, let alone 6. Hopefully this season there will be 4 teams (realistically Chelsea, Man City, Man United and Liverpool) going for the title right till the end to get us neutrals excited, something which I need whilst my (Arsenal) have another horrible season.
However, English football as a whole is definitely the best as they have over 100 professional and well supported clubs which creates an exciting Cup competition too.
As for Ligue 1, it'd be brilliant if clubs like Marseille, Lyon and Monaco could challenge PSG.
I remember when I was 10-11yr and watched like every major European league. I absolutely loved the champion Lille and Montpellier squad. Eden hazard was one of my favourite players at that time
It makes me laugh when people claim that Ligue 1 is a farmers league dominated by 1 team while 90% of the leagues in Europe are the same... and not for less than 10 years like Ligue 1 but for DECADES. Juventus won 10 titles last decade and more than 30 overall, same with Bayern, same with Real/Barcelona, same with Ajax, Porto/Benfica, Olympiakos, Celtics, Dinamo Zagreb, etc...
The fact is: Ligue 1 was a very competitive league and is dominated by 1 team for less than 10 years, while other leagues are dominated by 1 team for decades but yet it's Ligue 1 the farmers league?
And about the quality of the league claiming that the players are part time farmers, Ligue 1 has the best young players and all the big leagues especially the English come every summer in France like bloodsuckers to buy these "farmers".
Yes, it's sad. For example, Bayern have won 33% of Bundesliga titles alone.
When you look at the all time board for our neighbouring leagues, you'll see that the ranking is quite tied in the number of titles per club, while the other leagues are quite... dominated outrageously... Let's not talk about La Liga, Scotland Premiership, etc
Afterwards, Ligue 1 also experienced periods of long domination (Lyon during the 2000s, Marseille during the 80s and 90s, Bordeaux during the 80s, etc.). But at least that changed, besides I think that the air of PSG will soon end if Marseille is bought by Saudi Arabia
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"Long domination"?
Bordeaux won 3 titles in the 1980s, Marseille 4 titles. You have a strange definition of what is a "long domination".
@@gontrandjojo9747 long domination compared to Ligue 1 I mean. Winning three or four titles in a row is not nothing. But yeah I expressed myself badly because compared to a foreign point of view, it's nothing at all
Awesome video I followed Ligue one since 2008 and witnessed this crazy period usually bypassed by football fans around the globe, greetings from a new subscriber from MEXICO
Yo!
how this guy doesn´t have more subs, i don´t, but keep up the videos my guy, much love from Denmark
Cheers man!
Awesome video and it gave me great memories of watching Ligue 1 before PSG started dominating lol.
But I can't believe you didn't mention the other key players in Montpellier's title win like Utaka, Cabella, Yanga Mbiwa & even Belhanda who was absolutely brilliant that season.
There are so many solid players from that era who didn't win the title or weren't mentioned.
Great point. I was mostly trying to only highlight the main stars for each team so that the run time wouldn't be too long for this video. But you're definitely not wrong.
Fr! I remember watching the games and how many talents I’d see go through the league. Everyone else had other leagues they preferred so they wouldn’t notice the players until some big club grabbed them
@@FootballIconicI totally agree and keep up the great content
I m French and honestly I m so sad to see every year out best players go to PL SeriA or LigA I m for PSG but it’s sad for Ligue 1 we have many great players but clubs always sell them cuz they don’t have money
The lack of money from our clubs is the only reason of why we cannot compete with other big European clubs, like we are the country with the most superstar production with Brazil, and like for Brazil we cannot keep them in our Ligue... Sad but money can make you seems good even if u have no talent from ur own country (talking about England ofc)
Bah après, faut aussi penser à l'envie des joueurs. Franchement si tu te mets à leurs place, entre par exemple Lille et Leicester, je pense que le choix est vite fait, car en PL ils auront beaucoup plus de visibilité, un meilleur salaire, plus de défis et...Un peu de voyage!
Après ça reste triste en effet, moi personnellement, je serai bien rester.
Kimpembe est bien rester lui, et regardez ou il en est!
@@fitzgeraldhaler8705 C’est encore une question d’argent ça
@@fitzgeraldhaler8705 ce choix ne devrait pas être si évident si les clubs de ligue 1 se bougaient le cul
@@fitzgeraldhaler8705 justement le choix des joueurs de partir c'est ce qui nous met dans ce cercle vicieux. Ils partent et génèrent plus d'argent aux autres ligues (marketing, victoires etc..) du coup le fossé se creuse avec nous...
Lille bantered PSG twice then lose to nice 4-0 😂
It's because Nice manager was Lille's last season.
@TGDS stop making excuses,lille winning last season proves they were very lucky as psg were missing just 1 point .
@TGDS Brazil lost 7-1 to Germany because they lost their key forward and key defender/captain but people still mock them for so that excuse is no longer valid to me
@@leratodhlamini6078 and man city winning the title with the aguero shows they were lucky as well idiot hypocrite prem fanboy
Where is aguero now ?
This is the first video from your channel that I've watched, and you just got a new sub. Here's to more great football videos!
Germany was a fun league to back in the day I'm remember wolfsburg stuttgart dortmund taking over bayern Munich The good days of setanta sports free German and French games
Dont forget the great Werder of Micoud, Klasnic and Ailton
The only channel I give a like before even watching the content
This video is amazing
Great job 👍
Nasser Al-Khelaifi after watching his team miss out on a 4th consecutive league title last season:
"And I took that personally"
And the other previous time they haven't won Ligue 1, they bought Neymar and Mbappe... How entertaining...
And the way they lost in the Champions League 😂
Honestly cannot stand people who call leagues farmer leagues
It’s so annoying, and they clearly never watched like 5 Ligue 1 games
Me too! They don't even watch them to know if they're competitive or not. I mean, how can one of Europe's top 5 leagues be a farmers league. Lol for the most part they are english plastic fans who are obsessed with the EPL.
@@unbiasedsportsnews883 bayern gonna lose this season
Last season had a 4 team title race! They saw 4 teams actually competing for the title and they were still like "what a Farmer's League, PSG can't even win the title against Lille".
But, apparently, Liverpool or City winning months in advance somehow doesn't make the Premier League a Farmer's League
It’s because it’s English fans. It’s not to say people from other countries don’t use farmers league too, but 90% are from English fans. Why? They are too arrogant and have a superiority complex about football and their league. Which of course is ironic considering English football at the national team level does not win anything. And honestly, when I look at England’s trophy drought, I feel bad and wish the English players can win one for their country. Until I remember how English fans are..and then I realize I’m relieved they keep choking in competitions. Thank you, Italy.
Now with messi, the only thing missing is a strong stable opponent in the league, like Bayern has with Dortmund for example. Someone who at least challenges it year in year out. The problem is Lille Marseille Lyon etc, they perform one season and the next theatre out the window , sometimes not even getting into European competitions. So while they just built new stadiums and covid is starting to pass on, so their revenues will increase, these clubs need to be better managed , especially Marseille who always have so many internal struggles. If all those teams get sorted out, maybe with luck sign one or two important players, the league can become more interesting. Next season, who knows benzema could re join Lyon for example.
I also want to point out the loads of players France produce. They may call it a farmers league which obviously is not, check champions league results for example, PSG was a finalist and Lyon knocked out juve and Real Madrid, and loads of players shining in the premier league are usually coming from France, mahrez for example, kante etc.
Lyon didn´t knocked out Real Madrid. Juventus and Man city :)
@@hanssundqvist1781 I didnt say it was last season. They did knock out all those teams. They knocked out city 2 seasons ago for example, and in the last ten years they knocked out Real Madrid and Juve as well.
@@hanssundqvist1781 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%9320_UEFA_Champions_League
The big ligue 1 teams had a very good transfer window this season, teams like Marseille, Nice, Monaco or Lyon will probably offer a good competition even though Lyon and Monaco didn’t start well this season
Great vidéo I don"t know what happened but I am now subscribed
Thanks, Giorno!
It happened another time before in France during the 90's with PSG 94, Nantes 95, Auxerre 96, Monaco 97, Lens 98 and Bordeaux 99 (and Marseille 93 but they were stripped of their title).
You can do a similar video for the time when teams like Werder Wolfsburg Dortmund Stuttgart won the league
I'm a Toulouse FC supporter and this era was quite good for us. We managed to qualify for UCL for the first time ever (and only) in the last game of the 06/07 season against the rival in a incredible scenario. Next season we saved our ass from relegation at the last game,after that we qualified for Europa League with players such as Gignac ( Best Ligue 1 scorer in this season) and Sissoko.
Unfortunately,we did nothing in all europeans competitions. The next seasons were decent but it all went gradually went downhill even if we had great players like Ben Yedder, Diop, or Braithwaite and we're currently in the second division but I'm sure we will go back in Ligue 1 next year.
So sad to see such a legendary team in the 2nd div, just like HSV in Germany. Hope you guys can get back to Ligue 1 this szn already 😢🙏
Such a shame, you always defied the odds of relegation until recently. I remember Aurier & Gradel (forgot about Elmander too before checking) playing there.
@@saptaccrvima3563
Toulouse is nowhere near a legendary team. They had a few good seasons in the past, but that's it...
You never fail to impress
Younes Belhanda is one of those players i'll never understand how they did not live up to their potential.
Great content man! Huge inspiration for me and I'm sure for others too!
Haha cheers brother!
@@FootballIconic ❤
The video is brilliantly done as usual
Fun fact:
The seven league titles lyon won are the only league titles they have ever won in their history.
Imagine, 2001 - lyon 0 titles
2008 - 7 titles!
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Say you completely took PSG out of the equation the league would still be extremely competitive at the very top. Since 2013 the winners would be Marseille, Monaco, Lyon, Lyon, Monaco, Lille, Marseille, Lille & Marseille. 60% of those leagues would finish with the top 2 being within at least 4 points of each other. Such a shame really.
PSG: dominating
Lille in 2021: is this some sort of domination that I am too inconsistent to understand
Lille later in 2021: insert ligue 1 title into cabinet
ligue1 od criminaly underrated for years
loved the video! your commentary is smooth!
Great video man 🙌
Man this is top content
Love this channel so much! Keep up the great content
Excellent. If I may, maybe could have you mention that, among those clubs, some could not keep their crown 'caus they were not used to have to perform both in Ligue 1 and in Champion's League.
Cheers! That's a very good point as well. We see that in several teams across Europe that make it to the CL and suffer the next season. Squad depth plays a huge role
Tbh, generally Ligue 1 teams apart from PSG don’t really care about the European cups. They don't play them thoroughly compares to the teams in the other leagues
I was never a close follower of Ligue 1 but i remember right before PSG got oil money they were like a top 5 team, but still never anywhere near competing for the title
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My first taste of Ligue 1 was when Ronaldinho and Pedro Pauleta were at PSG. Then I started watching Monaco with the likes of Adebayor, Morientes, and Ludovic Guily.
The transfer of messi to psg will also escalate the popularity of LIGUE 1
but then as soon as he leaves, all the rats will abandon ligue 1 completely like they did with la liga
@@doggerlander not a problem , 3 of the best 5 players in the world ply their trade in Ligue 1 now. We’re bound to attract more talent and TV deals too
@@valdez1413 One team having all the stars, nobody would watch the league as the team with the stars are going to win 90% of the time.
Neymars getting on,Mbappe goin La Liga,Messis gone in 2 years,Haaland ain’t comin…Ligue 1 is gonna have 2 years of good viewership but it’ll die straight back down lol
@@justsomeguywithoutamustach9072 bruh, you watch football too wtf
I just had to like and sub cause your vids are so relaxing and informative.
Remember when Bordeaux eliminated Bayern and Juventus from the champions League, damn I miss good French football
as a Lyon fan, the video got my like at 1:00
I remember the Montpellier victory. Owner by a man who ran a huge waste disposal company.
Very good video!
Very good video mate keep the great work up
Great stuff mate.
this just shows how an unregulated spending by one club can completely ruin a whole league...
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@@wawasr5356 your mother
Nicely done bro but can you do a 10 min video about that dogo plz
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Very good video
Despite the league not being that competitive the coupe de la ligue and coupe de France has been fairly competitive
The only problem with ligue 1 and the french clubs are the lack of money, like even turkey and Portugal have more money than Ligue 1's club. That's sad and that's even more when we see all those Superstar coming from those clubs but inevitably living them because the club hasn't enough money.
If Ligue 1's club had better owners this Ligue would have been one of if not the most success full in Europe (BTW France has the most of professional players but are also the country who has the most players playing outside of their country, even more than Brazil)
And in France some people say that Ligue 1's clubs are the only ones in Europe to not lie or falsified their papers to pay less taxes or something like that, so maybe if more club would not lie on their money, Ligue could be more competitive and keeping more their best player to compete in CL
Can also mention the 1993-2002 era with successively :
1993 - Marseille
1994 - PSG
1995 - Nantes
1996 - Auxerre
1997 - Monaco
1998 - Lens
1999 - Bordeaux
2000 - Monaco
2001 - Nantes
2002 - Lyon
When you showed the picture of the puppy, i got an add of hair trimmer, any connection.
At least it’s not as one sided as the bundesliga which sucks because it’s such a fun league to watch
I'd say one day, one team will end Bayern's relentless streak, but the sad thing is, they'll just have their best players bought if that happens.
Great vid as always, can you please make a video about Roberto baggio? Top ten footballers of all time for sure, just underrated cause of the 1994 penalty and several injuries
I’m a big fan of French football I think it’s very underrated in terms of teams and fans
your videos are amaing subbed
Prime Gourcuff was the best CAM in the world at that time
Can we get a video about when Bafana Bafana was the best team in Africa and should have gone passed group stages in 2002? 🤗
Won AFCON in 96 👀
@@FootballIconic how I wish I could get that shirt with Doctor on the back!
Ay, Saffa's doing it big!
I like your French pronunciations :)
The least competitive leagues are the ones producing CL winners with the PL being the only exception. Bayern, Real and Barca specifically. PSG also made a CL final - so whilst the neutrals and other fans may not have much fun - it's difficult to have success any other way.
The main issue with Ligue 1 is the lack of money of their clubs, since qatari bought the psg they are stomping every other club cuz they can bring the players they want no matter the cost.
And whenever there are rising stars playing in the ligue, instead of spending money to bring more good players to make a competitve team arround them they are just sold to other ligues (the last one being camavinga to the real). Ppl tend to forget that france is the country exporting the most football players in the world (even more than brazil), and still the ligue 1 clubs all lack money compared to others european major ligues.
Premier ligue for example, is considered as the best ligue not because of their players but mainly because of their clubs (arsenal, chelsea, liverpool, totenham, man utd, man city, etc.), they are all huge competitive clubs with a big history, and they often play for the UCL. In ligue 1, only PSG is competitive in the UCL, and only during the last few years. Lyon was a beast back in the days but selling their best players just made them lost their strength. ASSE was prolly the most dominant L1 club in europe but it's now to old to be remembered, and Marseille is the only L1 club having won an UCL but on their last UCL they finished with 0 points (lmao they even broke a record of lose streak).
Now only PSG have enough budget to play for the UCL and be competitive against other big clubs in Europe.
I don't watch too much of Ligue 1 but I'll never call it 'farmers league'. If my memory serves me right it was always a competitive and entertaining league although it was dominated by Lyon then PSG. The league has also supplied most of Europe with talented players, the same can be said of the German Bundesliga, Dutch Eredivisie and Belgian Juliper Pro League.
I mean, the fact that the team with the highest amount of titles "only" won 10 of them, hasn't won in decades and they are still on top, says a lot
Honestly if psg were taken out of the league it would definitely go back to being fun to watch
This year is by far the most exciting to watch tbh. Beside psg, its really hard to determine the final result between 2nd spot to 7th 8th. Also fight for relegation is pretty close
Im watching Liga Portugal 🇵🇹, Eredivisie 🇳🇱 and Jupiler Pro League 🇧🇪. Who knows, this leagues can become really big in the future 😌
Bordeaux and Lyon both made ucl runs in the 2009/10 season and thats why their form went down in the league. Lyon went to the ucl semis that season beating bordeaux in the quarters
Also, remember when Calais RUFC, a team that played in the lowest tier of France's league sistem, reached the actual final of the Coupe de France in 2000. And were winning it 1-0 before Nantes managed to score 2 goals, one on the very last minute, to turn the game around?
Maybe we're a bit too critical about the Ligue 1, but i clearly remember those days and it was boring as fuck, the fact that we had 6 different champions don't mean it was the most competitive league in europe (or maybe it was, if you talk about points and schedule) but damn, have you watch any entire games from this period ?? Don't get me wrong it was awesome to see different champions every year but it terms of team's tactical spirit and technical skills it start from not so bad for a few individuals to clearly lame... Anyway it's a good video bc football is also about schedule and history remembers the winners. But it distorts the truth bc french football culture is an history of points (les 3 points comme dirait l'autre) and it makes it competitive, well Ligue 1 was not called "Farmer's League" for the lack of competitiveness it was so called for the lack of football, forward plays and global country interest for the beautiful game, and also cause those great brittany folks love to hate us and know it's one of the few things they are better than us !
That’s what we love to see, that unpredictability
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I'm french and i can tell you i don't know if it's from internal problem or money problem or maybe both. But without qatar buying PSG, it would not surprise me to see 6 different champion, when a team start to win they sell and do poor choice or do nothing with the money.
Lille was champion and is not starting really well, Rennes 2 years ago was a top team and last year failed. Marseilles was pretty bad and they are coming back. Nice is growing.
Monaco and Lyon were 2 top team and start really bad.
And 5 of the team i talk about could end champion of ligue 1 without PSG (Lille was previous champion)
Who remembers Gourcuff Zidane goal😯
The swivel was insane!
I love Ligue 1⚽,its in my heart❤️ because of Marseille despite being the first french team to win a UCL,but i pray to god one day i will play for Marseille😊😎
Is it fine if u can upload every day in PLZ