Most matches played — Ligue 1

Who has spent the most seasons in it in the Ligue 1, counted from the 4,644 matches of that league alone — 2014–15 to 2026–27. A club’s record in any other competition, including the other four leagues on this site, is not in these figures.

The list

Where two are level they share a rank, and the list runs past fifty when fiftieth place is shared, because splitting a tie would mean choosing between them on no stated basis.

Played — the leading 15. Every one of the 36 is in the table below.

#	Club	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost
1	Lille OSC	439	202	113	124
1	OGC Nice	439	184	117	138
1	Olympique Lyonnais	439	227	95	117
1	Stade Rennais FC 1901	439	184	108	147
1	AS Monaco FC	439	231	101	107
6	Paris Saint-Germain FC	438	314	73	51
7	FC Nantes	434	128	121	185
8	Montpellier HSC	400	132	103	165
9	Angers SCO	367	103	95	169
10	Olympique Marseille	366	181	93	92
11	Toulouse FC	363	99	100	164
12	AS Saint-Étienne	328	117	85	126
13	Stade de Reims	324	98	104	122
13	RC Strasbourg Alsace	324	111	93	120
15	FC Lorient	301	86	79	136
16	Girondins Bordeaux	294	98	87	109
17	FC Metz	286	61	74	151
18	Racing Club de Lens	259	116	61	82
19	Stade Brestois 29	249	86	64	99
20	SM Caen	190	55	43	92
20	EA Guingamp	190	57	46	87
22	Dijon FCO	180	41	47	92
23	ESTAC Troyes	157	26	39	92
24	SC Bastia	114	34	30	50
25	AJ Auxerre	111	29	30	52
26	Clermont Foot 63	110	31	27	52
27	Le Havre AC	107	24	31	52
28	Amiens SC	104	25	31	48
28	Nîmes Olympique	104	31	22	51
30	Olympique de Marseille	73	34	16	23
31	Paris FC	39	14	13	12
32	Évian Thonon Gaillard	38	11	4	23
32	Gazélec FC Ajaccio	38	8	13	17
32	AS Nancy Lorraine	38	9	8	21
32	AC Ajaccio	38	7	5	26
36	Le Mans FC	5	1	3	1

The same list across all five leagues: Most matches played, Europe-wide.

Where this came from

Fixtures and results from openfootball, released into the public domain (CC0). Players, clubs and career figures from Wikidata (CC0). Tables, totals and records on this page are worked out here from the results rather than copied from anywhere. No free source links players to individual matches, so these pages give results and career totals but never who scored in a given game.

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