RC Lens
The town has 30,000 people; the ground holds 38,000.
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Ultras in the south, cheap flights everywhere
Ligue 1 is a league of city clubs with fierce regional identity: Marseille's Vélodrome, Lens's mining-town devotion, Nice on the Riviera, Brest and Lorient facing the Atlantic. Flights are cheap, the TGV is fast, and the food is the point.
Top places to travel
- MarseilleThe Vélodrome is a religious experience. Calanques the next morning.
- LensBollaert-Delelis in a former mining town, 38,000 people, all of them roaring.
- NiceSocca on the Cours Saleya, then the tram straight to the Allianz Riviera.
- StrasbourgHalf-German, all charm, and a short hop from the Black Forest.
Did you know?
Trivia for the pub
Olympique de Marseille
The only French club to win the Champions League.
AS Monaco
Play in a principality where the average home crowd is outnumbered by the yachts.
Saint-Étienne
Les Verts' 1976 European final loss is blamed on square goalposts. Genuinely.
Every club we hold
35 clubs · 2 divisions
France Ligue 1
Angers SCOStade Raymond Kopa
AuxerreStade de l'Abbé-Deschamps
BrestStade Francis-Le Blé
Le HavreStade Océane
Le MansStade Marie-Marvingt
LensStade Bollaert-Delelis
LilleStade Pierre-Mauroy
LorientStade du Moustoir
NiceAllianz Riviera
Olympique LyonnaisParc Olympique Lyonnais
Olympique MarseilleStade Vélodrome
ParisStade Jean-Bouin
PSGParc des Princes
RennesRoazhon Park
StrasbourgStade de la Meinau
ToulouseStadium de Toulouse
TroyesStade de l'AubeFrance Ligue 2
AnnecyParc des Sports (Annecy)
BoulogneStade de la Libération
ClermontStade Gabriel-Montpied
DijonStade Gaston Gérard
DunkerqueStade Marcel-Tribut
Grenoble Foot 38Stade des Alpes
GuingampStade de Roudourou
LavalStade Francis Le Basser
MetzStade Saint-Symphorien
MontpellierStade de la Mosson
NancyStade Marcel Picot
NantesStade de la Beaujoire
PauNouste Camp
Red StarStade Bauer
ReimsStade Auguste-Delaune
RodezStade Paul-Lignon, Rodez
Saint-ÉtienneStade Geoffroy-Guichard
SochauxStade Auguste Bonal