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
Titles and Points
- Most titles: Saint-Étienne, 10
- Most consecutive titles: Lyon, 7
- Highest number of points: 96 points for Paris Saint-Germain
Wins
- Most wins in a season: 30 for Paris Saint-Germain and Monaco for a 20-team league; 25 for Saint-Étienne for an 18-team league
- Most home victories in a season: 19 for Saint-Étienne
- Most away victories in a season: 15 for Paris Saint-Germain
- Most consecutive victories: 16 for Monaco
- Most consecutive victories in a season: 14 for Paris Saint-Germain
- Most home consecutive victories: 28 for Saint-Étienne
- Most away consecutive victories: 9 for Marseille
- Biggest win: 12–1, Sochaux v. Valenciennes
- Longest unbeaten run within a single season: Nantes, 32 matches
- Longest home unbeaten run: Nantes, 92 matches, between 15 May 1976 and 7 April 1981
- Longest unbeaten run: Paris Saint-Germain, 36 matches, between 15 March 2015 and 28 February 2016
Losses
- Fewest losses in a season: 1 for Nantes
- Fewest home losses in a season: 0
- Fewest away losses in a season: 1 for Sochaux, Saint-Étienne, Nantes, Marseille and Paris Saint-Germain
Top flight appearances
- Most seasons in top flight: Marseille, 70 seasons
- Most consecutive seasons in top flight: Paris Saint-Germain, 46 seasons
Goals
- Highest-scoring season: 2016–17 for a 20-team league; 1948–49 for an 18-team league
- Highest-scoring team in a season: 1959–60 RC Paris in 20-team format; 1948–49 Lille in 18-team format
- Best defence in a season: 2015–16 Paris Saint-Germain
- Best home defence in a season: 2007–08 Saint-Étienne
- Best away defence in a season: 2015–16 Paris Saint-Germain
- Best goal difference in a season: 2015–16 Paris Saint-Germain in 20-team format; 1948–49 Lille in 18-team format
Disciplinary and manager
- Season with most yellow cards: 2002–03
- Season with most red cards: 2002–03
- Most red cards in a season: 2013–14 Montpellier
- Most matches for a coach: Guy Roux, 890 matches for Auxerre and 4 matches for Lens ; 894 matches total
Attendance
- Highest overall attendance: 8,559,659 in 2017–18
- Highest average attendance: 23,154 per match in 2000–01
- Highest daily attendance for a single game day: 307,775, Day 1, 2018–19
- Highest single attendance: 78,056, Lille v. Lyon, 2008–09
Players
Most appearances
| Rank | Player | Period | Club | Games |
| 1 | Mickaël Landreau | 1997–2014 | Nantes, Paris Saint-Germain, Lille, Bastia | 618 |
| 2 | Jean-Luc Ettori | 1975–1994 | Monaco | 602 |
| 3 | Dominique Dropsy | 1971–1989 | Valenciennes, Strasbourg, Bordeaux | 596 |
| 4 | Dominique Baratelli | 1967–1985 | Ajaccio, Nice, Paris Saint-Germain | 593 |
| 5 | Alain Giresse | 1970–1988 | Bordeaux, Marseille | 586 |
| 6 | Sylvain Kastendeuch | 1982–2001 | Metz, Saint-Étienne, Toulouse | 577 |
| 7 | Patrick Battiston | 1973–1991 | Bordeaux, Metz, Saint-Étienne, Monaco | 558 |
| 8 | Jacky Novi | 1964–1980 | Marseille, Nîmes, Paris Saint-Germain, Strasbourg | 545 |
| 9 | Roger Marche | 1944–1962 | Stade Reims, RC Paris | 542 |
| 10 | Jean-Paul Bertrand-Demanes | 1969–1988 | Nantes | 532 |
Goalscorers
| Rank | Player | Period | Club | Goals | Games | Ratio |
| 1 | Delio Onnis | 1972–1986 | Monaco, Reims, Tours, Toulon | 299 | 449 | |
| 2 | Bernard Lacombe | 1969–1987 | Lyon, Saint-Étienne, Bordeaux | 255 | 497 | |
| 3 | Hervé Revelli | 1965–1978 | Saint-Étienne, Nice | 216 | 389 | |
| 4 | Roger Courtois | 1932–1956 | Sochaux, Troyes | 210 | 288 | |
| 5 | Thadée Cisowski | 1947–1961 | Metz, RC Paris, Valenciennes | 206 | 286 | |
| 6 | Roger Piantoni | 1950–1966 | FC Nancy, Reims, Nice | 203 | 394 | |
| 7 | Joseph Ujlaki | 1947–1964 | Stade Français, Sète, Nîmes, Nice, RC Paris | 189 | 438 | |
| 8 | Fleury Di Nallo | 1960–1975 | Lyon, Red Star | 187 | 425 | |
| 9 | Carlos Bianchi | 1973–1980 | Reims, Paris Saint-Germain, Strasbourg | 179 | 220 | |
| - | Gunnar Andersson | 1950–1960 | Marseille, Bordeaux | 179 | 234 |
Most titles won
Seven titles
- Sidney Govou, Grégory Coupet and Juninho
- Jean-Michel Larqué and Hervé Revelli
- Thiago Silva and Marco Verratti
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
- Most consecutive minutes without conceding: Gaëtan Huard for Bordeaux, 1,176 minutes without conceding in 1992–93 season
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, 9 matches in a row ; Zlatan Ibrahimović, 9 matches in a row
Other records
- Most red cards: Cyril Rool, 19
- Youngest player: Laurent Paganelli, 15 years, 10 months and 3 days
- Youngest to score a hat-trick: Jérémy Ménez, 22 January 2005 for Sochaux against Bordeaux –
- Fastest hat-trick: Matt Moussilou, 2 April 2005 for Lille against Istres – 5 minutes