Ligue 1 Betting – Everything You Need to Know
Ligue 1 is one of the most exciting football leagues in the world, with some of the world’s biggest talents playing in France.
Home of powerful, fast and thrilling action, you can be certain that, whatever the game, Ligue 1 betting will always be as enjoyable as the football itself.
There are two types of betting for Ligue 1 games:
- Match
- Outright
Match Betting
Match betting covers everything that you can bet on during a game, with bets placed either pre-match (before the game has started) or in-play (after the game has started).
There are literally hundreds of match betting markets for every single Ligue 1 game, with some of the most popular ones including:
- Win/Draw/Win
- Both Teams To Score
- Correct Score
- Over/Under Total Goals
- First Goalscorer
- Anytime Goalscorer
Outright Betting
Outright betting covers everything that will happen over the course of the season, with some of the most popular ones including:
- Outright Winner
- To Be Relegated
- Player Top Goalscorer
Find the Best Ligue 1 Betting Sites in UK
Ligue 1 betting is provided by all of the best Ligue 1 betting sites in the UK, with many offering generous welcome sign-up offers to attract new customers to bet with them.
With so many betting sites to choose from, it’s worth looking around to see which ones have the best Ligue 1 odds. Betting.com has comprehensive and reliable reviews to help you find the best Ligue 1 betting sites in the UK.
How We Rate Betting Sites for Ligue 1
Betting.com only works with reputable betting sites and we pride ourselves on providing reviews that are reliable, honest and trustworthy.
We rate betting sites for Ligue 1 according to several different criteria, which are:
- Bonus Offers
- Sports Offers
- Betting Markets
- Odds
- Live Betting
- Mobile App
- Design/Navigation
- Reputation/Reliability
Each betting site is rated out of 10 for each criteria, which enables you to make the right choice for you.
You can read our reviews on the Ligue 1 bookmakers here.
More about Ligue 1 Betting
There are 760 Ligue 1 games per season, with literally hundreds of Ligue 1 betting markets available for each one. So whether it’s a big game at the Parc des Princes, Orange Velodrome or Stade Louis II, you can be certain that every single kick, header and moment is covered.
It’s always worth placing your bets pre-match, but Ligue 1 betting is especially interesting once the game has kicked off.
Enter in-play betting, which enables you to bet on the game as the action unfolds, with the live odds changing in real time.
Traditional match betting markets such as Win/Draw/Win are available in-play, but there are also specific markets that are unique to in-play betting, including popular ones such as:
- Next Team To Score
- Next Player To Score
- Next Player To Be Carded
- Next Team To Win A Corner
Ligue 1 Tips & Predictions
Ligue 1 is the home of huge teams such as Paris Saint-Germain, Monaco and Lyon, as well as world-class players such as Kylian Mbappe, Neymar and Lionel Messi. It’s also home to lesser-known teams such as Reims, Troyes and Clermont.
So keep up-to-date with all things French football and give your bets the best chance of success by reading our Ligue 1 tips and predictions, with preview articles published on betting.com every single day.
Check out our Ligue 1 Tip & Predictions page to learn more about this prestigious French football league.
Ligue 1 Odds
Ligue 1 odds are calculated on the probability of something happening.
For example, the odds of Paris Saint-Germain winning Ligue 1 are much shorter than the odds of Troyes, simply because the probability of Paris Saint-Germain winning Ligue 1 is much higher.
If Paris Saint-Germain win Ligue 1 after you placed a £10 bet on them to do so at 1/10, you would win £1. But if Troyes win Ligue 1 after you placed a £10 bet on them to do so at 2,000/1, you would win £20,000.
Ligue 1 odds for individual games are often short, especially when betting on Paris Saint-Germain, so a smart way of increasing the odds is through accumulator betting.
More commonly referred to as an ‘acca’, accumulator betting is when you bet on two or more Ligue 1 games – betting on five teams is known as a ‘five-fold’ – but combine them into one bet. You can use our free acca bet calculator to save time in your manual calculations.
Because the odds are multiplied, you’ll win an enhanced amount if all the selections in your acca are correct.
Check out our Ligue 1 odds page to learn more about this prestigious French football league.
Ligue 1 2022/23 Overview
The Ligue 1 2022/23 season will be played from Saturday 6th August 2022 to Sunday 4th June 2023. There will be a six-week break in November to allow the 2022 World Cup to be played, with Ligue 1 fixtures resuming on Tuesday 27th December.
Ligue 1 is made up of 20 teams, with each team playing the other 19 teams at home and away for a grand total of 38 games.
Paris Saint-Germain are odds-on favourites to win Ligue 1, having won the title in eight of the last 10 seasons. Lyon, Marseille and Monaco are considered the teams most likely to challenge PSG, with Lille’s Ligue 1 triumph a couple of seasons ago proof that a surprise winner is possible.
At the opposite end of the table, Troyes, Lorient, Auxerre, Clermont Foot, Ajaccio, Brest and Stade Reims are the teams the bookies expect to fight it out to avoid relegation, according to the latest pre-season odds.
Kylian Mbappe is primed to once again finish as the top goalscorer in Ligue 1.
Mbappe won the golden boot last season with 28 goals, which was four more than Monaco’s Wissam Ben Yadder. Mbappe’s PSG team-mates Neymar and Lionel Messi could also run him close.
Ligue 1 Winners of the Last Seasons
- 2021/22 – Paris Saint-Germain
- 2020/21 – Lille
- 2019/20 – Paris Saint-Germain
- 2018/19 – Paris Saint-Germain
- 2017/18 – Paris Saint-Germain
- 2016/17 – Monaco
- 2015/16 – Paris Saint-Germain
- 2014/15 – Paris Saint-Germain
Ligue 1 2022/23 Competing Teams
Season start-end: 13th August 2022 – 4th June 2023
All teams and their home stadiums
- Ajaccio, Stade Francois Coty
- Angers, Stade Raymond Kopa
- Auxerre, Stade de l’Abbe-Deschamps
- Brest, Stade Francis-Le Ble
- Clermont, Stade Gabriel Montpied
- Lens, Stade Bollaert-Delelis
- Lille, Stade Pierre-Mauroy
- Lorient, Stade du Moustoir
- Lyon, Groupama Stadium
- Marseille, Orange Velodrome
- Monaco, Stade Louis II
- Montpellier, Stade de la Mosson
- Nantes, Stade de la Beaujoire
- Nice, Allianz Riviera
- Paris Saint-Germain, Parc des Princes
- Reims, Stade Auguste Delaune
- Rennes, Roazhon Park
- Strasbourg, Stade de la Meinau
- Toulouse, Stadium Municipal
- Troyes, Stade de l’Aube
Reigning Champions: Paris Saint-Germain
Ligue 1 Summary
With 20 teams, 760 games and thousands of betting markets, Ligue 1 is definitely one of the most enjoyable football leagues to bet on. And with 2022/23 shaping up to be another compelling campaign, make sure to follow it every step of the way on betting.com.