Q 01/05

Ligue 1 cut to 18 clubs in 2023, matching which other major league?

A) Premier League

B) La Liga

C) Serie A

D) Bundesliga

Answer · why

D) Bundesliga

Bundesliga: Germany's top flight also runs with 18 clubs. Ligue 1 got there by relegating four sides and promoting only two at the end of the 2022-23 ...

Q 02/05

Under what name was the league inaugurated on 11 September 1932?

A) Division 1

B) National

C) Ligue 1

D) Championnat de France

Answer · why

B) National

It became Division 1 after a single season and Ligue 1 in 2002.

Q 03/05

What was Ligue 1 called before its 2002 rebrand?

A) Division d'Honneur

B) Division 1

C) Division d'Excellence

D) Ligue Élite

Answer · why

B) Division 1

Division 1: the 2002 rebrand to Ligue 1 came as the league grew from 18 clubs to 20, a size it then kept for 21 seasons.

Q 04/05

Which club plays its home games at the Stade Bollaert-Delelis?

A) Lens

B) Lille

C) Metz

D) Reims

Answer · why

A) Lens

Lens: the Stade Bollaert-Delelis seats about 38,000, more than the town has residents, and half its name honours a director of the local mining compan...

Q 05/05

Marseille-born Zinedine Zidane never played for OM; from which French club did he join Juventus in 1996?

A) Bordeaux

B) Cannes

C) Monaco

D) Nantes

Answer · why

A) Bordeaux

Bordeaux: Zidane spent four seasons there after starting out at Cannes, and reached the 1996 UEFA Cup final just before his move to Italy.