Each club in Ligue 1 plays 34 games in a season, which lasts from late August to May the next year, and faces each of the other 17 clubs twice in a home-and-away format. The club with the most points at the end of the season wins the championship. The bottom two clubs are automatically relegated to Ligue 2, and the top two clubs from Ligue 2 are promoted to Ligue 1. The 16th-place club in Ligue 1 plays a two-legged fixture against the winner of the Ligue 2 playoff series, with the winning team earning the last promotion spot in Ligue 1 and the losing team being relegated to the lower-tier league.
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