Liga 1, formerly known as Division 1 and sometimes referred to as The Championship), is the French professional league for association football clubs. It's main football competition in the country and serves as a first division football league system of the French. Ligue 1 is one of two divisions making up the Ligue de Football Professionnel, the other being Ligue 2 contested by 20 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with Ligue 2 Seasons run from August to May, with teams playing 38 games each totaling 380 games in the season. Most games on Saturdays and Sundays, with a few games played during weekday evenings are played. The game is regularly suspended the last weekend before Christmas for two weeks before returning in the second week of January. Ligue 1 is one of the best national championships, currently in sixth place in Europe after the Spanish La Liga, English Premier League, German Bundesliga, Portuguese Primeira Liga and the Italian Serie A.
Ligue 1 was inaugurated 11 September 1932 under the name National before switching to Division 1 after a year of existence. The name lasted until 2002 before changing its current name. The current champions are Paris Saint-Germain, who won the fourth title in their history in the 2013-14 season.
Ligue 1 is generally considered competent to perform, with good site planning, and complete rules, problem solving timely and climbing appropriate legal disputes with national or international institutions consistently applied procedures. The league has faced three major corruption scandals in its history (Antibes in 1933, Red Star in 1950 and Marseille in 1993) and has retained its reputation every time through appropriate perpetrators swift and severe punishment.