Manage a Ligue 1 club — free in your browser
Take any of the 18 clubs in Ligue 1 through a full season — squads, transfers, contracts and cups, 485 players deep. Free in your browser, nothing to install.
18 clubs · 485 players · average rating 71.2 · average age 24.3. The strongest squad on paper is Paris Saint-Germain, and the highest-rated player in the division is O. Dembélé (90) of Paris Saint-Germain.
Every Ligue 1 club you can take over
Strength here is the mean rating of each club's best eleven, which is the quickest way to see who you would be joining and who you would be chasing.
| Club | Code | Squad | Strength |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paris Saint-Germain | PAS | 23 | 86.6 |
| Olympique de Marseille | OLM | 30 | 80.8 |
| AS Monaco | ASM | 28 | 79.0 |
| Olympique Lyonnais | OLL | 26 | 77.3 |
| Lille OSC | LIO | 29 | 77.3 |
| OGC Nice | OGN | 28 | 77.2 |
| Stade Rennais FC | STF | 21 | 77.0 |
| Paris FC | PAF | 29 | 76.2 |
| RC Strasbourg Alsace | RCA | 29 | 75.9 |
| Stade Brestois 29 | ST2 | 24 | 75.5 |
| RC Lens | RCL | 28 | 75.2 |
| Toulouse FC | TOF | 30 | 74.2 |
| FC Nantes | NAN | 26 | 73.5 |
| AJ Auxerre | AJA | 28 | 73.1 |
| Le Havre AC | LED | 25 | 72.5 |
| FC Lorient | LOL | 26 | 72.3 |
| Angers SCO | ANS | 29 | 71.9 |
| FC Metz | MEM | 26 | 71.8 |
The best players in Ligue 1
The players you will be building around — or trying to prise away from a rival. Ratings are BALLKNW's own stylised approximations for gameplay balance, not official figures from any ratings provider.
| Player | Club | Position | Age | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| O. Dembélé | Paris Saint-Germain | Forward | 28 | 90 |
| A. Hakimi | Paris Saint-Germain | Defender | 26 | 89 |
| Vitinha | Paris Saint-Germain | Midfielder | 25 | 89 |
| K. Kvaratskhelia | Paris Saint-Germain | Forward | 24 | 87 |
| Marquinhos | Paris Saint-Germain | Defender | 31 | 87 |
| Nuno Mendes | Paris Saint-Germain | Defender | 23 | 86 |
| W. Pacho | Paris Saint-Germain | Defender | 23 | 86 |
| João Neves | Paris Saint-Germain | Midfielder | 20 | 85 |
Ligue 1 wonderkids worth signing early
Players aged 21 or under with the most room left to grow. Sign them before their value catches up with their potential and you fund a decade of the rebuild.
| Player | Club | Age | Now | Potential |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| D. Doué | Paris Saint-Germain | 20 | 85 | 91 |
| João Neves | Paris Saint-Germain | 20 | 85 | 90 |
| A. Vermeeren | Olympique de Marseille | 20 | 77 | 87 |
| W. Zaïre-Emery | Paris Saint-Germain | 19 | 80 | 87 |
| A. Bouaddi | Lille OSC | 17 | 75 | 86 |
| M. Fofana | Olympique Lyonnais | 20 | 78 | 86 |
Where Ligue 1 players come from
41% of players here are from France, with the rest drawn from 68 other nations — a home core with a real import market on top.
| Nation | Players | Share of division |
|---|---|---|
| France | 197 | 40.6% |
| Senegal | 27 | 5.6% |
| Côte d'Ivoire | 18 | 3.7% |
| Morocco | 15 | 3.1% |
| Mali | 13 | 2.7% |
What Ligue 1 is like to manage in
The average age across the division is 24.3, which puts it mid-table for experience: a few veterans to move on, a core with years left. It is a top-heavy division — 14.8 rating points separate the best first eleven from the worst — so taking a club from the bottom half to a title is one of the harder saves in the game. Look for the 163 under-21s who have not finished developing — the squads span 69 nations, so the pool is wider than the league's size suggests.
You get an objective from the board and a budget that rarely matches it. Everything after that — shape, signings, renewals, youth intake, cup priorities — is your call, and the season simulates on it. No download, no account, save kept in your browser.
Common questions
Can I manage a Ligue 1 club for free?
Yes. All 18 Ligue 1 clubs are playable in Gaffa at no cost — there is no download, no account and no paid tier. Pick a club, set your tactics, work the transfer market and simulate the season in your browser.
Which Ligue 1 clubs are in the game?
Every club in the division: Paris Saint-Germain, Olympique de Marseille, AS Monaco, Olympique Lyonnais, Lille OSC, OGC Nice and 12 more. Each carries a full squad, so Ligue 1 has 485 players in total.
Do I need an account to save my Ligue 1 season?
None needed. The season is stored locally in the browser you played it in, so returning on the same device carries on where you stopped.
Take a Ligue 1 club to the top
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