Ligue 1 Live Scores, Fixtures, Results and Standings

Ligue 1, also known as Senegal Ligue 1, is Senegal’s top-tier men’s professional football league and the country’s leading domestic competition. It is organised by the Ligue Sénégalaise de Football Professionnel (LSFP) under the authority of the Fédération Sénégalaise de Football (FSF). The competition has also carried the sponsored identity Ligue 1 StarTimes.

Senegal’s top football division

The league crowns Senegal’s national champion and provides the principal route for the country’s leading clubs into African club football. It is also an important development environment for Senegalese players, acting as a training and transition competition for footballers seeking opportunities in other African and international leagues.

National championships have been contested in Senegal since the early years of independence, while the modern professional structure was established in 2009 as part of wider efforts to modernise domestic football. The competition’s recorded statistical coverage on Xtra-Stats runs from the 2016 season through 2025, giving users access to a substantial period of standings, fixtures and results.

Governance and access

The LSFP manages the league’s sporting and operational framework, working within the wider national football structure administered by the FSF. Participation is based primarily on sporting merit and professional eligibility. Clubs must be recognised as professional entities and satisfy the applicable requirements for competing in the division.

Promotion and relegation connect Ligue 1 with Ligue 2. The leading two teams in Ligue 2 generally earn promotion, while the bottom two Ligue 1 sides are relegated at the end of the season. This movement gives the competition a direct sporting link with Senegal’s second tier and ensures that league membership is contested across the national pyramid.

Double round-robin format

Ligue 1 uses a traditional double round-robin league format rather than a group stage or knockout system. The competition typically features 16 professional clubs. Each team plays every other club twice, once at home and once away, producing 30 matches per side across the season.

There is no regular-season seeding or knockout draw because the league is determined through a full standings table. Clubs accumulate points throughout the campaign, with three points awarded for a win, one for a draw and none for a defeat. The team with the strongest final record is crowned champion, subject to the competition’s official ranking regulations.

When clubs finish level on points, ranking is determined through the applicable tiebreaking criteria. These typically include goal difference and total goals scored, with head-to-head results also relevant in defined circumstances. Unlike a domestic cup, a normal league fixture does not proceed to extra time or a penalty shoot-out when it ends level; the match is recorded as a draw.

Season calendar and progression

The season normally runs from late October through June. Fixtures are arranged in successive gameweeks, with the schedule allowing for Senegal national-team commitments and interruptions caused by CAF club competitions. Results accumulate across the campaign rather than being reset between stages, so consistency over the full programme is central to a title challenge, continental qualification or a successful relegation fight.

The exact timing of individual fixtures can vary from one edition to another. Congestion, domestic cup commitments and the continental calendar may lead to rearranged matches, but the underlying structure remains a league table built from home-and-away fixtures.

Continental importance and sporting stakes

Winning Ligue 1 is the highest domestic achievement available to a Senegalese club. The champion typically earns Senegal’s principal qualification place for the CAF Champions League, where it faces leading clubs from across Africa. Other continental places may be influenced by final league positions and domestic cup results, with the Senegalese FA Cup and other qualification routes connected to entry into the CAF Confederation Cup. Allocation details can depend on the relevant CAF and national regulations for a particular season.

At the other end of the table, the bottom two clubs normally drop into Ligue 2. Avoiding relegation is therefore as significant over the final gameweeks as competing for the championship, while promotion offers ambitious second-tier clubs a route into Senegal’s highest professional division.

History, identity and notable clubs

The competition combines a long national championship tradition with a comparatively recent professional framework. Its role extends beyond awarding a trophy: it sustains elite domestic football, develops players for the Senegal national team and provides clubs with a platform to compete beyond the country’s borders.

ASC Jaraaf is recognised as the most successful club in the league’s history, making its record a defining part of the competition’s heritage. Alongside established powers, each season’s promotion and relegation cycle creates opportunities for new challengers to enter the top division. Ligue 1 consequently remains both a historical institution in Senegalese football and an active pathway between local competition, professional careers and African club football.