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The 2024–25 Ligue 2, commonly known as Ligue 2 BKT for sponsorship reasons, is the 86th season of Ligue 2. It began on 16 August 2024 and will conclude on 10 May 2025.
The 2022–23 Ligue 2, commonly known as 2022–23 Ligue 2 BKT for sponsorship reasons, was the 84th season of Ligue 2. It began on 30 July 2022 and ended on 5 June 2023. [ 1 ] The league had a break from 12 November to 27 December due to the FIFA World Cup . [ 2 ]
The Ligue 2 trophy. Ligue 2 (French pronunciation: [liɡ dø], League 2), also known as Ligue 2 BKT due to sponsorship reasons, is a French professional football league. The league serves as the second division of French football and is one of two divisions making up the Ligue de Football Professionnel (LFP), the other being Ligue 1, the country's top football division.
The 2020–21 Ligue 2 season, also known as Ligue 2 BKT for sponsorship reasons, was the 82nd season of second-division football in France, and the 19th season since the division was rebranded as Ligue 2 from Division 2.
The 2021–22 Ligue 2 was the 83rd season of the Ligue 2. The season began on 24 July 2021 and concluded on 14 May 2022. [ 1 ] The fixtures were announced on 25 June 2021.
The French second division Champions are the winners of the second highest league of football in France, Ligue 2. The winner also earns promotion to the first division Ligue 1, as do the second-place and third-place finisher. Ligue 2 was inaugurated in the 1933–34 season under the authority of the French Football Federation.
The first team to officially join the division for the 2015–16 was Lens, who were relegated from Ligue 1 on 2 May 2015 as results on the day went against them. [1] They were joined a week later by Metz, after a 4–0 home defeat against Lorient. [2] The last relegated club were Evian after a 2-1 defeat on 16 May 2015. [3]
A promotion play-off competition was held at the end of the season, involving the 3rd, 4th and 5th-placed teams in 2017–18 Ligue 2, and the 18th-placed team in 2017–18 Ligue 1. The quarter-final was played on 15 May, the semi-final on 18 May and the final on 23 and 27 May 2018.