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2023–24 In French Football
The following article is a summary of the 2023–24 football season in France, which was the 90th season of competitive football in the country and will run from July 2023 to June 2024. National team France national football team Friendlies UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying =Group B= UEFA Euro 2024 =Group D= =Knockout stage= U–17 FIFA U-17 World Cup =Group E= =Knockout stage= France women's national football team Friendlies 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup =2023 FIFA Women's World Cup Group F= =Knockout stage= UEFA Women's Nations League =2023–24 UEFA Women's Nations League A Group A2= =Nations League Finals= UEFA Women's Euro 2025 qualifying League A UEFA competitions UEFA Champions League Qualifying rounds =Third qualifying round= Group stage =Group B= =Group G= Knockout phase = Round of 16 = =Quarter-finals= =Semi-finals= UEFA Europa League Group stage =G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023–24 Ligue 1
The 2023–24 Ligue 1, also known as Ligue 1 Uber Eats for sponsorship reasons, was the 86th season of the Ligue 1, France's premier football competition. The season began on 11 August 2023 and concluded on 19 May 2024. The relegation play-off was played on 30 May and 2 June 2024. Paris Saint-Germain were the two-time defending champions, and mathematically secured a record-extending twelfth title with three matches to spare on 28 April 2024, following Monaco's 3–2 defeat against Lyon. It was also the club's tenth Ligue 1 title won in the last twelve seasons. Ligue 1 reduced its number of teams from 20 to 18 starting with the 2023–24 season, resulting in a decrease in the number of matches per team from 38 to 34. Teams A total of 18 teams participated in the 2023–24 edition of the Ligue 1. In June 2021, the LFP voted overwhelmingly at its general assembly to contract Ligue 1 back to 18 clubs for the 2023–24 season, by relegating four and promoting two from Ligue 2 after 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Signal Iduna Park
Westfalenstadion (, ) is a football stadium in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, which is the home stadium of Borussia Dortmund. Officially called Signal Iduna Park for sponsorship reasons and BVB Stadion Dortmund in UEFA competitions, the name derives from the former Prussian province of Westphalia. It has a league capacity of 81,365 (standing and seated) and an international capacity of 65,829 (seated only). It is Germany's largest stadium, the sixth-largest in Europe, and the third-largest home to a top-flight European club after Camp Nou and Santiago Bernabéu Stadium. It holds the European record for average fan attendance, set in the 2011–12 season with almost 1.37 million spectators over 17 games at an average of 80,588 per game. Sales of annual season tickets amounted to 55,000 in 2015. The 24,454 capacity ''Südtribüne'' (South Bank) is the largest terrace for standing spectators in European football. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kai Havertz
Kai Lukas Havertz (born 11 June 1999) is a German professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or forward for club Arsenal and the Germany national team. Having graduated from Bayer Leverkusen's youth academy in 2016, Havertz made his senior debut with the club in the same year. Upon his debut, Havertz became the club's youngest-ever debutant in the Bundesliga, and he became their youngest-ever goalscorer when he scored his first goal the following year. Havertz holds the record for being the youngest player to reach 50 and 100 league appearances in the German top flight. Havertz's performances sparked the interest of several European clubs, with Chelsea signing him in 2020 for a transfer worth €84 million (£72 million), making him Chelsea's second-most expensive signing at the time. With Chelsea, Havertz won the 2020–21 UEFA Champions League, 2021 UEFA Super Cup, and the 2021 FIFA Club World Cup, scoring the winning goals in the Champions Lea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florian Wirtz
Florian Richard Wirtz (born 3 May 2003) is a German professional Association football, footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Premier League club Liverpool F.C., Liverpool and the Germany national football team, Germany national team. He is widely regarded as one of the best attacking midfielders in the world. Early life Wirtz was born in the Brauweiler district of Pulheim, North Rhine-Westphalia. Club career Early career Regarded as a big talent in German football, Wirtz joined the youth team of 1. FC Köln in 2010, where he remained until he was signed by Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Bayer Leverkusen in January 2020. His transfer to Leverkusen was controversial, as Köln felt that Leverkusen violated a gentleman's agreement between the two clubs in signing Wirtz. Bayer Leverkusen 2020: Professional debut After impressing for the under-17 team, Wirtz made his senior professional debut for Leverkusen in the Bundesliga on 18 May 2020, starting in an away match against SV We ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Football Association
The German Football Association ( ; DFB ) is the governing body of Association football, football, futsal, and beach soccer in Germany. A founding member of both FIFA and UEFA, the DFB has jurisdiction for the German football league system and is in charge of the Germany national football team, men's and Germany women's national football team, women's national teams. The DFB headquarters are in Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main. Sole members of the DFB are the Deutsche Fußball Liga, German Football League (; DFL), organising the professional Bundesliga and the 2. Bundesliga, along with five regional and 21 state associations, organising the semi-professional and amateur levels. The 21 state associations of the DFB have a combined number of more than 25,000 clubs with more than 6.8 million members, making the DFB the single largest sports federation in the world. History 1875 to 1900 From 1875 to the mid-1880s, the first kind of football played in Germany was according to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tobias Stieler
Tobias Stieler (born 2 July 1981) is a German football referee. He referees for SG Rosenhöhe of the Hessian Football Association. He is a FIFA referee, and is ranked as a UEFA elite category referee. Refereeing career Stieler has been a DFB referee since 2004, a Bundesliga referee since 2012, and a FIFA referee since 2014. Personal life Stieler lives in Sölden near Freiburg im Breisgau and works as lawyer. See also *List of football referees This is a list of notable FIFA international Referee (association football), referees. Years in brackets indicate when the referee was added to the FIFA International Referees List. Current referees are at the top of the section for each coun ... References External links Profileat DFB.de Profileat WorldFootball.net 1981 births Living people People from Offenbach (district) Sportspeople from Darmstadt (region) German football referees UEFA Europa League referees Sportspeople from Hamburg {{Germany-footy-b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Villeneuve-d'Ascq
Villeneuve-d'Ascq (; ) is a Communes of France, commune in the Nord (French department), Nord Departments of France, department in northern France. With more than 60,000 inhabitants and 50,000 students, it is one of the main cities of the Métropole Européenne de Lille and the largest in area (27.46 km2) after Lille. It is also one of the main cities of the Hauts-de-France Regions of France, region. Built up owing to the merger between the former communes of France, communes of Ascq, Annappes and Flers-lez-Lille, Villeneuve-d'Ascq is a planned community, new town and the cradle of the first automatic metro system in the world (Véhicule Automatique Léger, VAL). Villeneuve-d'Ascq is nicknamed the 'green technopole' thanks to the implantation of many researchers, including two campuses of the University of Lille and many graduate engineering schools, and companies in a pleasant living environment. Owing to its activity centres, its Haute Borne European scientific park and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stade Pierre-Mauroy
The Stade Pierre-Mauroy (), also known as the Decathlon Arena – Stade Pierre-Mauroy for sponsorship reasons, is a multi-use retractable roof stadium in Villeneuve-d'Ascq (Métropole Européenne de Lille) in Northern France, that opened in August 2012. With a seating capacity of 50,186, it is the List of football stadiums in France, fourth-largest sports stadium in France and the home of French professional Association football, football club Lille OSC, Lille. Initially named Grand Stade Lille Métropole, the stadium was renamed on 21 June 2013, after the death of the former Mayor of Lille and former Prime Minister of France Pierre Mauroy (1928–2013). The stadium, which hosted UEFA Euro 2016 or 2023 Rugby World Cup, can also be turned into an adjustable indoor arena, arena being expandable to 30,000 seats where indoor sports games and concerts took place. Therefore, multiple Davis Cup events, EuroBasket 2015 and 2024 Summer Olympics Basketball at the 2024 Summer Olympics, baske ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Gilmour
Billy Clifford Gilmour (born 11 June 2001) is a Scottish professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Serie A club Napoli and the Scotland national team. He is considered one of Scotland's best players, particularly in relation to his passing skills and his style of midfield play. Gilmour spent three months with Celtic at an early age before moving to Rangers, where he developed in the club's academy and trained with the first-team squad at the age of 15. He joined Chelsea in 2017 after turning down a professional contract with Rangers, made 22 appearances, and was on the bench for their UEFA Champions League and FA Cup finals in 2021. He spent a season on loan at Norwich City where the club were relegated, before he signed with Brighton & Hove Albion on a permanent basis in September 2022. Gilmour signed for Italian side Napoli on a permanent deal on deadline day in August 2024. Gilmour represented Scotland at all youth level from under-15, under-16, u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kingsley Coman
Kingsley Junior Coman (; born 13 June 1996) is a French professional footballer who plays as a winger for club Bayern Munich and the France national team. Trained at Paris Saint-Germain's academy, Coman moved to Juventus in 2014 on the expiration of his contract, winning the Serie A and Coppa Italia in his first season in Italy. In August 2015, he transferred on loan to Bayern Munich, then permanently, winning eight Bundesliga, three DFB-Pokal, and six DFL-Supercup titles. He won the 2019–20 UEFA Champions League by scoring the only goal in the final against Paris Saint-Germain, and won the UEFA Super Cup and FIFA Club World Cup later that year. He won the league title in his first 11 seasons as a professional, until the 2023–24 Bundesliga season. Coman earned 39 caps and scored 11 goals in France's youth teams, from under-16 to under-21 levels. He made his debut for the senior team in November 2015 and represented the nation at UEFA Euro 2016, where they reached the fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kylian Mbappé
Kylian Mbappé Lottin (born 20 December 1998) is a French professional Association football, footballer who plays as a Forward (association football), forward for club Real Madrid CF, Real Madrid and Captain (association football), captains the France national football team, France national team. Widely regarded as one of the best players in the world, he is known for his Dribbling (association football), dribbling, Shooting (association football), finishing, and speed. Born in Paris and raised in nearby Bondy, Mbappé began his senior club career in 2015 with AS Monaco FC, Monaco, where he won the Ligue 1 title in the 2016–17 AS Monaco FC season, 2016–17 season. In 2017, aged 18, Mbappé signed for Paris Saint-Germain FC, Paris Saint-Germain on an eventual permanent Transfer (association football), transfer worth €180 million, making him the second-List of most expensive association football transfers, most-expensive player and most expensive teenage player of all ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Pavard
Benjamin Jacques Marcel Pavard (; born 28 March 1996) is a French professional footballer who plays as a defender for Serie A club Inter Milan and the France national team. Although usually deployed as a centre-back, he is also capable of playing as a right-back. He began his career at Lille in Ligue 1 and transferred to VfB Stuttgart in 2016, where he won the 2. Bundesliga in his first season. In January 2019, he agreed a move to Bayern Munich, which was completed after Stuttgart's relegation at the end of the season. In 2020, he completed a historic sextuple by winning the Bundesliga, DFB-Pokal, Champions League, DFL-Supercup, UEFA Super Cup, and FIFA Club World Cup. In the summer of 2023, Pavard moved to Inter Milan, winning the Serie A title in his first season. Pavard made his international debut for France in November 2017, and won the 2018 FIFA World Cup and the 2020–21 UEFA Nations League, also featuring at UEFA Euro 2020 and the 2022 World Cup. He is also remembe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
