France will deploy more than 90,000 police officers and gendarmes for New Year's Eve. The cities of Paris and Strasbourg will be under heightened surveillance.

Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France’s main far-right party, has died at 96. Anti-immigration and nationalist ideas that propelled his decades of popularity remain ascendant in the country, across Europe and beyond.

Having struggled for game time since making the move in the summer, Milos Lukovic (19) is set to spend the second half of the season away from RC Strasbourg

Tipster James Eastham has looked at the odds and has the best bets in France's Ligue 1 games involving Nice, Strasbourg, and others for Betfair this weekend!

PARIS (AP) — Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France’s far-right National Front who was known for fiery rhetoric against immigration and multiculturalism that earned him both staunch supporters and widespread condemnation, has died. He was 96.

Happy New Year, football fans! The year 2025 ushers in a very interesting Round 16 of Ligue 1, with Strasbourg hosting Auxerre. Both have been fighting the unpredictable currents of midtable competition,

Matchday 17 of the Ligue 1 season pits an interesting mid-table clash between Toulouse, 8th, and Strasbourg, 10th, on January 11, 2025. With both teams coming into this tie in good recent form, this match could be a tactical chess game.

French former far right National Front leader Jean Marie Le Pen looks for his seat at the European Parliament, in Strasbourg, eastern France, July 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Christian

Despite nearly 1,000 cars being set ablaze, hundreds of thousands of people in France welcomed the New Year with largely peaceful celebrations, according to Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau. Retailleau announced late on Wednesday that 984 cars went up in flames across the country.

It wasn't a fruitful summer transfer window for Montpellier HSC, who before September 1st, only secured one arrival - Rabby Nzingoula (19). The midfielder

Heading into this weekend, the INEOS-owned club sit sixth in the Ligue 1 standings. It is to Haise and his players' immense credit that Nice have lost only three of their opening 16 games of 2024-25, despite almost never being able to field their best starting line-up.

Strasbourg will begin 2025 by welcoming Auxerre to Stade de la Meinau on Sunday on matchday 16 of the Ligue 1 campaign for both sides. The club from Alsace are 13th in the table, defeating Le Havre 3-0 in their previous domestic affair, while AJA sit eighth after earning a 2-2 result versus Lens.