What is the best Ligue 1 stadium? Find the complete ranking from L'Equipe

Atmosphere and enthusiasm above all, but also accessibility, services, prestige and financial cost: these are the criteria that prevailed in establishing this first ranking of stadiums where it is good to experience an evening of Ligue 1. It awards a bonus to the atmosphere (double coefficient).

This therefore benefits the stadiums that have had a good season for their club - for example, Strasbourg, a surprise European contender, or Auxerre, the happily promoted - and penalizes those who have seen the season pass by in the lukewarmness of the soft underbelly (in Rennes, for example) or the anger of the scheduled relegation as in Montpellier. It is logical that what happens on the pitch influences the feeling in the stands.

In the end, because it hosts the only - for a few more days? - French club to have won the Champions League, because it shines in the city, within reach of a day at the beach, because it boils (sometimes to the point of unreason) with a unique energy on which a magnificent roof has been placed, because it is less expensive than the Parc des Princes too (the absence from the European Cup has surely contributed to this), the Orange Vélodrome dominates this fairly tight ranking, just a breath ahead of the Parc whose fever rises several notches in the Champions League versus domestic contests.

And the Chaudron de Saint-Etienne completes a podium of historic seats. It's instructive, moreover, that the rankings give the advantage to old (well) renovated and modernized stadiums over more recent, ultra-functional venues which, being out of the way, struggle to match the souls like OL's Groupama Stadium or the Allianz Riviera in Nice. On borrowed time and aging, the Mosson occupies the last place among Ligue 1 stadiums, not helped by the sporting context of a Montpellier team stuck at the bottom of the table and very quickly dropped in the race for survival.

1. Orange Vélodrome (Marseille): 76 points2. Parc des Princes (Paris-SG): 75 pts3. Geoffroy-Guichard (Saint-Étienne): 74 pts4. Bollaert-Delelis (Lens): 73 pts-. Groupama Stadium (Lyon): 73 pts6. La Meinau (Strasbourg): 70 pts7. Roazhon Park (Rennes): 68 pts-. Stadium (Toulouse): 68 pts9. Decathlon-Arena - Pierre-Mauroy (Lille): 67 pts10. La Beaujoire (Nantes): 66 pts11. Allianz Riviera (Nice): 63 pts12. L'Abbé-Deschamps (Auxerre): 62 pts13. Océane (Le Havre): 57 pts14. Francis-Le Blé (Brest): 53 pts15. Auguste-Delaune (Reims): 51 pts-. Raymond-Kopa (Angers): 51 pts17. Louis-II (Monaco): 50 pts

18. La Mosson (Montpellier): 46 pts