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Defending champions Paris Saint-Germain start their bid for a document eleventh Ligue 1 title at modest Clermont in a season the place video games will probably be performed on New Yr’s Day.

The opening spherical for France’s high flight begins on the weekend of Aug. 5-7 and the league can have video games on Jan. 1 and a couple of for the primary time due to a break for the 2022 World Cup.

There will probably be a six-week hiatus for the showpiece occasion in Qatar, with the winter break beginning on Nov. 14 and play resuming on Dec. 28 with a midweek spherical. (Click on right here for full schedule).

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Kylian Mbappe will probably be nonetheless be the star man for PSG after he ended rumours of a departure to hitch Actual Madrid by signing a brand new deal in Could to remain in Paris for 3 extra years.

There’ll possible be a training change for the defending champions, nevertheless, as supervisor Mauricio Pochettino is predicted to get replaced earlier than the beginning of the 2022-23 marketing campaign following PSG’s failure to achieve the Champions League quarterfinals and loss within the Coupe de France remaining.

PSG share the document for titles with 10-time champions Marseille and Saint-Etienne, who had been relegated final season together with six-time winner Bordeaux.

Their week one opponent Clermont completed in seventeenth place final season to keep away from relegation.

Marseille was runner-up final season to qualify mechanically for the Champions League, and begins the season at dwelling to Reims.

AS Monaco, who completed third to enter the Champions League qualifying rounds, have a tricky match at Alsace-based Strasbourg.

It was not but determined who will play within the season-opening Friday night time match on Aug. 5.

The league can even finish later than typical this yr with the ultimate spherical of matches approaching June 3.

Info from the Related Press was used on this story.

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