One week after the Trophée des Champions between AS Monaco and Paris Saint-Germain in Tangier, the new Ligue 1 Conforama season will begin on Friday, August 4 2017, with ten Week 1 clashes scheduled to be played on Friday the fourth, Saturday the fifth and Sunday the sixth of August.

While the exact scheduling of Week 1 remains to be determined in partnership with broadcasters Canal+ et beIN SPORTS, the clashes on offer will be as follows:

Angers SCO - Girondins de Bordeaux
LOSC Lille - FC Nantes
Olympique Lyonnais - RC Strasbourg Alsace
Olympique de Marseille - Dijon FCO
FC Metz - EA Guingamp
AS Monaco - Toulouse FC
Montpellier HSC - SM Caen
Paris Saint-Germain - Amiens SC
AS Saint-Etienne - OGC Nice
ESTAC Troyes - Stade Rennais FC

Under the agreement reached for the 2016-20 audiovisual rights cycle, Canal+ have first pick for three fixtures each week, and as such, Ligue 1 Conforama's biggest matches will be shown live on Canal+ at 21:00 for the following rounds:

Week 4: AS Monaco – Olympique de Marseille
Week 6: Paris Saint-Germain – Olympique Lyonnais
Week 10: Olympique de Marseille – Paris Saint-Germain
Week 12: AS Saint-Etienne – Olympique Lyonnais
Week 14: AS Monaco – Paris Saint-Germain
Week 18: Olympique Lyonnais – Olympique de Marseille
Week 22: Olympique Lyonnais – Paris Saint-Germain
Week 23: Olympique de Marseille – AS Monaco
Week 24: AS Monaco – Olympique Lyonnais
Week 27: Paris Saint-Germain – Olympique de Marseille
Week 30: Olympique de Marseille – Olympique Lyonnais
Week 33: Paris Saint-Germain – AS Monaco

In season 2017-18, there will be three mid-week rounds - Weeks 15, 19 and 21. Along with Weeks 37 and 38, Week 19 will see all its fixtures played simultaneously. For the mid-week rounds, three matches will be played on the Tuesday (two at 19:00 and one at 21:00) and the seven others on the Wednesday (six at 19:00 and one at 21:00).

Since season 2014-15, Ligue 1 Conforama has used a modernised calendar in order to best cater to sporting issues, the wishes of clubs and those of the broadcasters, as well as climatic and organizational constraints.

As has been the case over the last two seasons, the 2017-18 Ligue 1 Conforama calendar is asymmetrical and each club has four pivots - a pivot comprising consecutive matches at home or away (eight clubs have four pivots, ten have three and two have two).

The asymmetrical structure preserves sporting fairness as each club will play nine or ten matches at home and nine or ten matches away from home in each half of the season. A club can play a maximum of three away games in a run of five matches. Despite its asymmetry, this calendar preserves a gap of at least six rounds between the first and second time two clubs play each other in the course of the Ligue 1 Conforama season.

Download the Ligue 1 Conforama calendar for season 2017-18