Favourites, survival battle, historic golf equipment: Ligue 2 2025-26 preview 🔎

[ad_1] The 2025-26 Ligue 2 season kicks off this Saturday afternoon at 2 PM with the match between Guingamp and the newly promoted Le Mans.

Favorites for promotion, battle for survival: we current to you what could be probably the most aggressive version within the historical past of L2!

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AS Saint-Étienne, Stade de Reims, Montpellier. The trio relegated from final season's Ligue 1 clearly stands out... and is favored for a comeback.

The Greens and the Rémois goal for nothing lower than direct promotion. Each groups have thus far retained a few of their key gamers from final season (Irvin Cardona, Lucas Stassin, Zuriko Davitashvili for ASSE; Junya Ito, Keito Nakamura, Sergio Akieme at Reims) and thus appear clearly above the opposite sixteen groups within the league.

On the Montpellier facet, Zoumana Camara's typical eleven is 90% totally different from final season's traumatic L1 lineup. Julien Laporte (Lorient), Alexandre Mendy (Caen), Nathanaël Mbuku (Augsburg) have strengthened the membership, which can even give extra taking part in time and obligations to a few of its homegrown younger gamers this season, similar to Khalil Fayad, Junior Ndiaye, and Lucas Mincarelli.

Behind them, different historic golf equipment, who performed within the high flight a number of years in the past, hope to shake up the established order and return to L1! Guingamp, Clermont, Bastia, or Troyes might be lurking, in addition to Grenoble or Amiens. What about Dunkerque, too? A revelation final season by ending simply off the rostrum in fourth place, USDL can attempt once more to get heading in the right direction.

↘️ Survival: too robust for the newcomers?

Key golf equipment of L1 within the 2000s, Le Mans and AS Nancy Lorraine will return to L2 this season after a number of years spent in Nationwide.

They are going to be joined by Boulogne, rescued only a few days in the past after the executive relegation of AC Ajaccio was confirmed.

The three newcomers of this 2025-26 version will struggle for survival towards seasoned Ligue 2 groups, as within the final two seasons, solely Dunkerque and Pink Star have managed to remain up as newcomers.

However watch out for surprises! Final 12 months, Caen, though predicted as a favourite for promotion firstly of the season, completed in final place; whereas Clermont, relegated from L1 in 2023-2024, secured their survival within the playoffs...

In Ligue 2, hierarchies can simply be overturned...

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