Goal! Brest 1, Nantes 0. Abdallah Sima (Brest) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Brendan Chardonnet with a through ball.

Despite no European pedigree and limited resources, the French club are above Real Madrid, Man City and PSG in the table with one game to go

Nantes 1 (Mohamed 90) Lyon 1 (Nuamah 10) Lens 1 (Frankowski 49) Angers 0 Toulouse 1 (Casseres 59) Montpellier 2 (Sagnan 62, Maamma 83) Nice 2 (Guessand 7, Cho 51) Marseille 0 Played Saturday Monaco 3 (Akliouche 15,

Stade Brestois are preparing for life without first-choice goalkeeper Marco Bizot (33), while also aiming to add new faces later this month.

Stade Brestois 29 and Real Madrid are separated by one point and three places ahead of Wednesday's UEFA Champions League meeting which will bring the league phase to a close. Kylian Mbappe will be familiar with Stade du Roudourou in Guingamp with Los Blancos and their hosts still dreaming of a top-eight finish.

After a decade of making history French soccer referee Stéphanie Frappart is using her experience to help more women take up the profession.

While four French clubs secured progress to the knockout phase of the Champions League this week, another was busy firing a popular coach as Lyon parted company with Pierre Sage and lined up Paulo Fonseca as his replacement.

Luis Enrique's PSG were in danger of also missing the cut in November before they completed a remarkable turnaround, winning their last three games and scoring 11 goals

Liverpool topped the inaugural Champions League group phase despite defeat by PSV while Manchester City scraped through

Volotea has announced an intention to close its Athens base and instead develop its current codeshare deal with Aegean Airlines.

Striker Evann Guessand scores one goal and sets up Mohamed-Ali Cho as Nice hands Marseille a 2-0 defeat to move up to fourth place in the French league.

Paris Saint-Germain secured a play-off spot in the Champions League as Ousmane Dembele played chief tormentor in a 4-1 away demolition of Stuttgart. Dembele netted a hat-trick and fellow France forward Bradley Barcola added another as PSG qualified for the play-offs as one of the eight seeded teams for Friday’s draw.