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Ligue 2

French professional league for association football clubs
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Summary

Ligue 2 is an association football league[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of association football league entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,811 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: France[3]
  • Instance of: professional sports league[4]
  • Part of: French football league system[5]
  • Commons category: Ligue 2[6]
  • Inception: 1933[7]
  • Sport: association football[8]
  • Organizer: LFP Média[9]
  • Official website: https://www.ligue2.fr/[10]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Ligue 2[11]
  • Number of participants: 18[12]
  • Topic has template: Template:Ligue 2 clubs[13], Template:LFP Ligue 2[14], Template:Ligue 2[15]
  • Official name: Ligue 2[16]
  • Main Wikidata property: P10508[17]
  • Native label: Ligue 2[18]
  • Competition class: men's association football[19]
  • Event interval: 1 years[20]
  • League level above: Ligue 1[21]
  • League level below: Championnat National[22]
  • Season starts: September[23]
  • League system: French football league system[24]
  • Social media followers: 98,290[25], 92,300[26], 131,000[27], 129,926[28], 147,000[29], 166,215[30], 174,000[31], 192,000[32], 207,000[33]

Why It Matters

Ligue 2 has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[34] It is known by 54 alternative names across languages and contexts.[35]

Related Entities

France Ibrahima Konaté Kalidou Koulibaly Layvin Kurzawa Mattéo Guendouzi N'Golo Kanté Sébastien Haller

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . YouTube API. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . YouTube API. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [34] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [35] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 10w ago · KrBot bot · 2026-08-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Official website → https://www.ligue2.fr/
    League level below → French Division 3 (1971–1993), Ligue 3, Q119499140
    "/* wbsetclaimvalue:1| */ League level below: Ligue 3, разрешение перенаправления / resolving redirect Q139762439 → Ligue 3 ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/KrBotResolvingRedirect/Q139762439_Q8642"
  2. 11w ago · NORMOTE · 2026-07-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Official website → https://www.ligue2.fr/
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Official website: https://ligue1.com/fr/competitions/ligue2bkt/news"
  3. 12w ago · Chabe01 · 2026-07-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    League level below → French Division 3 (1971–1993), Ligue 3, Q119499140
    Transfermarkt competition id → FR2
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Transfermarkt competition id: FR2"
  4. 22w ago · Chabe01 · 2026-05-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Inception → —
    Aliases → —
    Topic's main category → Category:Ligue 2
    Event interval → {'unit': 'Q577', 'amount': '+1'}
    + 20 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ League level below: Q139762439"
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