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

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

French Ligue 1 result on Friday: Le Havre v Brest (1400), Nantes v Lyon, Lens v Angers, Toulouse v Montpellier (1615), Nice v Marseille (1945)

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.

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.

Lopes had not been able to do nothing on the opening of the Nuamah score very early in the match (0-1, 10th), but Nantes hung on and ended up resurfacing on the Gong, thanks to Mohamed (1- 1, 90th). A result that freezes everyone's positions.

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

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.

French side Brest have making wave through the 2024-25 season, rising from recent obscurity and becoming a tricky out for some of the world's biggest clubs.

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

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.