In order of their finish in the last season’s Ligue 1, 18 teams remain in the most coveted division of French football, and will be joined by two more teams which were promoted from the Ligue 2 last season.
| Position | Team | Points |
| 1 | Paris Saint-Germain | 93 |
| 2 | Monaco | 80 |
| 3 | Lyon | 78 |
| 4 | Marseille | 77 |
| 5 | Rennes | 58 |
| 6 | Bordeaux | 55 |
| 7 | Saint-Étienne | 55 |
| 8 | Nice | 54 |
| 9 | Nantes | 52 |
| 10 | Montpellier | 51 |
| 11 | Dijon | 48 |
| 12 | Guingamp | 47 |
| 13 | Amiens | 45 |
| 14 | Angers | 41 |
| 15 | Strasbourg | 38 |
| 16 | Caen | 38 |
| 17 | Lille | 38 |
Relegated Teams
Troyes
Metz
Promoted Teams
Reims
Nimes
Reimes and Nimes finished as the top two teams in Ligue 2 in the 2017-18 season, assuring themselves of automatic promotion. The third-placed team, Ajaccio, went into the relegation playoff, where they lost 4-0 on aggregate to Toulouse, who finished 18th in Ligue 1, which meant they couldn’t get promoted to Ligue 1.
