AS Monaco Tickets

Where to Sit at the Stade Louis II

The Louis II has five named tribunes and one of them is unavailable this season. Tribune d'Honneur is the main side, Tribune Première the opposite side and closed for 2026/27, Tribune Seconde the corner sections, Tribune Pesages behind one goal and Tribune Populaires behind the other. Blocks are lettered rather than numbered. One feature separates this ground from every other in Ligue 1: there is an athletics track around the pitch, which pushes every stand further back than you would expect.

Stand or Area	Best For	Price Bracket	Notes
Tribune Pesages	Atmosphere and the lowest price in the ground	Category 5, lowest	Behind the goal, lettered A to D, and home to Ultras Monaco 94. Blocks rotate in and out of service as the renovation proceeds: Pesage D reopened with new seating in February 2026 while Pesage C closed. Purchase limits drop to two per buyer here on restricted fixtures.
Tribune Seconde B, Munegu Family	Families and first visits	Category 4	The designated family section, with the first child on a season book costing one euro and match-day child seats from nine. The most sensible starting point for anyone bringing children, and priced to be exactly that.
Tribune Seconde E	Value with an extra	Category 4	The stand the club uses for its supporter pack, which has run at twenty-four euros including a scarf. A corner position, so the sightline is angled, but it is the strongest-value single-match product the club sells.
Tribune d'Honneur	Sightline, comfort and hospitality access	Category 1, premium	The main stand, with the private boxes and the named lounges behind it. Blocks A2 and B2 have absorbed the relocated Première holders this season, so this stand is fuller than usual and the seats within it are more contested than the category price suggests.
Tribune Première	Not available in 2026/27	Out of service	Closed for the entire season for the second phase of the government's modernisation programme. Do not buy a listing claiming to place you in the Première this season, and treat any seating map showing it as out of date.
Populaires G	Visiting supporters only	Flat rate	The away sector, entered through Secteur G on Avenue du Portier, priced at a flat ten euros as a voucher exchanged at the visitor windows on matchday. Windows open two hours before kick-off. Allocation size is not published and can be withdrawn entirely.

Following Monaco on the Road

Here is a statistic that cuts against everything else on this page. Monaco's away support ranks fourth in Ligue 1 on the recognised loyalty index, behind only Lens, Paris Saint-Germain and Lyon. A club that cannot fill its own 16,350-seat ground travels better than fourteen clubs that do fill theirs. The support exists; it is drawn from the French border communes and it follows the team.

Away Matter	What to Expect
Allocation size	French away allocations run between 5% and 10% of capacity by agreement between the clubs and the prefecture. Monaco's own travelling numbers are healthy relative to the club's size, so the allocation rather than demand is usually the binding constraint on the larger trips.
How Monaco distribute away tickets	Through club channels and the two recognised supporter associations, the Club des Supporters de Monaco and Ultras Monaco 94, which are also the route to organised travel. There is no open general sale for the larger away days.
Visiting supporters at the Louis II	Populaires G, entered from Avenue du Portier, at a flat ten euros. Vouchers are sold in advance by the visiting club only, with no matchday sales on site, and are exchanged at the visitor windows from two hours before kick-off. Some visiting clubs have been required to issue them on paper rather than digitally.
When the allocation is zero	It happens. For the Marseille fixture this season Monaco published that there would be no tickets for visiting supporters at all, and banned rival colours from every part of the stadium. Confirm the position with your own club before making travel plans for the larger fixtures.
Away parking and access	Parking Saint-Antoine, underground, at six euros, with free coach parking on documentation. The stadium sits on top of its own multi-storey car park in Fontvieille and the principality is two square kilometres, so everything is walkable once you are inside it.

Matching the Seat to the Matchday You Want

With one stand closed and a running track around the pitch, the choices at the Louis II are narrower and the trade-offs more specific than at a conventional ground. The table below maps what supporters optimise for onto the areas genuinely available in 2026/27.

What You Want	Best Option	Why
Atmosphere	Tribune Pesages, near the Ultras Monaco 94 blocks	The only part of the ground with organised, continuous support. It is a small group by French standards, a few hundred rather than a few thousand, but it is genuine and it is concentrated here. Also the lowest-priced area in the stadium.
View of the game	Tribune d'Honneur, central blocks	Side-on and elevated, and the stand where the athletics track costs you least because you are furthest from the corners. With the Première closed this is the only full-length side available, so it carries all the demand that would ordinarily split between two.
Family-friendly	Tribune Seconde B, Munegu Family	A designated product rather than a general area, priced so aggressively that the first child on a season book costs one euro. Under-18s resident in Monaco or the seven neighbouring French communes get in free regardless of stand.
Premium experience	Tribune d'Honneur lounges or a private box	The club runs five named hospitality products behind this stand, from the Pub Rouge et Blanc at the entry level up to the private boxes and the Loge des Légendes. Around eighteen boxes exist at the ground.
Lowest outlay	Pesages, or a family or under-18 rate	Standard league entry has run from fifteen euros, under-18s paid five for a recent fixture and a child in the family stand costs nine. There is no lower entry point to top-flight football anywhere in France.

The Stadium Built on the Sea, Above a Car Park

The Stade Louis II opened on 25 January 1985, replacing a 1939 ground of the same name, and it is unlike anything else in European football. It was built on 22 hectares reclaimed from the Mediterranean between 1965 and 1971 in the Fontvieille district, on a site of just three hectares, and the pitch sits 8.35 metres above street level on a concrete platform that forms the roof of a four-level underground car park holding somewhere between 1,300 and 1,700 vehicles. It cost 594 million francs and was engineered to withstand a magnitude 8.3 earthquake.

Its signature is the row of nine arches at the Populaires end, facing Fontvieille, which is the image most people picture when they think of this ground. There is also an athletics track, which hosts the Herculis meeting and which is the reason every stand sits further from the pitch than at a purpose-built football stadium. The complex runs to 145,000 square metres in total and includes an aquatic centre.

Capacity is the fact this club is most consistently misreported on, and the error is a large one. A figure of 18,523 circulates widely on aggregator sites and is simply out of date. The club's own ticketing platform states 16,350 seats. The club's main site states 16,877. The Monaco government, which operates the venue, gives 17,715 gross including press and non-saleable positions. The working figure for football is around 16,350, and for 2026/27 it is lower again with the Première closed. A related error worth correcting: Monaco is not the smallest ground in Ligue 1. Brest's Stade Francis-Le Blé is smaller, and Angers is comparable.

The stadium belongs to the Principality of Monaco and is run by the government's Department of Education, Youth and Sport. The club is a tenant. There is no naming rights deal and there cannot easily be one, because the venue is state property named after Prince Louis II. What there is instead is a publicly funded modernisation running in three phases to 2035: 90 million euros already spent on the track, the aquatic centre, floodlighting and the pitch; 34 million now being spent on the tribunes, concessions and accessibility, which must finish before the 2027 Games of the Small States of Europe; and a third phase to 2035 covering the federation offices, public reception areas and the arches themselves. There is no plan to build a new stadium, no plan to move and no plan to expand capacity. Anyone telling you otherwise is repeating chatter that died years ago.

Supporter culture here is small, real and geographically odd. Ultras Monaco 94 were founded in 1994 for a Champions League tie against Barcelona, peaked at around 400 members during the 2003/04 run to the final, and are based at an address in Beausoleil, over the French border. The Club des Supporters de Monaco is the traditional association. Both groups boycotted home matches from September 2021 after a dispute over policing and away-fan handling at the Marseille fixture; both are back and reconciled, and the 2026/27 season book grid gives their members a thirty-euro reduction, which is the clearest evidence of a working relationship.

Getting there is the easiest journey in French football. Monaco-Monte-Carlo station is a fifteen-minute walk from the ground. Nice-Ville is 22 to 25 minutes away with around 55 trains a day from six euros. Cannes is just over an hour. Ventimiglia in Italy is 32 minutes with 31 services a day, and the club publishes specific outbound and return train times from Nice and Menton for every home fixture, which tells you how much of its crowd commutes across a border. Nice airport is under 30 minutes by road, or seven minutes by helicopter to the heliport next to the stadium, which is a genuine listed option rather than a joke. Local buses 4 and 6 serve the ground and the regional Ligne d'Azur 100 runs the coast from Nice to Menton.

Matchday With the Extras

Monaco sell hospitality under the AS Monaco VIP Experience banner, and given where the club plays the offer is more developed than the attendance figures would suggest. Five named products sit behind the Tribune d'Honneur. The Pub Rouge et Blanc, named for the club's wine partner, is a semi-VIP format at the entry level. The Salon Honneur is the business-networking lounge. The Roche Bobois Lounge has a panoramic terrace the club describes as unique in France. Above those sit the private boxes in the Honneur stand and the Loge des Légendes.

Prices are almost entirely unpublished. The club's business site carries no rate card and routes every enquiry to its commercial team. The one public figure is on the general ticketing catalogue, where a VIP Experience place for the Marseille fixture starts at 409.85 euros per person. The ranges below are indicative market estimates converted to sterling rather than quoted club rates, with that single published anchor as the reference point.

Package	What It Includes	Typical Price Range (GBP)
Pub Rouge et Blanc	Semi-VIP format with bar service and a premium seat, the entry point to the hospitality ladder	£110 – £190
Salon Honneur	Business-networking lounge with catering and entertainment, redesigned in the current renovation	£180 – £300
Roche Bobois Lounge	Branded lounge with a panoramic terrace, dedicated hosts and gourmet buffet service	£260 – £400
Loge des Légendes	Panoramic terrace product with premium catering and full-match hospitality	£320 – £450
Private box, Tribune d'Honneur	One of around eighteen enclosed boxes with dedicated service throughout, for corporate entertaining	£350 – £600+

Hospitality inventory is finite and the restricted fixtures clear first. The figures above are indicative and may change as availability shifts.

From Search to Seat in Eight Steps

Buying through a resale marketplace works differently from a club window because you select a specific seat from a specific seller rather than accepting an allocation. At Monaco, where the club closes its own general sale entirely for the fixtures most people want, that difference is often the only route. The eight steps below run from first search to the ticket reaching you.

Followed in that order the process is quick on an open fixture and rewards preparation on a restricted one. The habit specific to this club is establishing early whether the match you want is one the club will sell to the public at all, because if it is not, no amount of refreshing the club's site will change that.

The Fixtures That Disappear First

At most clubs this section ranks fixtures by how fast they sell. At Monaco it ranks them by whether the club will sell them to you at all, which is a different and more useful question.

Fixture Type	Why It Moves Fast
Monaco vs Marseille, played 30 August 2026	The template for how this club handles a marquee date. No general public sale at all, purchase restricted to season book holders and buyers with a two-match history since July 2023, two tickets maximum in the Pesages, no away allocation and rival colours banned throughout the ground. Monaco won it 2-0.
Monaco vs Paris Saint-Germain, Saturday 30 January 2027	The largest draw on the domestic card and the fixture most likely to attract the same restrictions. Monaco and PSG met twice in the Champions League knockout play-off in February 2026, with PSG going through 5-4 on aggregate after a 2-2 draw in Paris against ten men.
Monaco vs Nice, Saturday 2 January 2027	The Côte d'Azur derby, twenty kilometres and 131 competitive meetings of history. The most recent editions produced a mass brawl and a red card in October 2024 and a goalless draw in February 2026. The one fixture where the local support turns out in full.
Conference League home nights	Freiburg on 22 October, Nordsjælland on 5 November and Lincoln Red Imps on 17 December. European football at the Louis II is rare enough to draw a different crowd from the league, and the Freiburg fixture is the pick of the three.
Monaco vs Lyon on 6 March and Monaco vs Lens on 19 September 2026	The two fixtures against clubs that finished above Monaco last season, both bringing away support that travels well. Lens in particular have the highest away-loyalty rating in France, which fills an allocation the club would otherwise struggle to sell.

How Your Tickets Arrive

Monaco changed their entire ticketing system on 6 August 2026 and the change is total. Every ticket, season and single, domestic and European, now exists only inside the AS Monaco app. This replaced Monapass, the Monaco government's all-in-one principality ticketing system, and it means paper and mixed formats have gone from the club side entirely.

1. App-based mobile ticket. The standard and now effectively the only club-issued route. QR codes appear only a few days before the match rather than at purchase, and the club operates one ticket per phone number per person to stop gate congestion. In-app transfer to another person is supported.
2. Print-at-home. Not a club format any more, but still supplied by some sellers on the resale market where a ticket originated before the change or came through a visiting club. Print at full size on plain white paper and do not fold through the barcode.
3. Postal delivery. Rare now. Season book holders can request a physical collector card, but it is a keepsake rather than a means of entry. If a listing offers postal delivery, confirm what it actually is before committing.
4. Away voucher exchange. Specific to visiting supporters. Away tickets are sold as a ten-euro voucher by the visiting club in advance, exchanged for the match ticket at the visitor windows on Avenue du Portier from two hours before kick-off. Some visiting clubs have been required to issue these on paper rather than digitally.

Whichever route applies, the listing notes are the authority on timing. Read them at the point of purchase and keep the confirmation email, since the order reference resolves any question fastest.

Getting Through the Gates

Arrive Early

Gates open two hours before kick-off, stated consistently across the club's own matchday articles, and the away windows open at the same time. Access closes thirty minutes after kick-off, so a late arrival is still a possible arrival. The practical constraint at this ground is not the turnstiles but the road network: Monaco is two square kilometres and it chokes on matchday, which is why the club's own advice is to come by train and why it publishes specific SNCF times from Nice and Menton for every fixture.

Identification and Entry

This is stricter at Monaco than almost anywhere else in France and it catches visitors out. All tickets are nominative and personal. The name on the ticket must match photo identification presented at the gate, and the club's conditions of sale reserve the right to demand it. Multiple tickets in a single order must carry distinct names rather than duplicates, so you cannot buy four in your own name for a group. Under-16s must be accompanied by an adult. Carry a passport or identity card, which you will need in any case if you are travelling in from Ventimiglia.

Bag Policy

Bags exceeding 25 by 25 centimetres are prohibited, which is a dimensional limit rather than a litre one and is among the tightest published in Ligue 1. All hand luggage is subject to visual inspection as a condition of entry. Outside food and drink are not permitted: bottles, glasses and metal cans are all on the prohibited list, so nothing bought outside comes in with you. The rest of the list covers pyrotechnics, weapons, knives, rigid flagpoles, rigid umbrellas, helmets, animals and sharp objects, and anyone judged intoxicated is refused entry without refund. The ground is not cashless, with card and cash both accepted on site.

AS Monaco at a Glance

Detail	Information
Full name	Association Sportive de Monaco Football Club
Founded	23 August 1924
Nicknames	Les Monégasques, Les Rouge et Blanc, ASM
Colours	Red and white diagonal halves
Stadium	Stade Louis II, capacity around 16,350, opened 25 January 1985, owned by the Principality of Monaco
Head coach	Filipe Luís, appointed 6 July 2026, contracted to June 2028
Captain	Denis Zakaria
Chief executive	Thiago Scuro
Owner and president	Dmitry Rybolovlev, holding 66.67% through a trust, with the House of Grimaldi holding 33.33%
Competitions in 2026/27	Ligue 1, Coupe de France, UEFA Conference League league phase
Ligue 1 titles	8, most recently in 2016/17

A Principality Club With Eight French Titles

Monaco are the strangest institution in French football: a club representing a sovereign state of 38,857 people, playing in another country's league, in a stadium that country does not own, with eight championships and a European Cup final behind them. What follows runs from the founding in 1924 to a Conference League campaign a hundred and two years later.

Foundation and the First Titles (1924 to 1963)

• 23 August 1924: AS Monaco is founded from the merger of several local clubs
• 1948: the club turns professional and enters the French league system
• 1959/60: the first Coupe de France, won at the first attempt in a final
• 1960/61: the first Division 1 championship
• 1961: the first Trophée des Champions
• 1962/63: a second championship and a second Coupe de France in the same season, the club's first double

The founding oddity has never gone away and is worth stating clearly, because it explains almost everything else about this club. Monaco is a sovereign principality that plays in the French league. Its players have never paid French income tax. That single fact has shaped the club's recruitment, its finances and its relationship with the rest of the division for a hundred years, and it produced the most serious institutional dispute in modern French football, covered later on this page.

Onnis, Ettori and Two More Titles (1970 to 1986)

• 1970/71 and 1976/77: two Ligue 2 titles across a decade of movement between the divisions
• 1973 to 1980: Delio Onnis scores 223 goals for the club, still the record, on his way to 299 in the French top flight overall
• 1975 to 1994: Jean-Luc Ettori plays 755 matches in goal, the club appearance record, in a one-club career
• 1977/78: a third championship
• 1979/80: a third Coupe de France
• 1981/82: a fourth championship
• 1984/85: a fourth Coupe de France, with the Trophée des Champions to follow

Two men from this period still hold the club's defining records and neither total looks likely to move. Delio Onnis scored 223 goals for Monaco and remains the all-time leading scorer in French top-flight history with 299, a figure that has stood for more than four decades. Jean-Luc Ettori played 755 matches, held the all-time Ligue 1 appearance record with 602 top-flight games until Mickaël Landreau passed him in December 2013, and played in a European final at the end of it.

Wenger, Hoddle and Two European Finals (1987 to 2004)

• 1987: Arsène Wenger is appointed manager, aged 37
• 1987/88: the fifth championship, in Wenger's first season, inspired by Glenn Hoddle
• 1990/91: the fifth Coupe de France
• 6 May 1992: Cup Winners' Cup final in Lisbon, lost 2-0 to Werder Bremen, having beaten Swansea City 10-1 on aggregate on the way
• 17 September 1994: Wenger is dismissed with the side seventeenth, two years before Arsenal appoint him
• 1996/97 and 1999/2000: the sixth and seventh championships
• 2002/03: the Coupe de la Ligue, the club's only one
• 26 May 2004: Champions League final in Gelsenkirchen, lost 3-0 to Porto

Wenger's Monaco is where a generation of French football grew up. He signed Glenn Hoddle, who was voted French football's foreign player of the year and drove the 1988 title before a knee injury ended his spell in November 1990. He gave a teenage Emmanuel Petit his debut. Thierry Henry, David Trezeguet and Fabien Barthez all came through in the years immediately after him and all three won the 1997 championship here before winning the World Cup in 1998.

The 2004 run is the club's greatest European achievement and the way it ended is the part supporters cannot let go of. Monaco topped their group, beat Lokomotiv Moscow, then went to the Bernabéu, lost 4-2 to Real Madrid and won the return 3-1 to go through on away goals with Fernando Morientes scoring in both legs against his parent club. Chelsea were beaten 3-1 at the Louis II with ten men and held 2-2 at Stamford Bridge after trailing by two. Then in the final, Ludovic Giuly went off injured in the first half with the score goalless, Porto scored three, and José Mourinho left for Chelsea a week later.

Rybolovlev, Mbappé and the Modern Era (2011 to 2026)

• December 2011: Dmitry Rybolovlev takes control with the club in Ligue 2
• 2012/13: the Ligue 2 title and promotion, followed by the signings of Falcao, Moutinho and James Rodríguez
• 2013 and 2014: the tax dispute with the league, settled for 50 million euros and later annulled by the Conseil d'État
• 2016/17: the eighth championship, with a Champions League semi-final in the same season
• 2015 to 2018: Kylian Mbappé comes through the academy and is sold to Paris Saint-Germain
• February 2026: elimination from the Champions League knockout play-off by Paris Saint-Germain, 5-4 on aggregate
• 2025/26: seventh in Ligue 1 on 54 points, with three head coaches inside ten months
• August 2026: the Conference League play-off won 7-3 on aggregate against Górnik Zabrze

The 2016/17 side is the one the wider world remembers. A 17-year-old Mbappé, Bernardo Silva, Fabinho, Benjamin Mendy and Thomas Lemar took the title off Paris Saint-Germain and reached a Champions League semi-final, and within eighteen months almost all of them had been sold. That is the Monaco model in its purest form and the club has run it ever since, most recently selling Maghnes Akliouche to PSG for 50 million euros in August 2026.

The last twelve months have been less orderly. Adi Hütter left in October 2025 with the club fifth and one point from two Champions League matches. Sébastien Pocognoli lasted from that October until 1 June 2026, when he was dismissed after seventh place and the loss of Champions League qualification. Filipe Luís arrived on 6 July 2026 with a Copa Libertadores and a Brasileirão behind him at Flamengo. Paul Pogba's eighteen-month spell ended by mutual consent on 19 August 2026 after six appearances and 105 minutes of football.

The Names That Passed Through Fontvieille

Monaco's records belong to two men who stayed, and the club's reputation belongs to a long list who did not. Both halves matter, because a club of this size has always survived by finding players early and selling them at the top, and it has been doing that since long before the phrase player trading existed.

Player	Role	Contribution	Milestones
Jean-Luc Ettori	Goalkeeper, 1975 to 1994	Seven hundred and fifty-five matches across nineteen years in a one-club career, the club appearance record and one of the longest single-club runs in French football. He held the all-time Ligue 1 appearance record with 602 top-flight games until 2013, and played in the 1992 Cup Winners' Cup final at the end of it.	Club record 755 appearances, five major honours
Delio Onnis	Forward, 1973 to 1980	Two hundred and twenty-three goals in seven seasons and the club's record scorer, but the wider record is the one that matters: 299 goals in the French top flight, still the all-time high more than forty years later. He also holds the Côte d'Azur derby scoring record with thirteen, including four in one match.	Club record 223 goals, all-time French top-flight record scorer with 299
Arsène Wenger	Manager, 1987 to September 1994	Appointed at 37 and won the championship in his first season. He signed Glenn Hoddle, gave Emmanuel Petit his debut, took the club to the 1991 Coupe de France and the 1992 Cup Winners' Cup final, and was dismissed in September 1994 with the side seventeenth. Arsenal appointed him two years later.	1988 championship, 1991 Coupe de France, 1992 European final
Glenn Hoddle	Midfielder, 1987 to November 1990	Signed by Wenger and voted French football's foreign player of the year, he was the creative centre of the 1988 championship side. A knee injury ended the spell early and he left by mutual consent in November 1990, but the football he played here is still cited as the finest of his career.	1988 championship, French football's foreign player of the year
Emmanuel Petit	Defender and midfielder, 1988 to 1997	An academy product who won the championship as a teenager in 1988 and again in 1997, with the Coupe de France in 1991 in between, across 290 appearances. He left for Arsenal in 1997 and won the World Cup the following summer, scoring in the final.	Two championships, 1991 Coupe de France, 290 appearances
Thierry Henry	Forward, 1994 to 1999	An academy graduate who broke through under Wenger's successors, won the 1997 championship and played in the 1998 Champions League semi-final before joining Juventus in January 1999. He reached Arsenal via that Juventus half-season, and everything that followed began here.	1997 championship, Champions League semi-final 1998
Ludovic Giuly	Forward, 1998 to 2004	Two hundred and sixty-six appearances, eleventh on the club's all-time list, and captain of the side that reached the 2004 Champions League final. He was carried off injured in the first half of that final with the score goalless, which is the single most consequential substitution in the club's history.	2003 Coupe de la Ligue, captain in the 2004 Champions League final
Kylian Mbappé	Forward, academy to 2018	Came through the academy and broke into the side at 17 during the 2016/17 championship and Champions League semi-final run, then joined Paris Saint-Germain. The clearest illustration of the model this club runs: find them, play them young, sell them at the peak of the market.	2016/17 championship, Champions League semi-final

No shirt number is formally retired at AS Monaco. The French clubs that do withdraw numbers are Lens, Nantes, Rennes, Saint-Étienne, Nice and Clermont; Monaco appears on no such list and neither the club nor any record of it names a retired number. Also worth correcting a duplication that appears on some legend lists: Emmanuel Petit and Manu Petit are the same man, not two players.

What Sits in the Cabinet

Eight French championships puts Monaco third in the all-time list behind Saint-Étienne and Paris Saint-Germain, which is a remarkable return for a club representing a state of under 39,000 people. What is missing is a European trophy, despite two finals.

Competition	Titles
Ligue 1 and Division 1	8 (1960/61, 1962/63, 1977/78, 1981/82, 1987/88, 1996/97, 1999/2000, 2016/17)
Coupe de France	5 (1959/60, 1962/63, 1979/80, 1984/85, 1990/91)
Trophée des Champions	4 (1961, 1985, 1997, 2000)
Coupe de la Ligue	1 (2002/03)
Ligue 2 and Division 2	3 (1970/71, 1976/77, 2012/13). The club's own honours page does not list Ligue 2 at all and other sources give different years, so treat this line as the closest reconciliation rather than settled
European Cup Winners' Cup	None. Runners-up in 1992, losing 2-0 to Werder Bremen in Lisbon
Champions League	None. Runners-up in 2004, losing 3-0 to Porto in Gelsenkirchen

The Ligue 2 count is the only line with a genuine dispute and it is a strange one: the club's own honours page omits second-tier titles entirely, while independent sources give three across different sets of years. The eight top-flight championships, five Coupes de France and four Trophées des Champions are agreed by both the club and independent records. One number worth stating for the sake of accuracy: Monaco's record European win is 8-0 against Swansea City in the 1991/92 Cup Winners' Cup, part of a 10-1 aggregate.

The Matches That Matter Most

Monaco have exactly one rivalry, and being honest about that is more useful than manufacturing two more. What the club does have alongside it is something rarer: a documented, league-wide institutional grievance about its tax status that has no fixture attached to it but colours every away trip it makes.

Domestic Rivals

OGC Nice and the Côte d'Azur Derby

Twenty kilometres separate the two clubs and 131 competitive meetings separate the two records, with Monaco leading 58 wins to 38 and 35 draws by the club's own count. The first meeting was in November 1953. Delio Onnis is the derby's leading scorer with thirteen or fourteen, including four in a single match in 1976/77, and Monaco's 6-1 win in September 1978 remains the record scoreline. Dimitar Berbatov's lob in 2014 was voted the derby's goal of the century in a club poll and is the moment both sets of supporters cite first.

An honest assessment matters here, because this fixture is routinely oversold. It is a real derby with real needle: the October 2024 meeting produced an almighty scuffle at the end of the first half and a red card for Vanderson. But it is asymmetric. Nice is a city where football is the local institution and beating Monaco is personal; Monaco is a principality with the lowest attendance in the division and no mass local base for the fixture to be fiercest in. Nice have three derbies on their list, including a Marseille fixture that actually produced an abandonment and a points deduction. Monaco have one. Calling this one of the hottest rivalries in French football overstates it. Calling it a legitimate regional derby that matters more to Nice than to Monaco is defensible. The 2026/27 meetings fall on 2 January 2027 at the Louis II and 22 May 2027 at the Allianz Riviera.

The Tax Question and the Antipathy It Created

This is not a rivalry and it should not be sold as one, but it is the single most important thing about how the rest of French football regards this club. In March 2013 the league adopted a rule requiring clubs to have their registered head office in France, aimed squarely at Monaco, whose players pay no French income tax while rival clubs were absorbing rising top-rate liabilities for theirs. Monaco refused to relocate and took the matter to the Conseil d'État.

The settlement announced on 24 January 2014 had Monaco pay a one-off 50 million euros to the league and withdraw the case, with the relocation requirement dropped. Then, on 9 July 2015, the Conseil d'État annulled that agreement, ruling that the league's regulatory power over conditions of participation exists in the general interest and cannot be bargained away, so the contract had an unlawful object. The court declined to apply the annulment retroactively, so Monaco's participation stood. The resentment among rival clubs is well documented from 2013 onwards, and it has no fixture, no matchday expression and no single opponent attached to it. It is a league-wide grievance rather than a derby, and it is why Monaco away days have a texture that the attendance figures do not explain.

The Rivalries Monaco Does Not Have

Worth stating because ticket pages invent them. Marseille and Paris Saint-Germain are marquee fixtures with sporting stakes, and the Paris fixture has an obvious wealth-project symmetry to it, but neither is a documented rivalry with a name, an origin or a supporter tradition. Saint-Étienne has no Monaco dimension whatsoever. The standard surveys of the rivalries that define Ligue 1 list four, and Monaco appears in exactly one of them. A page telling you this club has three rivals is padding a section rather than reporting one.

Beyond France

Porto and the Night in Gelsenkirchen

The one European opponent that matters. On 26 May 2004 at the Arena AufSchalke, Monaco met a Porto side managed by José Mourinho in the Champions League final and lost 3-0 to goals from Carlos Alberto, Deco and Dmitri Alenichev. The result is not what supporters return to. What they return to is Ludovic Giuly, the captain and the side's most dangerous attacker, going off injured in the first half with the score still goalless, and a team that had beaten Real Madrid on away goals and Chelsea across two legs simply never recovering. Mourinho left for Chelsea a week later.

CSKA Sofia, the Opponent With History

Of Monaco's six Conference League league-phase opponents, only one carries a documented past. Monaco and CSKA Sofia have met twice before in European competition, in the 1984/85 first round and again in 2005/06, with the record standing at one win each and a draw. They meet away in Sofia on 15 October 2026. For Freiburg, Nordsjælland, Lincoln Red Imps, Hearts and Brighton no prior competitive meeting is documented, and while Brighton's European history began only in 2023/24 and Nordsjælland were founded in 2003, the honest formulation is that no previous meeting is on record rather than that these are certainly firsts.

The Last Five Campaigns

Four top-three finishes in five years and then a seventh. Monaco have been among the most consistently good sides in France across this period and have almost nothing to show for it, exiting the Coupe de France to lower-division opposition three times and losing a Champions League knockout play-off in each of the last two seasons.

Season	Summary
2021/22	Third in Ligue 1 on 69 points from 38 matches, the highest points total of the five. The Coupe de France reached the semi-finals before a penalty shootout defeat to Nantes. In Europe, a Champions League play-off exit to Shakhtar Donetsk dropped Monaco into the Europa League, where they won their group and reached the round of 16, losing to Braga.
2022/23	Sixth on 65 points, a solid league campaign undermined by both cup competitions. The Coupe de France ended at the round of 64 against Rodez in January 2023. In Europe, a third qualifying round exit to PSV again sent Monaco into the Europa League, where the knockout play-off against Bayer Leverkusen finished 5-5 on aggregate and was lost in extra time.
2023/24	Second on 67 points from 34 matches, the club's highest finish of the five and a return to the Champions League. It came with no European football at all during the season and one of the more painful cup exits in the club's history: a round of 16 defeat to Rouen of the third tier, 1-1 and 4-3 on penalties, in February 2024.
2024/25	Third on 61 points and back in the Champions League league phase, where Monaco went through to the knockout play-off and lost it to Benfica 4-3 on aggregate. The Coupe de France produced a third consecutive early exit, beaten by Reims on penalties in the round of 16 in January 2025 after a 1-1 draw.
2025/26	Seventh on 54 points from 34 matches, 16 wins, 6 draws and 12 defeats, the weakest league season of the five and the one that cost the club Champions League qualification. The Champions League league phase ended in 21st place on ten points, followed by a knockout play-off against Paris Saint-Germain lost 5-4 on aggregate after a 2-2 draw in Paris with ten men. Adi Hütter left in October and Sébastien Pocognoli was dismissed in June.

The 2026/27 Squad

Monaco sold heavily and bought selectively in the summer of 2026, which is the pattern this club has run for fifteen years. Maghnes Akliouche joined Paris Saint-Germain for 50 million euros in August, Aladji Bamba went to Newcastle United and Caio Henrique to Ajax for a fee that set an Ajax record for a defender. Coming the other way, Matthis Abline arrived from Nantes for a reported 25 to 30 million, Ansu Fati's loan from Barcelona was converted permanently at 11 million with a buy-back clause attached, and Sadibou Sané came from Metz.

Paul Pogba's contract was terminated by mutual consent on 19 August 2026, a year early, after six appearances and 105 minutes of football across eighteen months. Any page still listing him in this squad is out of date by less than a fortnight. Two players are currently unavailable with cruciate ligament injuries, Mohammed Salisu and Takumi Minamino. Values below are approximate, converted from FotMob's euro figures rather than Transfermarkt, which blocks automated access.

No.	Player	Position	Value (£)
16	Philipp Köhn	Goalkeeper	2,150,000
1	Lukáš Hrádecký	Goalkeeper	740,000
2	Vanderson	Defender	15,820,000
13	Christian Mawissa	Defender	14,190,000
5	Thilo Kehrer	Defender	12,210,000
4	Jordan Teze	Defender	10,410,000
22	Mohammed Salisu	Defender	7,910,000
20	Flávio Nazinho	Defender	4,040,000
15	Eric Dier	Defender	2,410,000
8	Lamine Camara	Midfielder	28,550,000
6	Denis Zakaria	Midfielder	18,400,000
10	Aleksandr Golovin	Midfielder	12,470,000
17	Stanis Idumbo Muzambo	Midfielder	4,300,000
14	Mika Biereth	Forward	21,240,000
9	Folarin Balogun	Forward	19,780,000
11	Matthis Abline	Forward	16,770,000
31	Ansu Fati	Forward	12,210,000

Lamine Camara is the most valuable player in the squad and inherited Pogba's number 8. Monaco have four wins from four competitive matches this season: 3-2 at Górnik Zabrze on 20 August, 1-0 at Le Havre on 23 August in front of 18,956, 4-1 against Górnik at home on 27 August and 2-0 against Marseille on 30 August, with Paris Brunner scoring twice in the last of them. Squad numbers are reported inconsistently across databases for this club, with Eric Dier, Lamine Camara and Matthis Abline all carrying two different numbers depending on the source, so confirm the number with the club before buying anything with a name printed on it.

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Sources: AS Monaco official website (asmonaco.com), its ticketing platform and conditions of sale, the Stade Louis II venue site operated by the Monaco government (stadelouis2.mc), the Gouvernement Princier for the stadium modernisation programme, IMSEE for the 2025 Monaco census, Ligue de Football Professionnel (lfp.fr), Ligue 1 (ligue1.com), Fédération Française de Football (fff.fr), UEFA (uefa.com), FotMob, News Tank Sport, Monaco Tribune, Monaco Life, La Diagonale, statfootballclubfrance.fr, worldfootball.net and Wikipedia as a cross-reference. Squad valuations are drawn from FotMob and are approximate. Transfermarkt blocks automated access and was not used.

Where Monaco Compete in 2026/27

• Ligue 1 2026/27, 18 clubs and 34 matchdays, with Monaco entering as the previous season's seventh-placed side
• UEFA Conference League, the league phase, reached by beating Górnik Zabrze 7-3 on aggregate in the play-off round in August 2026
• Coupe de France, which Monaco have won five times, most recently in 1991
• Other European league competitions for supporters following more than one club across the continent

The Conference League home fixtures are Freiburg on 22 October, Nordsjælland on 5 November and Lincoln Red Imps on 17 December, with away trips to CSKA Sofia on 15 October, Hearts on 26 November and Brighton on 10 December. The Ligue 1 calendar below is the full set of confirmed domestic fixtures for the season.

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