A few hours after UEFA, the LFP announced the schedule for the Ligue 1 matches that will take place around the two Champions League playoff legs between Monaco and Paris Saint-Germain. Without any preferential treatment.

As last year, PSG will have to go through a Champions League playoff round to hope to reach the round of 16, against Barcelona or Chelsea, and it will be against a French club, as it was last year.

After Brest, it is AS Monaco that will face the European champion, and UEFA unveiled the schedule for the two matches this Friday: the first leg in the Principality will be on Tuesday, Feb. 17, and the return leg at Parc des Princes on Wednesday, Feb. 25.

The LFP, for its part, was waiting for this draw to officially set the dates for the 22nd and 23rd rounds of Ligue 1, the matches before and between the two playoff legs, to schedule PSG and Monaco in the best possible conditions for this French club clash.

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For the matches before the first leg, PSG will travel to Rennes in the opening match of the 22nd round, on Friday, Feb. 13 at 7 p.m. For its part, Monaco will host FC Nantes on the same day, but starting at 8:45 p.m.

Both teams will then have four days to prepare for the first leg, and again four days before the Ligue 1 matches of the weekend, which have once again been scheduled for the same day. Indeed, PSG will host Metz on Saturday, Feb. 21, in the evening, while Monaco will have played at Lens a few hours earlier, starting at 5 p.m. Both teams will again have four days before the return leg, played on Wednesday, Feb. 25, in Paris.

The LFP has therefore applied the same principle for both clubs: they both play on the same day, and the traveling club plays first, in order to be able to return home at a reasonable hour.

Regarding the dates for the matches after the return leg, namely PSG's trip to Le Havre for the 24th round of Ligue 1, we will still have to wait a little longer to know the date, as it will depend on the French Cup round of 16 matches to be played in a few days.

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