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Ligue 1 · ELO profile, season forecast & model record
Season ELO trajectory
One point per matchday: the club's ELO rating after that round. Top-flight ratings are season-scoped (every club re-seeds at the start of a season, then the rating updates after every result), so trajectories are shown one season at a time. Second-division ratings carry over between seasons with regression to the mean. Hover a point for the date and league position behind it.
Champions League 2026-27
#31 in the title oddsTop 24 counts every league-phase finish inside the knockout places, so the eight clubs that skip the play-off round are in it too. Top 8 is the separate direct route to the last 16. Points and finish are league-phase numbers, conditional on playing it.
10,000 simulated seasons · updated Oct 20, 2026.
Season simulation
2026-27 season forecast
Projected: #7 of 18 50.6 expected pts · currently 7 pts after 6 matches
The line is the club's average finishing position across 10,000 Monte Carlo season simulations, re-run at each date (the dashed stretch covers rounds still to be played). Lower is better.
Full Ligue 1 simulation: every club's odds and the complete rank timeline →
2025-26: what the model simulated, and what happened
Final: #2 of 18 in Ligue 1 70 pts · 22W-4D-8L · GD +31
The line is the club's average finishing position across 10,000 Monte Carlo season simulations, re-run at each date. Lower is better.
Full Ligue 1 simulation: every club's odds and the complete rank timeline →
How predictable is Lens?
On script 2025-26 · 24 predicted matches
We grade every match forecast like a weather forecast: say 70% and it happens, good grade. Say 70% and it does not, bad grade, and the more confident we were, the bigger the penalty. Averaged over the season, Lens's results were 24.3% easier to call than the Ligue 1 average. How this is measured.
| Market | Lens | League avg |
|---|---|---|
| Match result (1X2) | 62.5% | 48.5% |
| Under/Over 2.5 goals | 66.7% | 55.9% |
| Both teams to score | 58.3% | 48.5% |
Share of predicted matches our as-published prediction called correctly, next to the league-wide average over the same season.
Season by season
| Season | League | Pos | Start | Peak | End |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-27 | Ligue 1 | #11 | 1522 | 1522 | 1488 |
| 2025-26 | Ligue 1 | #6 | 1471 | 1677 | 1596 |
| 2024-25 | Ligue 1 | #8 | 1529 | 1566 | 1532 |
| 2023-24 | Ligue 1 | #10 | 1482 | 1607 | 1505 |
| 2022-23 | Ligue 1 | #1 | 1518 | 1725 | 1725 |
| 2021-22 | Ligue 1 | #4 | 1502 | 1605 | 1605 |
| 2020-21 | Ligue 1 | #8 | 1482 | 1586 | 1516 |
| 2019-20 | Ligue 2 | #2 | 1570 | 1651 | 1597 |
| 2018-19 | Ligue 2 | #6 | 1502 | 1598 | 1556 |
| 2017-18 | Ligue 2 | #11 | 1482 | 1543 | 1465 |
| 2014-15 | Ligue 1 | #19 | 1482 | 1504 | 1324 |
ELO position is the rating rank inside the league at the last computed matchday of that season.
Recent matches: model vs reality
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