Scorigami

SCORIGAMI: AS Saint-Etienne 7, Lille OSC 4 is the first 7-4 game in Ligue 1 history

Final · October 24, 1965

For the first time ever, Ligue 1 produced a 7-4 final. AS Saint-Etienne beat Lille OSC on October 24, 1965, filling a cell that had stayed empty across 29,558 games.

Where 7-4 sits among nearby Ligue 1 scores. Deeper blue means a score has happened more often; the outlined cell is the new one.

The league's previous scorigami was 11-2, Racing Club de France over FC Metz on November 19, 1961, 3 years and 11 months earlier. This is Ligue 1's 1st new final score of the 1965 season, and the grid now holds 74.6 percent of every realistic final score.

Its closest neighbors show how tight the score space had become: 8-4 had happened 3 times and 7-5 had still never happened. It lands on the high-scoring frontier of the grid, the sparse territory that only fills in on the rare night the points pile up.

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