The Trophee des Champions match between Ligue 1 title winner Paris St Germain and French Cup holder AS Monaco will be held in Doha, Qatar, next month the French League said on Thursday.

The January 5 game will be played at Stadium 974, one of the venues at the last World Cup, which is also hosting two matches of the 2024 FIFA Intercontinental Cup this month.

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The Trophee des Champions is the traditional curtain raiser to the French season, although last year’s match also took place in January when PSG beat Toulouse in Paris.

It will be the first time Qatar has hosted the event, which was first held outside of France in 2009 when the match took place in Canada and since then, Tunisia, Morocco, the United States, Gabon, China and Israel have all hosted the game.