| Competition: | Division 1 |
| Season: | 1981–82 |
| Winners: | Monaco (4th title) |
| Relegated: | Valenciennes Nice Montpellier |
| Continentalcup1: | European Cup |
| Continentalcup1 Qualifiers: | Monaco |
| Continentalcup2: | Cup Winners' Cup |
| Continentalcup2 Qualifiers: | Paris Saint-Germain |
| Continentalcup3: | UEFA Cup |
| Continentalcup3 Qualifiers: | Saint-Étienne Sochaux Bordeaux |
| League Topscorer: | Delio Onnis (29) |
| Matches: | 380 |
| Total Goals: | 982 |
| Prevseason: | 1980–81 |
| Nextseason: | 1982–83 |
AS Monaco won Division 1 season 1981/1982 of the French Association Football League with 55 points.
Twenty teams competed in the league – the top eighteen teams from the previous season, as well as two teams promoted from 1980–81 French Division 2. The competition was contested in a double round robin format, with each club playing every other club twice, for a total of 38 rounds. Two points were awarded for wins and one point for draws.
| Team | Town | Position in 1980–81 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auxerre | Auxerre | 10th | |
| Bastia | Bastia | 12th | |
| Bordeaux | Bordeaux | 3rd | |
| Brest | Brest | Brittany | 1st in Division 2 |
| Laval | Laval | 16th | |
| Lens | Lens | 13th | |
| Lille | Lille | 17th | |
| Lyon | Lyon | 6th | |
| Metz | Metz | 9th | |
| Monaco | Monaco |  Monaco | 4th |
| Montpellier | Montpellier | 2nd in Division 2 | |
| Nancy | Nancy | 8th | |
| Nantes | Nantes | 2nd | |
| Nice | Nice | 15th | |
| Paris Saint-Germain | Paris | 5th | |
| Saint-Étienne | Saint-Étienne | 1st | |
| Sochaux | Montbéliard | 14th | |
| Strasbourg | Strasbourg | 7th | |
| Tours | Tours | 18th | |
| Valenciennes | Valenciennes | 11th | |
|}
| Rank | Player | Club | Goals[1] |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Delio Onnis | Tours | 29 |
| 2 |  Andrzej Szarmach | Auxerre | 24 |
| 3 |  Michel Platini | Saint-Étienne | 22 |
| 4 |  Teitur Thordarson | Lens | 19 |
| 5 | Uwe Krause | Laval | 18 |
| Drago Vabec | Brest | ||
| 7 | Bernard Lacombe | Bordeaux | 17 |
| 8 |  Ralf Edström | Monaco | 15 |
| Yannick Stopyra | Sochaux | ||
| 10 | Alain Giresse | Bordeaux | 14 |
| Simo Nikolić | Lyon |