Football is one of the leading sports in the small Principality of Monaco, enjoying large popularity alongside motor racing, yachting, and tennis.

The Monaco national team instead tend to play small-scale matches against non-FIFA members, usually across the border in Cap-d'Ail.

The club plays at the Stade Louis II, where average attendances have sometimes been as low as 5,000 demonstrating the need for financial aid to compete with teams who draw crowds several times that figure.

In 2004, they were runners-up in the UEFA Champions League to FC Porto, widely regarded as the most prestigious club tournament in world-wide football.

On 4 February 2022, AS Monaco passed the 20 million social media fan mark, which is the 16th largest in Europe.