2020–21 Nîmes Olympique season

Nîmes Olympique
2020–21 season
President	Rani Assaf
Head coach	Jérôme Arpinon
Stadium	Stade des Costières
Ligue 1	Preseason
Coupe de France	Preseason
	← 2019–20

The 2020–21 Nîmes Olympique season is the club's 83rd season in existence and the club's 3rd consecutive season in the top flight of French football. In addition to the domestic league, Nîmes will participate in this season's edition of the Coupe de France. The season covers the period from 1 July 2020 to 30 June 2021.

Players

Current squad

As of 31 January 2020.^[1]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
4	DF	FRA	Pablo Martinez (on loan from Strasbourg)
5	DF	FRA	Loïck Landre
6	MF	SEN	Sidy Sarr
7	MF	FRA	Romain Philippoteaux
8	MF	FRA	Lucas Deaux
9	FW	FRA	Clément Depres
10	MF	ALG	Zinedine Ferhat
11	FW	MKD	Vlatko Stojanovski
12	MF	FRA	Lamine Fomba
14	MF	FRA	Antoine Valério
15	DF	FRA	Gaëtan Paquiez
16	GK	FRA	Lucas Dias
17	MF	BIH	Haris Duljević


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
18	MF	FRA	Theo Valls
19	DF	FRA	Lucas Buadés
20	FW	FRA	Renaud Ripart (vice-captain)
21	DF	FRA	Kelyan Guessoum
22	MF	MAR	Yassine Benrahou (on loan from Bordeaux)
23	DF	FRA	Anthony Briançon (captain)
24	FW	MAR	Sami Ben Amar
25	FW	FRA	Nolan Roux
26	DF	FRA	Florian Miguel
27	FW	TOG	Kévin Denkey
28	FW	SEN	Moussa Koné
29	DF	FRA	Sofiane Alakouch
30	GK	FRA	Paul Bernardoni (on loan from Bordeaux)

Reserve squad

As of 4 November 2019^[2]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—	GK	FRA	Côme Charrier
—	GK	FRA	Valentin Rabouille
—	DF	FRA	Alexandre Ferreira
—	DF	FRA	Jérémy Iafrate
—	DF	FRA	Enzo Fontanelli
—	DF	FRA	Matéo Maillefaud
—	DF	FRA	Julien Megier
—	DF	FRA	Mickaël Gas
—	MF	FRA	Kléri Serber


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—	MF	FRA	Mattéo Ahlinvi
—	MF	FRA	Simon Calancha
—	MF	FRA	Nacim El Hassani
—	MF	FRA	Quentin Gregorio
—	FW	FRA	Luca Valls
—	FW	FRA	Axel Urie
—	FW	FRA	Timothy Cardona
—	MF	FRA	Hugo Huriez
—	MF	FRA	Houssine Labiad

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—	DF	FRA	Théo Sainte-Luce (on loan to Gazélec until 30 June 2020)

Transfers

In

No.	Pos	Player	Transferred from	Fee	Date	Source
15			TBD		1 July 2020

Out

No.	Pos	Player	Transferred to	Fee	Date	Source
15			TBD		1 July 2020

Pre-season and friendlies

Win Draw Loss Fixtures

24 July 2020 Friendly	Strasbourg	1–0	Nîmes	Évian-les-Bains, France
17:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Mothiba 88' (pen.)			Stadium: Stade Camille-Fournier

31 July 2020 Friendly	Grenoble	2–0	Nîmes	Saint-Marcellin, France
17:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Ondaan 65' Diallo 90'			Stadium: Stade La Saulaie

4 August 2020 Friendly	Rodez	1–1	Nîmes	Nîmes, France
17:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Bonnet 66'		Philippoteaux 49'	Stadium: Sports Complex La Bastide

9 August 2020 Friendly	Nîmes	0–1	Marseille	Nîmes, France
20:00 CEST (UTC+2)			Ćaleta-Car 31' Kamara 69'	Stadium: Stade des Costières Referee: Stéphanie Frappart

15 August 2020 Friendly	Dijon	v	Nîmes	TBD, France
--:-- CEST (UTC+2)

Competitions

Overview

Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Record
Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
Ligue 1	22 August 2020	23 May 2021	Matchday 1	0	0	0	0	0	0	+0	!—
Coupe de France	2020		Round of 64	0	0	0	0	0	0	+0	!—
Total				0	0	0	0	0	0	+0	!—

Last updated: August 2020
Source: Competitions

Ligue 1

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
16	Lorient	38	11	9	18	50	68	−18	42
17	Brest	38	11	8	19	50	66	−16	41
18	Nantes (O)	38	9	13	16	47	55	−8	40	Qualification for the Relegation play-offs
19	Nîmes (R)	38	9	8	21	40	71	−31	35	Relegation to the Ligue 2
20	Dijon (R)	38	4	9	25	25	73	−48	21	Relegation to the Ligue 2

Source: Ligue 1
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Head-to-head goal difference; 5) Fairplay ranking.^[3]
(O) Play-off winners; (R) Relegated

Results summary


Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Last updated: August 2020.
Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Results by round

Round	1
Ground
Result
Position

Updated to match(es) played on August 2020. Source: ^{[citation needed]}
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Matches

The league fixtures were announced on 9 July 2020.^[4]

Coupe de France

References

^ "Effectif" (in French). nimes-olympique.com. Retrieved 1 March 2018.
^ "SAISON 2018-2019 NATIONAL 2". nimes-olympique.com. Retrieved 4 November 2019.
^ "League Table". Ligue1.com. Retrieved 12 August 2016.
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External links

Official website

[1] "Effectif" (in French). nimes-olympique.com. Retrieved 1 March 2018.

[2] "SAISON 2018-2019 NATIONAL 2". nimes-olympique.com. Retrieved 4 November 2019.

[3] "League Table". Ligue1.com. Retrieved 12 August 2016.

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