# 2015–16 Chamois Niortais F.C. season

The 2015–16 season was the 90th season in the history of the French association football club Chamois Niortais. The senior team competed in Ligue 2 for the fourth consecutive season following an 11th-placed finish in 2014–15. The club also competed in both the Coupe de France and the Coupe de la Ligue.
Niort achieved a 16th-place finish in Ligue 2, reached the tenth round of the Coupe de France, and the first round of the Coupe de la Ligue.

## Competitions
### Ligue 2
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion or Relegation |
| 14 | Nîmes | 38 | 13 | 12 | 13 | 50 | 52 | −2 | 43 | |
| 15 | Sochaux | 38 | 9 | 15 | 14 | 34 | 36 | −2 | 42 | |
| 16 | Niort | 38 | 8 | 18 | 12 | 38 | 45 | −7 | 42 | |
| 17 | Ajaccio | 38 | 9 | 15 | 14 | 34 | 42 | −8 | 42 | |
| 18 | Evian (R, D) | 38 | 9 | 12 | 17 | 41 | 41 | 0 | 39 | Demotion to Division d'Honneur Régionale |
* ↑ Nîmes was docked 8 points for match fixing in the 2013–14 season.
* ↑ Evian was demoted due to financial difficulties.

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Last updated: 13 May 2016. Source: LFP.fr

#### Matches

Win  Draw  Loss

### Coupe de France

Niort entered the Coupe de France in the seventh round along with the other Ligue 2 clubs. For their opening fixture of the 2015–16 edition of the competition, Niort were drawn away at sixth-tier club La Rochelle. The team progressed to the next stage with a 5–1 victory which included a brace from Seydou Koné and a first-half goal by debutant Quentin Daubin.

#### Matches
### Coupe de la Ligue

Niort, aiming to progress past the first round of the Coupe de la Ligue for the first time since 2012, were handed an away tie at Sochaux in their opening game. Despite goals from Omrani and Koné, the home team—reduced to nine men in the second half—triumphed by three goals to two.

#### Matches
## Appearances and goals

    As of 13 May 2016.
| No. | Pos. | Nat. | Name | League | League | Cup | Cup | League Cup | League Cup | Total | Total | Discipline | Discipline |
| No. | Pos. | Nat. | Name | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | | |
| 1 | GK | FRA | Paul Delecroix | 33 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 35 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2 | DF | FRA | Kévin Malcuit † | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 3 | DF | BEN | David Kiki | 24 (1) | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
| 5 | DF | FRA | Matthieu Sans | 20 (2) | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 26 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| 7 | MF | BEN | David Djigla | 16 (15) | 1 | 1 (1) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 34 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 8 | MF | FRA | Florian Martin † | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 8 | MF | FRA | Faïz Selemani | 30 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 33 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| 9 | FW | CMR | Andé Dona Ndoh | 23 (13) | 13 | 2 | 1 | 0 (1) | 0 | 39 | 14 | 3 | 0 |
| 10 | MF | ALG | Abdelhakim Omrani | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 19 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| 11 | FW | FRA | Adrian Dabasse | 3 (9) | 1 | 0 (2) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 12 | FW | CIV | Seydou Koné | 20 (9) | 3 | 3 (1) | 3 | 1 | 1 | 34 | 7 | 5 | 0 |
| 14 | MF | FRA | Chafik Tigroudja | 10 (8) | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 (1) | 0 | 22 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 16 | GK | BEN | Saturnin Allagbé | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 17 | MF | FRA | Antoine Batisse | 8 (4) | 0 | 2 (1) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 18 | FW | FRA | Kévin Rocheteau | 18 (5) | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 27 | 3 | 4 | 0 |
| 19 | MF | FRA | Jimmy Roye | 36 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 40 | 6 | 6 | 0 |
| 20 | FW | FRA | Jérémy Grain | 0 (1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 21 | DF | FRA | Jérémy Choplin | 33 | 1 | 2 (1) | 0 | 0 (1) | 0 | 37 | 1 | 8 | 1 |
| 22 | MF | CMR | Daouda Bassock | 1 (6) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 23 | DF | FRA | Tristan Lahaye | 35 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 38 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 24 | MF | BEN | Djiman Koukou | 34 (4) | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 41 | 2 | 5 | 0 |
| 25 | DF | FRA | Thomas-Steven Da Veiga | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 26 | MF | FRA | Messaoud Bouardja | 1 (9) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 27 | DF | CMR | Frédéric Bong | 21 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 25 | 0 | 6 | 1 |
| 30 | GK | FRA | Arthur Desmas | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 33 | DF | FRA | Junior Sambia | 21 (10) | 2 | 2 (2) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 2 | 5 | 0 |
| 34 | DF | FRA | Junior Assoumou | 0 | 0 | 0 (1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| — | MF | FRA | Quentin Daubin | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |