# 2021–22 OGC Nice season

The 2021–22 season was the 95th season in the existence of OGC Nice and the club's 20th consecutive season in the top flight of French football. In addition to the domestic league, Nice participated in this season's edition of the Coupe de France.

## Season overview

On 28 June 2021, reigning Ligue 1 manager of the year Christophe Galtier was appointed as the new head coach of Nice.

## Players
### First-team squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 1 | GK | POL | Marcin Bułka (on loan from Paris Saint-Germain) |
| 4 | DF | BRA | Dante (captain) |
| 5 | DF | AUT | Flavius Daniliuc |
| 6 | MF | FRA | Morgan Schneiderlin |
| 7 | FW | ALG | Andy Delort |
| 8 | MF | NED | Pablo Rosario |
| 9 | FW | DEN | Kasper Dolberg |
| 10 | FW | FRA | Alexis Claude-Maurice |
| 11 | FW | FRA | Amine Gouiri |
| 12 | DF | FRA | Jordan Amavi (on loan from Marseille) |
| 14 | MF | ALG | Billal Brahimi |
| 15 | MF | BRA | Danilo Barbosa |
| 16 | GK | ALG | Teddy Boulhendi |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 18 | MF | GAB | Mario Lemina |
| 19 | MF | FRA | Khéphren Thuram |
| 20 | DF | ALG | Youcef Atal |
| 21 | FW | NED | Justin Kluivert (on loan from Roma) |
| 22 | FW | NED | Calvin Stengs |
| 23 | DF | SUI | Jordan Lotomba |
| 24 | FW | FRA | Evann Guessand |
| 25 | DF | FRA | Jean-Clair Todibo |
| 26 | DF | FRA | Melvin Bard |
| 28 | MF | ALG | Hicham Boudaoui |
| 33 | MF | CAN | Justin Smith |
| 40 | GK | ARG | Walter Benítez |

### 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 |
| 3 | DF | BRA | Robson Bambu (on loan to Corinthians) |
| 29 | FW | FRA | Lucas Da Cunha (on loan to Clermont Foot) |
| 34 | FW | IRL | Deji Sotona (on loan to Brentford B) |
| — | DF | CIV | Ibrahim Cissé (on loan to Le Mans FC) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | MF | FRA | Alexis Trouillet (on loan to AJ Auxerre) |
| — | MF | CIV | Jean N'Guessan (on loan to Lausanne-Sport) |
| — | DF | FRA | Andy Pelmard (on loan to FC Basel) |
| — | FW | SUI | Dan Ndoye (on loan to FC Basel) |

### Other players under contract

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | FW | FRA | Ihsan Sacko |

## Transfers
### In

| No. | Pos | Player | Transferred from | Fee | Type | Date |
| | DF | Ibrahim Cissé | Châteauroux | Free | Loan return | 30 June 2021 |
| | DF | Armel Zohouri | Lausanne-Sport | Free | Loan return | 30 June 2021 |
| 12 | DF | Racine Coly | Amiens | Free | Loan return | 30 June 2021 |
| | MF | Pedro Brazão | Lausanne-Sport | Free | Loan return | 30 June 2021 |
| | MF | Wylan Cyprien | Parma | Free | Loan return | 30 June 2021 |
| | MF | Trazié Thomas | Lausanne-Sport | Free | Loan return | 30 June 2021 |
| | MF | Hicham Mahou | Lausanne-Sport | Free | Loan return | 30 June 2021 |
| | FW | Ihsan Sacko | Cosenza | Free | Loan return | 30 June 2021 |
| 24 | FW | Evann Guessand | Lausanne-Sport | Free | Loan return | 30 June 2021 |
| 29 | FW | Lucas Da Cunha | Lausanne-Sport | Free | Loan return | 30 June 2021 |
| | MF | Jean N'Guessan | Abidjan | Undisclosed | Transfer | 1 July 2021 |
| 25 | DF | Jean-Clair Todibo | Barcelona | €8.5m (+ add-ons) | Transfer | 1 July 2021 |
| 22 | FW | Calvin Stengs | AZ | €15.0m | Transfer | 14 July 2021 |
| 21 | FW | Justin Kluivert | Roma | Undisclosed | Loan with buy option | 20 July 2021 |
| 18 | MF | Mario Lemina | Southampton | €5.50m | Transfer | 24 July 2021 |
| 8 | MF | Pablo Rosario | PSV | €6.0m | Transfer | 27 July 2021 |
| 26 | DF | Melvin Bard | Lyon | €3.0m | Transfer | 31 July 2021 |
| 1 | GK | Marcin Bułka | Paris Saint-Germain | Undisclosed | Loan with buy option | 5 August 2021 |
| 7 | FW | Andy Delort | Montpellier | €10.0m | Transfer | 28 August 2021 |
| 15 | MF | Danilo Barbosa | Palmeiras | Free | Loan return | 31 December 2021 |
| 12 | DF | Jordan Amavi | Marseille | Undisclosed | Loan | 5 January 2022 |
| | DF | Kouadio Ange Ahoussou | Abidjan | Undisclosed | Transfer | 7 January 2022 |
| 14 | MF | Billal Brahimi | Angers | €7M | Transfer | 28 January 2022 |

### Out

| No. | Pos | Player | Transferred to | Fee | Type | Date |
| 25 | DF | Jean-Clair Todibo | Barcelona | Free | Loan return | 30 June 2021 |
| 18 | DF | William Saliba | Arsenal | Free | Loan return | 30 June 2021 |
| 29 | MF | Jeff Reine-Adélaïde | Lyon | Free | Loan return | 30 June 2021 |
| 22 | MF | Rony Lopes | Sevilla | Free | Loan return | 30 June 2021 |
| 30 | GK | Yoan Cardinale | Free agent | Free | End of contract | 1 July 2021 |
| | DF | Armel Zohouri | Lausanne-Sport | Undisclosed | Transfer | 1 July 2021 |
| | DF | Ibrahim Cissé | Le Mans | Undisclosed | Loan | 1 July 2021 |
| | MF | Trazié Thomas | Lausanne-Sport | Undisclosed | Transfer | 1 July 2021 |
| | MF | Hicham Mahou | Lausanne-Sport | Undisclosed | Transfer | 1 July 2021 |
| | MF | Wylan Cyprien | Parma | €6.70m | Transfer | 1 July 2021 |
| | MF | Jean N'Guessan | Lausanne-Sport | Undisclosed | Loan | 2 July 2021 |
| 12 | DF | Racine Coly | Estoril | Free | Transfer | 3 July 2021 |
| 8 | MF | Pierre Lees-Melou | Norwich City | €6.0m | Transfer | 13 July 2021 |
| 24 | DF | Andy Pelmard | Basel | Undisclosed | Loan with buy option | 20 July 2021 |
| 2 | DF | Stanley Nsoki | Club Brugge | €6.50m | Transfer | 24 July 2021 |
| | MF | Pedro Brazão | Famalicão | Undisclosed | Transfer | 18 August 2021 |
| 33 | MF | Malik Sellouki | Maribor | Free | Transfer | 25 August 2021 |
| 27 | MF | Alexis Trouillet | Auxerre | Undisclosed | Loan | 30 August 2021 |
| 14 | FW | Dan Ndoye | Basel | Undisclosed | Loan with buy option | 31 August 2021 |
| 7 | FW | Myziane Maolida | Hertha BSC | €4.0m | Transfer | 31 August 2021 |
| 13 | DF | Hassane Kamara | Watford | €4.0m | Transfer | 4 January 2022 |
| 29 | FW | Lucas Da Cunha | Clermont Foot | Undisclosed | Loan | 17 January 2022 |
| 3 | DF | Robson Bambu | Corinthians | Undisclosed | Loan | 20 January 2022 |
| 34 | FW | Deji Sotona | Brentford B | Undisclosed | Loan | 31 January 2022 |

## Pre-season and friendlies

Win  Draw  Loss

## Competitions
### Overall record

| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record |
| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % |
| Ligue 1 | 8 August 2021 | 21 May 2022 | Matchday 1 | 5th | 38 | 20 | 7 | 11 | 52 | 36 | +16 | 052.63 |
| Coupe de France | 19 December 2021 | 7 May 2022 | Round of 64 | Runners-up | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 2 | +5 | 060.00 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 43 | 23 | 8 | 12 | 59 | 38 | +21 | 053.49 |
Source: Soccerway

### Ligue 1
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 3 | Monaco | 38 | 20 | 9 | 9 | 65 | 40 | +25 | 69 | Qualification for the Champions League third qualifying round |
| 4 | Rennes | 38 | 20 | 6 | 12 | 82 | 40 | +42 | 66 | Qualification for the Europa League group stage |
| 5 | Nice | 38 | 20 | 7 | 11 | 52 | 36 | +16 | 66 | Qualification for the Europa Conference League play-off round |
| 6 | Strasbourg | 38 | 17 | 12 | 9 | 60 | 43 | +17 | 63 | |
| 7 | Lens | 38 | 17 | 11 | 10 | 62 | 48 | +14 | 62 | |
* ↑ Nice were deducted one point for uncontrolled crowd trouble that caused the abandonment of their match against Marseille.

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Source: Ligue 1

#### Results by round

| Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 |
| Ground | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A |
| Result | D | W | D | W | W | D | L | W | W | L | W | W | L | W | L | D | L | W | W | W | W | W | L | L | W | D | W | D | L | D | L | W | L | W | W | W | L | W |
| Position | 15 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 5 |

#### Matches

The league fixtures were announced on 25 June 2021.

### Coupe de France
## Statistics
### Appearances and goals

| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Total | Ligue 1 | Ligue 1 | Coupe de France | Coupe de France |
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| Goalkeepers ||||||||||
| 1 | GK | POL | Marcin Bułka | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 16 | GK | ALG | Teddy Boulhendi | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 40 | GK | ARG | Walter Benítez | 37 | 0 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Defenders ||||||||||
| 4 | DF | BRA | Dante | 38 | 0 | 33+1 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 5 | DF | AUT | Flavius Daniliuc | 27 | 0 | 14+10 | 0 | 2+1 | 0 |
| 12 | DF | FRA | Jordan Amavi | 9 | 0 | 4+4 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 20 | DF | ALG | Youcef Atal | 18 | 2 | 13+4 | 2 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 23 | DF | SUI | Jordan Lotomba | 34 | 0 | 19+11 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 25 | DF | FRA | Jean-Clair Todibo | 40 | 1 | 35+1 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| 26 | DF | FRA | Melvin Bard | 37 | 2 | 30+3 | 2 | 4 | 0 |
| Midfielders ||||||||||
| 6 | MF | FRA | Morgan Schneiderlin | 24 | 0 | 5+15 | 0 | 3+1 | 0 |
| 8 | MF | NED | Pablo Rosario | 40 | 0 | 31+5 | 0 | 3+1 | 0 |
| 15 | MF | BRA | Danilo Barbosa | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 18 | MF | GAB | Mario Lemina | 36 | 2 | 24+8 | 2 | 1+3 | 0 |
| 19 | MF | FRA | Khéphren Thuram | 41 | 4 | 20+16 | 4 | 5 | 0 |
| 28 | MF | ALG | Hicham Boudaoui | 33 | 3 | 21+8 | 3 | 3+1 | 0 |
| 33 | MF | CAN | Justin Smith | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Forwards ||||||||||
| 7 | FW | ALG | Andy Delort | 37 | 18 | 26+6 | 16 | 4+1 | 2 |
| 9 | FW | DEN | Kasper Dolberg | 30 | 7 | 19+7 | 6 | 2+2 | 1 |
| 10 | FW | FRA | Alexis Claude-Maurice | 11 | 0 | 0+10 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 11 | FW | FRA | Amine Gouiri | 43 | 12 | 32+6 | 10 | 5 | 2 |
| 14 | FW | FRA | Billal Brahimi | 15 | 0 | 2+9 | 0 | 0+4 | 0 |
| 21 | FW | NED | Justin Kluivert | 31 | 6 | 24+3 | 4 | 3+1 | 2 |
| 22 | FW | NED | Calvin Stengs | 26 | 1 | 11+13 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 24 | FW | FRA | Evann Guessand | 25 | 1 | 2+18 | 1 | 0+5 | 0 |
| 34 | FW | IRL | Ayodeji Sotona | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Players transferred out during the season ||||||||||
| 3 | DF | BRA | Robson Bambu | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | FW | FRA | Myziane Maolida | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 13 | DF | CIV | Hassane Kamara | 11 | 0 | 7+4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 14 | FW | SUI | Dan Ndoye | 3 | 0 | 2+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 29 | FW | FRA | Lucas Da Cunha | 11 | 0 | 5+5 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
Last updated: 21 May 2022 Source: Competitions

### Goalscorers

    As of 10 February 2022
| Rank | No. | Pos. | Nat. | Player | Ligue 1 | Coupe de France | Total |
| 1 | 11 | FW | | Amine Gouiri | 10 | 1 | 11 |
| 2 | 7 | FW | | Andy Delort | 6 | 2 | 8 |
| 3 | 9 | FW | | Kasper Dolberg | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 4 | 21 | FW | | Justin Kluivert | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 5 | 19 | MF | | Khéphren Thuram | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 6 | 20 | DF | | Youcef Atal | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 6 | 28 | MF | | Hicham Boudaoui | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 8 | 26 | DF | | Melvin Bard | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | 24 | FW | | Evann Guessand | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | 18 | MF | | Mario Lemina | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | 22 | FW | | Calvin Stengs | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | 25 | DF | | Jean-Clair Todibo | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 36 | 5 | 41 |