# 2019–20 FC Nantes season

The 2019–20 season was Football Club de Nantes's 76th season in existence and the club's 7th consecutive season in the top flight of French football. In addition to the domestic league, Nantes participated in this season's editions of the Coupe de France, and the Coupe de la Ligue. The season covered the period from 1 July 2019 to 30 June 2020.

## Players
### Current squad

    As of 19 January 2020
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 | FRA | Alban Lafont (on loan from Fiorentina) |
| 2 | DF | BRA | Fábio |
| 3 | DF | FRA | Wesley Moustache |
| 4 | DF | FRA | Nicolas Pallois (vice-captain) |
| 6 | MF | FRA | Roli Pereira de Sa |
| 7 | FW | MLI | Kalifa Coulibaly |
| 8 | FW | FRA | Marcus Coco |
| 10 | MF | PER | Cristian Benavente (on loan from Pyramids FC) |
| 11 | MF | ALG | Mehdi Abeid |
| 12 | DF | FRA | Dennis Appiah |
| 13 | DF | MLI | Molla Wagué |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 14 | DF | MLI | Charles Traoré |
| 15 | FW | BEL | Anthony Limbombe |
| 16 | GK | FRA | Alexandre Olliero |
| 17 | MF | FRA | Ludovic Blas |
| 18 | MF | COD | Samuel Moutoussamy |
| 19 | MF | FRA | Abdoulaye Touré (captain) |
| 20 | DF | BRA | Andrei Girotto |
| 21 | MF | SVN | Rene Krhin |
| 22 | FW | FRA | Bridge Ndilu |
| 23 | DF | FRA | Thomas Basila |
| 24 | FW | FRA | Élie Youan |
| 25 | DF | TOG | Josué Homawoo |
| 26 | MF | FRA | Imran Louza |
| 27 | MF | NGA | Moses Simon (on loan from Levante) |
| 28 | FW | BEL | Renaud Emond |
| 30 | GK | SVN | Denis Petric |
| 32 | FW | FRA | Kader Bamba |

### 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 |
| — | GK | FRA | Quentin Braat (at Niort until 30 June 2020) |
| — | GK | FRA | Maxime Dupé (at Clermont Foot until 30 June 2020) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | MF | FRA | Abou Ba (at Aris until 30 June 2020) |
| — | MF | BRA | Lucas Evangelista (at Vitoria SC until 30 June 2020) |
| — | FW | COD | Randal Kolo (at Boulogne until 30 June 2020) |

### Reserve squad

    As of 1 January 2020
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 | Nassim Badri |
| — | GK | BIH | Adem Husejnovic |
| — | GK | FRA | Charly Jan |
| — | GK | FRA | Anthony Robin |
| — | DF | FRA | Victor Daguin |
| — | DF | FRA | Nathan Gassama |
| — | DF | FRA | Aristote Lusinga |
| — | DF | FRA | Ryan Sabry |
| — | DF | FRA | Abdoulaye Sylla |
| — | DF | FRA | Sekou Traore |
| — | DF | COD | Anthony Walongwa |
| — | MF | FRA | Teddy Bouriaud |
| — | MF | FRA | Theo Chendri |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | MF | FRA | Abdoulaye Dabo |
| — | MF | EQG | Santiago Eneme-Bocari |
| — | MF | CMR | James Eto'o-Eyenga |
| — | MF | FRA | Alexis Mané |
| — | MF | FRA | Bryan Mavinzi |
| — | MF | FRA | Batista Mendy |
| 33 | MF | PER | Percy Prado |
| — | MF | FRA | Mathis Thévenin |
| — | FW | FRA | Hakim Abdallah |
| — | FW | MLI | Amadou Coulibaly |
| — | FW | FRA | Taylor Luvambo |
| — | FW | FRA | Akram Tsague |

## Pre-season and friendlies

Win  Draw  Loss

## Competitions

Win  Draw  Loss  Fixtures

### Overview

| 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 | 10 August 2019 | 7 March 2020 | Matchday 1 | 13th | 28 | 11 | 4 | 13 | 28 | 31 | −3 | 039.29 |
| Coupe de France | 4 January 2020 | 18 January 2020 | Round of 64 | Round of 32 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | +1 | 050.00 |
| Coupe de la Ligue | 30 October 2019 | 18 December 2019 | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 1 | +7 | 050.00 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 32 | 13 | 4 | 15 | 41 | 36 | +5 | 040.63 |
Source: Soccerway

### Ligue 1
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | PPG |
| 11 | Angers | 28 | 11 | 6 | 11 | 28 | 33 | −5 | 39 | 1.39 |
| 12 | Bordeaux | 28 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 40 | 34 | +6 | 37 | 1.32 |
| 13 | Nantes | 28 | 11 | 4 | 13 | 28 | 31 | −3 | 37 | 1.32 |
| 14 | Brest | 28 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 34 | 37 | −3 | 34 | 1.21 |
| 15 | Metz | 28 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 27 | 35 | −8 | 34 | 1.21 |
* 1 2 3 4 Bordeaux finished ahead of Nantes on head-to-head points: Bordeaux 2–0 Nantes, Nantes 0–1 Bordeaux.

#### 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 | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | 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 |
| Result | L | D | W | W | W | L | W | W | W | L | L | L | L | D | W | L | W | W | L | W | L | L | L | D | D | W | L | L | C | C | C | C | C | C | C | C | C | C |
| Position | 13 | 14 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 11 | 12 | 12 | 11 | 11 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 |

#### Matches

The Ligue 1 schedule was announced on 14 June 2019. The Ligue 1 matches were suspended by the LFP on 13 March 2020 due to COVID-19 until further notices. On 28 April 2020, it was announced that Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 campaigns would not resume, after the country banned all sporting events until September. On 30 April, The LFP ended officially the 2019–20 season.

### Coupe de la Ligue
## Statistics
### Appearances and goals

| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Total | Ligue 1 | Ligue 1 | Coupe de France | Coupe de France | Coupe de la Ligue | Coupe de la Ligue |
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| Goalkeepers ||||||||||||
| 1 | GK | FRA | Alban Lafont | 29 | 0 | 27 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 16 | GK | FRA | Alexandre Olliero | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 30 | GK | SVN | Denis Petric | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Defenders ||||||||||||
| 2 | DF | BRA | Fábio | 10 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | DF | FRA | Wesley Moustache | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | DF | FRA | Nicolas Pallois | 22 | 0 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 12 | DF | FRA | Dennis Appiah | 22 | 0 | 18+1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 13 | DF | MLI | Molla Wagué | 11 | 0 | 8+1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 14 | DF | MLI | Charles Traoré | 23 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 20 | MF | BRA | Andrei Girotto | 28 | 1 | 25 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 23 | DF | FRA | Thomas Basila | 10 | 0 | 3+4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 25 | DF | TOG | Josué Homawoo | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 29 | DF | FRA | Batista Mendy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 33 | DF | PER | Percy Prado | 4 | 0 | 2+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| Midfielders ||||||||||||
| 6 | MF | BRA | Roli Pereira de Sa | 2 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 10 | MF | PER | Cristian Benavente | 13 | 0 | 4+8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 11 | MF | ALG | Mehdi Abeid | 29 | 3 | 20+5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1+1 | 1 |
| 17 | MF | FRA | Ludovic Blas | 28 | 7 | 22+2 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1+1 | 2 |
| 18 | MF | COD | Samuel Moutoussamy | 31 | 0 | 3+25 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 19 | MF | FRA | Abdoulaye Touré | 30 | 3 | 24+3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 21 | MF | SVN | Rene Krhin | 10 | 0 | 4+4 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 26 | MF | FRA | Imran Louza | 28 | 4 | 22+2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1+1 | 1 |
| 27 | MF | NGA | Moses Simon | 30 | 9 | 25+1 | 5 | 1+1 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Forwards ||||||||||||
| 7 | FW | MLI | Kalifa Coulibaly | 23 | 5 | 18+3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 8 | FW | FRA | Marcus Coco | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 15 | FW | BEL | Anthony Limbombe | 5 | 1 | 2+2 | 1 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 22 | FW | FRA | Bridge Ndilu | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 24 | FW | FRA | Élie Youan | 7 | 1 | 2+3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| 28 | FW | BEL | Renaud Emond | 7 | 1 | 3+3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 32 | FW | FRA | Kader Bamba | 30 | 1 | 16+11 | 1 | 0+1 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 |
| Players transferred out during the season ||||||||||||
Last updated: 7 March 2020 Source: Competitions

### Goalscorers

    As of matches played until 4 February 2020
| Rank | No. | Pos. | Player | Ligue 1 | Coupe de France | Coupe de la Ligue | Total |
| 1 | 27 | MF | Moses Simon | 4 | 1 | 3 | 8 |
| 2 | 17 | MF | Ludovic Blas | 5 | 0 | 2 | 7 |
| 3 | 7 | FW | Kalifa Coulibaly | 4 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 4 | 26 | MF | Imran Louza | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 5 | 11 | MF | Mehdi Abeid | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 | 19 | MF | Abdoulaye Touré | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 7 | 28 | FW | Renaud Emond | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | 33 | FW | Élie Youan | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Own goals | Own goals | Own goals | Own goals | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| TOTAL | TOTAL | TOTAL | TOTAL | 22 | 5 | 8 | 35 |