# 2021–22 Nîmes Olympique season

The 2021–22 season was the 35th season in the existence of Nîmes Olympique and the club's first season back in the second division of French football. In addition to the domestic league, Nîmes participated in this season's edition of the Coupe de France.

## 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 | NOR | Per Kristian Bråtveit (on loan from Djurgården) |
| 2 | DF | FRA | Kelyan Guessoum |
| 3 | DF | FRA | Scotty Sadzoute (on loan from OH Leuven) |
| 4 | DF | FRA | Pablo Martinez |
| 5 | DF | JPN | Naomichi Ueda |
| 6 | MF | SEN | Sidy Sarr |
| 7 | MF | SWE | Niclas Eliasson |
| 9 | FW | ISL | Elías Már Ómarsson |
| 10 | MF | ALG | Zinedine Ferhat |
| 12 | MF | FRA | Lamine Fomba |
| 14 | MF | FRA | Antoine Valério |
| 15 | DF | FRA | Gaëtan Paquiez |
| 16 | GK | FRA | Lucas Dias |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 17 | DF | FRA | Théo Sainte-Luce |
| 18 | MF | PAR | Andrés Cubas |
| 19 | DF | FRA | Julien Ponceau (on loan from Lorient) |
| 21 | DF | FRA | Patrick Burner |
| 22 | MF | MAR | Yassine Benrahou |
| 23 | DF | FRA | Anthony Briançon (captain) |
| 24 | FW | MLI | Mahamadou Doucouré |
| 28 | FW | SEN | Moussa Koné |
| 28 | DF | SEN | Moustapha Mbow (on loan from Reims) |
| 30 | GK | FRA | Amjhad Nazih |
| 32 | MF | FRA | Léon Delpech |
| 33 | DF | FRA | Pierre Zaidan |

## Transfers
### Out

| No. | Pos. | Player | Transferred to | Fee | Date | Source |
| 25 | DF | Birger Meling | Rennes | €3M | 20 July 2021 | |

## 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 2 | 24 July 2021 | 14 May 2022 | Matchday 1 | 9th | 38 | 14 | 7 | 17 | 44 | 51 | −7 | 036.84 |
| Coupe de France | 13 November 2021 | 18 December 2021 | Seventh round | Round of 64 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 6 | +0 | 033.33 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 41 | 15 | 8 | 18 | 50 | 57 | −7 | 036.59 |
Source: Soccerway

### Ligue 2
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 7 | Caen | 38 | 13 | 11 | 14 | 51 | 42 | +9 | 50 |
| 8 | Le Havre | 38 | 13 | 11 | 14 | 38 | 41 | −3 | 50 |
| 9 | Nîmes | 38 | 14 | 7 | 17 | 44 | 51 | −7 | 49 |
| 10 | Pau | 38 | 14 | 7 | 17 | 41 | 49 | −8 | 49 |
| 11 | Dijon | 38 | 13 | 8 | 17 | 48 | 53 | −5 | 47 |

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Source: Ligue 2

#### 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 | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H |
| Result | D | W | W | D | W | D | L | D | L | L | D | L | L | L | W | W | L | W | L | W | W | W | L | L | W | L | D | W | L | L | L | D | L | W | W | W | L | L |
| Position | 9 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 10 | 11 | 13 | 16 | 17 | 13 | 11 | 12 | 10 | 12 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 10 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 9 | 9 |

#### Matches

The league fixtures were announced on 25 June 2021.