# 2023–24 USL Dunkerque season

The 2023–24 season was Union Sportive du Littoral de Dunkerque's 115th season in existence and first one back in the Ligue 2 after finishing second in the Championnat National. They are also competing in the Coupe de France.

## Players
### First-team squad

    As of 7 June 2024
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 | Lucas Lavallée (on loan from PSG) |
| 2 | DF | FRA | Alioune Ba |
| 3 | DF | TOG | Loïc Bessilé |
| 4 | DF | FRA | Nehemiah Fernandez-Veliz |
| 5 | DF | FRA | Rémy Boissier |
| 8 | MF | FRA | Tidiane Keita |
| 9 | FW | FRA | Samy Baghdadi |
| 10 | MF | FRA | Julien Anziani |
| 11 | MF | CMR | François Mughe (on loan from Marseille) |
| 13 | DF | GLP | Junior Senneville |
| 14 | FW | CIV | Moussa Guel (on loan from Samsunspor) |
| 15 | DF | MAR | Achraf Laâziri (on loan from Lyon) |
| 16 | GK | FRA | Arnaud Balijon |
| 18 | FW | FRA | Gaëtan Courtet |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 19 | DF | COM | Benjaloud Youssouf |
| 20 | MF | FRA | Enzo Bardeli |
| 21 | FW | CIV | Armand Gnanduillet |
| 22 | DF | FRA | Driss Trichard |
| 23 | DF | BEL | Bram Lagae (on loan from Gent) |
| 24 | FW | GUI | Elhadj Bah (on loan from Samsunspor) |
| 26 | DF | GNB | Opa Sanganté |
| 27 | MF | FRA | Rayan Ghrieb |
| 28 | DF | FRA | Demba Thiam |
| 29 | MF | PAN | Ángel Orelien |
| 30 | GK | CIV | Mohamed Koné (on loan from Le Havre) |
| 80 | MF | MAR | Gessime Yassine |
| 92 | MF | MAR | Aïman Maurer (on loan from Clermont) |

### 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 | Geoffrey Kondo (at Furiani-Agliani until 30 June 2024) |
| — | MF | FRA | Guiry Egny (at Paris 13 Atletico until 30 June 2024) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | FW | FRA | Luderic Etonde (at Stade Briochin until 30 June 2024) |
| — | FW | COD | Freddy Mbemba (at Nîmes until 30 June 2024) |

## Transfers
### In

| Pos. | Player | Transferred from | Fee | Date |
| MF | Rémy Boissier | Unattached | Free | 18 July 2023 |
| GK | Lucas Lavallée | Paris Saint-Germain | Loan | 19 July 2023 |
| FW | Moussa Guel | Samsunspor | Loan | 2 August 2023 |

### Out

| Pos. | Player | Transferred to | Fee | Date | Source |
| DF | Geoffrey Kondo | Furiani-Agliani | Loan | 20 July 2023 | |

## 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 | 5 August 2023 | 17 May 2024 | Matchday 1 | 16th | 38 | 12 | 10 | 16 | 36 | 52 | −16 | 031.58 |
| Coupe de France | 18 November 2023 | 20 January 2024 | Seventh round | Round of 32 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | +1 | 050.00 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 42 | 14 | 11 | 17 | 42 | 57 | −15 | 033.33 |
Source: Soccerway

### Ligue 2
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion or Relegation |
| 14 | Annecy | 38 | 12 | 10 | 16 | 49 | 50 | −1 | 46 | |
| 15 | Ajaccio | 38 | 12 | 10 | 16 | 35 | 46 | −11 | 46 | |
| 16 | Dunkerque | 38 | 12 | 10 | 16 | 36 | 52 | −16 | 46 | |
| 17 | Troyes | 38 | 9 | 14 | 15 | 42 | 50 | −8 | 41 | Spared from relegation |
| 18 | Quevilly-Rouen (R) | 38 | 7 | 17 | 14 | 51 | 55 | −4 | 38 | Relegation to National |

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Source:

#### Results by round

| Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 |
| Ground | H | A | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H |
| Result | D | W | L | L | D | D | L | L | L | L | L | W | L | W | L | D | |
| Position | 9 | 7 | 13 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 18 | 20 | 20 | 19 | 19 | 18 | 19 | | |

#### Matches

The league fixtures were unveiled on 29 June 2023.