# 2019–20 Montpellier HSC season

The 2019–20 season was Montpellier HSC's 101st season in existence and the club's 11th consecutive season in the top flight of French football. In addition to the domestic league, Montpellier 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
### Squad information

    As of 18 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 | ARG | Gerónimo Rulli (on loan from Real Sociedad) |
| 2 | DF | FRA | Arnaud Souquet |
| 3 | DF | FRA | Daniel Congré |
| 4 | DF | BRA | Hilton (vice-captain) |
| 5 | DF | POR | Pedro Mendes |
| 6 | MF | FRA | Junior Sambia |
| 8 | DF | CMR | Ambroise Oyongo |
| 9 | FW | ALG | Andy Delort |
| 10 | FW | FRA | Gaëtan Laborde |
| 11 | MF | FRA | Téji Savanier |
| 12 | MF | FRA | Jordan Ferri |
| 13 | MF | FRA | Joris Chotard |
| 14 | DF | FRA | Damien Le Tallec |
| 15 | FW | ALG | Bilal Boutobba |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 16 | GK | FRA | Dimitry Bertaud |
| 19 | FW | SEN | Souleymane Camara (captain) |
| 20 | MF | RSA | Keagan Dolly |
| 21 | MF | FRA | Kylian Kaïboué |
| 24 | FW | KOR | Yun Il-lok |
| 25 | MF | FRA | Florent Mollet |
| 26 | DF | SRB | Mihailo Ristić |
| 27 | DF | FRA | Clément Vidal |
| 29 | MF | RUS | Amir Adouyev |
| 30 | GK | FRA | Mathis Carvalho |
| 31 | DF | FRA | Nicolas Cozza |
| 32 | FW | SRB | Petar Škuletić |

### 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 |
| — | MF | FRA | Killian Sanson (on loan at Quevilly-Rouen) |
| — | FW | FRA | Bastian Badu (on loan at FC Chambly) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | FW | FRA | Yanis Ammour (on loan at Béziers) |

## Pre-season and friendlies

Win  Draw  Loss

## Competitions
### 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 | 8 March 2020 | Matchday 1 | 8th | 28 | 11 | 7 | 10 | 35 | 34 | +1 | 039.29 |
| Coupe de France | 5 January 2020 | 28 January 2020 | Round of 64 | Round of 16 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | +6 | 066.67 |
| Coupe de la Ligue | 30 October 2019 | 17 December 2019 | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | +0 | 050.00 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 33 | 14 | 8 | 11 | 44 | 37 | +7 | 042.42 |
Source: Soccerway

### Ligue 1
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | PPG | Qualification or relegation |
| 6 | Reims | 28 | 10 | 11 | 7 | 26 | 21 | +5 | 41 | 1.46 | Qualification for the Europa League second qualifying round |
| 7 | Lyon | 28 | 11 | 7 | 10 | 42 | 27 | +15 | 40 | 1.43 | |
| 8 | Montpellier | 28 | 11 | 7 | 10 | 35 | 34 | +1 | 40 | 1.43 | |
| 9 | Monaco | 28 | 11 | 7 | 10 | 44 | 44 | 0 | 40 | 1.43 | |
| 10 | Strasbourg | 27 | 11 | 5 | 11 | 32 | 32 | 0 | 38 | 1.41 | |
* 1 2 Nice finished ahead of Reims on head-to-head points: Nice 2–0 Reims, Reims 1–1 Nice.
* ↑ Since the winners of the Coupe de France and the Coupe de la Ligue, Paris Saint-Germain, qualified for the Champions League, the spot given to the Coupe de France winners (Europa League group stage) was passed to the fifth-placed team and the spot given to the Coupe de la Ligue winners (Europa League second qualifying round) was passed to the sixth-placed team.

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Last updated: 8 March 2020. 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 | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A |
| Result | L | D | W | L | W | D | W | L | W | L | D | D | W | D | W | D | L | L | W | W | W | L | D | W | L | L | W | L | C | C | C | C | C | C | C | C | C | C |
| Position | 16 | 14 | 12 | 14 | 12 | 12 | 10 | 10 | 7 | 8 | 10 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 12 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 |

#### 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 | ARG | Gerónimo Rulli | 20 | 0 | 19 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 16 | GK | FRA | Dimitry Bertaud | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 30 | GK | FRA | Mathis Carvalho | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Defenders ||||||||||||
| 2 | DF | FRA | Arnaud Souquet | 20 | 2 | 17+1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 3 | DF | FRA | Daniel Congré | 19 | 0 | 15+1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 4 | DF | BRA | Vitorino Hilton | 23 | 1 | 20 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1+1 | 0 |
| 5 | DF | POR | Pedro Mendes | 17 | 1 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 8 | DF | CMR | Ambroise Oyongo | 18 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 14 | DF | FRA | Damien Le Tallec | 23 | 2 | 20 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 |
| 24 | DF | URU | Mathías Suárez | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 26 | DF | SRB | Mihailo Ristić | 16 | 0 | 4+9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 27 | DF | FRA | Clément Vidal | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 31 | DF | FRA | Nicolas Cozza | 8 | 0 | 6+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Midfielders ||||||||||||
| 6 | MF | FRA | Junior Sambia | 13 | 1 | 3+7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 11 | MF | FRA | Téji Savanier | 13 | 3 | 10+1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 12 | MF | FRA | Jordan Ferri | 9 | 0 | 7+1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 13 | MF | FRA | Joris Chotard | 17 | 1 | 12+3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 20 | MF | RSA | Keagan Dolly | 6 | 0 | 1+5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 21 | MF | FRA | Kylian Kaiboue | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 25 | MF | FRA | Florent Mollet | 19 | 6 | 12+5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| 29 | MF | RUS | Amir Adouyev | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Forwards ||||||||||||
| 9 | FW | ALG | Andy Delort | 22 | 8 | 19 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 1+1 | 1 |
| 10 | FW | FRA | Gaëtan Laborde | 23 | 5 | 19+1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 |
| 15 | FW | ALG | Bilal Boutobba | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 19 | FW | SEN | Souleymane Camara | 12 | 1 | 0+11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 32 | FW | SRB | Petar Škuletić | 6 | 0 | 1+4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Players transferred out during the season ||||||||||||
Last updated: 11 January 2020 Source: Competitions