# 2019–20 Nîmes Olympique season

The 2019–20 Nîmes Olympique season was the club's 82nd season in existence and the club's second consecutive season in the top flight of French football. In addition to the domestic league, Nîmes 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

    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 |
| 4 | DF | FRA | Pablo Martinez |
| 5 | DF | FRA | Loïck Landre |
| 6 | MF | SEN | Sidy Sarr |
| 7 | MF | FRA | Romain Philippoteaux |
| 8 | MF | FRA | Lucas Deaux |
| 9 | FW | FRA | Clément Depres |
| 10 | MF | ALG | Zinedine Ferhat |
| 11 | FW | MKD | Vlatko Stojanovski |
| 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 | MF | BIH | Haris Duljević |
| 18 | MF | FRA | Theo Valls |
| 19 | DF | FRA | Lucas Buadés |
| 20 | FW | FRA | Renaud Ripart (vice-captain) |
| 21 | DF | FRA | Kelyan Guessoum |
| 22 | MF | MAR | Yassine Benrahou (on loan from Bordeaux) |
| 23 | DF | FRA | Anthony Briançon (captain) |
| 24 | FW | MAR | Sami Ben Amar |
| 26 | DF | FRA | Florian Miguel |
| 27 | FW | TOG | Kévin Denkey |
| 29 | DF | FRA | Sofiane Alakouch |
| 30 | GK | FRA | Paul Bernardoni (on loan from Bordeaux) |

### Reserve squad

As of 4 November 2019
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 | Côme Charrier |
| — | GK | FRA | Valentin Rabouille |
| — | DF | FRA | Alexandre Ferreira |
| — | DF | FRA | Jérémy Iafrate |
| — | DF | FRA | Enzo Fontanelli |
| — | DF | FRA | Matéo Maillefaud |
| — | DF | FRA | Julien Megier |
| — | DF | FRA | Mickaël Gas |
| — | MF | FRA | Kléri Serber |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | MF | FRA | Mattéo Ahlinvi |
| — | MF | FRA | Simon Calancha |
| — | MF | FRA | Nacim El Hassani |
| — | MF | FRA | Quentin Gregorio |
| — | FW | FRA | Luca Valls |
| — | FW | FRA | Axel Urie |
| — | FW | FRA | Timothy Cardona |
| — | MF | FRA | Hugo Huriez |
| — | MF | FRA | Houssine Labiad |

### 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 | Théo Sainte-Luce (on loan to Gazélec until 30 June 2020) |

## 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 | 11 August 2019 | 7 March 2020 | Matchday 1 | 18th | 28 | 7 | 6 | 15 | 29 | 44 | −15 | 025.00 |
| Coupe de France | 4 January 2020 | 19 January 2020 | Round of 64 | Round of 32 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | −5 | 000.00 |
| Coupe de la Ligue | 29 October 2019 | 18 December 2019 | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | +2 | 050.00 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 32 | 8 | 7 | 17 | 35 | 53 | −18 | 025.00 |
Source: Soccerway

### Ligue 1
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | PPG | Qualification or relegation |
| 16 | Dijon | 28 | 7 | 9 | 12 | 27 | 37 | −10 | 30 | 1.07 | |
| 17 | Saint-Étienne | 28 | 8 | 6 | 14 | 29 | 45 | −16 | 30 | 1.07 | |
| 18 | Nîmes | 28 | 7 | 6 | 15 | 29 | 44 | −15 | 27 | 0.96 | |
| 19 | Amiens (R) | 28 | 4 | 11 | 13 | 31 | 50 | −19 | 23 | 0.82 | Relegation to Ligue 2 |
| 20 | Toulouse (R) | 28 | 3 | 4 | 21 | 22 | 58 | −36 | 13 | 0.46 | Relegation to Ligue 2 |
* ↑ Originally, the 18th-placed Ligue 1 team would play in promotion-relegation play-offs at the end of the season with a team from Ligue 2 to decide whether they would remain in Ligue 1 for the 2020–21 season, but the play-offs were cancelled and the 18th-placed team remained in Ligue 1.

#### 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 | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H |
| Result | L | L | D | W | D | W | L | L | D | D | D | L | L | L | D | L | L | L | L | W | L | W | W | W | W | L | L | L | C | C | C | C | C | C | C | C | C | C |
| Position | 19 | 19 | 18 | 13 | 14 | 11 | 12 | 15 | 14 | 18 | 18 | 20 | 20 | 19 | 19 | 20 | 20 | 19 | 19 | 19 | 19 | 19 | 18 | 18 | 17 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 18 |

#### 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.