# 2020–21 FC Nantes season

The 2020–21 season was the 77th season in the existence of FC Nantes and the club's 8th consecutive season in the top flight of French football. In addition to the domestic league, Nantes participated in this season's edition of the Coupe de France. The season covered the period from 1 July 2020 to 30 June 2021.

## Players
### First-team squad

    As of 29 January 2021
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 | MF | BRA | Andrei Girotto |
| 4 | DF | FRA | Nicolas Pallois (captain) |
| 5 | MF | ESP | Pedro Chirivella |
| 6 | MF | FRA | Roli Pereira de Sa |
| 7 | FW | MLI | Kalifa Coulibaly |
| 10 | MF | FRA | Ludovic Blas |
| 11 | FW | FRA | Marcus Coco |
| 12 | DF | FRA | Dennis Appiah |
| 14 | DF | MLI | Charles Traoré |
| 15 | DF | FRA | Thomas Basila |
| 17 | FW | BEL | Anthony Limbombe |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 19 | MF | FRA | Abdoulaye Touré |
| 20 | FW | FRA | Jean-Kévin Augustin |
| 21 | DF | CMR | Jean-Charles Castelletto |
| 22 | FW | FRA | Bridge Ndilu |
| 23 | FW | FRA | Randal Kolo |
| 24 | DF | FRA | Sébastien Corchia |
| 26 | MF | FRA | Imran Louza |
| 27 | FW | NGA | Moses Simon |
| 28 | FW | BEL | Renaud Emond |
| 29 | MF | FRA | Batista Mendy |
| 30 | GK | SVN | Denis Petrić |
| 32 | FW | FRA | Kader Bamba |
| 40 | GK | FRA | Charly Jan |

### Players 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 | MLI | Molla Wagué (at Amiens until 30 June 2021) |
| — | MF | FRA | Abou Ba (at Cosenza until 30 June 2021) |
| — | MF | FRA | Abdoulaye Dabo (at Juventus U23 until 30 June 2021) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | MF | COD | Samuel Moutoussamy (at Fortuna Sittard until 30 June 2021) |
| — | MF | BRA | Lucas Evangelista (at Red Bull Bragantino until 30 June 2021) |
| — | FW | FRA | Élie Youan (at St. Gallen until 30 June 2021) |

## Transfers
### In

| No. | Pos | Player | Transferred from | Fee | Date |
| 5 | MF | Pedro Chirivella | Liverpool | Free | 1 July 2020 |
| 27 | FW | Moses Simon | Levante | €5M | 1 July 2020 |
| 20 | FW | Jean-Kévin Augustin | RB Leipzig | Free | 6 October 2020 |

### Out

| No. | Pos | Player | Transferred to | Fee | Date | Source |
| 10 | MF | Cristian Benavente | Pyramids | Loan return | 1 July 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 | 21 August 2020 | 23 May 2021 | Matchday 1 | 18th | 38 | 9 | 13 | 16 | 47 | 55 | −8 | 023.68 |
| Ligue 1 relegation play-offs | 27 May 2021 | 30 May 2021 | First leg | Winners | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | +0 | 050.00 |
| Coupe de France | 10 February 2021 | 10 February 2021 | Round of 64 | Round of 64 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | −2 | 000.00 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 41 | 10 | 13 | 18 | 51 | 61 | −10 | 024.39 |
Source: Soccerway

### Ligue 1
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 16 | Lorient | 38 | 11 | 9 | 18 | 50 | 68 | −18 | 42 | |
| 17 | Brest | 38 | 11 | 8 | 19 | 50 | 66 | −16 | 41 | |
| 18 | Nantes (O) | 38 | 9 | 13 | 16 | 47 | 55 | −8 | 40 | Qualification for the Relegation play-offs |
| 19 | Nîmes (R) | 38 | 9 | 8 | 21 | 40 | 71 | −31 | 35 | Relegation to the Ligue 2 |
| 20 | Dijon (R) | 38 | 4 | 9 | 25 | 25 | 73 | −48 | 21 | Relegation to the Ligue 2 |

#### 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 | 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 | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H |
| Result | D | W | L | D | L | L | W | D | L | W | D | L | L | D | L | D | L | D | D | D | L | L | D | L | W | D | D | L | W | D | L | L | L | W | W | W | W | L |
| Position | 9 | 6 | 12 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 15 | 15 | 17 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 16 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 18 | 18 | 17 | 19 | 19 | 18 | 19 | 19 | 19 | 19 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 18 |

#### Matches

The league fixtures were announced on 9 July 2020.

#### Relegation play-offs
### Coupe de France
## Statistics
### Goalscorers

    As of 28 November 2020
| Rank | No. | Pos | Nat | Name | Ligue 1 | Coupe de France | Total |
| 1 | 10 | MF | | Ludovic Blas | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2 | 26 | MF | | Imran Louza | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2 | 15 | FW | | Randal Kolo | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2 | 32 | FW | | Kader Bamba | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 5 | 3 | DF | | Andrei Girotto | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | 19 | MF | | Abdoulaye Touré | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | 27 | MF | | Moses Simon | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | 28 | FW | | Renaud Emond | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Totals | Totals | Totals | Totals | Totals | 14 | 0 | 14 |