Under Olivier Pantaloni’s leadership, Lorient look set for an immediate return to Ligue 1 following their relegation last season. The Breton side currently sit top of Ligue 2 at the time of writing, three points clear of second-placed Paris FC and four ahead of Metz in third. Their positive 2024/25...
At the time of writing, FC Annecy is in ninth place after five rounds of Ligue 2, with a total of eight points, having won two matches, drawn two, and lost one. Do not rush to judge them based on their position, as the gap between them and first-placed Bastia is...
After five rounds of Ligue 2, at the time of writing, Annecy are in ninth place with a total of eight points, having won two matches, drawn two, and lost one. Do not rush to judge them based on their position, as the gap between them and first-placed Bastia is...
Saint-Étienne are the second-most successful side, domestically, in French football history, with 10 top-flight titles to their name — a record that was only recently beaten by Paris Saint-Germain. At the same time as PSG eclipsed Saint-Étienne to become the undisputed top dogs of French football, Les Verts made history...
Grenoble Foot's Team currently occupies the sixth position in Ligue 2, amassing 40 points after 27 matches, trailing the league leaders, Auxerre, by a margin of 12 points, as they hold the top spot with 52 points. On the defensive front, the team's statistics appear reasonable, given the position they...
While one former Liverpool player, Xabi Alonso, is arguably the hottest property in the football coach market at the moment, with two of his former clubs — the Reds and FC Bayern Munich — heavily linked with leading them from next season, another LFC alumnus, Albert Riera, is quietly forging...
Caen appointed club legend Nicolas Seube as their new head coach only in November last year after sacking renowned Ligue 2 promotion specialist Jean-Marc Furlan earlier that month, with the team placed 12th in Ligue 2, far from the desired promotion spots. That worsened under caretaker boss Patrick Sauvaget, with the...
Nine games into the 2023/24 Ligue 2 season, Auxerre — who were relegated from Ligue 1 last term — sit third on the table under Christophe Pélissier; this 58-year-old coach guided Lorient back to the top-flight in 2019/20, with Les Merlus ending that campaign top of the table with the...
Olivier Frapolli has been managing Stade Lavallois since the summer of 2019 — pre-pandemic, which seems a lifetime ago for some of us now! In that time, the 51-year-old coach has guided the Mayenne-based club to promotion from Championnat National as league winners (2021/22) before securing Ligue 2 safety last...
Georgia Under 21s have picked up some impressive results in their debut U21 European Championships campaign. The hosts have seen record crowds come out to support them as they topped Group A thanks to a victory over Portugal and two draws with Belgium and The Netherlands. Although their tournament ended...
Jean-Marc Furlan is set for a return to management. The 65-year-old has been announced as the new manager of Ligue 2’s Caen, a club that finished the 2022/23 campaign in fifth place. With a fifth-place finish to build on for next season and Furlan now taking the reins, perhaps spirits...
At the time of writing, Amiens SC sit in sixth place in Ligue 2 after 19 games — the midway point of the 2022/23 season, just four points off second-placed fallen giants Girondins de Bordeaux, and Tolu Arokodare (197cm/6’6”, 95kg/209lbs) played a crucial role in his team’s positive first half...
Le Havre have not been in Ligue 1 since 2009, meaning that Les Ciel et Marine have not seen the top flight of French football in 14 years. This club has been busy during that period, making a name for themselves for producing some excellent players such as Riyad Mahrez...
Every FIFA World Cup cycle, some players deliver standout performances on the biggest possible stage, illuminating their names in lights and ensuring they become a hot topic in the transfer rumour mill. Angers’ 22-year-old central midfielder Azzedine Ounahi (182cm/6’0”, 72kg/158lbs) is one of the prime prospects to have emerged from...
Up until this past weekend, at the time of writing, Girondins de Bordeaux sat top of Ligue 2. Their 1-0 loss to Nîmes Olympique last weekend came at the same time as a win for Le Havre which saw the Normandy club leapfrog Bordeaux to the top of France’s second...
Saint-Étienne are one of the most historic clubs in French football. In the 1950s, ‘60s and ‘70s, they enjoyed one of the most impressive periods of any team in French football history, winning nine Ligue 1 titles (the 10th and final of which came in 1980/81), six Coupes de France,...
Benjamin Bouchouari (165cm/5’5”, 65kg/143lbs) is the latest player Ligue 2 Saint-Étienne have recruited to boost their hopes of immediate promotion back to Ligue 1 for next season. The 20-year-old Belgium-born Morocco youth international joins Les Verts for a reported €1.1m fee, making his signing Saint-Étienne’s most expensive of the summer,...
Narrowly missing out on promotion to Ligue 1 in the 2020-21 season, before losing in the playoff final, Toulouse had extra incentive to achieve their goal this season. The manner of that two-legged defeat to Nantes, the last decided by the away goals rule, fuelled their desire even more. The...
After leaving Ligue 1 side Strasbourg in late-May 2021 having spent 5 years at Stade de la Meinau during which time he re-established Strasbourg as a top-flight club, achieving promotion in his first season in charge and keeping them up in all following campaigns, Thierry Laurey took on a new...
When Auxerre appointed Jean-Marc Furlan as their manager back in July 2019, they did so with one target in mind for the veteran coach: return Les Diplomates to the heights of France’s top-flight to battle with the likes of PSG, Marseille, Lyon, Nice and Rennes for the first time since...
