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FC Nantes

2022–23 season
Owner	Waldemar Kita
President	Waldemar Kita
Head coach	Antoine Kombouaré (until 9 May) Pierre Aristouy (from 9 May)
Stadium	Stade de la Beaujoire
Ligue 1	16th
Coupe de France	Runners-up
Trophée des Champions	Runners-up
UEFA Europa League	Knockout round play-offs
Top goalscorer	League: Mostafa Mohamed (8) All: Ludovic Blas (12)
Home colours Away colours Third colours
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The 2022–23 season was the 80th season in the history of FC Nantes and their 10th consecutive season in the top flight. The club participated in Ligue 1, the Coupe dr France, the Trophée des Champions and the UEFA Europa League. The season covers the period from 1 July 2022 to 30 June 2023.

Despite a 14-match winless run between February and May, which led them being in danger of relegation, Les Canaris ultimately preserved their top flight status with a 1–0 win over Angers, and Auxerre 1–3 defeat to Lens, thus avoiding a return to the second tier of French football for the first time since the 2012–13 season.

Players

First-team squad

As of 30 January 2023

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  FRA Alban Lafont (captain) 3 DF  BRA Andrei Girotto 4 DF  FRA Nicolas Pallois (vice-captain) 5 MF  ESP Pedro Chirivella 7 FW  FRA Evann Guessand (on loan from Nice) 8 MF  COD Samuel Moutoussamy 10 MF  FRA Ludovic Blas 11 FW  FRA Marcus Coco 14 FW  CMR Ignatius Ganago 16 GK  FRA Rémy Descamps 17 MF  FRA Moussa Sissoko 21 DF  CMR Jean-Charles Castelletto

No. Pos. Nation Player 24 DF  FRA Sébastien Corchia 25 MF  FRA Florent Mollet 26 DF  FRA Jaouen Hadjam 27 MF  NGA Moses Simon 28 DF  FRA Fabien Centonze 29 MF  FRA Quentin Merlin 30 GK  SRB Denis Petrić 31 FW  EGY Mostafa Mohamed (on loan from Galatasaray) 38 DF  BRA João Victor (on loan from Benfica) 93 DF  MLI Charles Traoré 99 FW  ALG Andy Delort (on loan from Nice)

Reserve squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 15 FW  COM Adel Mahamoud 18 MF  FRA Samuel Yepié Yepié 19 MF  FRA Mohamed Achi 20 MF  FRA Lohann Doucet 22 MF  ARM Gor Manvelyan

No. Pos. Nation Player 23 DF  FRA Robin Voisine 55 FW  FRA Kader Bamba 61 FW  FRA Joe-Loïc Affamah 63 DF  CIV Michel Junior Diaz

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 53 FW  FRA Bridge Ndilu (at SO Cholet until 30 June 2023) — DF  FRA Yannis M'Bemba (at Le Puy until 30 June 2023)

No. Pos. Nation Player — DF  FRA Ryan Sabry (at Stade Briochin until 30 June 2023) — MF  FRA Abou Ba (at Seraing until 30 June 2023)

Transfers

In

No.	Pos.	Player	Transferred from	Fee	Date	Source
55	FW	Abdoul Kader Bamba	Amiens	Loan return	30 June 2022
53	FW	Bridge Ndilu	Quevilly Rouen	Loan return	30 June 2022
17	MF	Moussa Sissoko	Watford	Undisclosed	1 July 2022
7	FW	Evann Guessand	Nice	Loan	12 July 2022
31	FW	Mostafa Mohamed	Galatasaray	Loan	21 July 2022
14	FW	Ignatius Ganago	Lens	€4.4M	1 September 2022
28	DF	Fabien Centonze	Metz	€4M	22 September 2022

Out

No.	Pos.	Player	Transferred to	Fee	Date	Source
26	FW	Osman Bukari	Gent	Loan return	30 June 2022
8	MF	Wylan Cyprien	Parma	Loan return	30 June 2022
19	FW	Willem Geubbels	Monaco	Loan return	30 June 2022
6	MF	Roli Pereira de Sa	Sochaux	Free	1 July 2022
20	FW	Jean-Kévin Augustin	Basel	Undisclosed	1 July 2022
23	FW	Randal Kolo Muani	Eintracht Frankfurt	Free	1 July 2022
7	FW	Kalifa Coulibaly	Red Star Belgrade	Free	29 August 2022
53	FW	Bridge Ndilu	SO Cholet	Loan	17 September 2022

Pre-season and friendlies

  Win   Draw   Loss   Fixtures

13 July 2022 Friendly	Nantes	0–1	Guingamp	La Baule-Escoublac
16:00 CEST (UTC+2)			Livolant 86'	Stadium: Stade Moreau Défarges

16 July 2022 Friendly	Caen	0–2	Nantes	Avranches
17:00 CEST (UTC+2)			Blas 17' (pen.) Sissoko 54'	Stadium: Stade René-Fenouillère

23 July 2022 Friendly	Nantes	2–0	Lorient	La Baule-Escoublac
16:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Doucet 15' Blas 76'			Stadium: Stade Moreau Défarges

27 July 2022 Friendly	Nantes	0–1	Rennes	Saint-Nazaire
17:00 CEST (UTC+2)			Guirassy 49'	Stadium: Stade Léo Lagrange

16 December 2022 Friendly	Nantes	1–1	Laval	Nantes
15:30 CET (UTC+1)				Stadium: Stade de la Beaujoire

21 December 2022 Friendly	Lorient	2–1	Nantes	Vannes
18:00 CET (UTC+1)				Stadium: Stade de la Rabine

Competitions

Overall record

Source: Soccerway

Ligue 1

League table

Results summary

Source: Ligue 1

Results by round

Matches

The league fixtures were announced on 17 June 2022.

27 May 2023 37	Lille	2–1	Nantes	Villeneuve-d'Ascq
21:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Baleba  43' David 50' (pen.), 87' (pen.),  88'	Report	Merlin 17' Castelletto  35' João Victor  78' Mohamed  85' Blas  86'	Stadium: Stade Pierre-Mauroy Attendance: 41,136 Referee: Éric Wattellier

Coupe de France

Trophée des Champions

UEFA Europa League

Group stage

The draw for the group stage was held on 26 August 2022.

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		FRE	NAN	QRB	OLY
1	SC Freiburg	6	4	2	0	13	3	+10	14	Advance to round of 16		—	2–0	2–1	1–1
2	Nantes	6	3	0	3	6	11	−5	9	Advance to knockout round play-offs		0–4	—	2–1	2–1
3	Qarabağ	6	2	2	2	9	5	+4	8	Transfer to Europa Conference League		1–1	3–0	—	0–0
4	Olympiacos	6	0	2	4	2	11	−9	2			0–3	0–2	0–3	—

8 September 2022 1	Nantes	2–1	Olympiacos	Nantes
21:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Mohamed 32' Sissoko  72' Pallois  85' Blas  90+2' Guessand 90+3'	Report	Moutoussamy 50' (o.g.) Retsos  56' Reabciuk  90+2'	Stadium: Stade de la Beaujoire Attendance: 31,276 Referee: Harald Lechner (Austria)

15 September 2022 2	Qarabağ	3–0	Nantes	Baku, Azerbaijan
20:45 AZT (UTC+4)	Owusu 60' Zoubir 65' Janković 72' Cafarguliyev  87'	Report	Girotto  80'	Stadium: Tofiq Bahramov Republican Stadium Attendance: 26,495 Referee: Enea Jorgji (Albania)

6 October 2022 3	SC Freiburg	2–0	Nantes	Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
21:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Kyereh 48' Sildillia  66' Grifo 72' Günter  78' Keitel  90'	Report	Mohamed  66'	Stadium: Europa-Park Stadion Attendance: 33,200 Referee: Glenn Nyberg (Sweden)

13 October 2022 4	Nantes	0–4	SC Freiburg	Nantes
18:45 CEST (UTC+2)		Report	Kübler 25' Höfler  66' Gregoritsch 71' Schade 82' Jeong 87'	Stadium: Stade de la Beaujoire Attendance: 31,845 Referee: Horațiu Feșnic (Romania)

27 October 2022 5	Nantes	2–1	Qarabağ	Nantes
21:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Blas 17' Bamba  41' Girotto  60' Chirivella  90+4' Ganago 90+5'	Report	Ozobić 56' (pen.) Vešović  82'	Stadium: Stade de la Beaujoire Attendance: 30,927 Referee: Jakob Kehlet (Denmark)

3 November 2022 6	Olympiacos	0–2	Nantes	Piraeus, Greece
19:45 EET (UTC+2)	Retsos  90+3'	Report	Castelletto  48' Moutoussamy  67' Mohamed 79' Blas 90'	Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium Attendance: 16,254 Referee: Serhiy Boyko (Ukraine)

Knockout phase

Knockout round play-offs

The draw for the knockout round play-offs was held on 7 November 2022.

16 February 2023 First leg	Juventus	1–1	Nantes	Turin, Italy
21:00 CET (UTC+1)	Vlahović 13' Chiesa  54' Danilo  75'	Report	Castelletto  45+1' Mohamed  57' Blas 60' Corchia  90'	Stadium: Juventus Stadium Attendance: 41,019 Referee: João Pinheiro (Portugal)

23 February 2023 Second leg	Nantes	0–3 (1–4 agg.)	Juventus	Nantes
18:45 CET (UTC+1)	Pallois  17' Traoré  81'	Report	Di María 5', 20' (pen.), 78' Cuadrado  87'	Stadium: Stade de la Beaujoire Attendance: 44,000 Referee: José María Sánchez Martínez (Spain)

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