2016–17 OGC Nice season

Nice

2016–17 season
Chairman	Jean-Pierre Rivère
Manager	Lucien Favre
Stadium	Allianz Riviera
Coupe de France	Round of 64
Coupe de la Liguefde	Round of 32
UEFA Europa League	Group stage
Home colours Away colours
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The 2016–17 OGC Nice season is the 112th professional season of the club since its creation in 1904.

Players

Squad information

Players and squad numbers last updated on 20 August 2016.
Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No.	Name	Nat.	Position(s)	Date of Birth (Age)	Signed in	Contract until	Signed from
Goalkeepers
1	Mouez Hassen		GK	5 March 1995	2013	2017	Youth academy
16	Simon Pouplin		GK	28 May 1985	2014	2018	Sochaux
30	Yoan Cardinale		GK	27 March 1994	2015	2017	Youth academy
40	Walter Benítez		GK	19 January 1993	2016		Quilmes
Defenders
	Malang Sarr		CB	23 January 1999	2016		Youth academy
2	Arnaud Souquet		RB	12 February 1992	2016[1]		Dijon
3	Gautier Lloris		CB	18 July 1995	2016	2017	Youth academy
4	Paul Baysse		CB / RB	18 May 1988	2015	2018	Saint-Étienne
15	Lucas Rougeaux		CB	10 March 1994	2012	2017	Youth academy
20	Maxime Le Marchand		CB / LB	11 October 1989	2015[2]	2018	Le Havre
21	Ricardo		RB	6 October 1993	2015[3]	2017	FC Porto
24	Mathieu Bodmer		CB	22 November 1982	2013[4]	2017	Paris Saint-Germain
28	Olivier Boscagli		CB	18 November 1997	2015		Youth academy
29	Dalbert Henrique		LB	8 September 1993	2016[5]		Vitória de Guimarães
31	Dante		CB / LB	18 April 1983	2016		Wolfsburg
33	Patrick Burner		RB / LB	11 April 1996	2016	2019	Youth academy
Midfielders
5	Younès Belhanda		AM	25 February 1990	2016	2017	Dynamo Kyiv
6	Jean Seri		CM	19 July 1991	2015	2019	Paços Ferreira
7	Julien Vercauteren		RW	12 January 1993	2014[6]	2018	Lierse
8	Arnaud Lusamba		AM	4 January 1997	2016[7]		Nancy
12	Albert Rafetraniaina		DM	9 September 1996	2012		Youth academy
13	Valentin Eysseric		CAM	25 March 1992	2013[8]	2017	Monaco
18	Rémi Walter		DM	26 April 1995	2016[9]	2019	Nancy
25	Wylan Cyprien		CM	28 January 1995	2016		Lens
26	Vincent Koziello		CM	28 October 1995	2014	2018	Youth academy
33	Vincent Marcel		RW	9 April 1997	2015		Youth academy
Forwards
9	Mario Balotelli		ST	12 August 1990	2016	2017	Liverpool
10	Mickaël Le Bihan		CF	16 May 1990	2015		Le Havre
11	Saïd Benrahma		RW / CF	10 August 1995	2013	2018	Youth academy
14	Alassane Pléa		CF / RW	10 March 1993	2014	2018	Lyon
19	Bryan Constant		CF / AM	27 March 1994	2013	2017	Youth academy
22	Anastasios Donis		SS / LW / RW	29 August 1996	2016[10]	2017	Juventus
23	Alexy Bosetti		CF	23 April 1993	2012	2017	Youth academy
27	Dorian Caddy		CF	20 March 1995	2016	2019	Youth academy

Transfers

In

Date	Pos.	Player	Age	Moving from	Fee	Notes	Source
13 July 2016	c DF	Dalbert Henrique	22	Vitória de Guimarães			[11]
19 July 2016	c MF	Arnaud Lusamba	19	Nancy	€2.5M		[12]
25 July 2016	c MF	Arnaud Souquet	24	Dijon			[1]
27 July 2016	c MF	Wylan Cyprien	21	Lens			[13]
22 August 2016	c DF	Dante	32	Wolfsburg			[14]
31 August 2016	c FW	Mario Balotelli	26	Liverpool	Free[15]	One-year contract [15]	[16]
31 August 2016	c MF	Younès Belhanda	26	Dynamo Kyiv		Loan, with option to buy	[17]

Out

Date	Pos.	Player	Age	Moving to	Fee	Notes	Source
21 June 2016	c FW	Alexandre Mendy	22	Guingamp			[18]
30 June 2016	c MF	Niklas Hult	22	Panathinaikos			[19]
1 July 2016	c FW	Hatem Ben Arfa	29	Paris Saint-Germain	Free		[20]
3 July 2016	c MF	Nampalys Mendy	24	Leicester City	£13M		[21]
19 August 2016	c DF	Kévin Gomis	27	Dundee			[22]

Pre-season and friendlies

Pre-season preparations began on June 29, with new manager Lucien Favre taking charge. The first ten days were spent in Fontenay-le-Comte before moving to Divonne-les-Bains, where they played their first friendly against Servette. Following the match, the team moved to Nice for the remainder of the pre-season.^[23]

Servette v Nice

16 July 2016 Friendly	Servette	1–1	Nice	Divonne-les-Bains, France
		Report		Stadium: Stade Municipal

Étoile du Sahel v Nice

22 July 2016 Friendly	Étoile du Sahel	2–1	Nice	Sousse, Tunisia
		Report		Stadium: Stade Olympique

Nice v Toulouse

29 July 2016 Friendly	Nice	1–2	Toulouse	Nice
		Report		Stadium: Stade Charles-Ehrmann Attendance: 2,000 Referee: Karim Abed

Napoli v Nice

1 August 2016 Friendly	Napoli	3–0	Nice	Naples, Italy
		Report		Stadium: Stadio San Paolo Attendance: 35,000 Referee: Carmine Russo

Sporting v Nice

5 August 2016 Friendly	Sporting	0–0	Nice	Faro, Portugal
		Report		Stadium: Estádio Algarve Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Luis Godinho

Competitions

Overall

Competition	Started round	Current position	Final position	First match	Last match
Ligue 1	Matchday 1	1st	—	12 August 2016	19 May 2017
Coupe de France			—	—	—
Coupe de la Ligue
UEFA Europa League	Group stage			15 September 2016	—

Ligue 1

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Nice	16	12	3	1	30	10	+20	39	Qualification to Champions League group stage
2	Monaco	16	11	3	2	49	16	+33	36
3	Paris Saint-Germain	16	11	2	3	30	11	+19	35	Qualification to Champions League third qualifying round
4	Rennes	16	8	3	5	18	19	−1	27	Qualification to Europa League third qualifying round
5	Guingamp	16	7	5	4	21	15	+6	26

Updated to match(es) played on 4 December 2016. Source: Ligue 1 and Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Head-to-head goal difference; 5) Fairplay ranking.^[24]

Results summary

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
15	11	3	1	27	10	+17	36	5	2	0	18	6	+12	6	1	1	9	4	+5

Last updated: 30 November 2016.
Source: Competitive matches

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	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	H	A
Result	W	W	D	W	D	W	W	W	W	W	W	L	W	D	W
Position	4	3	3	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1

Last updated: 30 November 2016.
Source: Competitive matches
Ground: A = Away; H = Home. Result: D = Draw; L = Loss; W = Win; P = Postponed.

Matches

Nice v Rennes

14 August 2016 1	Nice	1–0	Rennes	Nice
17:00	Sarr  60'	Report	Mendes  32'	Stadium: Allianz Riviera Attendance: 19,075 Referee: Antony Gautier

Angers v Nice

20 August 2016 2	Angers	0–1	Nice	Angers
20:00	Bourillon  16'	Report	Plea  4' Henrique  49' Ricardo  78'	Stadium: Stade Jean-Bouin Attendance: 10,142 Referee: Jérôme Miguelgorry

Nice v Lille

27 August 2016 3	Nice	1–1	Lille	Nice
20:00	Koziello  3' Henrique  49' Bodmer  62'	Report	Beria  27',  64' Amadou  82'	Stadium: Allianz Riviera Attendance: 16,355 Referee: François Letexier

Nice v Marseille

11 September 2016 4	Nice	3–2	Marseille	Nice
20:45	Balotelli  7' (pen.), 78' Koziello  71' Ricardo  86' Cyprien  88'	Report	Thauvin  14' Zambo Anguissa  31' Dória  66' Gomis  72' (pen.) Machach  87'	Stadium: Allianz Riviera Attendance: 31,194 Referee: Frank Schneider

Montpellier v Nice

18 September 2016 5	Montpellier	1–1	Nice	Montpellier
15:00	Skhiri  60' Boudebouz  67' (pen.)	Report	Eysseric  77' Belhanda  85'	Stadium: Stade de la Mosson Attendance: 12,272 Referee: Lionel Jaffredo

Nice v AS Monaco

21 September 2016 6	Nice	4–0	AS Monaco	Nice
19:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Baysse  17' Balotelli  30', 68' Belhanda  45' Pléa  86'	Report	Falcao  21' Bakayoko  83'	Stadium: Allianz Riviera Attendance: 21,867 Referee: Benoît Bastien

Nancy v Nice

25 September 2016 7	Nancy	0–1	Nice	Tomblaine
17:00 CEST (UTC+2)	N'Guessan  10' Badila  38' Lenglet  72'	Report	Bodmer  24' Pléa  60'	Stadium: Stade Marcel Picot Attendance: 17,580 Referee: Antony Gautier

Nice v Lorient

2 October 2016 8	Nice	2–1	Lorient	Nice
17:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Pereira  11' Sarr  59' Balotelli  86',  87', 90+3' Eysseric  89'	Report	Bellugou  27' Moukandjo  61' Cafú  86' Moreira  90+2'	Stadium: Allianz Riviera Attendance: 17,816 Referee: Olivier Thual

Nice v Lyon

14 October 2016 9	Nice	2–0	Lyon	Nice
20:45 CEST (UTC+2)	Baysse  5' Henrique  25' Dante  71' Seri  76' Balotelli  85'	Report	Morel  21' Fekir  28' Darder  43' Gaspar  80'	Stadium: Allianz Riviera Attendance: 28,139 Referee: Ruddy Buquet

FC Metz v Nice

23 October 2016 10	FC Metz	2–4	Nice	Metz
20:45 CEST (UTC+2)	Mandjeck  25',  54' Sarr  65' Diallo  69' Cohade  73' Jouffre  76'	Report	Pléa  12', 38' (pen.), 84' Cyprien  90+1'	Stadium: Stade Saint-Symphorien

Nice v Nantes

30 October 2016 11	Nice	4–1	Nantes	Nice
15:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Cyprien  9', 65',  64' Balotelli  27' Pléa  60'	Report	Lima  31' Djidji  38' Sala  47',  53'	Stadium: Allianz Riviera Referee: Sébastien Moreira

Caen v Nice

6 November 2016 12	Caen	1–0	Nice	Caen
15:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Santini  42' (pen.) Makengo  65' Vercoutre  79'	Report	Dante  26' Pléa  79' Balotelli  84'	Stadium: Stade Michel d'Ornano Referee: Johan Hamel

Saint-Étienne v Nice

20 November 2016 13	Saint-Étienne	0–1	Nice	Saint-Étienne
20:45 CEST (UTC+2)	Søderlund  34' Lacroix  48'	Report	Eysseric  63' Belhanda  90+3'	Stadium: Stade Geoffroy-Guichard Referee: Franck Schneider

Nice v Bastia

27 November 2016 14	Nice	1–1	Bastia	Nice
17:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Pléa  11'	Report	Thievy  28' Cahuzac  45' Crivelli  60' Cahuzac  77'	Stadium: Allianz Riviera Referee: Lionel Jaffredo

Guingamp v Nice

30 November 2016 15	Guingamp	0–1	Nice	Guingamp
19:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Kerbrat  66' Diallo  90'	Rpeort	Belhanda  5',  51'	Stadium: Stade de Roudourou Referee: Benoît Millot

Nice v Toulouse

4 December 2016 16	Nice	v	Toulouse	Nice
20:45 CEST (UTC+2)				Stadium: Allian Riviera

UEFA Europa League

Group stage

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		S04	KRA	RBS	NIC
1	Schalke 04 (A)	5	5	0	0	9	1	+8	15	Advance to knockout phase		—	2–0	3–1	2–0
2	Krasnodar (A)	5	2	1	2	7	6	+1	7			0–1	—	1–1	5–2
3	Red Bull Salzburg (E)	5	1	1	3	4	6	−2	4			8 Dec	0–1	—	0–1
4	Nice (E)	5	1	0	4	3	10	−7	3			0–1	8 Dec	0–2	—

Updated to match(es) played on 24 November 2016. Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(A) Advance to a further round; (E) Eliminated.

Nice v Schalke 04

15 September 2016 1	Nice	0–1	Schalke 04	Nice, France
21:05 CEST (UTC+2)	Seri  72' Balotelli  90'	Report	Baba  32',  75' Stambouli  44'	Stadium: Allianz Riviera Attendance: 21,378 Referee: Alberto Undiano Mallenco (Spain)

Krasnodar v Nice

29 September 2016 2	Krasnodar	5–2	Nice	Krasnodar, Russia
20:00 (MSK)	Smolov  22' Joãozinho  33', 65' (pen.) Naldo  50' Granqvist  55' Ari  86', 90+3' 86'	Report	Balotelli  43' Seri  45+1' Baysse  64' Cardinale  69' Cyprien  71'	Stadium: Kuban Stadium Attendance: 10,750[25] Referee: Ivan Bebek (Croatia)

Red Bull Salzburg v Nice

20 October 2016 3	Red Bull Salzburg	0–1	Nice	Wals-Siezenheim, Austria
20:00 (MSK)	Hee-chan  85' Laimer  88'	Report	Pléa  13' Dalbert  71' Eysseric  90+4'	Stadium: Red Bull Arena Attendance: 9,473[26] Referee: Yevhen Aranovsky (Ukraine)

Nice v Red Bull Salzburg

3 November 2016 4	Nice	0–2	Red Bull Salzburg	Nice, France
21:05 (UTC+2)	Koziello  63' Balotelli  89'	Report	Hwang Hee-chan  72', 73' Laimer  54' Upamecano  90+3'	Stadium: Allianz Riviera Referee: Hüseyin Göçek (Turkey)

Schalke 04 v Nice

24 November 2016 5	Schalke 04	2–0	Nice	Gelsenkirchen, Germany
19:00	Konoplyanka  14' Aogo  80' (pen.)	Report		Stadium: Veltins-Arena

Nice v Krasnodar

8 December 2016 6	Nice	v	Krasnodar	Nice, France
		Report		Stadium: Allianz Riviera

Statistics

Appearances and goals

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Ligue 1		Coupe de France		Coupe de la Ligue		Europa League
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Goalkeepers
30	GK		Yoan Cardinale	11	0	9	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
Defenders
2	DF		Arnaud Souquet	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	DF		Paul Baysse	11	0	9	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
23	DF		Ricardo	9	1	7	1	0	0	0	0	2	0
24	DF		Mathieu Bodmer	8	0	5+2	0	0	0	0	0	0+1	0
29	DF		Dalbert Henrique	11	0	9	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
31	DF		Dante	8	0	6	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
34	DF		Malang Sarr	11	1	9	1	0	0	0	0	2	0
Midfielders
5	MF		Younès Belhanda	8	1	4+2	1	0	0	0	0	1+1	0
6	MF		Jean Seri	9	1	7	1	0	0	0	0	2	0
8	MF		Arnaud Lusamba	4	0	2+2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
13	MF		Valentin Eysseric	8	1	3+5	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
18	MF		Rémi Walter	7	0	4+2	0	0	0	0	0	0+1	0
25	MF		Wylan Cyprien	11	2	7+2	1	0	0	0	0	1+1	1
26	MF		Vincent Koziello	8	1	5+1	1	0	0	0	0	2	0
33	MF		Vincent Marcel	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Forwards
9	ST		Mario Balotelli	6	6	4	5	0	0	0	0	2	1
14	FW		Alassane Plea	11	3	6+3	3	0	0	0	0	1+1	0
22	FW		Anastasios Donis	3	0	0+3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Players transferred out during the season

Last updated: 14 October 2016^[27]
Source: Competitions

Goalscorers

Rank	No.	Pos	Nat	Name	Ligue 1	Coupe de France	Coupe de Ligue	UEFA EL	Total
1	9	ST		Mario Balotelli	5	0	0	1	6
2	14	FW		Alassane Plea	3	0	0	0	3
3	14	MF		Wylan Cyprien	1	0	0	1	2
4	34	DF		Malang Sarr	1	0	0	0	1
	26	MF		Vincent Koziello	1	0	0	0	1
	8	MF		Jean Seri	1	0	0	0	1
	23	DF		Ricardo	1	0	0	0	1
	5	MF		Younès Belhanda	1	0	0	0	1

Last updated: 14 October 2016

Assists

Rank	No.	Pos	Nat	Name	Ligue 1	Coupe de France	Coupe de Ligue	UEFA EL	Total
1	8	MF		Jean Seri	3	0	0	0	3
2	5	MF		Younès Belhanda	2	0	0	0	2
	14	MF		Wylan Cyprien	2	0	0	0	2
	23	DF		Ricardo	2	0	0	0	2
3	6	MF		Jean Seri	1	0	0	0	1
	13	MF		Valentin Eysseric	1	0	0	1	2
	22	FW		Anastasios Donis	1	0	0	0	1

Last updated: 14 October 2016^[28][29]

Clean sheets

Rank	No.	Nat	Name	Ligue 1	Coupe de France	Coupe de Ligue	UEFA EL	Total
1	30		Yoan Cardinale	5	0	0	0	5

Last updated: 14 October 2016^[30]

References

1. "Accord de principe pour Souquet" (in French). OGC Nice. 25 July 2016.
2. "Maxime Le Marchand officiellement niçois" (in French). L'Equipe. 25 June 2015.
3. "Ricardo Pereira (FC Porto) prêté deux ans à Nice" (in French). L'Equipe. 31 August 2015.
4. "Mathieu Bodmer est nicois" (in French). OGC Nice. 10 September 2013.
5. "Dalbert officiellemnt niçois" (in French). OGC Nice. 13 July 2016.
6. "Julien Vercauteren officiellement niçois" (in French). OGC Nice. 12 June 2014.
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8. "Eysseric prêté à Nice" (in French). L'Equipe. 23 August 2012.
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10. "Transfert : Anastasios Donis prêté à Nice" (in French). L'Equipe. 20 July 2016.
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