2020–21 OGC Nice season

The 2020–21 season is the 94th season in the existence of OGC Nice and the club's 19th consecutive season in the top flight of French football. In addition to the domestic league, Nice are participating in this season's edition of the Coupe de France and the UEFA Europa League. The season covers the period from 1 July 2020 to 30 June 2021.

OGC Nice

2020–21 season
President	Jean-Pierre Rivère
Head coach	Patrick Vieira (until 4 December) Adrian Ursea (from 4 December)
Stadium	Allianz Riviera
Ligue 1	14th
Coupe de France	Round of 64
UEFA Europa League	Group stage
Top goalscorer	League: Amine Gouiri (6) All: Amine Gouiri (10)
Home colours Away colours Third colours
All statistics correct as of 31 January 2021.

The head coach Patrick Vieira was relieved of his post after a five-game losing streak.[1] He was replaced by assistant Adrian Ursea.

Players

First-team squad

As of 6 October 2020.[2]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 2 DF  FRA Stanley Nsoki 3 DF  BRA Robson Bambu 4 DF  BRA Dante (captain) 6 MF  FRA Morgan Schneiderlin 7 FW  FRA Myziane Maolida 8 MF  FRA Pierre Lees-Melou 9 FW  DEN Kasper Dolberg 10 FW  FRA Alexis Claude-Maurice 11 FW  FRA Amine Gouiri 13 DF  FRA Hassane Kamara 14 FW   SUI Dan Ndoye 16 GK  FRA Teddy Boulhendi 19 MF  FRA Khéphren Thuram

No. Pos. Nation Player 20 DF  ALG Youcef Atal 21 MF  BRA Danilo Barbosa 22 MF  POR Rony Lopes (on loan from Sevilla) 23 DF   SUI Jordan Lotomba 24 DF  FRA Andy Pelmard 27 MF  FRA Alexis Trouillet 28 MF  ALG Hicham Boudaoui 29 MF  FRA Jeff Reine-Adélaïde (on loan from Lyon) 30 GK  FRA Yoan Cardinale 33 DF  AUT Flavius Daniliuc 40 GK  ARG Walter Benítez — DF  SEN Racine Coly — DF  FRA William Saliba (on loan from Arsenal)

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 — MF  POR Pedro Brazão (on loan to Lausanne) — FW  FRA Lucas Da Cunha (on loan to Lausanne) — DF  CIV Ibrahim Cissé (on loan to Châteauroux) — DF  CIV Armel Zohouri (on loan to Lausanne)

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  FRA Wylan Cyprien (on loan to Parma) — MF  CIV Trazié Thomas (on loan to Lausanne) — FW  FRA Evann Guessand (on loan to Lausanne) — FW  FRA Ihsan Sacko (on loan to Cosenza)

Transfers

In

No.	Pos	Player	Transferred from	Fee	Date	Source
11	FW	Amine Gouiri	Lyon	€7m	1 July 2020	[3]

Out

No.	Pos	Player	Transferred to	Fee	Date	Source
23	DF	Malang Sarr	Chelsea	Free	27 August 2020	[4]

Pre-season and friendlies

  Win   Draw   Loss   Fixtures

4 July 2020 Friendly	Lyon	1–0	Nice	Décines-Charpieu, France
18:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Aouar  5' (pen.) Traoré  40'	Report	Benítez  4'	Stadium: Parc Olympique Lyonnais Attendance: 0 Referee: Aurélien Petit

10 July 2020 Friendly	Saint-Étienne	4–1	Nice	Saint-Étienne, France
18:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Krasso  42' Abi  48', 56' Maçon  52'	Report	Thuram  17'	Stadium: Stade Geoffroy-Guichard Attendance: 0 Referee: Olivier Thual

16 July 2020 2020 Veolia Cup	Nice	1–1	Celtic	Décines-Charpieu, France
18:15 CEST (UTC+2)	Dolberg  39'	Report	Klimala  72'	Stadium: Parc Olympique Lyonnais Referee: Willy Delajod

18 July 2020 2020 Veolia Cup	Nice	0–2	Rangers	Décines-Charpieu, France
18:15 CEST (UTC+2)	Trouillet  8' Kamara  82'	Report	Edmundson  38' Defoe  40' Barjonas  90+3'	Stadium: Parc Olympique Lyonnais Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Jérémie Pignard

25 July 2020 Friendly	Standard Liège	1–2	Nice	Liège, Belgium
18:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Avenatti  33'	Report	Dolberg  37' (pen.) Kamara  47'	Stadium: Stade Maurice Dufrasne Attendance: 0

1 August 2020 Friendly	DAC Dunajská Streda	0–6	Nice	Grödig, Austria
17:00 CEST (UTC+2)		Report	Gouiri  1', 83' Maolida  3', 45+2' Claude-Maurice  34', 54'	Stadium: Untersberg-Arena

8 August 2020 Friendly	Red Bull Salzburg	4–1	Nice	Zell am See, Austria
16:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Koïta  49' Junuzović  54' Berisha  59', 62' Bernède  72'	Report	Gouiri  6' Atal  55'	Stadium: Stadio Alois Latini

15 August 2020 Friendly	Nice	3–2	Rennes	Nice, France
19:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Dolberg  43' (pen.), 62' (pen.) Thuram  45'	Report	Aguerd  31' Terrier  88' (pen.)	Stadium: Allianz Riviera Attendance: 0 Referee: Florent Batta

4 September 2020 Friendly	Nice	2–3	Monaco	Nice, France
18:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Lopes  12' Guessand  14'	Report	Daniliuc  58' (o.g.) Martins  76' Onyekuru  88'	Stadium: Allianz Riviera Attendance: 0

Competitions

Overview

Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Final position	Record
					Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
Ligue 1	23 August 2020	23 May 2021	Matchday 1		22	7	5	10	24	31	−7	031.82
Coupe de France	10 February 2021		Round of 64		0	0	0	0	0	0	+0	—
UEFA Europa League	22 October 2020	10 December 2020	Group stage	Group stage	6	1	0	5	8	16	−8	016.67
Total					28	8	5	15	32	47	−15	028.57

Last updated: 3 February 2021

Source: Soccerway

Ligue 1

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
12	Reims	23	7	7	9	30	31	−1	28
13	Brest	23	8	3	12	35	43	−8	27
14	Nice	22	7	5	10	24	31	−7	26
15	Strasbourg	23	7	4	12	32	36	−4	25
16	Saint-Étienne	23	5	8	10	22	36	−14	23

Updated to match(es) played on 3 February 2021. Source: Ligue 1
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Head-to-head goal difference; 5) Fairplay ranking.[5]

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
22	7	5	10	24	31	−7	26	2	2	7	10	22	−12	5	3	3	14	9	+5

Last updated: 3 February 2021.
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
Ground	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A
Result	W	W	L	L	D	W	W	D	W	L	P	L	D	L	W	L	D	L	D	L	W	L	L
Position	3	1	7	10	10	8	4	5	4	8	8	11	11	12	11	13	12	13	13	14	12	14	14

Updated to match(es) played on 3 February 2021. Source: Ligue 1
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Matches

The league fixtures were announced on 9 July 2020.[6]

23 August 2020 1	Nice	2–1	Lens	Nice
17:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Dante  10' Gouiri  23', 75' Kamara  45+2'	Report	Kakuta  11' (pen.) Medina  41' Cahuzac  51' Boura  71'	Stadium: Allianz Riviera Referee: Jérôme Miguelgorry

29 August 2020 2	Strasbourg	0–2	Nice	Strasbourg
21:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Koné  36' Djiku  73'	Report	Lotomba  13' Schneiderlin  17' Dante  24' Sylvestre  27' Dolberg  37' (pen.), 59',  45+2' Lees-Melou  42'	Stadium: Stade de la Meinau Referee: Jérôme Brisard

12 September 2020 3	Montpellier	3–1	Nice	Montpellier
17:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Laborde  18' Congré  50', 64'	Report	Maolida  40' Dante  69' Dolberg  82'	Stadium: Stade de la Mosson Referee: Antony Gautier

20 September 2020 4	Nice	0–3	Paris Saint-Germain	Nice
13:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Schneiderlin  88'	Report	Mbappé  38' (pen.) Verratti  43' Di María  45+1' Marquinhos  66' Bakker  82'	Stadium: Allianz Riviera Referee: Benoît Bastien

27 September 2020 5	Bordeaux	0–0	Nice	Bordeaux
13:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Sabaly  15'	Report	Gouiri  90+4'	Stadium: Matmut Atlantique Referee: François Letexier

3 October 2020 6	Nice	2–1	Nantes	Nice
21:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Dante  27' Thuram  28',  62' Pelmard  45+5'	Report	Girotto  3' Louza  45+5' (pen.) Pallois  56'	Stadium: Allianz Riviera Referee: Jérôme Brisard

18 October 2020 7	Saint-Étienne	1–3	Nice	Saint-Étienne
17:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Aouchiche  57' Moukoudi  72' Hamouma  90+3'	Report	Lees-Melou  8' Gouiri  30' Kamara  50' Nsoki  58' Benítez  67' Lotomba  68' Bambu  73' Maolida  90+1'	Stadium: Stade Geoffroy-Guichard Referee: Amaury Delerue

25 October 2020 8	Nice	1–1	Lille	Nice
17:00 CET (UTC+1)	Lees-Melou  10' Dolberg  50'	Report	Botman  43' Yılmaz  58',  78' Luiz Araújo  64' Çelik  75' Fonte  84' Maignan  89'	Stadium: Allianz Riviera Referee: Frank Schneider

1 November 2020 9	Angers	0–3	Nice	Angers
15:00 CET (UTC+1)	Bernardoni  22' Doumbia  35' Coulibaly  80' Thomas  87' Mangani  90+1'	Report	Lopes  12',  40' Lees-Melou  23' (pen.) Bambu  36' Boudaoui  77'	Stadium: Stade Raymond Kopa Referee: Jérémy Stinat

8 November 2020 10	Nice	1–2	Monaco	Nice
17:00 CET (UTC+1)	Boudaoui  19' Lees-Melou  69' Schneiderlin  69'	Report	Disasi  23' Diop  53',  69' Ben Yedder  75'	Stadium: Allianz Riviera Referee: Karim Abed

29 November 2020 12	Nice	1–3	Dijon	Nice
17:00 CET (UTC+1)	Danilo  24' Gouiri  34',  80' (pen.) Boudaoui  57'	Report	Baldé  21', 66' Muzinga  31',  69' Diop  83' Konaté  90+4'	Stadium: Allianz Riviera Referee: François Letexier

6 December 2020 13	Reims	0–0	Nice	Reims
17:00 CET (UTC+1)	Dia  59'	Report	Boudaoui  16' Danilo  85'	Stadium: Stade Auguste-Delaune Referee: Stéphanie Frappart

13 December 2020 14	Nice	0–1	Rennes	Nice
13:00 CET (UTC+1)	Nsoki  71' Gouiri  90+5'	Report	Niang  28' Traoré  63'	Stadium: Allianz Riviera Referee: Amaury Delerue

16 December 2020 15	Nîmes	0–2	Nice	Nîmes
19:00 CET (UTC+1)	Roux  60'	Report	Schneiderlin  28'  57' Ndoye  85' Claude-Maurice  90+3'	Stadium: Stade des Costières Referee: Ruddy Buquet

19 December 2020 16	Nice	1–4	Lyon	Nice
21:00 CET (UTC+1)	Gouiri  44' Thuram  57'	Report	Depay  32' (pen.) Kadewere  39' Toko Ekambi  63' Cornet  66' Aouar  73'	Stadium: Allianz Riviera Referee: Antony Gautier

23 December 2020 17	Nice	2–2	Lorient	Nice
19:00 CET (UTC+1)	Lotomba  18',  90' Reine-Adélaïde  34',  90+2' Boudaoui  73' Bambu  81'	Report	Laporte  38' Monconduit  44' Lemoine  45+1' Moffi  49' Grbić  82' (pen.) Le Fée  90+2'	Stadium: Allianz Riviera Referee: Aurélien Petit

6 January 2021 18	Brest	2–0	Nice	Brest
19:00 CET (UTC+1)	Mounié  23' Honorat  28',  52' Lasne  72'	Report	Saliba  11' Gouiri  63' Mahou  90+1'	Stadium: Stade Francis-Le Blé Referee: Jérémy Stinat

9 January 2021 19	Metz	1–1	Nice	Metz
21:00 CET (UTC+1)	Kouyaté  17' Maziz  36' Boye  79'	Report	Gouiri  18' (pen.) Nsoki  67' Boudaoui  76'	Stadium: Stade Saint-Symphorien Referee: Johan Hamel

17 January 2021 20	Nice	0–3	Bordeaux	Nice
15:00 CET (UTC+1)		Report	Bašić  33',  87' Hwang  50' Baysse  75'	Stadium: Allianz Riviera Referee: Thomas Léonard

23 January 2021 21	Lens	0–1	Nice	Lens
17:00 CET (UTC+1)	Cahuzac  61' Fortès  68'	Report	Atal  49' Boudaoui  90'	Stadium: Stade Bollaert-Delelis Referee: Hakim Ben El Hadj

31 January 2021 22	Nice	0–1	Saint-Étienne	Nice
13:00 CET (UTC+1)	Bambu  48' Boudaoui  68'	Report	Moukoudi  41' Gourna-Douath  78' Abi  88'	Stadium: Allianz Riviera Referee: Frank Schneider

3 February 2021 23	Monaco	2–1	Nice	Monaco
21:00 CET (UTC+1)	Ben Yedder  28' (pen.), 51'	Report	Todibo  17' Claude-Maurice  34' Schneiderlin  40' Lees-Melou  47' Lotomba  50'	Stadium: Stade Louis II Referee: Jérôme Brisard

7 February 2021 24	Nice	v	Angers	Nice
15:00 CET (UTC+1)				Stadium: Allianz Riviera

13 February 2021 25	Paris Saint-Germain	v	Nice	Paris
17:00 CET (UTC+1)				Stadium: Parc des Princes

17 February 2021 11	Marseille	v	Nice	Marseille
21:00 CET (UTC+1)				Stadium: Stade Vélodrome
Note: The match originally scheduled for 21 November 2020, but postponed after more than ten Nice players tested positive for COVID-19.[7]

Coupe de France

10 February 2021 Round of 64	Nîmes	v	Nice	Nîmes
17:00 CET (UTC+1)				Stadium: Stade des Costières

UEFA Europa League

Group stage

The group stage draw was held on 2 October 2020.[8]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		LEV	SLP	HBS	NCE
1	Bayer Leverkusen	6	5	0	1	21	8	+13	15	Advance to knockout phase		—	4–0	4–1	6–2
2	Slavia Prague	6	4	0	2	11	10	+1	12			1–0	—	3–0	3–2
3	Hapoel Be'er Sheva	6	2	0	4	7	13	−6	6			2–4	3–1	—	1–0
4	Nice	6	1	0	5	8	16	−8	3			2–3	1–3	1–0	—

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

22 October 2020 1	Bayer Leverkusen	6–2	Nice	Leverkusen, Germany
18:55 CEST (UTC+2)	Amiri  11' Alario  16' Baumgartlinger  40' L. Bender  45' Wendell  57' Diaby  61' Bellarabi  79', 83' Wirtz  87'	Report	Gouiri  31',  32' Nsoki  50' Claude-Maurice  90'	Stadium: BayArena Attendance: 0[note 1] Referee: Fran Jović (Croatia)

29 October 2020 2	Nice	1–0	Hapoel Be'er Sheva	Nice, France
21:00 CET (UTC+1)	Gouiri  23' Kamara  54' Schneiderlin  59'	Report	Bareiro  36' Josué  59' Agudelo  61' Vítor  86'	Stadium: Allianz Riviera Attendance: 0[note 1] Referee: Chris Kavanagh (England)

5 November 2020 3	Slavia Prague	3–2	Nice	Prague, Czech Republic
18:55 CET (UTC+1)	Holeš  14' Kuchta  16', 71',  57' Sima  22',  43' Hovorka  61'	Report	Schneiderlin  25' Gouiri  33' Lees-Melou  55' Daniliuc  61' Reine-Adélaïde  83' Ndoye  90+3'	Stadium: Sinobo Stadium Attendance: 0[note 1] Referee: Jakob Kehlet (Denmark)

26 November 2020 4	Nice	1–3	Slavia Prague	Nice, France
21:00 CET (UTC+2)	Nsoki  43' Atal  53' Gouiri  61' Schneiderlin  74' Bambu  77' Boudaoui  90+1'  90+2'	Report	Lingr  15' Zima  41' Bořil  55' Olayinka  64' Sima  75' Kúdela  90+2'	Stadium: Allianz Riviera Attendance: 0[note 1] Referee: Glenn Nyberg (Sweden)

3 December 2020 5	Nice	2–3	Bayer Leverkusen	Nice, France
21:00 CET (UTC+1)	Kamara  26' Ndoye  39',  47' Daniliuc  90+3'	Report	Demirbay  12' Diaby  22' Dragović  32' Baumgartlinger  51'	Stadium: Allianz Riviera Attendance: 0[note 1] Referee: Maurizio Mariani (Italy)

10 December 2020 6	Hapoel Be'er Sheva	1–0	Nice	Petah Tikva, Israel
18:55 CET (UTC+1)	Taha  41' Yosefi  45+2' Hatuel  72' Keltjens  79' Tzedek  90'	Report	Schneiderlin  36' Thuram  45+1'	Stadium: HaMoshava Stadium[note 2] Attendance: 0[note 1] Referee: Kristo Tohver (Estonia)

Statistics

Goalscorers

As of 3 December 2020

Rank	No.	Pos	Nat	Name	Ligue 1	Coupe de France	Europa League	Total
1	11	FW		Amine Gouiri	4	0	4	8
2	8	MF		Pierre Lees-Melou	3	0	0	3
	9	FW		Kasper Dolberg	3	0	0	3
4	4	DF		Dante	2	0	0	2
	14	FW		Dan Ndoye	0	0	2	2
6	7	FW		Myziane Maolida	1	0	0	1
	10	FW		Alexis Claude-Maurice	0	0	1	1
	13	MF		Hassane Kamara	0	0	1	1
	19	MF		Khéphren Thuram	1	0	0	1
	22	MF		Rony Lopes	1	0	0	1
	28	MF		Hicham Boudaoui	1	0	0	1
Totals					16	0	8	24

Notes

1. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe, the match was played behind closed doors.
2. Hapoel Be'er Sheva played their home matches at HaMoshava Stadium, Petah Tikva, instead of their regular home stadium Turner Stadium, Beersheba, due to the stadium was declared a dangerous building by the Be'er Sheva cityhall for structural problems.

References

1. "L'OGC Nice limoge Patrick Vieira". L'Équipe. 4 December 2020. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
2. "Effectif pros". ogcnice.com. Retrieved 3 August 2020.
3. "Transferts : Amine Gouiri (OL) à Nice (officiel)". L'Équipe. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
4. "Sarr Signs On". chelseafc.com. 27 August 2020.
5. "League Table". Ligue1.com. Retrieved 12 August 2016.
6. "Ligue 1 Uber Eats : le calendrier de la saison 2020/2021". LFP (in French). 9 July 2020.
7. "OM-Nice postponed". ligue1.com. Ligue de Football Professionnel. 17 November 2020. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
8. "2020/21 UEFA Europa League: all you need to know". UEFA.com. 17 June 2020. Retrieved 4 July 2020.

External links

• Official website