From our football correspondent
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Scoring charts1 Jan 2027
The month closes with Victor Orakpo out in front — 4 goals in 4 games, and AS Nancy have the division's most feared finisher.
Scoring charts1 Jan 2027
Amine Salama is the division's player of the month — 7.59
A club's paper reports this as one of its own being honoured. On this page it is what it actually is: a verdict on everybody who played, and it went to a Stade de Reims man on 7.59 with 4 goal contributions.
Scoring charts1 Jan 2027
Young player of the month: Victor Orakpo — 7.79
7.79 across the month and 4 goal contributions from a AS Nancy player everybody else in the division now has a file on. His price rose this month without anybody at his club lifting a finger.
Market1 Jan 2027
Kiros puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Montpellier HSC, and it is not being withdrawn.
Scoring charts1 Jan 2027
Nobody made more than Aristide Zossou this month
4 assists, 7.54, and a USL Dunkerque player who spent four weekends being the reason somebody else's name went in the paper. It is the least-rewarded skill in football and the easiest one to notice its absence.
Scoring charts1 Jan 2027
Best marks in the division for Victor Orakpo — 7.79
7.79 on average across 4 matches for AS Nancy. The chart that notices the players a goal tally never does, and this month it noticed him.
Market1 Jan 2027
Only the photograph left for Ebenezer Annan
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ebenezer Annan will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around AS Saint-Etienne the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market1 Jan 2027
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Dória wants continental football; whether Montpellier HSC can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Scoring charts1 Jan 2027
4 appearances, 2 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.
Scoring charts1 Jan 2027
3 goals in 4 appearances for Le Mans FC, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.
Scoring charts1 Jan 2027
A productive month at USL Dunkerque — 3 goals from 4 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 Jan 2027
4 appearances, 3 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.
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Steady
Scoring charts1 Dec 2026
The month closes with Mohammed Guindo out in front — 5 goals in 3 games, and Clermont Foot have the division's most feared finisher.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2026
Mohammed Guindo is the division's player of the month — 7.83
A club's paper reports this as one of its own being honoured. On this page it is what it actually is: a verdict on everybody who played, and it went to a Clermont Foot man on 7.83 with 6 goal contributions.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2026
Young player of the month: Samba Konaté — 7.48
7.48 across the month and 2 goal contributions from a Pau FC player everybody else in the division now has a file on. His price rose this month without anybody at his club lifting a finger.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2026
Gabin Capuano leads the division for assists — 7.09
The chart that decides who the scorers ought to be thanking. 3 of them made by a US Boulogne player marked 7.09, and not one will be in the montage at the end of the season.
Market1 Dec 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Montpellier HSC, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market1 Dec 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Montpellier HSC is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2026
Highest marks in the league belong to a Clermont Foot man
Mohammed Guindo averaged 7.83 over 3 appearances. Nothing about that will trend, and anybody who watched all four games would tell you it was the most accurate thing on this page.
Market1 Dec 2026
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Stade de Reims heard it as anything else.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2026
2 goals in 3 appearances for EA Guingamp leave him among the month's leading marksmen.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2026
2 in 3 for Red Star. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2026
3 appearances, 3 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2026
3 goals in 3 appearances for Montpellier HSC, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Scoring charts1 Nov 2026
The month closes with Moïse Sahi Dion out in front — 4 goals in 4 games, and FC Annecy have the division's most feared finisher.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2026
Marked 7.44 across it, 2 goals and assists between them, and no serious argument from anybody else in the division. Montpellier HSC have had the whole benefit of a month somebody else will spend the summer trying to buy.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2026
Naoufel El Hannach is the month's best young player — 7.29
The award the rest of the division reads as a transfer rumour. 7.29 over the month and 1 goal contributions, from a Montpellier HSC player whose price has just gone up without anybody at his club doing anything.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2026
Nobody made more than Dylan Mbayo this month
2 assists, 7.50, and a Stade Lavallois player who spent four weekends being the reason somebody else's name went in the paper. It is the least-rewarded skill in football and the easiest one to notice its absence.
Market1 Nov 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at AS Nancy is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Market1 Nov 2026
Samuel Yohou hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Le Mans FC can pretend not to have heard.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2026
Highest marks in the league belong to a USL Dunkerque man
Eddy Sylvestre averaged 8.23 over 2 appearances. Nothing about that will trend, and anybody who watched all four games would tell you it was the most accurate thing on this page.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2026
3 goals in 4 appearances for Stade Lavallois, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2026
2 goals in 3 appearances for EA Guingamp, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2026
2 goals in 4 appearances for Pau FC, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2026
2 in 2 for USL Dunkerque. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.
Market1 Nov 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
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Steady
Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
The month closes with Louis Mafouta out in front — 3 goals in 3 games, and EA Guingamp have the division's most feared finisher.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
Marked 8.02 across it, 3 goals and assists between them, and no serious argument from anybody else in the division. EA Guingamp have had the whole benefit of a month somebody else will spend the summer trying to buy.
Market1 Oct 2026
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. AS Nancy have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
Young player of the month: Ibrahim Traoré — 7.02
7.02 across the month and 1 goal contributions from a ESTAC Troyes player everybody else in the division now has a file on. His price rose this month without anybody at his club lifting a finger.
Market1 Oct 2026
“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.
Market1 Oct 2026
Pescara come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Stade de Reims did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
Nobody made more than Alan Kérouédan this month
2 assists, 7.27, and a Grenoble Foot 38 player who spent four weekends being the reason somebody else's name went in the paper. It is the least-rewarded skill in football and the easiest one to notice its absence.
Market1 Oct 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Stade Lavallois can pretend not to have heard.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
Highest marks in the league belong to a EA Guingamp man
Louis Mafouta averaged 8.02 over 3 appearances. Nothing about that will trend, and anybody who watched all four games would tell you it was the most accurate thing on this page.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
A productive month at Stade Lavallois — 2 goals from 3 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
Adama Niane up among the month's scorers
A productive month at AS Saint-Etienne — 3 goals from 3 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
2 goals in 3 appearances for Le Mans FC leave him among the month's leading marksmen.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Scoring charts1 Sep 2026
Moïse Sahi Dion is the division’s leading scorer
4 goals in 5 games, and nobody else in the league close to it. FC Annecy have the man every defence in the division is planning around.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2026
Moïse Sahi Dion is the division's player of the month — 7.66
A club's paper reports this as one of its own being honoured. On this page it is what it actually is: a verdict on everybody who played, and it went to a FC Annecy man on 7.66 with 4 goal contributions.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2026
The division's brightest kid this month plays for Pau FC
Alphadjo Cissé was marked 7.46 and had a hand in 4 goals. Every recruitment department in the country now has a file open, and the club that has him knows exactly what that means.
Market1 Sep 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at AS Nancy, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market1 Sep 2026
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Montpellier HSC have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Market1 Sep 2026
The offer from AJ Auxerre for Théo Guivarch was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market1 Sep 2026
“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” ES Setif had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2026
Nobody made more than Lucas Stassin this month
4 assists, 7.12, and a AS Saint-Etienne player who spent four weekends being the reason somebody else's name went in the paper. It is the least-rewarded skill in football and the easiest one to notice its absence.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2026
Moïse Sahi Dion is the division's best-marked player — 7.66
The chart that catches everybody a goal tally never will: the centre-half who was immense for four weekends, the holding midfielder nobody outside his own ground has heard of. 7.66 across 5 matches for FC Annecy.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2026
4 appearances, 3 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2026
5 appearances, 3 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2026
3 goals in 4 appearances for Rodez AF, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.
From our football correspondent
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Market1 Aug 2026
Keito Nakamura wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Stade de Reims hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Market1 Aug 2026
Still no offer on the table, and Julien Le Cardinal’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Market1 Aug 2026
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Alexandre Olliero has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Stade de Reims.