From our football correspondent
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Scoring charts1 Feb 2027
Nobody in the division bettered it last month: 4 goals in 5 appearances for US Orleans.
Scoring charts1 Feb 2027
Everybody in the division was measured and a US Orleans man came out on top: 7.58 across the month and 7 goal contributions. There is no serious case for anybody else.
Scoring charts1 Feb 2027
The division's brightest kid this month plays for Quevilly-Rouen
Amine Moussaoui was marked 7.40 and had a hand in 2 goals. Every recruitment department in the country now has a file open, and the club that has him knows exactly what that means.
Market1 Feb 2027
“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Stade Malien had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.
Market1 Feb 2027
Adel Lembezat 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 Dijon can pretend not to have heard.
Market1 Feb 2027
The bid was some way short and FC Villefranche did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market1 Feb 2027
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around FC Rouen people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Scoring charts1 Feb 2027
Malamine Efekele leads the division for assists — 7.58
The chart that decides who the scorers ought to be thanking. 5 of them made by a US Orleans player marked 7.58, and not one will be in the montage at the end of the season.
Scoring charts1 Feb 2027
Bandiougou Fadiga is the division's best-marked player — 8.03
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. 8.03 across 4 matches for US Concarneau.
Scoring charts1 Feb 2027
3 goals in 5 appearances for FC Rouen, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.
Scoring charts1 Feb 2027
4 in 5 for Sochaux. 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 Feb 2027
2 goals in 5 appearances for US Orleans leave him among the month's leading marksmen.
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Steady
Scoring charts1 Jan 2027
Nobody in the division bettered it last month: 3 goals in 3 appearances for FC Versailles.
Scoring charts1 Jan 2027
Player of the month: Brian Bayeye — 7.90
Everybody in the division was measured and a FC Villefranche man came out on top: 7.90 across the month and 4 goal contributions. There is no serious case for anybody else.
Scoring charts1 Jan 2027
Young player of the month: Pierre Dorival — 7.24
7.24 across the month and 2 goal contributions from a Stade Briochin 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
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Scoring charts1 Jan 2027
Nobody made more than Brian Bayeye this month
3 assists, 7.90, and a FC Villefranche 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 Brian Bayeye — 7.90
7.90 on average across 4 matches for FC Villefranche. The chart that notices the players a goal tally never does, and this month it noticed him.
Market1 Jan 2027
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Scoring charts1 Jan 2027
2 goals in 4 appearances for Valenciennes, 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
3 in 4 for FC Villefranche. 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 Jan 2027
2 in 4 for Valenciennes. 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 Jan 2027
2 goals in 3 appearances for US Orleans leave him among the month's leading marksmen.
Market1 Jan 2027
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Adel Lembezat has his answer from Dijon; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
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Scoring charts1 Dec 2026
Nobody in the division bettered it last month: 2 goals in 3 appearances for Sochaux.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2026
Marked 7.96 across it, 3 goals and assists between them, and no serious argument from anybody else in the division. Valenciennes have had the whole benefit of a month somebody else will spend the summer trying to buy.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2026
The division's brightest kid this month plays for Valenciennes
Mamadou Diakhon was marked 7.96 and had a hand in 3 goals. Every recruitment department in the country now has a file open, and the club that has him knows exactly what that means.
Market1 Dec 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 Paris 13 Atletico can pretend not to have heard.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2026
The division’s top provider is Ayman Kari — 7.33
3 assists across the month from a SM Caen player marked 7.33. Somebody has to open the door before anybody walks through it, and nobody in the league opened more.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2026
Highest marks in the league belong to a Valenciennes man
Mamadou Diakhon averaged 7.96 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 Dec 2026
2 goals in 2 appearances for FC Villefranche leave him among the month's leading marksmen.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2026
2 in 3 for SM Caen. 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
Denzel is right behind him
2 goals in 3 appearances for SM Caen, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2026
2 in 2 for Le Puy Foot 43. 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 Dec 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at US Concarneau, another week without a signature from Bakary Haïdara.
Market1 Dec 2026
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Alexandre Pierre has his answer from Sochaux; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
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Scoring charts1 Nov 2026
Enzo Loiodice is the division’s leading scorer
3 goals in 3 games, and nobody else in the league close to it. SM Caen have the man every defence in the division is planning around.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2026
Player of the month: Enzo Loiodice — 8.06
Everybody in the division was measured and a SM Caen man came out on top: 8.06 across the month and 3 goal contributions. There is no serious case for anybody else.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2026
Young player of the month: Samba Konaté — 7.32
7.32 across the month and 2 goal contributions from a SM Caen 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 Nov 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 Paris 13 Atletico, and it is not being withdrawn.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2026
3 assists across the month from a Sochaux player marked 7.91. Somebody has to open the door before anybody walks through it, and nobody in the league opened more.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2026
Best marks in the division for Enzo Loiodice — 8.06
8.06 on average across 3 matches for SM Caen. The chart that notices the players a goal tally never does, and this month it noticed him.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2026
2 in 4 for FC Versailles. 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 Nov 2026
2 in 3 for Valenciennes. 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 Nov 2026
2 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 Nov 2026
Kévin Farade up among the month's scorers
A productive month at FC Fleury 91 — 2 goals from 4 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Market1 Nov 2026
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Dieudonné Gaucho has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at SM Caen.
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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Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
Mabrouk Rouaï is the division’s leading scorer
3 goals in 3 games, and nobody else in the league close to it. Valenciennes have the man every defence in the division is planning around.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
The month belonged to Alaa Bakir
Marked 7.83 across it, 3 goals and assists between them, and no serious argument from anybody else in the division. US Orleans have had the whole benefit of a month somebody else will spend the summer trying to buy.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
Young player of the month: Bahmed Deuff — 7.71
7.71 across the month and 3 goal contributions from a Quevilly-Rouen 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 Oct 2026
The chart that decides who the scorers ought to be thanking. 2 of them made by a Sochaux player marked 7.62, and not one will be in the montage at the end of the season.
Market1 Oct 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market1 Oct 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
Mamadou Diakhon is the division's best-marked player — 7.84
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. 7.84 across 3 matches for Valenciennes.
Market1 Oct 2026
Only the photograph left for Axel Temperton
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Axel Temperton will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around FC Rouen the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market1 Oct 2026
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Tailan Matip Ngom reports back to FC Villefranche with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
3 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 Oct 2026
2 in 3 for US Orleans. 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 Oct 2026
Denzel up among the month's scorers
A productive month at SM Caen — 2 goals from 1 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Scoring charts1 Sep 2026
Hicham Khaloua is the division’s leading scorer
2 goals in 3 games, and nobody else in the league close to it. US Concarneau have the man every defence in the division is planning around.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2026
Everybody in the division was measured and a US Concarneau man came out on top: 7.51 across the month and 3 goal contributions. There is no serious case for anybody else.
Market1 Sep 2026
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around SC Aubagne Air Bel people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2026
The division's brightest kid this month plays for Dijon
Khalis Merah was marked 7.37 and had a hand in 2 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
“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” ES Mostaganem 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 Mathis Touho this month
3 assists, 7.20, and a FC Villefranche 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 Sep 2026
Jason Mbock 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 SM Caen can pretend not to have heard.
Market1 Sep 2026
Sochaux come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and FC Versailles did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2026
Naouirou Ahamada is the division's best-marked player — 7.74
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. 7.74 across 2 matches for US Concarneau.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2026
2 goals in 3 appearances for Valenciennes, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2026
2 in 1 for Valenciennes. 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 Sep 2026
A productive month at Sochaux — 2 goals from 3 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
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Market1 Aug 2026
Still no offer on the table, and Anthony Mandréa’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.” Trey Vimalin has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at FC Fleury 91.
Market1 Aug 2026
The shop window has Tom Pauget in it
Bourg-Peronnas have let the market know Tom Pauget can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.