Ilyes Hamdia

Central Defender - Clermont Foot U20
13 Mar 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Ilyes Hamdia

7 Edition

The Clermont Foot Courier

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Famara Diédhiou scores twice — 8.48

Two goals and a mark of 8.48 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad

A fracture rules Ilyes Hamdia out for 18 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Clermont Foot will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Player ratings

Axel Camblan runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

4 matches without a win for Clermont Foot

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Clermont Foot are no longer polite ones.

Match

No clean sheets in sight for Clermont Foot

5 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.

Squad

Words at Clermont Foot training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Natanaël Thio is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad

Abdellah Baallal in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Clermont Foot this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Ivan M'Bahia

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Loan watch

Yad Lochereau has seen enough of RC Lens

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Clermont Foot, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.

In brief

Back issues
6 Edition

The Clermont Foot Courier

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Clermont Foot let it slip despite Adrien Hunou

Adrien Hunou had done his part in building a 2-goal cushion. What happened after that was collective, and AS Nancy were allowed back into a match that had been finished with.

Squad

Ilyes Hamdia breaks a bone — 26 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 26 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Sumaila Awudu asks to leave Clermont Foot

“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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Clermont Foot against AS Nancy

2‑3 to AS Nancy, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Match

Clermont Foot are shipping goals every week

Two or more conceded in each of the last 4 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.

Player ratings

One of those days for Adrien Hunou

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.63, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Mohammed Guindo

Marked 8.46 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Squad

Vital N'Simba gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad

Famara Diédhiou dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

In brief

5 Edition

The Clermont Foot Courier

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Ilyes Hamdia breaks a bone — 33 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 33 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings

Both of them Saïdou Sow's — 8.28

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.28, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Squad

Théo Guivarch keeps Clermont Foot in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Player ratings

Famara Diédhiou, 33, rolls back the years — 7.81

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.81 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Market

Théo Ramousse 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 Clermont Foot, and it is not being withdrawn.

Match

Tours take the points off Clermont Foot

Beaten 3‑4, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Match

Nobody could stop scoring

7 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Clermont Foot and Tours in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.

Squad

Words at Clermont Foot training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Natanaël Thio is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Yoann Salmier

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

In brief

4 Edition

The Clermont Foot Courier

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A fracture rules Ilyes Hamdia out for 41 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Clermont Foot will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

The terraces

Supporters turn on the $1.5M sale of Allan Ackra

He is going to FC Metz, the club has $1.5M it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.

Market

Elhadj Koné 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 Clermont Foot, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Clermont Foot sell Allan Ackra for $1.5M

Allan Ackra has left for FC Metz in a $1.5M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Squad

Tempers go at Clermont Foot

Yoann Salmier was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Player ratings

Axel Camblan runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Natanaël Thio falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Match

Clermont Foot come up short against US Creteil

US Creteil left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Mohammed Guindo

At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

In brief