Stéphane Schmitt

Right Midfielder - Chamois Niortais
2 Sep 2026
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Marked for Stéphane Schmitt

5 Edition

The Chamois Niortais Herald

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad31 Aug 2026

A fracture rules Stéphane Schmitt out for 129 days

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

Match29 Aug 2026

Guillaume Roux leads the rout of Dijon

4‑0, and Guillaume Roux took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Chamois Niortais tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

Squad31 Aug 2026

3 goals for Guillaume Roux

The match ball belongs to Guillaume Roux, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

Guillaume Roux was on a different afternoon to everybody else

9.84. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Transfer targets31 Aug 2026

Chamois Niortais rebuffed over Julien Lopez

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Paris FC have kept their man, and Chamois Niortais go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

Ninety minutes of Charles Renault at his very best

Marked 8.90. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Chamois Niortais.

Match29 Aug 2026

Chamois Niortais keep winning on the road

3 away wins in a row. Travelling support is the truest kind, and this season it is being repaid in the only currency that counts.

Squad31 Aug 2026

5 new faces, and Chamois Niortais are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

The dugout31 Aug 2026

The manager’s verdict

“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Mathieu Laine kept it short after the 4‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.

In brief

Back issues
3 Edition

The Chamois Niortais Herald

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Stéphane Schmitt runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 46. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market17 Aug 2026

RC Lens come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Chamois Niortais did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

A brace, and Charles Renault takes the afternoon — 8.89

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Charles Renault provided it, and the 8.89 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Market17 Aug 2026

Business is business: Rémi Royer goes

OGC Nice paid $9.8M and Chamois Niortais took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

The terraces17 Aug 2026

A $9.8M sale, and a town that did not want it

Rémi Royer has gone, the accounts have $9.8M in them, and the supporters have the feeling of having been sold something themselves. Good business and a good decision are not always the same thing.

Market17 Aug 2026

Business is business: Richard Gaillard goes

Stade Rennais paid $4.6M and Chamois Niortais took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Match15 Aug 2026

Chamois Niortais cannot stop winning

3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

Market17 Aug 2026

François Marie moves on

Stade Brestois pay $1.4M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Samuel Souprayen 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 Chamois Niortais this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief

1 Edition

The Chamois Niortais Herald

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings3 Aug 2026

What a way to start for Richard Gaillard — 9.01

1 on the scoresheet on his first appearance and a mark of 9.01 beside it. Most debuts are got through; this one was enjoyed, by him and by everybody watching it.

Player ratings3 Aug 2026

Both of them Charles Renault's — 9.25

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.25, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Market3 Aug 2026

Chamois Niortais turn down Alverca for Richard Gaillard

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Transfer targets3 Aug 2026

Too dear: Chamois Niortais walk away from Timothée Kolodziejczak

$520.0K was the most the club would pay and Paris FC were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.

Match1 Aug 2026

6 goals as Chamois Niortais and Stade Lavallois go for it

Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Chamois Niortais and Stade Lavallois, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.

Match1 Aug 2026

Charles Renault sends Chamois Niortais past Stade Lavallois

It finished 4‑2, and it was Charles Renault’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Chamois Niortais.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Words at Chamois Niortais training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rémi Royer 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.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Stéphane Schmitt 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 Chamois Niortais this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets3 Aug 2026

Door shut on Ryad Hachem

Chamois Niortais asked and FC Nantes said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

In brief