The Dijon Gazette
Squad17 Aug 2026
A fracture rules Paul Delecroix out for 151 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Dijon will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Paul Delecroix 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 Dijon this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Graduation day at Dijon
4 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Jordan Marié 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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Adel Lembezat runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match15 Aug 2026
A bad afternoon for Dijon against Valenciennes
0‑2 to Valenciennes, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Market17 Aug 2026
Dijon promote Paul Dufour from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Paul Dufour has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market17 Aug 2026
One of our own: Bruno Bourgeois joins the Dijon first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Bruno Bourgeois is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market17 Aug 2026
Christophe Vincent steps up from the Dijon academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Christophe Vincent has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
In brief
- Market Dijon promote Frédéric Mathieu from within
- Squad The manager makes an example of Kévin Monnet-Paquet
- Boardroom Dijon turn down the training-ground plan