Lorient knows that the season will be difficult to stay in Ligue 1. Les Merlus, who separated from Christophe Pélissier (replaced by Régis Le Bris) are preparing a new project with the desire to continue in the elite. For the Bretons, the season, with four descents, is particularly perilous.
Prognosis
For two seasons in Ligue 1, the Hakes finish in the same place and fight, again and again, for maintenance. During the off-season, Loïc Ferry changed things, such as the departure of old veterans, including Hergault and Morel, and, above all, the appointment of a new coach, Régis Le Bris. Once again, FC Lorient should fight to keep their seat in the top flight. And it gets harder and harder.
Leaders
- President: Loïc Fery
- Managing Director: Arnaud Tanguy
- Sports Director: Christophe Le Roux
- Board of Directors: Loïc Féry, Pierre-Yves Dréan, Stéphane Gravereaux, Denis Féry, Georges Sampeur and André Garel
- Director of the training center: Recruitment unit: Stéphane Pédron, Baptiste Drouet and Jérôme Fougeron
- President of the association: Yves Larmignat
- Budget : 42 millions d’euros
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Coach: Régis Le Bris
Taking care of the training center since 2015, the 46-year-old technician has been promoted to the deep end this season. Régis Le Bris aims to raise the group and bring out promising young people from the Lorient reserve. By taking over the post of Christophe Pélissier, the native of Pont-l’Abbé has the heavy task of making people forget a difficult season.
Main transfer
Arrivals: Talbi (Rubin Kazan, Russia), Mvogo (Leipzig, All.), Ngameni (Niort), Kyatangwa (AC Ajaccio)
Departures: Jenz (loan Celtic, Eco.), Hamel (Paris FC), Labonne (Nîmes), Callens (Annecy), Hergault (fc), Morel (fc), Mendes (fc), Pélissier (entr), Renaud (Cholet )
Did you know ?
Kevin Gameiro is the active player who has scored the most goals in Ligue 1 with Lorient. The French striker totaled 50 goals in three seasons, including 22 in 2010/2011. But it will be complicated for Kevin Gameiro, who now plays in Strasbourg, to beat the top scorer in the history of Merlus, Bernard Goraguer, with his 60 goals scored between 1965 and 1977.
last season
- Players used: Moffi (37 games), Mendes and Le Fée (36), Lauriente (35), Monconduit, Abergel and Le Goff (34), Laporte (33), Silva (28), Ouattara and Boisgard (25), Nardi and Pétrot (22), Lemoine and Soumano (21), Grbic and Jenz (17), Dreyer and Koné (16), Diarra (15), Innocent (12), Morel (9), Hergault (8), Bourles (4 ), Loric (3)
- Top scorers: Moffi (8), Lauriente (6), Koné (5), Soumano and Monconduit (3), Le Fée and Laporte (2), Grbic, Ouattara, Boisgard, Petrot, Jenz and Le Goff (1)
- Best passers: Moffi (4), Abergel (3), Monconduit, Lauriente, Le Fée, Le Goff and Ouattara (2), Mendes, Lemoine, Boisgard and Kone (1) Ranking: 16th with 36 points
- Coupe de France: Beaten in the 32nd finals by Rennes (1-0)
- Fair play ranking: 4th with 74 points
- Attendance: 12,008 spectators on average
The last 10 seasons of Lorient
- 2021-2022: 16th with 36 points (Coach: Pélissier, top scorer: Moffi, 8 goals)
- 2020-2021: 16th with 42 points (L1) (Coach: Pélissier, top scorer: Moffi, 14 goals)
- 2019-2020: 1st with 54 points (L2) (Coach: Pélissier, top scorer: Wissa 15 goals)
- 2018-2019: 6th with 63 points (L2) (Coach: Mickaël Landreau, top scorer: Hamel, 19 goals)
- 2017-2018: 7th with 62 points (L2) (Coach: Mickaël Landreau, top scorer: Hamel, 10 goals
- 2016-2017: 18th with 36 points (L1) (Coach: Sylvain Ripoll then Franck Haise then Bernard Casoni, top scorer: Moukandjo, 13 goals)
- 2015-2016: 15th with 46 points (L1) (Coach: Sylvain Ripoll, top scorer: Moukandjo, 13 goals)
- 2014-2015: 16th with 43 points (L1) (Coach: Sylvain Ripoll, top scorer: J. Ayew, 12 goals)
- 2013-2014: 8th in L1 with 49 points (Coach: Christian Gourcuff, top scorer: Aboubakar 16 goals)
- 2012-2013: 8th in L1 with 53 points (Coach: Christian Gourcuff, top scorer: Aliadière 15 goals)
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