2026/2027 season

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AJ Auxerre

Head coach: Will Still · 4-3-3

Rank

16th

Pts

6

P

6

Form

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The essentials at a glance

The summary of this page: estimated level of play, form trend and qualitative verdict. For the details, head to the other tabs.

Editors' ratings

4/10

Attack

1/10

Defence

4/10

Form

4/10

Confidence / mood

Current risk:Very high

16th with 6 pts from 6 matches: 2 wins, 0 draws, 4 defeats.

8 goals scored, 16 conceded.

Cameron Archer, the AJA's English striker, who moves on Sunday at Havre (17:15), has already scored four goals in four matches. The player trained at Aston Villa and loaned by Southampton forged a big mind, thanks to his three older brothers.

L'Équipe · 18 Oct 2026 · machine-translated

For his trip to Le Havre, last of Ligue 1, Sunday (17:15), AJ Auxerre (16th) will be deprived of attacker Rémy Label-Lascary, wounded in quadriceps and unavailable for a month, but recovers defender Christ Makosso. Defenceman Clement Akpa (genu) is uncertain.

L'Équipe · 16 Oct 2026 · machine-translated

After an insufficient first period against Auxerre, Rennes finally overturned the situation to largely win (4-1) on the 6th day of Ligue 1. Discontented by the lack of intensity and (...)

Foot Mercato · 12 Oct 2026 · machine-translated

How the team has played recently

Match-by-match results, record and rhythm of the current season.

Latest matches

Lvs Stade Rennais FC 1901 (A) · 1-4

Wvs Stade Brestois 29 (H) · 2-1

Wvs OGC Nice (H) · 1-0

Lvs Olympique Lyonnais (A) · 1-3

Lvs Angers SCO (H) · 1-3

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8 scored / 16 conceded over 6 matches played

Rest: 7 days since the last match · 1 match played in the last 15 days

Home form

2W - 0D - 1L

Away form

0W - 0D - 3L

Statistics

Computed from this season's scores, every time the page is shown.

Goals scored per match

1.2

Goals conceded per match

2.2

At home

4 scored · 4 conceded in 3 matches

Away

2 scored · 7 conceded in 2 matches

Over 2.5 goals

4 of 5

Both teams score

4 of 5

Clean sheets

1 of 5

Failed to score

0 of 5

Cumulative points vs league average

Not enough matchdays recorded yet for this curve — history builds up with every standings refresh.

How AJ Auxerre play

System, playing identity, and what sets the team apart at both ends of the pitch.

Playing identity

Preferred system

4-3-3

Philosophy

Fairly attacking play and high pressing in the tradition of Will Still (Reims, Lens, Southampton), a squad largely rebuilt this summer.

Attacking strengths

2 goals scored despite the rout, Danny Namaso scoring one and receiving the best rating of the match.

Defensive solidity

5 goals conceded from the outset: a major defensive alarm bell.

Pressing

High but poorly executed in this first match, judging by the score conceded.

Transitions

Vulnerable in defensive transition, exploited by Lens.

StrengthIndividual talent up front, notably Namaso, capable of making the difference.

WeaknessDefence decimated by the transfer window and injuries, a system still far from bedded in.

The mood around the club, and who is missing

Internal climate, relationship with the supporters, and known absences before the next match.

Mood

Squad confidence

No points after two matchdays, eight goals conceded and a home defeat to Angers: AJA are bottom of a league they had gone into with the most ambitious window in their recent history. Will Still announced three more absentees before the trip to Lyon, including his signing Axel Tuanzebe, who had arrived on a free a few days earlier. The one piece of good news is Cameron Archer's availability, expected to make up for Lassine Sinayoko's departure. The schedule does not help: the Groupama Stadium on Friday night, with a defence still weakened.

Coach / players / board relationship

Will Still obtained record investment and a staff built around his brother Nicolas, Jean-Alain Boumsong and Djibril Cissé, but his points return is nil. The board kept trimming to the last, with the loans of Lasso Coulibaly and Theo Bair and the mutual termination of Éros Maddy's contract. Those departures reflect a desire to clarify the squad rather than a disagreement with the head coach. The context nonetheless remains that of a contested dismissal, Christophe Pélissier's, which weighs on the project's legitimacy as long as the results do not follow.

Mood with the supporters

The anger of part of the crowd after Christophe Pélissier's removal has not subsided, and the defeat to Angers at the Abbé-Deschamps fed the irritation. The club is communicating mainly about factual matters — refereeing appointments, squad moves — without any major mobilisation effort. The trip to Lyon, on a Friday night, will offer few opportunities for reconciliation. The first real test in front of their own crowd will be decisive for the relationship between the stands and the team.

Pressure on the head coach

It is already high. Will Still is the only Ligue 1 head coach not to have taken a point after two matchdays, having been given a largely rebuilt squad and a record budget. His reputation and his recent spell at Southampton make him a natural target if the run continues. A third setback at Lyon, even an excusable one, would leave AJA alone at the foot of the table before the international break.

Club objectives

The window was built to aim for a top-twelve place, with Arthur Piedfort, Danny Namaso and the loans of Pierre Ekwah, Rémy Labeau-Lascary and Cameron Archer. The urgency is now quite different: steadying a defence that has conceded eight goals in two matches and taking a first point. The late-window departures lightened the squad without strengthening it defensively. November's schedule, with a trip to Strasbourg on the 1st, leaves little respite.

Recent internal tensions

The mood remains contested around the decision to dismiss Christophe Pélissier, amplified by a catastrophic start. To that is added a heavy injury list that deprives Will Still of three more players for Lyon, including a signing who has only just arrived.

Absences

DoubtfulAxel Tuanzebe — Announced as unavailable by Will Still for the trip to Lyon on 4 September, only days after signing; nature of the problem not specified.

BackCameron Archer — Declared fit and available by Will Still for the trip to Lyon.

Before kick-off

What to know before the next match: statistical form, qualitative analysis, and a computed estimate of the 1/X/2 probabilities.

Next match

Havre AC — AJ Auxerre

AwaySunday 18 October at 17:15Matchday 7

It's today. Kick-off time confirmed by the league. Paris time · football-data.org fixtures.

Prediction, odds and form of both teams →

What the press says

No preview found for this fixture. The press mostly covers the big games, and usually the day before.

Prediction

EstimateHavre AC — AJ Auxerre

48 %

1 · Havre AC

25 %

X · draw

27 %

2 · AJ Auxerre

In-house calculation, from this page's standings data alone: 6 matches played by Havre AC, 6 matches by AJ Auxerre. Confidence: medium

The formula, in plain words — with this match's figures

League average. 170 goals scored over 116 team-matches played (18 teams taken into account), i.e. μ = 1.47 goal scored per team per match. This is the reference point: everything that follows is expressed relative to it.
Attacking and defensive strengths. Goals scored (or conceded) per match, divided by μ. 1.00 = exactly average; in defence, above 1.00 means “concedes more than average”.
TeamGoalsRawKept
Havre AC — attack4 in 6 matches0.450.73
Havre AC — defence8 in 6 matches0.910.95
AJ Auxerre — attack8 in 6 matches0.910.95
AJ Auxerre — defence16 in 6 matches1.821.41
The “Kept” column is the result of shrinkage towards the mean: weight = P / (P + 6), i.e. 0.50 for Havre AC and 0.50 for AJ Auxerre. The rest of the weight goes to the league average. This is what stops a lone 5-0 from producing an attack at 3.3 times the average — and hence a 95% probability.
Home advantage (γ). Measured on the league itself: 1.61 goal scored on average by the host against 1.30 by the visitor, over the 46 fixtures present in each team's last 5 matches. Raw ratio 1.24; shrunk towards 1 (weight 0.42, on the log of the ratio) then capped at 1.25 → γ = 1.10. Shrinkage goes towards 1, i.e. no advantage at all: while the sample is small, the model does not assert a home advantage it cannot measure.
Venue correction, specific to each team. Drawn from the home/away split: points per match at the venue concerned are compared to points per match over all fixtures, with stronger shrinkage (weight = P / (P + 8)) and a bound of ±12%.
Havre AC at home: 0.33 pts/match versus 0.33 overall over 3 matches → ×1.000
AJ Auxerre away: 0.00 pts/match versus 1.00 overall over 3 matches → ×0.880
Expected goals. One side's attack is set against the other's defence. γ applies to the host only: applying it the other way round too would count the home advantage twice.
λ_{Havre AC} = 1.47 × 0.73 × 1.41 × 1.10 × 1.000 = 1.65
λ_{AJ Auxerre} = 1.47 × 0.95 × 0.95 × 0.880 = 1.18
Poisson grid. Probability of every exact score from 0-0 to 8-8, assuming the two goal totals are independent, then adding up the cells: home win 48.4%, draw 24.4%, away win 27.3% — displayed rounded to whole numbers so that they add up to exactly 100. Most likely exact score in the grid: 1-1 (only 11.5%, which says enough about how unpredictable an exact score is).

Limits of this model — they are not anecdotal.

It only knows goals and a venue. Neither absences, suspensions, line-ups, fatigue, stakes, weather nor club context enter the calculation — while the other tabs of this page show that they matter.
The assumption that the two goal totals are independent is false in reality: it slightly underestimates tight scores, hence the draw.
γ is measured over a rolling window (each team's last 5 matches), not over the whole season.
The shrinkage constants (6, 60, 8) and the bounds are choices, not measurements. They were tuned to be cautious early in the season; they were not calibrated on a results history, as none is available here.
No after-the-fact evaluation has been made: at this stage, nobody knows whether this model is better or worse calibrated than another.

What other sources say

No external source has been collected for this match. That is the normal state: readings are taken by hand, and an empty box is better than an unverified figure.

This block shows probability estimates, not predictions, and carries no advisory value. The in-house estimate is the result of a formula applied to a small sample; the figures from external sources are reproduced as they were collected, without their method having been verified.

The full squad

The professional squad by position, captain marked with an armband.

Goalkeepers

Paul Nardi
Mamadou Diop
Louis Mezerette

Defenders

Francisco Sierralta
Telli Siwe
Christ Makosso
Sinaly Diomandé
Fredrik Oppegård
Bryan Okoh
Lamine Sy
Marvin Senaya
Rayan Mandengue
Elikya Legros
Alvin Petit Dol
Mohamed Coulibaly
Clément Akpa
Sékou Fofana

Midfielders

Kevin DanoisC
Assane Dioussé
Naouirou Ahamada
Pierre Ekwah
Lasso Coulibaly
Romain Faivre
Lamfia Dioubaté
Tidiane Devernois
Yvan Zaddy
Arthur Piedfort
Aristide Zossou

Forwards

Rémy Labeau Lascary
Josué Casimir
Theo Bair
Eros Maddy
Danny Namaso
Ryan Rodin
Mamoudou Cissokho
Xiangxin Wei

Squad last verified on 30 Aug 2026 — source: aja.fr (official website); captain confirmed by topmercato.com (20/08/2026).

What has been said recently

Chronological feed of verified information about the club.

rss18 Oct 2026

Auxerre's English striker, Cameron Archer, who "may one day have a card to play" with the Three Lions, a daily and serial scorer

Source: L'Équipe

rss11 Oct 2026

Haise is "mounted in the laps": how Rennes coach moved his locker room half-time against Auxerre

Source: RMC Sport — Ligue 1

rss16 Oct 2026

Auxerre will go to Le Havre in Ligue 1 without Rémy Label-Lascary, absent a month, but recovers Christ Makosso

Source: L'Équipe

rss12 Oct 2026

Rennes-Auxerre : Franck Haise pushed a huge yell at half-time

Source: Foot Mercato

rss11 Oct 2026

The former Lazio Dia drags the Rennes: double in recovery and Auxerre ko 4-1. Marseille smiles

Source: Corriere dello Sport

rss11 Oct 2026

The notes of Rennes-Auxerre : The decisive paul, the Reynolds revelation

Source: L'Équipe

Head coach2 Sep 2026

At his press conference on 2 September, Will Still announced three absentees before the trip to Lyon, including new signing Axel Tuanzebe, but confirmed that forward Cameron Archer was fit and available.

Source: Titres Presse (Made in Foot / Ouest-France)

Other2 Sep 2026

The club has announced the refereeing appointment for OL v AJ Auxerre, on Friday at 19:00: Ruddy Buquet will take charge, assisted by Erwan Finjean and Julien Haulbert, with Karim Abed as fourth official and Benoît Millot and Bruno Coué on VAR.

Source: Site officiel de l'AJ Auxerre

Contract2 Sep 2026

AJA and Éros Maddy, who arrived in summer 2023, was part of the Ligue 2 title-winning squad in 2024 and was on loan at Laval last season, have agreed to terminate his contract after 18 first-team appearances.

Source: Site officiel de l'AJ Auxerre

Institutional2 Sep 2026

The matchday 9 schedule has been announced: AJA will travel to La Meinau to face Racing Club de Strasbourg on Sunday 1 November at 15:00, on Ligue 1+.

Source: Alsa'Sports

Club2 Sep 2026

AJA closed a record window by investing around €17.6m to launch the Will Still era, notably Arthur Piedfort for €5.5m, Danny Namaso for €5m and the loans of Pierre Ekwah, Rémy Labeau-Lascary and Cameron Archer.

Source: TeamAJA

Transfers1 Sep 2026

Defender Axel Tuanzebe, 28, developed at Manchester United and a DR Congo international who played at the 2026 World Cup, has signed on a free after leaving Burnley, for a year plus an optional year, with number 4.

Source: Site officiel de l'AJ Auxerre

Transfers1 Sep 2026

Midfielder Lasso Coulibaly, 23, held back by a serious knee injury shortly after his winning goal on his Ligue 1 debut against Nice, has been loaned for a season with a purchase option to Viborg FF, in Denmark, to find playing time again.

Source: Site officiel de l'AJ Auxerre

Transfers1 Sep 2026

Canadian forward Theo Bair, who arrived from Motherwell in 2024 and was then on loan at Lausanne-Sport last season, has been loaned for a season with a purchase option to Bolton Wanderers.

Source: Site officiel de l'AJ Auxerre

Result29 Aug 2026

AJ Auxerre lost 3-1 at home to Angers despite Rémy Labeau-Lascary's equaliser, and remain the only side without a single point after two matchdays.

Source: Angers Info

Suspension26 Aug 2026

Christ Melik Makosso, sent off (red card) during the 5-2 defeat at Lens on matchday 1, has been sanctioned by the LFP disciplinary committee with a 1-match ban plus 1 match suspended.

Source: LFP

News last verified on 18 Oct 2026. Sources: sports press (L'Équipe, Le Parisien, Foot Mercato, regional press…) and official club websites — see the link on each item.

Editorial content (playing style, mood, absences, external prediction sources) last verified on 3 Sep 2026. The standings/form data above are refreshed automatically — as is the 1/X/2 estimate, recomputed on every view.