2026/2027 season

Ligue 1

Team page
Ligue 1 · Team page
AS Monaco
Head coach: Filipe Luís · 4-2-3-1 / 4-3-3 selon les sources
Rank
2nd
Pts
14
P
6
Form
🟢 Good

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
6/10
Attack
8/10
Defence
7/10
Form
7/10
Confidence / mood
Current risk:Medium

2nd with 14 pts from 6 matches: 4 wins, 2 draws, 0 defeats.

10 goals scored, 5 conceded.

On 11 April 2017, three explosives were detonated at the bus, which was on its way to the stadium for a Champions League-duel with AS Monaco.

Voetbalprimeur · 18 Oct 2026 · machine-translated

Finally back on the grounds, Ansu Fati was able to count on Paul Pogba in difficult times. This summer, the two players experienced a similar situation, far away from the fields and facing (...)

Foot Mercato · 17 Oct 2026 · machine-translated

The attacker of AS Monaco emotionally evokes his privileged relationship with Paul Pogba, whom he considers to be a big brother. Ansu Fati tells of their closeness to everyday life, their exchanges on football and life, but also the essential role played by the French international when he arrived in Monaco.

RMC Sport — Ligue 1 · 17 Oct 2026 · machine-translated

Released early Thursday in Sofia against the CASKA in the Europa League (2-1), Lamine Camara is well placed in the Monaco group for the trip to Lorient, this Sunday (17:15). This is not the case, however, for Eric Dier and Stanis Idumbo, as Filipe Luis had announced.

L'Équipe · 17 Oct 2026 · machine-translated

How the team has played recently

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

Latest matches
Dvs Toulouse FC (H) · 2-2
Wvs Racing Club de Lens (H) · 2-1
Dvs RC Strasbourg Alsace (A) · 1-1
Wvs Paris Saint-Germain FC (A) · 2-1
Wvs Olympique de Marseille (H) · 2-0
WWWWDD
10 scored / 5 conceded over 6 matches played
Rest: 8 days since the last match · 1 match played in the last 15 days
Home form
2W - 1D - 0L
Away form
2W - 1D - 0L
Statistics

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

Goals scored per match
1.8
Goals conceded per match
1.0
At home
6 scored · 3 conceded in 3 matches
Away
3 scored · 2 conceded in 2 matches
Over 2.5 goals
3 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 AS Monaco play

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

Playing identity
Preferred system
4-2-3-1 / 4-3-3 selon les sources
Philosophy
New cycle begun by Filipe Luís, identity still under construction; a good attacking signal in the Conference League (4-1 win against Górnik Zabrze).
Attacking strengths
Varied options up front (Golovin, Idumbo, Brunner), but a narrow win in Ligue 1.
Defensive solidity
Clean sheet in the only league match played.
Pressing
To be confirmed, Filipe Luís's profile is rather possession-oriented (Flamengo heritage).
Transitions
Still bedding in under the new staff.
StrengthSquad depth and individual talent up front.
WeaknessTactical continuity in question after an abrupt split with Sébastien Pocognoli, the new Brazilian staff's adaptation still recent.

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
The only team on six points after two matchdays, AS Monaco travel to the Parc des Princes as leaders and with a benchmark win against OM. Filipe Luís judges his squad “very competitive” while admitting an imbalance in the centre-forward position, Folarin Balogun still being in fitness rehabilitation. Keeping Lamine Camara, whom he says he is announcing as “100% ready”, is presented as good news on the pitch. Eric Dier, for his part, set the scene bluntly: there is “no good time” to face PSG.
Coach / players / board relationship
The staff's message is soothing, but the Camara situation continues to damage the relationship between the player and his board: the midfielder had given his agreement and signed the paperwork before the club blocked the transfer at 23:47, with a “You cannot leave, we will talk about it tomorrow” that stuck in his throat. Filipe Luís publicly owned his satisfaction at keeping him and stressed the squad's professionalism. The coach also pointed out that a returning player such as Balogun would have to win his place back, a sign that he intends to set the hierarchy himself. Eric Dier, the vice-captain, describes a role he takes “seriously” and highlights the young players in the group, including Sadibou Sané.
Mood with the supporters
The perfect start sustains enthusiasm around Filipe Luís's project, whose style is beginning to be legible. The club has also nurtured the link with its history by publishing, on the eve of the trip to Paris, a profile of Lucien Muller, the head coach who gave the Rocher its fourth Coupe de France in 1985 against PSG. The academy remains a source of pride: Yann Lienard, who arrived at 16 and has been extended until 2028, is going to gain experience at Cercle Brugge. October's schedule, with Lorient three days after the Conference League opener, does raise questions about managing bodies.
Pressure on the head coach
High but trending well. Filipe Luís has made a successful start with six points from six, but he must now confirm it against the reigning champions, with an attack without Balogun and a squad that could still change: Golovin and Pape Cabral could leave for more than €30m combined.
Club objectives
Monaco accept a season across three competitions, with a Conference League opener against CSKA Sofia and a very tight October schedule. In parallel the board continues to optimise its transfer balance, negotiating Golovin's departure to Russia and Pape Cabral's to Al-Ahli, after the Camara and Balogun deals fell through. The sporting ambition remains to stay top of the league for as long as possible.
Recent internal tensions
The friction point remains Lamine Camara. The way the transfer to Chelsea was blocked in the very last minutes of the window created a rupture the press describes as hard to repair with the board, even though the player has assured his team-mates he will give everything. The subject is all the more sensitive as his contract runs to June 2029.
Absences
InjuredFolarin Balogun — In fitness rehabilitation, with gradual reintegration into the group announced by Filipe Luís on 2 September.

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

FC Lorient — AS Monaco

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
1.43
xG / match
1.43
xGA / match
21 matches — 2025-2026 season · 2026-2027 sample still too small (1 match) for reliable xG; previous season's figures given as a reference point (source: FootyStats).
Analysis
Monaco host Marseille this Sunday 30 August at 20:45 at the Stade Louis-II for matchday 2, in a clash between two teams up and running after an opening win. On the Monaco side, attacking options are thin: Folarin Balogun is still training individually, Edan Diop is only on a partial return and Ansu Fati is doubtful with a calf problem — only the return of Matthis Abline to the squad offers some compensation. On the other side, OM go into this match weakened by two exits that emerged in the final hours before kick-off: Leonardo Balerdi, captain of the Marseille defence, has an agreement in place with AS Roma (loan with an option to buy, announced on 29 August) and is due to undergo his medical this weekend — an absence that goes beyond the simple knock already reported last week; and Igor Paixão, doubtful all week, was officially left out of the squad this Sunday with a thigh injury, depriving Marseille of one of its most incisive wingers. Two major absences on the Marseille side that emerged just hours before kick-off, while OM's squad is already trimmed by the club's financial crisis.
Sources: AS Monaco — calendrier officiel, FootMarseille — accord Balerdi/AS Roma, La Diagonale — Paixão absent, AS Monaco — groupe convoqué
Analysis updated on 30 Aug 2026 — matchday-eve/matchday cycle, separate from the weekly refresh.
Prediction
EstimateFC Lorient — AS Monaco
30 %
1 · FC Lorient
28 %
X · draw
42 %
2 · AS Monaco
In-house calculation, from this page's standings data alone: 6 matches played by FC Lorient, 6 matches by AS Monaco. Confidence: medium
The formula, in plain words — with this match's figures
  1. 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.
  2. 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
    FC Lorient — attack6 in 6 matches0.680.84
    FC Lorient — defence6 in 6 matches0.680.84
    AS Monaco — attack10 in 6 matches1.141.07
    AS Monaco — defence5 in 6 matches0.570.78
    The “Kept” column is the result of shrinkage towards the mean: weight = P / (P + 6), i.e. 0.50 for FC Lorient and 0.50 for AS Monaco. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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%.
    FC Lorient at home: 1.33 pts/match versus 1.33 overall over 3 matches → ×1.000
    AS Monaco away: 2.33 pts/match versus 2.33 overall over 3 matches → ×1.000
  5. 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.
    λFC Lorient = 1.47 × 0.84 × 0.78 × 1.10 × 1.000 = 1.06
    λAS Monaco = 1.47 × 1.07 × 0.84 × 1.000 = 1.32
  6. 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 30.0%, draw 27.5%, away win 42.5% — displayed rounded to whole numbers so that they add up to exactly 100. Most likely exact score in the grid: 1-1 (only 13.0%, 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
  • Lukáš Hradecký
  • Philipp Köhn
  • Jules Stawiecki
  • Yann Lienard
Defenders
  • Vanderson
  • Jordan Teze
  • Thilo Kehrer
  • Christian Mawissa
  • Eric Dier
  • Flávio Nazinho
  • Mohammed Salisu
  • Samuel Nibombe
  • Sadibou Sané
Midfielders
  • Denis Zakaria
  • Lamine Camara
  • Aleksandr Golovin
  • Stanis Idumbo
  • Takumi Minamino
  • Pape Cabral
  • Mamadou Coulibaly
  • Edan Diop
Forwards
  • Mathys Detourbet
  • Folarin Balogun
  • Mika Biereth
  • Paris Brunner
  • Ansu Fati
  • Matthis Abline
This team's current captain could not be confirmed with certainty at the last check — no armband is shown above until the information is reliable.
Squad last verified on 30 Aug 2026 — source: asmonaco.com (official website).

What has been said recently

Chronological feed of verified information about the club.

rss18 Oct 2026
DIRECT. Lorient-Monaco: Follow the 7th day game of Ligue 1 live
Source: RMC Sport
rss17 Oct 2026
The Bayern Munich humiliates Leipzig and engages Borussia Dortmund, which brakes again. Fullkrug saves the Werder
Source: Corriere dello Sport
rss18 Oct 2026
A victory in Lens and a success against Paris FC before Monaco: with Alexandre Dujeux, Lorient prolongs his good habits against the big teams
Source: L'Équipe
rss17 Oct 2026
Monaco: Fati's tribute to Paul Pogba
Source: Foot Mercato
rss11 Oct 2026
Monaco maintains championship leadership and PSG adds third win followed
Source: Notícias ao Minuto — Desporto
rss17 Oct 2026
The Psg passes to Strasbourg and joins Monaco. The Lille di Ancelotti, saved by Giroud
Source: Corriere dello Sport
Transfers3 Sep 2026
The club has announced the loan for the 2026-2027 season of goalkeeper Yann Lienard to Cercle Brugge. Developed at AS Monaco, which he joined at 16 in 2019, he had recently extended until June 2028 and has one professional appearance, in the Coupe de France in December 2024.
Source: AS Monaco (site officiel)
Club3 Sep 2026
The Chelsea episode has left its mark: Lamine Camara had given his agreement and signed the paperwork before Monaco blocked the move at 23:47 (“You cannot leave, we will talk about it tomorrow”). The 22-year-old midfielder, under contract until June 2029, is said to remain deeply affected by how his board handled it.
Source: Maxifoot
Transfers3 Sep 2026
Two departures are taking shape for more than €30m: Aleksandr Golovin, 30, is being courted in Russia (Zenit St Petersburg or Spartak Moscow) for €20m to €25m, and 19-year-old midfielder Pape Cabral is reported to be close to Al-Ahli for €10m.
Source: Maxifoot
Institutional3 Sep 2026
The club has announced that its trip to Lorient, for matchday 7, will be played on Sunday 18 October at 17:15 exclusively on Ligue 1+, only three days after its Conference League opener against CSKA Sofia.
Source: AS Monaco (site officiel)
Other3 Sep 2026
On the eve of the trip to the Parc des Princes, the club published a profile of Lucien Muller, AS Monaco's head coach from 1983 to 1986, who won the club's fourth Coupe de France in 1985 against PSG itself, the Trophée des Champions the same year and recorded the biggest win in Monaco's history (9-0 against Bordeaux).
Source: AS Monaco (site officiel)
Head coach2 Sep 2026
At his press conference before the Parc des Princes, Filipe Luís judged his team “very competitive” while acknowledging an imbalance at centre-forward, offset in his view by the versatility of several players. He also confirmed that Folarin Balogun was in fitness rehabilitation and would have to win his place back: “He has not played under me.”
Source: AS Monaco (site officiel)
Club2 Sep 2026
Vice-captain Eric Dier previewed the trip to the Parc: “I do not think there is a good time to face a team like Paris Saint-Germain,” calling the Paris club the best team in the world over the last two years. He also praised young Sadibou Sané, “very focused”.
Source: AS Monaco (site officiel)
Result2 Sep 2026
Matchday 3 sends the Monaco leaders to the Parc des Princes: PSG v AS Monaco will be played on Friday 4 September at 21:05, live on Ligue 1+.
Source: Paris Saint-Germain (site officiel)
Club2 Sep 2026
Sporting director Thiago Scuro assured Lamine Camara that he would get “better options” than Chelsea and that a departure could happen “very soon”, praising his professionalism despite the disappointment.
Source: Top Mercato
Transfers1 Sep 2026
Lamine Camara ultimately stayed at Monaco: Chelsea cancelled the transfer in the final moments of the window when an agreement existed between the clubs.
Source: Eurosport
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.