2026/2027 season

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Stade Brestois 29
Head coach: Julien Lachuer · 4-2-3-1
Rank
8th
Pts
9
P
7
Form
🟡 Average

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
8/10
Attack
5/10
Defence
5/10
Form
4/10
Confidence / mood
Current risk:High

8th with 9 pts from 7 matches: 2 wins, 3 draws, 2 defeats.

13 goals scored, 10 conceded.

By matching on penalty ahead of Brest on Saturday night (1-1), Lille's striker, at 40 years and 17 days old, entered the very closed circle of the five quadrennial scorers in Ligue 1.

L'Équipe · 18 Oct 2026 · machine-translated

Saved from the defeat by a penalty transformed by Olivier Giroud (1-1), the LOSC made a very small match Saturday night against Brest. One more this season.

L'Équipe · 18 Oct 2026 · machine-translated

Julien Lachuer, Brest's coach, confessed his frustration about the content proposed by his team despite the draw brought back from Lille on Saturday (1-1) and did not want to argue about the penalty of equalization granted to the LOSC by Clement Turpin for a mistake on Ethan Mbappé.

L'Équipe · 18 Oct 2026 · machine-translated

Surprised at the start and little inspired offensively, like Hakon Haraldsson, Lille had to settle for a draw against a strong Brest (1-1) team, Lucas Tousart in the lead on Saturday night. The LOSC is still co-leader of Ligue 1 before Sunday's matches.

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 Lille OSC (A) · 1-1
Wvs Angers SCO (H) · 5-1
Lvs AJ Auxerre (A) · 1-2
Lvs Paris Saint-Germain FC (H) · 0-1
Wvs Le Havre AC (A) · 2-1
WWDDDLL
13 scored / 10 conceded over 7 matches played
Rest: 1 day since the last match · 2 matches played in the last 15 days
Home form
1W - 1D - 1L
Away form
1W - 2D - 1L
Statistics

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

Goals scored per match
1.8
Goals conceded per match
1.2
At home
5 scored · 2 conceded in 2 matches
Away
4 scored · 4 conceded in 3 matches
Over 2.5 goals
3 of 5
Both teams score
4 of 5
Clean sheets
0 of 5
Failed to score
1 of 5
Cumulative points vs league average

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

How Stade Brestois 29 play

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

Playing identity
Preferred system
4-2-3-1
Philosophy
Deliberate continuity with the direct, possession-based style of play inherited from Éric Roy; Lachuer has chosen not to overhaul everything.
Attacking strengths
Doumbia and Del Castillo scored the 2 goals, a good attacking contribution down the flanks.
Defensive solidity
2 goals conceded in the 1st match, to be monitored.
Pressing
Medium, quick transitions.
Transitions
Quick down the flanks (Doumbia, Del Castillo).
StrengthTactical continuity despite an extremely difficult context, overall stability of the squad.
WeaknessTwo specific absences at centre-back and in midfield that reduce Lachuer's options.

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
Brest snatched a point against Toulouse (2-2) and go into the trip to Le Havre with a younger but rebuilt squad. The end of the window brought two forwards on loan, Noah Edjouma and Djylian N'Guessan, as well as Giovani Versini's transfer from Pau, in a deal more complicated than expected. Romain Del Castillo's departure, added to those of loanees Labeau-Lascary and Dina Ebimbe, forces Julien Lachuer to rethink his entire attacking structure around Ludovic Ajorque. The squad remains bound together by mourning for Éric Roy, to whom Ajorque has just paid a filmed tribute.
Coach / players / board relationship
Julien Lachuer, promoted from within, continues to enjoy broad support, and the dressing room has drawn together around the memory of Éric Roy, who died on 17 June 2026. Ludovic Ajorque's tribute, having been very close to the former head coach, illustrates the place he still holds in the club's life. The board chose continuity by keeping its senior players and registering only one real departure, Del Castillo's, while welcoming young players on loan. The club has also helped its youngsters find playing time, with Hamidou Damba Makalou's loan, with no option, to Bastia.
Mood with the supporters
The mood remains one of solidarity and respect, marked by Éric Roy's death and by the official tribute planned at the stadium. The club organised the handing out of 2026-2027 season-ticket cards in two stages, at the Official Store and then at the invitations desk at Francis-Le Blé on matchdays. For the trip to Le Havre on Saturday night, Brest fans will find a Stade Océane whose surroundings are disrupted by tramway works, with free shuttles from eight points across the Le Havre metropolitan area and a fan village open from 19:00.
Pressure on the head coach
Apparently low, given the human context and the legitimacy Julien Lachuer has earned, but the need for results will return quickly. Rebuilding the attack after Del Castillo's departure and the non-return of the loanees means he has to find a balance around Ajorque quickly.
Club objectives
The club is playing continuity and youth: senior players kept, low-cost recruitment, young forwards taken on loan to make up for the departures. The immediate challenge is rebuilding a coherent attacking structure around Ludovic Ajorque, the only fixed point left at the club. In the medium term, comfortable survival and getting value from the youngsters who arrived this summer are the stated horizon.
Recent internal tensions
No internal tension reported. The mood remains marked above all by mourning for Éric Roy, to whom the club and its players continue to pay public tribute.
Absences
InjuredBrendan Chardonnet — Centre-back injured, depriving Lachuer of a key member of the backline.
InjuredHugo Magnetti — Midfielder injured just after extending his contract (announced on 24 August) — an absence all the more frustrating for the club.

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

Stade Brestois 29 — OGC Nice

At homeFriday 23 October at 20:45Matchday 8
In 5 days. 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
EstimateStade Brestois 29 — OGC Nice
53 %
1 · Stade Brestois 29
24 %
X · draw
23 %
2 · OGC Nice
In-house calculation, from this page's standings data alone: 7 matches played by Stade Brestois 29, 6 matches by OGC Nice. 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
    Stade Brestois 29 — attack13 in 7 matches1.271.14
    Stade Brestois 29 — defence10 in 7 matches0.970.99
    OGC Nice — attack5 in 6 matches0.570.78
    OGC Nice — defence7 in 6 matches0.800.90
    The “Kept” column is the result of shrinkage towards the mean: weight = P / (P + 6), i.e. 0.54 for Stade Brestois 29 and 0.50 for OGC Nice. 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%.
    Stade Brestois 29 at home: 1.33 pts/match versus 1.29 overall over 3 matches → ×1.010
    OGC Nice away: 0.00 pts/match versus 1.33 overall over 2 matches → ×0.880
  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.
    λStade Brestois 29 = 1.47 × 1.14 × 0.90 × 1.10 × 1.010 = 1.67
    λOGC Nice = 1.47 × 0.78 × 0.99 × 0.880 = 1.00
  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 53.0%, draw 24.3%, away win 22.6% — displayed rounded to whole numbers so that they add up to exactly 100. Most likely exact score in the grid: 1-0 (only 11.6%, 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
  • Noé Poillion
  • Egil Selvik
  • Grégoire Coudert
  • Mathieu Patouillet
  • Romain Cagnon
  • Noah Jauny
Defenders
  • Justin Bourgault
  • Bradley Locko
  • Gautier Lloris
  • Brendan ChardonnetC
  • Luck Zogbé
  • Evan Mailly
  • Kenny Lala
  • Raphaël Le Guen
Midfielders
  • Mamady Diambou
  • Joseph Nonge
  • Hugo Magnetti
  • Pathé Mboup
  • Axel Camblan
  • Joris Chotard
  • Kamory Doumbia
  • Lucas Tousart
  • Mathis Lainé
  • Hamidou Makalou
Forwards
  • Romain Del Castillo
  • Mama Baldé
  • Ludovic Ajorque
  • Ibrahim Kanté
Squad last verified on 30 Aug 2026 — source: footmercato.net; captain confirmed by butfootballclub.fr.

What has been said recently

Chronological feed of verified information about the club.

rss18 Oct 2026
« Lack of concentration and determination » : Lille, a co-leader still on a wire against Brest
Source: L'Équipe
rss17 Oct 2026
Lille - Brest: What time and on what channel watch Ligue 1 live?
Source: RMC Sport — Ligue 1
rss17 Oct 2026
The LOSC hung at home by Brest but co-leader of Ligue 1
Source: L'Équipe
rss18 Oct 2026
Lille 1-1 Brest : "When I see the pictures of penalty, I prefer to laugh..." smiles Lala
Source: RMC Sport
rss18 Oct 2026
Julien Lachuer, Brest coach, after the draw of his team in Lille: « Disappointed in the way »
Source: L'Équipe
rss17 Oct 2026
Lille-Brest: LOSC could take over the L1 but concedes the null
Source: RMC Sport
Transfers3 Sep 2026
Young forward Djylian N'Guessan, developed at AS Saint-Étienne, has officially been loaned to Stade Brestois: ASSE retain his rights and will follow his progress at the highest level in France.
Source: But! Football Club
Transfers2 Sep 2026
Giovani Versini has finally joined Brest from Pau FC, at the end of a deal described as considerably less smooth than expected by the Béarn club and by the player.
Source: Les Nouvelles du Foot (Sud Ouest)
Club2 Sep 2026
Le Télégramme points out that Brest's attacking structure has to be rethought: “After Del Castillo's departure, but also those of loanees Labeau-Lascary and Dina Ebimbe, Stade Brestois will have to rethink its attacking play,” with Ludovic Ajorque as the anchor surrounded by young players.
Source: Les Nouvelles du Foot (Le Télégramme)
Other2 Sep 2026
Ludovic Ajorque has paid a filmed tribute to Éric Roy, the head coach who took Brest into the Champions League and who died on 17 June 2026 after a long illness; in it the forward looks back on the very close relationship he had with him.
Source: Les Nouvelles du Foot
Supporters2 Sep 2026
Le Havre have published their arrangements for Brest's visit: a full stadium car park and surroundings disrupted by tramway works, free shuttles from eight points across the metropolitan area, bus routes 12, 17, 20 and 21, 150 bicycle parking spaces and a fan village open from 19:00 at the Stade CMA CGM Océane.
Source: Havre AC (site officiel)
Result2 Sep 2026
For matchday 3, Stade Brestois travel to Le Havre on Saturday 5 September at 20:45, in the multiplex shown on Ligue 1+.
Source: Foot Mercato
Transfers1 Sep 2026
Midfielder Hamidou Damba Makalou has been loaned, with no purchase option, to Sporting Club de Bastia in the closing hours of the window.
Source: Les Nouvelles du Foot (Le Télégramme)
Transfers1 Sep 2026
Brest have secured the loan of Lille midfielder Noah Edjouma, confirmed on the day the window closed.
Source: Foot Mercato
Transfers1 Sep 2026
Romain Del Castillo left Stade Brestois for Osasuna in the closing hours of the summer window.
Source: Orange Sport
Result29 Aug 2026
Stade Brestois shared the points with Toulouse (2-2) on matchday 2.
Source: Foot01
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.