2018–19 Montpellier HSC season

Montpellier
2018–19 season
Chairman	Laurent Nicollin
Manager	Michel Der Zakarian
Stadium	Stade de la Mosson
Ligue 1	6th
Coupe de France	Round of 64
Coupe de la Ligue	Round of 16
Top goalscorer	League: ; Andy Delort (14); All: ; Andy Delort (14)
Highest home attendance	League/All: 20,477 vs. PSG (30 April 2019)
Lowest home attendance	League: 10,630 vs. Strasbourg (15 September 2018); All: 6,774 vs. Nantes (30 October 2018, CdlL Ro32)
Average home league attendance	13,829
Biggest win	3–0; (30 September 2018 vs. Nîmes); (27 October 2018 at Toulouse); (4 November 2018 vs. Marseille)
Biggest defeat	1–5; (20 February 2019 at PSG)
	← 2017–18 2019–20 →

The 2018–19 Montpellier HSC season was the 44th professional season of the club since its creation in 1974.

Players

French teams are limited to four players without EU citizenship. Hence, the squad list includes only the principal nationality of each player; several non-European players on the squad have dual citizenship with an EU country. Also, players from the ACP countries—countries in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific that are signatories to the Cotonou Agreement—are not counted against non-EU quotas due to the Kolpak ruling.

As of 1 October 2018^[1]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
2	DF	FRA	Ruben Aguilar
3	DF	FRA	Daniel Congré
4	DF	BRA	Vitorino Hilton (captain)
5	DF	POR	Pedro Mendes
6	MF	FRA	Junior Sambia
7	MF	FRA	Paul Lasne
8	DF	CMR	Ambroise Oyongo
10	FW	FRA	Gaëtan Laborde
11	FW	FRA	Andy Delort (on loan from Toulouse)
12	FW	FRA	Bilal Boutobba
13	MF	TUN	Ellyes Skhiri (vice-captain)
14	DF	FRA	Damien Le Tallec
15	DF	FRA	Bryan Passi
16	GK	FRA	Dimitry Bertaud


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
17	FW	FRA	Jérémie Porsan-Clemente
18	FW	FRA	Yanis Ammour
19	FW	SEN	Souleymane Camara
20	FW	RSA	Keagan Dolly
21	MF	FRA	Kylian Kaiboue
22	MF	FRA	Killian Sanson
23	MF	URU	Facundo Píriz
25	MF	FRA	Florent Mollet
27	DF	FRA	Clément Vidal
29	MF	FRA	Amir Adouyev
30	GK	FRA	Jonathan Ligali
31	DF	FRA	Nicolas Cozza
32	FW	SRB	Petar Škuletić
40	GK	FRA	Benjamin Lecomte

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—	DF	FRA	Morgan Poaty (at Troyes)
—	FW	BEL	Isaac Mbenza (at Huddersfield Town)


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—	FW	CIV	Giovanni Sio (at Al-Ittihad)

Competitions

Ligue 1

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
4	Saint-Étienne	38	19	9	10	59	41	+18	66	Qualification for the Europa League group stage
5	Marseille	38	18	7	13	60	52	+8	61
6	Montpellier	38	15	14	9	53	42	+11	59
7	Nice	38	15	11	12	30	35	−5	56
8	Reims	38	13	16	9	39	42	−3	55

Source: Ligue 1 and Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Head-to-head points; 4) Head-to-head goal difference; 5) Head-to-head goals scored; 6) Head-to-head away goals scored; 7) Goals scored; 8) Away goals scored; 9) Most goals scored in single league match; 10) Fairplay ranking.^[2]

Results summary


Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
38	15	14	9	53	42	+11	59	8	8	3	31	20	+11	7	6	6	22	22	0

Last updated: 24 May 2019.
Source: Competitive matches

Results by round

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38
Ground	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	A
Result	L	W	D	W	D	W	D	W	D	W	W	W	L	D	W	L	L	L	D	D	D	W	D	D	D	L	W	D	L	W	L	W	W	W	D	W	D	L
Position	13	11	12	7	6	3	5	3	4	3	3	2	3	3	2	3	3	4	4	5	6	6	5	5	6	7	7	7	8	7	8	6	6	5	5	5	5	6

Source: Results
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Matches

Win Draw Loss

11 August 2018 1	Montpellier	1–2	Dijon	Montpellier
20:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Pedro Mendes 5', 33' Aguilar 81'	Report	Coulibaly 33', 90+1' Tavares 52' Yambéré 80'	Stadium: Stade de la Mosson Attendance: 12,765 Referee: Florent Batta

18 August 2018 2	Amiens	1–2	Montpellier	Amiens
20:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Fofana 33' Konaté 82' (pen.)	Report	Mollet 52' Aguilar 64' Delort 66' Skhiri 71' Lasne 79'	Stadium: Stade de la Licorne Attendance: 10,397 Referee: Karim Abed

25 August 2018 3	Montpellier	0–0	Saint-Étienne	Montpellier
20:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Hilton 46' Aguilar 50' Lasne 54'	Report		Stadium: Stade de la Mosson Attendance: 14,777 Referee: Jérôme Brisard

1 September 2018 4	Reims	0–1	Montpellier	Reims
20:00 CEST (UTC+2)		Report	Oyongo 77'	Stadium: Stade Auguste Delaune Attendance: 12,042 Referee: Jérémy Stinat

15 September 2018 5	Montpellier	1–1	Strasbourg	Montpellier
20:00	Le Tallec 51' Oyongo 59'	Report	Martin 28' Martinez 87' Mothiba 90+3'	Stadium: Stade de la Mosson Attendance: 10,630 Referee: Willy Delajod

22 September 2018 6	Montpellier	1–0	Nice	Montpellier
20:00	Laborde 35' Hilton 47' Sambia 50' Aguilar 90+1'	Report	Balotelli 53' Saint-Maximin 90+3'	Stadium: Stade de la Mosson Attendance: 11,015 Referee: Thomas Leonard

26 September 2018 7	SM Caen	2–2	Montpellier	Caen
19:00	Khaoui 10' Bammou 64' Ninga 79' Fajr 89'	Report	Delort 37' Le Tallec 52' Mollet 62' Hilton 83' Sambia 90+2'	Stadium: Stade Michel d'Ornano Attendance: 14,402 Referee: Antony Gautier

30 September 2018 8	Montpellier	3–0	Nîmes	Montpellier
17:00	Aguilar 3' Oyongo 28', 62' Delort 45+6' (pen.) Laborde 78'	Report	Lybohy 42' Diallo 45+2' Briançon 45+6'	Stadium: Stade de la Mosson Attendance: 20,054 Referee: Ruddy Buquet

6 October 2018 9	Guingamp	1–1	Montpellier	Guingamp
20:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Thuram 7' Benezet 64'	Report	Delort 30' Oyongo 31' Mollet 39' 39'	Stadium: Stade de Roudourou Attendance: 13,643 Referee: Jérémy Stinat

21 October 2018 10	Montpellier	2–0	Bordeaux	Montpellier
15:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Laborde 17' Pedro Mendes 33' Skhiri 42' Delort 53' (pen.)	Report	Karamoh 42' Sabaly 47' Lerager 50' Pablo 53'	Stadium: Stade de la Mosson Attendance: 12,491 Referee: Frank Schneider

27 October 2018 11	Toulouse	0–3	Montpellier	Toulouse
20:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Durmaz 22' Jean 90+1'	Report	Delort 1', 24' Laborde 21' Reynet 90+3' (o.g.)	Stadium: Stadium Municipal Attendance: 14,107 Referee: Karim Abed

4 November 2018 12	Montpellier	3–0	Marseille	Montpellier
21:00 CET (UTC+1)	Laborde 51', 62' Lasne 70'	Report	Thauvin 30' Sanson 53' Gustavo 88'	Stadium: Stade de la Mosson Attendance: 19,683 Referee: Antony Gautier

10 November 2018 13	Angers	1–0	Montpellier	Angers
20:00 CET (UTC+1)	Thomas 69' N'Doye 90+1'	Report	Laborde 12' Delort 50'	Stadium: Stade Raymond Kopa Attendance: 8,342 Referee: Jérémy Stinat

25 November 2018 14	Montpellier	2–2	Rennes	Montpellier
15:00 CET (UTC+1)	Le Tallec 24' Congré 37' Delort 45+1', 49' Pedro Mendes 85'	Report	Ben Arfa 5' Mexer 33' Bourigeaud 71' (pen.)	Stadium: Stade de la Mosson Attendance: 10,761 Referee: Jérôme Brisard

1 December 2018 15	Monaco	1–2	Montpellier	Monaco
20:00 CET (UTC+1)	Tielemans 42'	Report	Laborde 81' Škuletić 86'	Stadium: Stade Louis II Attendance: 6,725 Referee: Olivier Thual

4 December 2018 16	Montpellier	0–1	Lille	Montpellier
21:00 CET (UTC+1)	Congré 52' Aguilar 74'	Report	Pépé 6' Ikoné 33' Xeka 51'	Stadium: Stade de la Mosson Attendance: 12,486 Referee: Mikael Lesage

22 December 2018 19	Montpellier	1–1	Lyon	Montpellier
21:00 CET (UTC+1)	Mendes 55' Aguilar 60', 81'	Report	Fekir 67', 72'	Stadium: Stade de la Mosson Attendance: 17,275 Referee: François Letexier

8 January 2019 18	Nantes	2–0	Montpellier	Nantes
19:00 CET (UTC+1)	Waris 62' Touré 64' Pallois 81'	Report	Mendes 11' Laborde 19' Lasne 88'	Stadium: Stade de la Beaujoire Attendance: 15,780 Referee: Willy Delajod

13 January 2019 20	Dijon	1–1	Montpellier	Dijon
20:00 CET (UTC+1)	Saïd 54' Tavares 88' Lautoa 90'	Report	Le Tallec 61'	Stadium: Stade Gaston Gérard Attendance: 11,910 Referee: Benoît Bastien

20 January 2019 21	Rennes	0–0	Montpellier	Rennes
15:00 CET (UTC+1)	Da Silva 50' Sarr 74'	Report	Aguilar 41' Hilton 53'	Stadium: Roazhon Park Attendance: 23,990 Referee: Jérôme Miguelgorry

27 January 2019 22	Montpellier	2–0	SM Caen	Montpellier
15:00 CET (UTC+1)	Laborde 51' Baysse 59' (o.g.) Sambia 84'	Report	Ninga 41'	Stadium: Stade de la Mosson Attendance: 11,001 Referee: Hakim Ben El Hadj

3 February 2019 23	Nîmes	1–1	Montpellier	Nîmes
15:00 CET (UTC+1)	Landre 2' Alioui 68' Briançon 77'	Report	Mollet 45' Delort 73'	Stadium: Stade des Costières Attendance: 18,045 Referee: Antony Gautier

10 February 2019 24	Montpellier	2–2	Monaco	Montpellier
15:00 CET (UTC+1)	Skhiri 47' Laborde 66' Delort 90+1' (pen.)	Report	Martins 15' Silva 62' Falcao 68', 82' Jemerson 70' 90+4' Glik 90' Vinícius 90+3'	Stadium: Stade de la Mosson Attendance: 13,709 Referee: Frank Schneider

17 February 2019 25	Lille	0–0	Montpellier	Villeneuve-d'Ascq
15:00 CET (UTC+1)	Xeka 37' Koné 44' Fonte 78'	Report	Hilton 29' Le Tallec 44' Congré 56'	Stadium: Stade Pierre-Mauroy Attendance: 36,967 Referee: Ruddy Buquet

20 February 2019 17	Paris Saint-Germain	5–1	Montpellier	Paris
21:00 CET (UTC+1)	Kurzawa 13' Di María 45+1' Dani Alves 64' Verratti 67' Škuletić 73' (o.g.) Hilton 78' (o.g.) Mbappé 79'	Report	Mollet 31' Oyongo 59'	Stadium: Parc des Princes Attendance: 47,198 Referee: François Letexier
Note: The match, originally scheduled for 8 December 2018, was postponed due to security concerns as a result of the yellow vests movement.^[3]

24 February 2019 26	Montpellier	2–4	Reims	Montpellier
15:00 CET (UTC+1)	Congré 6' Laborde 55'	Report	Oudin 27', 70' Zeneli 47' (pen.) Mendy 58' Chavarría 88'	Stadium: Stade de la Mosson Attendance: 11,124 Referee: Willy Delajod

5 March 2019 27	Bordeaux	1–2	Montpellier	Bordeaux
19:00 CET (UTC+1)	Bašić 35' De Préville 39'	Report	Lasne 20' Congré 42', 51'	Stadium: Matmut Atlantique Attendance: 14,522 Referee: Jérôme Brisard

10 March 2019 28	Montpellier	2–2	Angers	Montpellier
15:00 CET (UTC+1)	Delort 3' Skhiri 16', 70' Mollet 68' Lasne 81'	Report	Pavlović 73' Fulgini 80' Bahoken 90+1'	Stadium: Stade de la Mosson Attendance: 10,931 Referee: Karim Abed

17 March 2019 29	Lyon	3–2	Montpellier	Décines-Charpieu
14:30 CET (UTC+1)	Terrier 12' Dembélé 58' Rafael 62' Aouar 86'	Report	Delort 23' Mollet 36' Lasne 81' Camara 90+1'	Stadium: Parc Olympique Lyonnais Attendance: 47,134 Referee: Clément Turpin

3 April 2019 30	Montpellier	2–0	Guingamp	Montpellier
19:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Delort 22' Ristić 78'	Report	Merghem 67' Traoré 68'	Stadium: Stade de la Mosson Attendance: 11,187 Referee: Frank Schneider

7 April 2019 31	Nice	1–0	Montpellier	Nice
17:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Dante 20' Srarfi 83'	Report	Hilton 34'	Stadium: Allianz Riviera Attendance: 17,980 Referee: Ruddy Buquet

14 April 2019 32	Montpellier	2–1	Toulouse	Montpellier
15:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Mendes 51' Skhiri 55' Mollet 63' Camara 77'	Report	Sidibé 67' Jullien 86'	Stadium: Stade de la Mosson Attendance: 11,986 Referee: Benoît Millot

20 April 2019 33	Strasbourg	1–3	Montpellier	Strasbourg
20:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Gonçalves 30' Martinez 34' Martin 83'	Report	Delort 22', 86' Mollet 28' Mendes 46' Oyongo 52'	Stadium: Stade de la Meinau Attendance: 25,192 Referee: François Letexier

30 April 2019 34	Montpellier	3–2	Paris Saint-Germain	Montpellier
19:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Kimpembe 22' (o.g.) Suárez 45+1' Skhiri 56' Le Tallec 72' Delort 80' Camara 85'	Report	Oyongo 12' (o.g.) Kimpembe 29' Bernat 40' Di María 62' Dagba 76' Kurzawa 90'	Stadium: Stade de la Mosson Attendance: 20,477 Referee: Mikael Lesage

5 May 2019 35	Montpellier	1–1	Amiens	Montpellier
15:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Mollet 82' Congré 90+5'	Report	Mendoza 66' Gurtner 82' Dibassy 90+1'	Stadium: Stade de la Mosson Attendance: 14,330 Referee: Olivier Thual

10 May 2019 36	Saint-Étienne	0–1	Montpellier	Saint-Étienne
20:45 CEST (UTC+2)	Cabella 51' 62' Nordin 56'	Report	Mollet 42' Suárez 45+1' Congré 53' Skhiri 53' Lecomte 55' Laborde 64'	Stadium: Stade Geoffroy-Guichard Attendance: 35,644 Referee: Benoît Bastien

18 May 2019 37	Montpellier	1–1	Nantes	Montpellier
21:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Mollet 76'	Report	Diego Carlos 2' Coulibaly 24' Touré 29' Pallois 90+6'	Stadium: Stade de la Mosson Attendance: 16,063 Referee: Ruddy Buquet

24 May 2019 38	Marseille	1–0	Montpellier	Marseille
21:05 CEST (UTC+2)	Sanson 11' Thauvin 55' Balotelli 87' Hubočan 89'	Report		Stadium: Stade Vélodrome Attendance: 53,788 Referee: Antony Gautier

Coupe de France

5 January 2019 Round of 64	L'Entente SSG	1–0	Montpellier	Saint-Gratien
15:00 CET (UTC+1)	Ba 41' Géran 90+3'	Report	Le Tallec 74'	Stadium: Parc des Sports Michel Hidalgo Attendance: 3,557 Referee: Ruddy Buquet

Coupe de la Ligue

30 October 2018 Round of 32	Montpellier	0–3	Nantes	Montpellier
18:45 CET (UTC+1)	Cozza 42' Mendes 74'	Report	Waris 24', 80' Evangelist 35' Coulibaly 58' Girotto 74' Rongier 84' Sala 90+4'	Stadium: Stade de la Mosson Attendance: 6,774 Referee: Olivier Thual

Statistics

Appearances and goals

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Ligue 1		Coupe de France		Coupe de la Ligue
No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Goalkeepers
16	GK	FRA	Dimitry Bertaud	2	0	1	0	0	0	1	0
30	GK	FRA	Jonathan Ligali	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
40	GK	FRA	Benjamin Lecomte	38	0	37	0	1	0	0	0
Defenders
2	DF	FRA	Ruben Aguilar	30	1	29	1	1	0	0	0
3	DF	FRA	Daniel Congré	39	2	37	2	1	0	1	0
4	DF	BRA	Vitorino Hilton	37	0	36	0	0	0	1	0
5	DF	POR	Pedro Mendes	32	1	31	1	0	0	1	0
8	DF	CMR	Ambroise Oyongo	27	2	25+1	2	1	0	0	0
14	DF	FRA	Damien Le Tallec	37	3	31+5	3	1	0	0	0
15	DF	FRA	Bryan Passi	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
24	DF	URU	Mathías Suárez	10	0	7+3	0	0	0	0	0
26	DF	SRB	Mihailo Ristić	10	1	3+7	1	0	0	0	0
27	DF	FRA	Clément Vidal	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
31	DF	FRA	Nicolas Cozza	14	0	11+1	0	1	0	1	0
Midfielders
6	MF	FRA	Junior Sambia	32	0	7+23	0	1	0	1	0
7	MF	FRA	Paul Lasne	37	2	18+17	2	1	0	1	0
13	MF	TUN	Ellyes Skhiri	38	3	35+2	3	1	0	0	0
21	MF	FRA	Kylian Kaiboue	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
22	MF	FRA	Killian Sanson	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
23	MF	URU	Facundo Píriz	7	0	0+6	0	0	0	1	0
25	MF	FRA	Florent Mollet	33	6	31+1	6	0	0	0+1	0
29	MF	FRA	Amir Adouyev	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Forwards
10	FW	FRA	Gaëtan Laborde	38	11	35+1	11	1	0	0+1	0
11	FW	FRA	Andy Delort	38	14	36	14	1	0	0+1	0
12	FW	FRA	Bilal Boutobba	2	0	0+2	0	0	0	0	0
17	FW	FRA	Jérémie Porsan-Clemente	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
18	FW	FRA	Yanis Ammour	1	0	0+1	0	0	0	0	0
19	FW	SEN	Souleymane Camara	13	3	0+12	3	0	0	1	0
20	FW	RSA	Keagan Dolly	4	0	2+1	0	0+1	0	0	0
32	FW	SRB	Petar Škuletić	30	1	4+24	1	0+1	0	1	0
Players transferred out during the season
—	FW	CIV	Giovanni Sio	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Last updated: 24 May 2019
Source: Competitions

References

^ "Équipe pro Saison 2018 / 2019". mhscfoot.com. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
^ "League Table". Ligue1.com. Retrieved 12 August 2016.
^ "France protests: Three more Ligue 1 games postponed, including Monaco v Nice". BBC Sport. 6 December 2018. Retrieved 16 December 2018.

[1] "Équipe pro Saison 2018 / 2019". mhscfoot.com. Retrieved 24 July 2018.

[2] "League Table". Ligue1.com. Retrieved 12 August 2016.

[3] "France protests: Three more Ligue 1 games postponed, including Monaco v Nice". BBC Sport. 6 December 2018. Retrieved 16 December 2018.

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