The key numbers: Nantes vs Paris

Men's football•17 Aug 2025 12:01

With all the history, stats and trivia, here is all you need to know ahead of the opening day of the new Ligue 1 season and the Matchday 1 clash between Paris Saint-Germain and le FC Nantes, this Sunday 17 August at 20:45 CET at the Stade de la Beaujoire – Louis Fonteneau.

Paris Saint-Germain have only lost three of their last 36 matches against Nantes in all competitions (29 wins, 4 draws) since October 2004.

Edinson Cavani, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Kylian Mbappé are Paris’ all-time leading scorers against Nantes, with nine goals each. Then follows: Pedro Miguel Pauleta (6 goals) and Dominique Rocheteau (5 goals).

Paris have scored at least one goal in each of their last 19 Ligue 1 matches, since a scoreless draw with Auxerre on 6 December 2024.

30 footballers have played for both clubs: Jérôme Alonzo, Sylvain Armand, Claude Arribas, Jean-Hugues Ateba, Jean-Kévin Augustin, William Ayache, Michel Bibard, Lorik Cana, Bruno Carotti, Dominique Casagrande, Benoît Cauet, Eric Cubilier, Willy Grondin, Vahid Halilhodzic, Randal Kolo Muani, Antoine Kombouaré, Mickaël Landreau, Nicolas Laspalles, Paul Le Guen, Yvon le Roux, Patrice Loko, Claude Lowitz, Claude Makélélé, Granddi N’Goyi, Nicolas Ouédec, Fabrice Pancrate, Fabrice Poullain, Alioune Touré and Mario Yepes.

Paris have scored at least one goal in each of their last 33 matches, in all competitions, against Les Canaris, since the 0-0 at the Stade de la Beaujoire in Ligue 1 on 25 February 2006. This is an all-time record for the club from the French capital.

It was away to Nantes last season (1-1, 22 April 2025) that Paris beat the record for the most consecutive away matches without defeat in Europe’s top 5 leagues with 39. Beating AC Milan’s previous total of 38 away matches between 1991 and 1993.

With the start of the 2025-25 season, Paris Saint-Germain embark on their 52nd consecutive season in Ligue 1, well ahead of Lyon who joined the top flight in 1989, 15 years after Les Parisiens.

With 54 wins over Nantes in their history, Paris have beaten Les Canaris more than any other opponent, ahead of Saint-Etienne (53), Marseille (52) and Lyon and Metz (50).

110

Paris and Nantes will meet for the 110th time since 1970 (54 wins, 25 draws and 30 losses for Paris). Paris have only played two teams more: Monaco (115 matches) and Lyon (112 matches), while Les Canaris will join Bordeaux on 110 games.

163

Nantes have conceded 163 goals against Les Rouge et Bleu, which puts them in the top 4 of Paris’ most regular victims, behind Lyon (178 goals conceded), Saint-Etienne (175 goals), Marseille (164 goals), and level with Lens (163).

Ronaldinho, Nantes – PSG 1-2, 25/11/2001

Michel Kollarmichelkollar