List of French football transfers summer 2016

This is a list of French football transfers for the 2016 summer transfer window. Only moves featuring Ligue 1 or Ligue 2 are listed.

Ligue 1

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

Angers SCO

In:


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
4	DF	CRO	Mateo Pavlović (from Werder Bremen)^[1]
7	FW	CMR	Karl Toko Ekambi (from Sochaux)^[2]
9	FW	SEN	Famara Diedhiou (from Sochaux, previously on loan at Clermont Foot)^[3]
11	FW	NGA	Dickson Nwakaeme (from free agent)^[4]
12	FW	FRA	Yoane Wissa (from Châteauroux)^[5]
16	GK	FRA	Mathieu Michel (from Nîmes)^[6]
18	MF	FRA	Baptiste Santamaria (from Tours)^[7]
20	MF	FRA	Flavien Tait (from Châteauroux)^[8]
21	DF	FRA	Pablo Martinez (from Gazélec Ajaccio)^[9]
23	MF	TUN	Jamel Saihi (from Montpellier)^[10]
26	MF	ALG	Mehdi Jean Tahrat (from Red Star 93)^[11]

Out:


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
2	DF	FRA	Gaël Angoula (to Nîmes)^[12]
3	DF	CGO	Arnold Bouka Moutou (to Dijon)^[13]
7	MF	FRA	Olivier Auriac (retired)
11	FW	FRA	Slimane Sissoko (to Nîmes)^[14]
12	FW	CMR	Jean-Pierre Nsamé (to Servette Genève)^[15]
20	MF	FRA	Charles Diers (retired)
22	FW	SUI	Goran Karanović (loaned to Sochaux)^[16]
23	MF	FRA	Yohann Eudeline (retired)
26	MF	CMR	Guy Ngosso (to Amiens)^[17]
28	MF	MAR	Romain Saïss (to Wolverhampton Wanderers)^[18]
—	MF	ARG	Diego Gómez (to Cholet)^[19]
—	MF	BRA	Pessalli (released)

SC Bastia

In:


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
4	DF	MAR	Abdelhamid El Kaoutari (on loan from Palermo, previously on loan at Stade Reims)^[20]
6	MF	FRA	Allan Saint-Maximin (on loan from Monaco, previously on loan at Hannover 96)^[21]
7	MF	CPV	Jerson Cabral (from Twente)^[22]
11	FW	FRA	Lenny Nangis (on loan from Lille)^[21]
13	FW	CGO	Thievy Bifouma (from Espanyol, previously on loan at Stade Reims)^[21]
20	DF	SWE	Pierre Bengtsson (on loan from Mainz 05)^[23]
22	MF	FRA	Farid Boulaya (from Clermont)^[24]
30	GK	FRA	Paul Charruau (from Valenciennes)^[21]

Out:


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	DEN	Jesper Hansen (to Lyngby)^[25]
6	MF	FRA	Seko Fofana (loan return to Manchester City, later sold to Udinese)^[26]
7	MF	TOG	Floyd Ayité (to Fulham)^[27]
15	MF	FRA	Julian Palmieri (to Lille)^[28]
25	FW	GUI	François Kamano (to Bordeaux)^[29]

FC Girondins de Bordeaux

In:


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
7	FW	FRA	Jérémy Ménez (from Milan)^[30]
11	FW	GUI	François Kamano (from Bastia)^[29]
14	MF	FRA	Jérémy Toulalan (from Monaco)^[31]
20	DF	FRA	Youssouf Sabaly (on loan from Paris Saint-Germain, previously on loan at Nantes)^[32]

Out:


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
6	DF	SEN	Lamine Sané (to Werder Bremen)^[33]
11	MF	FRA	Clément Chantôme (to Rennes)^[34]
21	DF	FRA	Cédric Yambéré (on loan to Anzhi Makhachkala)^[35]

SM Caen

In:


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
4	MF	CIV	Ismaël Diomandé (from Saint-Étienne, previously on loan)^[36]
10	MF	FRA	Steed Malbranque (from Lyon)^[37]
12	FW	FRA	Ronny Rodelin (from Lille, previously on loan)^[38]
23	DF	FRA	Mouhamadou Dabo (from Troyes)^[39]
—	FW	CRO	Ivan Santini (from Standard Liège)^[40]

Out:


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
12	MF	FRA	Dennis Appiah (to Anderlecht)^[41]

Dijon FCO

In:


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	FRA	Benjamin Leroy (from Evian)^[42]
13	MF	FRA	Marvin Martin (on loan from Lille)^[43]
15	MF	FRA	Florent Balmont (from Lille)^[44]
21	DF	FRA	Yunis Abdelhamid (from Valenciennes)^[45]
25	DF	CGO	Arnold Bouka Moutou (from Angers)^[13]
26	DF	MAR	Fouad Chafik (from Laval)^[46]
29	MF	FRA	Dylan Bahamboula (from Monaco, previously on loan to Paris)^[47]

Out:


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
6	DF	FRA	Christopher Jullien (loan return to SC Freiburg)^[48]
19	FW	SEN	Mamadou Thiam (on loan to Clermont Foot)^[49]
—	MF	FRA	Arnaud Souquet (to Nice)^[50]

En Avant de Guingamp

In:


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	SWE	Karl-Johan Johnsson (from Randers)^[51]
2	DF	COD	Jordan Ikoko (from Paris Saint-Germain, previously on loan at Lens)^[52]
8	MF	FRA	Lucas Déaux (from Gent)^[53]
9	FW	FRA	Alexandre Mendy (from Nice)^[54]
11	FW	FRA	Sloan Privat (from Gent, previously on loan)^[55]
17	MF	FRA	Étienne Didot (from Toulouse)^[56]
30	GK	FRA	Romain Salin (from Marítimo)^[57]

Out:


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	DEN	Jonas Lössl (to Mainz 05)^[58]
13	MF	SEN	Younousse Sankharé (to Lille)^[59]
28	FW	TUR	Mevlüt Erdinç (loan return to Hannover 96, later loan to Metz)^[60]

Lille OSC

In:


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
4	MF	SEN	Younousse Sankharé (from Guingamp)^[59]
12	FW	FRA	Nicolas de Préville (from Stade Reims)^[61]
13	DF	ZAM	Stoppila Sunzu (from Shanghai Greenland Shenhua, previously on loan)^[62]
15	MF	FRA	Julian Palmieri (from Bastia)^[28]
39	FW	POR	Éder (from Swansea City, previously on loan)^[63]
—	DF	HAI	Carlens Arcus (from Troyes)^[64]
—	MF	POR	Alexis Araujo (loan return from Boulogne)^[65]
—	FW	CGO	Kévin Koubemba (loan return from Brest)^[66]

Out:


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
4	MF	FRA	Florent Balmont (to Dijon)^[44]
7	MF	MAR	Sofiane Boufal (to Southampton)^[67]
10	MF	FRA	Marvin Martin (on loan to Dijon)^[43]
15	FW	FRA	Lenny Nangis (on loan to Bastia)^[21]
16	GK	MTQ	Steeve Elana (to Gazélec Ajaccio)^[68]
19	DF	FRA	Djibril Sidibé (to Monaco)^[69]
27	FW	BEL	Baptiste Guillaume (on loan to Strasbourg)^[70]
28	DF	FRA	Benjamin Pavard (to VfB Stuttgart)^[71]
—	DF	FRA	Julian Jeanvier (to Stade Reims, previously on loan at Red Star)^[72]
—	MF	POR	Alexis Araujo (on loan to Dunkerque, previously on loan at Boulogne)^[65]
—	MF	FRA	Nolan Mbemba (to Vitória de Guimarães)^[73]
—	MF	FRA	Soualiho Meïté (on loan to Zulte Waregem)^[74]
—	MF	BOL	Ricardo Roman (on loan to Les Herbiers)^[75]
—	FW	SUI	Michael Frey (to Young Boys, previously on loan at Luzern)^[76]
—	FW	FRA	Serhou Guirassy (to 1. FC Köln)^[77]
—	FW	CGO	Kévin Koubemba (to Sint-Truiden, previously on loan at Brest)^[66]
—	FW	FRA	Ronny Rodelin (to SM Caen, previously on loan)^[38]
—	FW	CMR	Didier Lamkel Ze (to Chamois Niort)^[78]

FC Lorient

In:


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
2	DF	FRA	Lindsay Rose (from Lyon, previously on loan)^[79]
8	MF	POR	Cafú (from Vitória de Guimarães)^[80]
10	MF	FRA	Sylvain Marveaux (from Newcastle United)
11	DF	COM	Faïz Selemani (from Chamois Niortais)
16	GK	FRA	Paul Delecroix (from Chamois Niortais)

Out:


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
7	MF	GAB	Didier Ibrahim N'Dong (to Sunderland)^[81]
8	MF	FRA	Yann Jouffre (to Metz)^[82]
13	MF	FRA	Rafidine Abdullah (to Cádiz)^[83]
14	DF	POR	Raphaël Guerreiro (to Borussia Dortmund)^[84]

Olympique Lyonnais

In:


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
31	MF	POL	Maciej Rybus (from Terek Grozny)^[85]
3	DF	CMR	Nicolas Nkoulou (from Marseille)
4	DF	ARG	Emanuel Mammana (from River Plate)

Out:


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
3	DF	CMR	Henri Bedimo (to Marseille)^[86]
4	DF	BFA	Bakary Koné (to Málaga)^[87]
17	MF	FRA	Steed Malbranque (to SM Caen)^[37]
23	DF	FRA	Samuel Umtiti (to Barcelona)^[88]
—	DF	FRA	Lindsay Rose (to Lorient, previously on loan)^[79]

Olympique de Marseille

In:


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
2	DF	JPN	Hiroki Sakai (from Hannover 96)^[89]
3	DF	BRA	Dória (loan return from Granada)^[90]
7	MF	FRA	Rémy Cabella (from Newcastle United, previously on loan)^[91]
12	DF	CMR	Henri Bedimo (from Lyon)^[86]
18	FW	FRA	Bafétimbi Gomis (on loan from Swansea City)^[92]
20	FW	TUN	Saîf-Eddine Khaoui (from Tours)^[93]
22	MF	BEL	Aaron Leya Iseka (on loan from Anderlecht)^[94]
23	MF	FRA	Zinédine Machach (on loan from Toulouse)^[95]
26	MF	FRA	Florian Thauvin (on loan from Newcastle United)^[96]
—	FW	CMR	Clinton N'Jie (on loan from Tottenham Hotspur)^[97]

Out:


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
2	DF	ESP	Javier Manquillo (loan return to Atlético Madrid)^[98]
3	DF	CMR	Nicolas Nkoulou (to Lyon)
7	MF	ARG	Lucas Ocampos (on loan to Genoa)^[99]
14	MF	FRA	Georges-Kévin Nkoudou (to Tottenham Hotspur)^[97]
15	DF	FRA	Stéphane Sparagna (on loan to Auxerre)^[100]
19	MF	MAR	Abdelaziz Barrada (to Al-Nasr)^[99]
22	FW	BEL	Michy Batshuayi (to Chelsea)^[101]
23	DF	FRA	Benjamin Mendy (to Monaco)^[102]
26	DF	CIV	Brice Dja Djédjé (to Watford)^[103]
30	GK	FRA	Steve Mandanda (to Crystal Palace)^[104]
—	MF	FRA	Bilal Boutobba (to Sevilla Atlético)^[105]
—	MF	GAB	Mario Lemina (to Juventus, previously on loan)^[106]

FC Metz

In:


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
6	DF	FRA	Simon Falette (from Brest)^[107]
8	MF	FRA	Yann Jouffre (from Lorient)^[82]
9	FW	TUR	Mevlüt Erdinç (on loan from Hannover 96, previously on loan at Guingamp)^[60]
11	FW	FRA	Opa Nguette (from Valenciennes)^[108]
13	DF	FRA	Franck Signorino (from Stade Reims)^[109]
16	GK	JPN	Eiji Kawashima (from Dundee United)^[110]
19	MF	FRA	Florent Mollet (from Créteil)^[111]
32	DF	CMR	Benoît Assou-Ekotto (from Saint-Étienne)^[112]

Out:


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
11	MF	FRA	Samy Kehli (to Roeselare)^[113]
15	DF	FRA	Romain Métanire (to Kortrijk)^[114]
23	MF	FRA	Yeni Ngbakoto (to QPR)^[115]
27	DF	ARG	José Luis Palomino (to Ludogorets Razgrad)^[116]

AS Monaco

In:


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
9	FW	COL	Radamel Falcao (loan return from Chelsea)^[117]
16	GK	ITA	Morgan De Sanctis (from Roma)^[118]
19	DF	FRA	Djibril Sidibé (from Lille)^[69]
23	DF	FRA	Benjamin Mendy (from Marseille)^[102]
25	DF	POL	Kamil Glik (from Torino)^[119]
—	MF	MAR	Youssef Aït Bennasser (from Nancy)^[120]

Out:


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
6	DF	POR	Ricardo Carvalho (released)^[121]
9	FW	BRA	Vágner Love (to Alanyaspor)^[122]
12	MF	FRA	Farès Bahlouli (on loan to Standard Liège)^[123]
16	GK	FRA	Paul Nardi (on loan to Stade Rennais)^[124]
17	FW	POR	Ivan Cavaleiro (to Wolverhampton Wanderers)^[125]
19	FW	CIV	Lacina Traoré (on loan to CSKA Moscow)^[126]
21	DF	NGA	Elderson Echiéjilé (on loan to Standard Liége)^[127]
28	MF	FRA	Jérémy Toulalan (to Bordeaux)^[31]
32	DF	COD	Marcel Tisserand (to FC Ingolstadt 04, previously on loan at Toulouse)^[122]
34	DF	FRA	Raphaël Diarra (on loan to Cercle Brugge)^[128]
—	MF	FRA	Sébastien Amoros (to Port Vale)^[129]
—	MF	FRA	Dylan Bahamboula (to Dijon, previously on loan to Paris)^[47]
—	MF	POR	Gil Bastião Dias (loan to Rio Ave, previously on loan to Varzim)^[130]
—	MF	FRA	Jonathan Mexique (on loan to Red Star)^[123]
—	MF	CGO	Delvin N'Dinga (to Lokomotiv Moscow, previously on loan)^[131]
—	MF	FRA	Jessy Pi (to Toulouse, previously on loan at Troyes)^[132]
—	MF	FRA	Allan Saint-Maximin (on loan to Bastia, previously on loan at Hannover 96)^[21]
—	FW	FRA	Ilyes Chaïbi (on loan to Ajaccio)^[133]
—	FW	GUI	Tafsir Chérif (on loan to Rio Ave)^[128]
—	FW	CMR	Edgar Salli (to 1. FC Nürnberg, previously on loan to St. Gallen)^[134]

Montpellier HSC

In:


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
5	MF	MLI	Yacouba Sylla (on loan from Rennes)
15	FW	BEN	Steve Mounié (on loan return from Nîmes)
18	DF	FRA	Nicolas Saint-Ruf (on loan return from Orléans)
20	DF	BEL	Anthony Vanden Borre (on loan from Anderlecht)^[135]
22	MF	FRA	Killian Sanson (from Évian TG)

Out:


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—	MF	FRA	Jonas Martin (to Real Betis)^[136]
—	MF	FRA	Bryan Dabo (to Saint-Étienne)^[137]
—	MF	COM	Djamel Bakar (to Charleroi)^[138]
—	FW	PER	Jean Deza (to Levski Sofia)^[139]
—	MF	FRA	Anthony Ribelin (to Stade Rennais)^[124]
—	MF	TUN	Jamel Saihi (to Angers)
—	DF	ALG	Ramy Bensebaini (loan return at Paradou, later sold to Stade Rennais)
—	FW	MLI	Mustapha Yatabaré (loan return at Trabzonspor, later sold to Karabükspor)
—	MF	SUI	Sébastien Wüthrich (to Aarau)
—	FW	FRA	Quentin Cornette (to Amiens)
—	FW	FRA	Florian Sotoca (to Grenoble)

AS Nancy

In:


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	BLR	Syarhey Chernik (from FC BATE Borisov)
6	MF	MAR	Youssef Aït Bennasser (On loan from Monaco previously at Nancy)
8	DF	FRA	Vincent Marchetti (from AC Ajaccio)
12	FW	FRA	Christophe Mandanne (from Al-Fujairah)
13	MF	CIV	Serge N'Guessan (from AFAD Djékanou)
23	FW	FRA	Anthony Koura (from Nîmes)

Out:


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
6	MF	MAR	Youssef Aït Bennasser (to Monaco)^[120]
—	GK	FRA	Quentin Beunardeau (to Tubize, previously on loan)^[140]
—	MF	FRA	Arnaud Lusamba (to Nice)^[141]

FC Nantes

In:


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
2	FW	VEN	Fernando Aristeguieta (loan return from Red Star)
3	DF	BRA	Diego Carlos (from Estoril)
6	DF	BRA	Lucas Lima (from Arouca)
11	MF	SWE	Alexander Kačaniklić (from Fulham)^[142]
18	FW	POL	Mariusz Stępiński (from Ruch Chorzów)
23	MF	DEN	Nicolaj Thomsen (from Aalborg BK)

Out:


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—	DF	ALB	Lorik Cana (retired)
—	FW	ISL	Kolbeinn Sigþórsson (on loan at Galatasaray)
—	MF	ALB	Ermir Lenjani (loan return to Rennes)
—	DF	FRA	Youssouf Sabaly (loan return to Paris Saint-Germain, later loaned to Bordeaux)^[32]
—	MF	USA	Alejandro Bedoya (to Philadelphia Union)
—	MF	MLI	Birama Touré (to Standard Liège)^[143]
—	FW	MTQ	Johan Audel (to Beitar Jerusalem)
—	MF	SEN	Rémi Gomis (to Wil)

OGC Nice

In:


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
2	MF	FRA	Arnaud Souquet (from Dijon)^[50]
5	MF	MAR	Younès Belhanda (on loan from Dynamo Kyiv)^[144]
8	MF	FRA	Arnaud Lusamba (from Nancy)^[141]
9	FW	ITA	Mario Balotelli (from Liverpool)^[145]
22	MF	GRE	Anastasios Donis (on loan from Juventus)^[146]
23	FW	FRA	Alexy Bosetti (loan return from Sarpsborg 08)^[147]
25	MF	FRA	Wylan Cyprien (from Lens)^[148]
29	DF	BRA	Dalbert Henrique (from Vitória de Guimarães)^[149]
31	DF	BRA	Dante (from VfL Wolfsburg)^[150]

Out:


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
5	DF	FRA	Kévin Gomis (to Dundee)^[151]
9	MF	FRA	Hatem Ben Arfa (to Paris Saint-Germain)^[152]
13	MF	SWE	Niklas Hult (to Panathinaikos)^[153]
15	FW	FRA	Alexandre Mendy (to Guingamp)^[54]
22	MF	FRA	Nampalys Mendy (to Leicester City)^[154]

Paris Saint-Germain

In:


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
12	DF	BEL	Thomas Meunier (from Club Brugge)^[155]
21	MF	FRA	Hatem Ben Arfa (from Nice)^[152]
22	FW	ESP	Jesé (from Real Madrid)^[156]
23	MF	POL	Grzegorz Krychowiak (from Sevilla)^[155]
—	MF	ARG	Giovani Lo Celso (from Rosario Central)^[157]

Out:


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
4	MF	FRA	Benjamin Stambouli (to Schalke 04)^[158]
10	FW	SWE	Zlatan Ibrahimović (to Manchester United)^[159]
23	DF	NED	Gregory van der Wiel (to Fenerbahçe S.K.)^[160]
30	GK	ITA	Salvatore Sirigu (on loan to Sevilla)^[161]
32	DF	BRA	David Luiz (to Chelsea)^[162]
—	DF	FRA	Lucas Digne (to Barcelona, previously on loan at Roma)^[163]
—	DF	COD	Jordan Ikoko (to Guingamp, previously on loan at Lens)^[52]
—	DF	FRA	Youssouf Sabaly (on loan to Bordeaux, previously on loan at Nantes)^[32]
—	MF	ARG	Giovani Lo Celso (on loan to Rosario Central)^[157]
—	MF	CIV	Yakou Méïte (to Reading)^[164]

Stade Rennais F.C.

In:


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
8	MF	FRA	Clément Chantôme (from Bordeaux)^[34]
16	GK	FRA	Paul Nardi (on loan from Monaco)^[124]
25	DF	POR	Afonso Figueiredo (from Boavista)
27	MF	FRA	Anthony Ribelin (from Montpeller)^[124]
—	FW	AUT	Philipp Hosiner (loan return from 1. FC Köln)^[165]

Out:


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
3	DF	SEN	Cheikh M'Bengue (to Saint-Étienne)^[166]
14	DF	SEN	Fallou Diagne (to Werder Bremen)^[167]
17	MF	FRA	Jérémie Boga (loan return to Chelsea, later loaned to Granada)^[168]
23	FW	FRA	Ousmane Dembélé (to Borussia Dortmund)^[169]
—	DF	MKD	Gjoko Zajkov (to Charleroi, previously on loan)^[138]
—	FW	AUT	Philipp Hosiner (to Union Berlin)^[170]

AS Saint-Étienne

In:


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
7	MF	FRA	Bryan Dabo (from Montpellier)^[137]
11	MF	SEN	Henri Saivet (on loan from Newcastle United)^[171]
12	DF	SEN	Cheikh M'Bengue (from Rennes)^[166]
14	MF	FRA	Jordan Veretout (on loan from Aston Villa)^[171]
—	MF	FRA	Jonathan Bamba (loan return from Paris)^[172]

Out:


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
20	DF	FRA	Jonathan Brison (to Chamois Niort)^[173]
26	DF	SEN	Moustapha Bayal Sall (to Al-Arabi)^[174]
29	DF	FRA	François Clerc (to Gazélec Ajaccio)^[175]
32	DF	CMR	Benoît Assou-Ekotto (to Metz)^[112]
—	MF	FRA	Jonathan Bamba (on loan to Sint-Truiden, previously on loan at Paris)^[172]
—	MF	CIV	Ismaël Diomandé (to SM Caen, previously on loan)^{2022 © WikiZero. All rights reserved. Privacy Policy \| Terms of Service}

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