Nantes facts

FC Nantes
Founded: 1943
Nickname: Les Canaris (The Canaries)

UEFA club competition honours
None

Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets)
League title: 8 (2001)
French Cup: 4 (2022)
League Cup: 1 (1965)

Ten-year European record (UEFA Europa League unless indicated otherwise)
2021/22: did not take part in UEFA competition
2020/21: did not take part in UEFA competition
2019/20: did not take part in UEFA competition
2018/19: did not take part in UEFA competition
2017/18: did not take part in UEFA competition
2016/17: did not take part in UEFA competition
2015/16: did not take part in UEFA competition
2014/15: did not take part in UEFA competition
2013/14: did not take part in UEFA competition
2012/13: did not take part in UEFA competition

Records
UEFA club competition
Biggest home win
7-0: Nantes v Cliftonville
03/10/79, European Cup Winners’ Cup first round second leg

Biggest away win
0-5: Strømsgodset v Nantes
16/09/70, European Cup Winners’ Cup first round first leg

Heaviest home defeat
0-4 twice, most recently v Freiburg
13/10/22, UEFA Europa League group stage

Heaviest away defeat
5-1 three times, most recently v Manchester United
26/02/02, UEFA Champions League second group stage
4-0: Valencia v Nantes
23/04/80, European Cup Winners’ Cup semi-final second leg

UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League
Biggest home win
5-0: Nantes v Kryvbas
28/09/00, first round second leg

Biggest away win
0-3: Inter Bratislava v Nantes
21/10/99, second round first leg

Heaviest home defeat
0-4 twice, most recently v Freiburg (see above)

Heaviest away defeat
5-1: Leverkusen v Nantes
28/02/95, quarter-final first leg