Buy Nice Football Tickets for 2026/27. Nice finished sixteenth of eighteen in Ligue 1 last term on 32 points and stayed in the division only by winning a relegation playoff against Saint-Étienne. Seven days before that playoff, they had been on the pitch at the Stade de France contesting a Coupe de France final. The two facts belong to the same season, and they explain more about this club than any league table can.
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Olivier Pantaloni arrived as head coach on 17 June 2026 on a two-year deal, and Jonathan Clauss was handed the captaincy on 20 August. Both appointments followed a summer in which Dante retired after ten years, Claude Puel departed having steadied the ship as caretaker, and the squad turned over more heavily than in any window since the INEOS takeover. The 2026/27 side at the Allianz Riviera is genuinely a new one.
What has not changed is the appeal of the trip. The Allianz Riviera is a covered, modern arena six kilometres from an international airport, in a city that is a holiday destination in its own right. Availability across most of the eighteen-team Ligue 1 calendar is better than at almost any other club in the division, and the fixtures that do sell out are the ones worth planning around anyway.
The club's own sales process at Nice runs in a fixed order. Season-ticket holders are served first, then members with an active subscription, then the general public. For fifteen of the seventeen home league fixtures that sequence never bites, because supply comfortably exceeds demand. For the Monaco derby, the Marseille visit and the Paris Saint-Germain fixture on 21 November, it bites hard, and the seats that reach public sale are the ones nobody in the priority windows wanted.
A resale marketplace changes the shape of that problem rather than removing it. Season-ticket holders who cannot attend a particular Friday night release their seats, and those seats are frequently in the parts of the ground that never reach general sale at all. That is how a visitor ends up in a halfway-line seat in the Garibaldi stand for a derby, which is close to impossible through the club's ticket office if you live outside the Alpes-Maritimes.
There is a second problem the secondary market solves. Ligue 1 kick-off slots are confirmed roughly four to five weeks out, and a Sunday afternoon fixture can move to Sunday evening. Supporters who booked travel around the original slot release their seats, and buyers who can travel on the revised date pick them up. Availability at Nice often improves rather than worsens as a match approaches.
1BoxOffice has been operating as a resale marketplace since 2006, long enough to have handled every failure mode a ticket transaction can produce. The point of a marketplace is not that it undercuts the club, because frequently it does not. The point is that it has stock when the club does not, and that it stands behind the transaction if something goes wrong.
For a Nice fixture specifically, the guarantee carries more weight than at a domestic ground you could reach by train. A failed entry at the Allianz Riviera costs you a flight, a hotel night and a weekend, not just the face value of a seat. That asymmetry is the reason to buy somewhere the downside is covered.
Demand at Nice is unusually lumpy. Four or five fixtures a season sell out the parts of the ground worth having, and the rest sit at roughly two-thirds of the operating gauge. Understanding which is which saves you money on one visit and disappointment on another.
The starting point is that the club does not open the whole stadium. Nice voluntarily reduced the operating gauge to around 27,000 from 2025/26 by closing the third tiers of the Ségurane and Garibaldi stands, having measured no-show rates above thirty per cent. Nominal capacity is 36,178. Average attendance last season was 22,078, eleventh in the division, which is 61 per cent of the nominal figure but roughly 82 per cent of the seats actually opened. The ground feels considerably fuller than the raw numbers suggest.
The practical consequence is that a lower-category fixture bought two weeks out costs very little and gives you a comfortable seat in a half-full stand, while a derby bought two weeks out costs a multiple of face value if anything is left at all. Decide which experience you are buying before you decide what you will pay.
Ligue 1 clubs price by fixture category, and Nice run five bands across the 2026/27 season. The variable that moves the price is the visiting club, not the date or the kick-off time. A Tuesday night against Auxerre and a Sunday afternoon against Auxerre cost the same. A Sunday afternoon against Marseille costs three times either.
Resale pricing behaves differently in each direction. On the four top-category fixtures, listings sit above face value because demand exceeds the seats released. On the lower categories, listings frequently sit at or below face value, because season-ticket holders releasing a seat for a match they cannot attend would rather recover something than nothing. Nice is one of the few clubs in Ligue 1 where the resale market regularly clears below the club's own price.
The ranges below reflect what listings have typically been through the current season window. They are ranges rather than fixed prices for a reason: this is a marketplace, sellers set their own asking price and both directions move with demand.
| Type of Ticket | Typical Price Range (GBP) |
|---|---|
| Ligue 1 (standard fixtures) | £18 – £65 |
| Ligue 1 (high-demand fixtures) | £55 – £240+ |
| Coupe de France | £15 – £48 |
| Hospitality / VIP | £180 – £700+ |
Prices reflect typical resale ranges and may change as demand and availability shift.
Yes, and at Nice the membership question is less restrictive than at most French clubs. The club operates an annual supporter subscription that unlocks priority windows and discounted pricing, but there is no ballot system and no requirement to have attended previous matches. For the majority of the calendar you can buy a seat as a first-time visitor on the day the fixture opens to general sale.
The one place membership genuinely bites is the Populaire Sud. A season ticket in the home ultras' end carries a compulsory supporters' association subscription of roughly £9, because the section is organised around the group rather than around individual seats. That requirement applies to season tickets, not to single-match purchases, so a visitor buying one match on the resale market is unaffected by it.
The secondary market matters most for the four fixtures where the priority windows exhaust the good seats before general sale opens. Anyone outside the Alpes-Maritimes is realistically never going to be in a position to act inside a priority window that opens on a Tuesday morning and closes on a Wednesday. Resale is how those fixtures become buyable at all for a visitor, and the seats released into it come from exactly the section that never reaches public sale.
Season ticket sales at Nice peaked at 16,050 in 2024/25, the year the club finished fourth. The 2026/27 figure has not been published, which after a sixteenth-place finish and an opening fixture played in an empty stadium is not a surprise. The abonnement remains the backbone of the crowd, and around three-quarters of the seats sold on an average matchday belong to holders rather than to walk-up buyers.
The 2026/27 grid was adjusted slightly downward against 2025/26 to reflect a sixteen-match home league programme rather than seventeen, the home opener having been played behind closed doors. The club published the grid as an image rather than a structured table, so precise tier-by-tier figures are difficult to quote with confidence. The frequently repeated claim that Nice season tickets start at around £138 traces to entry-level tiers advertised in 2023/24 and no longer describes the current pricing.
| Season Ticket Area | Typical Annual Range (GBP) | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Populaire Sud | £185 – £250 | Compulsory supporters' association subscription of around £9 applies |
| Ray (north end) | £200 – £300 | Lowest-priced seated area, mixed crowd, good for families |
| Ségurane upper | £255 – £400 | Second tier, wide sightline, quieter than the ends |
| Garibaldi upper | £300 – £470 | Elevated touchline, strongest tactical view in the ground |
| Ségurane lower central | £440 – £700 | Closest rows to the pitch on the far touchline |
| Garibaldi lower central | £620 – £965 | Main stand, halfway line, includes the premium ordinary tiers |
Ranges are indicative and drawn from the published 2025/26 grid adjusted for the shorter 2026/27 home programme. They may change as the club revises its pricing.
Four stands ring the pitch and each has a distinct character. Garibaldi and Ségurane run the touchlines, Populaire Sud is the home end behind the southern goal, and Ray at the north takes its name from the club's previous ground. Away supporters occupy blocks C1, C2 and C3 in the corner between Ray and Garibaldi.
| Stand or Area | Best For | Price Bracket | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Garibaldi lower | Sightline and proximity to the halfway line | £38 – £75 | Main camera side, press and hospitality above, covered throughout |
| Garibaldi upper | Reading shape, pressing patterns and tactical detail | £30 – £52 | Elevated touchline view, third tier closed under the reduced gauge |
| Ségurane lower | Getting close to the pitch without the ultras noise | £34 – £68 | Opposite touchline, closest rows in the ground to the touchline |
| Ségurane upper | Families and first visits | £26 – £44 | Wide sightline, quieter atmosphere, third tier closed |
| Populaire Sud | Atmosphere, singing and tifo displays | £18 – £34 | Home ultras in sectors H1 and I1, standing throughout, restricted view of the far end |
| Ray | Lower budgets and larger groups | £20 – £38 | North end behind the goal, mixed crowd, easiest section to seat six together |
One point that catches visitors: the Populaire Sud is not a seat you sit in. It is a standing section in practice, organised by the Ultras Populaire Sud, with capo-led singing for the full ninety minutes. If you want to watch the football closely, take the Garibaldi. If you want to feel the crowd, take the south end and accept the trade-off.
Away travel in Ligue 1 is more heavily regulated than in England, and Nice's disciplinary record means the club's travelling support attracts closer attention than most. Allocations are handled through the club rather than through the host, and for the highest-risk fixtures the prefecture of the host department can impose conditions that override anything the two clubs agree.
| Away Travel Factor | What to Expect |
|---|---|
| Typical allocation | Around 800 to 1,500 places depending on the host ground and the risk assessment applied |
| Away section | Segregated corner or upper tier, with separate turnstiles and a controlled approach route |
| Access requirements | Photo identification matching the ticket at higher-risk fixtures; no national supporter card scheme applies in France |
| Coach-only conditions | Imposed by prefectoral order for Marseille and periodically for Saint-Étienne and Lens; independent travel can be prohibited outright |
| Reduced allocations | Hosts may cut the allocation at short notice, as Monaco did in September 2025 when the Stade Louis II allowance dropped to 1,000 during renovation work |
The Monaco reduction produced the most striking response in recent seasons. The Populaire Sud boycotted the away derby on 28 September 2025 outright, citing the cut allocation and a sense of being unwelcome. It was the first boycott the group had called, and it tells you how seriously travelling arrangements are taken on the Côte d'Azur.
Five different people buy five different tickets for the same fixture. The table below matches the common priorities to the section that actually delivers them at this ground rather than the one that sounds like it should.
| Priority | Best Option | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Best atmosphere | Populaire Sud, sectors adjacent to H1 and I1 | You sit beside the organised support without being inside the capo blocks, which keeps the noise and improves the odds of an actual seat |
| Best view | Garibaldi upper, central | Elevated above the halfway line on the main side, high enough to see the shape of both teams, covered throughout |
| Family-friendly | Ségurane upper | Quietest part of the ground, no standing, wide gangways and the shortest queues at the concourse kiosks |
| Premium experience | Garibaldi lower central, or a hospitality lounge | Halfway line at pitch level with padded seating, lounge access and catering included in the package tiers |
| Lower-priced option | Ray, behind the northern goal | Consistently the least expensive seated area for ordinary league fixtures and the easiest place to seat a group of five or six together |
The Allianz Riviera opened on 22 September 2013 with a 4-0 win over Valenciennes, three weeks after Nice played their last competitive match at the Stade du Ray. The Ray had been home since 30 January 1927, a tight and steep ground in a residential quarter with a capacity that never exceeded the mid-twenty-thousands. Its site is now the Parc du Ray, a public park opened in January 2020, and a portion of the support has never entirely transferred its affection to the replacement.
Wilmotte & Associés designed the new ground and VINCI built it under a twenty-seven-year public-private partnership at a cost of around £211 million. The City of Nice and the Métropole own it. Nice are tenants, which is the single most important structural fact about the stadium and explains a great deal about the club's finances. The naming agreement with Allianz, extended in January 2021 through to 2030 at a reported £1.55 million a year, is between the insurer and the operator rather than the club.
Nominal capacity is 36,178. The design is unmistakably of its decade: a translucent roof covering all four stands, around 4,000 solar panels as part of the original environmental specification and a bowl that keeps the crowd close to the pitch despite the size. It served as a Euro 2016 venue and hosted matches at the 2023 Rugby World Cup, and the media, hospitality and accessibility upgrades required for those tournaments remain in place. The Musée National du Sport occupies part of the complex, holding the national sporting collection rather than a club museum.
The record attendance is 35,596, set on 7 May 2016 against Saint-Étienne, beating the 35,200 who watched France play Paraguay there in June 2014. Those numbers are unreachable now, not because interest has collapsed but because the club chose to close the third tiers of two stands. The atmosphere in the reduced bowl is better than it was when a third of the seats sat visibly empty, and the Populaire Sud carries the noise regardless of what the rest of the ground is doing.
Getting there is straightforward if you use public transport and awkward if you drive. The stadium sits in the Plaine du Var, a business and industrial district well outside the old town. Tram Line 3 runs from Port Lympia to the Stade stop, taking about thirty minutes and depositing you at the parvis. On match days the Chemins de Fer de Provence narrow-gauge line runs from Gare du Sud in roughly fifteen minutes, which is the quicker option from the city centre. Free shuttle buses run from the MIN and Arboras park-and-ride car parks.
The surrounding area gives you very little. Saint-Isidore is retail parks and offices, and there is no equivalent of the pub streets that ring English grounds. The compensation is that Nice Côte d'Azur airport is about six kilometres away and the old town is a tram ride in the other direction, so the sensible pattern is to eat and drink in the city, take the tram out and take it back. Detailed stand and block information for the ground is available on the Allianz Riviera tickets page.
Hospitality at the Riviera runs through the Garibaldi stand, where the lounges, boxes and premium seating are concentrated on the main side. Because the stadium was built for a multi-sport brief and upgraded twice for international tournaments, the facilities are of a standard that the club's league position does not reflect. Packages are sold by the club and by licensed operators, and availability is generally better than at grounds with comparable facilities.
The economics reward a little planning. Hospitality at Nice for a lower-category fixture costs less than an ordinary halfway-line seat at Marseille or Lyon. The premium on the derby and the Paris Saint-Germain fixture is substantial, but across the other home league games a lounge package is one of the better-value premium experiences in French football.
| Package | What It Includes | Typical Price Range (GBP) |
|---|---|---|
| Business seat | Padded central seat in the Garibaldi stand with lounge access before the match and at half-time | £180 – £300 |
| Club lounge | Premium seating plus a seated meal, complimentary bar and dedicated stadium entrance | £260 – £450 |
| Executive box | Private box for eight to twelve guests with catering, host service and a private balcony | £390 – £700 per person |
| Matchday experience | Lounge package with a stadium tour and Musée National du Sport access included | £220 – £360 |
| High-demand fixture supplement | Applied to Monaco, Marseille and Paris Saint-Germain across all package tiers | Typically 60 to 140 per cent above the base package |
Prices reflect typical ranges and may change as demand and availability shift.
The process below takes a few minutes and removes almost every way a ticket purchase can go wrong. The two steps people skip are the third and the fourth, and those are the two that cause the problems.
Step1
Pick the fixture and the stand together
Work out what you want from the afternoon before you filter on price. Populaire Sud for noise, Garibaldi for the view, Ray for the lowest outlay, Ségurane upper for a quiet first visit. Filtering on price alone at this ground reliably lands people in a standing ultras section they did not want.
Step2
Set up your account first
Take a moment to create an account before you start browsing seriously. Your delivery address and contact details are then already stored when a listing you want appears, and the account is what your order confirmation and any mobile transfer instructions attach to.
Step3
Confirm the quantity the listing allows
Sellers group their seats and those groupings are not always divisible. A pair out of a block of four may not be releasable, and a group of six is rarely seated in one continuous row at the Riviera. Read what the listing permits before you commit rather than assuming any number can be split out of it.
Step4
Read the delivery method carefully
Nice operate a mobile ticketing system and season-ticket holders use an M-Carte pass. Some listings resolve to a mobile transfer, others to physical collection near the ground. The listing states which, and it determines both when your ticket arrives and what you need to bring with you on the day.
Step5
Complete payment in pounds
Payment is taken in pounds sterling, so there is no currency conversion at your end and no foreign transaction fee from your bank. The total shown at the payment stage includes the marketplace fee and any delivery charge, so nothing is added afterwards. Card details pass through an encrypted gateway.
Step6
Keep the confirmation somewhere retrievable
The confirmation email carries your order number, and that number is what you need if anything about the fixture changes. Save it to your phone rather than leaving it in an inbox you can only reach from a laptop, because the situation where you need it is usually the one where you are already travelling.
Step7
Watch for the kick-off slot moving
Ligue 1 fixtures spread from Friday evening to Sunday evening and the broadcaster confirms the final slot roughly four to five weeks ahead. A Sunday afternoon match can become a Sunday evening one. Confirm the time before you book non-refundable travel, particularly if you intend to fly home the same night.
Step8
Follow the order through to delivery
You can track order progress at any point using your order number, email address and surname. Mobile tickets for Ligue 1 fixtures typically release in the final week rather than immediately after purchase, so an order showing as confirmed but undelivered a month out is entirely normal.
Once the ticket is in hand the only remaining variable is the journey, and at this ground that means the tram. Allow more time than the timetable suggests for the trip back into the city, because Line 3 after a full house moves slowly.
Five categories of fixture behave differently from the rest of the calendar at Nice. If your trip is built around any of them, book earlier than you otherwise would.
| Fixture Type | Why It Moves Fast |
|---|---|
| The Monaco derby | Twenty kilometres apart and the shortest derby in Ligue 1. The Populaire Sud treats it as a demonstration of which club actually has a crowd, given Nice averaged 22,078 last season against Monaco's 8,153. The home end sells out before general sale in most years. |
| Marseille at the Riviera | The largest travelling support in France, the heaviest policing operation of the season and a shared history that neither set of supporters has forgotten. It draws the largest gate of the campaign. |
| Paris Saint-Germain, 21 November 2026 | The one fixture where every price band moves simultaneously rather than the good seats going first. Occasional attendees pick this match and the derby, so the ground fills with people who are not there most weeks. |
| Saint-Étienne and the playoff rematch dynamic | Nice survived last season by beating Saint-Étienne in the relegation playoff, and the two are the most-played opponents in the club's top-flight history. Any meeting between them now carries an edge it did not have three years ago. |
| Late-season fixtures against the bottom five | A club carrying a suspended point deduction and a sixteenth-place finish behind it sells April and May matches against direct rivals faster than their pricing category implies. These are the fixtures where demand appears late and moves quickly. |
Every listing states its own delivery method, and it is the single detail most worth reading twice. Confirm it before payment rather than after, particularly if you are travelling from abroad and will not have access to a printer.
The parvis outside the stadium opens two to three hours before kick-off and the turnstiles ninety minutes before. Aim to be at your gate an hour out. The reason is specific to this ground: most gates close five minutes after kick-off, and only gates B and D remain open after that, until half-time. If your tram is delayed and you reach gate F ten minutes into the match, you will be walking round the outside of the stadium rather than through it.
Arriving early also gets you the part of the matchday that the television coverage never shows. The Populaire Sud assembles its display in the final fifteen minutes before kick-off, and on the bigger fixtures the tifo is the most impressive thing you will see all afternoon. It is finished before the whistle goes.
Photo identification matching the name on the ticket is required at higher-risk fixtures and can be requested at any match. Bring a passport or a national identity card rather than a driving licence if you are travelling from abroad. France operates no national supporter card scheme, so there is nothing to register for in advance.
Mobile entry is the norm, which makes a charged phone a genuine requirement rather than a convenience. The barcode on a transferred mobile ticket refreshes on a timer, so screenshots, photographs of a screen and printed copies of a mobile pass all fail at the turnstile. Season-ticket holders enter using the M-Carte pass loaded in the club's application.
Nice publish no numerical bag size limit, which is unusual in French football. Instead, free supervised cloakrooms operate at each access staircase, where anything that will not pass the search is left and collected afterwards. The system works well and removes the anxiety of arriving with a rucksack, but it adds time, so allow an extra fifteen minutes if you intend to use one.
Both glass and plastic bottles are prohibited, not just glass. Removing the cap is not sufficient here as it is at some grounds, so bring nothing to drink through the gate. Pyrotechnics are prosecuted rather than confiscated, and at a club currently carrying a suspended point deduction the stewarding on that point is unusually firm.
| Detail | Information |
|---|---|
| Full name | Olympique Gymnaste Club Nice Côte d'Azur |
| Founded | 1904, with the club marking 9 July as its foundation date |
| Nickname | Les Aiglons, the Eaglets |
| Stadium | Allianz Riviera, nominal capacity 36,178, operating gauge around 27,000 |
| Head coach | Olivier Pantaloni, appointed 17 June 2026 |
| Captain | Jonathan Clauss, named 20 August 2026 |
| League | Ligue 1, eighteen clubs |
| Owner | INEOS, majority shareholder since 2019 |
Nice's story runs from a gymnastics society in a resort city to four league titles and back down again, and the modern club has spent sixty years trying to recover a decade it lost in 1960. The four eras below are where the identity came from.
The club that exists today was assembled almost by accident. A gymnastics society in a fashionable resort acquired a football section because boys expelled from a rival association needed somewhere to play, and the identity that endures arrived only in 1919, when Nice absorbed a neighbour and took its colours. The name followed in 1924, a ground in 1927 and professional status in 1932, which was then taken away again.
Four titles in nine seasons and two cups came from a side built around an Argentine captain in Pancho Gonzales, a Luxembourgish centre-forward in Nurenberg and a young Just Fontaine who left before his World Cup fame. It remains the only period in which Nice were among the strongest clubs in France, and the two European Cup quarter-finals against Real Madrid are still the reference points for what the club has been capable of. The night of 4 February 1960 is the one every Nice supporter knows, and it was also, effectively, the end.
Five relegations in four decades tells the story plainly enough, but the 1970s side is the one that still hurts. Roger Jouve, Jean-Marc Guillou and Jean-Noël Huck ran a midfield good enough to finish second twice and beat Barcelona in Europe, and it collected nothing. The strangest season came later: in 1996/97 Nice lifted the Coupe de France at the Parc des Princes and finished bottom of Division 1, then reached the Cup Winners' Cup quarter-finals the following season while playing second-tier football at home.
The move from the Ray to a £211 million arena in 2013 opened a decade of money and churn. Chinese and American investment arrived in 2016 and INEOS in 2019. Between them they produced five European campaigns, a third place and a fourth, and not one trophy. The reckoning came in 2025/26: a nine-match losing run equalling the club's worst, a coach dismissed at Christmas, players confronted by their own supporters at the training ground, a lost cup final in Paris and survival secured only in a playoff against the club's oldest opponent. Pantaloni inherited all of it.
| Legend | Role | Contribution | Milestones |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joaquín Valle | Forward, 1937 to 1948 | Signed from Las Palmas alongside his brother Luis and scored through the wartime championships and the Division 2 years. The club's own records name him its all-time leading scorer, though the total quoted varies widely depending on whether wartime and friendly matches are counted. Almost none of his Nice career was played in the top flight. | 194 goals in 262 matches per the club, up to 339 in 407 by broader counts; Division 2 champion 1947/48 |
| Victor Nurenberg | Forward, 1951 to 1960 | The centre-forward of the golden age and the man who scored in both winning Coupe de France finals. His hat-trick as captain against Real Madrid in February 1960 delivered the first win by a French club over Real in European competition, and it remains the single most celebrated night in the club's history. | 309 appearances, 111 goals, of which 89 in Division 1 stands as the club top-flight record; champion 1952, 1956 and 1959; Coupe de France 1952 and 1954 |
| Pancho Gonzales | Centre-back and captain, 1951 to 1961 | Arrived from Boca Juniors and became the emblematic captain of the title-winning side, leading the team through every trophy of the decade. He started the first Monaco derby in November 1953 and was never capped by France, a regret recorded in his own account of 1958. | 367 appearances for the club, second only to Francis Isnard; champion 1952, 1956 and 1959; Coupe de France 1952 and 1954 |
| Just Fontaine | Striker, 1953 to 1956 | Spotted by Mario Zatelli and signed at twenty, he made his France debut as a Nice player with a hat-trick against Luxembourg in October 1953. He won a cup and a championship on the Côte d'Azur before leaving for Reims, and the thirteen goals that made him famous at the 1958 World Cup came after he had gone. | Around 44 goals in three seasons; Coupe de France 1954; French champion 1955/56 |
| Francis Isnard | Defender, 1963 to 1975 | An academy product who holds the club appearance record by a margin of nearly a hundred matches, having played through two relegations and two promotions without ever leaving. The club describes him as the player who has most often worn the red and black in competitive football. | 465 competitive appearances and 5 goals; Challenge des Champions 1970 |
| Roger Jouve | Attacking midfielder, 1965 to 1978 | The creative heart of the 1970s side alongside Jean-Marc Guillou and Jean-Noël Huck, a team that finished second twice and beat Barcelona in Europe without winning a major honour. The club's own history calls that decade la décennie des regrets. | 359 appearances and 31 goals, third in the club's all-time list; 7 France caps; Division 2 champion 1970 |
| Dante | Centre-back and captain, 2016 to 2026 | Signed at thirty-two and stayed a decade, captaining the side through the club's finest modern finishes and its worst collapse. He retired at forty-two after captaining Nice to the relegation playoff win over Saint-Étienne on 29 May 2026, and now coaches Bayern Munich's under-23 side. | 329 appearances by the club's count; oldest outfield player in Europa League history in September 2025; oldest player ever to appear in a Coupe de France final in May 2026 |
One number is not on the list because nobody wears it. Shirt 17 was formally retired on 22 May 2014 for Kévin Anin, who had signed in January 2012 and was left paralysed from the waist down by a motorway crash on 4 June 2013 while a passenger in a car heading north from Rouen. He survived; his career did not. It is the only retired number at the club.
| Competition | Titles |
|---|---|
| Ligue 1 | 4 (1951, 1952, 1956, 1959) |
| Coupe de France | 3 (1952, 1954, 1997) |
| Trophée des Champions | 1 (1970, then contested as the Challenge des Champions) |
| Ligue 2 | More than two second-tier titles, with French and English records giving four and two respectively |
| Coupe de France runners-up | 3 (1978, 2022, 2026) |
| Coupe de la Ligue runners-up | 1 (2006) |
The Ligue 2 discrepancy is genuine and I have not been able to resolve it. French-language records credit Nice with four second-tier championships and English-language records with two, the difference appearing to hinge on how wartime and early postwar competitions are treated. Any source quoting a confident single figure is picking a convention rather than settling the question.
Three domestic fixtures at the Riviera carry a temperature the rest of the calendar does not, and they are not the three an outsider would pick. The European picture is thinner, and honesty about that is more useful than manufacturing a rivalry out of a league-phase draw.
Twenty kilometres separate the two clubs, making this the shortest derby in Ligue 1, and the framing has always been social as much as sporting: a working city against a principality. They first met on 8 November 1953 at the old Stade Louis II, Nice winning 3-0 with Just Fontaine among the scorers. Through ninety-nine top-flight meetings to February 2021 the record stood at Monaco 42 wins, Nice 30, with 27 draws. The modern edge is that the fixture is asymmetric in a way the results do not capture: Nice averaged 22,078 last season and Monaco 8,153, and the Populaire Sud treats the derby as a demonstration of which club has an actual support. In September 2025 that logic produced a first: the group boycotted the away leg entirely after Monaco cut the allocation to 1,000 during renovation work.
This is the hostility fixture and its recent history is unavoidable. On 22 August 2021, with Nice leading 1-0 in the seventy-fifth minute, a bottle thrown from the Populaire Sud struck Dimitri Payet as he prepared to take a corner. He threw it back, the pitch was invaded, a mass brawl involving players, stewards and supporters followed and after a ninety-minute delay the referee abandoned the match. The disciplinary commission deducted Nice two points, one firm and one suspended, ordered three home matches behind closed doors and had the fixture replayed on 27 October, when it finished 1-1. The relationship has not improved since. Nice lost 1-5 at home to Marseille on 21 November 2025 in the sequence of defeats that ended with the players confronted by their own ultras at the training ground and the coach dismissed at Christmas.
The club's own historical material calls Saint-Étienne the side it has faced most often at professional level, level with Marseille, and describes the fixture as one in which almost everything has already happened. The clubs met for the 113th time in Ligue 1 during 2024/25 with the record standing at 43 wins each and 26 draws. The stadium's record attendance of 35,596 came against them on 7 May 2016, Nice's joint-record top-flight home win was the 8-0 of September 2024, and in May 2026 the two contested the relegation playoff that kept Nice in the division and Saint-Étienne out of it. Cannes and Toulon are sometimes offered as local rivals and should be dismissed: both have spent decades outside the top divisions and neither fixture has meant anything competitively in a generation.
Nice have met Real Madrid twice in knockout ties of the same competition, in the European Cup quarter-finals of 1956/57 and 1959/60, and both ended in elimination. What survives is the second leg of the second tie: Nice 3-2 at home on 4 February 1960, Victor Nurenberg scoring a hat-trick as captain in the first win by a French club over Real in European competition. Real took the return 4-0 and went on to a fifth consecutive European Cup. Two ties sixty-six years ago is a cherished memory rather than a rivalry, and it is the closest thing Nice have to a recurring European opponent.
The most recent European antagonist, and the one that shaped the club's current position. Benfica eliminated Nice from the Champions League third qualifying round in August 2025, winning 2-0 in Nice and 2-0 in Lisbon, dropping the club into a Europa League league phase in which it finished among the bottom sides. That failure was the opening chapter of the collapse that ended in sixteenth place and a relegation playoff. There is no accumulated history here, but Benfica is the name attached to the point where the 2025/26 season went wrong.
| Season | Summary |
|---|---|
| 2021/22 | Fifth in Ligue 1 on 66 points, the strongest league return of the recent period. The season's defining day was the Coupe de France final on 7 May 2022, lost 1-0 to Nantes at the Stade de France. No European campaign, the fixture calendar consisting of league and domestic cup football only. |
| 2022/23 | Ninth on 58 points, a mid-table season that flattered nobody. Nice went out of the Coupe de France at the round of 64, beaten 1-0 by Le Puy Foot from the third tier. The compensation came in Europe, where the club reached the Europa Conference League quarter-finals before Basel won the second leg 2-1 in Nice. |
| 2023/24 | Fifth on 55 points under Francesco Farioli, sealed with a draw at Lille on the final day and enough for Europa League qualification. The cup run ended at the quarter-final stage in a 3-1 defeat to Paris Saint-Germain. It was the last season before the club's position began to deteriorate. |
| 2024/25 | Fourth on 60 points under Franck Haise and a Champions League playoff place, the strongest finish since 2017. The domestic cup ended humiliatingly at the round of 16 against fourth-tier Stade Briochin. The Europa League campaign was worse still: three points from eight matches, thirty-fifth of thirty-six and no lead held at any point across the entire league phase. |
| 2025/26 | Sixteenth on 32 points from 34 matches with a goal difference of minus 23, into the relegation playoff. Nice drew 0-0 at Saint-Étienne then won the home leg 4-1 behind closed doors to survive, Dante retiring after the final whistle. Europe ended early, Benfica removing them from Champions League qualifying in August before a bottom-end Europa League league phase. The Coupe de France final was lost 3-1 to Lens on 22 May 2026. |
The summer window turned the squad over heavily. Mohamed-Ali Cho, Kojo Peprah Oppong, Charles Vanhoutte, Jérémie Boga and Terem Moffi all departed for fees, Dante retired and the replacements arrived largely on loans and free transfers. Mohammed Amoura joined on loan from Wolfsburg on 31 August and Elye Wahi returned on loan from Eintracht Frankfurt, the two of them carrying most of the attacking burden.
| No. | Player | Position | Value (£) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23 | Yéhvann Diouf | Goalkeeper | 5.2m |
| 77 | Teddy Boulhendi | Goalkeeper | 0.2m |
| 92 | Jonathan Clauss (captain) | Right-back | 2.1m |
| 26 | Melvin Bard | Left-back | 9.6m |
| 2 | Ali Abdi | Left-back | 0.9m |
| 33 | Antoine Mendy | Right-back | 5.7m |
| 64 | Moïse Bombito | Centre-back | 0.9m |
| 5 | Mohamed Abdelmonem | Centre-back | 1.5m |
| 55 | Youssouf Ndayishimiye | Centre-back | 6.1m |
| 6 | Hicham Boudaoui | Central midfield | 8.3m |
| 99 | Salis Abdul Samed | Defensive midfield | 2.4m |
| 28 | Axel Witsel | Defensive midfield | 0.8m |
| 19 | Laurent Abergel | Defensive midfield | 1.2m |
| 8 | Morgan Sanson | Attacking midfield | 1.5m |
| 10 | Sofiane Diop | Forward, left | 8.8m |
| 11 | Elye Wahi | Centre-forward | 12.3m |
| 9 | Mohammed Amoura | Centre-forward | 20.4m |
Values are approximate and converted to sterling from euro valuations. Transfermarkt blocks automated access, so these figures are drawn from an alternative algorithmic valuation service and should be read as indicative of relative worth within the squad rather than as transfer prices.
Select the fixture from the home fixture list on this page, then choose the stand before you filter on price, since the sections differ sharply in character at this ground. Every order is covered by the 150% money-back guarantee, which pays one and a half times what you spent if valid tickets do not arrive or entry is refused.
Most gates close five minutes after kick-off, and only gates B and D stay open beyond that, until half-time. Turnstiles open ninety minutes before the match and the parvis two to three hours before, so aim to be at your gate an hour out, or ninety minutes if you intend to use the free cloakroom.
For most of the calendar, no. Nice sit in the lower half of the division for average attendance and supply comfortably exceeds demand on the lower-category fixtures, so listings frequently sit at or below face value. The exceptions are Monaco, Marseille and Paris Saint-Germain, where every price band rises at once.
Mobile tickets for Ligue 1 fixtures generally release in the final week before the match rather than straight after purchase, so an order confirmed but undelivered a month out is normal. Bring a charged phone, because the barcode refreshes on a timer and a screenshot will not scan at the turnstile.
The Monaco derby if you want the fixture that means most locally, or Marseille for the largest crowd and the sharpest edge. Saint-Étienne is the underrated choice, being the club's most-played top-flight opponent and the side Nice beat in the 2026 relegation playoff to stay in the division.
1BoxOffice has been a verified ticket marketplace since 2006, and every order placed here carries a 150% money-back guarantee that pays one and a half times your purchase price if valid tickets do not arrive or entry is refused. Browse the fixture lists below, pick the stand that suits the afternoon you want and buy with the transaction covered. Availability at Nice is better than at almost any club in Ligue 1, but the four fixtures that matter move quickly.
Sources: OGC Nice club website (ogcnice.com), including the official club squad, player profile and history sections; Ligue de Football Professionnel fixture and disciplinary publications; the Fédération Française de Football cup records; UEFA competition archives; Allianz Riviera stadium operator information; News Tank reporting of the published season ticket grid; and Wikipedia as a cross-reference where primary sources conflicted. Transfermarkt was inaccessible and squad valuations are drawn from an alternative valuation service, noted as approximate. All statistics and figures cited above have been cross-referenced against club publications and verified football data sources. Last reviewed: September 2026.Nice are not competing in a UEFA competition in 2026/27. Sixteenth place delivered no continental qualification, and the Coupe de France runner-up position carries no European place when the winners have already qualified through the league, which Lens had.
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