Season trivia for Ligue 2 2025/2026
It's not all about becoming the top scorer or winning matches - there's also a wealth of fascinating information related to goalscorers and other remarkable records. Below, you'll find trivia and interesting facts from the 2025/2026 Ligue 2 season in France.
Note that the season is not finished yet, and therefor the information below is not necessarily the final version.
Best scoring couple
The players who were behind the most goals for their team in the 2025/2026 season were the players Augustine Boakye - Lucas Stassin (Saint-Étienne) and Lucas Stassin - Irvin Cardona (Saint-Étienne). Together they scored 6 goals for their teams, where one of the players scored the goal and the other one assisted to it.
Fastest goalscorer
These players all scored goals in the first minute of a match during the 2025/2026 season:
Fastest hat-trick
Antoine Rabillard, playing for Le Mans, was the player who scored the fastest hat-trick. In the space of 20 minutes, he scored three goals in the match between Nancy-Le Mans.
Top goalscorer by calendar month
In February 2026, Famara Diedhiou (Clermont) scored 7 goals, which was the most goals in a calendar month of the 2025/2026 season.
Most braces by player
Tawfik Bentayeb in Troyes scored (at least) two goals in a match five times and was thus the player who scored the most braces in matches during the 2025/2026 season.
Most first goals in a match
The first goal of a match means a lot, and these players each scored it in a total of six matches during the season:
Most last goals in a match
The last goal of the match was scored the most times by Zuriko Davitashvili in Saint-Étienne during the 2025/2026 season, in total he did this seven times.
Most penalty goals by player
The title of the league's best penalty taker in 2025/2026 was shared between five players, all of whom scored four penalties each, and these were
Dame Guèye (Le Mans)
Jessy Benet (Grenoble)
Tawfik Bentayeb (Troyes)
Thomas Robinet (USL Dunkerque)
Famara Diedhiou (Clermont)
Most penalty goals by team
Clermont was the most effective team of all when it came to penalty goals during the 2025/2026 season, in total they scored seven of their goals from penalties.
Most own goals by player
The unluckiest scorer during the 2025/2026 season was Théo Pellenard, as he held the somewhat dubious honour of scoring the most own goals of any player in Ligue 2, which he did two times.
Most own goals by team
Stade Lavallois scored three own goals in all their matches, making them the "best" at it in the entire league during the 2025/2026 season.
Players with goals in most consecutive matches
Taïryk Arconte in Pau and Rodez scored in 6 consecutive matches during the 2025/2026 season, which was the best in the league.
Players with assists in most consecutive matches
It was Jean Lambert Evans in Rodez who had the longest streak of matches in a row with at least one assist, achieving this in 4 consecutive matches.
Players with goals or assists in most consecutive matches
Martin Adeline in Troyes scored or assisted in 7 consecutive matches during the 2025/2026 season, which was the best in the league.
Players with most goals in the first half
The players with the most goals in the first half of the match scored 8 goals, and the players who did this were:
Players with most goals in the second half
Tawfik Bentayeb in Troyes scored a total of 12 goals in the second half, including stoppage time, which was the best in Ligue 2 during the 2025/2026 season.
Most consecutive wins
There were two teams that had 5 consecutive wins in the 2025/2026 season, and those teams were Troyes and Saint-Étienne.
Most matches in a row without losing
Le Mans were the team with the longest unbeaten run during the 2025/2026 season, playing 17 straight matches without losing.
Most matches in a row without a win
Stade Lavallois managed the feat of not winning a single match in 12 consecutive matches during the 2025/2026 season, something they did best among all the teams in the league.
Most comebacks from behind to win
The art of turning a deficit in a match into a win is something Troyes were best at during the 2025/2026 season, they came back to win six matches in total.