Ligue 1 McDonald's 2025/26: the key player stats

Among the players having played at least 400 minutes in Ligue 1 McDonald's this season, Ousmane Dembélé (PSG) is the player to have most regularly made a goal contribution, with a goal/ assist every 63 minutes (10 goals, seven assists in 1062 minutes).

Hervé Koffi (Angers) is the goalkeeper to have prevented the most goals, according to Opta's Expected Goals on Target model, in Europe's top five leagues (13, 48 expected, 35 conceded, excluding own goals). He made 123 stops, 15 more than any other goalkeeper in Ligue 1 McDonald's.

By scoring five seconds after his entrance on the 8th May with Lens (against Nantes), Mezian Mesloub Soares scored the quickest goal for a player coming off the bench in the top-flight since Opta began measuring this metric (2006/07), beating the record previously held by Jelen (six seconds, with Auxerre versus Lorient in October 2007).

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Folarin Balogun (Monaco) went on a run of scoring in eight consecutive games in Ligue 1 McDonald's (from 21st February until 19th April), becoming only the fifth player to do so in the top-flight in the 21st century, after Sonny Anderson (Lyon) in 2001 (11), Shabani Nonda (Monaco) in 2003 (8), Rony Lopes (Monaco) in 2018 and Moussa Dembélé (Lyon) in 2022 (8).

On 23rd November, in Lille's game against Paris FC, Olivier Giroud, at the age of 39 years and 54 days, became the oldest player to score a brace in Ligue 1 McDonald's since at least the 1947/48 season.

On 18th October, Dante (Nice) became the third 42-year-old to play in a Ligue 1 McDonald's game in the past 75 years, after Roger Courtois in 1956 (44 years and four days was his age for his last appearance) and Hilton in 2021 (43 years and 252 days).

Against Le Havre on 28th October, Mason Greenwood (Marseille) became the first player to score four goals in a match since Kamory Doumbia (Brest v Lorient) in December 2023 and the first to manage that feat with OM since Jean-Pierre Papin in January 1991 (v OL).

On 17th August, against Strasbourg, Brian Madjo (Metz) became the first player born in 2009 to play in Ligue 1 McDonald's. His teammate, Believe Munongo, is the youngest player to have played a game (16 years, 63 days, on 25th January, against Lyon).

Marvin Senaya (Auxerre) scored the quickest goal in Ligue 1 McDonald's this season (00:46, v Lorient), whilst Romain Del Castillo (Brest) was the scorer of the latest goal (99:18, with Brest against Metz on 23rd November).

In the derby against Rennes on 20th September (2-2), Youssef El Arabi (Nantes) scored 14 years and 142 days after his last goal in Ligue 1 McDonald's, it is the biggest gap between two goals in the competition since at least 1947/48.

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