2012–13 Montpellier HSC season

The 2012–13 Montpellier HSC season is the 39th season since the club was refounded.

Montpellier HSC

2012–13 season
Chairman	Laurent Nicollin
Manager	René Girard
Stadium	Stade de la Mosson, Montpellier, France
Ligue 1	9th
Coupe de France	Round 32
Coupe de la Ligue	Semi-finals
2012 Trophée des Champions	Runners-up
UEFA Champions League	Group stage
Top goalscorer	League: Younès Belhanda (10 goals) All: Younès Belhanda Souleymane Camara (12 goals)
Home colours Away colours

Competitions

Ligue 1

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
7	Bordeaux	38	13	16	9	40	34	+6	55	Qualification to Europa League group stage[lower-alpha 1]
8	Lorient	38	14	11	13	57	58	−1	53
9	Montpellier	38	15	7	16	54	51	+3	52
10	Toulouse	38	13	12	13	49	47	+2	51
11	Valenciennes	38	12	12	14	49	53	−4	48

Source: Ligue 1
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
Notes:

1. Bordeaux, winner of the 2012–13 Coupe de France, qualified for the Group stage of 2013–14 UEFA Europa League.

Matches

  Win   Draw   Loss

10 August 2012 1	Montpellier	1–1	Toulouse	Montpellier
20:45	Camara  34'	Report	Ben Yedder  72'	Stadium: Stade de la Mosson Attendance: 19,788 Referee: Antony Gautier

18 August 2012 2	Lorient	2–1	Montpellier	Lorient
20:00	Traoré  90' Aliadière  90+2'	Report	Herrera  37'	Stadium: Stade du Moustoir Attendance: 14,190 Referee: Olivier Thual

26 August 2012 3	Montpellier	0–1	Marseille	Montpellier
17:00		Report	Gignac  77'	Stadium: Stade de la Mosson Attendance: 26,360 Referee: Ruddy Buquet

1 September 2012 4	Sochaux	1–3	Montpellier	Montbéliard
20:00	Privat  63'	Report	Belhanda  16' (pen.) Herrera  58' Cabella  78'	Stadium: Stade Auguste-Bonal Attendance: 9,554 Referee: Benoît Bastien

14 September 2012 5	Reims	3–1	Montpellier	Reims
20:45	Diego  38' Glombard  71' Coutet  86'	Report	Cabella  55'	Stadium: Stade Auguste Delaune Attendance: 15,835 Referee: Tony Chapron

21 September 2012 6	Montpellier	1–1	Saint-Étienne	Montpellier
20:45	Camara  70'	Report	Aubameyang  45+3'	Stadium: Stade de la Mosson Attendance: 16,666 Referee: Lionel Jaffredo

29 September 2012 7	Nancy	0–2	Montpellier	Tomblaine
20:00		Report	Belhanda  67' Camara  90'	Stadium: Stade Marcel Picot Attendance: 13,867 Referee: Benoît Millot

6 October 2012 8	Montpellier	2–3	Evian	Montpellier
17:00	Estrada  36',  67' Camara  42' Saihi  50' Bocaly  85' Tinhan  90+2'	Summary	Khelifa  30', 62', 89' Sorlin  45+1' Sagbo  69'	Stadium: Stade de la Mosson Attendance: 16,701 Referee: Philippe Kalt

20 October 2012 9	Rennes	2–1	Montpellier	Rennes
20:00	Makoun  13' Erdinç  52'	Summary	Jeunechamp  22' Belhanda  69' (pen.) Saihi  70' Stambouli  79'	Stadium: Stade de la Route de Lorient Attendance: 16,087 Referee: Antony Gautier

27 October 2012 10	Montpellier	3–1	Nice	Montpellier
20:00	Utaka  49',  64' Camara  53' Bedimo  63' Congré  80' Charbonnier  86' Civelli  87' (o.g.) Bocaly  90+1'	Summary	Cvitanich  90+1' (pen.) Traoré  90+2'	Stadium: Stade de la Mosson Attendance: 15,549 Referee: Benoit Bastien

3 November 2012 11	Troyes	1–1	Montpellier	Troyes
20:00	Camus  41' Thiago Xavier  69'	Summary	Belhanda  19' Saihi  55' Charbonnier  61'	Stadium: Stade de l'Aube Attendance: 10,446 Referee: Benoit Millot

11 November 2012 12	Montpellier	1–1	Paris Saint-Germain	Montpellier
21:00	Jeunechamp  32' Belhanda  53'  65' Cabella  60' Saihi  68'	Summary	Sakho  10' Motta  32' Maxwell  37' Verratti  50' Van der Wiel  70'	Stadium: Stade de la Mosson Attendance: 22,242 Referee: Clement Turpin

17 November 2012 13	Valenciennes	1–1	Montpellier	Valenciennes
20:00	Pujol  39' Gomis  54' Kadir  90'	Summary	Charbonnier  15' Mounier  42' Saihi  57' Cabella  58' Jourdren  90+2'	Stadium: Stade du Hainaut Attendance: 14,967 Referee: Laurent Duhamel

Coupe de France

6 January 2013 Round of 64	Bourg-Péronnas	1–2	Montpellier	Péronnas
12:00	Di Tommaso  62' (pen.) Moisy  83'	Summary	Herrera  6' Camara  33' Dabo  76'	Stadium: Stade Municipal de Péronnas Attendance: 7,242 Referee: Benoit Bastien

23 January 2013 Round of 32	Montpellier	2–3 (a.e.t.)	Sochaux	Montpellier
17:00	Charbonnier  16' Deplagne  41'  51' Bedimo  110'	Summary	Contout  43' Bakambu  79' Mikari  108'	Stadium: Stade de la Mosson Attendance: 4,500 Referee: Antony Gautier

Coupe de la Ligue

31 October 2012 Round of 16	Montpellier	1–0	Bordeaux	Montpellier
18:45	Jeunechamp  19'  82' Tinhan  61'	Summary	Ben Khalfallah  58' Chalmé  68'	Stadium: Stade de la Mosson Attendance: 7,339 Referee: Bartolomeu Varela

28 November 2012 Quarter-final	Montpellier	3–2	Nice	Montpellier
17:00	Cabella  29' Deplagne  35' Herrera  52' Yanga-Mbiwa  76' Tinhan  83'	Summary	Bosetti  22' Palun  59' Bauthéac  66' (pen.) Abriel  71'	Stadium: Stade de la Mosson Attendance: 6,658 Referee: Fredy Fautrel

16 January 2013 Semi-final	Rennes	2–0	Montpellier	Rennes
21:00	Féret  7' Erdinç  51'	Summary	Mounier  23' Pitau  78'	Stadium: Stade de la Route de Lorient Attendance: 28,028 Referee: Stephane Lannoy

UEFA Champions League

Group stage

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Schalke 04	6	3	3	0	10	6	+4	12	Advance to knockout phase
2	Arsenal	6	3	1	2	10	8	+2	10
3	Olympiacos	6	3	0	3	9	9	0	9	Transfer to Europa League
4	Montpellier	6	0	2	4	6	12	−6	2

Source:

18 September 2012 1	Montpellier	1–2	Arsenal	Montpellier, France
20:45 CEST	Belhanda  9' (pen.)	Report	Podolski  16' Gervinho  18'	Stadium: Stade de la Mosson Attendance: 27,522 Referee: Carlos Velasco Carballo (Spain)

3 October 2012 2	Schalke 04	2–2	Montpellier	Gelsenkirchen, Germany
20:45 CEST	Draxler  26' Huntelaar  53' (pen.)	Report	Aït-Fana  13' Camara  90'	Stadium: Veltins-Arena Attendance: 50,004 Referee: Sergei Karasev (Russia)

24 October 2012 3	Montpellier	1–2	Olympiacos	Montpellier, France
20:45 CEST	Charbonnier  49'	Report	Torosidis  73' Mitroglou  90+1'	Stadium: Stade de la Mosson Attendance: 22,834 Referee: Daniele Orsato (Italy)

6 November 2012 4	Olympiacos	3–1	Montpellier	Piraeus, Greece
20:45 CET	Machado  4' Greco  80' Mitroglou  82'	Report	Belhanda  66' (pen.)	Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium Attendance: 28,217 Referee: Marijo Strahonja (Croatia)

21 November 2012 5	Arsenal	2–0	Montpellier	London, England
20:45 CET	Wilshere  49' Podolski  63'	Report		Stadium: Emirates Stadium Attendance: 59,760 Referee: Fırat Aydınus (Turkey)

4 December 2012 6	Montpellier	1–1	Schalke 04	Montpellier, France
20:45 CET	Herrera  59' Hilton  84'	Report	Höwedes  56'	Stadium: Stade de la Mosson Attendance: 23,142 Referee: Antonio Mateu Lahoz (Spain)

Statistics

Appearances and goals

As of the end of the 2012–13 season.

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Ligue 1		Coupe de France		Coupe de la Ligue		Trophée des Champions		Champions League
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK		Laurent Pionnier	10	0	5	0	1	0	3	0	0	0	1	0
2	DF		Garry Bocaly	10	0	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0
3	DF		Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa	26	0	16	0	1	0	2	0	1	0	6	0
4	DF		Vitorino Hilton	40	1	30	1	2	0	2	0	1	0	5	0
5	DF		Henri Bedimo	42	0	32	0	2	0	2	0	1	0	5	0
6	MF		Joris Marveaux	12	0	7	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	4	0
7	FW		John Utaka	35	7	28	6	2	0	2	0	1	1	2	0
8	FW		Anthony Mounier	36	2	26	2	2	0	2	0	1	0	5	0
9	FW		Gaëtan Charbonnier	34	6	26	4	2	1	2	0	1	0	3	1
10	MF		Younès Belhanda	37	12	30	10	0	0	1	0	0	0	6	2
11	FW		Emanuel Herrera	29	5	24	3	2	1	2	0	1	1	0	0
12	DF		Daniel Congré	46	1	36	1	2	0	3	0	1	0	4	0
13	MF		Marco Estrada	32	4	24	4	1	0	1	0	1	0	5	0
14	MF		Romain Pitau	21	0	16	0	1	0	3	0	0	0	1	0
15	MF		Jonathan Tinhan	5	2	1	0	0	0	2	2	0	0	2	0
16	GK		Geoffrey Jourdren	39	0	33	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	4	0
18	MF		Karim Aït-Fana	10	1	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1
19	FW		Souleymane Camara	44	12	33	10	2	1	3	0	1	0	5	1
20	MF		Rémy Cabella	41	8	31	7	1	0	2	1	1	0	6	0
21	DF		Abdelhamid El Kaoutari	25	0	23	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
22	MF		Benjamin Stambouli	28	1	21	1	1	0	1	0	1	0	4	0
23	MF		Jamel Saihi	15	0	10	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	4	0
24	FW		Bengali-Fodé Koita	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
25	DF		Mathieu Deplagne	7	1	3	0	1	1	2	0	0	0	1	0
26	MF		Bryan Dabo	19	0	16	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
27	DF		Cyril Jeunechamp	9	0	8	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
28	MF		Jonas Martin	20	0	16	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	1	0
29	MF		Guillaume Legras	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
30	GK		Jonathan Ligali	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
31	DF		Teddy Mézague	5	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
32	MF		Adrien Coulomb	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
33	MF		Mohamed Hamzaoui	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
34	FW		Abdoul Karim Sylla	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
35	DF		Vincent Di Stéfano	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
40	GK		Baptiste Valette	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	FW		Alexandre Cropanese	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Sources

Match reports

Other sources