Florent Balmont

Florent Balmont
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Balmont with Lille in 2014
Personal information
Date of birth (1980-02-02) 2 February 1980 (age 42)
Place of birth Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon, France
Height 1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Youth career
1997–2002 Lyon
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2002–2004 Lyon 11 (1)
2003–2004Toulouse (loan) 35 (0)
2004–2008 Nice 139 (4)
2008–2016 Lille 253 (7)
2016–2020 Dijon 75 (1)
2018 Dijon II 1 (0)
Total 514 (13)
Teams managed
2020–2021 Limonest (staff)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Florent Balmont (born 2 February 1980) is a French former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.

Career

Balmont began his career at Olympique Lyonnais in the 2002–03 Ligue 1 season after coming through the junior ranks. In the 2003–04 season, Balmont was sent out on loan to Toulouse FC making a total of 35 appearances. After returning from loan, Balmont signed with OGC Nice. In his time with Lyon, Balmont won the 2002–03 championship and the 2004 Trophée des Champions, converting his penalty in the latter after the match went to a shoot-out.

Balmont spent four seasons at Nice making 139 appearances before signing with Lille OSC. Balmont won an historic double with the club during the 2010–11 season, making 39 appearances across all competitions as Lille won the Ligue 1 title and the Coupe de France trophy.

In July 2017, Balmont announced he had left Lille to join Dijon FCO, newly promoted to Ligue 1, on a two-year contract.

On 11 May 2019, Balmont made his 500th Ligue 1 appearance in a 2–1 victory over Strasbourg. With the appearance, he moved up to 21st in the all-time Ligue 1 appearances and leads all active players in that category.

Balmont announced his retirement from playing in May 2020 and stated his intention to go into coaching. In July 2020, after his retirement, Balmont began his training as a coach, as he was hired as a U-20 coach and member of the first team staff at Championnat National 3 club FC Limonest Dardilly Saint-Didier. He left the club at the end of the season.

Career statistics

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National Cup League Cup Europe Other Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Lyon 2002–03 Ligue 1 9 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 10 0
2004–05 Ligue 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1
Total 11 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 12 1
Toulouse (loan) 2003–04 Ligue 1 34 0 2 0 1 0 37 0
Nice 2004–05 Ligue 1 34 4 2 0 1 0 0 0 37 4
2005–06 Ligue 1 37 0 0 0 4 1 0 0 41 1
2006–07 Ligue 1 32 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 34 0
2007–08 Ligue 1 36 0 2 1 2 0 0 0 40 1
Total 139 4 5 1 8 1 0 0 0 0 152 6
Lille 2008–09 Ligue 1 34 0 4 0 1 1 0 0 39 1
2009–10 Ligue 1 35 2 0 0 1 0 12 1 48 3
2010–11 Ligue 1 27 0 5 0 1 0 6 0 39 0
2011–12 Ligue 1 30 2 3 0 2 0 5 0 1 1 41 3
2012–13 Ligue 1 34 2 2 1 1 0 7 0 44 3
2013–14 Ligue 1 35 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 37 0
2014–15 Ligue 1 30 1 1 0 3 0 10 1 44 2
2015–16 Ligue 1 28 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 31 0
Total 253 7 17 1 12 1 40 2 1 1 323 12
Dijon 2016–17 Ligue 1 23 0 0 0 0 0 23 0
2017–18 Ligue 1 21 1 1 0 1 0 23 1
2018–19 Ligue 1 20 0 4 1 2 0 2 0 28 1
2019–20 Ligue 1 11 0 4 0 1 0 16 0
Total 75 1 9 1 4 0 0 0 2 0 90 2
Dijon II 2018–19 National 3 1 0 1 0
Career total 513 13 33 3 26 2 40 2 3 1 615 21
  1. ^ Appearance in 2011 Trophée des Champions
  2. ^ Appearances in Ligue 1 relegation play-offs

Honours

Lyon

Lille


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