Benjamin Nivet

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Benjamin Nivet
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Nivet in 2010
Personal information
Date of birth (1977-01-02) 2 January 1977 (age 47)
Place of birth Chartres, France
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s) Attacking midfielder
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1997–2000 Auxerre 13 (0)
1999–2000Châteauroux (loan) 30 (5)
2000–2002 Châteauroux 54 (8)
2002–2007 Troyes 165 (32)
2007–2012 Caen 167 (24)
2012–2019 Troyes 226 (41)
Total655(110)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Benjamin Nivet (born 2 January 1977) is a French former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder.

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He began his career in 1997 with Auxerre, and is best known for his association with Troyes, whom he represented over 12 years in two separate spells, from 2002 to 2007 and later from 2012 until his retirement in 2019. Nivet holds the records at Troyes for most appearances and most goals for the club. [1]

Career

Born in Chartres, Nivet started his career as a youth with Auxerre. He made his first league appearances in the 1997–98 season. However, by the end of the following season, he had made only twelve further appearances and was sent on loan to Ligue 2 club Châteauroux for the 1999–2000 season, before making the move permanent for the next season. [1]

After establishing himself as a regular for Châteauroux, he made the step back up to Ligue 1 with Troyes in January 2002. Despite a slow start, Nivet established himself as a regular in the club's 2002–03 relegation season. Wearing the number 10 shirt, he proved an eye for goal, weighing in with 12 goals in Troyes' 2005–06 promotion season. He played at Troyes from 2002 to 2007.

He signed a three-year contract with Stade Malherbe Caen on 8 June 2007, a club newly promoted to Ligue 1.

After five years in Caen, he could not avoid relegation at the end of the 2011–12 season. A free agent, he returned to Troyes, promoted to Ligue 1, signing a one-year contract on 11 June 2012. [2] After four years with Troyes, he could not avoid relegation at the end of the 2015–16 season after a disastrous campaign which saw the club win only three matches and concede some heavy defeats, most notably a resounding 9–0 home loss to PSG, the club's biggest ever victory. [1]

On 8 January 2017, Nivet, who had turned 40 just six days before, played his 650th professional match and scored twice against his former club Auxerre in a 4–2 loss in the round of 64 of the 2016–17 Coupe de France. [3] [4] On 28 May 2017, the 40-year-old Nivet scored a late winner in the second leg of the promotion play-off against Lorient, which turned out to be the decisive goal that saw Troyes promoted to Ligue 1. [5]

In the top division, Nivet was only able to reach a rich vein of form towards the end of the 2017–18 season, when he registered one goal contribution for three matches in a row, including a goal against Olympique de Marseille on 15 April 2018, [6] [7] becoming, at the age of 41 years and 103 days, the oldest player to ever score in Ligue 1, thus breaking the previous record set by Vitorino Hilton on 7 February 2017, at the age of 39. [8] He then extended this record when he scored again just two weeks later, on 28 April, in a 3–1 win over Stade Malherbe Caen. [7]

In the spring of 2019, Nivet announced his retirement from professional football aged 42. [9] Nivet perhaps deserved to play in a more upscale club, but his loyalty to Troyes and his innate modesty prevent that. In fact, he even reportedly declined an offer from the City of Troyes to build a statue in his honour. [1]

Career statistics

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition [10] [11] [12]
ClubSeasonLeagueCup [lower-alpha 1] Other [lower-alpha 2] Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Auxerre 1997–98 Division 1 702090
1998–99 6060
Total1302000150
Châteauroux 1999–2000 Division 2 30530335
2000–01 33461395
2001–02 21440250
Total8413131009714
Troyes 2001–02 Ligue 1 [lower-alpha 3] 601070
2002–03 23210242
2003–04 Ligue 235641397
2004–05 3212313513
2005–06 Ligue 138621407
2006–07 31620336
Total165321330017835
Caen 2007–08 Ligue 135210362
2008–09 32620346
2009–10 Ligue 236640406
2010–11 Ligue 131330343
2011–12 33730367
Total167241300018024
Troyes 2012–13 Ligue 13710304010
2013–14 Ligue 2368734311
2014–15 3511203711
2015–16 Ligue 134321364
2016–17 Ligue 236712213910
2017–18 Ligue 12623200294
2018–19 Ligue 22201010240
Total226411983124850
Career total655110601231718123
  1. Includes Coupe de France, Coupe de la Ligue
  2. Includes Ligue 1 relegation playoffs
  3. Division 1 until 2002

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