Just Fontaine
Just Louis Fontaine
French football player and manager (1933-2023) (Wikidata description)
- Nationality
- France
- Born
- 18 August 1933
- Died
- 28 February 2023
- Position
- Forward
- Preferred foot
- Not verified
- Senior career
- 1950–1962
Clubs US Marocaine Casablanca · OGC Nice · Stade de Reims
Career statistics
Club figures here are senior domestic-league matches unless marked otherwise; international figures are full senior caps. Youth, reserve, Olympic, friendly and unofficial matches are excluded from totals. Totals are summed from the individual sourced records below. Where a record is missing, the figure is shown as unavailable — never as zero.
Club league apps
248
Club league goals
227
International caps
21
International goals
30
League goals / match
0.92
International goals / cap
1.43
All official apps
Unavailable
All-competition totals not yet sourced
Goals per 90
Unavailable
Requires minutes for every match
Assists: Unavailable — assists were not recorded consistently before the modern data era.
Club-by-club and international breakdown
| Team | Years | Counts | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Marocaine CasablancaClub | 1950–1953 | League | 48 | 62 |
| France men's national association football teamNational team | 1953–1960 | Full caps | 21 | 30 |
| OGC NiceClub | 1953–1956 | League | 69 | 43 |
| Stade de ReimsClub | 1956–1962 | League | 131 | 122 |
Season by season
Season-level records are unavailable for this player in the current sources. They will appear here when a licensed season-by-season source is imported.
Team accolades
- ×4
Ligue 1
Domestic
- 1955–56 · OGC Nice
- 1957–58 · Stade de Reims
- 1959–60 · Stade de Reims
- 1961–62 · Stade de Reims
Sourced stated or derived from referenced statementsProvisional inferred from club stint dates — squad membership not individually verifiedVerified checked by an editor
Individual accolades
No dated individual awards from the catalog are recorded for this player in the current sources. This may reflect incomplete source data rather than an absence of awards; editors can add sourced entries.
Career timeline
1950
- Joins US Marocaine Casablanca — Until 1953
1953
- Senior international debut: France men's national association football team — Until 1960
- Joins OGC Nice — Until 1956
1956
- Ligue 1 winner — 1955–56 · OGC Nice(provisional)
- Joins Stade de Reims — Until 1962
1958
- Ligue 1 winner — 1957–58 · Stade de Reims(provisional)
1960
- Ligue 1 winner — 1959–60 · Stade de Reims(provisional)
1962
- Ligue 1 winner — 1961–62 · Stade de Reims(provisional)
Statistical score explained
Snapshot v2, methodology v1.0.0, published 27 October 2026. Each category is scored 0–100, multiplied by its weight, and summed. Full methodology →
Provisional estimate
36.1
Rank pending: 4 of 5 categories have evidence
Provisional4/5 categories with full evidence · 0% of inputs directly sourced
Coverage describes how complete the evidence is. It is not a probability and is separate from the score.
Peak performanceFull evidence8.8+2.63 points
- Best window
- 1956–1960
- Individual award points in window
- 0
- Award availability in window
- 0.381
- Team honor points in window
- 7.5
- Peak index
- 3.75
v1 measures peak through documented recognition (awards and titles) in the best rolling window, because season-level performance data is not available consistently across eras.
Career performanceFull evidence72.7+18.18 points
- League goals per match
- 0.915 → 97.92
- International goals per cap
- 1.429 → 100
- International caps per year
- 2.63 → 24.38
Individual accoladesUnavailableUnavailableno contribution
- Award availability coverage
- 0.205
Major individual awards were essentially unavailable to this player and no retrospective honors are recorded.
Team accomplishmentsFull evidence23.3+3.50 points
- Team honor points
- 10
- Club-league catalog coverage
- 0.769
- Ligue 1 (1955–56)
- 2.5
- Ligue 1 (1957–58)
- 2.5
- Ligue 1 (1959–60)
- 2.5
- Ligue 1 (1961–62)
- 2.5
Some club titles are inferred from stint dates overlapping a title-winning season (squad membership not individually verified).
LongevityFull evidence46.1+4.62 points
- Senior career length (years)
- 13 → 57
- Documented elite seasons
- 4 → 36
- International career length (years)
- 8 → 50
Appearance totals are deliberately not used, so accumulating matches alone does not raise this score.
Editorial biography
No editorial biography has been written yet. Biographies are written by hand with sources; none are generated automatically.
Sources
- Wikidata: Just Fontaine (Q192749)CC0 1.0 · retrieved 27 October 2026
- Wikimedia Commons: Just Fontaine en 1958.jpgPublic domain · retrieved 27 October 2026