Paulin Puel

{{short description|French footballer (born 1997)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2024}}

{{Infobox football biography

| name = Paulin Puel

| image =

| full_name =

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1997|5|9|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Nice, France

| height = 1.80 m

| position = Forward

| currentclub =

| clubnumber =

| youthyears1 = 2003–2008 | youthclubs1 = Lille

| youthyears2 = 2008–2012 | youthclubs2 = Lyon

| youthyears3 = 2012–2014 | youthclubs3 = Nice

| years1 = 2014–2017 | caps1 = 24 | goals1 = 6 | clubs1 = Nice B

| years2 = 2014–2017 | caps2 = 14 | goals2 = 0 | clubs2 = Nice

| years3 = 2018 | caps3 = 3 | goals3 = 0 | clubs3 = Monaco B

| years4 = 2018–2021 | caps4 = 31 | goals4 = 3 | clubs4 = Avranches

| years5 = 2018–2020 | caps5 = 15 | goals5 = 9 | clubs5 = Avranches B

| years6 = 2021 | caps6 = 9 | goals6 = 1 | clubs6 = Castelldefels

| years7 = 2021–2024 | caps7 = 45 | goals7 = 5 | clubs7 = RC Grasse

| nationalyears1 = 2015

| nationalteam1 = France U19

| nationalcaps1 = 4

| nationalgoals1 = 0

| club-update = 1 July 2024

| nationalteam-update =

}}

Paulin Puel (born 9 May 1997) is a French footballer who plays as a forward.

Club career

Born in Nice, Puel spent his youth career at Lille, Lyon and OGC Nice, all under the management of his father Claude. He made his Ligue 1 debut on 20 April 2014 against AS Monaco, replacing Valentin Eysseric after 88 minutes in a 1–0 away defeat.{{cite web|url=https://int.soccerway.com/matches/2014/04/20/france/ligue-1/association-sportive-monaco-fc/olympique-gymnaste-club-de-nice-cote-dazur/1479381/|title=Monaco vs. Nice - 20 April 2014|website=Soccerway|accessdate=2014-11-23}}

After some months at Monaco, where he was mainly in the youth team and played a small part in the reserve team, Puel joined Avranches of the third-tier Championnat National in August 2018.{{cite news |last1=Tavares |first1=Nicolas |title=Football. US Avranches (National) : Paulin Puel, diamant brut à polir|trans-title=Football. US Avranches (National): Paulin Puel, a rough diamond to polish |url=https://www.ouest-france.fr/sport/football/national/football-us-avranches-national-paulin-puel-diamant-brut-polir-5908602 |accessdate=15 November 2019 |work=Ouest France |date=3 August 2018 |language=French}}

Personal life

Puel is the son of the French manager and former footballer Claude Puel, and younger brother of the footballer Grégoire Puel. All three were colleagues at Nice.{{Cite web|url=http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/who-claude-puel-everything-you-678020|title=Who is Claude Puel? All you need to know about man set to be City's next boss|first=Mark|last=Clayton|date=25 October 2017|website=Leicester Mercury}}

Career statistics

{{updated|20 September 2019}}

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"

|+ Appearances and goals by club, season and competition

!rowspan="2"|Club

!rowspan="2"|Season

!colspan="3"|League

!colspan="2"|Coupe de France

!colspan="2"|Coupe de la Ligue

!colspan="2"|Continental

!colspan="2"|Others

!colspan="2"|Total

DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
rowspan="4"|Nice

|2013–14

|Ligue 1

|2

00000colspan="2"|—colspan="2"|—20
Ligue 1

|2014–15

|1

00000colspan="2"|—colspan="2"|—10
Ligue 1

|2015–16

|11

00020colspan="2"|—colspan="2"|—|130
colspan="2"|Total

!14

000200000160
rowspan="5"|Nice B

|2013–14

|CFA

|3

0colspan="2"|—colspan="2"|—colspan="2"|—colspan="2"|—30
CFA

|2014–15

|13

6colspan="2"|—colspan="2"|—colspan="2"|—colspan="2"|—136
CFA

|2015–16

|3

0colspan="2"|—colspan="2"|—colspan="2"|—colspan="2"|—30
CFA

|2016–17

|5

0colspan="2"|—colspan="2"|—colspan="2"|—colspan="2"|—50
colspan="2"|Total

!24

600000000246
Monaco B

|2017–18

|National 2

|3

0colspan="2"|—colspan="2"|—colspan="2"|—colspan="2"|—30
rowspan="3"|Avranches

|2018–19

|rowspan="2"|National

|26

320colspan="2"|—colspan="2"|—colspan="2"|—283
2019–20

|2

000colspan="2"|—colspan="2"|—colspan="2"|—20
colspan="2"|Total

!28

320colspan="2"|—colspan="2"|—colspan="2"|—303
rowspan="3"|Avranches B

|2018–19

|rowspan="2"|National 3

|1

1colspan="2"|—colspan="2"|—colspan="2"|—colspan="2"|—11
2019–20

|3

1colspan="2"|—colspan="2"|—colspan="2"|—colspan="2"|—31
colspan="2"|Total

!3

2colspan="2"|—colspan="2"|—colspan="2"|—colspan="2"|—32
colspan="3"|Career total

!72

11202000007611

References

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