Updated October 23, 2026, before kickoff: Stade Brestois 29 are scheduled to host OGC Nice in Ligue 1 Matchday 8 on Friday, October 23. The league’s official schedule and Nice’s match center list an 8:45 p.m. kickoff in Brest, France—Central European Summer Time (CEST, UTC+02:00)—which is 18:45 UTC. The match is set for Stade Francis-Le Blé. Ligue 1+ is the confirmed French broadcast listing. At this check, the official fixture pages had not posted a final score or starting lineups.
Ligue 1’s official Matchday 8 television schedule, published October 21, lists Brest–Nice for Friday at 8:45 p.m. on Ligue 1+. The league’s match page identifies the fixture as Brest against Nice, and OGC Nice’s official match center lists the same date and kickoff. Nice’s October 22 travel notice says the team traveled to Brest after its final training session and names Stade Francis-Le Blé as the venue. These official club and league listings agree on the fixture details; no postponement or venue change was shown in the pages checked.
For supporters attending or watching from Brest, the scheduled start is 8:45 p.m. on Friday, October 23. Brest follows metropolitan France’s time zone. On that date, France is observing Central European Summer Time, or CEST (UTC+02:00), so the corresponding UTC time is 18:45 on the same Friday. Those are two labels for the same kickoff.
The date is important for calendar conversions. France’s seasonal clock change is scheduled for the last Sunday in October; in 2026, that is October 25, two days after this match. Brest–Nice therefore takes place on CEST, not Central European Time (CET, UTC+01:00). A calendar set to Europe/Paris will apply the date-specific offset. For readers coordinating across time zones, listing both “Brest, CEST (UTC+02:00)” and “18:45 UTC” avoids ambiguity without assuming a reader’s location.
The league’s official programming notice lists this match on Ligue 1+ for viewers in France. That confirms the French listing, but it does not establish which channel or streaming service carries the game in every other country. Viewers outside France should check the authorized Ligue 1 broadcaster in their territory rather than treat the French listing as universal.
The official Ligue 1 match page is the main reference for fixture status and, when available, the result and match information. OGC Nice’s match center and club news provide team-side updates. At the time of this check, those pages continued to present the match as upcoming and did not show a final score or confirmed starting XI. Check them again closer to kickoff for official lineups and after the match for the verified result.
The Ligue 1 Matchday 8 preview, published on October 20, is the latest player-by-player availability list located in the official sources checked. It listed Le Guen and Chardonnet as unavailable for Brest and Versini as returning. For Nice, it listed Abdi, Bombito, Abergel, A. Mendy, and Abdul Samed as unavailable. The article does not provide a newer individual update for these players, so the list should be read as a dated snapshot from three days before kickoff, not as confirmation of the final matchday squad.
OGC Nice’s October 22 travel notice confirms that the team traveled after a final training session, but the notice does not include an itemized squad list. It should not be treated as a starting lineup or as confirmation that every player named in the earlier league preview remains unavailable. The official club match center had not posted a starting XI at this check. The sources reviewed also do not identify new suspensions or give reasons for every listed absence; no medical explanation is inferred here.
OGC Nice published remarks from head coach Olivier Pantaloni on October 22, ahead of the trip to Brest. Reflecting on the previous match at Lyon, he said Nice needed to build on the stronger second-half approach, recover the ball more effectively, and defend solidly without sitting too deep. He also discussed Elye Wahi’s movement and timing, and described Brest striker Ludovic Ajorque as a player who can cause problems for opposing defenses. These are the coach’s pre-match comments, not confirmation of a tactical plan or a prediction of Friday’s result.
Ligue 1’s October 20 preview placed Brest 10th and Nice 13th, with one point between them in the table at that time. It noted that Brest came into the round after drawing at Lille, while Nice had narrowly lost at Lyon. Those positions and recent results are tied to the preview’s publication date and should not be mistaken for a live table update.
The same preview described Brest as unbeaten across its previous two league matches but still without a clean sheet in the season through seven matchdays. Nice had won two of its previous three league games, while losing its first three league away matches and scoring once in those trips. These figures give context to the fixture but do not forecast the outcome. Pantaloni’s comments add the latest official perspective from Nice: the visitors want to improve their away performance and must account for Ajorque’s presence in Brest’s attack.
For supporters, the confirmed details are straightforward: Brest host Nice at Stade Francis-Le Blé on Friday, October 23, at 8:45 p.m. in Brest, CEST (UTC+02:00), or 18:45 UTC. Ligue 1+ is the French listing. The team-availability list remains the October 20 preview snapshot, while Nice’s October 22 comments and travel update are the newest official club information cited here. The official match center is the place to verify any later lineup announcement and the result.
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