Ligue 1 · former league club
- Lyon 24 shared
- Marseille 22 shared
- Monaco 20 shared
- Paris Saint-Germain 19 shared
- Lille 32 shared
- Bordeaux 31 shared
- Guingamp 30 shared
- Saint-Étienne 28 shared
- Nantes 27 shared
- Brest 27 shared
- Angers 26 shared
- Le Havre 25 shared
- Strasbourg 24 shared
- Montpellier 24 shared
- Troyes 23 shared
- Reims 23 shared
- Rennes 22 shared
- Lens 21 shared
- Sochaux 20 shared
- Lorient 19 shared
- Valenciennes 19 shared
- Nice 18 shared
- Bastia 18 shared
- Nîmes 18 shared
- Amiens 18 shared
- Metz 17 shared
- Clermont 16 shared
- Auxerre 15 shared
- Toulouse 15 shared
- Nancy 15 shared
- Ajaccio 14 shared
- Paris FC 13 shared
- Le Mans 9 shared
- Dijon 8 shared
- Gazélec Ajaccio 7 shared
- Udinese 5 shared
- Evian 5 shared
Famous players who played for Caen
- N'Golo Kanté 2013–2015
- Emiliano Sala 2015
- Thomas Lemar 2011–2015, 2013–2015
- William Gallas 1995–1997
- Raphaël Guerreiro 2010–2012, 2012–2013
- M'Baye Niang 2010–2012, 2011–2012
- Brice Samba 2017–2018, 2017–2019
- Kennet Andersson 1994–1995
- Benoît Costil 2005–2009
- Aleksandr Mostovoi 1993–1994
- Rudi Garcia 1988–1991
- Frédéric Bulot 2011–2012
- Yann M'Vila 2024–2026
- Fayçal Fajr 2011–2014, 2018–2019
- Steed Malbranque 2016–2017
- Jesper Olsen 1990–1992
- Jérôme Rothen 1997–2000, 2013
- Youssef El Arabi 2007–2009, 2008–2011
- Youssef Aït Bennasser 2017–2018
- Rémy Vercoutre 2014–2018
- Yoan Gouffran 2003–2008
- Claudio Beauvue 2018–2019, 2019
- Yann Karamoh 2015–2016, 2016–2017
- Syam Ben Youssef 2015–2017, 2015–2016, 2023–2024
- Ivan Santini 2016–2018
- Mathieu Bodmer 2000–2003
- Ali Abdi 2021–2024, 2021
- Sambou Yatabaré 2008–2011
- Slavoljub Muslin 1986–1987
- Gabriel Calderón 1992–1993
- Ismaël Diomandé 2016, 2016–2019
- Alexander Djiku 2017–2019
- Andy Delort 2015–2016
- Neeskens Kebano 2012–2013
- Bernard Mendy 1998–2000
- Steeve Yago 2019–2021
- Mouhamadou Dabo 2016–2019
- Issam Jemâa 2007–2008
- Romain Hamouma 2010–2012, 2010–2011
- Philippe Gondet 1972–1973
Source: Wikidata (CC0), Wikipedia club articles and player infoboxes (years at each club). Youth spells and appearances that look unplayed are left out; volunteer-kept records can contain gaps or errors.