Ligue 1 · former league club
- Marseille 42 shared
- Monaco 33 shared
- Paris Saint-Germain 23 shared
- Lyon 18 shared
- West Ham United 7 shared
- Galatasaray 6 shared
- Tottenham Hotspur 6 shared
- Aston Villa 6 shared
- Southampton 5 shared
- Juventus 5 shared
- Newcastle United 5 shared
- Eintracht Frankfurt 4 shared
- Schalke 04 4 shared
- Fenerbahçe 4 shared
- Beşiktaş 4 shared
- Fiorentina 4 shared
- Wolves 4 shared
- Strasbourg 58 shared
- Nancy 37 shared
- Lens 36 shared
- Troyes 36 shared
- Saint-Étienne 35 shared
- Lille 35 shared
- Nantes 33 shared
- Toulouse 31 shared
- Nice 30 shared
- Valenciennes 28 shared
- Ajaccio 27 shared
- Bordeaux 26 shared
- Rennes 26 shared
- Le Havre 26 shared
- Reims 26 shared
- Guingamp 24 shared
- Bastia 23 shared
- Nîmes 23 shared
- Sochaux 22 shared
- Montpellier 20 shared
- Le Mans 20 shared
- Amiens 18 shared
- Angers 18 shared
- Lorient 17 shared
- Caen 17 shared
- Clermont 13 shared
- Auxerre 12 shared
- Paris FC 11 shared
- Brest 10 shared
- Evian 10 shared
- Dijon 8 shared
- Al-Nassr 6 shared
- Köln 5 shared
- Panathinaikos 5 shared
- Middlesbrough 5 shared
- Gazélec Ajaccio 5 shared
- Nürnberg 4 shared
- Mainz 4 shared
- Hannover 96 4 shared
- Sunderland 4 shared
- Sporting CP 4 shared
- Trabzonspor 4 shared
- Olympiakos 4 shared
- Denizlispor 4 shared
- Braga 4 shared
- Al-Hilal 4 shared
- Norwich City 4 shared
- Crotone 4 shared
- Alanyaspor 4 shared
Famous players who played for Metz
- Emmanuel Adebayor 2001–2003
- Sadio Mané 2011–2012
- Franck Ribéry 2004–2005
- Eiji Kawashima 2016–2018
- Florent Malouda 2014–2015
- Patrick Mboma 1995–1996
- Miralem Pjanić 2007–2008
- Sylvain Wiltord 2010
- Robert Pires 1992–1993, 1993–1998
- Louis Saha 1997–2000
- Kalidou Koulibaly 2009–2011, 2010–2012
- Benoît Assou-Ekotto 2016–2018
- Ismaïla Sarr 2016–2017
- Georges Mikautadze 2018–2020, 2019–2023, 2024
- Papiss Cissé 2004–2010
- Oguchi Onyewu 2002–2004
- Faryd Mondragón 2000–2001
- Bouna Sarr 2010–2014, 2011–2015, 2026–
- Ferjani Sassi 2015–2016
- Pape Matar Sarr 2020–2021, 2021–2022
- Bernard Lama 1989–1990
- Rigobert Song 1993–1998
- Sébastien Bassong 2005–2008
- Benjamin Stambouli 2024–2026
- Mevlüt Erdinç 2016–2017
- Maxwel Cornet 2012–2014, 2012–2015
- Aljoša Asanović 1990–1991
- Diafra Sakho 2009–2014
- Ludovic Obraniak 2002–2007
- John Boye 2018–2021
- Fodé Ballo-Touré 2025–2026
- Moussa Niakhaté 2017–2018
- Emmanuel Mayuka 2015–2016
- Kossi Agassa 2002–2006
- Carl Medjani 2005–2006
- Didier Six 1985–1986
- Patrick Battiston 1973–1980
- Cheick Diabaté 2017
- Georges Mandjeck 2015–2017, 2018
- Iván Balliu 2015–2019
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.