| Club: | SM Caen |
| Season: | 2016–17 |
| Manager: | Patrice Garande |
| Chairman: | Jean-François Fortin |
| Stadium: | Stade Michel d'Ornano |
| League: | Ligue 1 |
| League Result: | 17th |
| Cup1: | Coupe de France |
| Cup1 Result: | Round of 32 |
| Cup2: | Coupe de la Ligue |
| Cup2 Result: | Round of 32 |
| League Topscorer: | Ivan Santini (15) |
| Season Topscorer: | Ivan Santini (16) |
| Highest Attendance: | 20,054 (vs. Marseille, 30 April 2017) |
| Lowest Attendance: | 13,243 (vs. Dijon, 2 December 2016) |
| Prevseason: | 2015–16 |
| Nextseason: | 2017–18 |
| Website: | http://www.smcaen.fr/ |
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The 2016–17 Stade Malherbe Caen season was the 104th season of the club since its creation in 1913, the 16th in Ligue 1.
French teams are limited to four players without EU citizenship. Hence, the squad list includes only the principal nationality of each player; several non-European players on the squad have dual citizenship with an EU country. Also, players from the ACP countries—countries in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific that are signatories to the Cotonou Agreement—are not counted against non-EU quotas due to the Kolpak ruling.
As of 13 July 2016.[1]
| Date | Player | Moved from | Fee | Notes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 |  Saint-Étienne | €750,000 | |||||
| | Troyes | Free Transfer | |||||
| | Lyon | Free Transfer | |||||
| Nice | Free Transfer | ||||||
| | Lille | €1 Million | |||||
 Standard Liège | €2.5 Million | ||||||
| | Troyes | Free Transfer |
| Date | Player | Moved to | Fee | Notes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Free agent | Released | |||||
| | Free agent | Released | |||||
| | Châteauroux | Free transfer | |||||
| | Anderlecht | €3 Million | |||||
| | Châteauroux | Free transfer | |||||
| |  Tigres UANL | €8 Million |
| Date | Player | Loaned to | Return date | Notes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Avranches | ||||||
| | Nîmes Olympique | ||||||
| | Stade Laval |
See main article: 2016–17 Ligue 1.
| width=60 | Place | width=60 | Position | width=60 | Nation | width=60 | Number | width=170 | Name | width=150 | Ligue 1 | width=150 | Coupe de France | width=150 | Coupe de la Ligue | width=80 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FW | 26 | Ivan Santini | 15 | 1 | 0 | 16 | ||||||||||
| 2 | FW | | 12 | Ronny Rodelin | 9 | 2 | 0 | 11 | |||||||||
| 3 | FW | | 7 | Yann Karamoh | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | |||||||||
| 4 | MF | | 25 | Julien Féret | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |||||||||
| FW | 20 | Hervé Bazile | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |||||||||||
| MF | | 17 | Jean-Victor Makengo | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | ||||||||||
| 7 | DF |  | 5 | Alaeddine Yahia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||
| FW |  | 22 | Pape Sané | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||
| TOTALS | 35 | 3 | 2 | 40 | |||||||||||||