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| Full name | Football Club d'Annecy | ||
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| Founded | 1927; 97 years ago (1927) | ||
| Ground | Parc des Sports, Annecy | ||
| Capacity | 15,714 | ||
| Presidents | Michel Rousseaux Stéphane Loison | ||
| Head coach | Laurent Guyot | ||
| League | Ligue 2 | ||
| 2023–24 | Ligue 2, 14th of 20 | ||
| Website | https://www.fc-annecy.fr | ||
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Football Club d'Annecy is a French football club based in the town of Annecy, Haute-Savoie. The team plays its home matches at the Parc des Sports, where the club and its predecessor have been based since 1964. It currently competes in the Ligue 2.
Annecy Football Club was founded under its current name in 1993 as the reincarnation of the defunct Football Club d'Annecy. FC Annecy, formed in 1927, spent the majority of their history in regional amateur football. The club turned professional in 1942, but was compelled to return to amateurism a year later. When a national amateur league was formed for the 1948–49 season, Annecy became founder members. After eleven seasons, Annecy became the amateur champions of France at the end of the 1959–60 season, and after a short rise in the early 1970s shrank back into the obscurity that had characterised their early days.
The 1980s saw a sharp rise back up again, as FC Annecy won three promotions in nine years to reach France's second tier for the 1988–89 campaign. The club turned professional again following the first season in the division, and reached a peak in the 1990–91 season as the team performed well in both the Coupe de France and the league. After relegation in the 1992–93 season, the club capitulated in October 1993. Annecy Football Club was therefore established in its stead, taking up a league place five divisions below the third tier position that the former club had left. Though the new side won promotion twice within five years, Annecy then spent nine years in the sixth tier before meeting relegation again in the 2007–08 season.
Back-to-back promotions in 2015 and 2016, and a third promotion in six seasons in 2020, returned the club to the third tier Championnat National. In 2022, Annecy achieved promotion to Ligue 2.
History
1927–1993: Rise and fall
Football Club d'Annecy was founded in May 1927. The first president of the club was Louis Monnet, who held the office until 1933 when he was replaced by Jean Chatenoud. In the 1941–42 Coupe de France, with France divided into three zones during the German occupation of France, the team defeated Saint-Étienne 4–0 and Saint-Chamond 2–1 to reach the quarter-finals of the Zone libre section, where they lost 1–0 to Toulouse.
The club turned professional in 1942 after winning the Lyonnais Division Honneur, but was forced to return to its former status as amateur a year later as professional football clubs were outlawed. As amateurs, Annecy won the league twice more in 1946–47 and 1947–48 before joining the Championnat de France Amateur on its formation for 1948–49. Winning the Coupe de Lyonnais in 1953–54 was capped by finishing top of the Championnat's south-eastern section a year later. The team regained the Coupe de Lyonnais in 1958–59 and ended the 1959–60 campaign as the amateur champions of France. Chatenoud finally stepped down in 1970, after 37 years as president. The Championnat was dissolved after the 1970–71 season, and Annecy were subsequently accepted into the Division 3 Sud-Est.
During their first season in the new league, Annecy were nearly promoted, but lost a play-off match to Martigues. The team competed in the division until 1973–74, when Annecy were relegated back to the Lyonnais Division Honneur. The team revived during the early 1980s, achieving promotion to the fourth level for 1980–81 before winning the championship in 1983–84. Another promotion in 1987–88 saw the club in the second tier for 1988–89, and prompted a change back to professionalism. Annecy's best season that far came in 1990–91, when the team finished ninth in the league and reached the last 16 of the Coupe de France. However, on relegation in 1992–93, Annecy fell as swiftly as they had emerged – the club was wound up on 16 October 1993, and therefore gave up its professional status along with its place in the third level.
1993–: Rebirth and rise
Annecy Football Club was formed on the same day as FC Annecy's demise, and took up a league place five tiers below that of the former team in the Rhône-Alpes Promotion Honneur Régional. The new club was promoted in its second season, and repeated this feat two years later. After nine years at the sixth level, the Rhône-Alpes Honneur Ligue, Annecy were relegated again in 2007–08. In 2013 the club regained the historic name FC Annecy, and in 2015 won the Rhône-Alpes Division Honneur, to gain access to the Championat de France Amateur 2. In 2016 the club were again promoted to the Championnat de France Amateur.
Annecy were in top place in Group D of the 2019–20 Championnat National 2 by two points when the season was prematurely ended due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and were therefore promoted to Championnat National.
In March 2021, Annecy were fined by the FFF for coaching irregularities. The club had been coached by Rémi Dru since the dismissal of Michael Poinsignon in December 2020, and in January 2021 had employed Jean-Yves Chay with the title of head coach. The FFF found that Rémi Dru was in fact performing the function of head coach, and fined the club €3,000 per match played under these circumstances.
On 13 May 2022, Annecy beat Sedan 2–0, securing promotion to Ligue 2 as Championnat National runner-up under Laurent Guyot; it was their first time in the second tier in 29 years, and the first since the division became one nationwide group. In the 2022–23 Coupe de France, the team reached the quarter-finals for the first time since 1942 after winning on penalties following a 1–1 draw at Paris FC, and then made the semi-finals by winning the same way after a 2–2 draw at Marseille.
On 3 August 2023, Annecy were originally relegated to Championnat National but were reprieved by the ruling of a French court due to Sochaux’s administrative relegation to the third tier of French football.
Current squad
- As of 2 October 2024.
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Out on loan
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Club staff
| Position | Name |
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| Sporting director |  Jean-Philippe Nallet
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| Head coach | Laurent Guyot
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| Assistant coaches | Rémi Dru Nicolas Goussé
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| Goalkeeper coach | Thomas Fedrigo
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| Fitness coach |  Stan Krug
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| Assistant Fitness Coach | Nicolas Baud
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| Mental Coach | Nicolas Leblang
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| Video analyst | Thomas Chastel
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| Doctor | Vincent Loiseleur
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| Physiotherapist / Head of Medical Department | Jean-Pierre Czayka
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| Osteopathy |  Mathieu Corsaletti
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| Scout / Recruitment |  Charaf Boudiba
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| Intendant |  Billel Soussani
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| Team Manager | Thierry Castan
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Managers
Twenty-three men have managed Annecy in its two incarnations. Only one of these, the Yugoslav Georges Korac, has been a foreigner. The longest serving manager is Jean-Christian Lang, who managed the club for six years from 1981 to 1987.
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Honours
The club has won a variety of honours, all of them amateur. The most notable honour won by Annecy in either guise is the French amateur championship won by the club in 1959–60.
as Football Club d'Annecy
| Honour | Year(s) | |
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| Championnat de France Amateur | champions | 1959–60 |
| Championnat de France Amateur (South-East) | champions | 1954–55 |
| Division 3 | runners-up | 1987–88 (South-East) |
| Division 4 | champions | 1983–84 (Group F) |
| Lyonnais Division Honneur | champions | 1941–42, 1946–47, 1947–48, 1979–80 |
| Rhône-Alpes Division d'Honneur Régionale | champions | 2012–13 |
| Rhône-Alpes Division d'Honneur | champions | 2014–15 |
| Coupe de Lyonnais / Coupe de Rhône-Alpes | winners | 1953–54, 1958–59, 1979–80 |
as Annecy FC
| Honour | Year(s) | |
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| Rhône-Alpes Honneur Régional Ligue | champions | 1996–97 |
| Rhône-Alpes Promotion Honneur Régional | champions | 1994–95 |
Notes
- A. The Ligue du Lyonnais, founded in 1920, changed its name in June 1980 to the Ligue Rhône-Alpes de Football and thus renamed its competitions accordingly.
References
- "Le Club – Infrastructures" (in French). Annecy F.C. Retrieved 19 June 2009.
- "Valence, Chambéry, Rumilly... quand nos clubs renversaient des montagnes en Coupe de France" [Valence, Chambéry, Rumilly... when our clubs moved mountains in the Coupe de France]. Le Dauphiné libéré (in French). 21 January 2023. Retrieved 1 March 2023.
- ^ "Le Club – Historique" (in French). Annecy F.C. Retrieved 19 June 2009.
- "Le FC Annecy grimpe en National !" (in French). Le Dauphiné. 16 April 2020.
- "Lourde sanction contre le FC Annecy (National)!" (in French). actufoot.com. 2 March 2021. Retrieved 19 May 2021.
- Weulersse, Victor; Gegat, Antoine (13 May 2022). "Football. National : Annecy accède à la Ligue 2, Bastia-Borgo relégué… le résumé de la 34e journée" [Football. National: Annecy accesses Ligue 2, Bastia-Borgo relegated... the summary of the 34th matchday]. Ouest-France (in French). Retrieved 13 May 2022.
- Larroquette, Thomas (1 March 2023). "Coupe de France : le résumé de la victoire héroïque d'Annecy face à Marseille" [Coupe de France: report of Annecy's heroic victory over Marseille]. Le Figaro (in French). Retrieved 1 March 2023.
- "FC Annecy – National 1 – Saison 2023-2024" (in French). Annecy FC. Retrieved 28 June 2021.
- "France – Trainers of First and Second Division Clubs". RSSSF. Archived from the original on 18 June 2009. Retrieved 19 June 2009.
- "Annecy : changement de coach acté" (in French). foot-national.com. 18 May 2021.
- "Annecy : Laurent Guyot nommé entraineur (off)" (in French). foot-national.com. 19 May 2021.
- "Le Club – Palmarès" (in French). Annecy F.C. Retrieved 19 June 2009.
- "80 ans d'Histoire : La Marche du Temps" (in French). Ligue Rhône-Alpes de Football. Retrieved 20 June 2009.
External links
- (in French) Official website