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Grenoble
Grenoble Foot 38 logo.svg
Full name Grenoble Foot 38
Nickname(s) GF38
Founded 1911; 114 years ago (1911)
Ground Stade des Alpes
Ground Capacity 20,068
Chairman Joël Avignon
Manager Oswald Tanchot
League Ligue 2
2021–22 Ligue 2, 15th of 20

Grenoble Foot 38, commonly referred to as simply Grenoble or GF38, is a French association football club based in Grenoble. The club plays its home matches at the Stade des Alpes, a sports complex based in the heart of the city, and wears white and blue.

The original incarnation of the club was founded in 1911 and, in 1997, was formed into the club that exists today as a result of a merger. Grenoble currently plays in Ligue 2, the second level of French football, after having gone into bankruptcy and relegation to the fifth level of French football in 2011.

History

The club was founded in 1911 as Football Club de Grenoble. In 1997, a merger of Olympique Grenoble Isère and Norcap Olympique led to the Grenoble Foot 38 incarnation. Olympique Grenoble Isère played in Ligue 1 in the 1960–61 and 1962–63 seasons.

In 2004, Grenoble Foot was acquired by Index Holdings, a Japanese mobile software company, therefore becoming the first French football club to have foreign owners. The price of the deal was around €2 million. The new owners invested in the Stade des Alpes, a new ground with an initial capacity of 20,000 which opened in February 2008. Grenoble finished the 2007–08 Ligue 2 season in third place, thus returning to Ligue 1 for the first time since 1963.

In the 2008–09 Ligue 1 season, Grenoble finished 13th. However, after losing their first eleven games of the following season, they were eventually relegated with six games remaining amidst severe financial problems. In the same season, Grenoble reached the semi-finals of the Coupe de France for the only time, defeating Monaco 2–0 at home in the quarter-finals on 18 March 2009, and losing by a single goal to Rennes in the semi-finals on 21 April.

The professional football club was liquidated in July 2011 with debts of €2.9 million, and relegated administratively to Championnat de France Amateur 2, the fifth tier. Index provided false financial statements during their ownership of the club.

Now an amateur side, Grenoble won promotion from Championnat de France Amateur 2 at the first attempt in 2012, and were champions of the 2016–17 Championnat de France Amateur, returning to Championnat National for the 2017–18 season. They secured their second successive promotion to Ligue 2 on 27 May 2018, after an aggregate play-off victory over Bourg-en-Bresse.

Name changes

  • Football Club de Grenoble (1911–1977)
  • Football Club Association Sportive de Grenoble (1977–1984)
  • Football Club de Grenoble Dauphiné (1984–1990)
  • Football Club de Grenoble Isère (1990–1992)
  • Football Club de Grenoble Jojo Isère (1992–1993)
  • Olympique Grenoble Isère (1993–1997)
  • Grenoble Foot 38 (1997–present)

Players

Current squad

No. Position Player
3 Turkey DF Efe Sarıkaya
4 Senegal DF Mamadou Diarra
6 Belgium MF Dante Rigo
7 Senegal FW Pape Meïssa Ba
8 France MF Jessy Bénet
9 France FW Alan Kerouedan
10 France FW Eddy Sylvestre
12 The Gambia FW Lamine Jarjou
13 Mauritania GK Mamadou Diop
14 Guadeloupe DF Loïc Nestor
15 New Caledonia MF Jekob Jeno
16 France GK Bobby Allain
18 Burkina Faso MF Bachirou Yaméogo
No. Position Player
19 France FW Lenny Joseph
20 France MF Baptiste Isola
21 France DF Allan Tchaptchet
22 France FW Natanael Ntolla
23 France FW Nesta Elphege
25 France MF Théo Valls
27 France DF Matthéo Xantippe
29 France DF Gaëtan Paquiez
31 Republic of the Congo MF Nolan Mbemba
70 The Gambia MF Saikou Touray
77 Senegal DF Arial Mendy

Notable players

Coaching staff

Position Name
Manager Laurent Peyrelade
Assistant Managers Frédéric Guéguen
Marama Vahirua
Goalkeeping Coach Arnaud Genty

Managers

  • Jules Dewaquez (1945–1946)
  • R. Lacoste (1953–1954)
  • G. Dupraz (1957–1958)
  • A. Fornetti (1958–1963)
  • Albert Batteux (1963–1967)
  • R. Abad (1967–1970)
  • René Gardien (1970–1971)
  • J. Donnard (1971–1972)
  • R. Garcin (1972–1975)
  • Jean Deloffre (1975–1978)
  • R. Belloni (1978–1980)
  • Michel Lafranceschina (1980–1981)
  • Jean Djorkaeff (1981–1983)
  • Claude Le Roy (1983–1985)
  • Robert Buigues (1985–1986)
  • Christian Dalger (1986–1989)
  • Patrick Parizon (1989–1990)
  • Noël Tosi (1990–1991)
  • Bernard Simondi (1991–1993)
  • B. David (1993–1994)
  • C. Letard (1994–1995)
  • É. Geraldes (1995–1996)
  • Bernard Simondi (1996–1997)
  • Alain Michel (1997–2001)
  • Marc Westerloppe (2001–2002)
  • Alain Michel (2002–2004)
  • Thierry Goudet (2004–2006)
  • Yvon Pouliquen (2006–2007)
  • Mehmed Baždarević (2007–2010)
  • Yvon Pouliquen (2010–2011)
  • Olivier Saragaglia (2012–2015)
  • Jean-Louis Garcia (2015–2016)
  • Olivier Guégan (2016–2018)
  • Philippe Hinschberger (2018–2021)
  • Maurizio Jacobacci (2021)
  • Vincent Hognon (2021–2024)
  • Laurent Peyrelade (2024-present)

Honours

  • Ligue 2
    • Champions: 1960, 1962
  • Championnat National
    • Champions: 2001
  • Coppa delle Alpi
    • Runners-up: 1963
  • Coupe Gambardella
    • Runners-up: 1987, 1990

See also

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