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Full name | Coton Sport Football Club de Garoua | ||
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Nickname(s) | Les Cotonniers (The Cottoners) [1] | ||
Founded | 1986 | ||
Ground | Stade Roumdé Adjia | ||
Capacity | 30,000 | ||
Chairman | Michel Tchouakeu | ||
Manager | Gauthier Ndoumbe | ||
League | Elite One | ||
2021–22 | Elite One, 1st of 25 (champions) | ||
Coton Sport Football Club de Garoua, or simply Coton Sport, is a Cameroonian professional football club based in Garoua. They play their home games at the Stade Omnisport de Garoua, commonly known as the Roumde Adjia Stadium. The club is chaired by Sadou Fernand. The first team plays in MTN Elite One (Cameroonian first division) (since 1993) and competes in 2012 in the CAF Champions League. The club has the largest budget of a Cameroonian club (500 million CFA francs).
It has won sixteen Cameroon championships and six Cameroon cups. In addition, in continental competitions, the club reached the final of the CAF Cup in 2003 and the CAF Champions League in 2008 and the semi-finals of the same competition in 2013.
The club was founded in 1986 and campaigning in the lower leagues until they were promoted to the country's Premier League in 1992. Since 1996 Coton Sport has dominated local football winning eleven league titles in the process. In 2008 the club finished runners up in the CAF Champions League, losing to Al Ahly SC of Egypt in the final. [2] [3]
As of 16 March 2023.
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