Grenoble Foot 38

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Grenoble
Grenoble Foot 38 logo.svg
Full nameGrenoble Foot 38
Nickname(s)GF38
Founded1911;114 years ago (1911)
Ground Stade des Alpes
Capacity20,068
ChairmanJoël Avignon
Head coach Franck Rizzetto
League Ligue 2
2023–24 Ligue 2, 11th of 20
Website www.gf38.fr
Soccerball current event.svg Current season

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.

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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. [1] [2] The new owners invested in the Stade des Alpes, a new ground with an initial capacity of 20,000 which opened in February 2008. [3] 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. [2] However, after losing their first eleven games of the following season, they were eventually relegated with six games remaining amidst severe financial problems. [4] [5] 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, [6] and losing by a single goal to Rennes in the semi-finals on 21 April. [7]

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. [8] [9] Index provided false financial statements during their ownership of the club. [2] [10]

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. [11] They secured their second successive promotion to Ligue 2 on 27 May 2018, after an aggregate play-off victory over Bourg-en-Bresse. [12]

Name changes

Players

Current squad

As of 29 January 2025 [13]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No.Pos.NationPlayer
1 GK Flag of France.svg  FRA Maxime Pattier
4 DF Flag of Senegal.svg  SEN Mamadou Diarra
6 MF Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  BEL Dante Rigo
8 MF Flag of France.svg  FRA Jessy Benet
9 FW Flag of France.svg  FRA Alan Kerouedan
10 MF Flag of France.svg  FRA Eddy Sylvestre
11 FW Flag of Burkina Faso.svg  BFA Mamady Bangré
13 GK Flag of Mauritania.svg  MTN Mamadou Diop
14 DF Flag of Guadeloupe (local).svg  GLP Loïc Nestor
16 GK Flag of France.svg  FRA Bobby Allain
17 DF Flag of France.svg  FRA Shaquil Delos
18 DF Flag of Burkina Faso.svg  BFA Bachirou Yaméogo
No.Pos.NationPlayer
21 DF Flag of France.svg  FRA Allan Tchaptchet
23 FW Flag of France.svg  FRA Nesta Elphege
24 DF Flag of France.svg  FRA Loris Mouyokolo
25 MF Flag of France.svg  FRA Théo Valls
27 DF Flag of France.svg  FRA Matthéo Xantippe
28 FW Flag of Benin.svg  BEN Junior Olaitan
29 DF Flag of France.svg  FRA Gaëtan Paquiez
31 MF Flag of the Republic of the Congo.svg  CGO Nolan Mbemba
33 DF Flag of Turkey.svg  TUR Efe Sarıkaya
38 FW Flag of Morocco.svg  MAR Ayoub Jabbari
70 MF Flag of The Gambia.svg  GAM Saikou Touray
77 DF Flag of Senegal.svg  SEN Arial Mendy

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.

No.Pos.NationPlayer
— MF Flag of France.svg  FRA Baptiste Isola (at Le Poiré-sur-Vie until 30 June 2025)
No.Pos.NationPlayer
— FW Flag of The Gambia.svg  GAM Lamine Jarjou(at AEZ Zakakiou until 30 June 2025)

Notable players

Coaching staff

PositionName
Head coach Flag of France.svg Franck Rizzetto
Assistant coach Flag of Uruguay.svg Francisco Palladino
Flag of France.svg Frédéric Guéguen
Goalkeeping coach Flag of France.svg Arnaud Genty
Physical coach Flag of France.svg Michaël Diaferia
Flag of France.svg Mathieu Eyssard
Video analyst Flag of France.svg Adrien Bister
Doctor Flag of France.svg Eric Garrel
Physiotherapist Flag of France.svg Morgan Renaudin
Flag of France.svg Ugo san Julian
Team manager Flag of France.svg Grégory Kurkeden

Managers

Honours

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  6. ↑ "[EN IMAGES] Coupe de France : quand Grenoble sortait Monaco en 2009 et se qualifiait pour les demi-finales" [[IN IMAGES] Coupe de France: when Grenoble eliminated Monaco in 2009 and qualified for the semi-finals]. Le Dauphiné (in French). 9 February 2021. Retrieved 24 January 2023.
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