Grenoble Foot 38

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Grenoble
Grenoble Foot 38 logo.svg
Full nameGrenoble Foot 38
Nickname(s)GF38
Founded1911;112 years ago (1911)
Ground Stade des Alpes,
Grenoble
Capacity20,068
Manager Vincent Hognon
League Ligue 2
2021–22 Ligue 2, 15th of 20
Website Club website
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 1 February 2023 [13]

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

No.Pos.NationPlayer
1 GK Flag of France.svg  FRA Brice Maubleu (captain)
2 FW Flag of The Gambia.svg  GAM Abdoulie Sanyang
3 DF Flag of the Netherlands.svg  NED Bart Straalman
4 MF Flag of France.svg  FRA Manuel Perez
5 DF Flag of France.svg  FRA Adrien Monfray
6 MF Flag of France.svg  FRA Franck-Yves Bambock
7 FW Flag of Guadeloupe (local).svg  GLP Matthias Phaëton
8 MF Flag of France.svg  FRA Jessy Bénet
11 FW Flag of France.svg  FRA Amine Sbaï
12 DF Flag of France.svg  FRA Jordy Gaspar
13 GK Flag of Senegal.svg  SEN Mamadou Diop
14 DF Flag of Guadeloupe (local).svg  GLP Loïc Nestor
15 MF New Caledonia flags merged (2017).svg  NCL Jekob Jeno
No.Pos.NationPlayer
16 GK Flag of France.svg  FRA Paul Bourdelle
17 DF Flag of France.svg  FRA Loris Néry
18 MF Flag of Burkina Faso.svg  BFA Bachirou Yaméogo
21 DF Flag of France.svg  FRA Allan Tchaptchet
23 MF Flag of France.svg  FRA Axel Ngando
28 FW Flag of Senegal.svg  SEN Pape Meïssa Ba
29 DF Flag of France.svg  FRA Gaëtan Paquiez
30 GK Flag of France.svg  FRA Esteban Salles
66 DF Flag of Senegal.svg  SEN Mamadou Diarra
70 MF Flag of The Gambia.svg  GAM Saikou Touray
77 DF Flag of Senegal.svg  SEN Arial Mendy
80 FW Flag of France.svg  FRA Joris Correa
97 FW Flag of France.svg  FRA Jordan Tell

Out on loan

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

No.Pos.NationPlayer
— DF Flag of France.svg  FRA Jules Sylvestre-Brac (on loan to Stade Nyonnais)
— MF Flag of Kosovo.svg  KOS Orges Bunjaku (on loan to Schaffhausen)
No.Pos.NationPlayer
— FW Flag of Senegal.svg  SEN Olivier Boissy (on loan to Saint-Pryvé)

Notable players

Below are the notable former players who have represented Grenoble and its predecessors in league and international competition since the club's foundation in 1997.

For a complete list of Grenoble Foot 38 players, see Category:Grenoble Foot 38 players

Coaching Staff

PositionName
Manager Vincent Hognon
Assistant ManagersFrédéric Guéguen
Goalkeeping CoachArnaud Genty

Managers

Honours

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  2. 1 2 3 "La tragique déroute du Grenoble Foot 38" [The tragic decline of Grenoble Foot 38] (in French). France 24. 8 July 2011. Retrieved 21 June 2018.
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  5. ↑ "Le GF38 relégué en Ligue 2... Grenoble, et maintenant ?" [GF38 relegated to Ligue 2... Grenoble, and now?]. Le Dauphiné (in French). 12 April 2010. Retrieved 21 June 2018.
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