Football Atlantic Nantes Club

|- | colspan=" 2" style=" text-align: center; padding: 0.5em; " bgcolor=" white" | |- | founded Club the | bgcolor=#EEEEEE| April 21st 1943 |- | Nickname | bgcolor=#EEEEEE| the Canaries |- | professional Statute | bgcolor=#EEEEEE| Since July 1945 |- | Colors | bgcolor=#EEEEEE| Yellow and Green |- | Stage | bgcolor=#EEEEEE| Beaujoire Louis Fonteneau
(38 285 places) |- | Multitude record | bgcolor=#EEEEEE| 44.927 spectators
(January 27th 1985,
FCG Bordeaux) |- | Equipment supplier | bgcolor=#EEEEEE| Airness |- | Seat | bgcolor=#EEEEEE| Center Sportif Jose Arribas
La Jonelière
44240 It Vault-on-Erdre |- | Player with the most matches | bgcolor=#EEEEEE| Henri Michel: 532 matches |- | Better striker | bgcolor=#EEEEEE| Bernard Blanchet: 111 Goals |- |bgcolor=" white" | |bgcolor=" white" | |} The Football Club of Nantes , is a club of Football French, founded in 1943 whose team first currently evolves/moves in the championship of League 2. The club is chaired by Waldemar Kita while the team first is pulled by Michel Der Zakarian and its assistant Baptiste Gentili. “ FCN ” has one of the most beautiful prize lists of French football with in particular 8 titles from Championnat of France and 3 cuts of France. The club is known to have developed a particular style under the aegis of Jose Arribas and its disciples Jean-Claude Suaudeau and Raynald Denoueix, to have called “Jeu with Nantes the” by the press and the public, sharp and technical play, based on the collective movement and the speed of execution (in particular by master keys with a key of ball). It is also famous for its training center which regularly produced players of very good level for the team first. Many a international French left this center, of which Maxime Bossis, Didier Deschamps, Christian Karembeu and Marcel Desailly.

Prize list

  • League of the Champions (C1):

    • Better performance : Semi-final in 1996.
  • Cut of Europe of the winners of cuts (C2):
    • Better performance : Semi-final in 1980.
  • UEFA Cup (C3):
    • Better performance : Quarterfinal in 1986 and 1995.

  • estival Tournament: Challenge Foot TV Breizh (2002)

See also: Assessment season per season of Football Atlantic Nantes Club

History

See also: History of Football Atlantic Nantes Club

  • beginnings of the FCN the F.C. Nantes is born the April 21st 1943 in a coffee from the place of the trade, and officialized by act of usher (Mrs. Dauguet, street Santeuil). Under the impulse of Marcel Saupin, president of Mellinet, five Nantes clubs amalgamate. Saint-Pierre, Nantes Stage u.a., A.C. Batignolles, a.S.O. Nantes and Mellinet link their force according to the watchword of Saupin: “Small team today, it will be tall one day if we work together. ” The colors yellow and green are selected in reference to those of the stable of racehorses of Jean Guillou, one of the founders of the club. The Saint-Pierre of Nantes, has been just classified in Division of Honor of the League of the West then yields his place to the FC Nantes. At the conclusion of the first season which was average, the recruitment, managed by Saupin, Speaking and Herve, is directed in Paris region where many young people footballers emigrated towards the province in order to avoid the Service of Obligatory Work in Germany. Marcel Braud is the first president of the F.C.N., but Saupin is the true owner. Saupin then seeks a trainer of trade, which it finds in the presence of Nuic, in addition recommending certain players to Nantes, that it had located when it was in Paris. In 1944, Saupin is carried besides to the presidency. In 1945 the FC Nantes easily gains the Cut of the West by beating the S.O. Cholet 7-1, and becomes also champion of the West by beating finally the champion of Brittany the T.A. of Rennes by 5 to 0. With the sight of its résulats, of its financings and owing to the fact that Saupin is a personal friend of Gabriel Hanot, the FC Nantes joined the Grouping of the Authorized Clubs then (GCA), at the same time as the SCO of Angers and Angouleme, and consequently became occasion a professional team as of the end of the war (July 1945). The second division comprising two groups, Nantes is found in the Northern zone with Nancy, the French Stage, CA Paris, Troyes, the SCO of Angers, Mans, Amiens, Mulhouse, Colmar, Besancon, Douai, Valencians and Angouleme. The players preserve all the same their employment apart from football.

  • Period 1945/63 : beginnings as a professional

The first match of the FC Nantes as a professional is played Olympic stadium of Doves, against a.C. Paris and a victory 2-0. The first home match is a defeat on the same score against a.S. Troyes (2600 spectators for a receipt of 118.045 old francs). The club finishes 5th for this first season and the trainer, Aimé Nuic, leaves Nantes for Mulhouse following a disagreement. Antoine Raab succeeds to him then as a trainer-player. After 16 consecutive matches without defeat, Nantes inclines 9-0 in Sochaux, equips in form with the moment. In 1953 the municipality decides to give substantial subsidies to the club in order to give a nudge in the right direction to the team for the rise in higher division.

  • Period 1963/73 : The accession in the 1st division

June 1st 1963, the club obtains its rise in the 1st division against Sochaux. The June 10th, Marcel Saupin dies and will thus see never the club that it created among the elite.

  • Period 1973/83 : Titles and good game

It during this period that Jeu with Nantes the celebrates it, is done offensive actions and oiled well, makes its appearance.

  • Period 1983/92 : The period of change

In July 1992, the FCN retrogressed 15 days in Division 2 administratively by DNCG becomes the FCNA: Football Club of Atlantic Nantes and is finally authorized to take again its place in Division 1.

  • Period 1992/97 : The gilded generation

In 1992 the play makes its return at the same time as Jean-Claude Suaudeau to the post of trainer. Between 92 and 97 the club will gain a championship, will be finalist of the cut of France and semi-finalist of the league of the champions. It is the blossoming of a whole group of young players proposing a pleasant football: Japhet Doram, Patrice Loko, Reynald Pedros, Nicolas Ouédec, Claude Makélélé, Christian Karembeu… Between 95 and 97 the club being in prey with financial problems, the best elements left the ones after the others, knowing various fortunes: Loko, Ouedec and Pedros fell quickly into the lapse of memory as well as the transfers to répétiton, and disappeared from the team of France shortly after the Euro 96, Doram did not have to fight against persistent wounds with Monaco, while Karembeu and Makelele were left there better, succeeding in imposing itself abroad (in particular with the Real Madrid) and becoming active members of the team of France. In 1996 a young goalkeeper points out himself by stopping a penalty in Bastia during his first appearance: Mickaël Landreau . Mow of the transfers of its best elements at each end of season, Jean-Claude Suaudeau leaves definitively the world of the Football, and leaves room to its obvious successor: Raynald Denoueix, hitherto in charge of the formation.

  • 1994/95 : Season of all the records

Whereas the club finished the 5th two former seasons, Nantes belongs to the Outsiders to counter the indicated favorite: the Paris Saint-Germain. Champion of autumn with ten points in advance and any defeat, the team will never be joined and even will beat Paris 3-0 on his ground. Nantes gained many matches in residence on the score without call of 3-0, becoming thus the tariff house . This Nantes season clearly flew over the championship as can testify these statistics to them:
  • Invincibility: 32 days
  • More small number of defeat: 1
  • consecutive Victories in residence: 6
  • consecutive Victories outside: 3
  • Better attack: 71 goals
  • Better defense: 34 goals
  • Better striker: Patrice Loko (22 goals)
  • Meilleur frontier runner: Reynald Pedros (10 decisive master keys)
  • More long series of invincibility for a guard: Standard Dominique (523 minutes)
  • Better foreign player evolving/moving in France: Japhet Doram
  • Better trainer Jean-Claude Suaudeau
  • Better training center

  • Period 1997/05 : The club again of transition

After the exodus of all the players of the title of 1995, the club stagnates a few seasons in medium of table and ends up finding a transferee after the championship obtained in 2001: the Socpresse which then names a president ignoring the world of football completely: Jean-Luc Gripond. March 11th, 2004, the new owner of the club is Dassault, within the framework of the repurchase of Socpresse by this last. This one intervenes by no means in the management of the club and leaves in place the executive team, showing thus that it forever wished to become owner of the FC Nantes, while only seeking not to lose money with this one. At the time of season 2003/04, Nantes inclines vis-a-vis Sochaux finally cut of the league to the shootings with the goals, following a Panenka missed of the captain and guard Mickaël Landreau, thus depriving the club of cut of Europe. The following season worst is ever carried out since the club is in League 1: Nantes is run away at the time of the last day of the championship by finishing first non-relégable: the club will have undergone an unprecedented crisis during this season with a sling of the players carried out by Landreau having for exit the dismissal of the Amisse trainer, and the very violent reactions of some supporters in particular with Sochaux at the time of the 37e day, invading the ground, tearing off more than 150 seats, wounding four stadiers while seeking in vain with molester president Gripond. At the time of the truce before the season of the 2005/06, the historical executives of the club (Robert Budzynski and Kléber Bobin with the direction, Mickaël Landreau, Frederic Da Rocha for the players) are invited to leave by the team Serge Dassault. Vahid Halilhodzic is also contacted to become to manage and trainer, whereas Serge Dizet, current trainer, has been in place only for 6 months. Jean-Luc Gripond is finally replaced by Rudi Roussillon the June 28th 2005 at the same time as Robert Budzynski by Japhet Doram at the sporting position of director, at the time of an Extraordinary general assembly of the Dassault group. The club becomes also a SA and either a SASP. Robert Budzynski definitively leaves the club, in loss of identity, the October 8th 2005 greeted by an adequate streamer.
  • Period 2006/07 : Georges Eo replaces Serge Dizet at the post of trainer on September 20th, 2006, this last is made replace by the duet Michel Der Zakarian, Japhet Doram on February 12th, 2007. It is at the conclusion of season 2006-2007 that the FCNA knows relegation in Ligue 2 after 44 seasons spent within the elite. This season will have been marked by the record of the number of trainers for only one season with the club, the arrival and the caricatural departure of Fabien Barthez and by the invasion of the ground at the time of the last home match. More polemic of these events was without any doubt the passage of Barthez in the history of the club.

Some former players

See also: List of the players of the FC Nantes

Goalkeepers

Defenders

Medium grounds

Assailing

Presidents of the club

Trainers of the club

Stages

  • Stage Malakoff renamed Stage Marcel-Saupin in 1963 - of 1945 to 1984
  • Beaujoire renamed Stage Louis-Fonteneau in 1989 - since 1984

History of the blazon

A first blazon, round, yellow boat on overcome green of initial the " FCN" and of 5 hermines green on yellow tape was used season 1976-1977 (introduction into the winter) at 1987. Light alternatives were sometimes used (green boat on yellow bottom and name of the club in all letters in 1980-1981, original version with the colors reversed - green boat on yellow - between 1982 and 1986). One can note that the hermine, symbol of Brittany, are of return on the new blazon planned for January 2008.
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