Annecy FC

Annecy

Full name	Annecy Football Club
Founded	1927 1993 (reformed)
Ground	Parc des Sports Annecy
Ground Capacity	12,500[1]
Presidents	Michel Rousseaux Stéphane Loison
Manager	Helder Estévès
League	Championnat de France Amateur
2015–16	Championnat de France Amateur 2 2nd (Promoted), Group D
Home colours

Annecy Football Club is a French amateur football club based in the town of Annecy in Haute-Savoie. The team plays its home matches at the Parc des Sports, where the club and its predecessor have been based since 1964. For the 2016–17 season, Annecy competed in the Championnat de France Amateur, the fourth tier of French football.

Annecy Football Club was founded under its current name in 1993 as the reincarnation of the defunct Football Club d'Annecy. FC Annecy, formed in 1927, spent the majority of their history in regional amateur football. The club turned professional in 1942, but was compelled to return to amateurism a year later. When a national amateur league was formed for the 1948–49 season, Annecy became founder members. After eleven seasons, Annecy became the amateur champions of France at the end of the 1959–60 season, and after a short rise in the early 1970s shrank back into the obscurity that had characterised their early days.

The 1980s saw a sharp rise back up again, as FC Annecy won three promotions in nine years to reach France's second tier for the 1988–89 campaign. The club turned professional again following the first season in the division, and reached a peak in 1990–91 as the team performed well in both the Coupe de France and the league. After relegation in 1992–93, the club capitulated in October 1993. Annecy Football Club was therefore established in its stead, taking up a league place five divisions below the third tier position that the former club had left. Though the new side won promotion twice within five years, Annecy then spent nine years in the sixth tier before meeting relegation again in 2007–08.

History

Football Club d'Annecy was founded in May 1927. The first president of the club was Louis Monnet, who held the office until 1933 when he was replaced by Jean Chatenoud. The club turned professional in 1942 after winning the Lyonnais Division Honneur, but was forced to return to its former status as amateur a year later as professional football clubs were outlawed. As amateurs, Annecy won the league twice more in 1946–47 and 1947–48 before joining the Championnat de France amateur on its formation for 1948–49. Winning the Coupe de Lyonnais in 1953–54 was capped by finishing top of the Championnat's south-eastern section a year later. The team regained the Coupe de Lyonnais in 1958–59 and ended the 1959–60 campaign as the amateur champions of France. Chatenoud finally stepped down in 1970, after 37 years as president. The Championnat was dissolved after the 1970–71 season, and Annecy were subsequently accepted into the Division 3 Sud-Est.^[2]

During their first season in the new league, Annecy were nearly promoted, but lost a play-off match to FC Martigues. The team competed in the division until 1973–74, when Annecy were relegated back to the Lyonnais Division Honneur. The team revived during the early 1980s, achieving promotion to the fourth level for 1980–81 before winning the championship in 1983–84. Another promotion in 1987–88 saw the club in the second tier for 1988–89, and prompted a change back to professionalism. Annecy's best season came in 1990–91, when the team finished ninth in the league and reached the last 16 of the Coupe de France. However, on relegation in 1992–93, Annecy fell as swiftly as they had emerged – the club was wound up on 16 October 1993, and therefore gave up its professional status along with its place in the third level.^[2]

Annecy Football Club was formed on the same day as FC Annecy's demise, and took up a league place five tiers below that of the former team in the Rhône-Alpes Promotion Honneur Régional. The new club was promoted in its second season, and repeated this feat two years later. After nine years at the sixth level, the Rhône-Alpes Honneur Ligue, Annecy were relegated again in 2007–08. In 2013 the club regained the historic name FC Annecy, and in 2015 won the Rhône-Alpes Division Honneur, to gain access to the CFA 2. In 2016 the club were again promoted to the Championnat de France Amateur.^[2]

Managers

Twenty-three men have managed Annecy in its two incarnations. Only one of these, the Yugoslav Georges Korac, has been a foreigner. The longest serving manager is Jean-Christian Lang, who managed the club for six years from 1981 to 1987.^[2][3]

Name Nationality From To Lucien Leduc French 000000001951-01-01-00001951 000000001956-01-01-00001956 Lucien Leduc French 000000001957-01-01-00001957 000000001958-01-01-00001958 Stanislas Golinski French 000000001962-01-01-00001962 000000001964-01-01-00001964 André Grillon French 000000001964-01-01-00001964 000000001968-01-01-00001968 Léon Glovacki French 000000001968-01-01-00001968 000000001969-01-01-00001969 Stanislas Golinski French 000000001969-01-01-00001969 000000001971-01-01-00001971 Noël Gallo French 000000001971-01-01-00001971 000000001972-01-01-00001972 Jean-Claude Lavaud French 000000001972-01-01-00001972 000000001973-01-01-00001973 Claude Rey French 000000001973-01-01-00001973 000000001977-01-01-00001977 Laffont French 000000001977-01-01-00001977 000000001979-01-01-00001979 Canzio Capaldini French 000000001979-01-01-00001979 000000001981-01-01-00001981 Jean-Christian Lang French 000000001981-01-01-00001981 000000001987-01-01-00001987 Georges Korac Yugoslavian 000000001987-01-01-00001987 000000001989-01-01-00001989

Name Nationality From To Guy Stéphan French 000000001989-01-01-00001989 000000001992-01-01-00001992 Christian Coste French 000000001992-01-01-00001992 000000001994-01-01-00001994 Victor Mastroiani French 000000001994-01-01-00001994 000000001999-01-01-00001999 Jean-Yves Kerjean French 000000001999-01-01-00001999 000000002000-01-01-00002000 Alexandre Marinkov French 000000002000-01-01-00002000 000000002002-01-01-00002002 Franck Lebel French 000000002002-01-01-00002002 000000002003-01-01-00002003 Karim Fatmi French 000000002003-01-01-00002003 000000002004-01-01-00002004 Pascal Chavaroche French 000000002004-01-01-00002004 000000002005-01-01-00002005 Milé Dukic French 000000002005-01-01-00002005 000000002008-01-01-00002008 Alexandre Marinkov French 000000002008-01-01-00002008 000000002011-01-01-00002011 Michel Poinsignon French 000000002011-01-01-00002011 000000002016-01-01-00002016 Helder Estévès French 000000002016-01-01-00002016 Present

Honours

The club has won a variety of honours, all of them amateur. The most notable honour won by Annecy in either guise is the French amateur championship won by the club in 1959–60.^[4]

as Football Club d'Annecy

as Annecy Football Club

Footnotes

References

External links

• (French) Official website