FC Lorient

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FC Lorient
Full name	Football Club Lorient-Bretagne Sud
Nickname(s)	Les Merlus
Founded	1926
Ground	Stade du Moustoir (Capacity 17 000)
Chairman	Alain Le Roch
Manager	Christian Gourcuff
League	Ligue 1
2007-08	Ligue 1, 10th
Home colours 　 Away colours

FC Lorient Bretagne Sud is a French football club, based in Lorient, Brittany. In 2005-06, it played in Ligue 2. It returned to the top flight for the 2006-07 season and achieved "le maintien", starting 2007-08 in Ligue 1 as well. ^[1]

Contents 1 History 2 Honours 3 Current squad 4 Transfers 2007/2008 5 Notable former players 6 Managerial history 7 References 8 External links

[edit] History

Lorient were formed as an amateur club on 2 April 1926 and known as Football Club Lorientais. ^[2] They first played in the regional third division, but progressed to join the Division d'Honneur in 1929.

The club turned professional in 1995, although the club has had two earlier periods as a professional club, between 1967-1977 and 1988-1991.

The club won the French Cup in 2002, and were finalists in the Coupe de la Ligue the same year. In the 2005-06 season, the club finished third in Ligue 2, earning promotion to Ligue 1.

[edit] Honours

• Winners of the Coupe de France : 2002
• Finalist of the Coupe de la Ligue : 2002
• Finalist of the Trophée des Champions : 2002
• Participation in the UEFA Cup : 2002-2003
• Champion of the National League (3rd level) : 1995
• Runners-up Division 2 : 1998, 2001
• Runners-up Division 4 : 1984
• Champions Division 3 (West) : 1985, 1987, 1989, 1992
• Champions Division d'Honneur (West) : 1932, 1936, 1957, 1983
• Winners Coupe de l'Ouest : 1960, 1970 (reserve team), 1982

[edit] Current squad

No. Position Player 1 GK Lionel Cappone 2 DF Michael Ciani 3 DF Marc Boutruche 4 MF Andrew Jacobson 5 DF Benjamin Genton 6 MF Fabrice Abriel 7 MF Oscar Ewolo 8 DF Alain Cantareil 9 FW Kemal Bourhani 10 MF Nicolas Marin 11 MF Ulrich Le Pen 13 FW Rafik Saïfi 14 FW Marama Vahirua 15 DF Jérémy Morel

No. Position Player 16 GK Fabien Audard 17 DF Mehdi Benatia (on loan from Marseille) 18 MF Yohan Hautcoeur (on loan from Saint-Étienne) 20 FW Rafael Moura (on loan from Fluminense) 22 DF Claude Dielna 23 MF Yazid Mansouri 24 DF Christophe Jallet 25 FW Julian Pinard 26 MF Yann Jouffre 27 MF Hamed Namouchi 28 FW Fabien Robert 29 DF Sylvain Marchal (captain) 30 GK Romain Salin

[edit] Transfers 2007/2008

Out on loan:

No. Position Player DF Carl Medjani (at AC Ajaccio) 12 MF Bertrand Robert (at AC Ajaccio) 19 FW David Papys M'Bodji (at Clermont Foot)

In:

No. Position Player 26 MF Yann Jouffre (From EA Guingamp) 4 MF Andrew Jacobson (From University of California) 8 DF Alain Cantareil (From Marseille) 10 MF Nicolas Marin (From Sedan) 12 FW Bertrand Robert (From Guingamp) 14 FW Marama Vahirua (From Nice)

Out:

No. Position Player DF Guillaume Moullec (to Nantes) FW André-Pierre Gignac (to Toulouse FC)

[edit] Notable former players

For a complete list of FC Lorient players with a Wikipedia article, see here..

Algeria Ali Bouafia Moussa Saïb Karim Ziani France Jean-Claude Darcheville Christian Gourcuff Jocelyn Gourvennec Patrice Loko

Guinea Pascal Feindouno Ivory Cost Tchiressoua Guel Bakari Koné Mali Seydou Keita

[edit] Managerial history

Jean Snella 1946-1948 Marcel Lisiero 1948-1951 Robert Hennequin 1951-1952 Georges Girot 1952-1959 Antoine Cuissard 1959 Lucien Philipot 1960 Daniel Carpentier 1961-1967 Antoine Cuissard 1967-1969 Yves Boutet 1969 Émile Rummelhardt 1969-1971 André Mori 1971-1972 Jean Vincent 1972-1976 Louis Hon 1976-1978 Paul Le Bellec 1978-1979 Bernard Goueffic 1979-1981 Louis Legadec 1981-1982 Christian Gourcuff 1982-1986 Michel Le Calloch 1986-March 1988 Alain Thiboult March 1988-1990 Patrick Le Pollotec 1990-1991 Christian Gourcuff 1991-2001 Angel Marcos 2001-January 2002 Yvon Pouliquen January 2002-2003 Christian Gourcuff Since 2003- [3][4]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Independent website
• Official website
• FC Lorient at French league's official site

Ligue 1 • 2008-09 Clubs v • d • e
Auxerre • Bordeaux • Caen • Grenoble • Le Havre • Le Mans • Lille • Lorient Lyon • Marseille • Monaco • Nancy • Nantes • Nice • Paris SG • Rennes Saint-Étienne • Sochaux • Toulouse • Valenciennes
Division 1/Ligue 1 Seasons v • d • e
1930-31 | 1931-32 | 1932-33 | 1933-34 | 1934-35 | 1935-36 | 1936-37 | 1937-38 | 1938-39 | 1939-40 1940-41 | 1941-42 | 1942-43 | 1943-44 | 1944-45 | 1945-46 | 1946-47 | 1947-48 | 1948-49 | 1949-50 1950-51 | 1951-52 | 1952-53 | 1953-54 | 1954-55 | 1955-56 | 1956-57 | 1957-58 | 1958-59 | 1959-60 1960-61 | 1961-62 | 1962-63 | 1963-64 | 1964-65 | 1965-66 | 1966-67 | 1967-68 | 1968-69 | 1969-70 1970-71 | 1971-72 | 1972-73 | 1973-74 | 1974-75 | 1975-76 | 1976-77 | 1977-78 | 1978-79 | 1979-80 1980-81 | 1981-82 | 1982-83 | 1983-84 | 1984-85 | 1985-86 | 1986-87 | 1987-88 | 1988-89 | 1989-90 1990-91 | 1991-92 | 1992-93 | 1993-94 | 1994-95 | 1995-96 | 1996-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-99 | 1999-00 2000-01 | 2001-02 | 2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 | 2007-08 | 2008-09 | 2009-10
Championnat de France Amateurs 2 — Groupe G • 2007-08 Clubs v • d • e
Alençon • Avranches • Brest (res.) • Carquefou • Changé • Châteaubriant Concarneau • Montagnarde Inzinzac • Laval (res.) • Le Poiré-sur-Vie Locminé • Lorient (res.) • Pontivy • Quimper • Saint-Brieuc • Saint-Lô