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Le Mans FC

November 12, 2023

Le Mans Football Club (French pronunciation: [ləmɑ̃]; commonly referred to as Le Mans FC, formerly known as Le Muc) is a French professional football club based in Le Mans. The club was founded in 1985 as a result of a merger under the name Le Mans Union Club 72. In 2010, Le Mans changed its name to Le Mans FC to coincide with the re-modeling of the club, which includes moving into a new stadium, MMArena, which opened in January 2011.[1] The stadium is based in the interior of the Circuit de la Sarthe, a famous circuit in the city.

Le Mans
Full nameLe Mans Football Club
Nickname(s)MUC 72
Les Mucistes
Les Sang et Or (The Blood and Golds)
Founded12 June 1985; 38 years ago (1985-06-12)
GroundMMArena
Capacity25,064
ChairmanThierry Gomez
ManagerRéginald Ray
LeagueChampionnat National
2022–23Championnat National, 12th of 18
WebsiteClub website

The club were controversially relegated from 2019–20 Ligue 2 when the season was terminated early due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

History edit

Le Mans Sports Club were founded in 1900, but it was not until 1908 that a football club existed within it. Le Mans qualified for the Championnat de la France in 1910, but were heavily overturned by Saint-Servan. Gaining a huge reputation up to World War I, Le Mans SC plunged into obscurity by World War II before joining the war league in 1942.

The football section of Union Sportive du Mans was founded in 1903.

The current club was formed as a result of a merger between Union Sportive du Mans and Le Mans Sports Club, on 12 June 1985. Upon its foundation, former football player Bernard Deferrez was installed as manager. Le Mans UC spent the majority of its infancy in Ligue 2. In the 2003–04 season, the club achieved promotion to Ligue 1 for the first time, but were immediately relegated. Le Mans returned to the first division for the 2005–06 season and successfully remained in the league for the next four seasons. The club suffered relegation back to Ligue 2 in the 2009–10 season. Midway through the campaign, on 2 December 2009, Le Mans announced that it was changing its name from Le Mans Union Club 72 to Le Mans FC.

Le Mans moved to the MMArena midway through the 2010–11 season, comfortably in the promotion spots for a return to Ligue 1, but a bad run sees them finish 4th, missing promotion on goal difference. The failure to achieve promotion is costly, as the club sees its payroll limited by the DNCG. Many players left, and relegation was only narrowly avoided. The club survived by appeal an attempt by DNCG to relegate them to Championnat National. The following season they were relegated on the field, and a long summer of legal battles saw them liquidated and reforming in Maine (province) Division d'Honneur as an amateur club.[2]

Promotion to Championnat de France Amateur 2 was achieved on the first attempt, and promotion from that division was only narrowly missed in 2014–15 and 2015–16. On the third attempt, promotion to the new Championnat National 2 was obtained in 2016–17, when Le Mans finished as one of the best runners up in the competition. Le Mans was promoted for the second season in a row winning Group D and being promoted to the 2018–19 Championnat National, the club would achieve a third consecutive promotion after successfully overcoming Gazélec Ajaccio in the Ligue 2 relegation play-off final with a 3-2 aggregate score, swapping places with the Corsican club who, only three years before had been members of the top-flight themselves.[3]

The club were in 19th place in Ligue 2 when the season was terminated early due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite the club supporting an LFP proposal which would have seen Ligue 2 operate temporarily with 22 clubs, meaning they would stay in the division, the FFF ruled on 27 May 2020 that they were to be relegated to Championnat National.[4]

Players edit

Current squad edit

As of 15 August, 2023.[5][6]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK   FRA Ewan Hatfout
5 DF   MTQ Harold Voyer
6 MF   FRA Mathieu Coutadeur
7 FW   COM Zaïd Amir
8 DF   FRA Alexandre Lauray
9 FW   FRA Antoine Rabillard
10 MF   FRA Yoann Le Méhauté
11 MF   FRA Makan Aïko
12 DF   FRA Anthony Ribelin
13 MF   FRA Ugo Raghouber (on loan from LOSC Lille)
16 GK   FRA Nicolas Kocik
17 DF   FRA Samuel Yohou
18 MF   ALG Mehdi Boussaïd
No. Pos. Nation Player
19 MF   FRA Alexandre Vincent
20 DF   FRA Hugo Vargas-Ríos
21 DF   FRA Théo Eyoum
22 DF   FRA Lilian Njoh
23 DF   FRA Mike Bettinger
24 MF   FRA Paul Lehoux
25 FW   SEN Dame Guèye
26 FW   FRA Erwan Colas
27 MF   FRA Martin Rossignol
28 DF   FRA Jonas Smith
29 MF   FRA Edwin Quarshie
30 GK   FRA Augustin Delbecque
31 FW   FRA Adam Hammoudi

Out on loan edit

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

No. Pos. Nation Player

Notable players edit

Below are the notable former players who have represented Le Mans and its predecessors in league and international competition since the club's foundation in 1985. To appear in the section below, a player must have played in at least 100 official matches for the club.

For a complete list of Le Mans players, see Category:Le Mans FC players

Former managers edit

Honours edit

  • Division d'Honneur Ouest
    • Winners: 1961, 1965
  • Division d'Honneur Maine
    • Winners: 2014
  • Coupe Gambardella

References edit

  1. ^ Le MUC 72 devient LEMANS FC. 4 December 2009 at the Wayback Machine.
  2. ^ (in French). Archived from the original on 6 March 2016. Retrieved 5 August 2016.
  3. ^ "Actualité – LE MANS FC est en Ligue 2 !". www.lemansfc.fr. Retrieved 4 June 2019.
  4. ^ "La Ligue 2 avec 22 clubs refusée par la FFF" (in French). foot-national.com. 27 May 2020.
  5. ^ "Le Mans FC squad". Soccerway. Perform Group. Retrieved 21 December 2020.
  6. ^ "Équipe National" (in French). Le Mans FC. Retrieved 21 December 2020.
  7. ^ "Le Mans - Ray : "Enclencher une nouvelle dynamique"" (in French). foot-national.com. 2 March 2020.
  8. ^ "Le Mans : Reginald Ray s'en va (off)" (in French). foot-national.com. 28 May 2020.
  9. ^ "National. Le Mans FC a trouvé son entraineur" (in French). footamateur.fr. 1 June 2020.
  10. ^ "National. Le Mans FC se sépare de Didier Ollé-Nicolle" (in French). footamateur.fr. 17 May 2021.
 
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Le Mans Football Club French pronunciation lemɑ commonly referred to as Le Mans FC formerly known as Le Muc is a French professional football club based in Le Mans The club was founded in 1985 as a result of a merger under the name Le Mans Union Club 72 In 2010 Le Mans changed its name to Le Mans FC to coincide with the re modeling of the club which includes moving into a new stadium MMArena which opened in January 2011 1 The stadium is based in the interior of the Circuit de la Sarthe a famous circuit in the city Le MansFull nameLe Mans Football ClubNickname s MUC 72Les MucistesLes Sang et Or The Blood and Golds Founded12 June 1985 38 years ago 1985 06 12 GroundMMArenaCapacity25 064ChairmanThierry GomezManagerReginald RayLeagueChampionnat National2022 23Championnat National 12th of 18WebsiteClub websiteHome coloursAway coloursThe club were controversially relegated from 2019 20 Ligue 2 when the season was terminated early due to the COVID 19 pandemic Contents 1 History 2 Players 2 1 Current squad 2 2 Out on loan 2 3 Notable players 3 Former managers 4 Honours 5 ReferencesHistory editLe Mans Sports Club were founded in 1900 but it was not until 1908 that a football club existed within it Le Mans qualified for the Championnat de la France in 1910 but were heavily overturned by Saint Servan Gaining a huge reputation up to World War I Le Mans SC plunged into obscurity by World War II before joining the war league in 1942 The football section of Union Sportive du Mans was founded in 1903 The current club was formed as a result of a merger between Union Sportive du Mans and Le Mans Sports Club on 12 June 1985 Upon its foundation former football player Bernard Deferrez was installed as manager Le Mans UC spent the majority of its infancy in Ligue 2 In the 2003 04 season the club achieved promotion to Ligue 1 for the first time but were immediately relegated Le Mans returned to the first division for the 2005 06 season and successfully remained in the league for the next four seasons The club suffered relegation back to Ligue 2 in the 2009 10 season Midway through the campaign on 2 December 2009 Le Mans announced that it was changing its name from Le Mans Union Club 72 to Le Mans FC Le Mans moved to the MMArena midway through the 2010 11 season comfortably in the promotion spots for a return to Ligue 1 but a bad run sees them finish 4th missing promotion on goal difference The failure to achieve promotion is costly as the club sees its payroll limited by the DNCG Many players left and relegation was only narrowly avoided The club survived by appeal an attempt by DNCG to relegate them to Championnat National The following season they were relegated on the field and a long summer of legal battles saw them liquidated and reforming in Maine province Division d Honneur as an amateur club 2 Promotion to Championnat de France Amateur 2 was achieved on the first attempt and promotion from that division was only narrowly missed in 2014 15 and 2015 16 On the third attempt promotion to the new Championnat National 2 was obtained in 2016 17 when Le Mans finished as one of the best runners up in the competition Le Mans was promoted for the second season in a row winning Group D and being promoted to the 2018 19 Championnat National the club would achieve a third consecutive promotion after successfully overcoming Gazelec Ajaccio in the Ligue 2 relegation play off final with a 3 2 aggregate score swapping places with the Corsican club who only three years before had been members of the top flight themselves 3 The club were in 19th place in Ligue 2 when the season was terminated early due to the COVID 19 pandemic Despite the club supporting an LFP proposal which would have seen Ligue 2 operate temporarily with 22 clubs meaning they would stay in the division the FFF ruled on 27 May 2020 that they were to be relegated to Championnat National 4 Players editCurrent squad edit As of 15 August 2023 5 6 Note Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules Players may hold more than one non FIFA nationality No Pos Nation Player1 GK nbsp FRA Ewan Hatfout5 DF nbsp MTQ Harold Voyer6 MF nbsp FRA Mathieu Coutadeur7 FW nbsp COM Zaid Amir8 DF nbsp FRA Alexandre Lauray9 FW nbsp FRA Antoine Rabillard10 MF nbsp FRA Yoann Le Mehaute11 MF nbsp FRA Makan Aiko12 DF nbsp FRA Anthony Ribelin13 MF nbsp FRA Ugo Raghouber on loan from LOSC Lille 16 GK nbsp FRA Nicolas Kocik17 DF nbsp FRA Samuel Yohou18 MF nbsp ALG Mehdi Boussaid No Pos Nation Player19 MF nbsp FRA Alexandre Vincent20 DF nbsp FRA Hugo Vargas Rios21 DF nbsp FRA Theo Eyoum22 DF nbsp FRA Lilian Njoh23 DF nbsp FRA Mike Bettinger24 MF nbsp FRA Paul Lehoux25 FW nbsp SEN Dame Gueye26 FW nbsp FRA Erwan Colas27 MF nbsp FRA Martin Rossignol28 DF nbsp FRA Jonas Smith29 MF nbsp FRA Edwin Quarshie30 GK nbsp FRA Augustin Delbecque31 FW nbsp FRA Adam Hammoudi Out on loan edit Note Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules Players may hold more than one non FIFA nationality No Pos Nation PlayerNotable players edit Below are the notable former players who have represented Le Mans and its predecessors in league and international competition since the club s foundation in 1985 To appear in the section below a player must have played in at least 100 official matches for the club For a complete list of Le Mans players see Category Le Mans FC players nbsp Arnaud Denis nbsp Ludovic Baal nbsp Dagui Bakari nbsp Ismael Bangoura nbsp Marko Basa nbsp Regis Beunardeau nbsp Willy Bolivard nbsp Laurent Bonnart nbsp Gregory Cerdan nbsp Sebastien Corchia nbsp Daniel Cousin nbsp Mathieu Coutadeur nbsp Vincent Crehin nbsp Joffrey Cuffaut nbsp Thomas Dasquet nbsp Tulio De Melo nbsp Stephane Diarra nbsp Moussa Doumbia nbsp Didier Drogba nbsp Tom Duponchelle nbsp Romain Dupont nbsp Dan Eggen nbsp Patrick Ekeng Ekeng nbsp James Fanchone nbsp Thibault Ferrand nbsp Yannick Fischer nbsp Thierry Froger nbsp Eric Garcin nbsp Antonio Geder nbsp Gervinho nbsp Grafite nbsp Hamza Hafidi nbsp Yohan Hautcoeur nbsp Thorstein Helstad nbsp Roland Lamah nbsp Pierre Lemonnier nbsp Anthony Le Tallec nbsp Cyriaque Louvion nbsp Modibo Maiga nbsp Daisuke Matsui nbsp Didier Ovono nbsp Fabrice Pancrate nbsp Pierre Patron nbsp Olivier Pedemas nbsp Yohann Pele nbsp Christian Penaud nbsp Laurent Peyrelade nbsp Yoann Poulard nbsp Reginald Ray nbsp Romaric nbsp Stephane Samson nbsp Morgan Sanson nbsp Stephane Sessegnon nbsp Jacques Songo o nbsp Mamadou Soro nbsp Fredrik Stromstad nbsp Frederic Thomas nbsp Olivier Thomas nbsp Olivier Thomert nbsp Patrick Van Kets nbsp Alexandre Vardin nbsp Stephen Vincent nbsp Hassan Yebda nbsp ZitoFormer managers editMony Braustein 1945 46 1946 47 Emile Rummelhardt 1947 51 Gaston Choulet 1951 52 Gabriel Corsaletti 1952 53 Camille Libar 1953 57 Andre Grillon 1957 64 Rene Dereuddre 1964 76 Alain Laurier 1976 79 Michel Rodriguez 1979 81 Andre Guttierez 1981 85 Bernard Deferrez 1985 86 Christian Gourcuff Jun 86 Jan 89 Christian Letard Jan 1989 Jan 94 Thierry Froger Jan 1994 May 97 Slavo Muslin Jun 1997 Nov 97 Marc Westerloppe Nov 1997 Nov 2000 Alain Pascalou Nov 2000 Dec 2000 Thierry Goudet Dec 2000 Feb 2004 Daniel Jeandupeux Feb 2004 Dec 2004 Frederic Hantz Dec 2004 07 Rudi Garcia 2007 08 Yves Bertucci 2008 09 Daniel Jeandupeux 2009 Arnaud Cormier 2009 Paulo Duarte 2009 Arnaud Cormier 2009 2011 Denis Zanko 2011 2013 Regis Beunardeau 2013 Stephane Guedet 2013 2014 Alexandre Clement 2014 2015 Richard Dezire 2015 2020 Reginald Ray 2020 7 8 Didier Olle Nicolle 2020 2021 9 10 Cris 2021 2022 Honours editDivision d Honneur Ouest Winners 1961 1965 Division d Honneur Maine Winners 2014 Coupe Gambardella Winners 2004References edit Le MUC 72 devient LEMANS FC Archived 4 December 2009 at the Wayback Machine L epopee Sang et OR in French Archived from the original on 6 March 2016 Retrieved 5 August 2016 Actualite LE MANS FC est en Ligue 2 www lemansfc fr Retrieved 4 June 2019 La Ligue 2 avec 22 clubs refusee par la FFF in French foot national com 27 May 2020 Le Mans FC squad Soccerway Perform Group Retrieved 21 December 2020 Equipe National in French Le Mans FC Retrieved 21 December 2020 Le Mans Ray Enclencher une nouvelle dynamique in French foot national com 2 March 2020 Le Mans Reginald Ray s en va off in French foot national com 28 May 2020 National Le Mans FC a trouve son entraineur in French footamateur fr 1 June 2020 National Le Mans FC se separe de Didier Olle Nicolle in French footamateur fr 17 May 2021 nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Le Mans FC Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Le Mans FC amp oldid 1174420632, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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