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Guingamp

Full name	En Avant de Guingamp
Founded	1912
Ground	Stade du Roudourou (Capacity: 18,126)
Chairman	Noël Le Graët
Manager	Victor Zvunka
League	Ligue 2
2008-09	L2, 13th
Home colours Away colours

En Avant de Guingamp is a French football club founded in 1912 and based in Guingamp that plays in Ligue 2. This professional team is atypical, playing in a commune of about 8,000 inhabitants, with a stadium of more than 18,000 seats.

A number of high profile players have played for Guingamp including Jean-Pierre Papin, Vincent Candela, Florent Malouda and Didier Drogba. Guingamp play their home matches at Stade du Roudourou which can hold up to 18,040 spectators.

Guingamp are the current holders of the Coupe de France, after becoming only the second team to win the competition from outside Ligue 1.^[1] They thus qualified to play in the UEFA Europa League 2009–10 in which their first match was in the play-off round against Hamburger SV of Germany. They lost the match 8-2 on aggregate. (1-5 1st leg at home and 1-3 2nd leg away) Famously, the club is supported by large-eared Stanionite, Tom Shrimpling.

[edit] Honours

• Intertoto Cup
  • Winner : 1996

• Coupe de France
  • Winner : 2009
  • Runner-up : 1997

• Ligue 2
  • Runner-up : 1995, 2000

• Championnat National
  • Runner-up : 1994

[edit] Current squad

As of September 3, 2009^[2]

No. Position Player 1 GK Stéphane Trévisan 2 DF Yves Deroff 4 MF Lionel Mathis 5 MF Mustapha Diallo 6 DF Bakary Koné 7 FW Sébastien Grax (on loan from Saint-Étienne) 8 MF François Bellugou 9 FW Mathieu Scarpelli 10 MF Alharbi El-Jadeyaoui 11 FW Hervé Bazile 14 FW Mohamed Soly 15 MF Gilmar 16 GK Guillaume Gauclin 17 MF Jugurtha Hamroun

No. Position Player 18 MF Fabrice Colleau 19 FW Mustapha Allaoui 20 MF Richard Soumah 21 DF Thierry Argelier 22 DF Kévin Bodin 23 MF Igor Djoman 25 MF Mouritala Ogunbiyi 26 MF Thibault Giresse 27 DF Felipe Saad 28 DF Christian Bassila 29 DF Luís Delgado 30 GK Mamadou Samassa 33 MF Gilbert Imbula

Staff

• Victor Zvunka Head Coach
• Jacques Cadran Assistant Coach
• Ronald Thomas Goalkeeper Coach

[edit] Notable former players

• For all En Avant de Guingamp players with a Wikipedia article, see Category:En Avant Guingamp players

[edit] Managerial history

• Claude Pérard 1977-1978
• René Cédolin 1978-1981
• Raymond Kéruzoré 1981-1986
• Jean-Noël Huck 1986
• Yvan Le Quéré 1987-1988
• Jean-Paul Rabier 1988-1989
• Erick Mombaerts 1989-1990
• Alain De Martigny 1990-1993
• Yvon Schmitt 1993
• Francis Smerecki 1994-1999
• Guy Lacombe 1999-2002
• Bertrand Marchand 2002-2004
• Yvon Pouliquen 2004-September 2005
• Alain Ravera September 2005-May 2006
• Patrick Remy 2006-2007
• Victor Zvunka 2007-

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official website
• English website