Lorient

Full name	Football Club Lorient-Bretagne Sud
Nickname(s)	Les Merlus
Founded	1926
Ground	Stade du Moustoir (Capacity: 16 669)
Chairman	Loïc Fery
Manager	Christian Gourcuff
League	Ligue 1
2008-09	L1, 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. ^[1]

Contents 1 History 2 Honours 3 Current squad 4 Notable former players 5 Managerial history 6 References 7 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

As of 9 September 2009 '^[3]

No. Position Player 1 GK Lionel Cappone 2 DF Franco Sosa 4 DF Laurent Koscielny 5 DF Benjamin Genton 6 MF Gabriel Peñalba 7 MF Arnold Mvuemba 8 MF Yann Jouffre 9 FW Kevin Gameiro 10 MF Olivier Monterrubio 11 MF Sigamary Diarra 12 FW James Fanchone 14 DF Arnaud Le Lan 15 DF Jérémy Morel 16 GK Fabien Audard

No. Position Player 17 DF Maxime Baca 18 MF Morgan Amalfitano 19 FW Marama Vahirua 20 MF Rafik Bouderbal 21 DF Namaie Mendy 22 MF Maxime Barthelme 23 DF Yazid Mansouri 24 MF Antoine Buron 25 MF Jonas Sakuwaha 27 FW Yaya Diané 28 MF Pierre Ducasse (on loan from Bordeaux) 29 DF Sylvain Marchal (captain) 30 GK Alban Joinel

[edit] Notable former players

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

Algeria Ali Bouafia Mahi Khennane Moussa Saïb Rafik Saïfi Karim Ziani France Fabien Audard Jean-Claude Darcheville Remi Gaillard 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- [4][5]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

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

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