Montpellier

Full name	Montpellier Hérault Sport Club
Founded	1974
Ground	Stade de la Mosson, Montpellier (Capacity: 32,900)
Chairman	Louis Nicollin
Manager	Rene Girard
League	Ligue 1
2008-09	Ligue 2, 2nd (promoted)
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Montpellier Hérault Sport Club is a French football club, based in Montpellier currently playing in Ligue 1. MHSC is owned by Louis Nicollin. The team regained promotion to Ligue 1 after beating RC Strasbourg 2-1 at the Stade de la Mosson on 29th May 2009. The club also has a women's side, Montpellier HSC (Ladies).

Contents 1 Honours 2 Timeline 3 Current squad 3.1 Reserves squad 4 Notable players 5 Managerial history 6 References 7 External links

[edit] Honours

• Champion of Ligue 2 : 1946, 1961, 1987.
• Runner-up of Ligue 2 : 1952, 1981, 2009.
• Champion DH Sud-Est : 1928, 1932, 1976.
• Winner of the Coupe de France : 1929 (as SO Montpellier), 1990.
• Winner of the Coupe de la Ligue : 1992.
• Coupe de France Finalist : 1931, 1994.
• Winner of the Intertoto Cup : 1999.

[edit] Timeline

• 1919: founded as Stade Olympique de Montpellier (SO Montpellier).
• 1919: merged with "la Vie au Grand Air"
• 1927: renamed as Sports Olympiques Montpellierains
• 1932: became professional.
• 1937: took again its original name of Stade Olympique de Montpellier
• 1969: pro section abandoned.
• 1970: The club takes over "le Sport-Club" and renamed Montpellier-Littoral Sport Club.
• 1974: Club merges with AS Paillade and is renamed Montpellier La Paillade Sport Club. (arrival of Louis Nicollin in November 1974)
• 1978: becomes professional.
• 1989: Club renamed Montpellier-Hérault Sport Club.
• 2009: regained promotion to Ligue 1

[edit] Current squad

No. Position Player 1 GK Laurent Pionnier 3 DF Mapou Yanga-M'Biwa 4 DF Nenad Džodić (captain) 5 DF Emir Spahić 6 MF Joris Marveaux 7 MF Grégory Lacombe 8 MF Philippe Delaye 10 FW Lilian Compan 11 FW Víctor Montaño 12 FW Geoffrey Dernis 13 DF Mickaël Nelson 14 DF Mourad Benhamida 16 GK Geoffrey Jourdren

No. Position Player 17 MF Romain Pitau 18 FW Karim Aït-Fana 19 FW Souleymane Camara 20 MF Alberto Costa 21 DF Abdel El Kaoutari 22 DF Julio Colombo 23 MF Jamel Saihi 24 FW Bangali-Fodé Koita 25 DF Xavier Collin 27 DF Cyril Jeunechamp 28 MF Rémy Cabella 29 MF Younès Belhanda 30 GK Johann Carrasso 40 GK Anthony Scribe

[edit] Reserves squad

Montpellier's B team plays in the Championnat de France amateur, Group B

As of November 2009.

No. Position Player GK Jonathan Ligali GK Anthony Scribe DF Julio Colombo DF Antoine Jouan DF Mickaël Nelson DF Benjamin Stambouli MF Florent André MF Mourad Benhamida MF Ischam Berrached

No. Position Player MF Adrien Coulomb MF Jonas Martin FW Rémy Cabella FW Aurélien Ginestet FW Guillaume Legras FW Teddy Mézague FW Dimitri Sarasar FW Téji Savanier

[edit] Notable players

For full list, see Category:Montpellier HSC players

Had international caps for their respective countries. Players whose name is listed in bold represented their countries while playing for Montpellier.

France William Ayache Pascal Baills Bruno Bellone Laurent Blanc Gérard Buscher Eric Cantona Fleury Di Nallo Fabrice Divert Patrice Garande Xavier Gravelaine Vincent Guérin Pierre Laigle Jean-François Larios Thierry Laurey Jean-Claude Lemoult Patrice Loko Christian Lopez Bruno Martini Michel Mézy Nicolas Ouédec Stéphane Paille Gérald Passi Reynald Pedros Christian Perez William Prunier Laurent Robert Albert Rust Christian Sarramagna Franck Sauzée Franck Silvestre Jacques Vergnes Daniel Xuereb Algeria Malek Aït-Alia Omar Belbey Kader Ferhaoui Ahmed Reda Madouni Abdelnasser Ouadah

Argentina José Luis Villareal Armenia Michel Der Zakarian Benin Laurent D'Jaffo Bosnia and Herzegovina Emir Spahić Brazil Júlio César Bulgaria Nikolay Todorov Burkina Faso Habib Bamogo Abdoulaye Cissé Cameroon Thierry Gathuessi Marcel Mahouvé Valéry Mézague Roger Milla Alexis N'Gambi Bill Tchato Colombia Víctor Bonilla Carlos Valderrama Côte d'Ivoire Georges Ba Ibrahima Bakayoko Gérard Gnanhouan Marc-Éric Gueï Croatia Aljoša Asanović

Guinea Fodé Mansaré Hungary László Kiss András Törőcsik Japan Nozomi Hiroyama Martinique Ludovic Clément Mayotte Toifilou Maoulida Morocco Mehdi Taouil Netherlands Wilbert Suvrijn Poland Roman Kosecki Jacek Ziober Réunion Bertrand Robert Senegal Souleymane Camara Aliou Cissé Lamine Sakho Serbia and Montenegro Nenad Džodić Togo Robert Malm Tunisia Jamel Saihi Yugoslavia Nenad Stojković

[edit] Managerial history

Joseph Azema 1938-1939 Georges Kramer 1946-1948 Georges Winckelmans 1948-1950 Istvan Zavadsky 1950-1951 Joszef Pepi Humpal 1951-1952 Luis Cazorro 1952-1953 Julien Darui 1953-1954 Marcel Tomazover 1954-1956 Istvan Zavadsky 1956-1958 Hervé Mirouze 1958-1963 Louis Favre 1963-1968 Roger Rolhion 1968-1969 Marian Borowski 1969-1970 Hervé Mirouze 1970-1974 André Cristol 1974-1976 Louis Favre 1976 Robert Nouzaret 1976-1980

Kader Firoud and Jacques Bonnet 1980-January 1982 Jacques Bonnet January 1982-1983 Robert Nouzaret 1983-1985 Michel Mézy 1985-1987 Pierre Mosca 1987-1989 Aimé Jacquet 1989-February 1990 Michel Mézy February 1990-1990 Henryk Kasperczak 1990-1992 Gérard Gili and Jean-Louis Gasset 1992-November 1994 Michel Mézy November 1994-1998 Jean-Louis Gasset 1998-November 1999 Michel Mézy November 1999-November 2002 Gérard Bernardet November 2002-February 2004 Robert Nouzaret February-September 2004 Jean-François Domergue November 2004-April 2007 Rolland Courbis April 2007-June 2009 Rene Girard June 2009-

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[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official website

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