Croix de Savoie Gaillard

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Croix de Savoie

Full name

Football Croix de Savoie 74

Founded

2003

Ground

Stade Joseph-Moynat
(Capacity 6,000)

Chairman

Jo Dupraz

Manager

Pascal Dupraz

League

CFA Group B

2005-06

Championnat National, 18th





Home colours





Away colours

Football Croix de Savoie 74 is a football club originally based in Gaillard, Haute-Savoie, France, near the Swiss border and the city of Geneva. The team has recently moved to nearby Thonon-les-Bains.

In the 2005/06 season, the club was relegated from Championnat National, the 3rd tier of French football.

1 History
2 Recent Status
3 Notes and references
4 External links

[edit] History

Croix-de-Savoie 74 was formed in 2003 as a result of a merger between FC Gaillard (founded in 1924) and FC Ville-la-Grand.

While associated heavily with Gaillard, the club currently plays in Thonon-les-Bains. This is because their stadium in Gaillard was in August 2005 deemed unfit for use in the National division, forcing the club to move to Stade Joseph-Moynat in Thonon-les-Bains, a facility with 2,700 seats and a capacity of 6,000. The Gaillard stadium had only 2,000 places for spectators.

[edit] Recent Status

Croix-de-Savoie finished 3rd in the Championnat de France Amateurs Group B in 2003/04. Normally, only the top club in each of the four Amateur groups is promoted to the National league; however, both the 1st and 2nd placed clubs in Group B were reserve sides of professional teams, namely Lyon and Metz. As such, Croix-de-Savoie was promoted. ^[1]

The club's first season in the National division saw them narrowly avoid relegation, finishing 14th out of 20, two points above relegated 17th place Besançon RC.^[2] The 2005/06 season was less successful; Croix-de-Savoie finished 18th with 41 points, one point behind SO Châtellerault.^[3] Croix-de-Savoie's average attendance also dropped from 933 ^[4] to 716^[5].

Croix-de-Savoie has returned to the CFA (Amateurs) division for the 2006/07 season.