Gazélec Ajaccio

GFC Ajaccio

Full name

Gazélec Football Club Ajaccio

Nickname(s)

Le Gaz, Le Bistrot

Founded

1910

Ground

Stade Ange Casanova
Ajaccio (Corse-du-Sud)

Capacity

8,000

President

François Tagliaglioli

Coach

Thierry Laurey

League

Ligue 2

2013-14

National, 3rd (promoted)

Website

Club home page

Home colours

Away colours

Gazélec Football Club Ajaccio, sometimes called GFCO Ajaccio, is a French football club from Ajaccio, Corsica. Founded in 1910, Gazélec play in Ligue 2, the second tier of football in France. They are best known for reaching the semi-finals of the 2011-12 Coupe de France, in which they hosted later home games at the larger Stade François Coty, home of AC Ajaccio.

Honours

French Amateur Champions: 1963, 1965, 1966, 1968.
Corsican Champions: 1937, 1938, 1956, 1957, 1961.
CFA Champions: 2003, 2011.

Rivalries

The club has rivalries with the other two Corsican professional clubs; SC Bastia, and AC Ajaccio with whom contest the Ajaccio derby, although for many years Gazélec has fared much worse than their rivals.

Current squad

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

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Clément Maury
2	DF	Cyriaque Rivieyran
3	DF	Yoann Andreu
4	DF	Rodéric Filippi
5	DF	Jérémie Bréchet
6	DF	David Ducourtioux
7	MF	Julien François
8	MF	Pierre-François Sinapi
9	FW	Kévin Mayi
10	MF	Mohamed Larbi
11	FW	Ali M'Madi

No.	Position	Player
12	FW	Florian Fabre
18	DF	Amos Youga
19	MF	Rafik Boujedra
20	MF	Louis Poggi (captain)
21	DF	Pablo Martinez
22	DF	Matar Fall
24	FW	John Tshibumbu
25	FW	Lucas Libbra
28	FW	Grégory Pujol
29	FW	Khalid Boutaïb
30	GK	Jules Goda

Managers

1960-1961 : Fernand Berthon
1961-1971 : Pierre Cahuzac
1971-1976 : Guy Calléja
1976-1978 : Jean Luciano
1978-1979 : Jacques Berthommier
1979-1980 : Paul Orsatti
1980-1982 : Guy Calléja
1982-1988 : Guy Calléja

1988-1989 : Baptiste Gentili
1989-1990 : Guy Calléja
1990-1991 : Jean-Michel Cavalli
1991-1994 : Pierre Garcia
1994 : Marcel Husson
1995 : Philippe Anziani
1995-1998 : Paul Orsatti
1998-1999 : Jean-Michel Cavalli

1999-2000 : Patrice Buisset
2000 : Jean-Michel Cavalli
2000-01 : Hubert Velud
2001-03 : Jean-Luc Luciani
2003-2004 : Jean-Luc Luciani
2004 : Albert Vanucci
2004-2005 : Baptiste Gentili
2005-2010 : Patrick Leonetti

2010-2012 : Dominique Veilex
2012-2013 : Jean-Michel Cavalli
2013- : Thierry Laurey

Ligue 2 teams

2014–15 clubs	AC Ajaccio Gazélec Ajaccio Angers Arles-Avignon Auxerre Brest Châteauroux Clermont Créteil Dijon Laval Le Havre Nancy Nîmes Niort Orléans Sochaux Tours Troyes Valenciennes

Former teams	Abbeville Aix-en-Provence Alès Amiens Ancenis Angoulême Annecy Antibes Avignon CA Bastia SC Bastia Beauvais Besançon Béziers Blénod Blois Boulogne Bourges Bordeaux Caen Calais Cambrai Cannes Charleville Chaumont Cherbourg Club Français Colmar Creil Douai Dunkerque Épinal Évian Fives Fontainebleau Forbach Grenoble Gueugnon Guingamp Hazebrouck Hyères Istres La Roche-sur-Yon Le Mans Lens Le Puy Foot Libourne-Saint-Seurin Lille Olympique Lillois Limoges Foot Lorient Louhans-Cuiseaux Lucé Lyon Lyon OU Mantes Marignane Marseille Martigues Metz Monaco Montceau-les-Mines Montluçon Montmorillon Montpellier Mulhouse FC Nancy Nantes Nice Nœux-les-Mines Paris Paris-Charenton Paris Saint-Germain Racing Paris Red Star Paris Perpignan Poitevin Quevilly Quimper Rodez Reims Rennes Excelsior Roubaix Racing Roubaix Roubaix-Tourcoing Rouen Saint-Brieuc Saint-Dié Saint-Étienne Sedan Sète Stade Français Strasbourg Thionville Thonon-Chablais Toulon Toulouse Toulouse (1937) Troyes AF Troyes ASTS Valence Vannes Villefranche Wasquehal

Division 2 / Ligue 2 seasons

Division 2 (1933–2002)	1933–34 1934–35 1935–36 1936–37 1937–38 1938–39 1939–40 1940–41 1941–42 1942–43 1943–44 1944–45 1945–46 1946–47 1947–48 1948–49 1949–50 1950–51 1951–52 1952–53 1953–54 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02

Ligue 2 (2002–present)	2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15

List of French second division champions