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Nantes

Name: Football Club de Nantes
League: Ligue 1
Location: City of Nantes
Nickname: Les Canaris
Founded: 1943
Team Colours
- Home: yellow, green
- Away: grey, yellow
Joined the League: 1979
Manager: Elie Baup
Stadium: La Beaujoire-Louis Fonteneau

Club Honours
Ligue 1: 1965, 1966, 1973, 1977, 1980, 1983, 1995, 2001
French Cup:
1979, 1999, 2000
Trophée des Champions:
1999, 2001

The FC Nantes team was founded at City of Nantes in 1943. The club started as a small team but became successful over the years, especially since the mid 1960s after the team entered in the first division for the first time.

Nantes has one of the most impressive records in France, with 8 Ligue 1 titles and 3 Coupe de France. On European competition, the club got to the semifinals of UEFA Cup Winners' Cup during the season 1979-80 and to the UEFA Champions League semifinals in the 1995-96 season.

Nantes has been really successful in League 1, where it has played a total of 45 seasons, with an overall record of 735 games won, 455 lost and 465 tied.

During the 2000s, the team has remained mostly on the lower half of the Ligue 1 table, and even had to face relegation for the first time in 44 years after 2006-07 season when they finished in the last position of the table. Nevertheless, they finished in the second place of Ligue 2 during the 2007-08 season and regained the promotion again for this season 2008-09.

Nantes Current Squad

No.  Pos Player No.  Pos Player
1 GK Tony Heurtebis 19 MF Stefan Babović
2 DF Ibrahim Tall 20 FW Christian Bekamenga
3 DF Douglão 21 MF William Vainqueur
4 DF Kévin das Neves 22 MF Guirane N'Daw
5 DF Jean-Jacques Pierre 23 MF Ricardo Faty
6 DF Guillaume Moullec 24 DF Loïc Guillon
7 MF Djamel Abdoun 25 DF Karim El Mourabet
8 MF Frédéric Da Rocha (captain) 26 DF Yoann Poulard
9 MF Thomas Dossevi 28 FW Claudiu Keserü
10 FW Mamadou Bagayoko 29 DF Michael Gravgaard
11 MF Aurélien Capoue 31 DF Mathias Coureur
12 FW Filip Đorđević 32 DF Éric Cubilier
13 FW Nicolas Goussé 33 MF Kévin Barré
15 DF Rémi Maréval 40 GK Guy Rolland N'dy Assembe
16 GK Jérôme Alonzo -- MF Ronny Rodelin
17 FW Ivan Klasnić
18 MF David de Freitas

*Squad as of July 3, 2008

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