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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