Stade Briochin

Stade Briochin
Full nameStade Briochin
Nickname(s)Les Griffons[1] [2]
Founded1904; 120 years ago (1904)
GroundStade Fred-Aubert
Capacity11,000 (3,500 seated)
ChairmanGuillaume Allanou
CoachGuillaume Allanou
LeagueNational 2 Group C
2022–23Championnat National, 15th of 18 (relegated)
Websitehttps://www.stadebriochin.com

Stade Briochin, founded in 1904, are a French association football team based in Saint-Brieuc, France. As of the 2023–24 season, they play in the Championnat National 2, the fourth tier in the French football league system. They play at the Stade Fred-Aubert in Saint-Brieuc, which can hold 11,000 fans.

They have played for the majority of their existence at the amateur levels of the French football league system, but did spend three seasons in the second tier of the professional league during the period 1993–1997, before suffering liquidation and an enforced relegation to fifth tier.

History

Until 1959, Stade Briochin competed in the Ligue de Bretagne, the regional amateur league of Brittany. For five of the next ten years they contested the Championnat de France Amateur, which at the time was the top tier of Amateur football. They competed around this level, as the French football league system restructured itself, until 1988 when they were relegated from the Ligue de Bretagne Division Honneur (the fifth tier, in effect, at this stage) to the Ligue de Bretagne Division Supérieure Régionale.

From the 1988–89 season, the club won promotions in three out of four seasons, and in 1993–94 they finished 6th in Division 2, which is still their highest finish to date.

In the 1996–97 season, the club started to suffer from debt issues, and on 24 March 1997 they were liquidated by order of court and administratively relegated from the professional football league.[3]

The club restarted in Championnat de France Amateur 2 for the 1997–98 season, falling to the Ligue de Bretagne Division Honneur (now the sixth tier) in 2008 and further to the Ligue de Bretagne Division Supérieure Élite (seventh tier) in 2011. Successive promotions in 2012 and 2013 brought the club back to CFA 2.

In the 2019–2020 season they won promotion to the Championnat National by being top of the Championnat National 2 Group B table when the season was curtailed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[4]

Honours

Professional Competition

National Amateur Competition

Regional Amateur Competition

  • Division Honneur (Ligue de l'Ouest) 1959, 1968, 1974, 1990
  • Division Honneur (Brittany): 2013

Current squad

As of 1 February 2023.[5] Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK Morocco MAR Alaa Bellaarouch (on loan from Strasbourg)
2 DF France FRA Christophe Kerbrat
3 DF Guadeloupe GLP Jean-Pierre Morgan
4 DF France FRA Kévin Simon
5 DF France FRA Hugo Boudin
6 MF France FRA Maël Illien
7 FW Senegal SEN Ansou Sow
9 FW France FRA Aimeric Gomis
10 MF France FRA Mathéo Remars
11 FW Guinea GUI Fodé Guirassy
12 MF Senegal SEN Abdourahmane Ndiaye
14 MF France FRA Guillaume Beghin
No. Pos. Nation Player
15 DF France FRA James Le Marer
16 GK Senegal SEN Cheikh N'Diaye
17 FW France FRA Stan Janno
18 DF France FRA Ryan Sabry (on loan from Nantes)
22 DF Ivory Coast CIV Benjamin Angoua
23 MF France FRA Amir Nouri
24 MF France FRA Léo Yobé
25 MF France FRA Julien Benhaim
27 FW France FRA Hicham Benkaid
30 GK France FRA Kévin Le Corvaisier
40 GK France FRA Sonny Laiton (on loan from Auxerre)
DF Senegal SEN Youssoupha N'Diaye (on loan from Paris FC)

References

  1. ^ "Les Griffons accèdent au Championnat National de Football !" (in French). Stade Briochin. 17 April 2020.
  2. ^ "#857 – Stade Briochin : les Griffons" (in French). footnickname. 25 September 2022.
  3. ^ "Saint-Brieuc, orphelin du foot Les supporteurs digèrent mal la liquidation judiciaire du club de D2" (in French). 6 May 1997. Retrieved 7 March 2016.
  4. ^ "Le Stade briochin retrouve enfin le championnat de National" (in French). ouest france. 16 April 2020.
  5. ^ "Stade Briochin - équipe de National". stadebriochin.com. Retrieved 11 February 2021.