Paris FC

Paris FC
Full name	Paris Football Club
Nickname(s)	PFC
Founded	1969
Ground	Stade Charléty; (Capacity: 20,000)
Chairman	Guy Cotret
Manager	Jean-Marc Pilorget
League	Championnat National
2008-09	CN, 6th
Home colours	Away colours

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Paris FC is a French football club located in the east of Paris. The club was founded in 1969. The club is currently competing in the French Championnat National.

[edit] Honours

Championnat de France Amateurs Groupe D Champions - 2006
Championnat de France Amateurs Groupe F Champions - 1989
DH Ligue de Paris Champions - 1988

[edit] History

In an effort to relaunch pro-football in the city of Paris, Paris FC was founded in 1969. The objective of the club was to be playing first division football by 1970. An attempted merger with CS Sedan was refused so Paris went looking in the second division and finally merged with Stade St. Germain to create Paris Saint-Germain Football Club. Paris FC, as we know it today, came into being in 1972 when it split from Stade St. Germain, after coming under pressure from the Mayor’s office which refused to support a non-Paris team. Finally after the bitter split, Paris FC and PSG were created with Paris FC keeping their first division status and all the professional players while PSG were relegated to the third division with all the amateur players. So at the beginning of the 72/73 season Paris FC was a first division side playing at the new Parc des Princes while PSG was an amateur side playing third division football. The ultimate irony was PSG’s promotion to the first division in 1973/74 which coincided with Paris FC’s relegation from the same division. Paris FC made it back to the top-flight in 1978 after being Division 2 runners-up. The 78/79 season was a difficult one which finished with Paris’ relegation after finishing 19th. Paris finished 7th in 1979/80 and reached the semi-finals of the French cup, beating Belfort 2-1 in the 1st Round, Stade Quimperois (2-1 A) (2-0 H) in the 2nd Round, Rennes in the 3rd Round having lost the first leg 2-0 but coming back to stylishly win the return 4-0, a 1-1 home draw was followed by a 2-0 win at AJ Auxerre. The semi-final first leg was at fellow division two side US Orléans and finished 3-1 to the home side, the return match finishing 2-1 to Paris FC. In 1983 Paris FC managed to finish 4th but missed out on promotion. Paris FC, again due to a split, was relegated to division four in the summer of 1983. Relegation to division five quickly followed where the club spent four seasons before finally getting back into division four by finishing champions in 1988. The winning continued and another championship was Paris’ by the end of 1988/89. Between 1989 and 2000, only in 1992 did Paris FC threaten to make it back into the second division. Unfortunately, the club suffered relegation in 2000 finishing 17th. Since then, the club has found it difficult to get out of division four where only the champions are promoted. Paris had the honour of doing the double over the champions Vannes OC 2-0 and 1-0 this season. In 2006, Paris FC finally managed to vacate division four in the right direction, by winning the Championnat de France Amateurs Group D. Thus achieving promotion into the Championnat National (division three). Paris FC are now just one promotion away from appearing in Ligue 2, for the first time in 23 years.

In the 2007-08 season, Paris FC humbled Toulouse FC 2-1 at the Stadium Municipal, the biggest shock of the tournament that season.

[edit] Current squad

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Vincent de Marconnay
2	DF	Lamine Sankaré
2	MF	Alain Bono
4	DF	Michel Akabla
5	DF	Serge Mimpo
6	DF	Brahim Bennaï
7	DF	Erico N'Da Ka
8	MF	Fabien Valeri
9	FW	Ahmed Tangeaoui
10	MF	Julian Palmieri
11	DF	Price Jolibois
12	FW	Yannick Yenga
13	MF	Lahoucine Kharbouch
14	MF	Cérou Fofana
15	FW	Charly Kiaku
16	GK	Stéphane Lucas

No.	Position	Player
17	MF	Vincent Durand
18	MF	Pape Sarr
19	MF	Selim Bouadla (on loan from Le Havre)
20	MF	Abdoulaye Diawara
21	FW	Patrick Amoah
23	MF	Guimba Macalou
24	MF	Sébastien Vaugeois
25	DF	Anthony Weber (on loan from Strasbourg)
26	DF	Fodé Diakité
27	MF	Anthony Losilla
28	FW	Alioune Kébé
29	DF	Gilles Cioni
30	GK	Raphaël Ville
31	GK	Cédric Mensah