Canet Roussillon Football Club is an
association football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...
club based in
Canet-en-Roussillon
Canet-en-Roussillon (; ca, Canet de Rosselló, ; oc, Canet de Rosselhon, ) is a commune and town in the French department of the Pyrénées-Orientales, administrative region of Occitania.
Geography
Canet-en-Roussillon is located in the ca ...
, France. It was founded in 1934.
History
The club was founded in 1934 as ''Club Olympique Perpignanais.''
In the
2020–21 Coupe de France, Canet Roussillon pulled off an upset victory by beating
Ligue 1 giants
Marseille
Marseille ( , , ; also spelled in English as Marseilles; oc, Marselha ) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and capital of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the camargue region of southern Fra ...
, advancing to the round of 16 after a 2–1 win. They were eliminated in the quarter-final of the competition by
Montpellier.
In August 2021, Athlon CIF, an Australian fund, invested in Canet Roussillon, injecting €1.5 million into the club. This more than doubled the club's budget.
Historical names
* ''Club Olympique Perpignanais'' (1934–1949)
* ''Stade Olympique Perpignanais'' (1949–1952)
* ''Perpignan Football Club'' (1952–1997)
* ''Sporting Perpignan Roussillon'' (1997–2001)
* ''Perpignan Football Catalan'' (2001–2002)
* ''Perpignan Canet Football Club'' (2002–2014)
Current squad
Former players
*
Krzysztof Iwanicki
References
Association football clubs established in 1934
Sport in Pyrénées-Orientales
1934 establishments in France
Football clubs in Occitania (administrative region)
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