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 canto ...

, France. It was founded in 1934.

History

The club was founded in 1934 as ''Club Olympique Perpignanais.'' In the

2020–21 Coupe de France The 2020–21 Coupe de France was the 104th season of the main football cup competition of France. The competition was organised by the French Football Federation (FFF) and is normally open to all clubs in French football, as well as clubs from t ...

, Canet Roussillon pulled off an upset victory by beating

Ligue 1 Ligue 1, officially known as Ligue 1 Uber Eats for sponsorship reasons, is a French professional league for men's association football clubs. At the top of the French football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. A ...

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 Franc ...

, advancing to the round of 16 after a 2–1 win. They were eliminated in the quarter-final of the competition by

Montpellier Montpellier (, , ; oc, Montpelhièr ) is a city in southern France near the Mediterranean Sea. One of the largest urban centres in the region of Occitania (administrative region), Occitania, Montpellier is the prefecture of the Departments of ...

. 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) {{France-footyclub-stub