Troyes Troyes () is a commune and the capital of the department of Aube in the Grand Est region of north-central France. It is located on the Seine river about south-east of Paris. Troyes is situated within the Champagne wine region and is near ...

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Stade de l'Aube Stade de l'Aube is a multi-use stadium in Troyes, France. It is currently used mostly for football matches, by Troyes AC Espérance Sportive Troyes Aube Champagne (ESTAC), commonly known as Troyes, is a football in France, French associatio ...

AS Troyes-Savinienne Association Sportive Troyenne et Savinienne, also known as AS Troyes-Savinienne, was a French football club based in Troyes. History The club was formed in 1931 from the merger of Troyes club Union Sportive Troyenne and AS Savinienne, a club from ...

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Roger Courtois Roger Courtois (30 May 1912 – 5 May 1972) was a French football player and manager. He played as a striker. International career Born in Switzerland to French parents, Courtois represented the France national team at the FIFA World Cup 1934 ...

Abdelaziz Ben Tifour Abdelaziz Ben Tifour ( ar, عبدالعزيز بن طيفور; – ) was a professional French-Algerian footballer who played as a midfielder. Life and career He was a pioneer of Algerian football playing in Tunisia and France in the 40s and ...

Marcel Artelesa Marcel Artelesa (2 July 1938 – 23 September 2016) was a French footballer who played as a defender. He played for France at the 1960 Summer Olympics, and in the 1966 FIFA World Cup in England.Pierre Flamion. It constituted one of the more glorious times for the club, as they reached the

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final in 1956, against

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, which they went on to lose 3–1. The same day, the youth team of the club won the

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, the French Youth cup. That very same year, the club failed to keep its place in French top flight, and was back in Division 2. It finally succeed in reaching the Première Division again in 1960, but only lasted one season, and was relegated in 1961. The club had some financial difficulties, and had to leave professional football at the end of the 1962–63 season, which they finished 17th out of 20. They continued for four more seasons at regional level, under the guidance of former ASTS player Jacques Diebold, before disappearing. Shortly after without any major club in Troyes, a new one was created in 1967, under the name Troyes Omnisports, still at regional level. It renamed itself Troyes Aube Football (TAF) in 1970 as it took back professional status, and was admitted to play in the Third Division. They were promoted to the Second Division after just one year. For their first season in Second division, under the lead of Pierre Flamion, they finished second, but failed to win promotion, as there were three Second division groups that season. They finished first next year, in 1973, and lost in the Champions final between the Champions of the two new groups against

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. The club had its longest consecutive run in

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, as they stayed five consecutive seasons in the top flight, from 1973 to 1978. It was however a difficult spell, as it struggled each season against relegation. Pierre Flamion left in 1975, and was replaced by René Cédolin, former

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manager. Its best position was 15th out of 20 in 1976–77. Even though they had some very good players, such as striker Gérard Tonnel (1972–1975, 107 games, 69 goals in

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and

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), right-back René Le Lamer (1973–1978), keeper Guy Formici (1970–1978) and Yugoslavian star, winger

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(1973–1976). They were finally relegated in 1978, finishing 19th. They suffered back to back relegations finishing 17th in the second division and dropped to the third division. This led to the club becoming bankrupt and merging with Patronage Laïque de Troyes, leaving Troyes without a professional Football Club yet again.

Current club ATAC/ESTAC (1986–present)

After the death of the second professional club from Troyes, some people tried to rebuild a new club, which could be able to come back to professional status. At first, in 1979, just after the disappearing of the TAF, they merged the amateurs teams the TAF with the Patronage Laïque de Troyes, creating the PL Foot, once again under the guidance of Jacques Diebold. The club only managed to reach the Fourth division in 1984, but became relegated after just one season, finishing 17th. To build a more lasting club, Maurice Cacciaguerra, Angel Masoni and others decided to create the Association Troyes Aube Champagne (ATAC), taking the place of the PL Foot in Division d'Honneur, French sixth division, at regional level. The new club won the championship in its first season, and was promoted to Fourth division in 1987. After just three seasons, they finished first of the Fourth Division in 1990, and reached the Third Division. Despite being well listed during the next three seasons, the club failed to gain promotion to the Second division. Due to the reform of French football leagues in 1993, the club was transferred to the newly formed Nationale 2, the new fourth level of French football. New president Angel Masoni called

Alain Perrin Alain André Christian Perrin (born 7 October 1956) is a French professional football manager and former player. Perrin made his managerial breakthrough at Troyes, whom he took from the fourth tier to Ligue 1 and UEFA Cup qualification by winnin ...

to take the lead of the team. He was to become the most successful manager ever in Troyes, and stayed nine years, from 1993 to 2002. In his first year, he won the Nationale 2, and ATAC was promoted to the Nationale 1 in 1994. The following year, Troyes finished 10th, before finishing 2nd in 1995–96, and was promoted to

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: for the first time since 1979, Troyes were playing professional football. Troyes first season was very difficult, as they finished 20th out of 22 teams, only keeping its place in Deuxième division due to the bankruptcy of FC Perpignan and FCO Charleville. The next two seasons were much more successful, they finished 5th in 1997–98, and 3rd in 1998–99, due to the presence of players more used to this level, such as Frédéric Adam, Richard Jeziersky, David Hamed,

Samuel Boutal Samuel Boutal (born 22 November 1969) is a French former professional footballer who played as a striker or attacking midfielder. Boutal helped Troyes become one of the winners of the 2001 UEFA Intertoto Cup. In the final Troyes beat Newcastle ...

, fans favourite

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and local players, such as captain

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. Troyes took the lead during the first part of the season. Even if the second part was more difficult, the team finished third, only on goal average, after a last win against

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. But most importantly Troyes was promoted to

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, 21 years after its last season at this level. In Troyes' first season in Ligue 1 in 1999–2000, the team finished in 14th place, thereby avoiding relegation. At the end of the season, the name ATAC was changed to ESTAC due to the complaints of a French discount supermarket chain having the same name. The glory days came in the next two seasons, as they twice finished seventh, qualifying them for the first time in their history for the

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in 2001 and 2002. In 2001, with players

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,

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,

Tony Heurtebis Tony Heurtebis (born 15 January 1975) is a French football goalkeeper who played for Stade Rennais, Troyes AC, Stade Brestois and FC Nantes Atlantique. He has been capped for the France under-21 squad. Statistics Honours Troyes AC *UEFA Inte ...

,

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and

Nicolas Goussé Nicolas Goussé (born 2 January 1976) is a French former professional footballer who played as a forward who is the assistant coach of Ligue 2 club Annecy. Career Goussé was born in Thouars, France. He helped Troyes become one of the winners ...

in the side, they defeated

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in an epic Intertoto Cup second leg final, which finished 4–4 at

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. After a first round qualification in UEFA Cup over Slovakian MFK Ruzomberok (6–1; 0–1), they lost to

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4-5 on aggregate despite having won the second leg 3–2, and failed to qualify to the third round. The following year, they beat Spanish side

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, drawing 0–0 in the first leg and winning the second leg 2–1. However, the result was voided as Troyes fielded a disqualified player, David Vairelles.

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disqualified ESTAC, and Villareal took their place instead. The sacking of new manager Jacky Bonnevay and the nomination of Faruk Hadzibegic in January did not save Troyes. They finished at the bottom of the

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, and were relegated to

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. Thanks to the takeover of new President Thierry Gomez, Troyes avoided bankruptcy to finish 10th the following season. In 2004,

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, who had spectacular results in

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with amateur side Libourne Saint-Seurin, was appointed manager. In his first season, the club secured promotion by finishing third, largely due to the great performances of two young strikers on loan, Sébastien Grax from

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and

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from

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. The club played some attractive football, in the style of former manager

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. The club maintained itself in

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in 2005–06, but failed the following season (2006–07), finishing in 18th position. Furlan left at the end of the season, and Denis Troch became the new manager. After failing to win promotion, with Troyes taking only 4 points in the last 11 games of the season and finishing in 6th place despite being in the top three during the majority of the season, Troch was sacked at the conclusion of the season. Ludovic Batelli was appointed next season, but had to struggle against relegation. He was sacked in April 2009 and caretaker manager, Claude Robin, previously Troyes' director of formation, did not manage to avoid relegation. With the club finding itself once again in financial difficulties, Thierry Gomez stepped down as president and was replaced by Daniel Masoni, son of former president Angel Masoni. In July 2009, Daniel Masoni engaged Patrick Rémy to replace Robin as manager. Rémy succeeded in taking Troyes back to Ligue 2, finishing third in the

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in 2010. However, after a disagreement with president Masoni, Remy quit in June 2010 and

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returned to manage the club. The club stayed in

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in the 2010–11 season, finishing 16th. After a slow start at the beginning of the new season, results improved as the season went on. Things improved greatly and Troyes found themselves challenging for promotion. They achieved this in the 37th game of the season, with a win over AS Monaco, on 11 May 2012. Crucial wins over arch-rivals Sedan, with a goal in the last minute to right back youngster Djibril Sidibé, and then a few weeks later against Clermont, who was third at the time, allowed Troyes to climb into the top three. Producing some of the most exciting football of the league, with players such as

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or Mounir Obbadi, a strong defence led by Rincón,

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, Matthieu Saunier and

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with the left back Fabrice N'Sakala and right back Djibril Sidibé, both products of the Academy, as well as midfielders Julien Faussurier and captain

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actually did what nobody expected at the beginning of the season. They had a strong second half of the season, with only 4 defeats, 5 draws and 10 victories (with just one loss in the 10 last games of the season). Troyes found themselves back in

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five years after their last stint, and just two season after playing in the third division. In the 2015–16

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season, Troyes were relegated to

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after finishing last on the table winning only three games all year and were humiliated in one match when they lost 9–0 at the hands of

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. On 29 May 2017, Troyes were promoted back to Ligue 1 at the first time of asking after defeating Lorient 2–1 on aggregate in the playoff/relegation match. On 20 May 2018, Troyes were relegated back to Ligue 2 after just one season in the top flight, finishing second from bottom. In the 2018–19

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season, Troyes finished in third place on the table. Troyes would go on to lose the playoff semi final against

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2–1 after extra time. On 3 September 2020,

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(CFG) announced that they had purchased a majority stake in Troyes AC. In the 2020–21 Ligue 2 season, Troyes were promoted back to Ligue 1 as champions of the division.

Players

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Famous past players

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Club Officials

Stadium

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in

Troyes Troyes () is a commune and the capital of the department of Aube in the Grand Est region of north-central France. It is located on the Seine river about south-east of Paris. Troyes is situated within the Champagne wine region and is near ...

,

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. It is currently used mostly for football matches, by

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. The stadium is able to hold 20,400 people and was built in 1956. In June 2013, the Stade de l'Aube is the first stadium to build its pitch using the AirFibr hybrid turf technology, developed by the French company Natural Grass.

Honours

Domestic

*

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*Winners: 2014–15,

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European

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*Winners:

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Troyes in European Football

References

External links

ES Troyes AC Official Website
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History

Previous clubs in Troyes (1900–1979)

Current club ATAC/ESTAC (1986–present)

Players

Current squad

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Famous past players

Club Officials

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European

Troyes in European Football

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