Grenoble Foot 38

History

The club was founded in 1911 as Football Club de Grenoble. In 1997, a merger of Olympique Grenoble Isère and Norcap Olympique led to the Grenoble Foot 38 incarnation. Olympique Grenoble Isère played in Ligue 1 in the 1960–61 and 1962–63 seasons.

In 2004, Grenoble Foot was acquired by Index Holdings, a Japanese mobile software company, therefore becoming the first French football club to have foreign owners. The price of the deal was around €2 million. The new owners invested in the Stade des Alpes, a new ground with an initial capacity of 20,000 which opened in February 2008. Grenoble finished the 2007–08 Ligue 2 season in third place, thus returning to Ligue 1 for the first time since 1963.

In the 2008–09 Ligue 1 season, Grenoble finished 13th. In the same season, Grenoble reached the semi-finals of the Coupe de France for the only time, defeating Monaco 2–0 at home in the quarter-finals on 18 March 2009, and losing by a single goal to Rennes in the semi-finals on 21 April.

The professional football club was liquidated in July 2011 with debts of €2.9 million, and relegated administratively to Championnat de France Amateur 2, the fifth tier. Index provided false financial statements during their ownership of the club.

Now an amateur side, Grenoble won promotion from Championnat de France Amateur 2 at the first attempt in 2012, and were champions of the 2016–17 Championnat de France Amateur, returning to Championnat National for the 2017–18 season. They secured their second successive promotion to Ligue 2 on 27 May 2018, after an aggregate play-off victory over Bourg-en-Bresse.

Name changes

• Football Club de Grenoble (1911–1977)
• Football Club Association Sportive de Grenoble (1977–1984)
• Football Club de Grenoble Dauphiné (1984–1990)
• Football Club de Grenoble Isère (1990–1992)
• Football Club de Grenoble Jojo Isère (1992–1993)
• Olympique Grenoble Isère (1993–1997)
• Grenoble Foot 38 (1997–present)

Players

Current squad

Out on loan

Notable players

Main article: Grenoble Foot 38 players

• FRA Youri Djorkaeff

Coaching staff

Managers

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• Jules Dewaquez (1945–1946)
• R. Lacoste (1953–1954)
• G. Dupraz (1957–1958)
• A. Fornetti (1958–1963)
• Albert Batteux (1963–1967)
• R. Abad (1967–1970)
• René Gardien (1970–1971)
• J. Donnard (1971–1972)
• R. Garcin (1972–1975)
• Jean Deloffre (1975–1978)
• R. Belloni (1978–1980)
• Michel Lafranceschina (1980–1981)
• Jean Djorkaeff (1981–1983)
• Claude Le Roy (1983–1985)
• Robert Buigues (1985–1986)
• Christian Dalger (1986–1989)
• Patrick Parizon (1989–1990)
• Noël Tosi (1990–1991)
• Bernard Simondi (1991–1993)
• B. David (1993–1994)
• C. Letard (1994–1995)
• É. Geraldes (1995–1996)
• Bernard Simondi (1996–1997)
• Alain Michel (1997–2001)
• Marc Westerloppe (2001–2002)
• Alain Michel (2002–2004)
• Thierry Goudet (2004–2006)
• Yvon Pouliquen (2006–2007)
• Mehmed Baždarević (2007–2010)
• Yvon Pouliquen (2010–2011)
• Olivier Saragaglia (2012–2015)
• Jean-Louis Garcia (2015–2016)
• Olivier Guégan (2016–2018)
• Philippe Hinschberger (2018–2021)
• Maurizio Jacobacci (2021)
• Vincent Hognon (2021–2024)
• Laurent Peyrelade (2024)
• Oswald Tanchot (2024)
• Franck Rizzetto (2025–Present)

Honours

• Ligue 2
  • Champions: 1960, 1962
• Championnat National
  • Champions: 2001
• Coppa delle Alpi
  • Runners-up: 1963
• Coupe Gambardella
  • Runners-up: 1987, 1990

References

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