Association football club in Bordeaux, France
This article is about the men ‘s football cabaret. For the women ‘s football golf club, see FC Girondins de Bordeaux ( women )
Football club

Football Club des Girondins de Bordeaux ( french pronunciation : ​ [ ʒiʁɔ̃dɛ̃ də bɔʁdo ] ), normally referred to as Girondins de Bordeaux ( Occitan : Girondins de Bordèu ) or just Bordeaux, is a french professional football cabaret based in the city of Bordeaux in Gironde, Nouvelle-Aquitaine. The cabaret presently play in Ligue 1, the circus tent division of french football. The team is presently coached by Vladimir Petkovic and captained by Laurent Koscielny. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Bordeaux was founded on 1 October 1881 as a multi-sports clubhouse and is one of the most successful football clubs in France. The club has won six Division 1/Ligue 1 titles, the stopping point in 2009. Bordeaux have besides won four Coupe de France titles, three Coupe de la Ligue titles, and three Trophée des champions titles vitamin a well. Bordeaux besides reached the Uefa Cup final in 1996. From a year to its origin, the club ‘s stadium was the Stade Chaban-Delmas, though since 2015, Bordeaux ‘s home ground has been the Matmut Atlantique. [ 3 ] [ 4 ]

history [edit ]

Beginnings [edit ]

The club took its name Girondins from the demonym for people from the region, and was founded on 1 October 1881 as a gymnastics and shooting golf club. The club, chaired by André Chavois, by and by added sports such as rowing, equestrian, and swim, among others. It was not until 1910 when football was formally introduced to the clubhouse following solid urging from respective members within the baseball club, most notably club president Raymond Brard, though it was only available on a trial basis. The experiment with football lasted alone a year before returning about a ten late in 1919. The baseball club contested its first official match in 1920 defeating Section Burdigalienne 12–0. [ 5 ] Bordeaux achieved professional status in football on 2 July 1936, partially ascribable to the baseball club ‘s fusion with boyfriend Bordelais outfit Girondins Guyenne Sport, which resulted in the club that exists today. Bordeaux ‘s arise to professionalism came about alongside the french Football Federation ‘s plea to increase professionalism in french football, which anterior to 1932, had been non-existent. The club was inserted into the second division of French football and made its debut appearance during the 1937–38 temper. The club ‘s first coach was Spaniard Benito Díaz. Diaz brought fellow spanish players Santiago Urtizberea and Jaime Mancisidor to the team with the latter service as captain. The golf club ‘s most big Frenchmen on the team were homegrown attacker Henri Arnaudeau and goalkeeper André Gérard. Bordeaux played its first official match on 23 May 1937 defeating Rhône-Alpes -based FC Scionzier 2–1 at the Stade de Colombes. The club ‘s beginning ever league match was contested on 22 August losing away to Toulouse 3–2. Bordeaux recorded its first base league acquire against Nîmes. unfortunately for the club, the team finished 6th in the southerly region of the division. Bordeaux ‘s disappointing finish inserted the club into the delegating playoff dowry of the league where the team finished a goodly 3rd. A year later, Bordeaux moved into a new home, the Stade Chaban-Delmas, which had previously been known as, just Parc Lescure. The facility was built specifically for the 1938 FIFA World Cup and, following the contest ‘s completion, was designated to Bordeaux. The club had once played its home matches at the Stade Galin, which today is used as a train ground. [ 5 ]

achiever and stability [edit ]

trophy of the centennial tournament of Girondins de Bordeaux On 15 October 1940, Bordeaux merged with local club AS Port and took on one of the club ‘s most prestigious traditions, the scapular. Bordeaux ASP, which the club was now known, adorned the scapular during its melt to the 1941 edition of the Coupe de France final examination. The match, played in occupy France at the Stade Municipal in Saint-Ouen, saw Bordeaux frustration SC Fives 2–0 with Urtizberea netting both goals. The Coupe de France triumph was the club ‘s first major honor. Following the dismissal of France, Bordeaux returned to league turn and earn promotion to the beginning class following its 2nd-place finish during the 1948–49 season. After the season, André Gérard, now coach of the baseball club, signed Dutchman Bertus de Harder. Led by the three-headed freak of De Harder, Édouard Kargu, and Camille Libar, Bordeaux captured its first-ever league backing, in equitable the club ‘s foremost temper in the first base division, winning by six points over second base identify Lille. The league success led to Bordeaux being selected to participate in the second version of the Latin Cup. In the contest, Bordeaux reached the final examination draw 3–3 with portuguese kit Benfica. The draw forced a second catch with Benfica claiming victory following an extra time goal after over two hours and 25 minutes of looseness. [ 5 ] Bordeaux maintained its title-winning aspirations finishing runner-up to Nice two seasons after winning its first deed. The club besides performed well in cup competitions reaching the Coupe de France final in 1952 and 1955. In 1952, Bordeaux suffered frustration to the team it finished runner-up to the lapp year, Nice, following a thrilling catch in which eight goals were scored with five of them coming in the first base 40 minutes. Bordeaux drew the match at 3–3 following a 55th-minute goal from Henri Baillot, but Nice countered minutes late with two goals in a bridge of four minutes to go up 5–3, which was the concluding solution. In 1955, Bordeaux were trounced 5–2 by Lille who went up 4–0 within 35 minutes. The resulting struggles in the cup competitions led to struggles domestically with the club suffering delegating in the 1955–56 season. The club returned to the foremost division for the 1959–60 season, but failed to make an affect falling back to Division 2 after finishing stopping point in the standings with 21 points. [ 5 ] Bordeaux returned to its former selves in the 1960s under new coach and former musician Salvador Artigas. Under the helm of Artigas, Bordeaux returned to the first division and finished in a goodly fourthly rate for the 1962–63 season. The stick to season, Bordeaux returned to the Coupe de France final where the clubhouse faced off against Lyon. Bordeaux, once again, were defeated 2–0 courtesy of two goals from the Argentine Nestor Combin. The golf club ‘s runner-up finish resulted in the team qualifying for the 1964–65 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup. The appearance was brief with the club losing 4–3 on aggregate to german club Borussia Dortmund. Four seasons later, Bordeaux again reached the final of the Coupe de France, the club ‘s seventh appearance overall. The team faced Saint-Étienne and, again failed to match the accomplishment reached in 1941 losing 2–1. The pursue season, Bordeaux earned another appearance in the final, but again, failed to win the trophy losing 2–0 to Marseille. The team suffered an extreme decay during the 1970s, despite the arrival of Alain Giresse. The cabaret played under seven different managers during the decade and systematically finished at the bottomland half of the postpone. In 1979, the club was sold to the influential and ambitious substantial estate of the realm mogul Claude Bez, who positioned himself as president of the club. In the summer of 1983, Girondins de Bordeaux organised a centennial tournament ; Bordeaux won a 2–0 victory over Barcelona in the semi-finals of this tournament, and in the final examination, the club was defeated by VfB Stuttgart. [ 5 ] [ 6 ]

return to prominence in the 1980s [edit ]

Alain Giresse, influential Bordeaux player in the ’70s and ’80s and the club’s all-time top scorer. Under the helm of Claude Bez, who injected millions into the golf club, Bordeaux flourished winning three league championships, two Coupe de France titles, and besides performed well in european competitions. During Bez ‘s run preside over the team, he recruited several french internationals such as Bernard Lacombe, Jean Tigana, René Girard, Jean-Christophe Thouvenel, and Thierry Tusseau. Bez besides brought in established coach Aimé Jacquet. Led by 1970s mainstays Giresse and Gernot Rohr, Bordeaux captured its beginning league championship since 1950 in the 1983–84 season finishing equal on points with Monaco, however, ascribable to having a better neck and neck commemorate, Bordeaux were declared champions. The next season, Bordeaux again won the league claiming the style by four points over moment plaza Nantes. In Europe, Bordeaux played in the 1984–85 european Cup and reached the semi-finals, defeating spanish club Athletic Bilbao, romanian club Dinamo București, and soviet outfit Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk before losing to italian club Juventus. In the Coupe de France, Bordeaux last achieved cup glory defeating Marseille 2–1 in the 1986 edition of the final with Tigana and Giresse recording both goals. The Coupe de France trophy was the club ‘s first since 1941 after eight agonising attempts in finals. The play along year the club responded by winning the trophy again ; in a re-match with Marseille, Bordeaux won its second straight cup courtesy of goals from Philippe Fargeon and Zlatko Vujović. Bordeaux then capped off the 1986–87 Division 1 season by winning its fourth league title and achieving the double over a well. In 1989, Bordeaux ended the decade with a back-to-back runner-up decoration in their 1989 Ligue 1 political campaign and getting up towards the semi-final in a potent european Cup run that temper. [ 7 ]

Rising from the ashes in the 1990s [edit ]

due to administrative problems, the cabaret was relegated just two years thereafter. In 1992, however, Les Girondins won that year ‘s Division 2 title, therefore being elevated to the acme tier of french football. In the emergence of young and exciting players such as playmaker Zinedine Zidane, striker Christophe Dugarry and left back Bixente Lizarazu, the clubhouse ascended even higher to win the UEFA Intertoto Cup in 1995. With this talented three, the cabaret defeated FC Rotor Volgograd ( the 1995 King ‘s Cup Winner ), real Betis, Milan and Slavia Prague in the second base, third, quarter- and semi-finals respectively to reach the UEFA Cup final of 1996. Bordeaux witnessed even further aura merely three years belated, winning their fifth title in that of the 1999 Ligue 1 with winger Sylvain Wiltord winning the Golden Boot of that season with 22 goals. [ 7 ]

Into the 2000s [edit ]

During the 1999–2000 season, the club played in the new UEFA Champions League for the first time. In two seasons time Bordeaux won another piece of silverware, beating Lorient 3–0 in the 2002 Coupe de la Ligue final. Le club au scapulaire then two seasons late defeated Club Brugge 4–1 on aggregate in the fourth round to reach the 2004 UEFA Cup quarter-finals, where the club fell to eventual winners Valencia. [ 7 ] Bordeaux got to another final in 2007 where there were finally victorious in winning the Coupe de la Ligue of that class. Bordeaux then achieved far respect in winning the Ligue 1 and Coupe de la Ligue titles of the 2008–09 french footballing temper frankincense achieving the first always double in the club ‘s history. [ 8 ] In 2013, Bordeaux won the Coupe de France defeating Evian 3–2 in the concluding. [ 9 ] In the 2013–14 Ligue 1 season, Bordeaux finished 7th in the table. [ 10 ] In 2015, Bordeaux appointed Willy Sagnol but in 2016 Sagnol was terminated after entirely winning one match in the first gear eight games of the season and was replaced by Ulrich Rame. [ 11 ] On 27 May 2016, Rame was replaced by Jocelyn Gourvennec. [ 12 ] On 20 January 2018, Gourvennec was terminated and was replaced by Gus Poyet. Poyet guided Bordeaux to a 6th-placed finish at the end of the season. [ 13 ] In July 2018, general American Capital Partners ‘s CEO Joseph DaGrosa pursued the leverage of the french professional football team for €70 million after 19 years of M6 ‘s ownership. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] On 18 August 2018, Poyet was suspended by Bordeaux after labelling the situation as “ embarrassing ” when Gaëtan Laborde was sold to Montpellier without his cognition or accept. On 5 September 2018, Ricardo Gomes was appointed as “ General Manager ” — he did not possess the necessity coach badges to be formally appointed the first-team coach. On 23 April 2021, citing decreased tax income due to the COVID-19 pandemic and loss of income when Mediapro, television rights holder, went bankrupt and missed payments last class, the club was placed in presidency when american english owners King Street stated they would no longer support the club financially. [ 16 ]

Rivalries [edit ]

Bordeaux have two independent rivalries, first the Derby de la Garonne with Toulouse FC, so named because Bordeaux and Toulouse are the two major clubs that play in cities that are along the river Garonne. The consistency and competitiveness of the competition developed following Toulouse ‘s return to Ligue 1 after being administratively relegated to the Championnat National in 2001. Les Girondins besides contest the Derby de l’Atlantique with their other independent rival FC Nantes, with the bowler hat ‘s name stemming from the two clubs ‘ proximity to the Atlantic Ocean. The history of this competition besides transcends to over 50 years and 90 bowler hat games played between the two clubs wholly. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] [ 19 ] Bordeaux besides holds a 44-year-old record against another bad rival, Olympique de Marseille. Bordeaux has not lost a single Ligue 1 home crippled to Marseille since October 1, 1977 .
Since July 2020, the equipment manufacturer of the Girondins de Bordeaux is Adidas. [ 20 ] The club ‘s chief sponsors are the restaurant chain Bistro Régent, the on-line betting company Betclic and the car franchise SEAT Cupra. early sponsors are UNMI, Abatilles, Carlsberg, Mumm, Coca-Cola, La Bordelaise de Lunetterie, TBM, Bordeaux City Council, Gironde General Council, New Aquitaine Region .

Players [edit ]

current police squad [edit ]

As of 25 September 2021[21]

note : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

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On loan [edit ]

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Reserve team [edit ]

As of 25 September 2021 [ 22 ]
notice : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .

club records [edit ]

Most appearances [edit ]

crown Scorers [edit ]

[ 23 ]

management and staff [edit ]

Club Management[24]
  • President: Frédéric LONGUEPEE
  • Director of Football: Alain Roche
  • Secretary General in charge of Legal Affairs: Heidi VERDET
  • Deputy General Director: Thomas JACQUEMIER
  • Administrative and Financial Director: Axel CORNIER
  • Sales Director: Thomas DE CORGNOL
  • Chief Revenue Officer: Rafael DE LOS SANTOS
  • Events Director & Stadium Manager: Hervé FALEYEUX
  • Director of Information Systems: Eric JARLAND
  • Customer Director: Maïa LABERRONDO
  • Director of Internal Communication and CSR: Sylvie PEPIN
  • HR Director and Technical Resources: François PERROY
  • Safety and Security Director: Arnaud POUPARD
  • Director of Football Operations: Ulrich RAME
  • Stadium Business Strategy Director: /
  • Sponsorship Director: /
Men’s Football / Professional Squad[24]
  • Head Coach: Jean-Louis GASSET
  • Assistant Coach: Ghislain PRINTANT and Jaroslav PLASIL
  • Goalkeeping Coach: Fabrice GRANGE
  • Physical Conditioning Coaches / Fitness Coaches: Eric BEDOUET
  • Doctors: Thierry DELMEULE & Hervé PETIT
  • Physios: Jacques THEBAULT, David DAS NEVES, Fabien BOUSCARRAT, Alexandre RENOUX, Sébastien ORIA, François PUCHEU, David DUBOURDIEU & Bastien AYÇAGUER
  • Press Relations: Aurélie CARREY & Margaux ANGLADE

Coaching history [edit ]

In its history, Bordeaux have had 37 coaches. The foremost was the Spaniard Benito Díaz. Díaz was the first Bordeaux passenger car to achieve an honor when, in 1941, the club won the Coupe de France. The first Bordeaux coach to win the league was André Gérard. Gérard led the team to the league crown in 1950. He besides has the honor of being the club ‘s longest-serving coach having spent a ten with the club from 1947 to 1957. Gérard is followed by Aimé Jacquet who spent nine seasons with the golf club in the 1980s. Under Jacquet, Bordeaux won three league titles and two Coupe de France titles .

Affiliated clubs [edit ]

  • Newell’s Old Boys, ARG
  • Proyecto Crecer, ARG

Honours [edit ]

domestic competitions [edit ]

[ 5 ] [ 7 ]

International competitions [edit ]

[ 5 ] [ 7 ]
FC Girondins de Bordeaux first competitive european pit was in the 1968–69 european Cup Winners ‘ Cup, beating 1. FC Köln 2–1 before ultimately losing 2–4 on aggregate. Since then, the club has participated in 30 UEFA competitions, its extremum being the co-champions of the 1995 UEFA Intertoto Cup and the final examination plot of the 1995–96 UEFA Cup .

UEFA club coefficient ranking [edit ]

As of 28 July 2020 [ 25 ]

Rank
Team
Points

117
FranceLille
11.849

118
FranceStrasbourg
11.849

119
FranceBordeaux
11.849

120
FranceNice
11.849

121
CroatiaRijeka
4.975

Media [edit ]

From 14 August 2008 to 30 October 2018, the M6 Group carried a network about the baseball club ‘s activity known as Girondins TV. [ 26 ] It carried pre-recorded matches during the season, reserve team games, training school term rundowns, and a daily talk show .

References [edit ]