AJ Auxerre
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| Surname | Association de la Jeunesse Auxerroise | ||
| Seat | Auxerre | ||
| founding | 1905 | ||
| president | Francis Graille | ||
| Website | aja.fr | ||
| First soccer team | |||
| Head coach | Pablo Correa | ||
| Venue | Stade de l'Abbé-Deschamps | ||
| Places | 20,130 | ||
| league | Ligue 2 | ||
| 2019/20 | 11th place | ||
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The Association de la Jeunesse Auxerroise is a French football club from the Burgundian city of Auxerre .
history
The association was founded on December 29, 1905 by Pastor Deschamps; Accordingly, l'AJA, as the club is known for short, was initially a member of the Catholic football association FGSPF, whose association championship finals he reached in 1908, but lost. The name of the club's own stadium, the Stade de l'Abbé-Deschamps, which seats around 20,130 spectators, is still reminiscent of this early period .
In addition, the name of the small town club from Bourgogne is permanently linked to Guy Roux , who coached the club, for which he also played himself, from 1961 to 2005 with minimal interruptions. These 44 years are considered a "record for eternity". Cédric Daury has been training the league team since October 2016 . The club's president is (as of November 2016) Guy Cotret.
On the European stage, the AJA reached the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup in the 1992/93 season and the quarter-finals of the UEFA Champions League in 1996/97 ; in both competitions she was defeated by Borussia Dortmund .
In the summer of 2016, the Chinese packaging group ORG Packaging acquired 60% of the shares in AJA Football SAOS from the previous majority shareholder AJAXXL Capital SA, which is controlled by Corinne Vollet-Limido (widow of the banker Emmanuel Limido, who died in 2015) for 7 million euros. The other shareholder in the club, AJ Auxerre Football, has yet to agree.
League affiliation
The AJ Auxerre first reached Division 2 in 1974 and only in 1980 the top division (Division 1, now Ligue 1 ), in which it was able to assert itself successfully before it was relegated in 2012 - after 32 years.
Logo history
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Youth work
AJ Auxerre attaches great importance to youth work and has meant that no other French club was able to enter the list of winners of the Coupe Gambardella more often ; the AJA has won this A-Youth Cup seven times (1982, 1985, 1986, 1993, 1999, 2000 and 2014). Since the turn of the millennium, it has also been the only club in France to be consistently represented with a total of four teams in the six top divisions. The association keeps afloat financially by selling its own talent.
successes
- French champion : 1996
- French cup winner : 1994 , 1996 , 2003 , 2005 (and finalist 1979 , 2015 )
- European Cups: 1997 Intertoto Cup winner
- Alpine Cup: 1985, 1987
Current squad 2018/19
As of August 30, 2018
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Well-known former players
Former trainers
- Guy Roux (1963-2000 and 2001-2005)
- Jacques Santini (2005/06)
- Jean Fernandez (2006-2011)
literature
- Thierry Berthou / Collectif: Dictionnaire historique des clubs de football français. Pages de Foot, Créteil 1999 - Volume 1 (A-Mo) ISBN 2-913146-01-5 , Volume 2 (Mu-W), ISBN 2-913146-02-3
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from August 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.insideworldfootball.com/2016/08/11/chinas-org-takes-controlling-stake-aj-auxerre-e7m/
