Gazélec FC Ajaccio
| Gazélec FC Ajaccio | |||
| Basic data | |||
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| Surname | Gazélec Football Club Ajaccio | ||
| Seat | Ajaccio , France | ||
| founding | 1910 | ||
| president | François Tagliaglioli | ||
| Website | www.gfca-foot.com | ||
| First soccer team | |||
| Head coach | Albert Cartier | ||
| Venue | Stade Ange Casanova | ||
| Places | 6,000 | ||
| league | Ligue 2 | ||
| 2017/18 | 16th place | ||
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The Gazélec Football Club Ajaccio (or Gazélec or GFCA for short ) is a French football club from Ajaccio , the capital of the French department Corse-du-Sud on the island of Corsica .
It was founded in 1910 as Jeunesse Sportive Ajaccienne . After several mergers, it was called FC Ajaccio from 1933 , Gazélec Football Club d'Ajaccio from 1960 and Gazélec Football Club Olympique Ajaccio from 1996 , before adopting its current name in 2012. The name "Gazélec" comes from France's large, formerly state-owned energy company Électricité de France - Gaz de France (EDF-GDF), which has supported the club for half a century. The club colors are red and blue; the league team plays at the Stade Ange Casanova (until 1994: Stade Mezzavia ), which has a capacity of 6000 seats.
The club's president is François Tagliaglioli; the first team has been coached by Jean-Luc Vannuchi since 2016.
League affiliation
Gazélec has only had professional status since his promotion to Ligue 2 in 2012. In the past, although requested, he was denied the club by the football association because it represented the principle of “one city, one professional club” for a very long time to prevent something similar many clubs have to file for bankruptcy as they did in the 1980s and 1990s - and Ajaccio already has the ACA . As a result, before 2015, when the GFCA managed to " march " out of the third division within two seasons, the GFCA never played first class ( Division 1 , renamed Ligue 1 since 2002 ). In the 2018/19 season, the club was relegated from Ligue 2.
successes
- French amateur champion (CFA) : 1963, 1965, 1966, 1968
Current squad 2018/19
As of March 4, 2019
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literature
- Charles and Christophe Bartissol: Les racines du football français. PAC, Paris 1983, ISBN 978-2-85336-194-1
- Thierry Berthou / Collectif: Dictionnaire historique des clubs de football français. Pages de Foot, Créteil 1999 - Volume 1 (A-Mo), ISBN 2-913146-01-5