AS Nancy

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Nancy

Full name

Association Sportive
Nancy-Lorraine

Nickname(s)

ASNL

Founded

1967

Ground

Stade Marcel Picot,
Tomblaine
(Capacity 20,085)

Chairman

Jacques Rousselot

Manager

Pablo Correa

League

Ligue 1

2007-08

Ligue 1, 4th





Home colours





Away colours

AS Nancy-Lorraine is a French football club, based in Nancy. The team was founded in 1967 as a successor of the defunct FC Nancy, which collapsed in 1965.

It was promoted to Ligue 1 for the 2005-06 season. Michel Platini played for the club between 1973 and 1979. They play their home games at Stade Marcel Picot. In the 2005-06 season, AS Nancy won the Coupe de la Ligue, thus qualifying for the UEFA Cup.

1 UEFA Cup
2 Current squad
3 Honours
4 Notable former players
5 Managers
6 References
7 See also
8 External links

[edit] UEFA Cup

The draw for the UEFA cup saw AS Nancy handed a tough trip to Germany to face Schalke 04 in the first round. Having lost the first leg 1-0, Nancy pulled off a shock 3-1 victory in the second leg to progress.

In the group stage, Nancy drew Wisła Kraków, Blackburn Rovers, FC Basel 1893, and Feyenoord Rotterdam. In Nancy's first match, they beat Wisła 2-1 at home. Next up were Basel away in Switzerland, where Nancy managed a 2-2 draw. On 30 November 2006 Feyenoord faced AS Nancy in France, which is at driving distance from Rotterdam. Only 1200 tickets were awarded to Feyenoord fans.^[1] Much more than that amount travelled to Nancy and tried to get tickets at the Stade Marcel Picot.^[1] Later, during the match inside the stadium SCF and FIIIR members broke a wall of glass between two stands and provoked French fans.^[1] The match was suspended for 30 minutes in the 80th minute after the police used tear gas to drive the SCF/FIIIR members back into their own stand.^[1] The match was eventually finished, 30 minutes after it was suspended.^[1] It was said many of the SCF/FIIIR members were having Dutch stadium bans and should not have been allowed to buy tickets in Nancy.^[2] Members of SCF and FIIIR identify themselves with their tattoos^[3] Due to this violence, Feyenoord was knocked out of the UEFA Cup for the remaining of the season.Nancy won with a comfortable 3-0 win that would set up a match that would decide who topped the group in England against Blackburn. Although Nancy dominated most of the match, a late Lucas Neill goal meant that they would have to settle for second place. In the Round of 32, the club drew Ukranian side Shakhtar Donetsk. After a 1-1 draw in Ukraine, their prospect looked good, but they were defeated 1-0 at home in the second leg, losing the lie 2-1 on aggregate.

AS Nancy will once again compete in the UEFA cup during the 2008/09 season after finish 4th in Ligue 1

[edit] Current squad

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Gennaro Bracigliano
2	MF	Ludovic Guerriero
4	MF	Chris Malonga
5	DF	André Luiz
6	MF	Pascal Berenguer
7	MF	Emmanuel Duchemin
8	DF	Frédéric Biancalani
9	FW	Kim
10	FW	Issiar Dia
11	MF	Monsef Zerka
13	DF	Damián Macaluso (on loan from River Plate)
--	DF	Jean Calvé
--	MF	Rachid Hamdani
--	GK	Thomas Gaudu

No.	Position	Player
14	MF	Momar Faye
15	FW	Youssouf Hadji
16	GK	Damien Grégorini
17	FW	Gaston Curbelo
19	FW	Basile Camerling
20	DF	Mickaël Chrétien
22	FW	Marc-Antoine Fortuné
23	MF	Jonathan Brison
24	MF	Benjamin Gavanon
25	DF	Adaílton
26	MF	Landry N'Guemo
28	DF	Sébastien Puygrenier
--	MF	Julien Feret
--	DF	Joël Sami

[edit] Honours

Ligue 2
- Winners (4): 1975, 1990, 1998, 2005
- Runners-up (1): 1970
French Cup
- Winners (1): 1978
French League Cup
- Winners (1): 2006