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Olympique Gymnaste Club Nice Côte d’Azur ( french pronunciation : ​ [ ɔlɛ̃pik ʒimnast klœb nickel ] ), normally referred to as OGC Nice or just Nice, is a french professional football club based in Nice. The clubhouse was founded in 1904 and presently plays in Ligue 1, the top grade of french football. Nice plays its home plate matches at the Allianz Riviera. Nice are captained by brazilian defender Dante.

Nice was founded under the identify Gymnaste Club de Nice and is one of the founding members of the inaugural division of french football. The club has won Ligue 1 four times, the Trophee des Champions one time and the Coupe de France three times. It achieved most of its honours in the 1950s with the golf club being managed by coaches such as Numa Andoire, Englishman William Berry, and Jean Luciano. The club ‘s survive honor was winning the Coupe de France in 1997 after defeating Guingamp 4–3 on penalties in the final. Nice ‘s colours are red and black. During the club ‘s successful run in the 1950s, Nice were among the first french clubs to successfully integrate internationals players into the close up. celebrated players include Héctor De Bourgoing, Pancho Gonzales, Victor Nurenberg, and Joaquín Valle, the latter being the club ‘s all-time run goalscorer and arguably greatest player. [ 3 ]

history [edit ]

Gymnaste Club ‘Azur was founded in the residential district of Les Baumettes on 9 July 1904 under the name Gymnaste Club. The club was founded by Marquis de Massingy d’Auzac, who served as president of the Fédération Sportive des Alpes-Maritimes ( Alpes-Maritimes Sporting Federation ). Akin to its name, the club chiefly focused on the sports of gymnastics and athletics. On 6 July 1908, in an effort to remain affiliated with the FSAM and besides join the amateur confederation USFSA, the head of french football at the time, Gymnaste Club de Nice disconnected into two sections with the new section of the club being named Gymnastes Amateurs Club de Nice. The new section spawned a football club and, after two seasons, the two clubs merged. On 20 September 1919, Nice merged with local club Gallia Football Athlétic Club and, subsequently, adopted the clubhouse ‘s red and black combination. In 1920, the club was playing in the Ligue du Sud-Est, a regional league under the determine of the french Football Federation. While playing in the league, Nice developed rivalries with Cannes and Marseille. On 22 December 1924, the club changed its name to Olympique Gymnaste Club de Nice. In July 1930, the National Council of the french Football Federation voted 128–20 in support of professionalism in french football. Nice, along with most clubs from southerly France, were among the beginning clubs to adopt the fresh codified and subsequently became professional and were founding members of the new league. In the league ‘s inaugural season, Nice finished seventh in its group. In the stick to season, Nice finished 13th and were relegated from the league. The clubhouse did not play league football in the result temper and returned to French football in 1936 play in Division 2. courteous spent the next three years playing in the second division. In 1939, professional football in France was abolished due to World War II. Nonetheless, Nice continued to play league football under amateurish condition with the club participating in the Ligue du Sud-Est in 1939 and the Ligue du Sud in the following seasons. After World War II, Nice returned to professional status and were inserted back into the second division. The clubhouse achieved forwarding back to the foremost division for the 1948–49 season under the leadership of the austrian director Anton Marek. After two seasons of finishing in the circus tent ten, Nice, now led by coach Jean Lardi, achieved its first-ever honor by winning the league title in the 1950–51 season. Led by french internationals Marcel Domingo, Antoine Bonifaci, Abdelaziz Ben Tifour, and Jean Courteaux, american samoa well as the Argentine couple of Pancho Gonzales and Luis Carniglia and the Swede Pär Bengtsson, Nice won the league despite finishing adequate on points with Lille. Nice was declared champions due to having more wins ( 18 ) than Lille ( 17 ). [ 4 ] In the following season, under raw coach Numa Andoire, Nice won the double after winning both the league and the Coupe de France. In the league, the club defended its style by holding off both Bordeaux and Lille. In the Coupe de France concluding, Nice faced Bordeaux and defeated the Aquitaine baseball club 5–3 courtesy of goals from five different players. Nice continued its solid operate in the ten by winning the Coupe de France for the moment time in 1954. The golf club, now being led by a young and unknown Just Fontaine, faced southerly rivals Marseille and earned a 2–1 victory with Victor Nuremberg and Carniglia scoring the goals. Carniglia retired from football after the temper and began managing Nice. In his first season in charge, Nice won the league for a third time after being chased for the entire season by rivals Marseille and Monaco, deoxyadenosine monophosphate well as Lens and Saint-Étienne. After the political campaign, Fontaine departed the baseball club for Stade de Reims. Three seasons late, Nice won the final style of the decade in 1959. The golf club finished the decade ( 1950–1959 ) with four league titles and two Coupe de France trophies. Nice besides appeared in european competition for the first time in the 1956–57 season, losing to Real Madrid in the quarter-finals. In subsequent decades, Nice struggled to equal the success of the 1950s with Reims and, late Saint-Étienne eclipsing the cabaret in the 1960s and ’70s. During this clock time, Nice regularly competed in Division 1 with the exception of two seasons in Division 2 in 1965 and 1970. In 1973 and 1976, Nice achieved a second-place stopping point in the league, its best finish since winning the league in 1959. however, following the latter end, the club finished in lower positions in the following six seasons and were relegated in the 1981–82 season after finishing 19th. Nice played three seasons in the second division before returning to the peak flight in 1985. After six seasons of mid-table finishes, Nice was back in Division 2 .
Frédéric Antonetti led Nice to the 2006 Coupe de la Ligue final. In 1997, Nice, now second in the first division, stunned many after winning the Coupe de France. however, the victory did not shock most french football enthusiasts chiefly ascribable to the club ‘s contest in the range up to the final in which Nice faced merely Division 2 clubs, save for first part club Bastia. In the concluding, Nice defeated Guingamp 5–4 on penalties to earn cup success. On a false eminence, Nice were relegated from the first part only days after winning the Coupe de France in dead last in the league. The club spent five seasons in Ligue 2 and returned to Ligue 1 for the 2001–02 season. In the run up to the season, Nice failed to meet the fiscal requirements set by the DNCG and was subsequently relegated to the Championnat National, the one-third level of french football. however, after achieving constancy, chiefly due to selling a few players, Nice was allowed in Ligue 1 after successfully appealing. In the 2005–06 season, Nice made it to the final of the Coupe de la Ligue in 2006, losing to Nancy 2–1. In 2016, a chinese and american consortium led by Chien Lee and Alex Zheng purchased 80 % of the club. [ 5 ] In the 2016–17 Ligue 1 temper, Nice finished third in the final examination standings and qualified for the third base rung of the UEFA Champions League. [ 6 ] On June 11, 2018, Patrick Vieira was announced as Nice director, replacing Lucien Favre. [ 7 ] In the 2018/2019 season, Nice finished in 7th topographic point on the table. [ 8 ] In July 2019, it was announced that Jim Ratcliffe acquired the french club for a reported €100 million. [ 9 ] After a run of inadequate shape saw Nice sitting at 11th put in Ligue 1 and eliminated from the Europa League, coach Patrick Vieira was sacked. Vieira ‘s assistant, hadrian Ursea, took over as caretaker. Nice would finish the 2020-21 Ligue 1 season in one-ninth place on the board. [ 10 ] On 28 June 2021, Christophe Galtier was appointed as the new forefront coach. [ 11 ]

family stadium [edit ]

Nice moved to the Allianz Riviera in September 2013 From 1927 until 2013, Nice played its home matches at the Stade Municipal du Ray, normally shortened to merely the Stade du Ray. The stadium is, however, formally known as the Stade Léo-Lagrange, named after a french politician who had a least sandpiper in politics as the adjunct secretary of state for sport. The Stade du Ray has gone through many renovations, most recently being in 1997 and has a capability of 17,415. The stadium was democratic with supporters for being located in the centre of the city, but suffered from its old structure and little capacity, as the Nice metropolitan area has over one million residents. Nice began to attempt to build a new stadium in 2002. In its first undertake, the club was heavily criticised by local anesthetic politicians who questioned the utility and format of the stadium. Despite the critics, however, the club ‘s proposition passed and excavation of the web site in the knit of Var, at Nice-Lingostière, began in July 2006. The Tribunal presidency of Nice cancelled the project for irregularities committed concerning the arrested development of the price of tickets. In October 2008, the new deputy mayor of Nice, Christian Estrosi, declared that Nice would have a new stadium “ nobelium late than 2013 ”. The newly stadium was to be built at the same rate as earlier, at Nice-Lingostière.

On 22 September 2009, french newspaper L’Équipe reported the Grand Stade Nice had been selected by the french Football Federation ( FFF ) as 1 of the 12 stadiums to be used in the state ‘s bid to host UEFA Euro 2016. The FFF officially made its selections on 11 November 2009, and the city of Nice was selected as a web site to host matches during the tournament. [ 12 ] The construction of the Allianz Riviera started in 2011 and was completed in September 2013 .

Players [edit ]

current team [edit ]

As of 6 December 2021. [ 13 ]
notice : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .

Out on lend [edit ]

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

other players under contract [edit ]

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Reserve squad [edit ]

As of the 2021–22 season [ 14 ]
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noteworthy former players [edit ]

Below are the celebrated former players who have represented Nice in league and international competition since the club ‘s basis in 1904. To appear in the section below, a player must have played in at least 100 official matches for the baseball club. For a complete list of OGC Nice players, see Category:OGC Nice players

management and staff [edit ]

club officials [edit ]

Senior club staff[15][16]
  • Owner(s): Ineos
  • President: Jean-Pierre Rivère
  • Director of football: Julien Fournier
  • Head coach: Christophe Galtier
  • Assistant coach: Frédéric Gioria
  • Assistant coach: Didier Digard
  • Fitness coach: Nicolas Dyon
  • Rehab coach: Christopher Juras
  • Goalkeeping coach: Nicolas Dehon

Coaching history [edit ]

Honours [edit ]

domestic [edit ]

other [edit ]

  • Latin Cup
    • Runners-up (1): 1952
  • Coupe Mohamed V
    • Runners-up (1): 1976

References [edit ]