Le Touquet AC

Le Touquet Athlétic Club Football Côte-d'Opale, commonly known simply as Le Touquet, is a French association football club based in the commune of Le Touquet-Paris-Plage in the Pas-de-Calais department of northern France.[1] The club was founded in 1933 as the result of a merger between two local clubs, Olympique Touquettois and US Le Touquet-Paris-Plage, and adopted its current name in 1996.[2] Its stadium is named after former France, Paris Saint-Germain and Liverpool manager Gérard Houllier, who was a player and coach at the club during the 1970s.

Le Touquet AC
Full nameLe Touquet Athlétic Club Football Côte-d'Opale
Founded1933
GroundStade Gérard Houllier,
Le Touquet
PresidentFrédéric Ryssen
ManagerGuillaume Ducatel
LeagueNational 3 Group I
2019–20National 3 Group I, 6th
WebsiteClub website

Although the club has spent much of its history in the lower reaches of the French football league system, they competed in Division 2 during the 1988–89 season.[3] The men's senior team regularly competes in the Coupe de France, the country's foremost knock-out competition.

Honours

References
  1. "Le Touquet A.C.F. Côte-d'Opale". FFF.fr. Retrieved 30 November 2015.
  2. "Histoire - Le TACFCO". tacfco.com. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 30 November 2015.
  3. "Bilan des Clubs en Ligue 2 - Le Touquet". LFP.fr. Retrieved 30 November 2015.
  4. "Touquet Athlétic Club Football Côte d'Opale". footballenfrance.fr. Retrieved 28 November 2015.
  5. "Le Touquet libéré, sacré champion et promu en National 3!" (in French). Nordéclair. 2 July 2018. Retrieved 17 July 2018.


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