Global InformationAS Monaco FC information
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| Full name | Association Sportive de Monaco Football Club | |||
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| Nickname(s) | Les Rouge et Blanc (The Red and Whites) Les Monégasques (The Monégasques) Le Rocher (The Rock) | |||
| Short name | AS Monaco, ASM | |||
| Founded | 23 November 1924 | |||
| Stadium | Stade Louis II | |||
| Capacity | 16,360[1] | |||
| Owner | Monaco Sport Investment Ltd (66.67%) House of Grimaldi (33.33%) | |||
| President | Dmitry Rybolovlev | |||
| Manager | Adi Hütter | |||
| League | Ligue 1 | |||
| 2022–23 | Ligue 1, 6th of 20 | |||
| Website | Club website | |||
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Association Sportive de Monaco Football Club, commonly referred to as AS Monaco (French pronunciation: [ɑ.ɛs mɔnako]), ASM or Monaco, is a Monégasque professional football club based in Fontvieille, Monaco. Although not in France, it is a member of the French Football Federation (FFF) and currently competes in Ligue 1, the top tier of French football. Founded in 1918, the team plays its home matches at the Stade Louis II.[2] Its training center is situated in neighboring France, in la Turbie.[3]
Despite not being a French club, Monaco is one of the most successful clubs in French football, having won eight league titles,[4] five Coupe de France trophies and one Coupe de la Ligue.[5] The club also played in European football a number of times, and were runners-up in the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup in 1992[6] and the UEFA Champions League in 2004.[7]
The club's traditional colours are red and white, and the club is known as Les Rouge et Blanc (The Red and Whites).[8] Monaco is a member of the European Club Association. In December 2011, two-thirds of the club was sold to an investment group led by Russian oligarch and billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev.[9] With Rybolovlev's financial backing, the club quickly returned to Ligue 1 and won the 2016–17 Ligue 1, their first league title in 17 years.
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- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 20 October 2022. Retrieved 20 October 2022.
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- ^ "UEFA Cup Winners' Cup - winners and history". www.footballhistory.org. Archived from the original on 13 April 2019. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
- ^ "Porto 3-0 Monaco". 26 May 2004. Archived from the original on 15 November 2017. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
- ^ uefa.com. "Monaco". Uefa.com. Archived from the original on 23 May 2020. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
- ^ "Russian billionaire Dmitry Poloz takes over Monaco". BBC Sport. 23 December 2011. Archived from the original on 16 January 2016. Retrieved 2 April 2014.