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| Full name | Stade Briochin | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Nickname | Les Griffons[1][2] | ||
| Founded | 1904; 121 years ago (1904) | ||
| Ground | Stade Fred-Aubert | ||
| Capacity | 11,000 (3,500 seated) | ||
| Chairman | Guillaume Allanou | ||
| Coach | Guillaume Allanou | ||
| League | Championnat National | ||
| 2024–25 | National 2 Group B, 1st of 16 (promoted) | ||
| Website | https://www.stadebriochin.com | ||
Stade Briochin (French:Stade briochin;French:[stadbʁijɔʃɛ̃]) is a Frenchfootball club based inSaint-Brieuc,Brittany. As of the 2025–26 season, the club plays in theChampionnat National, the third tier in theFrench football league system. Home matches are played at theStade Fred-Aubert in Saint-Brieuc, which can hold up to 11,000 fans.
Founded in 1904, Stade Briochin has played for the majority of its existence at theamateur levels of the French football league system, but did spend three seasons in thesecond tier of the professional league during the period 1993–1997, before suffering liquidation and an enforced relegation to the fifth tier.
Until 1959, Stade Briochin competed in theLigue de Bretagne, the regional amateur league ofBrittany. For five of the next ten years they contested the Championnat de France Amateur, which at the time was the top tier of Amateur football. They competed around this level, as the French football league system restructured itself, until 1988 when they were relegated from theLigue de Bretagne Division Honneur (the fifth tier, in effect, at this stage) to theLigue de Bretagne Division Supérieure Régionale.
From the 1988–89 season, the club won promotions in three out of four seasons, and in 1993–94 they finished 6th inDivision 2, which is still their highest finish to date.
In the1996–97 season, the club started to suffer from debt issues, and on 24 March 1997 they were liquidated by order of court and administratively relegated from the professional football league.[3]
The club restarted inChampionnat de France Amateur 2 for the 1997–98 season, falling to theLigue de Bretagne Division Honneur (now the sixth tier) in 2008 and further to theLigue de Bretagne Division Supérieure Élite (seventh tier) in 2011. Successive promotions in 2012 and 2013 brought the club back toCFA 2.
In the 2019–2020 season they won promotion to the Championnat National by being top of theChampionnat National 2 Group B table when the season was curtailed due to theCOVID-19 pandemic.[4]
In the2024–25 Coupe de France, Stade Briochin eliminated three professional clubs in a row, starting withLe Havre in the round of 64 (1–0),Annecy in the round of 32 (1–1, 4–3 on penalties), andNice in the round of 16 (2–1).[5] Their run ended in a home tie againstParis Saint-Germain in the quarter-finals, losing 7-0.[6]
