Le Touquet AC

{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}} {{short description|French football club}} {{Infobox football club | clubname = Le Touquet AC | image = Le Touquet AC logo.svg | image_size = | alt = | caption = | fullname = Le Touquet Athlétic Club Football Côte-d'Opale | nickname = | short name = | founded = 1933 | dissolved = | ground = Stade Gérard Houllier | capacity = | coordinates = | owntitle =  | owner = | chrtitle = President | chairman = Sébastien Boyard | mgrtitle = Head coach | manager = [[Charles Antoine Lepretre]] | coach = | league = [[Régional 3]] Hauts-de-France, Group A (2023–24)<ref>{{Cite web |title=SENIORS RÉGIONAL 3 |url=https://lfhf.fff.fr/competitions?tab=ranking&id=407698&phase=1&poule=1&type=ch |access-date=2 October 2023 |website=Ligue de Football des Hauts-de-France |lang=fr}}</ref> | season = | position = | website = https://touquetfootball.fr }} '''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|Le Touquet-Paris-Plage]] in the [[Pas-de-Calais]] department of northern France.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fff.fr/la-vie-des-clubs/430/infos-cles|title=Le Touquet A.C.F. Côte-d'Opale|publisher=FFF.fr|accessdate=30 November 2015}}</ref> As of the 2023–24 season, it competes in the [[Régional 3]], the eighth tier of [[Football in France|French football]].

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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://tacfco.com/histoire/|title=Histoire - Le TACFCO|publisher=tacfco.com|accessdate=30 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208101959/http://tacfco.com/histoire/|archive-date=8 December 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> Its stadium is named after former [[France national football team|France]], [[Paris Saint-Germain F.C.|Paris Saint-Germain]] and [[Liverpool F.C.|Liverpool]] manager [[Gérard Houllier]], who was a player and coach at the club during the 1970s.

Although the club has spent much of its history in the lower reaches of the [[French football league system]], they competed in [[Ligue 2|Division 2]] during the 1988–89 season.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lfp.fr/ligue2/bilanClubs/detail/122?competCode=D2|title=Bilan des Clubs en Ligue 2 - Le Touquet|publisher=LFP.fr|accessdate=30 November 2015}}</ref> The men's senior team regularly competes in the [[Coupe de France]], the country's foremost knock-out competition.

==Honours== * [[French Division 3 (1971–1993)|Division 3]] Group Nord: 1987–88<ref name="fef">{{cite web|url=http://www.footballenfrance.fr/club.php?appel=le+touquet|title=Touquet Athlétic Club Football Côte d'Opale|publisher=footballenfrance.fr|accessdate=28 November 2015}}</ref> * [[French Division 4 (1978–1993)|Division 4]] Group A: 1983–84, 1986–87<ref name="fef"/> * [[Régional 1]] Nord-Pas-de-Calais: 2017–18<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nordeclair.fr/164794/article/2018-06-02/le-touquet-libere-sacre-champion-et-promu-en-national-3|title=Le Touquet libéré, sacré champion et promu en National 3!|publisher=Nordéclair|date=2 July 2018|accessdate=17 July 2018|language=fr}}</ref>

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==External links== * {{official|https://touquetfootball.fr}}

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