Servette FC
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Servette FC is a Swiss football club, based in Geneva.
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History
Founded in 1890, Servette was the leading club in French speaking Switzerland, having won 17 Swiss league championships and seven Swiss cups. In the 2003-04 season the club finished third in the Swiss Super League, the top league in Switzerland.
Led by Umberto Barberis and Claude "Didi" Andrey, in 1978-1979 the club won all the competitions it had entered - with the exception of the European Cup Winners' Cup where it was eliminated in quarter finals without losing by Fortuna Dusseldorf, that year's finalist. Barberis then became French champion in 1982 with AS Monaco. Servette was the only club to have remained in the top league since its creation in the 1930s.
Bankruptcy
After a long string of mismanagement by French president Marc Roger - who followed a hire-and-fire policy for players, made financial promises which he broke regularly, and alienated fans and environment with general erratic and increasingly paranoid behaviour, on 4 February 2005 the parent company of the club was declared bankrupt. It had run debts of over 10 million Swiss francs, having not paid the players since the previous September, and consequently the club suffered an exodus of players looking for paying clubs. As a consequence of the bankruptcy the club will be demoted two divisions, a fate already experienced by local rivals Lausanne-Sports in 2003.
Current Squad
The numbers are established according to the official website: www.servettefc.ch
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Dual Nationality
- 6 Template:Flagicon Template:Flagicon Template:Flagicon Oscar Londono
- 12 Template:Flagicon Template:Flagicon Stéphane Formenti
- 13 Template:Flagicon Template:Flagicon Davide Di Dio
- 17 Template:Flagicon Template:Flagicon Julian Esteban
- 18 Template:Flagicon Template:Flagicon David Marques
- 19 Template:Flagicon Template:Flagicon Alban Noriega
- 21 Template:Flagicon Template:Flagicon Genserix Kusunga
Famous players
Honours
- Swiss Championship: 17
- 1907, 1918, 1922, 1925, 1926, 1930, 1933, 1934, 1940, 1946, 1950, 1961, 1962, 1979, 1985, 1994, 1999
- Coupe de Suisse: 7
- 1928, 1949, 1971, 1978, 1979, 1984, 2001
- Coupe des Alpes: 4
- 1973, 1975, 1976, 1979
- Coupe de la Ligue: 3
- 1977, 1979, 1980
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