Angers SCO Tickets

Where to Sit at the Raymond-Kopa

Four stands, three of them rebuilt inside the last decade, none of them badly placed. The Raymond-Kopa has been converted phase by phase into a close-to-pitch ground with no running track and no distant corners, and the difference between the dearest and lowest-priced zones is smaller here than at most Ligue 1 clubs. Older guides may refer to the Stade Jean-Bouin, which was this ground's name until 2017 and now survives as the name of the main stand.

Stand / Area	Best For	Price Bracket	Notes
Tribune Jean-Bouin	Main-stand comfort, hospitality access, tactical viewing	Highest	The presidential side, carrying the ground's former name and refurbished in 2015. Public entry via Porte R on Boulevard Pierre-de-Coubertin, hospitality via Porte S. From 2026/27 its right flank houses the new away section.
Tribune Saint-Léonard (lower)	Balanced view close to the pitch	High	The newest big stand, rebuilt between 2020 and 2022 and holding 5,272 seats across two tiers. Entry via Portes G and K. Prices rise with proximity to the halfway line.
Tribune Saint-Léonard (upper)	Elevation and a full view of the shape	Mid to high	Upper tier of the same stand, entered via Portes H and J, sitting under a 21-metre cantilever roof. The stand also contains 25 boxes, two amphitheatres and the Panoramique restaurant.
Virage A	A corner angle at a mid-range price	Mid	The corner section linking Saint-Léonard to Coubertin, entered via Porte M. Close to the singing without being inside it.
Tribune Coubertin	Atmosphere, flags, the lowest prices	Lowest	Behind the goal, roughly 5,400 places, home to Kop de la Butte and Brigade Ouest 49. Given over entirely to home supporters for 2026/27 with a new Fan Zone on its terrace. Portes O and P.
Tribune Colombier	Families and first visits	Low to mid	Rebuilt in 2018 and holding about 4,447 seats behind the opposite goal. The family Fan Zone sits on the Colombier esplanade, and the under-11 rate applies here. Portes C, D and E, with hospitality at Porte B.

Following Le SCO on the Road

Away travel in France is governed more tightly than in almost any other major European league, and an away seat is not the same transaction as a home one. Article 511 of the Ligue de Football Professionnel competition regulations sets the visiting allocation at 5% of capacity with a maximum of 1,000 places unless the two clubs agree otherwise and requires the visiting sector to have its own access, toilets and refreshment facilities. A single national away price of €10 in Ligue 1 has applied since the 2019/20 season.

Distribution runs through the visiting club rather than the host. Supporters buy a contremarque, or voucher, on their own club's platform, then exchange it with photo identification at the visiting sector on arrival. Ultra groups frequently absorb an entire allocation before it reaches public sale. What the resale market genuinely serves is the much larger group of travelling supporters who want a seat in the home sections of an away ground, which is how most overseas fans get into the Parc des Princes or the Vélodrome.

Away Matchday Factor	What to Expect
Standard allocation	5% of the host stadium's capacity capped at 1,000 places under LFP Article 511, unless the clubs agree a larger figure. Away allocations at Angers have historically run to roughly 900 and sell out regularly.
Away sector location at Angers	Visiting supporters sat in the Tribune Coubertin through Porte N until 2025/26. From the Lille fixture on 23 August 2026 they move to a purpose-built pitch-side space on the right flank of the Tribune Jean-Bouin, next to the Colombier end. The club has not published a capacity or gate letter for the new area.
Access requirements	France operates no national supporter identity card and has no equivalent of Italy's Tessera del Tifoso. Photo identification is compulsory at the visiting sector, and control is exercised through judicial and administrative banning orders rather than a membership scheme.
Collection process	Buy the voucher through the away club's own platform, then exchange it with identification at the visiting entrance on arrival. There is normally no sale at the ground on matchday.
Policing and travel restrictions	The Minister of the Interior may ban national travel by arrêté under Code du sport Article L332-16-1, and a préfet may restrict local movement under Article L332-16-2. At Angers the Maine-et-Loire préfecture routinely bans away colours in the city centre and around the ground within a defined perimeter and mandates arrival routes and parking.

Matching the Seat to the Matchday You Want

A ground of 19,800 does not produce a genuinely poor seat, but the experience differs sharply between the kop and the main stand. Decide what you want from the afternoon before you decide what to spend, because at Angers the gap between the lowest and highest bands is unusually narrow and the atmosphere is concentrated in one specific place.

What You Want	Best Option	Why
Atmosphere	Tribune Coubertin	Kop de la Butte have been behind that goal since 1992, joined by Brigade Ouest 49 since 2007. Expect standing, flags and continuous singing, in the stand the club handed entirely to home supporters for 2026/27.
The clearest view of the game	Tribune Jean-Bouin, or upper Saint-Léonard	The main stand carries the press positions and the premium seating. The upper Saint-Léonard offers the same read of the shape at a lower price, with a covered two-tier structure completed in 2022.
Family-friendly	Tribune Colombier	The family Fan Zone sits on the Colombier esplanade, the under-11 season rate applies in this stand and under-16s must be accompanied by an adult, so keeping a group in one section matters.
Premium experience	Loges and salons on the Saint-Léonard and Colombier sides	Twenty-five boxes in the Saint-Léonard stand, the Salon Colombier and the Bodéga 1919 at Porte B, plus the Panoramique restaurant with a direct view of the pitch. All sold in-house by the club.
Lower-priced option	Tribune Coubertin or Tribune Colombier	The two ends carry the lowest bands in the club's own pricing and the same relationship holds on resale. Behind the goal, restricted angle on the near penalty area, but the most affordable route into a Ligue 1 fixture anywhere in France.

The Ground on Boulevard Pierre-de-Coubertin

The Stade Raymond-Kopa opened in 1912 and has carried four names in its life. It began as the Stade Bessonneau, after the industrial family who built it, became the Stade Municipal in 1957, then the Stade Jean-Bouin in 1968. Raymond Kopa died on 3 March 2017, the Angers city council voted unanimously to rename the ground in his honour three days later and the change was formalised on 27 March. Kopa spent his first two professional seasons at Angers between 1949 and 1951 before Reims, Real Madrid and the 1958 Ballon d'Or. There is no naming-rights sponsor.

The city of Angers owns the ground and the club runs it. Angers SCO signed a 35-year bail emphytéotique administratif on 31 May 2018, running to 2053 at €350,000 a year excluding tax. With it came the obligation to fund the improvements. Since then the club has put roughly £36 million into the site, of which about £30 million came from the boardroom under owner Saïd Chabane and around £6 million from the city towards the Colombier stand.

What that money bought is a ground rebuilt around the pitch rather than expanded outwards. The old Butte terrace was replaced between 2010 and 2011. The Tribune Colombier was demolished and rebuilt for 2018. The Tribune Saint-Léonard came down in 2020 and reopened at the start of 2022/23 with 5,272 seats across two tiers, 25 boxes, a 21-metre cantilever roof, two amphitheatres seating 350 and 250 and the Panoramique restaurant. A hybrid AirFibr pitch went in during 2016. For the 2026/27 opener the club built a dedicated away space on the Jean-Bouin side, pitch-side and unusually low by Ligue 1 standards, then moved home supporters into the whole of the Coubertin.

One phase remains. The Tribune Coubertin rebuild, envisaged as a partly standing tribune that would take the ground past 20,000 seats, has no confirmed timeline, budget or start date. An adjacent commercial building of roughly 8,000 square metres with a brewery and fan shop has been mooted and not built. Anybody planning a visit should work from the ground as it stands rather than the one in the drawings.

Capacity is worth handling carefully because the published figures disagree. The club's own stadium page gives 19,800, a figure in place since August 2022, and it is the number used here. English-language sources still widely quote the pre-rebuild figure of 18,752, and one French industry report gives 17,500, which most likely reflects licensed rather than gross seats. The 2026/27 reconfiguration around the new away space means a fresh audited number for this season has not been published. The record crowd is generally given as 22,989 for the visit of Marseille on 26 April 1969, in a configuration that no longer exists.

Getting there from Paris is quicker than the distance suggests. The TGV from Paris-Montparnasse to Angers-Saint-Laud covers roughly 263 kilometres in as little as 1 hour 21 minutes, with around 20 services a day operated by TGV INOUI and OUIGO. From Angers-Saint-Laud the ground is about 2.6 kilometres away, a 30-minute walk by the club's own reckoning or four or five minutes by taxi. The tramway does not reach the stadium: the nearest useful stop is Montaigne on Line B, about 20 minutes' walk away. The practical public option is the Irigo bus, with lines 1, 5, 10 and 40 stopping at Saumuroise five minutes from the turnstiles, plus a dedicated matchday shuttle running from park-and-ride sites from an hour before kick-off. Drivers take the A87 to exit 18 and follow the signs.

Parking around the ground is limited and the streets close early. Rue Saint-Léonard, Rue Ernest Mottay, Rue de Messie, Boulevard Pierre-de-Coubertin and Rue du Colombier all shut two hours before kick-off. The Espace Anjou shopping centre car park is free and about 20 minutes' walk, the Piscine Jean-Bouin lot sits alongside the ground and reduced-mobility spaces are reserved on request. Once you are done, the old town is walkable: the Château d'Angers with its seventeen towers and 660 metres of banded schist curtain wall, the Tenture de l'Apocalypse commissioned by Louis I of Anjou in 1373 and still 104 metres long, the twin 75-metre spires of the Cathédrale Saint-Maurice and the Maine river running through the middle of it. The Anjou vineyards and the Cointreau distillery are on the city's edge.

Matchday With the Extras

Angers sell their hospitality in-house rather than through an agency, which is unusual at this level and means the packages are described plainly on the club's own business pages. The spaces are spread across three stands: the boxes and main lounge in the Saint-Léonard, the Salon Colombier and Bodéga 1919 behind the far goal, plus the premium seating on the Jean-Bouin side. Hospitality gates open earlier than general admission and stay open after the final whistle.

The figures below convert the club's published rates, which are quoted per person and exclude VAT. Season packages cover the full home campaign, so the per-match cost is lower than the headline figure suggests. The two one-off products are sold per match. Resale and packaged hospitality typically sits above these levels for the highest-demand fixtures.

Package	What It Includes	Typical Price Range (GBP)
Loges Saint-Léonard	Private box of 12 or 18 places in the newest stand, one of 25 built into the 2022 rebuild. Refined fit-out, exclusive service and a full season of home fixtures.	From £5,245 per person for the season, roughly £290 per match
Salon VIP KOESIO	The club's flagship lounge, named after its sponsor. Culinary shows and tastings at every match, networking space and seating close to the pitch, with access before the game, at half-time and afterwards.	From £3,270 per person for the season, roughly £180 per match
Salon Colombier	A more relaxed room behind the goal at Porte B, with panoramic windows, seated and standing areas and games including pétanque and cornhole. Access before the game, at half-time and afterwards.	Around £1,590 per person for the season, roughly £88 per match
Salon Inside	A single-match product built around behind-the-scenes access, including areas the public do not reach and time with the coaching staff.	From £258 per person per match
Salon Event and Le Panoramique	Corporate event space available for privatisation from 50 people, plus the Panoramique restaurant in the Saint-Léonard stand, which looks directly onto the pitch and also trades away from matchdays.	From £73 per person, rising with catering and format

Prices exclude VAT, are converted from the club's published euro rates and may change between seasons.

From Search to Seat in Eight Steps

Buying through a marketplace should take a few minutes and leave you with something you can walk through a turnstile with. The sequence below covers what happens between finding the fixture and being scanned into the Raymond-Kopa, including the two places supporters most often go wrong: skipping the listing detail and trusting a date that Ligue 1 has not yet fixed.

Follow that sequence and the only thing left is to arrive in time. Gates at the Raymond-Kopa open an hour and a quarter before kick-off and the Fan Zones open fifteen minutes before that, so there is no reason to be in the queue at five to three.

The Fixtures That Disappear First

Angers is a more forgiving market than most Ligue 1 grounds for the majority of the calendar, which makes the exceptions sharper. Anyone buying Angers SCO tickets more than once a season learns quickly which dates behave differently. Five categories consistently move fastest at the Raymond-Kopa, and the price differential between them and an ordinary date is stark.

Fixture Type	Why It Moves Fast
Paris Saint-Germain, 16 January 2027	The hardest home ticket of the Angers season by a distance. Resale entry points for this date sit at roughly double the baseline for an ordinary league fixture, and it carries an extra edge: across 23 recorded meetings Angers have never beaten Paris Saint-Germain, taking two draws and nothing else.
Marseille, Lyon and Lille	Three clubs with large travelling followings and national broadcast pull. Marseille visit on 17 October 2026 and Lyon on 17 April 2027, while Lille open the season on 23 August 2026. Each brings a filled away section and a spike in casual local demand.
The Le Mans derby	Le Mans came up for 2026/27 and the two clubs have never met in Ligue 1 in their histories, with all twelve competitive meetings played in Ligue 2. With Nantes relegated, this is the only regional derby on the Angers calendar this season.
The season opener and the final home fixture	The first home game carries a new manager and a rebuilt squad, and the last carries whatever is still at stake. Angers close at home to Brest on 22 May 2027 before finishing the campaign away at Rennes.
Spring fixtures against the bottom third	Angers have finished 13th and 14th in their two seasons back in the top flight, both times on 36 points, which means April and May regularly matter. Fixtures against clubs in the relegation conversation draw crowds a September afternoon cannot.

How Your Tickets Arrive

Delivery method varies by seller and by fixture, and the listing states which applies before you commit. Angers is one of the more flexible French clubs on format, issuing mobile tickets, print-at-home documents and thermal paper from the box office, all of which are scanned at the turnstile.

1. Mobile ticket. The club's own M-Ticket is a QR code that can be added to Apple or Google Wallet, and mobile delivery is common across the resale market too. Keep your phone charged and take a screenshot as a fallback, since signal around a full stadium is unreliable.
2. Print-at-home. A PDF printed on A4 without resizing or altering it. Do not scale it to fit or print two to a page, either of which can defeat the scanner at the gate.
3. Postal delivery. Physical tickets sent to the address on your order, typically arriving at least five working days before the fixture. Common for higher-value and hospitality bookings. Allow longer for international delivery.
4. Collection. Seats collected from a designated point on matchday with photo identification. Read the collection instructions carefully, since the point is not always at the stadium itself.

Whichever method applies, read the listing notes in full before completing the order. That is where sellers record whether seats are adjacent, whether the ticket is nominative, whether identification is required and what the collection window is.

Getting Through the Gates

Arrive Early

Gates at the Raymond-Kopa open an hour and fifteen minutes before kick-off, with the Fan Zones opening an hour and thirty minutes before. For a 15:00 start that means the Fan Zone from 13:00 and the turnstiles from 13:30. The away sector runs on its own timetable and often opens earlier. Streets around the ground close two hours before kick-off, so anybody driving needs to be parked well in advance. The walk from Angers-Saint-Laud station takes half an hour. Gates close at half-time, which is a firmer rule here than at many grounds.

ID and Entry Requirements

A valid ticket admits one person and staff may verify identity. Any concessionary ticket requires documentary proof at the turnstile: national identity documents for under-18s, a student card or enrolment certificate for student rates and a current mobility inclusion card for accessible seating. Photo identification is compulsory in the away sector. Under-16s must be accompanied by an adult. Once you leave the stadium you cannot come back in, since the club's terms state plainly that any exit is final.

Bag Policy

Angers publishes a specific limit rather than a vague one, which is rare in Ligue 1 and worth knowing before you travel. Any bag over 10 litres is refused, and the rule covers rucksacks, suitcases, boxes and handbags alike. Prohibited items include weapons and sharp objects, pyrotechnics and flares, glass bottles and rigid containers, lasers, external battery packs, animals other than assistance dogs and professional camera equipment. Wearing the colours of any club other than Angers SCO in the home areas is also prohibited, and that rule is enforced. Smoking is banned in enclosed and covered parts of the ground and in the stands, and the ban explicitly includes electronic cigarettes.

Angers SCO at a Glance

Detail	Information
Full name	Angers Sporting Club de l'Ouest
Founded	1919, by brothers Paul and Georges Fortin of the Crédit de l'Ouest bank
Nickname	Le SCO, or Les Scoïstes
Stadium	Stade Raymond-Kopa, Boulevard Pierre-de-Coubertin, Angers (capacity 19,800 per the club's published figure)
Head coach	Stéphane Gilli, appointed 9 June 2026 on a contract to 2028
Captain	Haris Belkebla, appointed for 2025/26 and under contract to 2028 following a June 2026 extension
League	Ligue 1, 2026/27 (18 clubs, 34 matchdays)
Ownership	Saïd Chabane, owner since 2011 and president of the supervisory board, with Jérôme Negroni as president of the executive board since 2024

A Century in the Shadow of the Château

Angers SCO have never won a major trophy. That single fact shapes everything about how the club sees itself, because it has spent more than a hundred years being very good at surviving in company that ought to be beyond it. Two Coupe de France finals sixty years apart, one third-place finish, one European tie and a training model that keeps producing players other clubs pay for: that is the story, and it is a more interesting one than a trophy list would be.

Foundation and the Amateur Years (1919 to 1945)

• 1919: founded by brothers Paul and Georges Fortin, directors of the Crédit de l'Ouest bank, as Sporting Club du Crédit de l'Ouest, soon shortened to Sporting Club de l'Ouest
• 19 October 1919: the club's first recorded match, against Stade Nantes
• 1934: champions of the Division d'Honneur de l'Ouest
• 1941: winners of the Coupe de l'Ouest
• 1943: French amateur champions, the club's first national title of any kind
• At the Liberation in 1945: professional status granted on the back of that amateur title
• 1949 to 1951: Raymond Kopa plays two professional seasons at Angers before joining Reims

The club was founded in the same year as the French Football Federation itself, by two bankers who wanted a sports section for their staff. For a quarter of a century it was a regional operation, winning the things a regional operation could win, and the 1943 amateur championship was the achievement that pushed it into the professional game after the war. The most consequential thing to happen in that period was a teenage Raymond Kopa arriving from the mining country of the Pas-de-Calais and playing his first professional football in Anjou. He would win the Ballon d'Or in 1958 with Real Madrid, and 68 years after he left, the ground would take his name.

The Top-Flight Years (1956 to 1981)

• 1956: promoted to Division 1 as second-tier runners-up, beginning the club's longest top-flight residency
• 1957: first Coupe de France final, lost 3-6 to Toulouse
• 1962 and 1966: Coupe de France semi-finals
• 1966/67: third in Division 1, still the club's finest league finish
• 1968/69: Division 2 champions, scoring 128 goals in 40 matches, with a third Coupe de France semi-final the same year
• 1971/72: fourth in Division 1 on 45 points, earning European qualification
• September 1972: the club's only European campaign, in the UEFA Cup
• 1973/74: Marc Berdoll scores 29 Division 1 goals, one behind Carlos Bianchi
• 1975/76 and 1977/78: Division 2 group titles and two further promotions
• 1981: relegated from Division 1, ending 25 years of near-continuous top-flight football

This was the club at its peak, and it was built on style rather than money. Jean-Marc Guillou ran the midfield of the side that scored 128 goals in a single second-division season, was named French Player of the Year by France Football in 1975 and went to the 1978 World Cup at 32. Marc Berdoll supplied the goals, including 29 in 1973/74 when only Bianchi scored more in the whole of France. Third place in 1966/67 remains the high-water mark and the 1971/72 fourth-place finish was the season that took Angers into Europe.

The pattern of the era, though, was volatility. Relegation in 1975, promotion in 1976, relegation in 1977, promotion in 1978. A club of Angers' size in that period lived permanently on the boundary between the two divisions, and 1981 was the year it fell off the right side of it for a very long time.

The Long Decline (1981 to 2007)

• 1981 to 1992: eleven unbroken seasons in Division 2
• 1993: Division 2 runners-up, promoted back to Division 1
• 1994: relegated after a single season, beginning a 21-year absence from the top flight
• 1996: relegated to National, the third tier, and the club loses its professional status
• 2002/03: National runners-up on 65 points, the finest third-tier finish
• 2006: Willy Bernard buys the club
• 2007: promotion back to Ligue 2, ending the third-tier years

Twenty-six years is a long time to be away from the top of the game, and the middle of that period was the low point in the club's history. The 1993/94 season was a single-year visit to Division 1 that ended in relegation, and two years later the club dropped into the third tier and lost the professional status it had held since 1945. Eleven seasons followed in National and the regional leagues below Ligue 2, with the 2002/03 runners-up finish the closest it came to climbing out.

What kept the club alive through that stretch was the academy and the city. Angers is a university town of 157,000 people with no competing professional club, and the SCO retained a base of support disproportionate to the level it was playing at. Promotion back to Ligue 2 in 2007 under Willy Bernard was the point at which the recovery genuinely began.

The Modern Era (2007 to 2026)

• June 2011: Stéphane Moulin appointed head coach, beginning a ten-year tenure
• 22 November 2011: Saïd Chabane buys a majority stake from Willy Bernard
• 2011 and 2014: two Coupe de France semi-finals under Moulin
• 22 May 2015: promotion to Ligue 1 confirmed, ending a 21-year absence
• 27 May 2017: second Coupe de France final, lost 0-1 to Paris Saint-Germain at the Stade de France
• 2017: the Stade Jean-Bouin is renamed the Stade Raymond-Kopa
• 21 June 2017: Nicolas Pépé sold to Lille for a fee reported up to €10 million; Lille resell him to Arsenal for €80 million in 2019
• May 2021: Moulin departs after ten seasons
• 2022/23: relegated in 20th on 18 points, including a Ligue 1 record 13 consecutive defeats
• 10 May 2024: promotion sealed at Annecy, second in Ligue 2 and straight back up
• June 2026: Alexandre Dujeux steps away, Stéphane Gilli appointed, Haris Belkebla extends to 2028

Stéphane Moulin is the defining figure of the modern club and arguably of its entire history. Appointed in June 2011, he took Angers up in 2015 and then kept them in Ligue 1 for six consecutive seasons on one of the division's smallest budgets, a run the club had not managed since the 1960s. Between 2018 and 2021 he was the longest-serving manager in any of Europe's major leagues. He also took them to the Stade de France in 2017, where an Issa Cissokho own goal in stoppage time from an Ángel Di María corner handed Paris Saint-Germain a 1-0 win and left Angers still waiting for a first major honour.

The years since have been turbulent by comparison. Moulin's departure in 2021 was followed by a collapse: 20th place in 2022/23 with 18 points and thirteen straight defeats between matchdays nine and twenty-one, a run no club in Ligue 1 history had managed before. Alexandre Dujeux arrived in March 2023 too late to save that season, then won promotion at the first attempt in 2024 and kept the club up twice, finishing 14th and 13th on 36 points each time. He resigned by his own request on 3 June 2026, and Stéphane Gilli was appointed six days later on a contract to 2028.

The Names That Made the SCO

Angers' honours board is short, so the club measures itself in people rather than silverware: the manager who kept it up for six years running, the record appearance holder who spent 27 years there, the winger it sold for €10 million and watched leave for €80 million two years later.

Legend	Role	Contribution	Milestones
Stéphane Moulin	Manager, 2011 to 2021	Took over in June 2011 with the club in Ligue 2 and delivered promotion in 2015, ending a 21-year absence from the top flight. He then kept Angers in Ligue 1 for six consecutive seasons on one of the division's smallest budgets. He remains the reference point against which every Angers manager since has been measured.	Ten seasons in charge. Promotion 2015, Coupe de France final 2017, semi-finals in 2011 and 2014. Longest-serving manager in Europe's major leagues between 2018 and 2021.
Vincent Manceau	Right-back, at the club 1995 to 2022	Joined the academy as a child and left 27 years later, having become the club's all-time appearance holder. He played in the 2015 promotion side and the 2017 Coupe de France final and became a symbol of a club that promotes from within rather than buying in. Sources differ slightly on his exact total.	386 appearances per one all-time record, 389 professional matches per another. Promotion 2015, Coupe de France final 2017. Left for Guingamp in June 2022.
Jean-Marc Guillou	Attacking midfielder, academy product to 1974	The great stylist of the club's finest era and the creative centre of the 1968/69 side that scored 128 goals in 40 second-division matches. Capped by France for the first time at 29, he went to the 1978 World Cup and later founded the ASEC Mimosas academy in Ivory Coast, one of the most influential development projects in African football.	French Player of the Year, awarded by France Football in 1975. 19 France caps and three goals between 1974 and 1978. Division 2 title 1969.
Marc Berdoll	Striker, 1968 to 1976 and 1980 to 1982	The club's outstanding goalscorer, who as a teenager became the youngest player to score four in a French league match. His 29 Division 1 goals in 1973/74 left him one behind Carlos Bianchi in the whole of France, and he was second-tier top scorer in the 1976 promotion season.	29 Division 1 goals in 1973/74. Division 2 top scorer 1976 with 25. 16 France caps and five goals, including one at the 1978 World Cup.
Pierrick Capelle	Midfielder, 2015 to 2026	Eleven seasons and more than 320 appearances, spanning the whole of the modern Ligue 1 era, the 2017 cup final, relegation and the immediate promotion that followed. He captained the side from 2022 and scored the decisive free-kick at Annecy that sealed the 2024 return to Ligue 1. He retired at the end of 2025/26.	322 appearances, 24 goals and 18 assists per the club's own figures. UNFP Goal of the Season 2015/16. 455 professional matches across an 18-year career.
Nicolas Pépé	Winger, 2013 to 2017	Signed at 18, spent a season in the reserves, a season on loan at Orléans and then broke into the Ligue 1 side for the 2016/17 campaign that reached the Coupe de France final. His sale defines the club's economic model more precisely than any other transfer in its history.	Sold to Lille in June 2017 for a fee reported up to €10 million. Lille sold him to Arsenal in August 2019 for €80 million, then a club record.

Others belong in the conversation. Pierre Bourdel made 381 appearances in the 1960s and 1970s, Romain Thomas 318 and Thomas Mangani 257, the last of those scoring in the 2015 win at the Vélodrome. Ismaël Bennacer, Angelo Fulgini, Cheikh N'Doye, Rachid Alioui and Ludovic Butelle all passed through the modern side, and Sidiki Chérif became the club's largest sale in the summer of 2026 at €18 million to Fenerbahçe. Angers SCO has not formally retired any shirt number, and the squad list runs from 1 to 93 with no reserved gap.

What Sits in the Cabinet

An honest table for a club that has never won a major honour. The second-division titles are real and matter, the 1943 amateur championship is what earned professional status and the two Coupe de France finals sixty years apart are the near misses that define the club's relationship with silverware. Nothing here is inflated.

Competition	Titles
Ligue 1 / Division 1	None. Best finish third, in 1966/67
Coupe de France	None. Runners-up twice, in 1957 (lost 3-6 to Toulouse) and 2017 (lost 0-1 to Paris Saint-Germain). Semi-finalists in 1962, 1966, 1969, 2011 and 2014
Ligue 2 / Division 2	Two or three depending on how the split-group era is counted: 1969 and 1976 are undisputed, with the 1977/78 group title also recorded as a championship in the competition's own records. Runners-up in 1956, 1993 and 2024
Championnat National / Division 3	None. Runners-up in 2003 on 65 points
Championnat de France Amateur	1 (1943), the title that earned the club professional status at the Liberation
Regional honours	Ligue de l'Ouest champions 1934 and 1967, Coupe de l'Ouest winners 1941, Ligue Atlantique champions 2001 and 2005, Coupe de l'Atlantique winners 1997
European record	One campaign. UEFA Cup first round, 1972/73, eliminated 3-2 on aggregate by Berliner FC Dynamo

The Matches That Matter Most

Angers' rivalry map has been redrawn for 2026/27. The historic derby with Nantes is off the calendar because Nantes went down, the century-old fixture with Laval is unavailable because Laval are in Ligue 2 and in their place sits a Le Mans fixture the two clubs have never played in the top flight. Below is what each of them actually amounts to, with the numbers rather than the folklore.

Domestic Rivals

FC Nantes, the derby des Pays de la Loire

The deepest of them, roughly 90 kilometres along the Loire axis, and the one French media have named three different ways: derby des Pays de la Loire, derby ligérien, derby de l'Ouest. It was at its most intense between the 1940s and the 1980s, built on two contrasting footballing philosophies, then vanished for close to thirty years while the clubs sat in different divisions. The all-time record across all competitions runs heavily Nantes' way at roughly 36 wins to 14 with 17 draws, but the recent decade has swung hard the other direction, with only three Nantes wins in the last ten meetings. Angers won 4-1 at the Raymond-Kopa on 12 December 2025 and completed the double with a 1-0 win in Nantes on 7 March 2026, in the season that sent Nantes down after thirteen years in the top flight. The fixture is not on the 2026/27 league calendar, and only a Coupe de France draw can bring it back.

Stade Lavallois, the Anjou and Mayenne derby

Eighty kilometres apart, and the rivalry dates to 1932, which makes it very nearly a hundred years old. French Wikipedia records that meetings are sometimes the scene of incidents between supporters, and regional media have run dedicated features on the animosity. The head-to-head across all recorded competitive matches runs to 55 meetings with Angers ahead on 24 wins to 19 and 12 draws, though Laval hold the edge at their own Stade Francis-Le Basser with 15 wins from 29. One statistic sums up the fixture better than any other: in nearly a century only one meeting between them has ever finished goalless, the first leg of a Coupe de France round of 16 in 1986. Laval beat Angers 1-0 on the opening night of the 2023/24 Ligue 2 season, the two drew 1-1 in the return and the fixture has been dormant at senior level since Angers went up.

Le Mans FC, the derby that has never been played in Ligue 1

The thinnest history of the three and the only one on this season's calendar. Ninety-five kilometres apart across the boundary between the Sarthe and Maine-et-Loire, the two clubs have met twelve times competitively and every single one of those matches was in Ligue 2. Le Mans lead the competitive record with five wins to two and three draws, and they won a pre-season friendly 3-2 in Angers on 1 August 2026 after 120 minutes. Angers' record win in the fixture was a 4-0 at home in 2012/13. With Le Mans promoted for 2026/27 the two will meet in the top flight for the first time in either club's history, and with Nantes relegated the fixture inherits the status of the regional derby by default. Le Mans host the first leg on the weekend of 23 January 2027, with the return at the Raymond-Kopa in March.

International and Big-Occasion Opponents

Berliner FC Dynamo, the whole of Angers' European history

Two matches, fifty-four years ago, and that is the complete list. Angers finished fourth in Division 1 in 1971/72 on 45 points and qualified for the UEFA Cup, where the first round paired them with Berliner FC Dynamo of East Germany. The first leg at home on 13 September 1972 finished 1-1. The return in East Berlin on 27 September finished 2-1 to Dynamo, and Angers went out 3-2 on aggregate. Played two, drawn one, lost one, scored two, conceded three: that is the entire European record of Angers Sporting Club de l'Ouest. It is also worth clearing up a common misconception, because reaching the 2017 Coupe de France final did not earn a European place. In France the berth goes to the winner, and when the winner has already qualified through the league it passes down the Ligue 1 table rather than to the beaten finalist. Paris Saint-Germain won both domestic cups that year and finished second, so both berths went to league finishers.

Paris Saint-Germain, the opponent Angers have never beaten

Not a rivalry in the traditional sense, but no fixture carries more weight in Angers, and the reason is a record that has become genuinely remarkable. Across 23 recorded meetings between the clubs, Paris Saint-Germain have won 21 and Angers none, with two draws. The heaviest defeats include a 6-1 in October 2020 and a 5-0 in the cup the following April. The most painful was the 2017 Coupe de France final at the Stade de France on 27 May, when a stoppage-time Issa Cissokho own goal from an Ángel Di María corner settled it 1-0 and denied Angers a first major trophy in the club's ninety-eight-year history. The most recent meeting finished 0-3 at the Raymond-Kopa in April 2026. The next chance comes on 16 January 2027, and it is the hardest home ticket of the Angers season for exactly that reason.

The Last Five Campaigns

One relegation, one immediate promotion, two survivals on identical points totals and a run of thirteen consecutive defeats that no club in Ligue 1 history had managed before. Angers' recent past explains why supporters here treat April and May with more attention than most.

Season	Summary
2021/22 (Ligue 1)	Fourteenth on 41 points from ten wins, eleven draws and seventeen defeats, scoring 44 and conceding 55 under Gérald Baticle. Sofiane Boufal was the leading scorer with eight league goals. The Coupe de France produced one of the season's largest upsets anywhere in France, a 2-0 defeat at fifth-tier ESA Linas-Montlhéry in the round of 32 on 19 December 2021. Comfortable enough in the league, embarrassing in the cup.
2022/23 (Ligue 1)	Relegated in twentieth and last on 18 points from four wins, six draws and twenty-eight defeats, conceding 81 goals. The defining statistic was a run of thirteen consecutive league defeats between matchdays nine and twenty-one, described in the competition's own records as an outright championship record. Three managers were used across the season, with Baticle sacked in November, Abdel Bouhazama taking over and Alexandre Dujeux arriving in March. Relegation was mathematically confirmed with five games still to play.
2023/24 (Ligue 2)	Promoted as runners-up on 68 points from twenty wins, eight draws and ten defeats, six behind champions Auxerre. Promotion was effectively sealed by a Loïs Diony free-kick at Annecy on 10 May 2024, and Diony was voted the club's player of the season. The Coupe de France ended early with a 1-0 defeat to Brest in the round of 64. A single season away and straight back up, which is not what the 2022/23 collapse had suggested.
2024/25 (Ligue 1)	Fourteenth on 36 points from ten wins, six draws and eighteen defeats across the first 34-match, 18-club Ligue 1 season, scoring 32 and conceding 53. The Coupe de France run was the finest since 2017, reaching the quarter-finals via a 3-1 win away at Strasbourg in the last sixteen before losing to Reims on penalties after a 1-1 draw. Attendances rose sharply, up around 45% on the promotion season.
2025/26 (Ligue 1)	Thirteenth on 36 points again, from nine wins, nine draws and sixteen defeats, with a strikingly thin attack of 29 goals in 34 matches. Himad Abdelli, the captain, was sold to Marseille on deadline day in February. The season's high point was a 4-1 win over Nantes on 12 December 2025 followed by a 1-0 win in Nantes on 7 March 2026. The cup ended in the round of 32 on penalties against Toulouse, and Dujeux resigned days after the final match.

The 2026/27 Squad

Stéphane Gilli inherited a squad reshaped by the largest sale in the club's history. Sidiki Chérif went to Fenerbahçe for €18 million, Himad Abdelli had gone to Marseille the previous February and Pierrick Capelle and Abdoulaye Bamba both retired. In came Branco van den Boomen from Ajax and Anthony Lopes from Nantes on free transfers, Usman Simbakoli from RWDM Brussels, plus Amine El Ouazzani from Braga and Anthony Bermont from Lens on loan. Net summer trading left Angers roughly £15 million in credit.

No.	Player	Position	Value (£)
1	Anthony Lopes	Goalkeeper	0.86m
16	Melvin Zinga	Goalkeeper	0.32m
2	Carlens Arcus	Right-back / centre-back	0.82m
3	Jacques Ekomié	Left-back	2.24m
4	Ousmane Camara	Centre-back	2.24m
20	Marius Louër	Centre-back / right-back	1.55m
21	Jordan Lefort	Centre-back	1.03m
24	Emmanuel Biumla	Centre-back	3.44m
27	Lilian Rao-Lisoa	Right winger / right-back	2.24m
93	Haris Belkebla (captain)	Defensive midfielder	1.12m
6	Louis Mouton	Central midfielder	1.81m
14	Yassin Belkhdim	Right winger / midfielder	4.90m
7	Amine Sbaï	Left winger / forward	1.89m
17	Usman Simbakoli	Striker	0.66m
19	Amine El Ouazzani	Striker (on loan from Braga)	2.24m
35	Prosper Peter	Striker	7.83m

Angers publish squad names and positions but not a numbered list, so the numbers above are drawn from third-party squad data and a small number of them differ between sources. Valuations are approximate, taken from published football market data and converted to sterling at around 0.86 pounds to the euro. They move constantly and indicate squad profile rather than a transfer price.

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Sources: the Angers SCO official club website (angers-sco.fr), including its stadium, season ticket, hospitality, squad and règlement intérieur publications; the Ligue de Football Professionnel competition regulations and its visiting supporter framework; the French Code du sport; UEFA match archives; the French Football Federation cup records; worldfootball.net historical league tables and head-to-head records; FotMob squad and market valuation data; StadiumDB; and Wikipedia as a cross-reference for honours and season records. Season book pricing is taken from the club's own 2026/27 campaign and a French industry report of April 2026. All statistics and figures cited above have been cross-referenced against club publications and verified football data sources. Last reviewed: August 2026.

Where Angers SCO Compete in 2026/27

• Ligue 1 2026/27, 18 clubs and 34 matchdays, running from August 2026 to May 2027
• Coupe de France, the national knockout competition Angers have reached the final of twice
• Other European league competitions for supporters following more than one club across the continent

Angers are not competing in a UEFA competition during the 2026/27 season, so the league campaign and the Coupe de France account for the full fixture list.

Home Fixtures at the Raymond-Kopa

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