AJ Auxerre Tickets

Following the Ajaïstes on the Road

Away travel in France is governed more tightly than in almost any other major European league, and buying an away seat is not the same transaction as buying 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. Article 565 fixes a single national away price of €10 in Ligue 1. Distribution runs through the visiting club rather than the home club, and the LFP requires the away club to place its order within ten days of the fixture being scheduled.

The practical consequence is that away seats rarely reach the open market in the way home seats do, and that any supporter travelling with the Auxerre following should expect to deal with the club's supporter liaison operation directly. What the resale market does serve is the large group of travelling fans who want a seat in the home sections of the away ground, which is legal, common and often the only way an overseas supporter gets into a fixture at 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. At the Abbé-Deschamps the visiting sector holds 880, of which 410 are in the lower tier.
Away sector location	Visiting supporters at Auxerre sit in the Tribune Groupama across both tiers, entering from route de Vaux opposite the municipal campsite, where the away parking also sits.
Access requirements	France has no national supporter identity card equivalent to Italy's Tessera del Tifoso. What applies instead is photo ID at the away window, nominative ticketing on designated high-risk fixtures and the national banning-order register, the Fichier National des Interdits de Stade.
Collection process	Supporters typically buy through their own club's platform, receive a printed contremarque, then exchange it with photo ID at the away window on arrival. Sales at the ground on matchday are usually not available.
Policing and travel restrictions	The préfecture can restrict or ban away travel by arrêté and routinely imposes escort points, arrival windows and coach-only travel. Away supporters at Auxerre have been directed to meeting points at Auxerrexpo off A6 exit 20 and the Sainte-Nitasse car park on rue de Chablis.

Matching the Seat to the Matchday You Want

A ground of 18,541 does not offer a bad seat in the way a 70,000-capacity bowl does, but the experience varies enormously between the ultras' block and the centre line. Decide what you actually want from the afternoon before you decide what to spend, because at Auxerre the atmosphere and the view sit in different stands and the gap between the lowest and highest zones is smaller than at almost any other Ligue 1 club.

What You Want	Best Option	Why
Atmosphere	Tribune AuxR_Logis Bas	Ultras Auxerre 1990 have occupied this lower tier since the group formed, and their displays have run to 80 metres across the stand. Continuous singing, standing throughout and the loudest corner of a small ground.
The clearest view of the game	Tribune Guy Roux Centrale	Halfway line, covered, elevated, alongside the press box. If you want to read the shape of a Will Still pressing side rather than feel it, this is the stand.
Family-friendly	Tribune Louault	The calmer of the two side stands. Auxerre applies a flat under-12 price across every zone, and under-16s must be accompanied by an adult holding a ticket in the same section, so keeping a group together matters.
Premium experience	Hospitality lounges on the Guy Roux side	Nine named spaces including the Loges, Club Europe and Club 1905, all with catering, a dedicated entrance opening 90 minutes before kick-off and reserved parking on avenue Yver.
Lower-priced option	Tribune Groupama Bas or AuxR_Logis Bas	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 way into a Ligue 1 fixture in France.

The Ground Beside the Yonne

The Stade de l'Abbé-Deschamps sits on the plaine de Preuilly, on the bank of the river Yonne, about a mile from the medieval centre of Auxerre. It opened on 13 October 1918 as the Stade de la Route de Vaux, on land that Abbé Ernest Deschamps had been quietly buying up in parcels from around 1912. The priest who founded the club in 1905 died in 1949, and the ground was renamed in his honour. Very few grounds in European football carry the name of the man who bought the field.

What stands there now is a 15-hectare complex that includes the training centre, and unusually for French football the club owns it outright rather than renting from the municipality. The published capacity is 18,541. Other sources circulate lower figures, French Wikipedia listing 17,925 and a June 2026 industry report giving 17,500, so treat the club's own number as the working figure and expect the true matchday total to sit somewhere in that band. The record crowd of 22,500 came against Nantes on 18 May 1996 during the title celebrations, in a configuration that no longer exists.

The four stands were built and rebuilt in stages. The first small stand of roughly 150 seats went up in 1930, blessed by the Bishop of Auxerre. The Tribune Louault followed in 1979, the main lateral stand was rebuilt in 1984 and the ends were filled in during the early 1980s when the ground briefly held around 23,000. A new pitch with undersoil heating arrived in 2010, the dressing rooms and administrative headquarters were rebuilt in 2011 and in 2024 the giant screens were relocated to recover roughly 600 seats. During the summer of 2026 the club replaced the entire public address system and increased the floodlighting from around 100 projectors to roughly 150, ready for the first home fixture of the new campaign.

There is a long-running plan to extend the Tribune Louault by roughly 2,500 seats, alongside a club shop, a seminar centre, an auditorium and a hotel, at an estimated cost of €45 million funded entirely privately. It depends on the city selling an adjacent municipal campsite. The Dijon administrative tribunal suspended that land deal in May 2025 and the project has not yet broken ground, so anybody planning a trip should work from the current capacity rather than the projected one.

Atmosphere here comes from proximity rather than volume. With the ends close to the goal line and the sides tight to the touchline, 15,000 people at the Abbé-Deschamps sound considerably more numerous than the figure suggests. Ultras Auxerre 1990 drive it from the lower AuxR_Logis, and on European nights in the 1990s this ground produced the sort of noise that unsettled Ajax, Milan and Borussia Dortmund. The club's decision to spend money on the sound system before spending it on seats tells you where its priorities sit.

Getting there is straightforward if you plan it. From Paris the drive is roughly 169 kilometres down the A6, about an hour and 45 minutes, leaving at exit 20 for Auxerre Sud. By rail the service runs from Paris-Bercy-Bourgogne-Pays d'Auvergne to Auxerre-Saint-Gervais, around 146 kilometres, with the fastest journey at 1 hour 54 minutes and roughly 14 trains a day of which about half are direct. This is a classic line rather than a TGV route, so build in more time than a French distance normally implies. From Auxerre-Saint-Gervais the ground is about a 20-minute walk, the same as from the town centre.

Around the stadium the club directs supporters to the parking de la Noue and the parking de la Piscine, with additional space at the rugby club and the Stade Auxerrois on busier dates. Avenue Yver is reserved for hospitality guests, reduced-mobility spaces sit at La Noue near the main entrance and away supporters use the campsite car park on route de Vaux. Local buses run under the AuxR_M le bus network, with line 4 or school line 1 dropping at Collège Paul Bert. Gates typically open around two hours before kick-off for general admission and an hour before for hospitality, with the away sector opening on its own schedule. Cross the river and you are in the old town within 20 minutes, with the Cathédrale Saint-Étienne, the Abbaye Saint-Germain and the Quai de la Marine riverside all within a short walk, and the Chablis vineyards a short drive east for anybody making a weekend of it.

Matchday With the Extras

Auxerre's hospitality operation is run by SPORTFIVE and is more developed than the size of the ground would lead you to expect. Nine named spaces sit on the Tribune Guy Roux side, ranging from private boxes through to themed lounges built around Burgundy's food and wine culture. Club 1905, the most recent addition, was funded entirely by Auxerre and Yonne partner businesses and holds up to 100 guests. It doubles as a seminar space during the week, which is how a club of this size makes the economics work.

The common inclusions across the range are a premium seat on or near the halfway line, hot and cold catering with a bar, a dedicated entrance that opens 90 minutes before kick-off and stays open afterwards, reserved parking on avenue Yver and personalised assistance on arrival. The club does not publish per-person rates for any of its lounges, routing enquiries through a contact form instead, so the figures below reflect typical resale and package market ranges rather than club list prices.

Package	What It Includes	Typical Price Range (GBP)
Loges de l'Abbé-Deschamps	Private box with an unobstructed view of the pitch, dedicated service, full catering and bar, reserved parking. The most exclusive product at the ground.	£350 – £700+ per guest
Club Europe	Presented by the club as its most prestigious salon. Premium halfway-line seating, seated dining, dedicated entrance and hosting throughout.	£280 – £550+
Club 1905	Panoramic lounge for up to 100 guests, opened as the fourth club-level space after Yonne, Bourgogne and Europe. Buffet catering, bar and premium seating.	£220 – £450+
Club Bourgogne / Club Yonne	Two mid-tier lounges, the first themed on the atmosphere of Burgundy's covered market halls, the second built as a more convivial meeting space. Catering, bar and halfway-line seats.	£180 – £380+
L'Auxerrois / Le Chablisien / Club Festin(s)	Gastronomy-led spaces with panoramic pitch views, the Chablisien modelled on the great Chablis wine cellars. Regional menus, wine service and premium seating.	£200 – £420+

From Search to Seat in Eight Steps

Buying through a marketplace should take a few minutes and leave you with a document you can walk through a turnstile with. The sequence below covers what actually happens between finding the fixture and being scanned into the Abbé-Deschamps, including the two points where supporters most often make mistakes: not reading the listing detail and not confirming the kick-off time after a broadcast reschedule.

Follow that sequence and the only thing left to do on matchday is arrive early enough to clear the search. Auxerre asks supporters to keep personal items to a minimum because screening is thorough, and the walk from the station takes 20 minutes, so give yourself more time than a ground this size might suggest.

The Fixtures That Disappear First

Not every home fixture behaves the same way, and anyone buying AJ Auxerre tickets more than once a season learns the pattern quickly. With roughly 6,000 non-subscriber seats available per match, the difference between a comfortable purchase and a sold-out board comes down to who the visitors are and when in the season the fixture falls. These five categories consistently move fastest at the Abbé-Deschamps.

Fixture Type	Why It Moves Fast
Paris Saint-Germain at the Abbé-Deschamps	The single hardest ticket of the Auxerre season. A national broadcast slot, a full away allocation and demand from neutrals across France and beyond, contesting a home allocation of a few thousand seats. Resale entry points for this fixture have reached triple the level of an ordinary Ligue 1 date.
Marseille, Lyon, Monaco and Lille	Four clubs with large travelling followings and national profiles. Each brings a filled visiting sector, a prime-time slot and a spike in casual local demand. These dates typically clear the open market weeks ahead of kick-off.
The Troyes fixtures	With Dijon and Sochaux both in Ligue 2 for 2026/27, the visit of promoted ES Troyes AC on 16 January 2027 is the closest thing on the calendar to a regional derby. Bourgogne against Champagne, 78 kilometres apart, back in the top flight together for the first time since April 2023.
The season opener and the final home fixture	The first home game of the campaign carries the optimism of a new manager and a rebuilt squad, and the last carries whatever is still at stake. Auxerre's recent history of final-day survival means the closing fixtures draw crowds a mid-season Tuesday cannot.
Spring fixtures against the bottom third	Games in April and May against clubs in the relegation conversation become the most contested of the calendar. The stakes are local, the audience is local and supporters who attend twice a season pick these dates.

How Your Tickets Arrive

Delivery method varies by seller and by fixture, and the listing states which applies before you commit. French clubs still use a mix of paper and digital formats, and Auxerre in particular issues thermal paper tickets, A4 print-at-home e-tickets and nominative season cards, all of which are scanned at the turnstile.

1. E-ticket or mobile delivery. The most common method. A PDF or digital pass arrives by email, usually in the days before the fixture. Save it to your phone and print a backup, since France's ticketing systems still lean on printed A4 in places and phone battery at a stadium turnstile is not a given.
2. Print-at-home. A PDF you print on A4 without resizing or altering it. Auxerre's own terms instruct supporters to print the document unmodified, so avoid scaling it to fit or printing two to a page, either of which can defeat the scanner.
3. Postal delivery. Physical tickets sent by tracked courier to the address on your order. Common for higher-value and hospitality bookings. Allow more time for international delivery than a domestic order would need.
4. Collection. Seats collected from a designated point near the ground 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 you complete the order. They are where sellers record the detail that matters: 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

General admission gates at the Abbé-Deschamps typically open around two hours before kick-off, with hospitality entrances opening an hour before and the away sector on its own timetable. Security screening is thorough and the club asks supporters to limit the number of personal items they bring so that searches move quickly. On higher-risk fixtures a security perimeter goes up around the ground from around midday, which affects driving and parking, so arriving early is a practical matter rather than an atmospheric one. The pre-match hour beside the Yonne with a drink from the concourse bars is one of the pleasanter ways to spend it, and the Ecocup deposit of €1 is refunded when you return the cup.

ID and Entry Requirements

Photo identification is required at entry for any ticket bought at a reduced rate, meaning student cards, disability cards or proof of age for under-18s. It is compulsory in the away sector. Some fixtures are ticketed nominatively, in which case the name on the ticket must match the identification presented. Every ticket, paper or digital, is scanned at the turnstile. There is no re-entry once you have left the stadium, and entry closes after the start of the second half, so a long lunch in the old town is not compatible with a 15:00 kick-off. Keep your phone charged if you are relying on a digital pass.

Bag Policy

Auxerre does not publish specific bag dimensions, so the safest approach is to carry as little as possible and expect everything to be searched. The club explicitly asks supporters to limit handbags and personal effects. Prohibited items include pyrotechnics and flares, knives, laser pointers, rigid poles, sound amplification equipment and anything usable as a projectile. Bottles and reusable water flasks of any kind are banned, which catches out visiting supporters more than any other rule, since drinks are sold inside instead. Smoking and vaping are prohibited throughout the ground, and there is no cloakroom in the away sector.

AJ Auxerre at a Glance

Detail	Information
Full name	Association de la Jeunesse Auxerroise
Founded	1905, by Abbé Ernest Deschamps
Nickname	Les Ajaïstes, or simply AJA
Stadium	Stade de l'Abbé-Deschamps, route de Vaux, Auxerre (capacity 18,541 per the club's published figure)
Head coach	Will Still, appointed June 2026 on a contract to 2028
Captain	Vacant at the time of writing. Elisha Owusu, captain through 2025/26, left for Erzurumspor on 19 August 2026 after 93 appearances and no successor had been named publicly.
League	Ligue 1, 2026/27 (18 clubs, 34 matchdays)
President	Baptiste Malherbe, under majority owner James Zhou

How a Town of Forty Thousand Won France

There is no equivalent story in European football. A Catholic youth association founded in a Burgundy market town in 1905 spent six decades in the amateur game, then hired a 22-year-old player-manager who stayed for 44 years and turned it into the champion of France. Everything about Auxerre's identity, from the academy to the ownership of its own stadium, traces back to that one appointment and the institution built around it.

Foundation and the Amateur Years (1905 to 1960)

• 1905: Association de la Jeunesse Auxerroise founded by Abbé Ernest Deschamps, a priest at Auxerre cathedral, as a youth sport and education association
• 5 November 1905: the club's first recorded football match
• From around 1912: Deschamps buys parcels of land on the plaine de Preuilly beside the Yonne
• 13 October 1918: the Stade de la Route de Vaux is inaugurated
• 1930: the first stand, roughly 150 to 200 seats, is blessed by the Bishop of Auxerre
• 1942: Auxerre's two rival town clubs merge into Stade Auxerrois under the Vichy consolidation policy. Deschamps refuses to let AJA join
• 1 December 1949: Deschamps dies. The ground is renamed in his honour

For half a century AJA was a parish club in the most literal sense, competing largely within Catholic patronage leagues against opponents from the same department. Its great local rival was Stade Auxerrois, the secular club of the town, and the fixture carried an ideological charge that had nothing to do with football. Nobody in 1950s Auxerre would have described the club as a future champion of France, because nothing in its structure or its resources suggested it. What it did have was a founder who had bought the land outright, which is why the club owns its ground today when almost every French club of comparable size rents from a municipality.

The Guy Roux Ascent (1961 to 1990)

• 1961: Guy Roux, aged 22, arrives as player-manager. Bar a short gap he stays until 2005
• 1970: promotion to Division 3
• 1974: promotion to Division 2 and the beginning of professional status
• 1979: first Coupe de France final, lost to Nantes
• 1979/80: Division 2 champions, earning promotion to the top flight
• 24 July 1980: Division 1 debut, a 2-0 defeat to Bastia, beginning an unbroken 32-year stay
• 1982: the AJA training centre opens. First Coupe Gambardella title in the same year
• 1984/85: first European campaign, in the UEFA Cup
• 1985 and 1987: Coupe des Alpes winners, beating Monaco then Grasshopper Zürich

Roux's method was not complicated but it was relentless. He recruited boys from the Yonne and the surrounding departments, housed them, educated them and coached them, and when the first team needed a player he promoted one rather than buying one. The academy that opened in 1982 formalised what he had already been doing for two decades, and within a few years it was producing Jean-Marc Ferreri, Basile Boli, Eric Cantona and Lionel Charbonnier. Roux would go on to take charge of roughly 2,000 matches including a European record 890 in the top flight, a tenure that has no modern parallel and almost certainly never will again.

The 1980s were the decade the club learned it belonged. Promotion in 1980 was followed not by a struggle but by consolidation, then by European qualification, then by two Coupe des Alpes titles. A town of 40,000 people was fielding a Division 1 side that other clubs had to take seriously, funded largely by selling the players it had produced. That model, uncomfortable as it sometimes was for supporters, is what paid for everything that followed.

The Golden Era (1990 to 2005)

• 1990: UEFA Cup quarter-finals
• 3 and 16 March 1993: Auxerre eliminate holders Ajax in the UEFA Cup quarter-final, winning 4-2 at home and losing 1-0 in Amsterdam
• April 1993: UEFA Cup semi-final against Borussia Dortmund, lost 6-5 on penalties after a twelfth spot-kick
• 1994: first major trophy, the Coupe de France, beating Montpellier 3-0
• 1995/96: the double. Division 1 champions for the first and only time, plus a second Coupe de France
• March 1997: Champions League quarter-final against Borussia Dortmund, lost 4-1 on aggregate to the eventual winners
• 26 August 1997: UEFA Intertoto Cup won, 2-0 on aggregate over MSV Duisburg
• 1999 and 2000: back-to-back Coupe Gambardella titles
• 22 October 2002: Auxerre win 2-1 at Highbury in the Champions League, Kapo and Fadiga scoring
• 2003 and 2005: two further Coupe de France titles, the 2003 final won against Paris Saint-Germain
• June 2005: Guy Roux retires after 44 years

The 1995/96 season remains the outlier in modern French football. Auxerre won the championship and the cup in the same year with a squad built largely from its own academy plus a single transformative signing, Laurent Blanc, who Roux persuaded to join as a replacement for Frank Verlaat and who returned from an early-season injury to anchor the double. The following autumn they went into the Champions League as French champions, beat Rangers home and away, took four points off Ajax across two group matches and reached the quarter-finals.

What makes the era remarkable is not just the trophies but the quality of opposition beaten along the way. Milan were held 3-1 at the Abbé-Deschamps on Auxerre's European debut in 1985. Liverpool were beaten 2-0 there in 1991. Ajax, the reigning UEFA Cup holders, were knocked out in 1993. Arsenal were beaten at Highbury in 2002, a result French sources describe as the only occasion a French club won there. Only Borussia Dortmund had Auxerre's number, eliminating them in 1993 and again in 1997 and reaching the final on both occasions.

The Modern Era (2005 to 2026)

• 2006: Intertoto Cup co-winners for a second time, qualifying for the UEFA Cup
• 13 May 2012: relegated from Ligue 1, ending the 32-year top-flight run
• 2015: Coupe de France runners-up from Ligue 2, losing 1-0 to Paris Saint-Germain
• October 2016: the Chinese group ORG Packaging completes its takeover, with James Zhou as majority owner
• 29 May 2022: promoted back to Ligue 1 via the play-off, beating Saint-Étienne on penalties after a 1-1 aggregate draw
• May 2023: relegated in 17th as Ligue 1 contracted from 20 clubs to 18
• 2023/24: Ligue 2 champions on 74 points, six clear of Angers
• 17 May 2026: survival secured with a 2-0 win at Lille on the final day
• June 2026: Will Still appointed head coach, with Djibril Cissé and Jean-Alain Boumsong joining his staff

The decade after Roux's retirement was hard. Relegation in 2012 ended a run that had begun before most of the current squad was born, and the ten years in Ligue 2 that followed included a cup final, several near-misses and one genuinely traumatic promotion. The 2022 play-off at Geoffroy-Guichard finished with Auxerre promoted on penalties, Saint-Étienne relegated and the pitch invaded by home supporters, riot police deployed and around thirty arrests. It is still the fixture that defines Auxerre's recent history in the eyes of the rest of France.

Since then the club has bounced between the divisions and settled. Relegation in 2023 was immediately answered with a Ligue 2 title, an 11th-place finish in 2024/25 suggested stability, then 2025/26 turned into a nine-month escape act that came down to Lassine Sinayoko scoring twice at Lille on the final afternoon. Selling Sinayoko to Paris FC for €8 million that summer and reinvesting roughly €16 million on Danny Namaso, Arthur Piedfort, Christ Makosso, Sékou Fofana and two goalkeepers is exactly the model Roux built, run at modern prices. Djibril Cissé, the striker that model produced in 2001, is now on the coaching staff.

The Names That Built the Club

Auxerre's honours board is short by the standards of French football's traditional powers, but its list of players is not. The academy has been exporting internationals for 40 years, and the men below either built the institution or defined its peak.

Legend	Role	Contribution	Milestones
Guy Roux	Manager, 1961 to 2005	Arrived as a 22-year-old player-manager and stayed for 44 years, taking Auxerre from the regional amateur game to the championship of France. He opened the academy in 1982 and built a recruitment and development model that clubs across Europe subsequently copied. No manager in the history of the European game has held one job for longer.	Roughly 2,000 matches in charge, including a European record 890 in the top flight. Division 1 title 1995/96, four Coupes de France, Division 2 title 1979/80, 1997 Intertoto Cup, UEFA President's Award 2000.
Djibril Cissé	Striker, 1998 to 2004	An academy graduate who won the Coupe Gambardella in 1999 before becoming the most prolific forward of the club's modern era. He scored six times during the 2003 Coupe de France run, including both goals in the semi-final and the equaliser in the final against Paris Saint-Germain. He returned to the club in 2026 as assistant coach for the forwards.	166 appearances and 90 goals. Ligue 1 top scorer twice, in 2001/02 with 22 goals and 2003/04 with 26. UNFP Young Player of the Year 2001/02. Sold to Liverpool in 2004.
Jean-Marc Ferreri	Attacking midfielder, 1976 to 1986	Joined the academy at 14 and became the first great player it produced, making his Division 2 debut in 1980 and staying through the club's establishment in the top flight. His creativity gave Roux's first Division 1 sides something beyond organisation, and his form earned a place in the France squad that won Euro 1984.	229 appearances and 50 goals. Division 2 title 1979/80, Coupe Gambardella 1982, Coupe des Alpes 1985. 37 caps for France and a European Championship winner's medal in 1984.
Basile Boli	Centre-back, 1982 to 1990	Eight seasons of Auxerre's defence in the years when the club was learning to hold its own in Division 1. He came through the same academy intake as Ferreri and Cantona and was the physical spine of Roux's sides through the mid-1980s. He left for Marseille in 1990 and scored the winning goal in the 1993 European Cup final.	Coupe Gambardella 1986, Coupe des Alpes 1985 and 1987. France Football's Revelation of the Year 1984 and its Étoile d'or in 1989.
Lionel Charbonnier	Goalkeeper, 1987 to 1998	Entered the academy at 16 and spent more than a decade as the goalkeeper of the club's finest years. He was behind the double-winning side of 1995/96 and the team that reached the UEFA Cup semi-final in 1993, and he remains the only Auxerre player to hold a World Cup winner's medal from the 1998 tournament.	Division 1 title 1995/96, Coupe de France 1994 and 1996, Coupe Gambardella 1985 and 1986. World Cup winner with France in 1998 as third-choice goalkeeper, later awarded the Légion d'honneur.
Laurent Blanc	Centre-back, 1995 to 1996	One season only, but arguably the most consequential signing in club history. Roux brought him in to replace Frank Verlaat and, after an early injury, Blanc returned to organise the defence that delivered the only double Auxerre have ever won. He left for Barcelona the following summer.	Division 1 title and Coupe de France in the same 1995/96 season. Later a World Cup winner in 1998 and European champion in 2000 with France.

Honourable mentions belong to Fabien Cool, who holds the club appearance record with 465 matches, Bruno Martini on 378, Pascal Vahirua with 346 appearances and 68 goals, Christophe Cocard on 321 and 73 plus Andrzej Szarmach, whose 96 goals in 150 games give him a rival claim to Cissé's scoring record. Philippe Mexès belongs there too, having debuted in Ligue 1 at 17 before leaving for Roma in 2004 in one of the most contested transfers of the decade. AJ Auxerre has not formally retired any shirt number, and the current squad uses numbers running from 1 to 93 without any reserved gap.

What Sits in the Cabinet

Four major trophies, all won between 1994 and 2005, plus a Division 2 title that started everything and a second one that restored it. The youth honours matter here more than they would at most clubs, because the Coupe Gambardella record is the clearest evidence of the academy that has funded Auxerre for four decades.

Competition	Titles
Ligue 1 / Division 1	1 (1995/96)
Coupe de France	4 (1994, 1996, 2003, 2005). Runners-up in 1979 and 2015
Ligue 2 / Division 2	2 (1979/80, 2023/24)
Coupe Gambardella (youth)	7 (1982, 1985, 1986, 1993, 1999, 2000, 2014) per the club's own records. Some third-party sources list a lower figure, so treat this as more than five national youth titles at minimum
UEFA Intertoto Cup	2 as co-winner (1997, 2006)
Coupe des Alpes	2 (1985, 1987)
Best European runs	UEFA Cup semi-finalists 1992/93. Champions League quarter-finalists 1996/97. UEFA Cup quarter-finalists 1990, 1998 and 2005. Cup Winners' Cup quarter-finalists 1995

The Matches That Matter Most

Auxerre's rivalries are unusual because the two most historically charged of them are currently unplayable. Dijon and Sochaux both sit in Ligue 2 for 2026/27, which leaves the newly promoted Troyes as the only genuine derby on the Ligue 1 calendar. Add the Saint-Étienne play-off of 2022, still the most emotionally loaded fixture in recent club memory, and the picture is a club with real enemies scattered across two divisions.

Domestic Rivals

Dijon FCO, the Derby Bourguignon

The two largest clubs in Burgundy, roughly 150 kilometres apart, contest what French regional media consistently brand the derby bourguignon. It is a modern rivalry rather than an ancient one, because Dijon FCO was only founded in 1998, and the twelve senior meetings all date from 2011/12 onwards. Auxerre hold the marginal edge with five wins to three, with four draws. The first top-flight meeting finished 2-2 at the Abbé-Deschamps on 19 January 2012, and Auxerre won the return 2-0 at the Stade Gaston-Gérard. The most recent chapter came in Ligue 2, Dijon winning 3-1 at home on 22 November 2021 in a fixture where the préfecture banned Auxerre supporters from the city centre and a brawl broke out in a bar near the ground, before Auxerre took the return 2-1 on 19 April 2022. With Dijon promoted from Championnat National back to Ligue 2 for 2026/27 and Auxerre in the top flight, the Coupe de France is currently the only route to a rematch.

FC Sochaux-Montbéliard

Not a geographic derby at 250 kilometres apart, but the most thoroughly documented rivalry Auxerre has, because a French préfecture put it in writing. On 4 March 2022 the Prefecture of the Yonne banned Sochaux supporters from travelling to Auxerre, citing the repeated occurrence of serious incidents around fixtures between the clubs and referring explicitly to the historical and violent rivalry between them. Forty senior meetings have gone heavily Auxerre's way, with roughly 25 wins to six. The match played behind that ban finished Auxerre 3-2 on 12 March 2022, and it remains the last senior meeting, since Sochaux spent the intervening seasons in the third tier before winning promotion back to Ligue 2 for 2026/27. Like Dijon, this one is on hold rather than over.

ES Troyes AC, Bourgogne against Champagne

Seventy-eight kilometres separate Auxerre from Troyes, but they sit either side of the old regional boundary between Burgundy and Champagne, which is why French coverage calls it a vrai-faux derby, a true-false derby. The first top-flight meeting came in 1999/2000 with Roux still in charge, and 32 senior meetings have produced a dead heat: 13 wins each, six draws and 40 goals apiece. Guy Roux himself noted that the derbies had passed off without incident on the pitch or among supporters, and one Auxerre supporters' group has cycled to Troyes for the away fixture, which tells you the temperature. The most recent Ligue 1 meeting finished Auxerre 1-0 on 1 April 2023, and the most recent of all was a 2-0 Auxerre win in Ligue 2 on 8 April 2024. Troyes came up for 2026/27, and the two league fixtures are scheduled for 16 January 2027 at the Abbé-Deschamps and 20 March 2027 at the Stade de l'Aube.

European Rivals

Borussia Dortmund

No club has hurt Auxerre in Europe the way Dortmund have, and they have done it twice in the two ties that mattered most. The 1992/93 UEFA Cup semi-final began with a 2-0 defeat at the Westfalenstadion on 13 April 1993, then Auxerre won the return 2-0 on 20 April through Corentin Martins and Frank Verlaat, both sides finishing with ten men. The shootout went to sudden death and a twelfth penalty before Stefan Klos saved from Stéphane Mahé and Dortmund progressed 6-5. Four years later the two met again in the Champions League quarter-final, Dortmund winning 3-1 at home on 5 March 1997 with Sabri Lamouchi scoring for Auxerre, then 1-0 in Burgundy on 19 March through Lars Ricken. Dortmund went on to win the competition. Auxerre have not met them since, nor qualified for Europe in the current era.

Ajax

The signature European scalp, and a two-chapter story. In the 1992/93 UEFA Cup quarter-final Auxerre beat the reigning holders 4-2 at the Abbé-Deschamps on 3 March 1993, Verlaat and Martins turning the tie around before Pascal Vahirua and Daniel Dutuel finished it late. Ajax won the return 1-0 at De Meer through Frank de Boer on 16 March, but Auxerre went through 4-3 on aggregate. They met again in the 1996/97 Champions League group stage with Ajax reigning European finalists: Ajax won 1-0 in Auxerre on 11 September 1996, then Auxerre won 2-1 in Amsterdam on 20 November. Auxerre finished level with Ajax on 12 points and went through to the quarter-finals. The two clubs have not met since.

The Last Five Campaigns

Two promotions, one relegation, one title and a final-day escape. Auxerre's recent history explains a great deal about why the crowd behaves the way it does, and why fixtures in the final two months of a season are the hardest to get into.

Season	Summary
2021/22 (Ligue 2)	Finished third on 74 points from 21 wins, 11 draws and six defeats, missing automatic promotion behind Toulouse and AC Ajaccio. Reached the promotion play-off and drew 1-1 on aggregate with Saint-Étienne, winning the shootout at Geoffroy-Guichard on 29 May 2022 to end a ten-year absence from Ligue 1. The night finished with a Saint-Étienne pitch invasion, flares, riot police and around thirty arrests. The Coupe de France run ended in the round of 64 with a 3-1 defeat at Lille.
2022/23 (Ligue 1)	Relegated in 17th on 35 points from eight wins, 11 draws and 19 defeats, in a season when four clubs went down because Ligue 1 was contracting from 20 teams to 18. The cup run was the strongest of these five campaigns, reaching the round of 16 after beating Dunkerque on penalties and Chamois Niortais 4-0, before losing 3-2 at home to Ligue 2 Rodez on 8 February 2023. A goal difference of minus 28 told the story of a squad that could not defend.
2023/24 (Ligue 2)	Champions on 74 points from 21 wins, 11 draws and six defeats, six clear of Angers, with a goal difference of plus 36. Promotion was sealed with games to spare and the title added the club's second Division 2 crown, 44 years after the first. The Coupe de France ended in the round of 64 at Nice, a goalless draw lost 4-2 on penalties on 6 January 2024. This is the season that defines the loyalty tier in the current season book pricing.
2024/25 (Ligue 1)	Eleventh on 42 points from 11 wins, nine draws and 14 defeats across a 34-match season. Comfortable enough survival on the return to the top flight, with 48 goals scored against 51 conceded and a mid-table position secured well before the closing weeks. The Coupe de France brought an early exit, a 1-0 home defeat to Ligue 2 Dunkerque on 22 December 2024. Christophe Pélissier's pragmatism kept the club up without ever threatening the top half.
2025/26 (Ligue 1)	Fifteenth on 34 points from eight wins, ten draws and 16 defeats, surviving on the final day. Auxerre went to Lille on 17 May 2026 needing a result and won 2-0 through a Lassine Sinayoko brace, finishing two points clear of Nice in 16th, with Nantes and Metz relegated below them. The Coupe de France ended in the round of 64 with a 2-1 defeat to Monaco on 21 December 2025. Pélissier departed at the end of the season, and Will Still arrived in June 2026.

The 2026/27 Squad

Will Still inherited a squad that lost its top scorer and its captain within a month of his appointment, then rebuilt it. Lassine Sinayoko went to Paris FC for €8 million after scoring 12 in the survival campaign, Elisha Owusu left for Erzurumspor on 19 August 2026 after 93 appearances, while Donovan Léon, Gideon Mensah and Paul Joly all moved on. Roughly €16 million came back in the other direction. The squad below reflects the club's published list for 2026/27, with approximate market valuations converted to sterling at around 0.86 pounds to the euro.

No.	Player	Position	Value (£)
1	Paul Nardi	Goalkeeper	0.6m
23	Mamadou Diop	Goalkeeper	1.1m
4	Francisco Sierralta	Centre-back	0.95m
15	Christ Makosso	Centre-back / right-back	1.1m
20	Sinaly Diomandé	Centre-back	2.75m
24	Bryan Okoh	Centre-back	1.4m
92	Clément Akpa	Centre-back / left-back	8.0m
93	Sékou Fofana	Left-back	0.6m
22	Fredrik Oppegård	Left-back / left wing-back	1.1m
27	Lamine Sy	Right-back	1.4m
29	Marvin Senaya	Right-back	2.15m
5	Kevin Danois	Central midfielder	11.9m
6	Assane Dioussé	Defensive midfielder	0.25m
8	Naouirou Ahamada	Central midfielder	1.65m
46	Arthur Piedfort	Defensive midfielder	3.3m
28	Romain Faivre	Right winger	2.6m
7	Josué Casimir	Right winger	2.4m
77	Aristide Zossou	Winger	2.4m
19	Danny Namaso	Forward	3.7m
3	Rémy Labeau-Lascary	Forward (on loan from Lens)	1.9m
9	Theo Bair	Striker	1.2m

Valuations are approximate, drawn from published football market data and rounded. They move constantly and should be read as an indication of squad profile rather than a transfer price.

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Sources: AJ Auxerre club website (aja.fr), including its stadium, season book and squad publications; the Ligue de Football Professionnel competition regulations and its visiting supporter framework.

Where AJ Auxerre 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 Auxerre have won four times
• Other European league competitions for supporters following more than one club across the continent

Auxerre 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 Abbé-Deschamps

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