ES Troyes AC Tickets

Following ESTAC on the Road

Away travel in France is governed more tightly than in most European leagues. 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 clubs agree otherwise and requires the away sector to be an independent zone with its own access and facilities. A single national away price of €10 in Ligue 1 has applied since 2019/20, which for Troyes supporters is a change: in Ligue 2 last season the rate was €5.

Distribution runs through the visiting club rather than the host, with the away club required to place its order within ten days of the fixture being scheduled. Supporters buy through their own club's platform and collect the physical ticket at the visitors' window on production of identification. What the resale market genuinely serves is the larger group of travelling fans who want a seat in the home sections of an away ground, which is how most overseas supporters get into the Parc des Princes or the Vélodrome.

Away Matchday Factor	What to Expect
Allocation at the Stade de l'Aube	928 places in bloc A of the Tribune Seine, entered through gate V. At the club's stated capacity that is just under the LFP maximum of 1,000, so Troyes offer close to the largest allocation the rules permit.
Price and distribution	A single national away rate of €10 in Ligue 1, up from €5 in Ligue 2. Tickets are sold by the visiting club and collected at the visitors' window with identification. The away parcage opens 90 minutes before kick-off.
Access requirements	France operates no national supporter identity card and has no equivalent of Italy's Tessera del Tifoso. Control runs instead through individual stadium bans held on a national file, match-by-match travel orders and club-controlled away sales.
Assembly and escort	Coaches and minibuses assemble at the Péage de Thennelières on the A26 at junction 23, where tickets are distributed before a police-escorted convoy to the visitors' parking. For a 15:00 kick-off the rendezvous has been set at 12:30. Supporters arriving by car park outside the stadium perimeter.
Policing history	The Aube préfecture has form here. Its order of 28 March 2022 banned anyone claiming to be a Reims supporter from the ground, the Troyes city centre and designated parking areas across three communes, citing a strong and longstanding antagonism between the two sets of supporters. A ministerial order covering the same fixture was published in the Journal Officiel.

Matching the Seat to the Matchday You Want

The Stade de l'Aube is a compact, fully rebuilt ground with no running track and no distant corners, so the decision here is about atmosphere and budget rather than sightlines. The gap between the ends and the main stand is significant, and the two ends are very different from each other.

What You Want	Best Option	Why
Atmosphere	Tribune Champagne, lower tier	The smallest stand in the ground at 2,854 places, and home to both organised ultras groups, Magic Troyes 1997 and Tricasse Crew. Expect standing, banners and continuous noise from a concentrated block.
The clearest view of the game	Tribune d'Honneur	The main stand, rebuilt between 2002 and 2004, with the directors' area, the press positions and the hospitality lounges. If you want to read how Stéphane Dumont sets his side up in his first top-flight season, sit here.
Family-friendly	Tribune Marcel-Vitoux	The designated family stand and the only one where the Family Pack applies, covering up to six people with up to four under-14s at half the youth rate. Under-16s must be accompanied in the same sector by an adult.
Premium experience	Loges and salons in the Tribune d'Honneur	Seven named products including private boxes, the eight-seat Carré VIP closest to the pitch, the Club des Légendes hosted alongside former ESTAC players and the 90' Inside package with pitchside access.
Lower-priced option	Tribune Champagne or Tribune Seine	The two ends carry the lowest bands, with the published adult season rate in the Champagne at roughly £172 against about £258 in the Marcel-Vitoux. Behind the goal, restricted angle on the near penalty area, lowest cost.

The Ground Beside the Seine

The Stade de l'Aube sits north-east of Troyes, across the Seine from the medieval centre, on roughly eight hectares of land secured in the 1920s by the industrialist Marcel Vitoux. The ground was built in 1924, and the club marked its centenary two years ago. Its first professional match came on 18 August 1935, a 3-1 win for AS Troyes-Savinienne over Nancy in front of 3,000 people. There is no naming-rights sponsor and no sponsor name on any of the four stands, which for a French ground in 2026 is increasingly unusual. Full listings and upcoming fixtures sit on the Stade de l'Aube tickets page.

What stands there now is almost entirely the product of the Alain Perrin era, and it went up in two phases rather than one. The first ran from 1998 to 1999: the Tribune Champagne was inaugurated on 7 March 1998, the old Marathon stand was demolished and replaced by the Tribune Marcel-Vitoux in 1999 and the Tribune Seine went up the same year. That took capacity from around 14,000 to 18,000. The second phase ran from 2002 to 2004, replacing the old Tribune d'Honneur with the current 7,070-seat structure and filling in the corners between the existing stands. The rebuilt ground was re-inaugurated on 8 October 2005 with a France under-21 fixture against the Republic of Ireland.

Capacity is genuinely contested and it is worth being precise. The club's own stadium page gives 21,877. Add the four published stand capacities together and you get 20,420, which is the figure carried by most reference sites, with the difference accounted for by the corner sections. A June 2026 industry report put the number of seats actually offered for sale at 17,899 once hospitality, media positions, segregation buffers and the away sector come out. The record attendance in the modern configuration is 20,347, set on 18 May 2012 for the visit of Amiens.

The stadium is owned by Troyes Champagne Métropole, the local agglomeration, and has been in public hands since 2003. The club is a tenant. That distinction matters because City Football Group owns ESTAC, not the ground, so the usual multi-club argument about stadium assets does not apply here in the way it does elsewhere. One genuine piece of pioneering does belong to the Aube: in June 2013 it became the first stadium anywhere in the world to install AirFibr hybrid turf, developed by the French company Natural Grass.

The ground also holds a small place in European history that almost nobody records correctly. When Troyes qualified for the 2001 Intertoto Cup, the Aube pitch was being relaid, so the early home legs were staged at Auxerre's Stade Abbé-Deschamps. The club's genuine first European home match came on 25 July 2001, a 1-0 win over VfL Wolfsburg in the Intertoto semi-final first leg, watched by 5,643 people, Nicolas Goussé scoring after nine minutes.

Getting to Troyes is straightforward but slower than the distance suggests. The city sits 160 kilometres south-east of Paris, and trains run from Paris-Gare de l'Est on the classic Paris to Mulhouse line, roughly 141 kilometres of track with the fastest journey at about 2 hours 18 minutes and around 13 services a day. There is no TGV, so build in the full time. From Troyes station the ground is 3.1 kilometres away, a walk of about 37 minutes across the river, or roughly 16 minutes on the bus. The TCAT network runs lines 1 and 7 to the Europe stop beside the stadium, and free matchday shuttles have been laid on for selected fixtures on production of a ticket.

Drivers should know that Avenue Robert Schuman closes 90 minutes before kick-off, with two car parks activated on matchdays at Poron and Arbouin and reduced-mobility spaces available on request. Once the match is done, Troyes rewards a weekend. The old town is famously shaped like a champagne cork, packed with half-timbered houses and sixteenth-century mansions around the Gothic Cathédrale Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul. The city calls itself the European capital of outlet shopping and has four separate outlet villages to back the claim. Beyond it lie the Côte des Bar champagne vineyards and the Parc naturel régional de la Forêt d'Orient, 70,000 hectares of woodland and three great artificial lakes immediately east of the city.

Matchday With the Extras

ESTAC sell hospitality through their own business operation with a commercial partnership handling single-match VIP sales, and the whole range sits in the Tribune d'Honneur. The club states it hosts more than 800 VIP guests, which is a substantial operation for a ground of this size and reflects the corporate base the club has built around the outlet and champagne economy of the Aube.

Seven products are published. Prices are not: every page routes to an enquiry form, and the only anchor the club gives is that hospitality sits above the £172 to £602 season book range. The figures below are drawn from the resale and packaged hospitality market rather than from any club tariff.

Package	What It Includes	Typical Price Range (GBP)
Loges privatives	Private boxes for ten, or shareable under a company name in the Salon des Loges. A dedicated host for the whole match, access to every VIP space in the Tribune d'Honneur, unlimited champagne, wine, beer and soft drinks, dinner service with cheese and dessert, plus reserved parking at one space per two guests.	£350 – £700+ per guest
Le Carré VIP	Eight seats only, centrally placed in the Tribune d'Honneur and the closest position to the pitch. Catering before the match, at half-time and afterwards, alongside the club president and management. Seats are nominative, require management approval and carry a dress code.	£300 – £600+
Loge First and Loge 0	The premium box tier beneath the private loges, with the same catering and lounge access on a smaller footprint.	£250 – £500+
Au cœur de Troyes and Salons privatifs	The business lounge on the third floor of the Tribune d'Honneur, built for networking, plus private lounges for smaller groups. Premium seating, catering and complimentary drinks throughout.	£180 – £400+
Club des Légendes and 90' Inside	A social space shared with former ESTAC players, and the most immersive product in the range, built around pitchside access and backstage tours of the ground.	£200 – £450+

The club publishes no per-person rates for any of these products, so the figures above are market guidance rather than list prices and may change.

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 Stade de l'Aube, including the two things supporters most often get wrong at this club: trusting a date the league has not fixed and misreading a resale rule that Troyes take unusually seriously.

Follow that sequence and the only thing left is to arrive in time. Gates at the Stade de l'Aube open 90 minutes before kick-off, hospitality areas 45 minutes before, with the stadium ticket office opening four hours ahead of the match.

The Fixtures That Disappear First

Anyone buying ES Troyes AC tickets more than once this season will learn the pattern fast. A promoted club's calendar splits more sharply than an established one, because the local base is sized for the division below and the visitors are not. Five categories consistently move fastest at the Stade de l'Aube this season.

Fixture Type	Why It Moves Fast
Paris Saint-Germain, 22 May 2027	The hardest home ticket of the season and it falls on the final day, which layers whatever is at stake on top of the draw. Resale entry points quoted across the listing market for this fixture run at roughly six times the level of the season opener.
The Auxerre derby, 20 March 2027	Seventy-eight kilometres apart, the closest pair of clubs in French professional football, and the only regional fixture Troyes have this season with Reims stuck in Ligue 2. Auxerre have won three of the last four competitive meetings, which sharpens it further.
Marseille, Lyon and Lille	Marseille on 10 October 2026, Lyon on 5 December 2026 and Lille on 6 February 2027. Three clubs with large travelling followings and prime-time slots, each filling the 928-place visiting sector and lifting casual local demand well above the baseline.
The opening home fixture	Paris FC on 22 August 2026 is the first Ligue 1 match at the Aube in three years and Stéphane Dumont's first as a top-flight manager. First matches back after promotion carry a goodwill crowd that the rest of the autumn will not reproduce.
Spring fixtures against the bottom third	Promoted clubs spend April and May in the relegation conversation more often than not. Once the table tightens, home fixtures against the sides immediately around Troyes become the hardest of the calendar to get into.

How Your Tickets Arrive

Delivery method varies by seller and by fixture, and the listing states which applies before you commit. Troyes accept both a physical ticket and a dematerialised e-billet that can be shown on a phone, so neither format is a barrier at the turnstile.

1. Mobile ticket. A QR code delivered digitally and shown on a phone at the gate. Keep the device charged and save a copy offline, since mobile signal around a full stadium is unreliable.
2. Print-at-home. A PDF printed on plain A4. Print it unmodified and do not scale it or fit two to a page, either of which can defeat the scanner.
3. Postal delivery. Physical tickets sent to the address on your order, typically dispatched several days before the fixture. Common for higher-value and hospitality bookings, so allow extra time on international orders.
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 and the visitors' window is separate from the main box office.

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 carries a category condition and what the collection window is.

Getting Through the Gates

Arrive Early

Gates at the Stade de l'Aube open 90 minutes before kick-off for both general admission and the visiting sector, with hospitality areas opening 45 minutes before the match. The stadium ticket office opens four hours ahead and the club shop trades before and after the game. Avenue Robert Schuman closes 90 minutes before kick-off, so anybody driving needs to be parked at Poron or Arbouin well in advance. From the station the walk is 37 minutes, which is longer than most visitors expect, so the bus is the sensible option.

ID and Entry Requirements

Every spectator may be subject to an identity comparison, a security pat-down and a visual bag inspection. Refusal at any of those points means refusal of entry. There is no blanket identification requirement for an ordinary home ticket, but identification is required at the visitors' window, to substantiate any reduced rate on age or disability grounds and to validate a free ticket transfer. Under-16s must be accompanied in the same sector by an adult with valid identification and parental authority. Once you leave the stadium during a match you cannot return: the regulations state that any exit is final.

Bag Policy

Troyes publish a specific volume limit rather than a vague instruction. Any bag over 10 litres is prohibited, which covers rucksacks, suitcases and travel bags alike, and no linear dimensions are published because the rule is expressed by volume. Prohibited items include weapons, tools, glass containers, rigid umbrellas, professional cameras and tripods, drones, musical instruments, balls, bicycles and scooters, plus pyrotechnics and flammable substances. The regulations state plainly that the list is not exhaustive, so stewards may refuse other items. Smoking is banned throughout the ground including the open stands, and the ban explicitly covers cigarettes, pipes, cigars, electronic cigarettes and disposable vapes.

ES Troyes AC at a Glance

Detail	Information
Full name	Espérance Sportive Troyes Aube Champagne
Founded	1986 as Association Troyes Aube Champagne, renamed ESTAC in 2000. The club traces its lineage to Union Sportive Troyenne of 1900 through two liquidations
Nickname	ESTAC, or Les Troyens
Stadium	Stade de l'Aube, Avenue Robert Schuman, Troyes (21,877 per the club, 20,420 by stand totals, owned by Troyes Champagne Métropole)
Head coach	Stéphane Dumont, appointed 12 August 2024 on a contract to June 2028, voted Ligue 2 coach of the year in May 2026
Captain	Adrien Monfray, the 35-year-old centre-back who wore the armband through the title season. The club publishes no captain designation, so treat this as reported rather than declared
League	Ligue 1, 2026/27 (18 clubs, 34 matchdays), promoted as Ligue 2 champions
Ownership	City Football Group, majority owner since 3 September 2020, with Edwin Pindi as executive president and director general since October 2024

Two Liquidations, One Trophy and a Manchester Owner

Football in Troyes has run through at least four legally distinct clubs separated by two liquidations, which makes the founding date a matter of choice rather than fact. The club's own history begins in 1900, its owners date it to 1899 and the entity that plays today was created in 1986. All three framings are defensible and none should be presented as settled. What is not in dispute is that everything the modern club measures itself against was built by one manager between 1993 and 2002.

Foundations, Mergers and Two Collapses (1900 to 1986)

• 1899 to 1900: Union Sportive Troyenne founded, playing in pink and black under an English coach, John Calladine
• 1930 or 1931: UST merges with Association Sportive Savinienne to form AS Troyes-Savinienne, adopting the marine and white the club still wears
• 1935: professional status granted. First professional match at the Stade de l'Aube on 18 August, a 3-1 win over Nancy
• 1954/55: promotion to the top division under Roger Courtois, with a second promotion following in 1960
• 1956: the youth side win the Coupe Gambardella on the same day the senior team lose the Coupe de France final 3-1 to Sedan
• 1963 to 1967: AS Troyes-Savinienne withdraws from professional football and is dissolved. First break in the lineage
• 1970: Troyes Aube Football created, turning professional a year later, and promoted to the first division in 1973 for five consecutive seasons
• 1978 to 1979: relegated and then liquidated. Second break in the lineage
• 1986: Association Troyes Aube Champagne created, replacing PL Foot. This is the founding date of the present legal entity

Two of those dates deserve emphasis. The 1956 Coupe de France final belongs to AS Troyes-Savinienne, a club that no longer existed by 1970, while the 1970s top-flight run belongs to Troyes Aube Football, a club liquidated in 1979. The current ESTAC celebrates both as part of its story, which is a reasonable thing for a city to do, but it is not the same as an unbroken institutional history. The entity that lines up against Paris FC this month was created in 1986 in the fourth tier.

The Perrin Ascent and Europe (1993 to 2002)

• 1 July 1993: Alain Perrin appointed manager with the club in the amateur tier
• 1995/96: second in National and promoted to Division 2. Troyes have never won the third tier
• 1998/99: third in Division 2 and promoted to Division 1, the city's first top-flight football since 1978
• 2000: the club is renamed Espérance Sportive Troyes Aube Champagne after a trademark conflict over the ATAC name
• 2000/01: seventh in Ligue 1, the finest finish in club history, plus a Coupe de France semi-final
• 21 August 2001: the UEFA Intertoto Cup won at St James' Park, 4-4 on the night and through on away goals against Newcastle United
• 2001/02: seventh in Ligue 1 again, and a UEFA Cup second-round exit to Leeds United by a single goal across two legs
• May 2002: Perrin leaves for Olympique de Marseille after nine years and 324 matches

Perrin took a fourth-tier side to the top seven in France and into Europe, and did it in under a decade. His record at Troyes reads 133 wins, 105 draws and 86 defeats across 324 games. The two seventh-place finishes in 2000/01 and 2001/02 remain the club's best, and no manager since has come close. He had started coaching at Nancy in 1983 under Arsène Wenger.

The Intertoto run is the club's one major honour and it was earned the hard way: 7-1 on aggregate against WIT Georgia, 4-2 against AIK Solna, 3-2 against VfL Wolfsburg and then the final. Troyes drew the first leg 0-0 at home, went to Newcastle on 21 August 2001 in front of 36,577 people, led 4-1 through Mehdi Leroy, Nicolas Goussé and a Samuel Boutal double, then held on through an Aaron Hughes equaliser in the 90th minute to go through on away goals at 4-4. Three clubs won the Intertoto that year and all three entered the UEFA Cup: Aston Villa, Paris Saint-Germain and Troyes.

The Yo-Yo Years (2002 to 2020)

• 2002: in the Intertoto semi-final Troyes draw 0-0 at Villarreal and win the home leg 2-1, then are disqualified for fielding an unregistered substitute. UEFA awards Villarreal a 3-0 default win on 8 August
• 2002/03: relegated from Ligue 1
• 2005 and 2007: promoted to Ligue 1 under Jean-Marc Furlan, then relegated again. Blaise Matuidi emerges in this period
• 2009: relegated to Championnat National, the third tier, for a single season
• 2012: promoted back to Ligue 1, followed by a Coupe de France semi-final in 2012/13 and relegation in the same season
• 2013/14: a Coupe de la Ligue semi-final, the club's finest run in that competition
• 2014/15: first Ligue 2 title and promotion
• 2015/16: twentieth and last in Ligue 1 with 18 points from three wins, nine draws and twenty-six defeats, including a 9-0 defeat at Paris Saint-Germain on 13 March 2016
• 2017: promoted through the play-offs against Lorient, Benjamin Nivet scoring the decisive late goal, then relegated again in 2018
• 2018: a second Coupe Gambardella, beating Tours 2-1
• 2019: Benjamin Nivet retires at 42 as the club's record appearance-maker and record scorer

The Villarreal episode is the sharpest what-if in the club's history. Troyes eliminated a side that would reach a Champions League semi-final four years later, then lost the tie in a disciplinary hearing because David Vairelles came on in the 83rd minute without having been registered with UEFA. The club's own account links the disqualification directly to the relegation that followed.

What came after was fifteen years of movement without progress: up in 2005, down in 2007, down again in 2009, up in 2012, down in 2013, up in 2015, down in 2016, up in 2017, down in 2018. The 2015/16 campaign was among the worst in the history of the division, with 28 goals scored, 83 conceded and two away wins all season.

The City Football Group Era (2020 to 2026)

• 3 September 2020: City Football Group acquires a majority stake from Daniel Masoni, making Troyes its tenth club. Terms were never disclosed
• 2020/21: Ligue 2 champions for the second time and promoted in CFG's first full season
• 2021/22: fifteenth in Ligue 1 on 38 points, the club's first top-flight survival in sixteen years, with Manchester City loanees Issa Kaboré and Patrick Roberts in the side
• 2022: Savinho joins as the club's record signing and never plays a competitive match, going on loan to PSV and then to Girona before Manchester City buy him for £33.7 million in July 2024
• November 2023: the ultras group Magic Troyes 1997 launches a boycott campaign under the slogan "Objectif: stade vide"
• 2022/23: relegated from Ligue 1 in nineteenth with 24 points
• 2023/24: seventeenth in Ligue 2 and relegated to Championnat National on sporting merit
• 30 July 2024: reinstated to Ligue 2 by the league board after Bordeaux lose professional status on financial grounds. Troyes never play a match in the third tier
• 12 August 2024: Stéphane Dumont appointed. October 2024: Edwin Pindi becomes executive president
• 25 April 2026: promotion sealed with a 3-0 win at Saint-Étienne. Ligue 2 champions on 67 points

The CFG era has produced two promotions, one relegation, one near-relegation to the third tier and a running argument about what a multi-club network does to a mid-sized French club. The Savinho transaction is the case most often cited: a club-record signing who never appeared for Troyes, was moved between two CFG clubs and was ultimately sold to the parent for a figure many times what Troyes paid, while the club that bought him was falling through two divisions.

The pattern repeated in June 2026, when Mathys Detourbet, a 19-year-old who had been in the Troyes academy since he was eight and scored three goals in the promotion season, was sold to Manchester City for around €25 million and immediately loaned to Monaco. The counter-argument is straightforward enough: Troyes were reprieved from the third tier by somebody else's collapse in 2024 and are back in Ligue 1 two years later with a coach the division's managers voted the finest in Ligue 2. Both things are true.

The Names That Built ESTAC

One player holds both club records by a distance, and one manager built everything the club is still measured against. Neither is a difficult call.

Legend	Role	Contribution	Milestones
Benjamin Nivet	Attacking midfielder, 2002 to 2007 and 2012 to 2019	The defining figure of the modern club and the holder of both the appearance and the scoring record. He arrived from Châteauroux in January 2002, left for Caen in 2007, returned on a free transfer in June 2012 on a one-year deal and stayed seven more years. He scored the late winner in the second leg of the 2017 promotion play-off against Lorient and retired at 42.	Between 427 and 430 appearances and 84 goals, both club records. Three promotions. Long-serving captain.
Alain Perrin	Manager, July 1993 to June 2002	Took the club from the amateur game to seventh in Ligue 1 in six seasons, then kept it there. He delivered the only major trophy in the club's history, the 2001 Intertoto Cup, along with both of its best league finishes and a Coupe de France semi-final. Nine years and 324 matches, and nothing since has approached it.	133 wins, 105 draws and 86 defeats. Promotions in 1996 and 1999. Intertoto Cup 2001. Seventh in Ligue 1 in 2000/01 and 2001/02.
Gharib Amzine	Midfielder, 2001 to 2008	Signed on a four-year deal and stayed seven, spanning the Intertoto peak, the 2003 relegation, the 2005 return to Ligue 1 and the fall in 2007. He is second on the all-time appearance list and scored his first goal for the club in Europe against VfL Wolfsburg.	229 appearances by one all-time record, 203 by another. The through-line of the post-Perrin decade.
Stéphane Darbion	Midfielder	The mainstay of the 2010s, present for the return from the third tier, the promotion to Ligue 1 in 2012, the Coupe de France semi-final run of 2012/13 and the first Ligue 2 title in 2014/15. Only Nivet and Amzine have played more matches for the club.	212 appearances and 28 goals. Ligue 2 title 2014/15.
Blaise Matuidi	Midfielder, 2004 to 2007	Turned professional at Troyes in 2004 having arrived from Clairefontaine, then made his debut against Gueugnon in November of that year. He played 31 league matches in the 2005/06 promotion season and 35 in all competitions the following year, including two decisive goals against Sedan in a relegation fight, before leaving for Saint-Étienne.	Later won the World Cup with France in 2018, after Paris Saint-Germain and Juventus. The most decorated player the club has developed.
Nicolas Goussé	Striker	The centre-forward of the European years, who scored the goal that gave the club its first European match at the Stade de l'Aube, against Wolfsburg on 25 July 2001, then again in the Intertoto final at St James' Park. Third on the all-time scoring list at a strike rate better than one in three.	43 goals in 121 appearances. Intertoto Cup winner 2001.

Others belong in the conversation. Slađan Đukić is second on the all-time scoring list with 55 in 164, Yoann Touzghar scored 38 in 118 and Adama Niane 31 in 75, the finest strike rate in the top ten. David Hamed made 192 appearances at left-back and played in the UEFA Cup campaign. ES Troyes AC has not formally retired any shirt number, and the point is easy to demonstrate: Nivet's number 10 is worn this season by Merwan Ifnaoui.

What Sits in the Cabinet

One major trophy, won in England on away goals, plus two second-division titles and two national youth cups. It is a short list and it should be reported honestly, because several sources circulate honours this club has not won, including a Championnat National title that does not exist.

Competition	Titles
UEFA Intertoto Cup	1 (2001), beating Newcastle United on away goals after a 0-0 in Troyes and a 4-4 at St James' Park. The club's only major honour
Ligue 1 / Division 1	None. Best finish seventh, achieved twice, in 2000/01 and 2001/02
Ligue 2 / Division 2	2 (2014/15, 2020/21). Promoted again as champions in 2025/26, which counts as a third second-tier title in the club's modern records
Coupe de France	None. Best run the semi-finals, reached in 2000/01 and 2012/13. The 1956 final belongs to the predecessor club AS Troyes-Savinienne
Coupe de la Ligue	None. Best run the semi-final in 2013/14. The competition was abolished after 2019/20
Championnat National / Division 3	None. The 1996 promotion came as runners-up, and the club has never won the third tier
Coupe Gambardella (youth)	2 (1956 as AS Troyes-Savinienne, and 2018 beating Tours 2-1)
Lower-tier and regional honours	Division 4 group winners in 1989/90 and champions of the Champagne-Ardenne Division d'Honneur in 1987

The Matches That Matter Most

Troyes have one real rivalry and it is not on this season's calendar. Reims are in Ligue 2, having failed to escape it, which leaves Auxerre as the only regional fixture and turns a derby that French coverage calls half-fake into the most locally charged date of the campaign. The third name on the list has fallen five divisions since the two clubs last met.

Domestic Rivals

Stade de Reims, the Champagne derby

The genuine article, and both clubs say so in their own words. ESTAC call it "le derby de la Champagne" on their own site, Reims call it a "duel champenois" and regional broadcasters use the same language. The two are the big clubs of the historic Champagne region, roughly 125 kilometres apart in the Aube and the Marne. Troyes lead the head-to-head comfortably, with one database recording 12 wins to 5 from 24 meetings and another 13 to 4 from 22. The most recent chapter came on 17 January 2026, a 2-1 win at the Stade de l'Aube through Mathys Detourbet and Merwan Ifnaoui, achieved with ten men for most of the match after Mouhamed Diop's first-half dismissal, and it knocked Reims off the promotion podium. The reverse fixture on 24 October 2025 finished goalless at the Auguste-Delaune. Reims were relegated from Ligue 1 in 2025 and stayed down in 2025/26, so promotion has taken the derby off the calendar. The Coupe de France is the only route back to it this season, and it is worth knowing that the Aube préfecture banned Reims supporters from Troyes entirely before the fixture of 3 April 2022, citing a strong and longstanding antagonism between the two sets of supporters.

AJ Auxerre, the vrai-faux derby

Seventy-eight kilometres apart, the closest pair in French professional football, and yet French coverage insists on calling it a true-false derby. The reason is temperature rather than distance: the two sit either side of the old boundary between Burgundy and Champagne, the first top-flight meeting came only in 1999 under Guy Roux and every meeting since has passed off without incident on the pitch or among supporters. Troyes' own former president used to sponsor Auxerre, and for years a good number of Troyens travelled to the Abbé-Deschamps to watch football. The two clubs have met roughly thirty times competitively and the record sits close to level, with Troyes marginally ahead on most counts. The recent balance runs the other way: Auxerre have won three of the last four competitive meetings, including 2-0 in April 2024 and 2-1 in September 2023. The two league fixtures are scheduled for 16 January 2027 at the Abbé-Deschamps and 20 March 2027 at the Stade de l'Aube, and with Reims absent this is the only regional derby Troyes have.

CS Sedan Ardennes, the rivalry that fell away

Real, historically documented and completely dormant. Sedan are described as arch-rivals in the club's own reference records, and unlike the Reims fixture this is one Troyes tended to lose: 22 competitive meetings between roughly 1999 and 2012 produced 10 Sedan wins to 6, with 6 draws. The last competitive meeting was a 2-1 Troyes win at Sedan in the 2011/12 Ligue 2 season. What happened afterwards was worse than relegation. Sedan went bankrupt in 2012, losing two divisions, then fell again for financial reasons after 2022/23, dropping from Championnat National to Régional 3, the eighth tier. They have climbed back to Régional 1 and play in the sixth tier in 2026/27. The gap between the two clubs is now five divisions, and only a Coupe de France draw could produce a fixture. For the record, the 1956 Coupe de France final that Troyes lost 3-1 was against Sedan.

International and Big-Occasion Opponents

Newcastle United, the night the trophy was won

Troyes' entire European history runs to three campaigns across two seasons and it produced one trophy, won in England. The 2001 Intertoto run went through WIT Georgia 7-1 on aggregate, AIK Solna 4-2 and VfL Wolfsburg 3-2 before the final against Newcastle United. The first leg at the Stade de l'Aube on 7 August 2001 finished 0-0. The second, on 21 August at St James' Park in front of 36,577 people, is the defining occasion in the club's history: Nolberto Solano put Newcastle ahead after two minutes, then Mehdi Leroy on 25 and Nicolas Goussé on 27 turned it, Samuel Boutal scored on 46 and again on 61 to make it 4-1, and Troyes survived goals from Shola Ameobi, a Gary Speed penalty and an Aaron Hughes equaliser on 90 to go through at 4-4 on away goals. Three clubs won the Intertoto that year and all three went into the UEFA Cup, where Troyes beat Ružomberok 6-2 before losing to Leeds United 6-5 on aggregate, winning the home leg 3-2 against a side that had reached a Champions League semi-final the season before.

Villarreal, the tie won on the pitch and lost in a hearing

The counterweight, and the sharpest what-if the club has. Back in the Intertoto in 2002 under Jacky Bonnevay, Troyes beat Coleraine 4-2 and edged NAC Breda on away goals to reach the semi-final against Villarreal. They drew 0-0 in Spain on 31 July 2002 and won the home leg 2-1 on 7 August. On the pitch, Troyes had eliminated a club that would reach a Champions League semi-final four years later. On 8 August, UEFA's disciplinary body awarded Villarreal a 3-0 default win because David Vairelles had come on as an 83rd-minute substitute without being registered for the competition. Villarreal went through 3-0 on aggregate and Troyes went home. It remains the club's last European match: three campaigns, one trophy and one disqualification, with nothing before 2001 and nothing since 2002.

The Last Five Campaigns

Two relegations, one reprieve nobody saw coming and a title. Troyes arrive in Ligue 1 having spent the last five seasons falling further than any promoted club would want to admit and then climbing all the way back.

Season	Summary
2021/22 (Ligue 1)	Fifteenth on 38 points from nine wins, eleven draws and eighteen defeats, scoring 37 and conceding 53. Survival, and the club's first in the top flight for sixteen years at that, marketed by ESTAC as a historic achievement. Manchester City loanees Issa Kaboré and Patrick Roberts featured. The Coupe de France ended in the round of 64, beaten on penalties by Nancy after a 1-1 draw in which Nancy finished with eight men.
2022/23 (Ligue 1)	Relegated in nineteenth on 24 points from four wins, twelve draws and twenty-two defeats, conceding 81 goals. Bruno Irles was sacked during the World Cup break in November, saying publicly that the club's direction and the City project were incompatible, and Patrick Kisnorbo arrived from Melbourne City. The cup ended 2-0 at Lille in January. This was also the season Savinho was on the books as the record signing without ever playing.
2023/24 (Ligue 2)	Seventeenth on 42 points and relegated to Championnat National on sporting merit, since four clubs went down as the division cut from twenty teams to eighteen. Three managers were used across the season. The Coupe de France ended at the seventh qualifying round against Épinal, and the ultras launched a boycott campaign in November. Then on 30 July 2024 the league reinstated Troyes to Ligue 2 after Bordeaux lost professional status, and the club never played a match in the third tier.
2024/25 (Ligue 2)	Tenth on 44 points from thirteen wins, five draws and sixteen defeats, with a goal difference of plus two. Stéphane Dumont's first season was a stabilisation job. The Coupe de France run was the finest of the five campaigns, reaching the round of 16 after beating Metz 3-0 and Ligue 1 side Stade Rennais 1-0, before losing 2-1 at home to Brest in February.
2025/26 (Ligue 2)	Champions on 67 points from twenty wins, seven draws and seven defeats, scoring 60 and conceding 33. Promotion was mathematically sealed on 25 April 2026 with a 3-0 win at Saint-Étienne, with Le Mans finishing second on 62. Tawfik Bentayeb was the division's top scorer with 18 goals and Dumont was voted coach of the year by his peers. The cup again reached the round of 16, ending 4-2 to Lens.

The 2026/27 Squad

Stéphane Dumont takes a promoted squad into Ligue 1 having lost both its top scorer and its most valuable young asset. Mathys Detourbet went to Manchester City for around €25 million in June and was loaned straight to Monaco. Tawfik Bentayeb, Ligue 2's leading scorer, joined Anderlecht for a reported €4.5 million days before the opener, Martin Adeline went to Hamburg for €4 million and Sankhoun Diawara to AC Milan. In came Patrick Beach from Melbourne City and Karim Dermane from Lommel, both fellow City Football Group clubs, plus Hugo Picard on loan from Columbus Crew.

No.	Player	Position	Value (£)
1	Zacharie Boucher	Goalkeeper	0.17m
33	Patrick Beach	Goalkeeper	1.03m
40	Hillel Konaté	Goalkeeper	0.26m
2	Lucas Maronnier	Right-back	0.46m
3	Anis Ouzenadji	Left-back	0.60m
4	Michel Junior Diaz	Centre-back	5.76m
6	Adrien Monfray (captain)	Centre-back	0.25m
14	Ismaël Boura	Left-back / centre-back	1.89m
25	Paolo Gozzi	Centre-back	0.63m
44	Yvann Titi	Right-back	1.38m
8	Mouhamed Diop	Defensive midfielder	2.15m
11	Iron Gomis	Central midfielder	0.71m
17	Antoine Mille	Central / attacking midfielder	1.38m
35	Roman Murcy	Midfielder	0.44m
30	Hugo Picard	Midfielder / forward (on loan from Columbus Crew)	2.06m
10	Merwan Ifnaoui	Right winger	1.20m
12	Elijah Odede	Right winger	0.95m
20	Renaud Ripart	Striker	0.21m

Valuations are approximate, taken from published football market data and converted to sterling at around 0.86 pounds to the euro. A small number of shirt numbers differ between the club's own list and third-party squad data, and the club's figures have been used here. Values move constantly and indicate squad profile rather than a transfer price.

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Where ES Troyes AC 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 in which Troyes have twice reached the semi-finals
• Other European league competitions for supporters following more than one club across the continent

Troyes 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 Stade de l'Aube

• ES Troyes AC vs Paris Saint-Germain Tickets
• ES Troyes AC vs Marseille Tickets
• ES Troyes AC vs Monaco Tickets
• ES Troyes AC vs Lyon Tickets
• ES Troyes AC vs Lille Tickets
• ES Troyes AC vs Nice Tickets
• ES Troyes AC vs Lens Tickets
• ES Troyes AC vs Strasbourg Tickets
• ES Troyes AC vs Brest Tickets
• ES Troyes AC vs Stade Rennais Tickets
• ES Troyes AC vs Toulouse Tickets
• ES Troyes AC vs AJ Auxerre Tickets
• ES Troyes AC vs Angers SCO Tickets
• ES Troyes AC vs Le Havre Tickets
• ES Troyes AC vs Paris FC Tickets
• ES Troyes AC vs Lorient Tickets
• ES Troyes AC vs Le Mans Tickets

Away Fixtures on the Road

• Paris Saint-Germain vs ES Troyes AC Tickets
• Marseille vs ES Troyes AC Tickets
• Monaco vs ES Troyes AC Tickets
• Lyon vs ES Troyes AC Tickets
• Lille vs ES Troyes AC Tickets
• Nice vs ES Troyes AC Tickets
• Lens vs ES Troyes AC Tickets
• Strasbourg vs ES Troyes AC Tickets
• Brest vs ES Troyes AC Tickets
• Stade Rennais vs ES Troyes AC Tickets
• Toulouse vs ES Troyes AC Tickets
• AJ Auxerre vs ES Troyes AC Tickets
• Angers SCO vs ES Troyes AC Tickets
• Le Havre vs ES Troyes AC Tickets
• Paris FC vs ES Troyes AC Tickets
• Lorient vs ES Troyes AC Tickets
• Le Mans vs ES Troyes AC Tickets