FC Meyrin
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Football Club Meyrin is a football
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 team based in Meyrin
Meyrin
Meyrin is a municipality of the Canton of Geneva, Switzerland. It is the city located nearest to the CERN particle physics laboratory.Meyrin was originally a small agricultural village until the 1950s, when construction of CERN began just to the north...

 in Switzerland
Switzerland
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. They currently play in the 1. Liga
Swiss 1. Liga (football)
1. Liga is the third tier of the Swiss Football League. The division is split into three groups of 16 teams, by geographical region.-Regional Format:...

, the third tier of the Swiss football pyramid
Swiss Football Association
The Swiss Football Association is the governing body of football in Switzerland. It organizes the football league, the Swiss Football League, and the Switzerland national football team. It is based in Bern....

.

Meyrin promoted to 1. Liga in summer 1995. In summer 1996 Meyrin promoted to Nationalliga B and returned to 1. Liga in the following summer. Meyrin promoted again in 2003 until relegated again in 2006.

Current squad

As of 22 July, 2011. According to Eufo.de

Former players

David Eto'o
David Eto'o
David Pierre Eto'o is a Cameroonian professional footballer who plays for FC Koper since January 2011.-Career:...

 Xavier Barrau
Xavier Barrau
Xavier 'Xavi' Barrau is a French footballer who plays for French club ES Fréjus.-Career:He formerly played for CS Louhans-Cuiseaux, ES Viry-Châtillon and La Roche VF in France, Bradford City, Darlington and Walsall in England, FC Meyrin in Switzerland and Airdrie United and Grentna in...

 Thierno Bah
Thierno Bah
Thierno Bah is a Guinean footballer who plays for Lausanne-Sport in the Swiss Challenge League. He was also naturalized in Switzerland and represented for the Swiss U-21 team. He signed for Lausanne in January 2011....

 Patrick Müller
Patrick Müller
Patrick Müller is a Swiss professional footballer who currently is a Free Agent after ending his contract with Monaco.-Club career:...

 Cédric Tsimba
Cédric Tsimba
Cédric Kinzumbi Tsimba is a Swiss football player, who currently plays for FC Meyrin.-External links:*...

 Johann Vogel
Johann Vogel
Johann Louis François Vogel is a retired Swiss footballer.-Early career:Vogel joined Swiss amateur club Meyrin in his youth, but made the cut into professional football by joining Grasshoppers...


Managers

Years Manager Nation
1955-65 Marcel Gander  
1965-66 Louis Thomas
Louis Thomas
Louis Thomas was a French writer, born in Perpignan in 1885 and dying in Brussels in 1962.In 1909 he married the mezzo soprano Raymonde Delaunois....

 
1966-68 Robert Dupuis  
1968-71 André Grobety
André Grobéty
André Grobéty is a retired Swiss footballer.-Career:During his career, Grobéty played at the club level for Servette FC and Lausanne Sports. He also earned 40 caps and scored 1 goal for the Switzerland national football team, and participated in the 1962 FIFA World Cup and the 1966 FIFA World...

 
1971-73 Claude Martin
Claude Martin
Major General Claude Martin was an officer in the French, and later the British, army in India. He rose to the position of Major General in the British East India Company...

 
1973-75 André Bosson  
1975 Jean-Claude Schnindelholz  
1975-80 Franz Barriquand  
1980-82 Roger Guinand  
1982-84 Edmond Sauthier  
1984-85 Christian Coste
Christian Coste
Christian Coste is a former professional French footballer.-External links:**...

 
1985-86 Jean-Charles Martak  
1986-87 Edmond Sauthier  
1987-88 Gilbert Cottier  
1988-89 Christian Coste
Christian Coste
Christian Coste is a former professional French footballer.-External links:**...

 
1989-91 Edmond Viros  
1991-93 Alberto Porto  
1993-96 Gérard Castella  
1996-99 Pascal Besnard  
1999-01 Oscar Gissi  
2001 Claude-Alain Fontaine  
2001-02 Pascal Besnard  
2002-05 Jean-Michel Abey  
2005-06 Adrian Ursea  
2005-06 Claude-Alain Fontaine  
2005-06 Diego Sessolo  
2006- Domingos Ribeiro  

External links

Official site
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