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Full nameCoton Sport Football Club de Garoua
Nickname(s)Les Cotonniers (The Cottoners)[1]
Founded1986; 38 years ago (1986)
GroundStade Omnisports Roumde-Adjia, Garoua
Capacity22,000
ChairmanPierre Kapténé
ManagerSouleymanou Aboubakar
2019–20Elite One, 2nd

Coton Sport Football Club de Garoua, or simply Coton Sport, is a Cameroonian football club based in Garoua. They play their home games at the Stade Omnisport de Garoua, commonly known as the Roumde Adjia Stadium. The club is chaired by Sadou Fernand. The first team plays in MTN Elite One (Cameroonian first division) (since 1993) and competes in 2012 in the CAF Champions League. The club has the largest budget of a Cameroonian club (500 million CFA francs).

It has won sixteen Cameroon championships and six Cameroon cups. In addition, in continental competitions, the club reached the final of the CAF Cup in 2003 and the CAF Champions League in 2008 and the semi-finals of the same competition in 2013.

History

The club was founded in 1986 and campaigning in the lower leagues until they were promoted to the country's Premier League in 1992. Since 1996 Coton Sport has dominated local football winning eleven league titles in the process. In 2008 the club finished runners up in the CAF Champions League, losing to Al Ahly SC of Egypt in the final.[2][3]

Honours

National titles

  • Elite 1:
    • Champions (17): 1997, 1998, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2018 , 2021 , 2022
    • Runners-up (6): 1994, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2019
  • Cameroonian Cup:
    • Winners (7): 2003, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2014 , 2022
    • Runners-up: 1999

International titles


Notable former coaches

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References

  1. ^ "#402 – Coton Sport de Garoua : les Cotonniers" (in French). footnickname. 9 October 2022.
  2. ^ "Coton Sport 2–2 Al Ahly". BBC Sport. 2008-11-16. Retrieved 2009-10-30.
  3. ^ "From social club to African finalists". BBC Sport. 2008-11-14. Retrieved 2009-10-30.
  4. ^ "Boivin and Cotonsport part ways". SuperSport official website. Retrieved 2017-09-17.


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