

St Etienne Team News
A good crowd
By: Jonathan |Some clubs would be glad to get this many supporters at a normal game, let alone at a training session. So come on, les Verts, how about a decent performance against Lyon to give the fans something to shout about?
Le Mans 1 St Etienne 0
By: Jonathan |Dear oh dear. Another away game, another defeat. This was not the best way to prepare for next weekend’s crucial derby clash with Lyon. Was last season’s fifth place a false dawn?
The match report on the club site makes it sound as if St Etienne had plenty of possession, but were caught out by a [...]
Piquionne’s fit of pique
By: Jonathan |You may have heard of Frédéric Piquionne. He played for St Etienne for two and a half seasons, scoring 23 goals before being loaned to Monaco. He now plays for Olympique Lyonnais and has decided to stir things up ahead of the derby with les Verts by claiming that even while he was at St [...]
St Etienne 2 Sochaux 1
By: Jonathan |Sorry, I got the time of the game wrong in the last post – it was at 19h, not 21h. Oops! Anyway, the main thing is that St Etienne won it, even though the visitors, by all accounts, had the better of the second half. Manager Laurent Roussey was really disappointed with the way the [...]
A new record
By: Jonathan |There was more evidence of St Etienne’s popularity yesterday when the club revealed that it had sold 17,419 season tickets for 2008/9. This beats the previous record of 17,144, set in 2005 when les Verts had just achieved their best league position (6th) for many years. Last season, of course, they finished 5th and qualified [...]
Janot to Lille?
By: Jonathan |Goalkeeper Jérémie Janot could leave St Etienne before the end of the month, according to French national sports daily l’Equipe. Janot missed part of the 2007/8 Ligue 1 season through injury, and when he returned to fitness, he could not regain his place in the side from Jody Viviani. He is not prepared to remain [...]
Geoffroy-Guichard Mark II?
By: Jonathan |St Etienne could move to a new stadium in the next few years, according to club president Bernard Caïazzo. In an interview with local paper Le Progrès, he said it would be better to start from scratch than to redevelop the current arena, the legendary Stade Geoffroy-Guichard. “It’s difficult to turn old into new and [...]
Yoann Gourcuff at Saint Etienne?
By: Richard |According to Le Parisien it’s possible (although, admittedly, they also go on to say that it has little chance of coming to fruitrition).
The former Rennais & France U-21 international would fit in incredibly well at Saint Etienne, and it seems there is room for him.
Who knows?
Let’s file this under hopefully, but probably not.
ASSE — Lens (delayed match)
By: Richard |Lens is fignting to stay in the top-flight, so this shouldn’t be that much of a challange on paper, but Lens is always tough, and they have a better away record than we do.
PSG fans should be pulling for us too.
You should be able to see the game here.
If we win this game, we’ll [...]
Saint Etienne 4, Le Mans 1
By: Richard |Great news;
Saturday, Saint-Etienne played the 31st match of the season (it’s important to note that both Saint Etienne & Lens are a game behind) against a powerful Le Mans team.
Former Liverpool striker Anthony Le Tallec put Le Mans ahead in the 32nd minute with a lucky goal. Midfielder Geoffrey Dernis (who had the best [...]






