AC Boulogne-Billancourt (football)

AC Boulogne-Billancourt

Full name	Athletic Club de Boulogne-Billancourt
Nickname(s)	ACBB
Founded	1943 (1943)
Stadium	Stade Alphonse Le Gallo Stade Marcel Bec Parc sportif du Pré Saint-Jean
Capacity	Le Gallo: 3,000 (500 seated)
Manager	Quentin Thoreau
League	Régional 2, Ligue Paris-Ile-de-France, Group D
2022–23	Régional 2, Paris-Île-de-France, Group D, 9th of 12th[1]
Website	https://www.acbbfoot.com/

AC Boulogne-Billancourt shortened ACBB is a French association football club based in Boulogne-Billancourt. Playing his matches in many grounds, including Stade Alphonse Le Gallo or Stade Marcel Bec. ACBB completes in Régional 2 of Ligue Paris-Ile-de-France, the seventh level of French football league system and is managed by Quentin Thoreau.

ACBB were founded in 1942.

In 2014, ACBB were promoted in CFA 2, the next year, the club was promoted in CFA.

Between 2015 and 2019, ACBB spent these seasons in Championnat National 2, achieving their remaining in each season.

At the end of the 2018–19 Championnat National 2, ACBB were relegated to National 3.^[2]

Beginning in March 2020, the club could no longer played matches due to the COVID-19 pandemic in France which affected all French competitions. On 28 April 2020, the Prime Minister Édouard Philippe announced the end of sports competitions in France, and as a result the ACBB was relegated to Régional 1.

The 2021–22 season is considered the worst season for ACBB due to poor results performances, without be able to perform a win for 2021, who resulted as a sackment of the manager, despite the recruitment of a new manager, the club cannot afford to win. On 14 May 2022, ACBB were relegated to Régional 2 after a 0–2 loss against CO Vincennes.^[3]

For their 2022–23 season, despite starting by a 8–3 away win against Sucy-en-Brie, ACBB will down in the next fixtures, falling in the relegation zone because of poor results. However, ACBB won many league matches in 2023 and escaped from a terrible relegation to Régional 3 by finished ninth, with three points above the first relegable, Francoville.^[4]

As of 21 September 2024^[5]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  FRA Adem Boussif 12 GK  FRA Arnaud Guilbert 31 GK  FRA Louis Pouplard 41 GK  FRA Rémy Lecomte — DF  FRA Mathis Kissanga — DF  FRA Gaston Westhingolo — DF  FRA Tristan Envuli — DF  FRA Jeffrey Manzongani — DF  FRA Uche Ozazuwa — DF  FRA Tom Faral — DF  FRA Julien Afronso — DF  FRA Wael Zehhar — DF  FRA Lassana Dembélé — DF  FRA Karim Doumbia — MF  FRA Oumar Wané

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  FRA Nathan Durand — MF  FRA Pierre Potel — MF  FRA Emile Sireau — MF  FRA Grégory Soupramanien — MF  FRA Soufian Redissi — MF  FRA Guillaume Ebongue — FW  CIV Wilfried Tagbo — FW  FRA Sounkalo Traoré — FW  FRA Dan Maurizi — FW  FRA Corentin Barreteau — FW  FRA Kylian Dossat — FW  FRA Abdou Karim Dramé — FW  FRA Sabri Haddadou — FW  FRA Abdoulaye Haidara — FW  FRA Loïc Assen A Zang

As of 25 October 2024^[6]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  FRA Malo Boleda 12 GK  FRA Romain Peridelle 31 GK  FRA Malik Marrakchi —  FRA Abdoulaye Sackhone —  FRA Ziyad Nazar —  FRA Envel Amardeilh —  FRA Hadi Kleit —  FRA Thomas Caban —  ISL Sverrir Ögmundsson —  FRA Sonko Moustapha —  FRA Samuel de Almeida —  FRA Rayan Afilal —  FRA Rafaël Guerin —  FRA Mathieu Oulouma —  FRA Mathis Tulasne —  FRA Mouhamed Mboup —  FRA Muhammad Beego —  FRA Noab Belhari —  FRA Patrick Ngalle Mouelle

No. Pos. Nation Player —  FRA Kyllian Briandet —  FRA Mael Quince —  FRA Lorvens Racine —  FRA Leyri Diawara —  FRA Lenny Edo —  FRA Julein Ruiz Castro —  FRA Erwan Zadi —  FRA Ekollo Noham Lewis —  FRA Cheickne Deme —  FRA Adan Boutoustous —  FRA Amene Kridane —  FRA Aylan Baha —  FRA Balthazar Louis Entraygues —  FRA Balthazar Wiberg —  FRA Chadrak Kone —  FRA Adam Boulahna —  FRA Adam Bidja —  FRA Labib Aatman —  FRA Samuel Aman —  FRA Nathan Joret

This section is a list of ACBB seasons.

AC Boulogne-Billancourt have many grounds due to high amount of squads, it includes: Veterans, Seniors, Young sector, Women and their reserves.

Stade Alphonse Le Gallo is located at Rue de Sèvres, Boulogne-Billancourt.

The ground is connected with RATP bus route,  467  at Stade, remotely with routes  52   72   126   160   175   260  at Rhin-et-Danube and Paris Métro station, Boulogne–Pont de Saint-Cloud with line ,

Complexe sportif de Marcel Bec is located at Meudon, Due to high amount of senior and youth sector teams played on Saturdays/Sundays, AC Boulogne-Billancourt played these matches at Complexe Sportif de Marcel Bec, this ground is splitted with other Hauts-de-Seine association football sides.

This ground is along with Stade Alphonse Le Gallo' one of many grounds mostly used for matches of ACBB, but this ground is also used when Stade Alphonse Le Gallo is unavailable due to technical incidents, renovation or due to a neutral venue of another association football side, likely in 2010s while the stadium was renovated with an expansion of the capacity or during the 2023–24 Championnat National 2 season, when RC France moved to Boulogne-Billancourt due to renovation of their main groundn Stade Yves du Manoir.

This ground is connected with RATP bus route  569  or  TIM , and remotely with  179  at Rond-point des Bruyères.

Parc sportif du Pré Saint-Jean is located at Saint-Cloud, the ground is rarely used.

This ground is connected with  471  at Parc du Pré Saint-Jean.

ACBB have a Youth Sector composed of high amount of Under-18, Under-17, Under-16, Under-15 and Under-14 teams, the number of teams is variable according the seasons. the club is also one of the best Development team, many players pass through the academy/youth sector for achieve high experience before their departure for other French or European association football teams.

ACBB Under-18s is an under-18 team of AC Boulogne-Billancourt. Two squads are engaged for the 2024–25 season.^[7]

• The first U18 squad completes the Régional 3 and Coupe de Paris-Île-de-France de football organized by Ligue de Paris-Île-de-France, it also completes the Coupe Gambardella.^[7]
• The reserve U18 squad completes the Départemental 1 and Coupe des Hauts-de-Seine organized by District des Hauts-de-Seine.^[7]

ACBB Under-16s is an under-16 team of the club. Four teams are engaged for the 2024–25 season.^[7]

• The first and reserve squads completes respectively the Régional 1, Régional 3 and Coupe de Paris-Île-de-France de football organized by Ligue de Paris-Île-de-France.
• The third and fourth squads completes respectively the Départemental 2, Départemental 3 and Coupe des Hauts-de-Seine of District des Hauts-de-Seine.^[7]

The first squad has previously playing for the Championnat National U17, consisting of under-17 players prior suffering a relegation to U16 Régional 1 at the end of the 2021–22 season.

ACBB Under-14s is an under-14 team at the club. Six teams are engaged for the 2024–25 season.^[7]

• The first squad is the only under-14 team who play in the Ligue de Paris-Île-de-France, completing the Régional 2 and Coupe de Paris-Île-de-France. The five other teams completes in the District des Hauts-de-Seine.^[7]

ACBB's Academy is the academy of AC Boulogne-Billancourt, consisting of Under-13s to Under-6s teams, completing the Critérium, Plateaux or Challenges organized by Ligue de Paris-Île-de-France or District des Hauts-de-Seine.

AC Boulogne-Billancourt also operate a women's football team including their women's academy, founded in the mid-2010s, completing in the Régional 3, Coupe de Paris-Île-de-France Féminine hosted by Ligue de Paris-Île-de-France, Coupe de France Féminine hosted by Fédération Française de Football, ACBB Women also completes Coupe des Hauts-de-Seine Féminine due to lack of teams.^[7]

Due to lack of sides in Hauts-de-Seine, ACBB Women who completes in Régional 3, Paris-Île-de-France is allow to be engaged in the Coupe des Hauts-de-Seine Féminine, they reached three times in a row the final between 2022 and 2024, facing Départemental 1 sides, losing 0–1 against FC Rueil-Malmaison Women 2 in 2022.^[8] winning 4–3 against GPSO 92 Issy 3 in 2023.^[9] and 1–0 against RC France in 2024.^[10]

On November 2, 2024, AC Boulogne-Billancourt advanced for the first of their history at first round proper of the Coupe de France féminine after defeating Mitry-Compans Goëlly on penalties.^[11][12][13]

AC Boulogne-Billancourt also operates a women's development academy with Under-18s, Under-15s, Under-13s, Under-11s and 8-a-side.^[7]

In 2024, Under-18s were crowned champions of Régional 3, Ligue Paris-Île-de-France, granting a promotion to Régional 2.^[14]