FC Ibbené

Ibbené

Full name	Football Club Ibbené
Nickname(s)	Les Verts (The Greens)
Short name	IBB
Founded	2 March 1924 (2 March 1924)
Ground	Repain
Capacity	32,163
Owner	Monim Maalouf
Chairman	Théo Chopin
Manager	Louis Darnique
League	Liga Premiére
2018–19	Liga Premiére, 6th
Home colours Away colours Third colours

FC Ibbené is a professional association football club based in Ibbené, Midrasia. The club currently competes in Liga Premiére, the highest tier of Midrasian football. The club has won a number of trophies including 9 domestic league titles, 5 Mydran Cups, 2 Super Cups, and one Asuran League title.

Founded in 1924, Ibbené was a relative latecomer to the scene of Midrasian football, though investment for key industrialists and philanthropists from the city and surrounding regions quickly propelled the team to the top-tier of Midrasian football. By the 1960s Ibbené were a mainstay of Liga 1, regularly finishing within the top half of the table. However, the club would not reach its peak until the late 1990s and early 2000s where they won multiple league titles and famously defeated Olympique de Lotrique in the Supercopa and Asuran League finals during the 1999-2000 season. Since then the club has undergone a decline of sorts, unable to financially compete with its other rivals. Yet the purchase of the club by Onzaian billionaire Monim Maalouf has seen a revival of sorts. Today FC Ibbené is still viewed as a top-6 team within Liga Premiére, though they continue to trail many of the other teams within this bracket.

The team's home stadium is Repain, which holds a capacity of 35,000 making it one of the smaller stadiums in the league. However, the club is currently planning the construction of a new stadium which will have a planned capacity in excess of 50,000. The club has a strong domestic following, particularly within the Avadin and Viure regions. The club also has a modest international following, primarily among Midrasia's immediate neighbours and Batisuria which recieved a high level of settlers from the city from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries.

Ibbené has a numer of domestic rivalries, particularly with its immediate neighbouring clubs such as FC Oyonaix, FC Cadillac, and Club Viure. The team also has a historical rivalry with Olympique de Lotrique, owing to their clashes during the late twentieth, early twenty-first century.

Players

Current squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under international eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Reginald Arceneaux 2 DF Thor Skagen 3 DF Visant Girault 4 DF Claude Puyoles 5 DF Fabian Pisarek 6 MF Henri de Lenare 7 MF Salvatore Arnal 8 MF Sylvain Tristan 9 FW David Hevré 10 MF Jaïr Blade 11 MF Thierry Lebas 12 DF Iósaf Pomar 13 GK Aldo Ramos

No. Position Player 16 DF Johan Tadic 15 MF Artúr Nee 17 MF Andreas 19 FW Guiseppe Danillo 20 FW Lucas Ronaldo 22 DF Philippe Wallonde (Captain) 23 MF Melcion Artur 24 MF Allan Oja 25 GK Aucaman 37 FW Geoffrey Keane

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under international eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one nationality.

No. Position Player — DF William Pélissier (at Union Villeneuve until 30 June 2020) — DF Thibaud Bossuet (at Norte Club until 30 June 2020) — MF Johan Wallenberg (at Tarken FC until 30 June 2020) 21 FW Javier Martí (at Astërborg until 30 June 2020)