2006–07 AJ Auxerre season

During the 2006–07 French football season, AJ Auxerre competed in Ligue 1.

Auxerre

2006–07 season
Manager	Jean Fernandez[notes 1]
Stadium	Stade l'Abbé-Deschamps
Ligue 1	8th
Coupe de la Ligue	Round of 16
Coupe de France	Round of 64
Intertoto Cup	Third round
UEFA Cup	Group stage

First-team squad

Squad at end of season[1]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  FRA Fabien Cool 2 DF  FRA Johan Radet 3 DF  FRA Jean-Sébastien Jaurès 4 DF   SUI Stéphane Grichting 6 MF  FRA Benoît Pedretti 7 MF  FRA Benoît Cheyrou 8 MF  SEN Issa Ba 10 MF  DEN Thomas Kahlenberg 11 MF  CIV Kanga Akalé 12 DF  FRA Jean-Pascal Mignot 13 MF  FRA Kévin Lejeune 14 MF  FRA Frédéric Thomas 15 DF  FRA Baptiste Martin 16 GK  FRA Anthony Basso

No. Pos. Nation Player 18 MF  FRA Lionel Mathis 19 MF  SEN Moussa N'Diaye 20 FW  FRA Ludovic Genest 21 FW  ROU Daniel Niculae 22 FW  POL Ireneusz Jeleń 26 DF  FRA Younès Kaboul 27 FW  BFA Alain Traoré 28 FW  POL Kamil Oziemczuk 29 DF  FRA Bacary Sagna 30 GK  FRA Olivier Sorin 33 DF  FRA Guillaume Lecacheur 40 GK  SVN Denis Petrić[notes 2] 53 DF  TOG Serge Akakpo 54 MF  FRA Irélé Apo

Left club during season

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 5 DF  CZE René Bolf (to Baník Ostrava) 9 FW  BEL Luigi Pieroni (to Nantes) 17 MF  FRA Hassan Yebda[notes 3] (to Le Mans)

No. Pos. Nation Player 23 MF  HUN Krisztián Vadócz (on loan to Motherwell) 24 DF  FRA Michaël Ciani (on loan to Lorient) 25 DF  GUI Oumar Kalabane (to Manisaspor)

Competitions

Ligue 1

Main article: 2006–07 Ligue 1

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
6	Bordeaux	38	16	9	13	39	35	+4	57	Qualification to UEFA Cup first round[lower-alpha 1]
7	Sochaux	38	15	12	11	46	48	−2	57
8	Auxerre	38	13	15	10	41	41	0	54
9	Monaco	38	13	12	13	45	38	+7	51
10	Lille	38	13	11	14	45	43	+2	50

Source:
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
Notes:

1. Bordeaux, the winner of the Coupe de la Ligue, is awarded entry to the 2007–08 UEFA Cup. The winners of the Coupe de France, Sochaux also have been awarded entry to the 2007–08 UEFA Cup.

References

1. http://www.footballsquads.co.uk/france/2006-2007/ligue1/auxerre.htm

Notes

1. Fernandez was born in Mostaganem, French Algeria (now Algeria), but also qualified to represent France internationally and represented them at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
2. Petrić was born in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia (now Slovenia), and represented Slovenia at U-17 and U-19 level, but also qualified to represent Serbia internationally and would later represent them at U-21 level.
3. Yebda was born in Saint-Maurice, France, and represented them at U-16, U-17, U-18, and U-19 level, but also qualified to represent Algeria internationally and would make his international debut for Algeria in October 2009.