AS Magenta

AS Magenta
Full name L'Association Sportive Magenta
Ground Stade Numa-Daly Magenta
Nouméa, New Caledonia
Ground Capacity 16,000
Chairman Michel Messeaud
Manager Alain Moizan
League New Caledonia Division Honneur
2012 1st
Website Club home page

AS Magenta is a New Caledonian football team playing at the top level. It is based in Nouméa. Their home stadium is Stade Numa-Daly Magenta.

History

Originally called the Nickel Nouméa Sports Association (Nouméa ASLN), the club experienced its first period of glory in the late 1960s and 1970s. Winner of the New Caledonia Cup for four successive years between 1969 and 1972, followed by a 1975 win, the team was also a finalist in 1968, 1974, 1976 and 1977. Under the new name of A.S. Magenta, the club gradually returned to the forefront of the New Caledonian football scene in the early 1990s. Cup finalist in 1991, the team won again in 1996, followed by a series of six straight wins between 2000 and 2005, making it the most successful team in the competition.

AS Magenta won the Championship in 2003, 2004 and 2005. ASM was also champion of The Overseas Football Cup by beating AS Pirae in 2003 (2–2 in the first leg, 2–2 then the second leg, 4–3 after penalty shootout). AS Magenta season in the 2005 season, in addition to winning the cup and the championship of New Caledonia, reached the final of the OFC Champions League in June 2005 after finishing Group B in the top spot. However, the Caledonians bowed to the Australian team Sydney FC (0–2). The 2006 season is much less successful for AS Magenta. In addition to being eliminated before the finals of the OFC Champions League, the club also failed to win the title of champion of New Caledonia for the first time in four years, on top of failing to win the New Caledonia Cup for the first time since 1999.

In the 2007 season, under the coaching of former footballer André Bodji, the team won the championship three years in a row. Following the 2010 win, the team played in the 2010–2011 Coupe de France, becoming the first New Caledonian club to pass the seventh round of the preliminary phase, before being beaten in the eighth round by Paris FC (4–0).

In November 2014, the club won for the ninth time the New Caledonia Cup, after beating rivals AS Lössi 3–1, ensuring its place in the seventh round in the Coupe de France.[1]

Achievements

2002–03, 2003–04, 2004–05, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2009, 2012, 2014
1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1975, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2002–03, 2003–04, 2004–05, 2010, 2014
2002–03, 2004–05

The club in the French football structure

1994–95, 2000–01, 2001–02, 2002–03, 2003–04, 2004–05, 2005–06, 2010–11, 2013–2014

Current squad

Squad for 2013–14 OFC Champions League:[2]

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

No. Position Player
1 New Caledonia GK Jelen Ixoee
2 New Caledonia DF Jean Jewine
3 New Caledonia DF Pierrot Jelewed
4 New Caledonia DF Loic Wakanumune
5 New Caledonia DF Ludovic Wakanumune
6 New Caledonia MF Cedrick Sansot
7 New Caledonia MF Noël Kaudré
8 New Caledonia FW Paul Poatinda
9 Vanuatu FW Bill Nicholls
10 New Caledonia MF Pierre Wajoka
11 New Caledonia FW Bertrand Kai
12 New Caledonia MF Joris Gorendiawe
13 New Caledonia DF Jeremie Dokunengo
14 New Caledonia FW Kalaje Gnipate
15 New Caledonia MF Olivier Dokunengo
No. Position Player
16 New Caledonia DF Jean Paul Read
17 New Caledonia DF Leopold Makalu
18 New Caledonia FW Michel Hmae
19 New Caledonia MF Jordy Xalite
20 New Caledonia DF Wilson Forest
21 New Caledonia DF Jean-Patrick Wakanumune
22 New Caledonia MF Benjamin Bernard-Herve
23 New Caledonia DF Jean-Brice Wadriako
24 New Caledonia DF Jonathan Kakou
25 New Caledonia FW Kevin Hmepone Mawea
26 New Caledonia MF Willy Waheo
27 New Caledonia FW Emmanuel Hmaen
28 New Caledonia MF Jean-Xavier Wakanumune
29 New Caledonia GK Pierre Waboula
30 New Caledonia GK Leon Ixoee

Staff

Position Name
Coach France Alain Moizan
Physiotherapist New Caledonia John Wadrobert
Doctor New Caledonia Stéphane Campana
Manager New Caledonia Pascal Uichi
Media Manager New Caledonia Pascal Uichi

Performance in OFC competitions

Best: 3° in Group A 2010
2010: 3° in Group A
2011: 3° in Group B
2004–05: 2nd Place – Lost against Sydney FC Australia 2 – 0 (stage 4 of 4)
2006: First Round – Group B – 4th place – 3 pts (stage 2 of 4)

References

  1. "Nouvelle Caledonie 1ere". November 2, 2014. Retrieved November 5, 2014.
  2. AS Magenta Official Team List from oceaniafootball.com
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