AS Monaco
Also written as Monaco.
The club
Association Sportive de Monaco Football Club were founded on 23 August 1924 and are based in the Principality of Monaco, with their ground and training operation in the Fontvieille district. They play in French football, in Ligue 1, despite not being in France. They play in red and white and are known as Les Rouge et Blanc, Les Monégasques, and Le Rocher, the Rock.
The ground is the Stade Louis II, which holds 16,360. The original Stade Louis II opened in 1939; the present stadium, built on land reclaimed from the Mediterranean and known for the nine arches along its front, opened in 1985.
The president is Dmitry Rybolovlev, the Russian businessman who has been majority owner since December 2011. The head coach is Filipe Luís, the Brazilian, appointed in 2026. He follows Sébastien Pocognoli, who took the job in October 2025, and before him Adi Hütter from 2023 and Philippe Clement from 2022 to 2023. The exact date of the change from Pocognoli to Filipe Luís was not established from the sources read here.
Confusion warning: these are AS Monaco of the Principality of Monaco, who play in the French league. They are not Monza, the Italian club from Lombardy. The two are separate clubs in separate countries.
Recent seasons
Monaco finished fourth in Ligue 1 in 2021/22, sixth in 2022/23 and second in 2023/24. The 2024/25 finish was not established from the sources read here. In 2025/26 they finished seventh with 54 points from 34 matches, sixteen wins, six draws and twelve defeats, sixty goals scored and fifty-four conceded, a goal difference of plus six.
That seventh place would not normally have carried a European place. Because Lens won the Coupe de France and had already qualified for the Champions League through the league table, the Conference League place passed down to the seventh-placed club, and Monaco took it. Paris Saint-Germain won the title, their fifth in a row and a record-extending fourteenth.
Honours and landmarks
Monaco have won the French championship eight times, in 1960/61, 1962/63, 1977/78, 1981/82, 1987/88, 1996/97, 1999/2000 and 2016/17. They have won the Coupe de France five times, in 1959/60, 1962/63, 1979/80, 1984/85 and 1990/91, the Coupe de la Ligue once in 2002/03, and the Trophée des Champions four times, in 1961, 1985, 1997 and 2000. They were Ligue 2 champions in 2012/13.
In Europe they have twice been runners-up: in the 1991/92 European Cup Winners' Cup and in the 2003/04 UEFA Champions League. They also reached the Champions League semi-finals in 2016/17.
Notable scorelines
Monaco's record win and record defeat were not established from the sources read here.
European record
Monaco's two European finals are the landmarks. They lost the 1991/92 Cup Winners' Cup final and lost the 2003/04 Champions League final, in both cases as runners-up. Their other deepest run is the 2016/17 Champions League, where they reached the semi-finals. The full season-by-season European record, including opponents and scorelines in those campaigns, was not established from the sources read here.
Quotes
No directly quoted material was confirmed from the sources read here.
Right now (2026/27)
Filipe Luís is the head coach. Monaco entered the 2026/27 Conference League at the play-off round, in the Main Path, having qualified as the seventh-placed Ligue 1 club by way of the Coupe de France winners already being in the Champions League.
They were drawn against Górnik Zabrze and won the first leg 3-2 in Poland on 20 August 2026. Mika Biereth put Monaco ahead on nine minutes; Erik Prekop equalised for Górnik on fifty-three; Lamine Camara restored the lead on fifty-one and Paris Brunner made it three on fifty-eight; Sondre Liseth pulled one back on seventy-four. The match was at the Arena Zabrze in front of 23,027 and was refereed by Martin Matoša of Slovenia. The minute attributed to Camara in the source read here sits a minute before Prekop's goal despite the goal order given, and that discrepancy was not resolved from the sources read here.
The second leg is at the Stade Louis II on 27 August 2026 and is still to be played. Monaco lead 3-2 from the first leg.
Domestically Ligue 1 has begun. Monaco won their opening match 1-0 away at Le Havre, Eric Dier scoring on fourteen minutes, which left them fifth with three points. Caio Henrique left for Ajax on 28 June 2026 for a fee reported at around fourteen million euros including add-ons; no incoming transfers were recorded in the source read here up to 19 August 2026.
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AS_Monaco_FC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025%E2%80%9326_Ligue_1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026%E2%80%9327_AS_Monaco_FC_season https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026%E2%80%9327_UEFA_Conference_League_qualifying https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026%E2%80%9327_UEFA_Conference_League_qualifying_(third_and_play-off_round_matches) https://www.uefa.com/uefaconferenceleague/match/2049252
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