AS Monaco FC

AS Monaco, formally Association Sportive de Monaco Football Club, is a professional football club based in Fontvieille in the Principality of Monaco. Although Monaco is not part of France, the club is a member of the French Football Federation and competes in Ligue 1, the top tier of French football, playing its home matches at the Stade Louis II while its training centre lies across the border in La Turbie. It is one of the most successful clubs in French football, with eight league titles, five Coupe de France trophies and one Coupe de la Ligue, and it has reached European finals twice, the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup final in 1992 and the UEFA Champions League final in 2004. Its traditional colours are red and white, which give it the nickname Les Rouge et Blanc, and since December 2011 it has been majority owned by the Russian businessman Dmitry Rybolovlev.