Association Sportive de Monaco Football Club SA often known as AS Monaco (French pronunciation: [a.es monako[a.es monako]) or Monaco is a professional football team that is based in Monaco that plays with the rest of Ligue 1, the top level in French football. Established in 1918, the team plays its home games in the Stade Louis II in Fontvieille.
While it is located in Monaco however, the club is within its own French soccer league. Monaco is among the clubs that has had the greatest success in French football with eight league titles and five Coupe de France trophies and one Coupe de la Ligue. Monaco is among the top in European football. They were second in the final of the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup in 1992 , and in the UEFA Champions League in 2004.
The club's primary colours are white and red, as well as the team is referred to by the name of Les Rouges et Blancs (The Red and Whites). Monaco is part of the European Club Association. In December of 2011 the club's shares of two-thirds was sold to an investment firm that was headed by Russian billionaire and oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev. Thanks to Rybolovlev's backing the club swiftly returned in Ligue 1 and won the 2016-17 Ligue 1, their first league title in the span of 17 years.
