# 2008–09 Grenoble Foot 38 season

The 2008–09 season was the 98th season in the history of Grenoble Foot 38 and the club's first season back in the top flight of French football since 1963. In addition to the domestic league, Grenoble participated in this season's editions of the Coupe de France and the Coupe de la Ligue.

## Players
### First-team squad

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 | Grégory Wimbée (captain) |
| 2 | MF | FRA | Laurent Courtois |
| 3 | DF | FRA | Sandy Paillot |
| 4 | DF | FRA | Maxence Flachez |
| 5 | DF | FRA | Martial Robin |
| 6 | MF | TOG | Alaixys Romao |
| 7 | MF | BUL | Hristo Yanev |
| 8 | MF | FRA | Sofiane Feghouli |
| 9 | FW | FRA | Daniel Moreira |
| 10 | MF | FRA | Laurent Batlles |
| 11 | MF | SRB | Miloš Dimitrijević |
| 12 | DF | SVN | Boštjan Cesar |
| 13 | MF | FRA | Mathieu Gianni |
| 14 | DF | TUN | David Jemmali |
| 15 | DF | SRB | Zoran Rendulić |
| 16 | GK | FRA | Paul Cattier |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 17 | FW | ALG | Nassim Akrour |
| 18 | MF | FRA | Laurent Macquet |
| 19 | FW | CMR | Pierre Boya |
| 20 | FW | JPN | Sho Ito |
| 21 | DF | MAR | Walid Regragui |
| 22 | FW | GUI | Larson Touré |
| 23 | FW | FRA | Elliot Grandin |
| 24 | MF | CMR | Albert Baning |
| 25 | DF | CGO | Francis N'Ganga |
| 26 | FW | FRA | Yoric Ravet |
| 27 | DF | SRB | Milivoje Vitakić |
| 28 | FW | MAR | Bouchaib El Moubarki |
| 29 | DF | FRA | Jimmy Mainfroi |
| 30 | GK | FRA | Ronan Le Crom |
| 31 | FW | GER | Mustafa Kučuković |

## Pre-season and friendlies

Win  Draw  Loss

## Competitions
### Overall record

| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record |
| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % |
| Ligue 1 | 9 August 2008 | 30 May 2009 | Matchday 1 | 13th | 38 | 10 | 14 | 14 | 24 | 37 | −13 | 026.32 |
| Coupe de France | 3 January 2009 | 21 April 2009 | Round of 64 | Semi-finals | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 3 | +3 | 040.00 |
| Coupe de France | 24 September 2008 | 24 September 2008 | Third round | Third round | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | −1 | 000.00 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 44 | 12 | 16 | 16 | 32 | 43 | −11 | 027.27 |
Source: Competitions

### Ligue 1
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 11 | Monaco | 38 | 11 | 12 | 15 | 41 | 45 | −4 | 45 |
| 12 | Valenciennes | 38 | 10 | 14 | 14 | 35 | 42 | −7 | 44 |
| 13 | Grenoble | 38 | 10 | 14 | 14 | 24 | 37 | −13 | 44 |
| 14 | Sochaux | 38 | 10 | 12 | 16 | 40 | 48 | −8 | 42 |
| 15 | Nancy | 38 | 10 | 12 | 16 | 38 | 47 | −9 | 42 |

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Source: Ligue 1

#### Results by round

| Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 |
| Ground | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H |
| Result | W | W | L | W | D | L | W | L | D | W | D | D | L | L | D | D | D | L | W | L | L | L | D | D | D | D | W | W | L | L | L | W | W | D | L | D | D | L |
| Position | 2 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 8 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 11 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 11 | 12 | 12 | 14 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 9 | 9 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 13 | 11 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 13 | 13 |

#### Matches

The league fixtures were announced on 23 May 2008.