Andy Delort returns to Ajaccio to aid in rebuilding effort

After a difficult 2024-25 season, former Algeria national team striker Andy Delort is back in France for an interesting new step in his career after AC Ajaccio announced his return to the Corsican club.

 

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After competing in France’s top flight Ligue 1 less than three seasons ago, Ajaccio has fallen on hard times and Delort is back on a different type of mission to help the club rebuild. After the 2024-25 Ligue 2 season, Ajaccio were administratively relegated to France’s seventh tier of football known as Régional 2 where they will compete against fellow Corsican clubs.

For Delort, a native of southern France, it is an opportunity to reconnect with his football roots. The 33-year-old spent four seasons at the club in the early stages of his professional career. After financial difficulties resulted in the severe demotion, Ajaccio are under new ownership and eager to rebuild their reputation with former stars Rémy Cabella, Vincent Marchetti and Benjamin André amongst the new ownership group led by entrepreneur Michaël Torre.

Andy Delort’s difficult 2024-25 season

Delort began the 2024-25 season with a highly-publicized transfer to Algerian giants MC Alger, his first move to the domestic scene of the nation he represented. However, things did not go to plan as he struggled with 3 goals in 14 matches for MCA before being sent on loan to Ligue 1 strugglers Montpellier for the second half of the season. Delort failed to score in 9 matches as Montpellier finished dead last on the top flight table.

The veteran striker’s years in top flight football appear to be over at this point but now he can rejuvenate his passion for the sport and dedicate himself to a worthy cause with Ajaccio, a club where he took his first steps towards a successful career.

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