Football Club Argentan
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| Full name | Football Club Argentan | |
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| Founded | 1991 | |
| Ground | Stade Gérard Saint | |
| Chairman | Hubert Bayer | |
| Manager | Yoann Neris | |
| League | Regional 3 – Normandy | |
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Football Club Argentan is a french football club based in Argentan.
History
[edit]The club was formed in 1991 as a merger between Olympique Argentan and Union Sportive Métalos Argentan.[1][2] The club was then called UFC Argentan [3] The newly merged club found success two seasons later when they won the Lower Normandy league in the 1992–93 season and won promotion to the Championnat National 3.[4] They stayed at this level for 9 years before being relegated back to the regional leagues where they have remained since.[4]
In 2011 season the club merged with Argentan FC to form one club in Argentan, FC Argentan.[5][6]
Ground
[edit]The club play their home games at the Stade Gérard Saint.[7] The stadium was built in 1952 and is named after local professional road bicycle racer, Gérard Saint who died in a car accident in 1960 within a year of winning the Combativity award of the 1959 Tour de France.[8][9] The stadium has had a new stand constructed in 2022 that holds 263 supporters.[10]
Honours
[edit]- Lower Normandy Regional 1 Champions (1) 1992-93 [11]
- Lower Normandy Regional 2 Champions (1) 2018-19 [12]
References
[edit]- ^ "Football Argentan FC : toutes les infos". alencon.maville.com.
- ^ "US Métalos Argentan Football". www.statfootballclubfrance.fr.
- ^ "UFC Argentan - France - Profil de l'équipe". www.leballonrond.fr.
- ^ a b "FC Argentan". www.statfootballclubfrance.fr.
- ^ "Football : Vers un club unique à Argentan en 2010". ouest-france.fr.
- ^ "FC Argentan - France - Profil de l'équipe". www.leballonrond.fr.
- ^ "Argentan. Un nouveau sponsor pour le Football-club". alencon.maville.com.
- ^ "Argentan. La construction du stade Gérard-Saint en 1952". ouest-france.fr.
- ^ "Gérard Saint, le James Dean du Tour de France". Ouest-France.fr. July 15, 2019.
- ^ "Argentan. Enfin de nouvelles tribunes pour le stade Gérard-Saint". Ouest-France.fr. February 17, 2022.
- ^ "Division d'Honneur - Normandie 1992-1993". statfootballclubfrance.fr.
- ^ "Football. Jaouad Mehdaoui quitte le Vimoutiers FC et rejoint le FC Argentan pour jouer en R1". actu.fr. August 20, 2019.