Valenciennes Football Club (French pronunciation:[valɑ̃sjɛn]ⓘ; commonly known as Valenciennes or USVA) is a French association football club based in Valenciennes. The club was founded in 1913 and currently play in Ligue 2, the second tier of French Football. But after this season will play in the Championnat National The 3rd tier of French Football. Valenciennes plays its home matches at the recently built Stade du Hainaut located within the city.[1]
Valenciennes was founded under the name Union Sportive de Valenciennes Anzin (USVA). The club spent over 80 years playing under the name before switching to its current name. Valenciennes has spent an equal amount of time playing in Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 having played 40 seasons in the first division and 36 seasons in the second division. The club has never won the first division, but has won Ligue 2 on two occasions. Valenciennes has also won the Championnat National and the Championnat de France amateur in 2005 and 1998, respectively. In 1951, the club made its first and only appearance in a Coupe de France final.
From 2004 to 2011, Valenciennes was presided over by Francis Decourrière, a former politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament under the Social Democratic Party from 1994 to 1999 and later the Union pour la Démocratie Française (Union for French Democracy) from 1999 to 2004.[2] In 2011, Decourrière left the position and was replaced by Jean-Raymond Legrand.
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Valenciennes Football Club (French pronunciation: [valɑ̃sjɛn] ; commonly known as Valenciennes or USVA) is a French association football club based in...
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two-year deal with Ligue 1 outfit ValenciennesFC. During a training session on 20 August 2008 with his club Valenciennes he suffered a suspected heart attack...
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at Coton Sport and moved to Europe in 2010, playing for Ligue 1 clubs Valenciennes and Lorient, totalling 109 appearances and 26 goals in France's top division...
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multi-use stadium in Valenciennes, France. It is used mostly for football matches and hosts the home matches of ValenciennesFC. It has replaced the Stade...
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manager Mickaël Landreau for Lorient in a 1–0 Coupe de la Ligue win over ValenciennesFC on 14 August 2018. He kept a clean sheet consecutively in his first...
(two spells), Shamrock Rovers (three spells), Home Farm, Bohemians, Valenciennes, Derry City, and Limerick. He was a substitute on Home Farm's FAI Cup...
gardien brestois, Gautier Larsonneur, est prêté au club nordiste du ValenciennesFC (Ligue 2 BKT), prêt d'une saison (+1 en option)" (in French). Brest...
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