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2012–13 Coupe De La Ligue
The 2012–13 Coupe de la Ligue was the 19th edition of the French league cup competition. The competition was organized by the Ligue de Football Professionnel and is open to the 44 professional clubs in France that are managed by the organization. The defending champions were Marseille, who defeated Lyon 1–0 in the 2011–12 edition of the final. The final was contested on 20 April 2013 at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis. The winner of the competition qualified for the 2013–14 UEFA Europa League and be inserted into the third qualifying round. Calendar First round The draw for the opening round of the 2012–13 edition of the Coupe de la Ligue was held on 11 July 2012. The first round featured 24 clubs; the four professional clubs in the Championnat National, the third division of French football, and the 20 clubs in Ligue 2. The matches were played on 7 August 2012. Second round The draw for the second round of the 2012–13 edition of the Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AS Saint-Étienne
Association Sportive de Saint-Étienne Loire (), commonly known as A.S.S.E. () or simply Saint-Étienne, is a professional football club based in Saint-Étienne in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France. The club was founded in 1933 and competes in Ligue 2, the second division of French football, in the 2022–23 season. Saint-Étienne plays its home matches at the Stade Geoffroy-Guichard. Saint-Étienne have won a joint-record of ten Ligue 1 titles, as well as six Coupe de France titles, a Coupe de la Ligue title and five Trophée des Champions. Saint-Étienne has also won the Ligue 2 championship on three occasions. The club achieved most of its honours in the 1960s and 1970s when the club was led by managers Jean Snella, Albert Batteux, and Robert Herbin. Saint-Étienne is known as ''Les Verts'' meaning "the Greens" due to its home colours. The club's primary rivals are Olympique Lyonnais, based in nearby Lyon, with whom they contest the '' Derby Rhône-Alpes''. In 2009, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Championnat National
The Championnat de France National ( en, French National Championship), commonly referred to as simply National or Division 3, serves as the third division of the French football league system behind Ligue 1 and Ligue 2. Contested by 18 clubs, the Championnat National operates on a system of promotion and relegation with Ligue 2 and the Championnat National 2, the fourth division of French football. Seasons run from August to May, with teams playing 34 games each, totalling 306 games in the season. Most games are played on Fridays and Saturdays, with a few games played during weekday evenings. Play is regularly suspended the last weekend before Christmas for two weeks before returning in the second week of January. The National was founded in 1993 by the French Football Federation and served as a ''base league'' for clubs on the brink of becoming professional or falling to the amateur levels. The league is annually composed of professional and semi-professional clubs. The matche ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Havre AC
Le Havre Athletic Club (; commonly referred to as Le Havre) is a French association football club based in Le Havre, Normandy. The club was founded as an athletics and rugby club in 1872, making Le Havre AC the oldest professional French football club. Le Havre is one of the oldest French football clubs, but the oldest is Standard Athletic Club of Paris.Archives municipales du Fort de Tourneville (Le Havre), statuts du HAC, fonds de Sanvic, R3 1 L.2. Le Havre plays in Ligue 2, the second tier of French football, and plays its home matches at the Stade Océane. Le Havre made its football debut in France's first-ever championship in 1899 and, on its debut, became the first French club outside Paris to win the league. The club won the league the following season in 1900. Le Havre has yet to win the current first division of French football, Ligue 1, but has participated in the league 24 times; its last stint being during the 2008–09 season. The club's highest honour to da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tours FC
Tours Football Club, commonly referred to as simply Tours (), is a French association football club based in Tours, the capital city of the Indre-et-Loire department. The club was formed in 1919 and currently play at the fifth level of French football. Tours plays its home matches at the Stade de la Vallée du Cher located within the city. History Tours Football Club was founded in 1919 as under the name ''AS Docks-du-Centre''. After two years of playing under the moniker, the club changed its name to ''AS du Centre''. The club spent 30 years under the name as French football entered professionalism in the 1930s. In 1951, the club changed its name again to the current Tours FC. Under the Tours emblem, the club achieved success in its infancy reaching the Round of 64 in the Coupe de France thanks to player-coach Alfred Aston that same year. Tours was promoted to the first division in 1980. Prior to the start of the season, the club signed prolific striker Delio Onnis from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franche-Comté
Franche-Comté (, ; ; Frainc-Comtou: ''Fraintche-Comtè''; frp, Franche-Comtât; also german: Freigrafschaft; es, Franco Condado; all ) is a cultural and historical region of eastern France. It is composed of the modern departments of Doubs, Jura, Haute-Saône and the Territoire de Belfort. In 2016, its population was 1,180,397. From 1956 to 2015, the Franche-Comté was a French administrative region. Since 1 January 2016, it has been part of the new region Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. The region is named after the ' (Free County of Burgundy), definitively separated from the region of Burgundy proper in the fifteenth century. In 2016, these two-halves of the historic Kingdom of Burgundy were reunited, as the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. It is also the 6th biggest region in France. The name "Franche-Comté" is feminine because the word "comté" in the past was generally feminine, although today it is masculine. The principal cities are the capital Besançon, Belfort an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caen
Caen (, ; nrf, Kaem) is a commune in northwestern France. It is the prefecture of the department of Calvados. The city proper has 105,512 inhabitants (), while its functional urban area has 470,000,Comparateur de territoire INSEE, retrieved 20 June 2022. making Caen the second largest urban area in and the 19th largest in France. It is also the third largest commune in all of Normandy after and Rouen. It is located inland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stade Michel D'Ornano
Stade Michel d'Ornano is a multi-use stadium in Caen, France. It is currently used mostly for Association football, football matches and is the home stadium of Stade Malherbe Caen. It is named after the French politician Michel d'Ornano (1924–1991), former president of the Basse-Normandie region. The stadium was built in 1993 to replace the Stade de Venoix, and has a capacity of 20,300 people. International matches France national football team played twice in this stadium: * France 3–1 (28 July 1993) * France 2–0 (15 November 1995) France national under-21 football team also played in this stadium during the qualifications for the European Championship: * France 1–1 Israel national under-21 football team, Israel (7 October 2006) * France 5–0 Kazakhstan national under-21 football team, Kazakhstan (5 September 2013) Attendances The average attendance largely depends on results of Stade Malherbe Caen. Matches are regularly sold out when the club plays in Ligue 1, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ala Eddine Yahia
Alaeddine Yahia ( ar, علاء الدين يحيى; born 26 September 1981) is a Tunisian former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. Yahia has previously played for Stade Tunisien, Guingamp and had a brief spell at Southampton, although he did not play a first team game for the club. Yahia was part of the Tunisian 2004 Olympic football team, who exited in the first round, finishing third in group C, behind group and gold medal winners Argentina and group runners-up Australia. He was part of the squad that won the 2004 African Cup of Nations. On 24 February 2007, Yahia played his first Ligue 1 match for Sedan against Rennes. Honours Tunisia * Africa Cup of Nations: 2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 ... References External links * * * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Livio Nabab
Livio Nabab (born 14 June 1988) is a French professional footballer who plays as a striker for French Championnat National 2 side US Granville. Club career Nabab was born in Les Abymes, Guadeloupe. He made his professional debut for SM Caen on 4 April 2009 in a Ligue 1 game against Toulouse FC. He was loaned out to Stade Lavallois during the 2010–11 season. On 31 August 2013, he left Caen to play for Ligue 2 side Arles-Avignon. Nabab played just one year of his three-year deal at Arles-Avignon, moving in July 2014 to Auxerre. At the end of the 2014–15 season he signed a two-year deal with Belgian club Waasland-Beveren. In June 2016, Nabab returned to France, signing an initial one-year deal with US Orléans in Ligue 2. The option in the contract depending upon Orléans avoiding relegation was triggered and he remained with the club for a second season. In July 2018, Nabab signed a two-year deal with Bourg-Péronnas in the Championnat National. Release by Bourg-Péronnas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurent Agouazi
Laurent Karim Agouazi (born 16 March 1984) is a professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for the reserve team of Metz. Born in France, he played for the Algeria national team. Career Born in Langres, France, Agouazi began his career with FC Metz and had a spell on loan with Championnat National side Besançon RC during the 2004–05 season. On 18 June 2009, US Boulogne-sur-Mer announced that it had the midfielder on a free transfer from Metz until June 2011. After two seasons with Boulogne he joined FC Istres, before moving to SM Caen on 8 June 2012. On 3 July 2015, Agouazi signed for Tours on a one-year deal. He signed a three-year contract with Chamois Niortais on 9 June 2016. In January 2019, he returned to Metz to help the reserve team. International career Born in Langres, France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RC Lens
Racing Club de Lens (, commonly referred to as RC Lens or simply Lens) is a French professional football club based in the northern city of Lens in the Pas-de-Calais department. Its nickname, ''les sang et or'' (''the blood and gold''), comes from its traditional colours of red and gold. Their traditional rivals are their northern neighbours Lille, with whom they contest the ''Derby du Nord''. Their most famous trophy is winning the championship in 1998. History Origin of the club The club was established in 1906 in Lens by local students who enjoyed playing football on the city's Place Verte (the current Place de la République). The name "Racing Club de Lens" was chosen as a reference to Racing Club de Roubaix and Racing Club de France, both popular clubs at the time. The club's first board of directors was formed by the parents of those students. The club originally played in green and black to represent the founding location; they wore green to represent the name of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stade Malherbe Caen
Stade Malherbe Caen (; commonly known as SM Caen, SMC, or simply Caen) is a French professional football team, based in the city of Caen in Normandy, that competes in the Ligue 2. The club was founded on 17 November 1913 by the merger of ''Club Malherbe Caennais'' and ''Club Sportif Caennais''. The team takes its name from François de Malherbe, a 17th century poet from Caen. For most of its history, SM Caen has been one of the main amateur clubs in France. The late 1980s and early 1990s saw the rise of Stade Malherbe in the French football hierarchy. In 1985, Stade Malherbe adopted professional status. Three seasons later, it was promoted for the first time to first division. In 1992, a few months after being narrowly saved from bankruptcy, the club finished fifth in Division 1 and qualified for UEFA Cup. But it was relegated three years later. Despite a second division title won in 1996, SM Caen fell back into the anonymity of the second division. Under the chairmanship of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
