Pays d'Aix Football Club, also known as Aix FC is a
French association football club based in the city of
Aix-en-Provence. The team was founded in 1941 as a merger of Football Club Aixois and Union Sportive Aixoise football clubs. Their best result was playing in
French Division 1
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in the
1967–68 season, where they finished bottom. Four years later they were further relegated to third level. They spent the following four decades playing in lower level amateur levels. In 2014, the club was renamed from AS Aix to Pays d'Aix FC to mark a rupture with the club's complicated past.
As of the 2019–20 season, Pays d'Aix currently play in Provence Départemental 3 in the tenth tier of the
French league system.
Recent Championship seasons
Managerial history
Notable players
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Joseph Alcazar
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Gunnar Andersson
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Jean Baratte
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Ivan Bek
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He was part of Yugoslavia's team at the 1928 Summer Olympics and at the 1930 FIFA World Cup.
Club career
Bek was born to a German fat ...
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Bruno Bini
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Rubén Bravo
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Caju
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Georges Carnus
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Career
Carnus was part of the France national team's squad ...
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Lucien Cossou
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René Exbrayat
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He played for Arles and Aix-en-Provence, playing for France amateur football team at the Mediterranean Games.
He coached Arles, Beaucaire, Avignon, Bas ...
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Raoul Giraudo
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Cyril Granon
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Granon captained the AC Ajaccio
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Henri Guérin
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Erik Kuld Jensen
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Gunnar Johansson
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Jean-Louis Leonetti
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Jean Luciano
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Yannick Makota
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Sébastien Maté
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Henri Michel
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Aimé Mignot
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Roland Mitoraj
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International career
Mitoraj played three matches for France from 1967 to 1968.
After football
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Éric Mura
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Mura was on the bench at the 1991 European Cup Final
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Rachid Natouri
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Kurt Nielsen
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Robert Péri
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Christian Peyron
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Jean Prouff
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Honours
As a player
Reims
* Division 1: 1949
As a coach
Standard de Liège
* Belgian League: 1963
Rennes
* Coupe de France
The Coupe ...
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Roger Rolhion
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Jean-Pierre Teisseire
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André Travetto
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Joseph Ujlaki
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He acquired French nationality by naturalizati ...
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Joël Wakanumuné
References
External links
History
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Aix-en-Provence
Sport in Bouches-du-Rhône
1941 establishments in France
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