Blagnac Football Club is a French

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club founded in 1963. They are based in

Blagnac Blagnac (; oc, Blanhac) is a commune in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern France. The city hosts the aviation museum Aeroscopia. It is the third-largest suburb of the city of Toulouse, although governed by a separate council, and is ...

Toulouse Toulouse ( , ; oc, Tolosa ) is the prefecture of the French department of Haute-Garonne and of the larger region of Occitania. The city is on the banks of the River Garonne, from the Mediterranean Sea, from the Atlantic Ocean and from Par ...

and are currently playing in the sixth tier in the

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. They play at the Stade Municipal des Ramiers.

History

Blagnac Football Club was founded relatively late in 1962 after a Frenchman by the name of Louis Héraud discovered that the town of Blagnac had no football club.LA CREATION DU " FOOTBALL CLUB BLAGNACAIS"
Héraud, along with his supporters, proceeded to go door-to-door collecting up to 20

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from local Blagnac townspeople in order to begin the process of creating the club. However, it wasn't until a man commonly called Mr. Béranger, a manager of a restaurant in the local airport agreed to fund the club. The club was officially formed on 4 March 1962 as ''Football Club Blagnacais''. Béranger was given the role of

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, while Héraud was given dual-roles as

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and

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. The club's first manager was André Augé. In the club's early years of existence, they primarily played with players from the local and regional level of

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, as well as players well past their prime that came from

Toulouse FC Toulouse Football Club is French professional football club based in Toulouse. The club was founded in 1970 and currently plays in Ligue 1, the premier division of French football. Toulouse plays its home matches at the Stadium de Toulouse lo ...

Honours

*Vice-champion de France Division 4: 1990 *Champion DH Midi-Pyrénées: 1988 *Coupe de Midi-Pyrénées: 1981

Current squad

Statistics and records

Statistics

* Associates: 4,000 * Most goals scored in one match home: Blagnac 7 – Athletic Club Avignonnais 0 (2009–10).

Records

* In the 2000–2001 and 2001–2002 seasons, finished with an accumulative league unbeaten run after 62 games. * Jean-Germain de la Roche holds the record for goals in the history of Blagnac (304 goals). * Jean-Germain de la Roche is the top scorer in the history of Blagnac's Cup Runs (41 goals).

References

External links

Official Site
{{Championnat National 3 Group Occitanie Association football clubs established in 1962 Sport in Haute-Garonne Football clubs in Occitania (administrative region) 1962 establishments in France