Émulation Sportive du Grau-du-Roi is a

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club located in

Le Grau-du-Roi Le Grau-du-Roi (; oc, Lo Grau dau Rei) is a commune in the Gard department in southern France. It is the only commune in Gard to have a frontage on the Mediterranean. To the west is the Herault department and La Grande-Motte village, and to th ...

, France. They play in the

Régional 1 The Régional 1 (previously known as ''Division d'Honneur'') is the common generic name for the highest level association football, football league competitions run by each of the 13 French football league system#Regional Leagues, Regional Lea ...

, the sixth tier of French football. The club's colours are yellow and blue.

History

ES Grau-du-Roi was founded in 1935. The highest tier the club has played in is the Division 4, which they reached in the 1992–93 season. However, after 1993, the Division 4 became the

National 3 National 3 may refer to: *Curriculum for Excellence, Scottish education *Championnat National 3 The Championnat National 3, commonly referred to as simply National 3 and formerly known as Championnat de France Amateur 2, is a football league c ...

. Since 1993, the club has played in two separate seasons of the National 3. One of those was the 1996–97 season, as they had won the Division d'Honneur of Languedoc-Roussillon in the season prior. The furthest round the club has reached in the Coupe de France is the round of 64, which they did in the 1997–98 season, losing to Istres on penalties. In 2017, ES Grau-du-Roi was in a bad financial situation. The former president of the club

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gave the club eleven match-worn and signed shirts from professional footballers (such as Neymar,

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, and Griezmann) to be sold in order to raise money for saving the club. From 2018 to 2023, the club gained successive promotions to go from the tenth tier, the Départemental 2, to the sixth tier, the

Honours

Notable former players

Jérôme Palatsi Jérôme Palatsi (born 10 December 1969) is a French former footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Having had no impact as a professional in his country of birth, he spent the bulk of his senior career in Portugal, appearing in 180 Primeira Liga ...

References

External links

Club website

ES Grau-du-Roi
at WorldFootball.net {{DEFAULTSORT:Le Grau du Roi ES Grau-du-Roi Association football clubs established in 1935 1935 establishments in France Sport in Gard Football clubs in Occitania (administrative region)