Football Club Borgo is a French

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

club based in

Borgo, Haute-Corse Borgo (; ; co, U Borgu) is a commune in the Haute-Corse department of France on the island of Corsica. The Bastia-Poretta Airport is located in Borgo. It was the site of the 1768 Battle of Borgo during the French Conquest of Corsica when a Fr ...

on the island of

Corsica Corsica ( , Upper , Southern ; it, Corsica; ; french: Corse ; lij, Còrsega; sc, Còssiga) is an island in the Mediterranean Sea and one of the 18 regions of France. It is the fourth-largest island in the Mediterranean and lies southeast of ...

. The club was founded in July 2017 by the merger of

CA Bastia Cercle Athlétique Bastiais or CA Bastia was a French football club from Bastia, Corsica. The team's highest point was playing in Ligue 2, the second tier of the French football league system, in 2013–14. Their historic home stadium was the ...

and

Borgo FC Borgo Football Club was a French football club based in Borgo on the island of Corsica. The club was founded in 1918 and in 2017 merged with CA Bastia to form FC Bastia-Borgo, renamed FC Borgo in 2022. The club last played in the Championn ...

. As of the 2022–23 season, it competes in the

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History

Upon its creation in 2017, the team began playing in the Championnat National 2, the fourth tier of the

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. In the 2018–19 season, the team won promotion as runner-up in its group, one point behind

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' reserve team who were ineligible to rise any higher. The team finished in the final relegation place of the

2021–22 Championnat National The 2021–22 Championnat National season is the 29th season since the establishment of the Championnat National, and the 23rd in its current format, which serves as the third division of the French football league system. Team changes Team cha ...

season, but were reprieved from relegation due to the

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decision to relegate FC Sète 34. On July 23, 2022, FC Bastia-Borgo changed name to FC Borgo for 2022–23 season.

Crest

Image:FC Bastia-Borgo logo.png,

Current squad

References

External links

FC Bastia-Borgo Official Facebook site
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