Hyères Football Club is a French association football

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playing in the city of

Hyères Hyères (), Provençal Occitan: ''Ieras'' in classical norm, or ''Iero'' in Mistralian norm) is a commune in the Var department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France. The old town lies from the sea clustered arou ...

, Var. The club was founded in 1912 and played the first ever season of professional football in France in 1932–1933 but were relegated. Currently the club plays at an amateur level, in

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, the fourth tier of French football.

History

Hyères Football Club was founded on 21 November 1911 with the separation of the football and cycling sections of Vélosport Hyerois. In September 1919 it became a member of the French Football Federation, formed earlier in the year. In 1932 president Dr Barthélemy Perruc led the club into the first season of professional football in France. They were relegated from the

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after just one year, and a year after that the club gave up their professional status. In 1941 the club reached the semi-final of the wartime Non-occupied zone of the

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, eliminating

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in the quarter-final. In 1950 the club were champions of the Championnat de France Amateur, which was the third tier of French football, and the highest level of amateur football, at the time. The club spent the next thirty years moving between this level and the regional level below. In 1978 the club won promotion to the newly created National Division 4, and two years later reached National Division 3 where they remained for seven seasons until relegation in 1988. They remained in National Division 4 until the FFF reorganised the leagues in 1993, when they placed in the new Championnat National 3, now the fifth tier. In 1998 they gained promotion from what was now Championnat de France Amateur 2 to Championnat de France Amateur, lasting at this level until 2003. In 2006 the club were promoted from the CFA2 as both champion of group D and overall champion, and in 2009 were promoted from the CFA as champions of group B. They were relegated from

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in the first season and since then have remained in CFA, now called

. On 2 February 2021, the club was bought by

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, after his attempt to buy

and

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failed. A day later

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became the clubs sporting director. Anelka announced his departure three months later, on 4 May 2021, with no first team game taking place during his tenure, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in France.

Current squad

Honours

* Championnat de France Amateurs : 2009 *

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: 1950, 2007 *Champion DH Sud-Est : 1949 *Champion DH Méditerranée : 1960, 1964 *Runner-up DH Méditerranée : 1973, 1976

Managerial history

References

External links

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Blog about the team

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