Union Sportive Roye-Noyon Cœur de Picardie is a French

association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

club founded in 2010 as a result of a merger between Union Sportive Royenne (founded in 1928) and Sporting Club Noyon (founded in 1927). It is based in Roye, Somme, France and plays in Régional 1 Hauts-de-France, the sixth tier in the

French football league system The French football league system is a series of interconnected leagues for club football in France and Monaco, and includes one Spanish side. At the top two levels of the system is the Ligue de Football Professionnel, which consists of two pro ...

. They play at the in Roye.

History

US Roye-Noyon was formed on 21 June 2010 as a result of a merger between Union Sportive Royenne and Sporting Club Noyon, who were both in financial difficulty. The former club of US Royenne club participated in the

Championnat National The Championnat de France National ( en, French National Championship), commonly referred to as simply National or Division 3, serves as the third division of the French football league system behind Ligue 1 and Ligue 2. Contested by 18 clubs, t ...

during the 2004–05 season. The two towns of Roye and

Noyon Noyon (; pcd, Noéyon; la, Noviomagus Veromanduorum, Noviomagus of the Veromandui, then ) is a Communes of France, commune in the Oise Departments of France, department, northern France. Geography Noyon lies on the river Oise (river), Oise, a ...

are over 20 kilometers (12 miles) apart, and are not in the same

department Department may refer to: * Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility Government and military *Department (administrative division), a geographical and administrative division within a country, ...

. Roye is in the Somme while Noyon is in the

Oise Oise ( ; ; pcd, Oése) is a department in the north of France. It is named after the river Oise. Inhabitants of the department are called ''Oisiens'' () or ''Isariens'', after the Latin name for the river, Isara. It had a population of 829,419 ...

department. US Roye-Noyon is based in Roye, but was initially affiliated to the Oise district of the Picardie league until the 2020–21 season. In the 2021–22 season, the club joined the Somme district of the Picardie league.

Season-by-Season

Note: statistics prior to the 2010–11 season belong to the defunct football club US Royenne.

References

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* Football clubs in France 2010 establishments in France Association football clubs established in 2010 Sport in Somme (department) Football clubs in Hauts-de-France Sport in Oise {{France-footyclub-stub