Vendée Poiré sur Vie Football is a French

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club based in Le Poiré-sur-Vie (

Vendée Vendée (; br, Vande) is a department in the Pays de la Loire region in Western France, on the Atlantic coast. In 2019, it had a population of 685,442.

History

The club, founded in 1954, reached the third tier

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, but suffered administrative relegation in 2015 and again from the fifth-tier

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in 2018 both for financial reasons. The latter relegation placed it in Régional 2 at the seventh tier. In 2020 the club returned to the Championnat National 3, having secured back-to-back promotions. One of the club's players,

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, was called up to represent

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at the

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Current squad

References

Association football clubs established in 1954 1954 establishments in France Football clubs in Pays de la Loire Sport in Vendée {{France-footyclub-stub