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Football Club Villefranche Beaujolais or simply Villefranche is a French association football club founded in 1927. They are based in Villefranche-sur-Saône, Rhône-Alpes and play at the Stade Armand Chouffet in town. The team played one season in the second tier of French football during the 1980s. Since the 2018–19 season they play in the Championnat National, the third tier in the French football league system.

Villefranche

Full name	Football Club Villefranche Beaujolais
Nickname(s)	Les Tigres Caladois (The Caladois Tigers)[1]
Short name	FCVB
Founded	1927; 95 years ago (1927)
Ground	Stade Armand Chouffet
Capacity	3,500
Chairman	Philippe Terrier
Manager	Hervé Della Maggiore
League	Championnat National
2021–22	Championnat National, 3rd of 18
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours

History

Football Club Villefranche-Beaujolais was formed in 1927, from the football section of multi-sports club Cercle Sportif de Villefranche. The Beaujolais suffix of the name had been applied by 1985, the club being previously known as Football Club Villefranche.[2]

The club debuted in the national league structure in 1953 when champions of the Lyonnais region of Division d'Honneur they promoted to Division Nationale, the highest tier of amateur football. They maintained this level for five seasons, then relegated in 1958. Promotion to the Division Nationale in 1966 would follow when they were Lyonnaise regional champions. They relegated in 1969.[2]

In 1970 the club gained access to the Division Nationale for a third time. By successfully remaining in the division, the club became part of the third tier of French football when the FFF reorganised the leagues at the end of the 1970–71 season, taking part in the first edition of Division 3 in 1971. They remained that level until relegated to the regional league in 1976.[2]

FC Villefranche were founding members in 1978 when the FFF introduced a fourth division to the national league, having finished 6th in the regional Division d'Honneur the previous season. They maintained this level for the season with an 11th place finish. A third place season finish in 1979–80, promoted them to Division 3. In 1983 they were promoted to Division 2 although finishing in third place when the two higher placed teams became ineligible for promotion.[2]

The club stayed just one season in Division 2, finishing bottom of Group A and being relegated back to Division 3. They remained at that level until finishing bottom of their group in 1988, and in 1989 suffered a second successive relegation back to the regional league.[2]

In 1993 the FFF introduced a fifth tier, and the club secured a place in the new National 3 division as champions of the Division Honneur (now the Rhône-Alpes region, after internal restructuring of the French regional leagues). After a fourth place finish in their group in 1994 they secured promotion in 1995 by finishing second in their group. The club completed three seasons of mid-table finishes before being relegated in 2000 and 2001.[2]

As champions of the Division d'Honneur in 2004, they promoted to CFA2. In 2008, they won their group and were promoted to the fourth tier, CFA.[2] The remained at this level until successfully gaining promotion to Championnat National as winners of their group in the 2017–18 season.^{[citation needed]}

Crest

Current squad

As of 24 August 2022.[3][4]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  FRA Jean-Christophe Bouet 3 DF  FRA Ousmane Badji 5 MF  FRA Rémi Bonenfant 6 MF  SEN Clidis Da Silva 7 MF  FRA Naïm Dhib 8 MF  FRA Timothée Taufflieb 9 FW  SEN Santy Ngom 10 MF  FRA Maxime Blanc 11 MF  FRA Kamil Manseri 12 FW  FRA Claudy M'Buyi 15 MF  FRA Jimmy Nirlo 16 GK  FRA Lucas Caruso

No. Pos. Nation Player 17 FW  FRA Josselin Gromat 18 MF  FRA Erwan Norde 19 FW  FRA Idrissa Ba 20 MF  FRA Rémi Sergio 22 DF  FRA Laurent Dos Santos 23 DF  FRA Kévin Renaut 24 DF  GAB Sidney Obissa (on loan from Ajaccio) 26 FW  FRA Mehdy Guezoui 28 DF  FRA Quentin Martin 29 DF  FRA Nicolas Flégeau 30 GK  FRA Nathan Vermorel

References

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- [en] FC Villefranche Beaujolais

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[es] Football Club Villefranche Beaujolais

El Football Club Villefranche-Beaujolais es un equipo de fútbol de Francia que juega en la Championnat National, la tercera liga de fútbol más importante del país.

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