US Luzenac

Luzenac Ariège Pyrénées, short Luzenac AP ( sportive to 2012 Union de Luzenac ), is the name of a French football club from the 600 -strong community Luzenac, located in the Pyrenees, 10 km from Ax- les -Thermes in the Ariège department. Luzenac is currently in the top four leagues of France, the club from the municipality with the smallest population.

Club presidents are Jérôme Ducros and Henri Lacaze, the first team is coached by Christophe Pélissier. (As of December 2013)

History

It was founded in 1936 under the name Union Sportive de Luzenac of Talcs; the suffix " Talcs " refers to the extraction and processing of talc in the region and to this day close personal connections between the club and the talc factory in Luzenac. In 1992, the club the name of U.S. Luzenac. The club colors are blue and red; The club crest is a stag in front of a high mountain silhouette out its home games wearing the Ligaelf out in 1971 built Stade Paul- Fédou, which has a capacity of 1,200 seats. Virtually all members of the squad in the season 2009/10 lived and trained in an hour's drive distant Toulouse; they came only to home games after Luzenac. The fact that the " mountain village club " meanwhile holds in the third division for the fourth year, in particular the skill of trainer Christophe Pélissier - active in Luzenac since 2006 - attributed with a mini annual budget of 2 million euros repeatedly talents at unterklassigen clubs to discover or professional reserve teams and to bring in the Pyrenees. In addition, Pélissier can count on the increasing time and financial support of the former international goalkeeper Fabien Barthez, who himself comes from the department the Ariège.

2012 took the club to its present name; its home games he wears since the end of 2012 well 30 kilometers down the valley from the 3,000 -seat Stade du Courbet of Foix.

League membership

Professional status, the club has never possessed, nor class (Division 1 since 2002 in Ligue 1 renamed) played. Since 2009 he plays in the third division, in which it was previously only represented in the 1980/81 season.

Achievements

  • French Champion: None so far
  • French Cup Winners: None so far

Well-known former players

  • Josep Ayala, Andorran national team
  • Raphael Caceres
  • Ande Dona Ndoh
  • Cédric Fauré
  • Thomas Guerbert
  • Antoni Sivera, Andorran national team
  • Zéphirin Zoko, Ivorian national team
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