Union Sportive Cognaçaise is a French

rugby union Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In it ...

club, based in

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in the Charente département (

Nouvelle-Aquitaine Nouvelle-Aquitaine (; oc, Nòva Aquitània or ; eu, Akitania Berria; Poitevin-Saintongeais: ''Novéle-Aguiéne'') is the largest administrative region in France, spanning the west and southwest of the mainland. The region was created by ...

region). They play at the Parc des Sports (capacity 2,800), and wear white and red. They were founded on 2 December 1898 and regularly competed in the first division in the 1950s and 1960s. They played in the 1954 French championship final, going down narrowly to

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3-5. They are currently competing in the fifth level of the French league system, Fédérale 3.

Club honours

* French premiership : runner-up 1954 * Challenge Yves-du-Manoir (French cup) 1965 * Second division champions 1995

Famous players

Jacques Fouroux Jacques Fouroux (24 July 1947 – 17 December 2005) was a French rugby union player and coach. He captained France when they won the Grand Slam in 1977, and was the manager when the side repeated the feat in 1981 and 1987. Player Fouroux, who p ...

* Gérald Merceron * David Esnault

External links

Official site (work in progress)
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Union Sportive Cognacaise 1899 establishments in France