Blagnac Football Club is a French

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club founded in 1963. They are based in

Blagnac Blagnac (; ) is a Communes of France, commune of the greater Toulouse area in the Haute-Garonne Departments of France, department in southwestern France. The city hosts the aviation museum Aeroscopia. It is the third-largest suburb of the city o ...

Toulouse Toulouse (, ; ; ) is a city in southern France, the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Haute-Garonne department and of the Occitania (administrative region), Occitania region. The city is on the banks of the Garonne, River Garonne, from ...

and are currently playing in

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, the fifth tier in the

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. They play at the Complexe Andromède since 2006.

History

Blagnac Football Club was founded relatively late in 1962 after a Frenchman by the name of Louis Héraud discovered that the town of Blagnac had no football club.LA CREATION DU " FOOTBALL CLUB BLAGNACAIS"
Héraud, along with his supporters, proceeded to go door-to-door collecting up to 20

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from local Blagnac townspeople in order to begin the process of creating the club. However, it wasn't until a man commonly called Mr. Béranger, a manager of a restaurant in the local airport agreed to fund the club. The club was officially formed on 4 March 1962 as ''Football Club Blagnacais''. Béranger was given the role of

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, while Héraud was given dual-roles as

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and

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. The club's first manager was André Augé. In the club's early years of existence, they primarily played with players from the local and regional level of

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, as well as players well past their prime that came from

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Honours

*Vice-champion de France Division 4: 1990 *Champion DH Midi-Pyrénées: 1988 *Coupe de Midi-Pyrénées: 1981

Current squad

Statistics and records

Statistics

* Associates: 4,000 * Most goals scored in one match home: Blagnac 7 – Athletic Club Avignonnais 0 (2009–10).

Records

* In the 2000–2001 and 2001–2002 seasons, finished with an accumulative league unbeaten run after 62 games. * Jean-Germain de la Roche holds the record for goals in the history of Blagnac (304 goals). * Jean-Germain de la Roche is the top scorer in the history of Blagnac's Cup Runs (41 goals).

References

External links

Official Site
{{Championnat National 3 Group B Association football clubs established in 1962 Sport in Haute-Garonne Football clubs in Occitania (administrative region) 1962 establishments in France