Cergy Pontoise Football Club is a

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club based in

Cergy-Pontoise Cergy-Pontoise () is a new town and an agglomeration community in France, in the Val-d'Oise and Yvelines departments, northwest of Paris on the river Oise. It owes its name to two of the communes that it covers, Cergy and Pontoise. Its population ...

, France. Founded in 2005, the club competes in the

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, the sixth tier of French football, as of the 2021–22 season. The club's colours are blue and white.

History

In 1905, Union Sportive Pontoisienne became the seventh club registered in the

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. In 1936, the club gained professional status, participating in the 1936–37 Division 3, a league that was abolished at the end of the campaign. The club subsequently returned to its amateur status. In 1947, a merger with Olympique de Saint-Denis created Olympique de Pontoise. The club again merged in 1984, this time with ASAN Football, to form Olympique de Cergy-Pontoise. In 2005, Cergy Pontoise Football Club was formed following a merger of Olympique de Cergy-Pontoise and Union Sportive Cergy Clos. Cergy Pontoise reached the seventh round of the

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for the first time in the club's history in the 2021–22 edition of the competition.

Notable former players

* Sékou Baradji * Yarouba Cissako * Adon Gomis * Lary Mehanna * Kévin Monzialo *

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* Nsana Simon

References

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