Football Club Sens is a French football club based in

Sens Sens () is a Communes of France, commune in the Yonne Departments of France, department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in north-central France, 120 km southeast from Paris. Sens is a Subprefectures in France, sub-prefecture and the second la ...

Yonne Yonne (, in Burgundian: ''Ghienne'') is a department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in France. It is named after the river Yonne, which flows through it, in the country's north-central part. One of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté's eight con ...

. The club currently plays in

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, the sixth tier of the

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History

It was founded in 1987 as a result of a merger between two teams, Stade de Sens and L'Alliance Sens. After starting at the regional level, in Division d'Honneur de Bourgogne, the club won its first title in 1992 and was promoted to the national level,

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(then called National 3). The club won the league title in 1995 and was promoted to National 2 but went down again after just one season. Two years later, the club was relegated to DH Bourgogne where it spent five seasons before being promoted back to the

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in 2003. After seven seasons of stability at this level, the club was relegated again, in 2011 to DH Bourgogne. After four seasons, FC Sens won its second title in 2015 and was promoted to the

for the 2015–16 season. In 2001, whilst the club was playing in DH Burgogne and being managed by Hassan Harmatallah, the club qualified for the Last 16 of the

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, becoming the "'' Petit Poucet''" of the event. The club was defeated 1–3 at the

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club

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. Until June 2007, the manager was former international goalkeeper

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. He was replaced by Jean-Louis Granié, who, prior, was in change of the reserve team.

Former presidents

* 1987–1990: Maurice Raymond * 1990–1991: Jean-Maurice Lemaître * 1992–1998: Jean-René Thiault * 1998–1999: Jean-Michel Jacquinot * 1999–2013: Maurice Raymond * 2013—present: Dominique Paquais

Former managers

*1987–88: Henri Atamaniuk *1988–90: Joël Guézet *1990–93: Serge Delamorre *1993–98: Jean-François Pien *1998–99: Zoran Zivkovic *1999–2001: Hassan Armatallah *2001 – November 2004: Joel Guézet *November 2004 – 2005: Williams Vimbouly – Mohamed Elfares – Jean-Michel Edouard *2005–2007:

*Since 2007: Jean-Louis Granié

Notable players

Bacary Sagna Bacary Sagna (born 14 February 1983) is a French former professional footballer who played as a right-back. Sagna's former manager at Arsenal, Arsène Wenger, once described him as the best right-back in the Premier League. In addition to him r ...

(youth)

References

External links

Official site
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