Football Club Nevers 58, also known simply as Nevers, is an

association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is t ...

club based in the town of

Nevers Nevers ( , ; la, Noviodunum, later ''Nevirnum'' and ''Nebirnum'') is the prefecture of the Nièvre department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in central France. It was the principal city of the former province of Nivernais. It is ...

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. The club was founded in 1948 and their home stadium is the Stade des Senets, with a capacity of 1,500. As of the 2010–11 season, Nevers play in the Division d'Honneur de Bourgogne, the sixth tier of French football.

History

Nevers Football knew its heyday in the 1970s. Notably, the club played twice in

Ligue 2 Ligue 2 (, League 2), also known as Ligue 2 BKT due to sponsorship by Balkrishna Industries, is a French professional football league. The league serves as the second division of French football and is one of two divisions making up the Ligu ...

, during the 1973–74 season and then in the 1975–76 season. Nearly three decades later, under manager Daniel Bréard, Nevers won the Division d'Honneur de Bourgogne in 2009 and were promoted to the

Championnat de France amateur 2 The Championnat National 3, commonly referred to as simply National 3 and formerly known as Championnat de France Amateur 2, is a football league competition. The league serves as the fifth division of the French football league system behin ...

, the fifth tier of French football, for the 2009–10 season. Despite a reinforced squad, Nevers was relegated back to the DH Bourgogne for the 2010–11 season.

Honours

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Domestic

* Division d'Honneur de Bourgogne: 1 **

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References

External links

Nevers–Football.fr
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