Étoile Fréjus-Saint-Raphaël
The Étoile Football Club Fréjus-Saint-Raphaël (short Étoile FC ) is a French football club from the neighboring towns of Fréjus and Saint-Raphaël . It was created in the summer of 2009 through the merger of the Étoile Sportive Fréjusienne with Stade Raphaëlois . The league team plays at the Stade Eugène-Pourcin , which has a capacity of 2,500 seats. Co-presidents are Alexandre Barbero and Marcel Sabbah, trainer Charly Paquille. (As of March 2017)
history
Founded in 1938 as Étoile Sportive de Fréjus Plage , the ESFP merged in 1941 or 1942 with the football department of the Association Sportive de Fréjus - which emerged from the Sporting Club Fréjusienne founded in 1923 - and was henceforth called ÉS Fréjus. The club colors were blue and white. The footballers used the Stade municipal de Fréjus Plage , built in 1947 , which was renamed Stade Eugène-Pourcin after the dam of Malpasset in 1959 after one of the flood victims . Its 650-seat grandstand was then built with financial support (donation) from Real Madrid . The Stade Raphaëlois, founded in 1905, had its most successful period before the First World War , when it even won the national championship of the Union des sociétés françaises de sports athlétiques in 1912 , and in the 1920s, in which SR twice (1927 and 1929) made it to the semi-finals the Coupe de France advanced.
League affiliation and achievements
Fréjus has never had professional status and has therefore never played first class (Division 1, renamed Ligue 1 since 2002 ). The greatest success was reaching the quarter-finals of the French Cup 2016/17 . Since 2010, the fusion club has been moving between the third and fourth leagues .