Chaumont FC
| Chaumont FC | |||
|
|||
| Basic data | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Surname | Chaumont Football Club | ||
| Seat | Chaumont | ||
| founding | 1957 | ||
| Colours | Red White | ||
| Board |
 Stéphane Mazzolini
|
||
| First soccer team | |||
| Venue | Stade Georges Dodin | ||
| Places | 5,000 | ||
| league | Championnat de France Amateur II | ||
|
|||
The FC Chaumont is a French football club from Chaumont in the Haute-Marne . He is the successor to the EAC Chaumont , often abbreviated as ECAC , who played for several years in the second highest division in France.
history
The association was created in 1957 under the name Entente Chaumont Athlétic des Cheminots from the merger of the Entente Chaumontaise Cheminots Gazélec - an association of the two state railway and energy supply companies - and the Chaumont Athlétic Club . The club quickly rose to the third-rate Championnat de France Amateur and then held for several years in the top French amateur division. In 1966 the club was accepted into Division 2 and therefore took on professional status. In the first year bottom of the table, the team remained in the league despite the inclusion of other clubs from the amateur area. The club then placed in the middle of the table and drew nationwide attention as the last sixteen in the Coupe de France . In 1969, however, the club was canceled due to a lack of a license from the second division. Due to an increase in the second division to three seasons of 16 teams each, the renewed stay in the amateur camp lasted only one season. As a promoted team, the club only narrowly missed the march through to Division 1 , and as runner-up behind Lille Olympique , the best defense in the league with 19 goals conceded was two points short of promotion. In the following years, the team sat down in the second division until they were relegated in 1980 together with Amicale Lucé . After five years in Division 3 , they rose again to Division 2 in 1985 and, in spite of the direct relegation, repeated the club's greatest success by reaching the second round in the state cup. In 1989 the team returned again to the second division; in October 1991 the club was liquidated due to financial difficulties.
For the 1991/92 season, the successor club FC Chaumont took up the game in the Division d'Honneur . In this division, which is now only the sixth highest, the team played with a two-year break (2008 to 2010 in the next highest CFA 2) and will also compete there in the 2013/14 season.