Le Poiré-sur-Vie VF
Le Poiré-sur-Vie Vendée Football is a French football club from the 7,500-inhabitant community of Le Poiré-sur-Vie , which is located about ten kilometers northwest of La Roche-sur-Yon in the Vendée department in western France .
Le Poiré-sur-Vie VF was founded in 1954. The club colors are blue and white; the league team plays its home games at the Stade de l'Idonnière , which has a spectator capacity of around 2,900 seats.
history
The club emerged from the Société Sainte-Jeanne-d'Arc , an association of the Catholic sports movement, which was founded in 1921 . Football was only played in it from the late 1920s to the early 1950s. In 1954 it was re-established as Sainte Jeanne d'Arc Le Poiré Football , which two years later joined the Fédération Française de Football .
In 2003, the club's footballers rose from the Division d'Honneur to the fifth highest division (CFA 2) played nationwide . They caused a national sensation in the 2007/08 season, when the team, which was still playing fifth class at the time , reached the sixteenth finals of the national cup competition, in which they were then defeated 3-1 by Paris Saint-Germain . During this season, the club was also renamed Le Poiré-sur-Vie Vendée Football . In 2010 Le Poiré was promoted to fourth (CFA) and in 2011 to the semi-professional third division . The club voluntarily withdrew from this in the summer of 2015, although it had finished the 2014/15 season as twelfth in the table.
Well-known alumni
- Abdoulaye Barry , previously et al. a. First division player at Girondins Bordeaux
- Richmond Forson , during his time at the club, he participated in the 2006 World Cup with Togo
- Olivier Pacreu , previously a. a. Professional player at Stade Laval and Valenciennes FC