Association football cabaret based in Pau, Béarn, France

football club
Pau Football Club ( french : [ po futbol klœb ], Bearnese [ paw futˈbɔl klub ] ), normally referred to as merely Pau, is a french professional association football clubhouse based in Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, capital of Béarn. They compete in Ligue 2, the second tier of french football.

Pau FC were founded in 1920 as Bleuets de Notre-Dame de Pau, although their official establish date is in 1959 which is when Football-Club de Pau were first formed. Bleuets de Notre-Dame joined the highest amateur league in France in 1958 after success in the french South-West League ( Ligue du Sud-Ouest ). The religious autorities, argued the football section had outgrown the local club and fiscal support was withdrawn. As a consequence, José Bidegain a local businessman, created the Football-Club de Pau. In the early years after the club ‘s formation in its original home of Pau, they played their home games at many different grounds, until last the club settled into its current placement at the Nouste Camp. The baseball club ‘s achievements include winning the Championnat National in 2020, doubly winning the National 2 title in 1998 & 2016 and winning the french South-West League in 1958 and 1968. Pau FC have long-standing rivalries with several early clubs in Southern France, in the Adour river basin. The most noteworthy of these are Bayonne, Mont-de-Marsan & Tarbes .

history [edit ]

Since the Belle Époque, football had to play second tamper to basketball and specially rugby union in Pau. Nowadays, the popularity of both Pau ‘s basketball and rugby union clubs – Section Paloise and Élan Béarnais, respectively – remains greater than that of Pau FC. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] historically and culturally, rugby was credibly closer to the values of the topographic point ( Gascony ), replacing the Béarnese and Basque rural sports in the hearts of the people of Béarn and Gascony. [ 3 ]

Pau, ville Anglaise [edit ]

In cattiness of the hard English and British community in Pau during the Belle Époque, football was rather to take deem in Béarn, contrary to what happened in Northern France. however, at the goal of the nineteenth hundred and after the Battle of the Pyrenees, affluent Europeans, and specially the English, flocked to Pau and the Basque seashore in large numbers. These affluent tourists made Pau one of the leading winter destinations for thermal tourism, to take advantage of the remedy virtues of the Béarn climate and the Pyrenean waters. equally early as 1826, the English winter in Pau had created the English Club of Pau, an association of notables discussing the current events in the city, while practising golf and sawhorse ride. This Cercle Anglais however exists nowadays in its premises at the Villa Lawrence. Thus, despite the very solid british and english historical presence in Pau, particularly during the Belle Époque, since the troops of General Wellington remained posted in Pau after his get the better of at the Battle of Orthez ( 1814 ), football arrived relatively late compared to other french regions. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] At that time, many rich people American and english people flocked to Pau to enjoy the healing virtues of the Pau climate and Pyrenean waters, attracted by Dr. Alexander Taylor and his try on medicate, “ On the Curative Influence of the Climate of Pau, and the Mineral Waters of the Pyrenees On Diseases ” which was enormously successful in England at the time. [ 6 ] [ 3 ] James Gordon Benett was a regular visitor to the Boulevard des Pyrénées. [ 7 ] These expatriates, including Henry Russell ‘s father, launched the fashion of Pyreneism and besides regularly attended Billère ‘s golf course. therefore, in November 1856, Major Pontifex, Colonels Anstruther and Hutchinson, Archdeacon Sapte and Lord Hamilton formally founded in Pau the beginning continental golf path in France and Europe, outside of the british Isles, the Pau Golf Club. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Patrice O’Quin ( FR ), of irish descent became mayor of Pau in 1860. In the region in the nineteenth century, a Scotsman called J. J. Shearer contributed to the constitution of rugby in Bordeaux and Welshman Owen Roe to rowing and rugby in Bayonne. [ 10 ] At the beginning of the twentieth century, however, ball teams appeared in Béarn and french Basque Country under the condescension of the parishes of the districts of towns and villages. A first backing was organized by the Pyrenean Union, local body of the Gymnastics and Sports Federation of the patronages of France ( FGSPF ). Ten patronages participate in this master edition : seven located around Bayonne and three patronages of the region of Pau : Alerte de Ségure ( patronage of the Lycée which would late be renamed Louis-Barthou Pau ), FA Bourbaki of Pau and Avenir Salisien. [ 11 ] football has formally been practiced in Pau since 1902 and the beginning temper of Football at the JAB Pau. This club, from the Saint Martin condescension, has trained many professional players like Jean-Michel Larqué, Jean-François Larios or Dominique Vésir. Like many other football clubs in South West France and Béarn, this club is in the first place a catholic trade. In 1904 took position the first season of the Football Association Bourbak one, whose colors are grey and purple. This trade was founded in 1888 by the abbot Lafourcade, of the parish Saint-Jacques de Pau. The patronize is named after Charles-Denis Bourbaki, French general born in Pau in 1816 and known to have commanded the Armée de l’Est during the War of 1870. [ 12 ]

Rugby ‘s permanent impact in the twentieth century [edit ]

Tom Potter à Pau en 1912. Tom Potter à Pau en 1912. The adoption of football in Béarn has been quite late in comparison with the perch of France. however, rugby in Pau arrived much earlier, thanks to the numerous british expatriates that the city welcomed during Belle Époque. [ 13 ] indeed, along with Bordeaux, Pau is the second city outside Paris to welcome rugby. [ 14 ] deoxyadenosine monophosphate early on as 1890, the Coquelicots de Pau played friendly matches against the Montagnards of Bayonne and the Pyrenean of Tarbes. The foremost rugby cabaret was the Stade Palois, founded in 1899. meanwhile, the very oldest golf course in Europe had been established in 1856 in Pau. From around 1830 to the World War I, many english expatriates were headed for the Bearnese capital, and the city became “la ville Anglaise”. [ 15 ] The linguistic imperialism imposed on the Bearnese people by the french Third Republic, reflected in the policy of wedge francization, provoked a drift in defense of the Béarnese linguistic process ( see Linguicide and Vergonha ) in this former independent department of state, historically a precursor of modern democracy. [ 16 ]

recent history [edit ]

On 16 January 2020, Pau eliminated Ligue 1 side Bordeaux from the Coupe de France following a 3–2 victory. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] Les Capbourruts went on to face national champions Paris Saint-Germain in the round of 16 of the cup, losing 2–0. Pau registered their highest attendance ever that day, with 16,707 persons witnessing the parisian victory. [ 19 ] When the 2019–20 Championnat National season was prematurely ended due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Pau were top of the table, and were declared promoted to Ligue 2 by the FFF executive committee. [ 20 ] In the 2020–21 season, the cabaret placed fourteenth in Ligue 2. [ 21 ]

1920 : foundation garment of Bleuets Notre-Dame de Pau. [ citation needed ] 1923 : First Football season at Bleuets Notre-Dame de Pau. [ citation needed ] 1951 : french Champion – youth team [ citation needed ] 1956 : Reached the lead level of the french South-West Regional football league. [ citation needed ] 1958 : champion of the french South-West Regional football league. promotion to the third base grade of french football. [ citation needed ] 1959 : split of Football Club de Pau and Bleuets de Notre-Dame de Pau. [ citation needed ] 1995 : The club went to administration, reformed, changed their name to Pau football Club and were relegated to the fourthly tier of french football. [ citation needed ] 1998 : Pau football Club is champion of the Group C of the Championnat de France Amateur groupe C and are promoted to the Championnat National. The golf club besides reached the round of 16 of the Coupe de France, which they lost 2–0 to Paris Saint-Germain. 2008 : relegation to Championnat de France Amateur. [ citation needed ] 2016 : promotion to the Championnat National. [ citation needed ] 2020 : promotion to Ligue 2. [ citation needed ]

stream squad [edit ]

As of 31 August 2021.[22][23]

note : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .

References [edit ]

bibliography [edit ]

  • Pau Pyrenees Region[24]
  • Baily’s Magazine of Sports & Pastimes, Volume 85[25]
  • Selling the Yellow Jersey: The Tour de France in the Global [26]
  • Dine, Philip (1 July 2001). French Rugby Football: A Cultural History. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84788-032-1[27]
  • Praviel, Armand (1927). Biarritz, Pau and the Basque Country. Medici society.[28]
  • Lowe, Benjamin; Kanin, David B.; Strenk, Andrew (1978). Sport and International Relations. Stipes Publishing Company. ISBN 978-0-87563-162-2.[29]

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