Bourges 18

Bourges 18 is a French football club based in Bourges. In the summer of 2008, FC Bourges, which spent eleven seasons in Ligue 2, merged with Bourges-Asnières 18 football club and became Bourges 18, and currently plays in the Championnat de France Amateurs 2. The club's colours are red and blue.

History

• 1966 : Foyer Saint-François Bourges and Racing Club de Bourges were amalgamated to form FC Bourges.
• 1970-1994 : The club played intermittently in Ligue 2
• 1994-1998 : The club played in the French Division Three, Championnat National but went bankrupt in January 1998, and was henceforth known as FC Bourges 18
• 2005 : after another bankruptcy, the club changed its name to Bourges Football Olympique Club
• 2006 : The club is renamed once more and becomes Bourges Football
• 2008 : Bourges Football and Bourges Asnières 18 amalgamate to become Bourges 18.

Honours

• 1976: Champions of Division 3 in Groupe Centre Ouest
• 1996: Champions of the National 2
• 1967, 1999: Champions of the DH Centre :

Managers

1967-1968 Noël Gallo 1968-1970 Roger Meerseman 1970-1972 Robert Siatka 1972-1973 César Pancho Gonzales 1973-1974 Robert Siatka 1974-1975 Emile Daniel

1975-1976 Kerim Ibrahim 1976-1978 Pierre Barlaguet 1980-1982 Robert Valette 1982-1983 Robert Nouzaret 1983-1984 Marcel Leborgne 1984-1993 Alain Michel

1993-1994 Alain Michel/Bobby Brown 1994-1998 Bobby Brown 1998-2002 Jean Gomez/Pavle Vostanic 2002-2004 Pavle Vostanic 2004-2005 Pascal Dupuis 2005-2008 Laurent Di Bernardo 2008-2009 Stéphane Drici

External links

• History
• History (author: Roland Narboux)