Bourges 18

Bourges 18

Full name	Bourges 18
Nickname(s)	Dix-Huit
Founded	1966 (1966)
Ground	Stade Jacques Rimbault, Bourges
Capacity	8,000
Chairman	Olivier Rigolet
Manager	Sébastien Dubroca
League	CFA 2 Group B
2015–16	CFA 2 Group B, 7th
Home colours Away colours

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 Amateur 2, the fifth level of French football. 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, 2009: Champions of the DH Centre :

Managers

Incomplete list

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)
• Official website Template:Fr icon