US Quevilly

Foundation, first cup final and decline

The club was founded as US Quevilly in 1902 by Amable Lozai and Jules Manneville, two former members of a hiking club whose president had refused to purchase a football. In two years' time, the team had 104 players and Lozai bought its first pitch for half a French franc. In 1905, they began playing against other teams in Normandy such as Le Havre AC and SM Caen, and adopted yellow and black as their colours. The pitch was taken in 1910 to build a quarry but a local man named Albert Lebas gave the club part of his land for the Stade Porte-de-Diane, which opened in 1912. Several Quevilly players were killed in World War I. In 1919, after the end of the war, Quevilly joined the nascent French Football Federation (FFF) and began playing in its Normandy League. In the early 1920s, it signed six British players. In the 1926–27 Coupe de France, the team beat Amiens, neighbours Rouen, Suisse Paris and Stade Raphaëlois to make the final where they lost 3–0 to Marseille at the Stade Olympique in Colombes. It was the first such final to be attended by a President of France, namely Gaston Doumergue. The team became dominant in Normandy in the 1930s as Le Havre and Rouen turned professional and played in national leagues. In October 1944, shortly after the Normandy landings, Quevilly played a match against the British Royal Marines for the benefit of player Henri Mallet who had lost his arm in the conflict. Quevilly won France's amateur…

National

Finalist of Coupe de France in 1927, 2012 Semi-finalist of Coupe de France: 1968, 2010 Champion de France Amateur: 1954, 1955, 1958, 1967 Champion du Groupe Ouest: 1954, 1955, 1956, 1959, 1966, 1967 Champion du Groupe Nord: 1958, 1963, 1964, 1969 Champion du Groupe A: 2011 Champion de France Amateur Runner-up: 1959, 1963 Division 3 Finalist: 1973 Champion du Groupe Ouest: 1973 Youth Coupe Gambardella Champion: 1967 Runner-up: 1960