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| Full name | Union sportive de Quevilly Rouen Métropole | ||
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| Nicknames | Les rouges et jaunes (The red and yellows) | ||
| Short name | USQRM, QRM | ||
| Founded | 1902; 123 years ago (1902) | ||
| Ground | Stade Robert Diochon | ||
| Capacity | 8,372[1] | ||
| Chairman | Michel Mallet | ||
| Manager | David Carré | ||
| League | Championnat National | ||
| 2024–25 | Championnat National, 11th of 17 | ||
| Website | www | ||
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Union sportive de Quevilly Rouen Métropole (French pronunciation:[ynjɔ̃spɔʁtivdəkəvijiʁwɑ̃metʁɔpɔl]), known asUS Quevilly-Rouen,US Quevilly,QRM;French pronunciation:[ky.ɛʁ‿ɛm],Quevilly-Rouen, or simplyQuevilly, is afootball club based inLe Petit-Quevilly in theMétropole Rouen Normandie, France. The club plays in the third-tierChampionnat National and hosts its home matches at theStade Robert Diochon, which has a capacity of 8,372.[2]
Founded in 1902, the team reached theCoupe de France final in1927 and its performances in cup and amateur competitions saw it invited toDivision 2 in 1970. It was relegated two years later for not being able to afford lighting, being dissolved and re-entering in the tenth tier in 1978. The team reached the Coupe de France semi-final in 2010 and the final in2012,[3] and returned to the second tier in the 2017–18 season and from 2021–2024.
At the request of local government, Quevilly joined with historic rivalsFC Rouen to form US Quevilly-Rouen Métropole in 2015, with Quevilly providing the president, manager and most players while playing at Rouen's stadium and using their red colour instead of Quevilly's yellow and black. Both teams continue to exist independently, and Rouen ended its collaboration in 2018.[4]
The club was founded asUS 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 aFrench franc. In 1905, they began playing against other teams inNormandy such asLe Havre AC andSM 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 inWorld War I.[5]
In 1919, after the end of the war, Quevilly joined the nascentFrench 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 beatAmiens, neighboursRouen,Suisse Paris andStade Raphaëlois to make thefinal where they lost 3–0 toMarseille at theStade Olympique inColombes. It was the first such final to be attended by aPresident of France, namelyGaston 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 theNormandy landings, Quevilly played a match against the BritishRoyal Marines for the benefit of player Henri Mallet who had lost his arm in the conflict.[5]
Quevilly won France's amateur championship in 1954, 1955 and 1958. The following year, co-founder and chairman Lozai died, with his widow Micheline inheriting the team. In 1970, the FFF expandedDivision 2 with several leading amateur teams including Quevilly, whose opponents included the newly foundedParis Saint-Germain. Michel Tron-Lozai, grandson of the founder, was unable to afford the lighting to permit the team to stay in the division, resulting in a return to amateur football in 1972.[5]
In January 1979, local man Robert Beauchamp refounded US Quevilly but failed in a bid to have the team restored to the second division, instead being placed in the fourth division of the department ofSeine-Maritime, the 10th and lowest possible tier. The team got back to the fifth-tierChampionnat de France Amateur 2 in 2000, and reached the last 16 of the2004–05 Coupe de France, losing 2–0 at Ligue 2 clubSedan. In the 2009–10 edition, the nowfourth-tier team won 1–0 againstLigue 1 clubRennes in the last 16 with a goal from Gregory Beaugrard,[6] followed by a 3–1 home win over another top-flight teamBoulogne in the quarter-finals.[7] The run ended in the semi-finals against PSG on 14 April 2010 at Caen'sStade Michel d'Ornano,Mevlüt Erdinç scoring the only goal for the Parisians.[8]
In the2011–12 Coupe de France, Quevilly won 3–2 against managerDidier Deschamps' Marseille in the quarter-finals, again at Caen, with two extra-time goals byJohn-Christophe Ayina.[9] The semi-final at the same ground was won 2–1 over Rennes to put Quevilly in the final for the first time in 85 years, and making them the first amateurs in the final since Amiens in2001.[10]Lyon won thefinal, with a first-half goal byLisandro López.[11]
In April 2015, US Quevilly joined withFC Rouen to formUS Quevilly-Rouen Métropole, taking the place of US Quevilly in the fourth-tierChampionnat de France Amateur for the 2015–16 season. The collaboration was initiated by theMétropole Rouen Normandie, who provided €200,000 of its €1.5 million budget, with the aim of promotion to theChampionnat National within two years and Ligue 2 within three to five. As Quevilly was ranked two divisions higher than Rouen, it provided the president, manager and most players, while playing at Rouen'sStade Robert Diochon; both clubs continued to exist independently. The team initially played home games in Rouen's red with trim of Quevilly's yellow, and the inverse away from home.[12]
The new team won Group A of the2015–16 Championnat de France amateur, gaining promotion to the2016–17 Championnat National.[13] As runners-up toChâteauroux, they achieved instant promotion again to the2017–18 Ligue 2. Beginning the season playing home games in front of low crowds at theStade Marie-Marvingt inLe Mans due to works on the Stade Robert Diochon,[14] the team were relegated back. Rouen ended its involvement in the team in June 2018.[15]
Promotion back to Ligue 2 was secured on 28 April 2021, after other results ensured the club a top-two finish in the2020–21 Championnat National behindSC Bastia and at the expense ofVillefranche.[16] A year later, the team kept themselves in the division after winning 5–1 on aggregate against Villefranche in the promotion-relegation playoffs.[17] In 2022–23, underOlivier Echouafni, the clubcame 11th in the league, but were eliminated from the7th round of the Coupe de France on penalties away to fifth-tierAubervilliers.[18] The club were relegated the following season, with two games left to play.[19]
| Position | Name |
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| Manager |  Jean-Louis Garcia |
| Assistant Managers | Alain WatheletWilliam Louiron |
| Goalkeeper Coach | David Moulin |
| Fitness Coach | Simon Lucq Théo Freulard |
| Video Analyst | Clément Marie |
| Doctor | Thibault Mariasiewiez |
| Physio | Matthieu Hedouin |
| Team Manager | Laurent Saint-Martin |
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