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| Full name | Union Sportive Tourquennoise | |
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| Nickname | Les Ustiens | |
| Short name | US Tourcoing | |
| Founded | 1902(asUS Tourcoing) | |
| Ground | Stade Charles Van de Veegaete | |
| Capacity | 4000 | |
| Chairman | Fabien Desmet | |
| Manager | Yacine Itoumaine | |
| League | Regional 1, Hauts-de-France | |
| 2018–19 | National 3 Group I, 13th (relegated) | |
| Website | ustourcoingfootball | |
Union Sportive Tourquennoise, commonly shortened toUS Tourcoing, is a Frenchfootball club founded in 1902 and based inTourcoing. The club played in theChampionnat National 3 (and its previous incarnation at the fifth level) for five seasons since 2014–2015 after finishing first in theDivision Honneur ofNord-Pas-de-Calais during the 2013–2014 season, but were relegated back to the sixth level in 2019.
Founded on 12 May 1898,[1] as US Tourcoing, the club played football from 1902 under the leadership of the supervisor of the Lycée Gambetta: Albert Fromentin. The colours were black and white. Champions of theUSFSA du Nord in 1900, 1909, 1910 and 1912, US Tourcoing reached three times the semifinals of theChampionnat de France (1900, 1909 and 1912) and won it in 1910 . In the final, they beatStade Helvétique de Marseille 7–2 on 1 May 1910 at theParc des Princes.[2] The club was at its peak and many players need to be mentioned here, in particularAdrien Filez (the only provincial player to be selected in 1904 for the first game of theFrance national football team),Gabriel Hanot,Victor Denis andJules Dubly.
North champions in 1920 and 1928, theUstiens got to the semifinals of theCoupe de France in 1921. They were against the formidableOlympique de Paris and lost in the 114th minute. Always present in theCoupe de France (quarter-finalist in 1922 and 1926) or in the Championnat (Championnat du Nord in 1933), the club still provided players for the national team (Maurice Depaepe,Victor Farvacques andJean Sécember) the club chose to have professional status in 1933. Admitted intoDivision 2 in the year of its creation, US Tourcoing struggled and abandoned its professional status in June 1938.
AfterWorld War II, the club was actively involved in the creation ofCO Roubaix-Tourcoing. UST regained its independence in 1957. A year later,Charles Van Veegaete, co-founder of the sports club in 1898, died. The stadium was renamed the Stade Charles Van Veegaete from the Stade Albert Fromentin.
Since then, the club played simply in amateur competitions (Division 4). On 30 June 1990 the club merged withAS-Jean Mace Tourcoing (one of the best UFOLEP clubs in the region and playing in DH in 1990), to become the Tourcoing FC (TFC), playing in yellow, white and black. The founding presidents were Albert Vandenabaele (of UST) and Roger Vandepeutte (of ASJMT). The club played in theCFA2 until 2002, then experienced four consecutive relegations, finding itself playing in the regional league in 2005.
TheIvory Coast internationalDidier Drogba played in the youth teams of TFC, likewise withFrench internationalYohan Cabaye, when they were ten years old. The club was renamed Union Sports Tourcoing Football Club (USTFC) in 2010. The official colours were changed back to the original ones, black and white. The current president since 2009 is Fabien Desmet. In 2014, the club returned to theCFA 2 after more than 10 years in the regional leagues.
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined underFIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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