FC Nantes

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NICKNAME – La Maison Jaune (The Yellow House), Les Canaris (The Canaries)
FOUNDED – 1943
LOCATED IN – Nantes, Pays de la Loire
STADIUM – Stade de la Beaujoire
BY TRAM – Line 1 from the train station / city centre
CAPACITY – 35,322
PROMOTED – 2013
BEST LEAGUE FINISH – Winners (8 times)
BEST COUPE DE FRANCE RUN – Winners (4 times)
BEST COUPE DE LA LIGUE/D’ETE RUN – Winners (1964/1965)
BEST EC/CL FINISH – SF (1995/1996)
BEST UC/EL FINISH – QF (Twice)
BEST CWC FINISH – SF (1979/1980)
RECORD GOALSCORER – Bernard Blanchet (126)
2022/2023 FINISH – 16th

FIVE FACTS ABOUT FC NANTES
1. The yellow and green kit comes from one of the founders, whose racehorses’ jockeys wore it while racing.
2. The nickname of the Canaries, however, is borrowed from the English side, Norwich City, who play in the same colours.
3. The French media refer to the “Nantes playing style”, which focuses on fluid movement and players always being ready to receive the ball when attacking.
4. Emiliano Sala’s transfer from Nantes to Cardiff, which led to his tragic death at sea, is still the source of a compensation dispute between the clubs.
5. Nantes contest the “Atlantic Derby” with Bordeaux and the biggest of the many “Breton” derbies with Rennes.

FIVE FACTS ABOUT NANTES
1. Although it is now part of the Loire region, it is a Breton city historically and served as the seat of the Dukes of Brittany.
2. The city’s golden age was in the 15th century, when it built its cathedral, castle and university.
3. Horrific mass drownings of suspected royalists were carried out here after the French Revolution. It was also the last French port to stop trading slaves in the 19th century.
4. Nantes is considered the birthplace of surrealism.
5. Its most famous son is Jules Verne, born here in 1828.

INTERESTING VIDEO LINKS
Official anthem
“Mon coeur est nantais”
“C’est les canaris”
A look around Nantes

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