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National : le FC Versailles continuera de jouer au stade Jean-Bouin à Paris - Le Parisien National: FC Versailles will continue to play at the Jean-Bouin stadium in Paris INFO LE PARISIEN. Due to the non-accreditation of its stadium, the Yvelines club has finally decided, as it did last year, to play its home games this season at the Stade Français rugby ground rather than at the Entente Sannois-Saint-Gratien football ground. History repeats itself. Almost to the day a year ago, FC Versailles, promoted to the French National (3rd division), surprisingly chose to play their home games at the Jean-Bouin stadium in Paris (16th arrondissement), home of rugby players Stade Français, rather than footballers Entente Sannois-Saint-Gratien. As the Montbauron stadium in Versailles has still not been approved, the Yvelines club has been wavering between the two venues for the 2023-2024 financial year. Particularly as the Michel-Hidalgo stadium in Saint-Gratien (Val-d'Oise) hosted FC Versailles' last two home matches (against Red Star and Avranches) at the end of last season due to the unavailability of the Jean-Bouin stadium. According to our information, the management of Versailles have decided to stay at the Jean-Bouin stadium. This is a sign that the club's ambitions and resources have not diminished, despite the change of president during the off-season. The club paid around €80,000 per match (all inclusive) to rent the Jean-Bouin stadium last season. Thanks to the arrival of its new chairman and majority shareholder, Alexandre Mulliez, grandson of the founder of the Auchan group and former vice-chairman of Auchan Retail France, FC Versailles has been able to successfully pass the scrutiny of the Direction Nationale du Contrôle de Gestion (DNCG), even though the risk of filing for bankruptcy could not have been ruled out a month and a half ago.

Hello everyone! Match day for Valenciennes, who play Versailles tonight at the Stade Jean Bouin in Paris. Here's the link to tonight's match: (kick-off 7.30pm French time): The match was originally due to be played tomorrow, but the stadium where the match is being played is next to the Parc des Princes where PSG play Rennes on Saturday. The aim was to win the match and recover the points lost last weekend against Concarneau. Allez VA §

Additional time is definitely not working for us this weekend 😭

The day after the match, and after a few hours' sleep, here are my thoughts on yesterday's game: The first half was incredible, we were 2-0 up after 10 minutes and at half-time we went into the dressing room with a 3-0 lead. In the stands, we were feeling confident and, like the players, I thought we were going to win the game, but we didn't count on a number of things that happened in the 2nd half: - Our players slackened off and didn't play with the same intensity as in the 1st half. - Refereeing - let's face it - not in our favour (on 2 of Concarneau's 3 goals, we had a player on the ground). - 7 minutes of extra time, but the referee blew his whistle for the equaliser at 90+9... Most of us felt that it was a draw that tasted like defeat. I think that yesterday's game will be a good lesson for the club and our players, so that they can tell themselves that nothing is decided or won in advance in this championship. We're still unbeaten in the league and in 3rd place with 1 game in hand. There will be better games and we hope we can do better very soon. Allez VA!

The referee this night... No comment... 😥😥

Merci beaucoup !

Hello everyone! Match day for Valenciennes, who take on Concarneau at the Stade du Hainaut at 7.30pm (French time). Here's the Youtube link to watch the match for free: Have a nice day! Allez VA !

National : entre Valenciennes et Concarneau, deux relégations pas la même ambition - La Voix du Nord National: Valenciennes and Concarneau, two relegated sides with different ambitions VAFC face their first test on Friday at Le Hainaut (7.30pm) against another Ligue 2 relegation zone side. Both clubs have taken the same lift, but the ambition to climb back up the table immediately is much more pronounced in the north than in Brittany. Having returned to the National Championship twenty years after being relegated, VA have never hidden the fact that they will be doing everything in their power to avoid staying there forever. This was stated as early as April at the time of the relegation and has been repeated by the management and then the sporting staff ever since. ‘It's an anomaly that VA are in the National,’ Ahmed Kantari told La Voix des Sports at the start of the season. ‘We're going to do everything we can to put the club back where it belongs,’ added Julien Masson, confirming the club's ambition. After all the talk, it's time for action, and VAFC have set to work, climbing the steps one by one to fulfil the mission they have set themselves. With 10 points from four games, the initial progress has been good, but there is still a long way to go. This clash with another relegated Ligue 2 side will tell us a little more about what VA have in their bellies, even if the Bretons have not made the top flight an obsession. "The club realised that it wasn't quite ready for League 2 and lost more money than it made by always playing away from home." Relegated at the end of their first season in L2, Concarneau paid dearly for not being able to play in their substandard stadium. ‘The club realised that it wasn't quite ready for Ligue 2 and lost more money than it made by always playing away,’ explains Dylan Le Mee, a journalist at Ouest-France. Forced into exile by Lorient, Guingamp, Brest, Caen and Rennes in order to play at home, the Thoniers have not experienced their descent into the National as a catastrophe. "Avoiding the drop" Back in their historic stadium, with a new coach - Stéphane Rossi - used to performing at this level, a squad 80% renewed and many players taken from the N2, Concarneau are giving themselves time: ‘The objective is first to stay up, to avoid going down,’ says Dylan Le Mee. But if they can go up, they won't deprive themselves. Their good start (4th) has already made the Bretons a first hurdle on the long road to Valenciennes.

The day after the match, we picked up a point at Rouen. It was a complicated game, but we were a little lucky at the end with a deflected goal that put us back on level terms. There were 300 Valenciennes supporters in the stands yesterday. Go VA!

I wish us a victory for both our clubs today. Allez les saint, allez valenciennes!

Hello friends, I wish you a good match and hope you get your 1st win of the season. I'll be following the result live from the bus as we head for Rouen, where Valenciennes play today at 6pm French time. Let's go Saint's !

Hello everyone. Match day for Valenciennes with a trip to Rouen (Normandy), 3 buses are on the trip (3 hour drive) plus a few cars, we will be around 250 supporters (the stand has 700 seats). Kick-off 18:00 French time Live on Youtube: Rouen - Valenciennes The aim is to continue picking up points. Allez VA! ❤️🤍

Hello everyone. First of all, getting 9 points out of 9 has been something that hasn't happened to us for years - I can't even remember when! We couldn't have wished for a better start! All the same, we remain lucid and humble, as the championship has only just begun. For several years now, I can assure you that we've lost matches like this, but what strength of character! Friends, we're enjoying this new lease of life, it's crazy, so is this happiness?

Tonight, for those watching the match, you will see above the supporters' stand a large tarpaulin put up this season with the following message: “Proud of our land, proud of our club, proud of our history”. As the upper part of the stadium is not open to the public this season (for the time being), the club has decided to put up this 128 metre long and 8 metre high tarpaulin with the help of the supporters. How did VA fans dress up the Nungesser stand? va-fc.com

Good morning folks, match day for Valenciennes as they welcome Chateauroux to the Stade du Hainaut. Here's the YouTube link where you can watch the match for free. VAFC / Chateauroux Allez VA!

Of course, we've had a good start to the season, and we're delighted to see a team fighting for its colours, and I think the momentum will only continue in that direction. So let's get on with it this Friday, when we welcome Chateauroux to the Stade du Hainaut!

When SR allows Southampton to move up a division in season 2 of governance, When SR allows Goztepe to move up a division in season 2 of governance, how can we not believe that the scenario will be repeated here at Valenciennes? I'm confident for this season, even if we'll have to fight for every match, but with the team and the collective that's gradually starting to come together, it could be really interesting!

Thanks for sharing it with our friends in Southampton. I'll be at the stadium tonight! Allez VA!

Of course I'm pleased to see that my friends at Southampton are giving us their help and support with the loan of this player. We'll take good care of him, folks!

I'm delighted he's come, and I think the reason Southampton's sporting director chose him is that he'll soon be able to play in the Premier League. He's a good prospect for me and I sincerely hope that he'll make a big contribution to our team and help us have a great season.

It's amazing how negative you can be, dear colleague... Unlike the opinion of many of our French compatriots, I think that our sporting director, Ben Chorley, is very consistent in his recruitment, he understood very well that there were big mistakes last year... As for Ernesto, he may have had a new project that suits him a little better, but the official reason was not given...

https://www.lequipe.fr/Football/Actualites/Mercato-nice-devrait-transferer-daouda-traore-a-southampton/1503943

Exactly! Match replayed in its entirety with a score of 0-0. The reason the date is so late is that every Friday is taken up by a league match, so it's hard to find an earlier slot. Let's hope this match goes well this time... For your information, here's the state of the refreshment room after the fire:

It's incredible what happened last night... In sporting terms, we got off to a very poor start with a penalty conceded in the 3rd minute for an avoidable foul by Julien Masson, then a fairly even match with a slight advantage for Valenciennes who pushed for an equaliser and succeeded thanks to Nick Venema. The aim before half-time was to hold on for a draw or score a second goal, but in the end that was not to be. And then there was the incident in the refreshment room at half-time, which led to the match being stopped for good.

Orléans - VAFC: the refreshment room ravaged by fire, the match definitively stopped A surreal scene unfolded on Friday evening at the Stade de la Source in Orléans, where the refreshment bar caught fire just before the start of the second half of the match between USO and Valenciennes. The stadium had to be evacuated and the match stopped. And it will not be resumed. Flames began to emerge from the roof of the refreshment room behind one of the goals at the Source stadium in Orléans. Then thick smoke began to fill the stadium, which was eventually evacuated. Orléans and Valenciennes were about to resume the match, which was to be the start of the second half. At the end of the first forty-five minutes, the two teams were level at 1-1, Nick Venema (25th) having replied to Fahid El Khoumisti's early opener from the penalty spot (3rd). All the stands were evacuated and the match had to be abandoned. It will not resume and there will be no replay this weekend. The French federation must now decide on a new date.