US Cognac

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Union Sportive Cognaçaise is a French rugby union club , based in Cognac in the Charente département (Poitou-Charentes region). They play at the Parc des Sports (capacity 2,800), and wear white and red.

They were founded on December 2, 1898 and regularly competed in the first division in the 1950s and 1960s. They played in the 1954 French championship final, going down narrowly to FC Grenoble 3-5. They are currently competing in the fifth level of the French league system, Fédérale 3.

[edit] Club honours

• French premiership : runner-up 1954
• Challenge Yves-du-Manoir (French cup) 1965
• Second division champions 1995

[edit] Famous players

• Jacques Fouroux
• Gérald Merceron

[edit] External links

• Official site (work in progress)