FC Limonest Saint-Didier

Football Club de Limonest Saint-Didier-au-Mont-d'Or commonly known as FC Limonest Saind-Didier or FC Limonest is a French football club based in Limonest in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of France. The club was founded in 1969 and since 1994 plays its games at Stade Courtois Fillot in the commune.[1]

FC Limonest Saint-Didier
Full nameFootball Club de Limonest Saint-Didier-au-Mont-d'Or
Nickname(s)les monarques (The Monarchs) founded = 1969
GroundStade Courtois Fillot, Limonest
Capacity2,000
ChairmanAlexandre Vainchtock
ManagerNicolas Pinard
LeagueChampionnat National 3 Group M
2019–20Championnat National 3 Group M, 3rd

The club has climbed steadily through the amateur divisions, winning promotion to the seventh tier in 1979 and the sixth tier in 2007.[1] In 2016, the club won promotion for the first time to the fifth tier, Championnat de France Amateur 2, after winning the final match of the season against FC Vaulx-en-Velin.[2]

In the 2018–19 Coupe de France, the club reached the Round of 64, beating fourth tier Créteil before losing 1–0 to Sète.[3] In the following year's competition they went one round better, beating third tier clubs Villefranche and Le Puy, eventually losing to Ligue 1 side Dijon in the Round of 32 at home, to a goal in the last minute of extra time.[4]

Honours
  • Division d'Honneur, Rhône-Alpes: 2016[5]

References
  1. "Histoire du FC LSD" (in French). FC Limonest Saint-Didier. Retrieved 31 January 2020.
  2. "Limonest gagne sa "finale" et monte en CFA2" (in French). foot-national.com. 28 May 2016.
  3. "Football : Le FC Sète bat Limonest et se qualifie pour les 16e de finale de la Coupe de France" (in French). Midi Libre. 5 January 2019.
  4. "Limonest, petit poucet de la Coupe de France, éliminé cruellement par Dijon" (in French). L'Équipe. 28 January 2020.
  5. "Classement DH Rhone-Alpes 2015 / 2016" (in French). foot-national.com. Retrieved 31 January 2020.


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