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| Full name | Stade Brestois 29 | |||
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| Nickname(s) | Les Pirates (The Pirates) Les Ti'Zefs[1] | |||
| Founded | 1903 (as Armoricaine de Brest) 26 June 1950 (as Stade brestois) 1982 (as Brest Armorique FC) | |||
| Ground | Stade Francis-Le Blé | |||
| Capacity | 15,220 | |||
| President | Denis Le Saint | |||
| Manager | Éric Roy | |||
| League | Ligue 1 | |||
| 2023–24 | Ligue 1, 3rd of 18 | |||
| Website | sb29.bzh | |||
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Stade Brestois 29, commonly known as Stade Brestois or simply Brest,[a] is a French professional football club based in Brest. It was founded in 1950 following the merger of five local patronages, including Armoricaine de Brest, founded in 1903. The club has competed in Ligue 1, the top division of French football, ever since being promoted to the top flight during the 2018–19 season.
In its early years, Brest made a rapid rise in the hierarchy of regional football, to the point of being promoted to the French Amateur Championship, the third level of French football, in 1958. The club joined the Second Division in 1970, then finally reached the First Division in 1979. It experienced its sporting peak between 1981 and 1991 under the presidency of François Yvinec, playing nine seasons in the elite in ten years. In 1991, the club was demoted before filing for bankruptcy a few months later. The club only returned to the second division in 2004 and Ligue 1 in 2010. At the end of the 2012–13 season, it had respectively thirteen and seventeen seasons in the French First and Second divisions.[2] In 2023–24, underdogs Brest achieved an unlikely third-place finish in Ligue 1 and thus qualified for the 2024–25 UEFA Champions League, marking the first appearance in any European competition in the club's history.
Stade Brestois has been chaired since 10 May 2016 by entrepreneur Denis Le Saint.
- ^ "#445 – Stade Brestois : les Ti'Zefs" (in French). Footnickname. 15 March 2021. Archived from the original on 23 December 2021. Retrieved 22 December 2021.
- ^ Stade brestois Archived 9 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine, club profile on the Ligue de Football Professionnel websites.
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