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

They were founded on 2 December 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.

Honours

• French championship Top 14
  • Runners-up (1): 1954
• Challenge Yves du Manoir
  • Champions (1): 1965
• Pro D2
  • Champions (1): 1995

Famous players

• Jacques Fouroux
• Gérald Merceron
• David Esnault

External links

• Official site (work in progress)