AJ Auxerre
The club, whose history dates back to 1905 and which is simply called AJA among fans, was founded by a certain Abbé Deschamps under the name of Association de la Jeunesse Auxerroise. The stadium, which can seat up to 18 541 spectators, is also named after him. AJ Auxerre won the top French competition in 1996, and the second league in the 1979/1980 season. It has also won the national cup four times (1994, 1996, 2003 and 2005) and dominated the Intertoto Cup in Europe twice (1997 and 2006).
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Lille LOSC
Their nicknames are Les Dogues or simply Lille. The club colours are red and blue. They play their home games in a modern sanctuary built in 2012 called Stade Pierre-Mauroy. Its capacity for football matches is 50,186 people. It is a multi-purpose arena, which in its closed configuration as an arena for concerts or, for example, tennis and basketball, offers 28,010 seats.
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