– FC Annecy wants to break through where Évian Thonon Gaillard failed
Haute-Savoie will perhaps find a professional club. Les Anneciens are 90 minutes from Ligue 2 and happiness.
The city of Annecy still looks a lot like the Lake Geneva region. It’s pretty, it’s clean, it’s a bit expensive, there’s a pretty azure lake… And then there’s also a football club that’s rising from its ashes. He is in the process of finding a professional division, in a not brand new stadium, where there are no parking lots on the horizon and where people crowd once in a while, when it really starts to count.
This Friday, at the Parc des Sports in the capital of Haute-Savoie, exactly 30 kilometers as the crow flies from the Stade de Genève, FC Annecy will host CS Sedan-Ardennes to find a second French division abandoned after a relegation followed by dissolution in October 1993. A victory against the “Boars” or a result equal to or better than FC Villefranche Beaujolais, their last competitor for the 2and place synonymous with promotion, and the residents of Annecy strike a blow. They could celebrate a third promotion in the space of seven years.