UJA Maccabi Paris Métropole
{{short description|French football club}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2020}}
{{update|date=October 2013}}
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|founded = 1926 as "UJA Alfortville"
1948 as "Maccabi Paris"
2012 as UJA Maccabi Paris Métropole
|ground = Parc Départemental des Sports
Choisy-le-Roi
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|chairman = Pascal Laloux
|manager = David Le Digarcher
|league = DH Paris Île-de-France
|season = 2016–17
|position = CFA 2, Group A, 14th (relegated)
|website = https://maccabi-paris.footeo.com/
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UJA Maccabi Paris Métropole is a French association football club based in Alfortville, a suburb of Paris. The current club was formed in 2012 through a merger of UJA Alfortville (formed in 1926) and SC Maccabi du Paris (formed in 1948).
The club currently play in the Division d'Honneur Paris Île-de-France, effectively the sixth level of French football. It plays its home matches at the Parc Départemental des Sports in the nearby commune of Choisy-le-Roi.
The club has played one season in the Championnat National, having been awarded promotion in the 2009–10 season.
History
=SC Maccabi de Paris=
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Paris, France 75020|
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Maccabi Paris was a club established in 1948 as a social-sport club for the Jewish community in Paris, it acted in modern times as a simple sport club for a wider French community.
= UJA Alfortville =
UJA Alfortville was formed in 1926 under the name Union de la Jeunesse Arménienne d'Alfortville (known simply as Alfortville).
Over the course of a decade, Alfortville has quickly ascended up the French football league system. In 1998, the club was promoted from Promotion d'Honneur. In the following season, Alfortville earned promotion to the Division d'Honneur Régionale and proceeded to advance to the Division Supérieure Régionale two seasons later in 2000. The club remained in the seventh division for six years before achieving promotion to the Division d'Honneur of the Île-de-France region. After one season, Alfortville ascended to the 5th level of the system, CFA 2.{{cite web|url=http://www.leparisien.fr/seine-et-marne/l-uja-se-fait-un-nom-07-05-2007-2008008515.php|title=L'UJA se fait un nom|language=fr|publisher=Le Parisien|date=7 May 2007|access-date=5 August 2016}} The club won its group in the first season, thus earning promotion to the Championnat de France amateur for the 2008–09 season.{{cite web|url=http://www.leparisien.fr/seine-et-marne/les-sports-19-05-2008-3298510080.php|title=Seine-et-Marne Les Sports|language=fr|date=19 May 2008|access-date=5 August 2016|publisher=Le Parisien}}
After two seasons in the CFA, Alfortville were administratively promoted to the Championnat National due to the demotion through financial issues of RC Strasbourg Alsace.{{cite web|url=http://www.uscl.fr/championnat/breve/strasbourg-en-cfa-l-uja-en|title=Strasbourg en CFA l'UJA en National|language=fr|date=16 July 2010|access-date=5 August 2016}} The club was relegated at the end of the season.
= UJA Maccabi Paris Métropole =
In June 2012, UJA Alfortville completed the merger with Maccabi Paris, a club from the Division Supérieure Régional.{{Cite web|url=http://www.leparisien.fr/espace-premium/hauts-de-seine-92/l-uja-maccabi-paris-metropole-creee-07-06-2012-2036136.php|title=L'UJA Maccabi Paris Métropole créée|date=7 June 2012|access-date=5 August 2016|language=fr|publisher=Le Parisien}} The new club was relegated to the CFA 2 in its first season, and has maintained that level since.
Players
= Former players =
For a list of former UJA Alfortville players, see :Category:UJA Maccabi Paris Métropole players.
Honours
- Championnat de France Amateur 2: 2008
- Division d'Honneur (Île-de-France): 2007
- Division Supérieure Régional (Île-de-France): 2006
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20051231192604/http://www.licra.org/licrasport/index.php?section=news&id=1919 Maccabi Paris - a multinational team] (in French) (archived)
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20050322203010/http://www.newvoices.org/cgi-bin/articlepage.cgi?id=361 New Voices] (in English)
- {{in lang|fr}} {{official website|https://maccabi-paris.footeo.com/}}
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Category:Association football clubs established in 1926
Category:1926 establishments in France
Category:Association football clubs established in 1948
Category:Jewish football clubs
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