FC Girondins de Bordeaux
The club is nicknamed Les Girondins, Le club au scapulaire and Les marine et blanc. Their club colours are navy blue and white, which also refers to the latter nickname. They then play their home games at the Nouveau Stade de Bordeaux, which is also known as Matmut Atlantique, for sponsorship reasons. It is a modern stadium that only opened in 2015 and offers a capacity of 42,115 seats.
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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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