Gaelic Football Provence
| Founded: | 2015 | |
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| County: | Europe | |
| Nickname: | The bulls, GFP | |
| Grounds: | Stade Sainte Rosalie, La Fare-les-Oliviers | |
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Gaelic Football Provence is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in La Fare-les-Oliviers in the south of France.
History
The club was founded on 24 January 2015 by a group of passionate peoples living in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. The first training sessions were held for the first time in July 2014 on a pitch located in Aix-en-Provence, cause most of the participants lived close to the city which is also central in the region.
As it is often the case, a player who has already played this sport elsewhere in France is at the origin of the project and initiate other GAA fans and curious in order to create a club and participate to the French national championship.
Since the establishment of the club, Gaelic Football Provence has played friendly tournaments (in Paris and Barcelona). After a first season ended with a 4th place in the Division 3 French championship at the final tournament of Guérande in june 2015, GFP participated to its first full season in 2016, even organizing its first official tournament (the 1st point-scoring competition of the year) on 26 March in La Fare-les-Oliviers. After the 3 federal tournaments, the club qualified for the Division 2 finals in Clermont-Ferrand where it earned a deserving 5th place (beating Lorient, Guérande and the big rivals of Azur).