Association Sportive Nancy Lorraine, known as AS Nancy Lorraine, and more commonly as Nancy, is a French football club founded in 1967 and based in Nancy, Grand Est. The club plays its home matches at the Stade Marcel Picot located in Tomblaine in the inner suburbs of Nancy, and currently competes in the Championnat National, the third tier of French football.
Supporters in the Nancy stands
Michel Platini spent eight seasons with the club.
Season by season ranking of ASNL and FC Metz
40.000 fans of Nancy in Stade de France during the 2006 Coupe de la Ligue final
Nancy is the prefecture of the northeastern French department of Meurthe-et-Moselle. It was the capital of the Duchy of Lorraine, which was annexed by France under King Louis XV in 1766 and replaced by a province, with Nancy maintained as capital. Following its rise to prominence in the Age of Enlightenment, it was nicknamed the "capital of Eastern France" in the late 19th century. The metropolitan area of Nancy had a population of 511,257 inhabitants at the 2018 census, making it the 16th-largest functional urban area in France and Lorraine's largest. The population of the city of Nancy proper is 104,885.
Image: Place Stanislas et ses grilles à Nancy
Image: Palais du Gouvernement Nancy
Image: Building of the Musee des Beaux Arts de Nancy 02 (cropped)
Image: Arc Here (5)