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Key facts
- Full name
- Pau Football Club
- Nicknames
- Les Maynats , Les Béarnais
- Founded
- 19 May 1959 ; 67 years ago ( 1959-05-19 ) , as F.C. Pau
- Ground
- Nouste Camp
- Capacity
- 4,031
- Owner
- Bernard Laporte-Fray
- Chairman
- Bernard Laporte-Fray
- Head coach
- Thierry Debès
- League
- Ligue 2
- 2025 26
- Ligue 2, 9th of 18
- Website
- paufc .fr
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Pau Football Club ( French pronunciation: [po futbol klœb]), commonly referred to as Pau FC, is a professional football club based in Pau, capital of Béarn, France. Pau FC plays its home matches at the Nouste Camp and competes in Ligue 2, the second tier of French football. Nicknamed Les Maynats, Pau FC traces its origins to the patronage of the Bleuets de Notre-Dame, officially founded in 1920 in the Mayolis district. By the onset of the 1958–59 season, the Bleuets had ascended to the highest amateur division in the French football league system. Under the stewardship of its founding president, José Bidegain, the Bleuets de Notre-Dame's senior team transitioned into the Football-Club de Pau. By the 60s, they had settled in the Stade du Hameau, harbouring ambitions of turning professional.