Aix-en-Provence AS
1941 : fusion of "Aix FC" with "Aix US"
founded as "Association Sportive Aix-en-Provence"
1992 : defunct

Agde Olympique RC
1904 : founded as "Racing Club Olympique Agathois"

Ajaccio AC
1910 : founded as "Athletic Club Ajaccien"

Ajaccio Gazelec FCO
1997 : fusion of "Ajaccio GFC" with "Ajaccio SCO"
founded as "Gazelec Football Club Olympique Ajaccio"

Albi US
1912 : founded as "Albi Union Sportive"

Ales OC
1923 : founded as "Olympique Ales en Cevennes"

Amiens SCF
1961 : founded as "Sporting Club Amiens-Picardie"
1987 : changed name to "Amiens Sporting Club Football"

Angers SCO
1919 : founded as "Sporting Club de l'Ouest d'Angers"

Angouleme AS
1925 : founded as "Association Sportive Angouleme"

Annecy FC
1927 : founded as "Football Club d'Annecy"

Arles AC
1912 : founded as "Athletic Club Arlesien"

Armentieres JA
1911 : founded as "Jeunesse Athletique Armentieroise"

Aubervilliers CM
founded as "Club Municipal Aubervilliers"

Aurillac FCA
1953 : founded as "Aurillac Football Cantal Auvergne"

Auxerre AJ
1905 : founded as "Association de la Jeunesse Auxerroise"

Avion CS
1922 : founded as "Cercle Sportif Avionnais"

Bastia SC
1905 : founded as "Sporting Club Bastia"
1962 : fusion with "Etoile Filante de Bastia" as "Sporting Etoile Club de Bastia"
1987 : changed name to "Sporting Club Bastiais"

Bayeux FC
founded as "Bayeux Football Club"

Beaucaire Stade
1908 : founded as "Stade Beaucairois"

Beauvais Oise AS
1945 : founded as "Association Sportive de Beauvais-Oise"

Besancon RC
1987 : founded as "Racing Club Franc-Comtois Besancon"

Bethune Stade FC
founded as "Stade Bethunois Football Club"

Beziers FC
1934 : founded as "Beziers Football Club"

Blagnac FC
founded as "Blagnac Football Club"

Bois Guillaume FUSC
1984 : founded as "Football Union Sportive Culturel de Bois Guillaume"

Bordeaux Girondins FC
1881 : founded as "Girondins-Omnisports"
1919 : fusion with "Argus Sports"
1936 : changed name to "Football Club des Girondins de Bordeaux"

Boulogne-sur-Mer US
1898 : founded as "Union Sportive Boulogne Cote d'Opale"

Bourges FC
1966 : founded as "Football Club de Bourges"

Brest Stade FC
1950 : fusion of "L'Armoricaine", "L'Avenir", "La Flamme", La Milice Saint-Michel"
and "Les Jeunes de Saint-Marc" as "Stade Brestois"
1983 : changed name to "Brest Armorique Football Club" (Brest AFC)
1991 : retired

Brive-la-Gaillarde Aiglons Briviste ES
1920 : founded as "Aiglons Briviste Entente Sportive"

Caen Mondeville USON
1920 : founded as "Union Sportive Ouvriere Normande de Mondeville"

Caen SM
1913 : founded as "Stade Malherbe de Caen"
changed name to "Stade Malherbe de Caen-Calvados Basse-Normadie"

Calais RUFC
1902 : founded as "Racing Club de Calais" (Calais RC)
1973 : fusion with "Calais US" as "Calais Racing Union Football Club"

Cambrai AC
founded as "Athletisme Club de Cambrai"

Cannes ASC
1902 : founded as "Association Sportive de Cannes"

Chalons-en-Champagne CO
founded as "Club Olympique Chalonnais"

Chantilly US
founded as "Union Sportive de Chantilly"

Chateauroux LB
1883 : founded as "La Berrichonne de Chateauroux"

Chatellerault SO
1914 : founded as "Stade Olympique Chatelleraudais"

Chaumont FC
founded as "Chaumont Football Club"

Cherbourg AS
1965 : founded as "Association Sportive de Cherbourg Football"

Clermont-Ferrand Foot Auvergne
1911 : founded as "Clermont-Ferrand Football Club"
1991 : changed name to "Clermont Foot Auvergne"

Colmar FC
1914 : founded as "Colmar Football Club"
changed name as "Stade de Colmar"
1985 : retired

Colmar SR
1920 : founded as "Colmar Sports Reunis"

Combs-la-Ville Moissy Cramayel US
1932 : founded as "Union Sportive de Moissy Cramayel"

Creteil US
1937 : founded as "Union Sportive de Creteil"

Darnetal Bihorel GCO
founded as "Gallia Club Omnisports de Bihorel"

Dieppe FC
1897 : founded as "Football Club de Dieppe"

Dijon Cercle
1979 : founded as "Association Nouvelle Cercle Dijon Football"

Dijon FCO
1998 : fusion of "Dijon Cercle" with "Dijon FC"
founded as "Dijon Football Cote d'Or"

Douai SC
founded as "Sporting Club de Douai"

Draguignan SC
1904 : founded as "Sporting Club Draguignan"

Dunkerque USL
1954 : founded as "Union Sportive du Littoral de Dunkerque"

Evry AS
1897 : founded as "Association Sportive Evry"

Fecamp US
1903 : founded as "Union Sportive Fecampoise Football"

Fontenay-le-Compte FV
1991 : founded as "Fontenay Foot Vendee"

Forbach US
founded as "Union Sportive Forbach"

Francais Club
1892 : founded as "Club Francais"
1934 : defunct

Francais Stade
1883 : founded as "Stade Francais"

Frejus ES
1938 : founded as "Etoile Sportive Frejusienne"

Gaillard FC
founded as "Football Club Gaillard"

Grenoble Foot '38
1997 : founded as "Grenoble Foot '38"

Gueugnon FC
1940 : founded as "Football Club de Gueugnon"

Guincamps En Avant
1912 : founded as "En Avant de Guincamp"

Haguenau FC
1900 : founded

Haguenau FCSR
1987 : founded as "Football Club Sports Reunis Haguenau"

Hyeres FC
1912 : founded as "Football Club Hyeres"

Ile Rousse Monticello FA
1976 : founded as "Football Association Ile Rousse Monticello"

Istres FC
1920 : founded as "Istres Sports Football" (Istres SF)
1991 : changed name to "Football Club Istres Ville Nouvelle"

Ivry US
founded as "Union Sportive Ivry"

La Chapelle-Saint-Luc RCS
1942 : founded as "Reunion des Cheminots et des Sportifs de La Chapelle-Saint-Luc"

La Fleche RC
1966 : founded as "Racing Club Flechois"

La Roche-sur-Yon VF
1932 : founded as "La Roche-sur-Yon AEPB-Vendee"
1989 : changed name to "La Roche-sur-Yon Vendee Football"

Laval Stade Mayenne FC
1902 : founded as "Stade Lavallois"
1991 : changed name to "Stade Lavallois FC"
1994 : changed name to "Stade Lavallois Mayenne Football Club"

Le Havre AC
1872 : founded as "Le Havre Football Club"
1994 : changed name to "Le Havre Athletic Club Football Association"

Le Mans UC '72
1985 : founded as "Le Mans Union Club '72"

Le Petit-Quevilly US
founded as "Union Sportive Quevillaise"

Lens RC
1906 : founded as "Racing Club de Lens"

Les Lilas FC
1946 : founded as "Football Club Les Lilas"

Levallois-Perret SC
1895 : founded as "Football Club de Levallois" (Levallois FC)
changed name to "Football Etoile Club de Levallois"
1941 : changed name to "Levallois Sporting Club"

Libourne Saint-Seurin FC
1998 : founded as "Football Club Libourne Saint-Seurin"

Lille OSC
1944 : fusion of "SC Fives" with "Olympique Lillois"
founded as "Olympique Sporting Club Lille Metropole"

Limoges Foot '87
1947 : founded as "Limoges Foot '87"

Lorient FC
1926 : founded as "Football Club de Lorient"
1990 : changed name to "Football Club '56 Lorient"
1996 : changed name to "Football Club Lorient Bretagne-Sud"

Louhans-Cuiseaux '71
1970 : founded as "Club Sportif Cuiseaux-Louhans"
1989 : changed name to "Club Sportif Louhans-Cuiseaux '71"
1996 : changed name to "SAEMS Louhans-Cuiseaux '71"

Luzenac US
1936 : founded as "Union Sportive de Luzenac"

Lyon OC
1950 : founded from "Lyon Olympique Universitaire" as "Olympique Club Lyonnais"

Manosque EP
1920 : founded as "Entente Provencale de Manosque"

Mantes-la-Ville FC
founded as "Football Club Mantois"

Marly USM
founded as "Union Sportive Municipale Marly"

Marseille OC
1898 : founded as "Olympique Club de Marseille"

Marseille US
1925 : founded as "Union Sportive Marseille Endoume Catalans"

Martigues FC
1921 : founded as "Football Club de Martigues"

Metz FC
1932 : fusion of "Cercle Athletique Messin" (Metz CA) with "Association Sportive Messin" (Metz AS) as "D. Cercle Athletique  Messin" (Metz DCA)
1934 : changed name to "Cercle des Sports de Metz" (Metz CS)
1936 : changed name to "Football Club de Metz" (Metz FC)

Monaco AS
1924 : fusion of "Swimming Club", "Monaco Sport", "Riviera AC" and "Beausoliel AS" as "Association Sportive de Monaco"
1992 : changed name to "Association Sportive de Monaco Football"

Montauban FC
1943 : founded as "Montauban Football Club"

Montbeliard Sochaux FC
1928 : fusion of "Sochaux FC" with "Montbeliard AS"
founded as "Football Club Sochaux-Montbeliard"

Montferrand AS

Montpellier SO
1919 : founded as "Stade Olympique de Montpellier"
1919 : fusion with "Medoc VGA"
untill 1937 : known as "Sports Olympiques Montpellierains"
1970 : fusion with "Montpellier Sport Club" as "Montpellier-Littoral FC"
1974 : fusion with "Paillade AS" as "Montpellier La Paillade Sports Club" (Montpellier PSC)

Montpellier-Herault SC
1974 : fusion of "Paillade AS" with "Montpellier-Littoral FC"
founded as "Montpellier La Paillade Sports Club" (Montpellier PSC)
1989 : changed name to "Montpellier-Herault Sports Club"

Mulhouse FC
1893 : founded as "Football Club de Mulhouse '93"
1989 : changed name to "Football Club de Mulhouse Sud-Alsace"

Muret AS
1903 : founded as "Amicale Sportive Muretaine"

Nancy-Lorraine AS
1966 : founded as "Association Sportive Nancy-Lorraine"

Nantes Atlantique FC
1943 : founded as "Football Club de Nantes" (Nantes FC)
1991 : changed name to "Football Club de Nantes Atlantique"

Nice OGC
1904 : founded as "Olympique Gymnaste Club de Nice"
1992 : changed name to "Olympique Gymnaste de Nice - Cote d'Azur"

Nimes Olympique
1937 : founded as "Nimes Olympique"

Niort Chamois FC
1925 : founded as "Chamois Niortais"
1991 : changed name to "Chamois Niortais Football Club"

Noisy-le-Sec Olympique
1943 : founded as "Olympique Noisy-le-Sec Banlieue '93"

Pacy-sur-Eure Football
1970 : founded as "Entente Sportive Vallee d'Eure Football Club"
1999 : changed name to "Pacy-Vallee d'Eure Football"

Paris CA
founded as "Cercle Athletique de Paris"
1963 : defunct

Paris FC
1969 : founded as "Football Club de Paris"
1970 : fusion with "Club Sangermanois" as "Paris Saint-Germain FC"
1972 : new creation with "Montreuil CA"
1982 : fusion with "Paris RC" as "Racing Paris 1"
Later, an amateur team took the original club name,
known as "Paris Football Club 2000"

Paris RC
1897 : founded as "Racing Club de Paris"
1982 : fusion with "Paris FC" as "Racing Paris 1"
1983 : changed name to "Racing Club de Paris" (Racing CP)
1987 : changed name to "Matra Racing de Paris" (Matra Racing)
1989 : changed name to "Racing Paris 1"
1991 : changed name to "Racing '92"
1992 : changed name to "Racing '92 CF"
1995 : changed name to "Racing Club de Paris"

Paris Saint-Germain FC
1970 : fusion of "Club Sangermanois" with "Paris FC"
founded as "Paris Saint-Germain Football Club"

Pau FC
1959 : founded as "Pau Football Club"

Perigueux Trelissac LMP FC
1950 : founded as "Football Club Trelissac Les Maurilloux Perigord"

Peronnas Bourg FC
1944 : founded as "Football Club Bourg-Peronnas"

Peronne Entente
founded as "Entente CAFC Peronne"

Plabennec Stade
1934 : founded as "Stade Plabennecois Football"

Poissy AS
1907 : founded as "Amicale Sportive de Poissy"

Pontivy Garde Saint-Ivy
1935 : founded as "Garde Saint-Ivy Pontivy"

Porto-Vecchio AS
1935 : founded as "Association Sportive Porto Vecchio"

Raon-l'Etape US
1921 : founded as "Union Sportive Raonnaise"

Reims Stade
1931 : founded as "Stade de Reims"

Rennes Stade FC
1901 : founded as "Stade Rennais Universite Club" (Stade Rennais UC)
1972 : changed name to "Stade Rennais Football Club"

Rodez AF
1930 : founded as "Stade Rodez Football"
1993 : changed name to "Rodez Aveyron Football"

Romorantin-Lanthenay SO
1930 : founded as "Stade Olympique Romoranthinais"

Roubaix SCO
1977 : fusion of "Roubaix Excelsior" with "Roubaix SC"
founded as "Roubaix Football"
1990 : fusion with "Racing Stade Roubaix" (Roubaix RS)
as "Stade Club Olympique Roubaix" (Roubaix SCO)

Roubaix Wasquehal ES
1924 : founded as "Entente Sportive de Wasquehal"

Rouen FC
1896 : founded as "Football Club Grand Rouen"
1997 : changed name to "Olympique Grand Rouen"

Roye US
founded as "Union Sportive de Roye"

Saint-Avold L'Hopital SS
1919 : founded as "Societe Sportive de L'Hopital"

Saint-Brieuc Briochin Stade
founded as "Stade Briochin"

Saint-Dizier CO
founded as "Club Olympique Saint-Dizier"

Saint-Etienne AS
1920 : founded as "Association Sportive de Saint-Etienne Loire"

Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray Oissel CMS
1920 : founded as "Club Municipal Sportif d'Oissel"

Saint-Georges-les-Ancizes US
founded as "Union Sportive Saint-Georges-les-Ancizes"

Saint-Gratien ES
1989 : founded as "Entente Sannois Saint-Gratien"

Saint-Lo Manche FC
1965 : founded as "Football Club Saint-Lo Manche"

Saint-Malo US
1902 : founded as "Union Sportive Saint-Malo"

Saint-Maur-des-Fosses Lusitanos US
1966 : founded as "Lusitanos de Saint-Maur-des Fosses Union Sportive"

Saint-Medard-en-Jalles FC
1941 : founded as "Football Club de Saint-Medard-en Jalles"

Saint-Omer US
1894 : founded as "Union Sportive de Saint-Omer"

Saint-Ouen Red Star AS
1897 : founded as "Association Sportive Red Star 93 Saint-Ouen"

Saint-Priest AS
1945 : founded as "Association Sportive de Saint-Priest"

Saint-Quentin OC
1920 : founded as "Olympique Saint-Quentinois"

Saint-Raphael Stade
founded as "Stade Raphaelois"

Sedan-Ardennes CS
1919 : founded as "Union Athletique Sedan-Torcy" (Sedan-Torcy UA)
1966 : fusion with "Racing Club de Paris" (Paris RC) as "Racing Club de Paris-Sedan"
1970 : changed name to "Club Sportif Sedan-Ardennes"

Segre ES
founded as "Entente Sportive de Segre"

Senlis USM
founded as "Union Sportive Municipale Senlis"

Sete FC
1914 : founded as "Football Club de Cette"
changed name to "Football Club de Sete"

Soyaux Angouleme AS
1925 : founded as "Association Sportive Angouleme"

Strasbourg AS
1890 : founded

Strasbourg RC
1906 : founded as "Racing Club de Strasbourg"

Strasbourg Red Star
1900 : founded

Strasbourg Vauban

Thouars Foot '79
1929 : founded as "Club Sportif des Chemots Thouarsais" (Thouars CSC)
1998 : changed name to "Thouars Foot '79"

Tinqueux SC
founded as "Sporting Club de Tinqueux"

Toulouse FC
1937 : founded as "Toulouse Football Club"
1967 : defunct (the players went to "Red Star")

Toulouse US
1970 : founded as "Union Sportive Toulouse" (Toulouse US)
1979 : changed name to "Toulouse Football Club"

Toulouse Balma SC
1947 : founded as "Balma Sporting Club"

Toulouse Fontaines Club
1932 : founded as "Toulouse Fontaines Club"

Tours FC
1951 : founded as "Football Club de Tours"

Troyes ESTAC
1900 : founded as "Union Sportive Troyenne" (Troyes US)
1931 : fusion with "Association Sportive Savinienne" (Savinienne AS) as "Association Sportive Troyenne-Savinienne" (Troyenne-Savinienne AS)
1967 : changed name to "Troyes Omnisports" (Troyes OS)
1970 : changed name to "Troyes Aube Football" (Troyes AF)
1979 : changed name to "Patronage Laique de Troyes" (Troyes PL)
1986 : new creation as "Association Troyes Aube Champagne" (ATAC)
also known as "Esperance Sportive Troyes Aube Champagne" (ESTAC)

Valence ASOA
1992 : founded as "Association Sportive d'Origine Armenienne de Valence"

Valenciennes-Anzin FC
1934 : founded as "Union Sportive de Valenciennes-Anzin arrondissement"
1991 : changed name to "Union Sportive de Valenciennes-Anzin"
1996 : changed name to "Valenciennes-Anzin Football Club"

Vannes OC
1998 : founded as "Vannes Olympique Club"

Venissieux Minguettes AS
1969 : founded as "Association Sportive des Minguettes"

Vesoul USFC
1921 : founded as "Union Sportive Vesoul Football Club"

Viry-Chatillon ES
1932 : founded as "Entente Sportive Viry-Chatillon"

Vitre FC
1973 : founded as "La Vitreene Football Club"

Vitrolles ES
1988 : founded as "Entente Sportive Vitrolles"