122 years ago, on 10th July 1904, a few lines in the daily newspaper Le Petit Niçois announced that a new “sports and athletics organisation” named “Gymnase Club” had been created in Nice’s Saint-Pierre-de-Féric neighbourhood the day before. The column encouraged “the young people who kindly agreed to join it” to attend the club’s first general meeting, which had been scheduled for the following day.

From then on, it wouldn’t take the beautiful game long to make its mark. Following a 6–0 win in the team’s very first competitive fixture on 29th November 1908, OGC Nice’s story was beginning to unfold, with four Division 1 titles (in 1951, 1952, 1956 and 1959), three Coupes de France (in 1952, 1954 and 1957), one Coupe Gambardella (in 2012), two quarter-final appearances in the European Cup and one in the UEFA Conference League – not to mention countless emotions – coming along the way. Le Gym might have started off as a mere sports organisation, but, having given us both incredible thrills and indescribable heartache, as well as building up and tearing down myths populated by giants, monsters, legends, artists and adventures, it has now become the love of our lives.

So, to this love, we’d like to wish all the best and a very happy birthday!

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