Foundation, first cup final and decline The club was founded as
US Quevilly in 1902 by Amable Lozai and Jules Manneville, two former members of a hiking club whose president had refused to purchase a football. In two years' time, the team had 104 players and Lozai bought its first pitch for half a
French franc. In 1905, they began playing against other teams in
Normandy such as
Le Havre AC and
SM Caen, and adopted yellow and black as their colours. The pitch was taken in 1910 to build a quarry but a local man named Albert Lebas gave the club part of his land for the Stade Porte-de-Diane, which opened in 1912. Several Quevilly players were killed in
World War I. In 1919, after the end of the war, Quevilly joined the nascent
French Football Federation (FFF) and began playing in its Normandy League. In the early 1920s, it signed six British players. In the 1926–27 Coupe de France, the team beat
Amiens, neighbours
Rouen,
Suisse Paris and
Stade Raphaëlois to make the
final where they lost 3–0 to
Marseille at the
Stade Olympique in
Colombes. It was the first such final to be attended by a
President of France, namely
Gaston Doumergue. The team became dominant in Normandy in the 1930s as Le Havre and Rouen turned professional and played in national leagues. In October 1944, shortly after the
Normandy landings, Quevilly played a match against the British
Royal Marines for the benefit of player Henri Mallet who had lost his arm in the conflict. followed by a 3–1 home win over another top-flight team
Boulogne in the quarter-finals. The run ended in the semi-finals against PSG on 14 April 2010 at Caen's
Stade Michel d'Ornano,
Mevlüt Erdinç scoring the only goal for the Parisians. In the
2011–12 Coupe de France, Quevilly won 3–2 against manager
Didier Deschamps' Marseille in the quarter-finals, again at Caen, with two extra-time goals by
John-Christophe Ayina. The semi-final at the same ground was won 2–1 over Rennes to put Quevilly in the final for the first time in 85 years, and making them the first amateurs in the final since Amiens in
2001.
Lyon won the
final, with a first-half goal by
Lisandro López.
Union and promotions In April 2015, US Quevilly joined with
FC Rouen to form
US Quevilly-Rouen Métropole, taking the place of US Quevilly in the fourth-tier
Championnat de France Amateur for the 2015–16 season. The collaboration was initiated by the
Métropole Rouen Normandie, who provided €200,000 of its €1.5 million budget, with the aim of promotion to the
Championnat National within two years and Ligue 2 within three to five. As Quevilly was ranked two divisions higher than Rouen, it provided the president, manager and most players, while playing at Rouen's
Stade Robert Diochon; both clubs continued to exist independently. The team initially played home games in Rouen's red with trim of Quevilly's yellow, and the inverse away from home. The new team won Group A of the
2015–16 Championnat de France amateur, gaining promotion to the
2016–17 Championnat National. As runners-up to
Châteauroux, they achieved instant promotion again to the
2017–18 Ligue 2. Beginning the season playing home games in front of low crowds at the
Stade Marie-Marvingt in
Le Mans due to works on the Stade Robert Diochon, the team were relegated back. Rouen ended its involvement in the team in June 2018. Promotion back to Ligue 2 was secured on 28 April 2021, after other results ensured the club a top-two finish in the
2020–21 Championnat National behind
SC Bastia and at the expense of
Villefranche. A year later, the team kept themselves in the division after winning 5–1 on aggregate against Villefranche in the promotion-relegation playoffs. In 2022–23, under
Olivier Echouafni, the club
came 11th in the league, but were eliminated from the
7th round of the Coupe de France on penalties away to fifth-tier
Aubervilliers. The club were relegated the following season, with two games left to play. == Coaching staff ==