Espérance Sportive Troyes Aube Champagne is a French association football club, based in Troyes. It was founded in 1986. It is the third professional club from Troyes in history, after ASTS and TAF. The club was promoted to Ligue 1 for the 2005–06 season and their first Ligue 1 season was in 1999-2000. It currently plays in French second division, Ligue 2. They won the Intertoto Cup in 2001 after beating Newcastle United on the away goals rule after the score was 4 – 4 on aggregate – all goals being scored in the second leg at Newcastle. They are back in Ligue 1 for the season 2012-2013.

The first ever football club in Troyes was created in 1900, as Union Sportive Troyenne (UST). In 1931, it merges with the AS Savinienne, a club from the suburbs of Troyes, to form the Association Sportive Troyenne et Savinienne (ASTS). The newly formed club became professional in 1935, and joined the Ligue 2. The club reached the Première Division in 1954/55, under the guidance of manager and former international player Roger Courtois (1952–1963), with players such as Abdelaziz Ben Tifour, Marcel Artelesa or Pierre Flamion. It constituted one of the more glorious time of the club, as they reached the Coupe de France final in 1956, against CS Sedan Ardennes, which they actually lose 3-1. The same day, the youth team of the club won the Coupe Gambardella, the French Youth cup. That very same year, the club failed to keep its place in French top flight, and was back in Division 2. It finally succeed in reaching the Première Division again in 1960, but it lasted just one season, as it was relegated in 1961. The club had some financial difficulties, and had to leave professional football at the end of the 1962-1963 season, which they finished 17th out of 20. They pursued two more seasons at regional level, under the guidance of former ASTS player Jacques Diebold, before disappearing.

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Troyes (French pronunciation: [tʁwa]) is a commune and the capital of the Aube department in north-central France. It is located on the Seine river about 150 km (93 mi) southeast of Paris. Many half-timbered houses (mainly of the 16th century) survive in the old town. Troyes has been in existence since the Roman era, as Augustobona Tricassium, which stood at the hub of numerous highways, primarily the Via Agrippa.

Troyes has been in existence since the Roman era, as Augustobona Tricassium, which stood at the hub of numerous highways, primarily the Via Agrippa which led north to Reims and south to Langres and eventually to Milan; other Roman routes from Troyes led to Poitiers, Autun and Orléans. It was the civitas of the Tricasses, who had been separated by Augustus from the Senones. Of the Gallo-Roman city of the early Empire, some scattered remains have been found, but no public monuments, other than traces of an aqueduct. By the Late Empire the settlement was reduced in extent, and referred to as Tricassium or Tricassae, the origin of French Troyes ("three").

Stéphane Darbion (born March 22, 1984 in Belley, Ain) is a French football player, currently with Skoda Xanthi in Greece.

Darbion began his career with HSC Montpellier and was promoted in 2003 to the Ligue 2 senior side. After four years on senior side with Montpellier HSC and seventy games, who scores only four goals, joined to AC Ajaccio in July 2007. On 12 June 2009 FC Nantes have signed the attacking midfielder from AC Ajaccio on a two-year deal.

Benjamin Nivet (born 1977-01-02 in Chartres) is a French professional football (soccer) player. He is an attacking midfielder and was at Ligue 1 club Troyes AC from 2002 to 2007. He signed a three year contact with Caen on 8 June 2007 a club newly promoted to ligue 1

Starting his career as a youth with AJ Auxerre, Nivet made his first league appearances in the 1997-98 season. However, by the end of the following season, he had made only twelve further appearances and was sent on loan to Ligue 2 club LB Châteauroux for the 1999-2000 season before making the move permanent for the next season.

After establishing himself as a regular for Châteauroux, he made the step back up to Ligue 1 with Troyes in January 2002. Despite a slow start, Nivet established himself as a regular in Troyes' 2002-03 relegation season, and has been almost ever-present since.

Wearing the number 10 shirt, Nivet has proved that he has an eye for goal, weighing in with 12 goals in Troyes' promotion season in 2005-06.

Paul Bastien Lasne (born 16 January 1989) is a French footballer who currently plays for French club AC Ajaccio. He plays as a midfielder.

Born in St-Cloud, he broke into the first team squad at Bordeaux in 2009. He was loaned out to Châteauroux in January 2010. He left them at the end of the season having played nine games in total. At the start of the 2010–11 season he was loaned out again, to AC Ajaccio. He made his debut for Ajaccio on 13 September in a 1–1 draw with Évian Thonon Gaillard.

On 27 June 2011, he signed a permanent deal lasting until June 2014 at Ajaccio.