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==Sports==
[[SC Bastia]] is the football club for Bastia. The [[Stade Armand Cesari|Armand-Cesari Stadium]] is located in the neighbouring commune of [[Furiani]]. The club was a finalist in the [[UEFA Europa League|UEFA Cup competition]] in 1978 and winner of the [[Coupe de France]] in 1981. They were also finalists in the Coupe de France in 1972 and 2002, Champion of France in [[Ligue 2]] in 1968 and 2012, as well as National Champion of France in 2011. In 2015 SC Bastia played and lost the final of the League Cup against PSG, 20 years after playing them in the same competition in 1995. The club currently plays in the [[Championnat National]], following their demotion from Ligue 2 in the 2016–17 season.<ref>[http://www.sc-bastia.corsica/?page_id=22 SAC Bastia website] {{in lang|fr}}</ref>

Besides SC Bastia there are two other amateur football clubs: [[ÉF Bastia]] and another club which used to be known as [[CA Bastia]]. CA's highest point was playing in Ligue 2 during the 2013–14 season, however immediate relegation from Ligue 2, and further relegation from the Championnat National in 16–17 led them to merge with fellow lower league club [[Borgo FC|Borgo]], and form [[FC Bastia-Borgo]], who currently play in the Championnat. A fourth club, the ''Football Corsica Club Bastiais'' (FCCB) disappeared after playing in six amateur championships in Corsica in the 1950s Historically each of these four clubs was supported by a different part of the city: the Place Saint-Nicolas district were blue (SC Bastia), the Old Port was black (CA Bastia), the citadel and the Saint Joseph district were white (EF Bastia), and the market area was red (FCCB). Sporting dominance has overshadowed other clubs in Bastia over time. At the end of the 2012/2013 season there were for the first time two professional clubs in Bastia: SC Bastia in Ligue 1 and the CA Bastia promoted from National, for a total of four Corsican professional football clubs (with [[AC Ajaccio]] in Ligue 1 and [[GFC Ajaccio]], at that point in Ligue 2).
 
Bastia was also a city-stage in the [[Tour de France 2013]]: the arrival point of the first stage from [[Porto-Vecchio]] and starting point for the second to [[Ajaccio]].

Bastia was formerly the headquarters for the French round of the [[FIA World Rally Championship]].