FC Girondins de Bordeaux (French: Football Club des Girondins de Bordeaux), also known simply as Bordeaux, is a French football club founded in 1881. The club's football team plays its home games at the Stade Bordeaux-Atlantique. The team plays in the French third division. The team's greatest achievement was reaching the 1996 UEFA Cup Final. On the way to the final, Bordeaux defeated teams such as Real Betis, Milan and Slavia Prague. In the final, the team lost to Bayern Munich, thus denying them their first European title. (Wikipedia)