Racing Besançon (RB) and Besançon Football (BF). Basketball is present with the Besançon Avenir Comtois (BesAC) club, playing in Championnat de Nationale
parlement from Dole to Besançon. The university, founded by Duke Philippe le Bon of Burgundy in 1422, was also transferred to Besançon at that time. In January
of the city of Besançon, France. 58 BCE - Julius Caesar occupied Vesontio, the chief town of the Sequani. 1st C. CE – Arènes deBesançon [fr] (amphitheatre)