FC Bergerac
The Football Club de Bergerac or FC Bergerac for short is a football club from the town of Bergerac in Périgord in southwest France . The club has achieved national importance exclusively through its female soccer players .
history
The association was founded in 1916, in the middle of the First World War , as Enfants de France ("Children of France") de Bergerac or EF Bergerac. At the time, he belonged to the Catholic sports movement FGSPF , but some time after the end of the war he joined the newly founded unified association FFFA . In 1982 the football department was renamed Bergerac Foot . In 2012 there was a merger with FC Trois Vallées Cours-de-Pile and the women's football club FC La Force féminine (“The Woman's Power”) Bergerac , also known as FC Bergerac, under the name Bergerac Périgord FC . The players of the former FC Bergerac played an important role throughout the country, especially in the early stages of modern French women's football during the 1970s (see the following chapter).
The club's first men's team reached the national main round in the French Cup for the first time in the 2016/17 season , in which they play for points in the fourth-rate Championnat de France Amateur (CFA) .
The club colors are now the same as those of the city, namely blue and red. The club's coat of arms is also adorned with a fox's head .
League affiliation and achievements
When the national association organized a women's football championship for the first time in 1974/75 , the women of FC reached the semi-finals, in which they failed at Arago Sport Orléans . In the following two seasons they were again among the four best teams in the country, this time it was Stade Reims , the "überfrauschaft" of the 1970s, who blocked Bergerac's entry into the final. Between 1978 and 1982 the Southwest French women were represented twice in the regional preliminary rounds and once ( 1978/79 ) even in the quarter-finals. In the following decades they had lost their initial regional dominance, especially to ASJ Soyaux . As a result, from 1993 onwards, when a first and a second division were introduced, they never appeared again at this national level. For a long time they were also unable to reach the main rounds of the national cup competition introduced in 2001 ; Bergerac's women achieved this for the first time as a third division in the 2015/16 season .
The first men's team was promoted to the fourth division (CFA) in 2015 .
Well-known former players
- Dominique Tedeschi , initially with Cours-de-Pile, where she became a national player , and at least 1974 to 1976 with FC Bergerac
Web links
Notes and evidence
- ↑ see the outline of the club's history ( memento of the original from January 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at aquifoot.com
- ↑ according to the article "Strength lies in unity" from June 25, 2012 on the website of the Ligue d'Aquitaine regional association
