FC Mulhouse
| FC Mulhouse | |
| Basic data | |
|---|---|
| Surname | Football Club de Mulhouse |
| Website | fr.fcmulhouse.net |
| First soccer team | |
| Venue | Stade de l'Ill |
| Places | 11.303 |
| league | National 2 |
| 2018/19 | 1st place ( National 3, Group F ) |
The Football Club de Mulhouse is a football club from Mulhouse , the largest city in the French department of Haut-Rhin in Alsace (French: Alsace ). The eventful recent history of the region , which was incorporated in Germany between 1870/71 and 1918 and from 1940 to 1944/45, is also reflected in the history of this club.
It was founded in 1893 as the Mulhouse football club in 1893 . He competed under this name until 1918 and again from 1940 to 1945, in between and since then he has had his current name.
The club colors are blue and white; the league team played from 1906 in the cycling stadium ( Stade Vélodrome ), after the First World War in the Stade de Bourtzwiller and today in the Stade de l'Ill , which has a capacity of 11,303 places. The club's president is Alain Dreyfus; the first team is trained by Hakim Aibeche. (As of October 2015)
The beginnings
English and Alsatian high school students were among the FC’s earliest active members, with Émile Reis’s first president. Football games have been handed down from 1895, including two encounters with the Grasshoppers Zurich . In 1901 Young Boys Mulhouse joined the FC, which in 1904 joined the German Football Association . In 1904/05 , Mulhouse took part in an organized game for the first time, prevailed on the Upper Rhine against Freiburg FC and SV Strasbourg, but was only third out of four participants with only one victory in the subsequent round of the southern German district. However, this was rated 5-0 goals due to the absence or non-participation of FC Bayern Munich . After that, however, the FCM failed every year until 1914 at the lowest level at Freiburg FC (for example, a 0:12 from 1907 is handed down), which in turn had no chance in the southern season of southern Germany year after year.
In the spring of 1914, FC played a number of friendly games against French teams and achieved surprisingly good results against the champions of 1913 ( CA Paris ) and 1914 ( Lille Olympique ). Less than six months later, the war not only ended international football games.
In 1919, FC Mulhouse joined the French Football Association, was champion of Alsace six times between 1921 and 1932, and in 1932 achieved what is probably its greatest success to date as the winner of the Coupe Sochaux - although this cup does not count as an official championship because it is not yet a uniform top division in France. After all, the blue-whites qualified for the first time in 1932/33, professional Division 1 , from which they as the bottom of the table in Group A but immediately and in which they rose again a year later. The Austrian international Ferdinand Swatosch , who acted as player- coach until around November, said at the time: "A very terrible company, of course from a football perspective. The players are inaccessible to instructions and it is also impossible to encourage them to train regularly." The following sixth place in the 1934/35 season was also her best ranking of all time across the Rhine; the Austrian Franz Weselik , who came from Rapid Vienna , was the third-best league scorer with 24 goals for FCM.
After the Second World War , Mulhouse only played twice for a year in the House of Lords (despite temporary financial support from Peugeot , which has a large plant near Mulhouse). Rather, the club attracted attention in the French Cup: in 1928 it advanced to the semi-finals, the quarter-finals he reached in 1969, 1984, 1989, 1990, 1995 and 1998 - but titles only won the (distant) neighbors in all these decades Strasbourg and Sochaux .
League affiliation
In France
Mulhouse had professional status from 1932–1939, 1945/46 and 1980–1999. First class ( Division 1 , renamed Ligue 1 since 2002 ) played the club in 1932/33, 1934-1937, 1982/83 and 1989/90. Currently (2013/14) he competes in the fourth class CFA , the highest amateur league in the country.
During the German time
- From 1904 to 1918 there was only one regionally very fragmented game operation, in which Mülhausen only attracted attention beyond the Dreyeckland in one season (1904/05) (see above, "The beginnings").
- From June 1940 to November 1944, the FCM played in the Gauliga Alsace (also sports class 14a / Alsace ), one of then 26 first-class regional leagues in Germany.
- 1940/41 : 1st place; after 3: 1 and 1: 2 against Rasensportclub Strasbourg - final round of the German championship (DM) : in the preliminary group (against VfL Cologne 99 , Kickers Offenbach , TuS Helene Altenessen ) last with 1:11 points
- 1941/42 : 4th place
- 1942/43 : 1st place - final round for DM: preliminary round (knockout system) 1: 5 at FV Saarbrücken
- 1943/44 : 1st place - final round for DM: 4: 2 against Kickers Offenbach (preliminary round), 3: 5 at war syndicate FV / Altenkessel Saarbrücken (round of 16)
- 1944/45 : no longer completed
successes
- French league championship : best position so far was table rank 6 (1934/35); also in 1932 winner of the Coupe Sochaux , an unofficial predecessor of the Championnat de France
- French Football Cup : semi-finalist 1928
- In Germany:
- Master of the Gauliga Alsace : 1940/41 , 1942/43 , 1943/44
- Winner of the Alsace Gaupokal 1943, 1944
Trainer
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Ferenc Plattkó (player-coach, 1932–1933)
player
French national team
The number of international matches for FC Mulhouse and the period of these international appearances are given in brackets
- Maurice Banide (3; 1930) before and then three more international matches for three other clubs
- Paul "Poly" Bloch (1; 1921)
- Marcel Kauffmann (5; 1930–1933)
- Pierre Korb (12; 1930–1934; scored two goals)
- Lucien Laurent (1; 1935) previously nine more internationals for two other clubs
- Guillaume "Willy" Lieb (5; 1928–1929; scored two goals) previously ten more internationals for two other clubs
- Didier Six (6; 1984; became European champion )
Other known French
- Georges Boulogne (coach in the 1950s)
- Raymond Domenech (1984/85 player-coach)
- Bernard Genghini (1992–1995 coach)
- Yannick Stopyra (1992/93)
German and Austrian players
- Ferdinand Swatosch , (player-coach, 1932)
- Edmund Conen ("guest player" 1943/44, 13 goals)
- Karl Gall (1936–39)
- Manfred Kaltz (1989/90)
- August Klingler ("guest player" 1943/44, 32 goals)
- Willibald Kreß (during his "professional player suspension" by the DFB, 1932/33)
- Arno Motschmann (1932–1934) and (1938–1940)
- Ernst Otterbach ("guest player" 1942/43)
- Karl Schott (1933–1935)
- Franz Weselik (from 1934)
President of the association
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Swell:
literature
- Thierry Berthou / Collectif: Dictionnaire historique des clubs de football français. Pages de Foot, Créteil 1999 - Volume 1 (A – Mo) ISBN 2-913146-01-5 , Volume 2 (Mu – W) ISBN 2-913146-02-3 .
Web links
- Official club website (French)
- The Gauliga Alsace (French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ FC Mulhouse.pdf (Alsatian)
- ↑ 100 ans de football en Alsace , Strasbourg, Ligue d'Alsace de Football Association (LAFA), 2002 (5 volumes)