HSC Montpellier (women's football)

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HSC Montpellier
(women's football)
Logo of HSC Montpellier
Basic data
Surname Montpellier Hérault Sport Club
Seat Montpellier , France
founding 2001
president Laurent Nicollin
Website www.mhscfoot.com/articles/feminines
First soccer team
Head coach Jean-Louis Saez
Venue Stade Jules Rimet
Sussargues
Places 500
league Division 1 Féminine
2019/20 4th Place
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The HSC Montpellier (officially: Montpellier Hérault Sport Club ) is a football club from Montpellier in the Hérault department . For the 2001/02 season, the women's department of the MHSC was created by joining the women's football department of the Entente Montpellier Le Crès . Since this merger, the women's team has been playing in Division 1 Féminine , the highest division in French women's football, without interruption .

history

In 2001, the women's football department of the French first division club Entente Montpellier Le Crès decided to leave and join HSC Montepellier. The HSC acquired the right to start in the Championnat National 1A . The transfer came about because both the club officials and the players hoped for better financial support for their sport. In 2001 the daily Liberation even spoke of the "birth of the first professional women's team" in France.

The hoped-for success came relatively quickly. In the second season she reached the final in the French club cup . In the final they met in Montceau-les-Mines on the FC Lyon . Despite a 3-2 lead at halftime, the players from HSC Montepellier lost the game 3-4. In the 2003/04 season , the club was able to win the French championship for the first time. After taking second place in the table in the first phase, they were able to secure the championship title in the controversial championship phase.

In the following season, HSC Montpellier was the third club to defend the French championship. In contrast to the previous season, the championship was not divided into the first phase and the championship round, but only one main round was played. Montpellier celebrated the championship three points ahead of Juvisy FCF .

In the 2015/16 season , the team was second behind Juvisy FCF to defend their title again. In contrast, Montpellier qualified for the final in the Challenge de France féminin 2005/06 with a 0-1 win over Juvisy FCF . In Aulnat , the HSC Olympique Lyon team defeated 4: 3 on penalties and won the French cup competition for the first time.

In the following season, HSC Montpellier knocked out the Stade Saint-Brieuc team 3-1 in the semi-finals . In the final, as in the previous year, they met Olympique Lyon and, as in the previous year, the decision was not made until the penalty shoot-out, which HSC Montpellier knew to win 3-0. After FC Lyon , HSC Montpellier was only the second club to win the French cup competition twice in a row.

For the first time in four years, the Montepellier team could not win a title in the 2007/08 season. In the league they finished third behind Olympique Lyon and Juvisy FCF and in the cup competition the team failed in the quarter-finals against Juvisy FCF. In the 2008/09 season they defeated Olympique Lyon in the semi-finals of the French Cup on penalties and met the UC Le Mans surprise team from the French second division at the Stade Gerland . With a 3-1 win they won the French cup competition for the third time. The team from Montpellier became the record winners of the cup and stayed that way until the 2013/14 season when Olympique Lyon won the cup competition for the fourth time.

Well-known players

Numerous national players emerged from the ranks of the club ; The title wins are particularly associated with four names: Hoda Lattaf played from 2001 to 2006 and again since the beginning of 2009 for the MHSC league team, Élodie Ramos and Ludivine Diguelman even continuously since 2002 and 2003; all three stayed there until summer 2014. Sarah M'Barek worked from 2001 to 2005 as a player and then - as the successor to Patrice Lair - until 2013 as head coach at Montpellier.

successes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Laurence Prudhomme-Poncet: Histoire du football féminin au XXe siècle. L'Harmattan, Paris 2003, ISBN 2-7475-4730-2 , p. 286, describes this assessment as "a bit premature".