Standard AC Paris

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The Standard Athletic Club Paris (or Standard AC for short ) is a traditional football club from the French capital .

The club with the English name (i.e. not Athlétique ) emerged from the Gordon Football Club , which British footballers had founded in Paris in 1891. In March 1892 W.-D. Attrill, N. Tunmer and the Wynn Standard brothers from the christening. This made him one of the three oldest clubs in the country that no longer played football in the rugby version . The club soon found a sports field in the Bois de Boulogne , near the Porte Dauphine ; it is also said to have been the first football club in France to have the initially very sparse appearing spectators pay an entrance fee.

history

Before the First World War

Standard AC joined France's initially only football association , the Union des Sociétés Françaises de Sports Athlétiques (USFSA), immediately after it was founded. From 1894, it held a national championship ( Championnat de France ), initially limited to Paris from 1898/99 . Although there were competing associations from 1905 that played their own championship, the USFSA remained the association with the largest number of members, as did most of the other traditional clubs in France (e.g. Gallia Club , Racing Club de France and Club Français from Paris, Le Havre AC , Stade Helvétique Marseille , Olympique Lille , RC Roubaix and US Tourcoing ).

The first recorded encounter was played by Standards Kicker against Club Français Paris on November 1, 1892; The game ended with a draw. In the following weeks it set defeats (0-2 again against Club Français, 1-5 and 0-3 against the British from White Rovers Paris ), before a first victory succeeded in January 1893 (4-0 over CF). In the spring of this year, the SAC welcomed the team from Marylebone FC from London, who gave the Parisians a real lesson in the 7-0 win.

Obviously, the Standard players had actually learned their lessons from this: at the first Championnat de France (May 1894), which was limited to Paris, in the final, they defeated White Rovers, who had been unbeaten against French teams, 2-2 and 2-0 (replay). . Thus ten British and one French became first French champions ; the list of the winner is preserved: H. Wynn - W.-D. Attrill, E. Wynn-Hill, J. Roscoe, Leguillard-Vines, O. Hickx (or Higgs), Hunter, A. Tunmer, N. Tunmer.

Standard AC retained this top position in the "childhood years" of French football until shortly after the turn of the century: it also won the title in 1895, 1897, 1898 and (for the first time after a final against the other regional champions) in 1901. Only the Club Français (1896) and Le Havre AC (1899 and 1900) were able to interrupt Standards' successful streak. In 1901, Le Havre was downright humiliated 6-1 after a draw in Paris on its home run. After that, however, with the Racing Club Roubaix , another club entered its championship series and Standard was never able to achieve a similar success.

No “revival” in the cup

The Standard Athletic Club took part in the very first national cup competition (1917/18 as Coupe Charles Simon , since 1919/20 as Coupe de France ) - given the club's tradition one can say: of course - but scored in the last 32 Teams on the oldest of its rivals: after a 2-2 draw, Club Français prevailed 5-1 in the replay. In 1925 and 1926 Standard reached the round of the last 64 teams, but since then he has been denied even such modest successes. (Status: 2010)

The standard AC today

After all, this traditional club still exists today: Standard no longer plays in the Bois de Boulogne, but since 1922 in Meudon ( Département Hauts-de-Seine ) in the south-western, “better” banlieue of Paris; his players do not fight for victory in Ligue 1 , but only in a lower amateur league. But in a club house on a very British-looking sports facility, the old trophies from a great past are still regularly polished. The language of the association is also English in 2008; In addition to football, tennis, squash, field hockey, cricket and golf are also practiced.

successes

National player

France's first official international match took place on May 1, 1904, the second in February 1905 - too late for the Standard AC, which had its wedding behind it and only a few French in its ranks during these years. The Équipe Tricolore's roll of honor includes national players from no fewer than 41 Parisian football clubs, but the very first “subscription champion” in the country is not represented on it.

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

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