Toulouse OAC

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The Toulouse Olympique Aérospatiale Club , usually just Toulouse OAC or TOAC for short , is a polysportive French club from Toulouse . He has achieved France-wide fame in particular through his women's football department , which was dissolved at the beginning of the 21st century and which this article deals with primarily.

history

The women's football department was founded in 1980, whereby the club as a whole - as its name suggests - could count on organizational and material support from the aerospace company Aérospatiale , part of EADS in the 21st century under the name Airbus SAS , then and now the largest commercial employer in the “pink city”. At first, the women, who competed in the club colors sky blue and white, had to deal with very strong local competitors , namely AS l'Union and Olympique Mirail .

In 2001, after winning the third league title, the successful women's football department of the Olympique Aérospatiale Club joined the city's “big club”, Toulouse FC , under whose colors the players who had taken this step won another French championship in 2002 won.

League affiliation and achievements

For the first time, the TOAC players took part in the preliminary round of the French women's championship in the 1981/82 season; there, however, the Toulouse soccer players failed already in the regional preliminary round as they did three years later . It was not until the 1988/89 season before TOAC was allowed to intervene again in the competition for the French championship, but - like the rivals from OM Toulouse - was eliminated again in the preliminary round. Otherwise ran the following three seasons - and when the French Football Federation with the 1992/93 season had introduced a uniform nationwide premier league, the Toac belonged indeed to the twelve participants, but increased as well Olympique Mirail Toulouse, already at the end of this season from it.

First class again in 1994, the time began when the TOAC dominated women's football in France. In the following seven years he won the championship title three times in a row ( 1999 , 2000 and 2001 ) and was runner-up just as often (1995, 1997, 1998). Until then, only two other clubs in France had won three women's championships in a row ( Stade Reims in the mid-1970s and VGA Saint-Maur in the 1980s). During this time, numerous female footballers from the club were appointed to the French women's national team. At the 2001 European Championship finals in Germany , five TOAC players were among the French squad . The story of the successful club ended immediately afterwards.
Since a France-wide cup competition for female soccer players was only introduced in 2001, the TOAC was never able to win it; However, the wives of the first winner of the Challenge de France féminine , Toulouse FC, included numerous former players of the club.

Well-known former players

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