USO Bruay

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The Union Sportive Ouvrière Bruay-Labuissière , usually referred to as USO Bruay for short , is a French football club from the northern French municipality of Bruay-la-Buissière . USO means workers' sports association . The club colors are red and white; the club's league team played their home games for decades at the Stade Vélodrome Léo-Lagrange , and in the 21st century at the Stade Patrice Bergues .

history

The association was founded in 1902 as USO Bruay-en-Artois ; This means that the USOB, whose active people were predominantly miners who worked underground in the local mines , is one of the oldest “buddy clubs” in France. He joined the Union des sociétés françaises de sports athlétiques (USFSA), initially the only French association that also accepted footballers. Up until the First World War , clubs from Paris , the Mediterranean coast and northern France dominated it ; in this respect, the USOB had numerous strong competitors in the fight for the regional championship title. In particular , there was no getting past the five-time French champions Racing Roubaix , the US Tourcoing and later Olympique Lillois , so that until 1919 she was never able to qualify for the finals for the USFSA national championship .

In 1919, Bruay joined the Fédération Française de Football Association (FFFA), which was founded at the beginning of the year . Even after the introduction of a professional league operation (1932), the club always remained stuck with amateurism and developed from the early 1930s into one of the strongest clubs in northern France, which competed five times in a row for the national main round in the national cup competition from 1931/32 was able to qualify for the Coupe de France and was consistently represented at least in the northern French Division d'Honneur until well after the Second World War .

With the decline of hard coal mining in the region from the 1960s onwards, this club also experienced a sporting decline. After the merger of the two municipalities of Bruay-en-Artois and Labuissière (1987), the club took on its current name.

League affiliation and successes of the men's team

In the top French league, the USOB was never represented; However, in 1941/42 - during the German occupation of the country - she was one of the twelve teams from the French "forbidden zone" near the border who conducted an unofficial premier league game among themselves because travel and transport options to other parts of the country were subject to severe restrictions. In 1955, the USO Bruay-en-Artois qualified as Northern France champions for the finals of the French amateur championship and reached the final, in which they were defeated by the defending champions US Quevilly .

The "Arbeiterfußballer" (ouvriers-footballeurs) were more successful in the national cup, in which they reached the main round for 15 seasons between 1931 and 1965; her best time was in the 1930s and the first half of the 1950s. In five events (1934, 1935, 1951, 1955 and 1959) they even reached the sixteenth finals, that is to say among the 32 best professional and amateur teams in France; in all five seasons it was a professional opponent who prevented Bruay's progress - including three first division clubs with AS Cannes , Olympique Marseille and Stade Reims . During the Second World War, when the trophy also suffered from the consequences of the occupation and was held in the first rounds in the subregions, the USOB made it into the eighth finals in 1942/43 and even into the semi-finals of its zone in 1941/42 ; in it she was defeated "in a very close duel and only thanks to two goals from Stanis " in extra time to the later zone cup winner Racing Lens .

In 2012/13 the first men's team will compete in the Promotion d'Honneur (seventh league level).

Women's football department

In 1977 the association founded a women's department. The Bruaysiennes played from 1987 in the northern relay of the highest women's division, which at that time was still held in several regional groups; In 1992 they rose from it and commuted between the second and first division in the following seasons . In 2002, in the year of the 25th anniversary of the department, the USOB succeeded as the second division champion again in the single-track division 1, from which they, however, relegated after only one season as bottom of the table. In the national cup competition 2002/03 they were eliminated early after a 5-0 defeat by champions Juvisy FCF . At the end of the following season, the USOB players also had to leave the second women's division (northern group). In 2009, the club withdrew its wiveship from league play.

Well-known former players

literature

  • Thierry Berthou / Collectif: Dictionnaire historique des clubs de football français. Pages de Foot, Créteil 1999, Volume 1, ISBN 2-913146-01-5
  • L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: Coupe de France. La folle épopée. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2007, ISBN 978-2-915-53562-4
  • Jacques Verhaeghe / Gilbert Hocq: Le football en Nord-Pas-de-Calais 1892–2007. Alan Sutton, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire 2007, ISBN 978-2-84910-681-5

Web links

Notes and evidence

  1. ↑ a b see the information about the 100th anniversary of the entire association and the 25th anniversary of the women's department in 2002 on bruay.footfeminin.free.fr
  2. ^ Sophie Guillet / François Laforge: Le guide français et international du football éd. 2009. Vecchi, Paris 2008, ISBN 978-2-7328-9295-5 , p. 141
  3. ↑ Verhaeghe / Hocq, p. 156
  4. ^ Berthou / Collectif, Volume 1, p. 20
  5. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, pp. 351, 367 and 375
  6. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, p. 358
  7. ↑ see the overview of the D2 masters at footofeminin.fr
  8. ↑ see the 2002/03 season overview for league and cup at rsssf.com
  9. ↑ see the 2003/04 season overview at rsssf.com