AC Arles-Avignon
| AC Arles-Avignon | |||
| Basic data | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Surname | Athlétic Club Arles-Avignon | ||
| Seat | Arles | ||
| founding | February 18, 1913 | ||
| Colours | yellow blue | ||
| president | Marcel Salerno | ||
| Website | www.arlesavignon.net | ||
| First soccer team | |||
| Head coach | Victor Zvunka | ||
| Venue | Parc des Sports | ||
| Places | 17,518 | ||
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The AC Arles-Avignon , completely Athlétic Club Arles-Avignon , is a French football club from Arles in the Bouches-du-Rhône department .
The club colors are yellow and blue; The league team, whose players are also called les Lions because of the lion's head in the club's coat of arms, usually played their home games at the Stade Fernand-Fournier , which has a capacity of 2,500, but since the 2009/10 season in the Parc des Sports of Avignon , which meets the requirements of the league association LFP corresponds better. In order to attract more spectators there, the club has at least temporarily renamed itself AC Arles-Avignon . In early July 2009, the association received the approval of the LFP for both intentions.
The association has been led by Marcel Salerno since May 2010. The coach of the league eleven has been Franck Dumas since February 2013 . (As of August 2013)
history
Beginnings
AC Arles was founded on February 18, 1913. At that time, three of the city's clubs, La Pédale Joyeuse , Arles Auto-Vélo and Arles Sports , the first two cycling and motor sports clubs, merged ; the merger took the name Athlétic Club Arlésien .
This club joined the Division d'Honneur de la Ligue du Sud-Est from 1933 , where they stayed until the end of the war in 1945. During this time, French greats like Marcel Domingo and Désiré Koranyi played in Arles.
In 1954 the ACA rose to the highest amateur league ( Championnat de France Amateur , CFA). However, you could not stay there long and soon had to return to the Division d'Honneur. In the following years, Arles always played at the top of this league, but never made it to the next higher division in any season.
First successes
The club stayed in the CFA for five years. In the 14 years of Maurice Jauffret's presidency (1967-1981), the team even made it into the second division in 1970 . There the club from the south of France played until 1974 when he was relegated to the third division , from where he rose again after two seasons. In the 1978/79 season, AC Arles then rose again to the third division. The team stayed there for six years before relegation to fourth and fifth division followed. During this period, AC Arles was also able to record successes in cup competitions. In the Coupe de France , the club reached the round of 16 in 1970, 1973 and 2006, but failed there at FC Limoges , AS Saint-Étienne and SC Amiens . In addition, Arles was able to win numerous cup competitions at regional level during this period.
Current development
In recent years, AC Arles has developed rapidly in terms of sport. In the spring of 2006 still represented in the fifth highest division (CFA 2) , a seldom seen "walk-through" followed: in 2007 immediate promotion from the CFA to the third, in 2009 (after three decades) the return to the second division . In their first second division season , the team around players like Sébastien Piocelle , goalkeeper Cyrille Merville , Kaba Diawara , Benjamin Psaume and André Ayew , the son of Abédi Pelé , after initial difficulties, reached third place in the table behind SM Caen and Stade Brest and thus rose for the first time their history in Ligue 1 . The undisputed father of this series is coach Michel Estevan , who has looked after the team since 2005. There the club only lasted one season. In 2015 he was even relegated from the second division and was forcibly relegated to the fourth division for financial reasons; the ACAA then filed for bankruptcy a week before the start of the league game.
Well-known former players
- Daniel Charles-Alfred (four-time ex-international who ended his career in Arles)
- Djibril Cissé (as a teenager)
- Gaël Givet (as a teenager)
- Désiré Koranyi (five-time ex-international, towards the end of his career with Arles)
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
Remarks
- ↑ after France Football ( Memento from July 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ France Football of May 18, 2010, pp. 32/33
- ↑ see the article " Arles-Avignon files for bankruptcy " of July 31, 2015 at francefootball.fr