AC Cambrai
The Athlétic Club Cambrésien or AC Cambrai for short is a French football club from the northern French city of Cambrai .
His club colors are black and yellow. The league team competes in the Stade de la Liberté , which opened in 1952 and which now has a capacity of around 1,500 spectators.
history
The Athlétic Club was founded in 1919, shortly after the end of the First World War ; their first recorded game played Cambrais footballers in early March of the same year against the soldiers' team of the British Worcestershire regiment still stationed in the area . In a region with a great footballing tradition - six clubs from Roubaix , Tourcoing and Lille as well as three from the coast of the English Channel were admitted to the regional first division in 1919/20 - AC Cambrai was neither in the 1920s nor in the 1930s as one national, professional game operations in France were among the teams in the front row. It was not until after the Second World War , in the summer of 1951, that the ACC rose for the first time to the top regional division, the Division d'Honneur Nord ; In the meantime, however, it was only a season of the fourth-highest league or the second-highest amateur league. From 1964 Cambrai then played third class and in 1966 even reached the final of the French amateur championship as Northern France champions . In it, the team lost to Gazélec FCO Ajaccio 2: 4 nV after they only had to accept the 2: 2 equalizer in the final minute of regular time. Admittedly, the number of spectators in the domestic Stade de la Liberté remained moderate even in the most successful years of sport; the average number of visitors between 1965 and 1975 was only between 1,100 and 1,800 - with the exception of the 1965/66 season, when it was slightly more than 2,200. The club record with 5,217 paying spectators was set up at a home game against neighbor US Valenciennes-Anzin in the second division season 1973/74.
The club also had a women's football department . From the 1984/85 season Cambrais players appeared in the northern group of the highest league, but could not prevail against the dominant regional competitors from Étrœungt , Hénin-Beaumont and Saint-Maur ; when the number of participants in the French women's league was reduced to 30 in 1987, Cambrai was not among the qualified.
League affiliation and achievements
The club has never had professional status and has never played in the top French league . In return, AC Cambrai was represented in the second division for five years, namely from 1970 , when the league was converted from a purely professional class into a competition that was also open to amateur teams, until 1975 . The footballers achieved their best placement in the local final ranking in 1972/73 with a twelfth place in the table in their group of 18.
In the cup competition for the Coupe de France , the Cambrésiens have so far taken 16 main rounds; the time focus was between the mid-1950s and mid-1970s. Between 1957/58 and 1966/67 they were missing in only two of the ten events. When they first played in the 1955/56 season, the then fifth division was defeated by the second division professionals from Stade Français Paris with 0: 4, and in 13 other seasons the black and yellow did not survive the first round, the thirty-second final. It was Red Star three times (1971, 1972 and 1992) who eliminated the ACC from the competition. However, Cambrai even made it to the round of 16 twice, namely in 1963 and 1969 . 1963 led the way there over two other amateur teams before the Girondins Bordeaux with 5-0 easily kept the upper hand; In 1969, however, Cambrai initially eliminated first division FC Rouen , who had just not lost 13 competitive games in a row, and the SO Cholet in the sixteenth finals . This was followed, however, by two 0-1 defeats - at that time the last rounds before the final were played back and forth - against the same class FC Mulhouse . The last main round participation up to the present (2013) was the ACC 2006/07 ; he forced the later finalists Olympique Marseille into extra time, in which only the four-class difference between the opponents became clear (final score: 1: 4).
In 2013/14 AC Cambrai will compete in Division d'Honneur , which is now only sixth division.
Well-known former players and coaches
- Albert Dubreucq , coach 1968–1971
- Georges Grabowski , player 1974–1976
- Harald Klose , player 1973–1975
- Jean Lechantre , French international, player or player- coach 1955–1959
- Pierre Phelipon , coach 1974–1976
- Marie-Noëlle Warot-Fourdrignier , player at ACC in the mid-1980s, during this time also a national player
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