ASCA Wittelsheim
| ASCA Wittelsheim | |
| Basic data | |
|---|---|
| Surname | Association sportive Cités Amélie Wittelsheim |
| Seat | Wittelsheim , Haut-Rhin , France |
| founding | 1925 |
| Colours | blue White |
| Website | asca-footeo.footeo.com |
| First soccer team | |
| Venue | Stade Hippolyte Hardy |
| Places | 4000 |
| league | Ligue d'Alsace de football, District 1 |
The ASCA Wittelsheim (officially Association sportive Cités Amélie Wittelsheim ) is a French sports club from the municipality of Wittelsheim in the Alsatian department of Haut-Rhin . The club is known for both its football and handball department .
Soccer
The association was founded in 1925 in Wittelsheim, a municipality near the city of Mulhouse in the Alsatian potash district . The part of the name Cités Amelié refers to two large mining settlements in Wittelsheim, which are named after Amélie Zurcher , the founder of potash mining in Alsace.
The club's soccer team played only inferiorly in the period before the Second World War . During the German occupation of France in World War II from 1940 to 1944, the football clubs from Alsace-Lorraine took part in the games of the German Reich .
The ASCA Wittelsheim now appeared as SV Wittelsheim and was included in the Gauliga Alsace in 1940 . In the 1940/41 season, the club took seventh and penultimate place in the Gauliga relay Upper Alsace and was relegated to the district class.
Since 1945 the club played again as ASCA Wittelsheim in the French league system . From 1951 to 1953, from 1954 to 1956, from 1959 to 1965, in the 1967/68 season and from 1971 to 1973 the club played in the highest French amateur class , otherwise in the Alsatian honor division ( Division d'Honneur Alsace ). In 1994 he was promoted from the honor division to the National 3 , in which Wittelsheim played until 1997. After another year in the honor division, the club has only played lower class in the Alsatian departmental leagues since 1998. In the seasons 1954/55 , 1971/72 and 1972/73 Wittelsheim reached the first national main round of the French Cup .
In the 2019/20 season, which was canceled prematurely due to the COVID-19 pandemic , ASCA Wittelsheim played in the Alsatian league District 1 on the ninth French league level.
Handball
| Full name | Association sportive Cités Amélie Wittelsheim |
| Founded | 1947 |
| Club colors | blue White |
| Hall | Salle Jean Mermoz |
| Website | ascahand.clubeo.com |
| Greatest successes | |
| National | Champion of the 3rd division 2000/01 |
The handball department was founded in 1947. From 1988 to 1991 Wittelsheim played in the Nationale 1B , the then second French handball league. Years in the third division followed, until 2001, when promotion to Division 2 , the second division, was achieved. The club played in this league until 2007. In 2007, the handball players of ASCA Wittelsheim merged with ASPTT Mulhouse / Rixheim, FC Mulhouse and US Altkirch to form Mulhouse Handball Sud Alsace . After Mulhouse Handball Sud Alsace missed promotion to the first French handball league five times, the club filed for bankruptcy.
ASCA Wittesheim has been running its own handball department again since 2017.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stadium information at www.europlan-online.de
- ↑ Hardy Greens : From the Crown Prince to the Bundesliga. 1890 to 1963. Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 1 . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1996, ISBN 3-928562-85-1 , p. 207 ff .
- ↑ Ehrendivision Alsace 1997/98
- ↑ League history ASCA Wittelsheim (in French)
- ↑ Classification of the Alsatian leagues 2019/20 (in French)