ASJ Soyaux

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The Association Sportive Jeunesse Soyaux-Charente , short ASJ Soyaux , is a French sports club from Soyaux , near Angoulême ; the club has achieved national renown for its women soccer players. His club colors are blue and white; The league eleven plays their games in the local Stade Léo-Lagrange , which has a capacity of around 400, or in the Stade Camille-Lebon in Angoulême.

The club's president in 2017 is Marylin Fort, wife of the successful coach of the 1980s, Claude Fort .

history

The women's football department of the club, then called AS Soyaux, was founded in 1968, even before this sport was legalized by the French football association FFF . In the same year, the women played their first games against start-ups from Angoulême and Ruelle-sur-Touvre at the traditional folk festivals in the Poitou-Charentes region at the end of the year . In the 1974/75 finals for the national championship, Soyaux 'players reached the final for the first time in 1980, in which they were defeated 0-2 by the women of Stade Reims who dominated the 1970s . In 1982 the 50 or so soccer players separated from this club and founded ASJ Soyaux as a women's club. Two years later they reached the French final again; in it they met the series winners of the VGA Saint-Maur , who were succeeding Reims in the 1980s , who they defeated 1-0 and brought the national championship title to the Charente . Then the ASJ managed to reach the final three more times, but in which they were defeated in 1986 and 1987 against Saint-Maur and in 1989, albeit only on penalties , against Saint Brieuc Chaffoteaux Sports .

When the FFF introduced a unified top women's league at the beginning of the 1992/93 season , ASJ Soyaux was one of its founding members and was continuously represented in it until 2010. However, she only managed the runner-up again in 1996. Also in the 2010s Soyaux occurs in the first division with the exception of two seasons (2010/11 and 2012/13); in the all-time table she is fifth in 2019 behind Juvisy FCF , HSC Montpellier , Olympique Lyon and Paris Saint-Germain . In 2017/18 around 150 girls and women played in the club. In contrast, the ASJ has never reached a final in the French Women's Cup , which has existed since 2001/02. A number of national players have emerged from the club or have played for it.

After considerations of a merger with FC Angoulême failed in mid-2019, the club's management continues to rely on the concept of a successful, all-women amateur club; For this purpose, comparatively modest funds are available (seasonal budget 2018/19: around 700,000 euros) with which the only remaining first division manager of this type is to be kept competitive. That this is a difficult undertaking turned out to be in January 2020 when the Direction Nationale du Contrôle de Gestion (DNCG) , the financial control body of the association, imposed several spending restrictions on the ASJS and also - as the first association of the D1F ever - a 3- Points deduction imposed at the end of the 2019/20 season . However, an objection is still pending. Regardless of the outcome of these proceedings, Soyaux intends to outsource its league eleven to a corporation (Société Anonyme Sportive , SAS for short ) in order to better meet the economic requirements.

successes

  • French champion: 1984 (and runner-up in 1980, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1996)

Well-known former players

literature

  • Article Soyaux: Haut les filles, haut les filles in France Football of November 14, 2017, pp. 38-40
  • Laurence Prudhomme-Poncet: Histoire du football féminin au XXe siècle. L'Harmattan, Paris 2003, ISBN 2-7475-4730-2

Web links

Notes and evidence

  1. ↑ Prudhomme-Poncet, p. 200
  2. ↑ see the course of the 1979/80 finals at rsssf.com
  3. ↑ see the course of the final round 1983/84 at rsssf.com
  4. ↑ according to the article " ASJ Soyaux celebrates its 50th anniversary " from June 22, 2018 at footofeminin.fr
  5. ↑ Article “ Soyaux violently punished by the DNCG ” from January 15, 2020 at footofeminin.fr
  6. ↑ Article " We want to overcome the bar of 28 points " from January 28, 2020 at footofeminin.fr