ASPTT Strasbourg

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The Association Sportive des Postes, Télégraphes et Téléphones Strasbourg , or ASPTT Strasbourg for short , is a polysportive club from Strasbourg . The post sports club has gained supraregional importance due to its women's football department , which no longer exists in the 21st century , but also due to its badminton players . At the beginning of 2014, 29 sports can be practiced in the ASPTT; This makes the club, according to its own statement, the sports club with the largest number of members in Alsace .

History of the entire club

As early as the 1920s, the management of the local post office had been discussing the idea of ​​creating an organizational framework for company employees so that they could practice various types of sport. Unlike in other major French cities such as Paris , Bordeaux , Marseille and others, however, it took until the end of 1936 before this plan was implemented in the Alsatian metropolis and the ASPTT Strasbourg was founded. At the first general meeting in early 1937, the association already had over 250 members. The first sports practiced there were basketball , athletics , swimming and (men's) soccer . During the German annexation of Alsace (1940-1945) in World War II , the association was called the Post Sports Community Strasbourg . His footballers mostly played in the Stade de l'Avenir , before the ASPTT was able to inaugurate its eight-hectare sports center in the Koenigshoffen district , which had been planned since the 1940s , and which consists of a large and several specialized ( weightlifting , table tennis , dojo ) sports halls , numerous football and tennis courts and a clubhouse.

After the state PTT was split up in 1991 into the sub-companies La Poste and France Télécom , the sports club was also renamed AS de La Poste et France Télécom ; however, the abbreviation ASPTT officially continued to exist. The club colors are black and orange. Particularly since the turn of the millennium, the ASPTT's "badminton players" have been particularly successful; In 2013 they became French team champions and thus qualified for the European Cup . But also in other, especially individual sports, active members of the club competed in national and international championships, for example in swimming, athletics - such as long-distance runner Driss El Himer  - and weightlifting in 2013 .

Women's soccer

While the men's teams of the club never got beyond the lower regional leagues, the women sometimes played at the top of the national league. Formed in the 1970s, the first team of the ASPTT qualified for the first time in 1980 for participation in the French championship, the final round of which was still held in knockout mode at the time , and with the only exception in 1983/84, the women succeeded annually until the early 1990s. From 1984 to 1989, Michèle Wolf, one of the most successful French women of the 1970s and 1980s , wore the dress of the women's team in her hometown. Other national players at the ASPTT were Marie-Christine Umdenstock , Myriam Bernauer , Sandrine Ringler and Stéphanie Trognon , the latter two of whom were 1997 European Championship participants .

In 1985, 1991 and 1992 ASPTT Strasbourg reached the quarter-finals, and in the 1985/86 season even the semi-finals. However, the ASJ Soyaux women prevented them from entering the final . When a nationwide first league called Championnat National 1 A was introduced in 1992 , Strasbourg was one of the twelve teams that could qualify for it. The ASPTT players had their sporting climax in 1994 when they finished the season in third place and tied with the FC Lyon runners-up . Two years later, however, they rose from the first division as tenth in the table. After a season in the second division, several players joined the SC Schiltigheim and the women's football department of the ASPTT was dissolved in 1997.

In the " Eternal Table " of the highest women's league in France, the ASPTT is to this day (2014) the most successful Alsatian club, ahead of the neighboring clubs FC Vendenheim and SC Schiltigheim. A national women's cup competition has only existed in France since 2001, previously only at regional level. And in Alsace, the ASPTT won this Coupe d'Alsace Féminines nine times from 1984/85 up to and including 1995/96.

literature

  • Ligue d'Alsace de Football Association (Ed.): 100 ans de football en Alsace. Édito, Strasbourg 2002, ISBN 2-911219-13-9

Web links

Notes and evidence

  1. ↑ a b see the club history
  2. ^ Ligue d'Alsace de Football Association, Volume 3, p. 152
  3. ^ Ligue d'Alsace de Football Association, Volume 3, p. 153
  4. ↑ see the Palmarès 2013 with all record holders and championship participants of the ASPTT ( Memento of the original from February 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (as PDF) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / strasbourg.asptt.com
  5. ^ A b Ligue d'Alsace de Football Association, Volume 3, p. 155
  6. ^ Ligue d'Alsace de Football Association, Volume 5, p. 337