AS Muret

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Amicale Sportive Muretaine or AS Muret for short is a sports club from the French municipality of Muret , which is located on the south-western periphery of Toulouse . The club is known nationwide in particular for its football department . The men played third-rate, especially in the 1970s; More successful were the women soccer players who made it into the top division of France in the 21st century and with whom this article is mainly concerned.

history

The club was founded in 1903; the women's football department was established in the late 1970s. This formed from the summer of 1987 temporarily a syndicate with the Sporting Club Balma and entered under the name ASF Muret-Balma . Only a year later, this collaboration dissolved and the ASM women played again under the name of the entire club.

Muret's club colors are blue and garnet, which is why the club's teams are also known as les Blaugranas . The women's league team plays its home games in the local Stade Clément-Ader , which has a capacity of around 3,000 spectators.

League affiliation and achievements

Muret's women qualified for the first time in the 1980/81 season for the final round of the French national championship, which at the time was still played in a mixture of group play and knockout mode . Two years later, the team failed as runners-up in the group only narrowly reaching the semi-finals, which they finally reached in 1983/84 ; in this, however, AS Muret was subject to the "subscription master" of the 1980s, the VGA Saint-Maur . From 1989 several descents followed, so that the Muretaines were no longer represented at this level for a long time. This was also due to the competitive situation in the greater Toulouse area, in which the US Colomiers , Olympique Mirail and in particular the Olympique Aérospatial Club - from 2001 under the umbrella of FC Toulouse  - dominated.

It was only from 2003 to 2005 that Muret played at least again in a group of the third highest division, to which they returned in 2007. Less than twelve months later, the AS was even in second class , and in 2011 the first women's team rose to Division 1 Féminine . In that, however, she only stayed for the 2011/12 season , at the end of which she had to record 18 defeats in 22 matches. For the 2013/14 season , AS Muret returned to the top division, but was already relegated four rounds before its end and even had to go into the third division a further twelve months later .

Even in the national cup competition , which was only introduced in 2001 , Muret has not yet won a title. After all, the footballers reached the eighth (2007, 2010) and 2007/08 - as a third division - even the quarter-finals, in which they were eliminated against ASJ Soyaux .

Well-known players

In the 2010s, the club benefited in particular from the fact that players repeatedly moved from Toulouse FC, such as the two French U-20 internationals Solène Barbance and Fanny Tenret and the former senior international Julia Dany . Tenret was twice top scorer in Division 2 during her time at ASM (2011 and 2013).

Men's soccer

The first men's team of AS Muret briefly belonged to the semi-professional third division in the early 1990s ; while the footballers retained their amateur status. In the cup competition they reached the national main round six times between 1978/79 and 2012/13 , although they were always eliminated in the thirty-second finals.

Well-known players who have worn the club's dress were Cédric Fauré (until 1999) and Dominique Arribagé (1990-1992).

Web links

Notes and evidence

  1. ↑ see the seasonal league membership on the club data sheet at footofeminin.fr (under web links )