AS Saint-Etienne

AS Saint-Etienne
Basic data
Surname	Association sportive de Saint-Étienne Loire
Seat	Saint-Etienne , France
founding	1919
Colours	green white
president	Bernard Caïazzo
Website	asse.fr
First soccer team
Head coach	Claude Puel
Venue	Stade Geoffroy-Guichard
Places	41,965
league	Ligue 1
2019/20	17th place (quotient regulation)
home Away

The Association Sportive de Saint-Étienne Loire (ASSE for short) from the industrial city of Saint-Étienne in the south of France is one of the most successful French football clubs .

history

The association was founded in 1919 by employees of the retail chain Casino as Amicale de la Société Casino , then renamed Association Sportive Stéphanoise (after the epithet of the city - Étienne and Stéphane are synonyms ) and took its current name in 1933 (in France: l'ASSE for short ) on. The club colors are green and white, which is why the club was also known as Les Verts (The Greens) long before a party of the same name .

The first football team has played its home games at the Stade Geoffroy-Guichard for many years , which has a capacity of 41,965 spectators. She is trained by Claude Puel.

The club's president is Bernard Caïazzo.

League affiliation

AS Saint-Étienne belonged to the top division ( Division 1 , called Ligue 1 since 2002 ) from 1938 to 1943, 1944 to 1962, 1963 to 1984, 1986 to 1996, 1999 to 2001 and again since 2004. The club's most successful period was in the 1960s and 1970s. AS is the French record champions with ten titles won.

rise and fall

ASSE fans when their team played in Paris (1: 1) on May 10, 2008.

From the last third of the 1960s , ASSE dominated French league football. Parallel to the eighth championship success within twelve years, the club reached the final of the European Cup of Champions against Bayern Munich in Glasgow's Hampden Park in 1976 - and lost it 1-0. In this match, the Stéphanois hit the crossbar ( Dominique Bathenay ) and the inside post ( Jacques Santini ) of the Munich box. Since the goal frame was still angular at the time, the ball did not cross the line in both cases, and Sepp Maier was defeated, but Bayern still won to zero. Even today everyone in Saint-Étienne knows what is meant when someone speaks of "les poteaux carrés" ("the angular posts"). Despite the defeat, the team was received by a huge crowd the next day on the Paris Champs Elysées as the only French club team to date.

Due to this respectable success, the ASSE became the new “favorite club of the nation”, in which football was only moderately popular for a long time, and even beyond the national borders; so the British pop band Saint Etienne named themselves after the club. For the city, which had to digest a crisis due to colliery closures and bankruptcies of some large employers, the association became the link. In the 1980s, however, things became quieter about the record champions: the last notable title win followed in 1981. A year later, in 1982, there was talk of black funds for the first time. In addition, there was a sporty decline, key players such as Platini and Lopez left the club. In 1984 les Verts rose to the second division after 22 years of membership in the first division. What followed was a roller coaster ride marked by more lows than heights. The so-called "passport forgery affair " (affaire des faux passeports) , which involved forged travel and player passports at the end of the 1990s, led to the conviction of Vice President Gérard Soler , and in 2001 points were deducted for the team and relegation to Division 2 .

In the meantime, ASSE has stabilized again and has since occupied respectable places in the highest French league. At the end of the 2009/10 season St. Etienne occupied the first non-relegation place. 31 years after winning a national title for the last time, Saint-Étienne prevailed against Stade Rennes in the final of the French League Cup in April 2013 - a trophy that ASSE had been missing from its impressive collection until then.

Fans

The Verts fan scene is considered one of the most active, loyal and creative in France. The fan association Associés Supporters has existed since 1934 and today still has around 11,000 members. In the course of the spread of the ultra movement from Italy , the until today very active Ultrà groups Magic Fans (1991) and a year later the Green Angels were formed . Over the years, the Union des supporters stéphanois and the Indépendantistes stéphanois 98 joined them. The Magic fans maintain close relationships with the Stuttgart ultra group Commando Cannstatt .

Rivalries

In addition to minor local rivalries against Valence and Grenoble , a “heartfelt dislike” has developed over the years against the currently very successful rival Olympique from nearby Lyon - the historical battle of the free, proletarian city ​​of Saint-Étienne is regularly held in the Derby du Rhône the bourgeois, bourgeois Lyon propagated. In addition to sporting success, the duel with Olympique Marseille is more about dominance in the stands: OM also has a lively, loud and large fan scene, whose actions and chants must be trumped in the encounters.

Current squad 2019/20

As of May 8, 2020

No.	Nat.	Surname	birthday	in the team since	Contract until
goal
01		Théo Vermot	01/27/1997	2018	2020
16		Stéphane Ruffier	09/27/1986	2011	2021
30th		Jessy Moulin	01/13/1986	2005	2022
40		Stefan Bajic	12/23/2001	2019	2022
Defense
03		Leo Lacroix	02/27/1992	2016	2020
04th		William Saliba	03/24/2001	2019	2020
05		Timothée Kolodziejczak	10/01/1991	2018	2020
11		Gabriel Silva	05/13/1991	2017	2023
13		Miguel Trauco	08/25/1992	2019	2022
23		Sergi Palencia	03/23/1996	2019	2023
24		Loïc Perrin	08/07/1985	2003	2020
26th		Mathieu Debuchy	07/28/1985	2018	2021
27		Yvann Maçon	10/01/1998	2020	2023
32		Wesley Fofana	12/17/2000	2019	2024
midfield
06th		Yann M'Vila	06/29/1990	2018	2022
07th		Ryad Boudebouz	02/19/1990	2019	2022
08th		Mahdi Camara	06/30/1998	2018	2024
10		Wahbi Khazri	02/08/1991	2018	2022
15th		Bilal Benkhedim	04/20/2001	2019	2022
17th		Jean-Eudes Aholou	03/20/1994	2019	2020
25th		Assane Diousse	09/20/1997	2017	2022
28		Zaydou Youssouf	07/11/1999	2019	2023
29		Yohan Cabaye	01/14/1986	2019	2020
Storm
09		Loïs Diony	12/20/1992	2017	2021
14th		Franck Honorat	08/11/1996	2018	2023
18th		Arnaud Nordin	06/17/1998	2016	2022
20th		Denis Bouanga	11/11/1994	2019	2023
21st		Romain Hamouma	03/29/1987	2012	2021
22nd		Kévin Monnet-Paquet	08/19/1988	2014	2021
31		Charles Abi	04/12/2000	2019	2024
		Maxence Rivera	05/30/2002	2020	2022

Logo history

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  1940s

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  1970s

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  1980s

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  currently from 1993

successes

National

• French champion : 1957 , 1964 , 1967 , 1968 , 1969 , 1970 , 1974 , 1975 , 1976 , 1981
• French Cup Winner : 1962 , 1968 , 1970 , 1974 , 1975 , 1977 (and finalist 1960 , 1981 , 1982 , 2020 )
• French league cup winner : 2013
• French Super Cup winners : 1957, 1962, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970
• Coupe Drago winners : 1955, 1958

International

• European Cups: Participation in the final in the 1975/76 European Cup

European Cup balance sheet

Important people from the past for the association

player

Claude Abbes (1952–1962) René Alpsteg (1944–1953) Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (2011-2013) Dominique Bathenay (1971–1978) Patrick Battiston (1980-1983) Yvan Beck (1935-1939) Georges Bereta (1966–1974) Pierre Bernard (1963-1967) Laurent Blanc (1993–1995) Bernard Bosquier (1966–1971) Georges Carnus (1967–1971) Grégory Coupet (1993–1997) Antoine Cuissard (1944-1946 and 1947-1952) Ivan Ćurković (1972–1981) René Domingo (1949–1964) René Ferrier (1954-1965) Squad Firoud (1945–1948) Jacques Foix (1953–1956 and 1962–1964) Yvon Goujon (1954-1959) Josuha Guilavogui (2008-2013) André Guy (1962-1965) Robert Herbin (1957–1972) Aimé Jacquet (1960–1973) Gérard Janvion (1972-1983) Salif Keïta (1967–1972) Bernard Lacombe (1978–1979)

Jean-François Larios (1973–1977 and 1978–1983) Jean-Michel Larqué (1965–1977) Ginès Liron (1959–1962) René Llense (1938/39 and 1942–1945) Christian Lopez (1969–1982) Blaise Matuidi (2007-2011) Rachid Mekhloufi (1954–1958 and 1962–1968) Roger Milla (1984-1986) Eugène Njo-Léa (1954-1959) Jean Oleksiak (1955–1963) Oswaldo Piazza (1972–1979) Michel Platini (1979–1982) Johnny Rep (1979-1983) Pierre Repellini (1969–1980) Hervé Revelli (1964–1971 and 1973–1978) Patrick Revelli (1969–1978) Dominique Rocheteau (1972-1980) Antoine Rodriguez (1942–1949 and 1950/51) Willy Sagnol (1995–1997) Jacques Santini (1969–1981) Christian Sarramagna (1969–1979) Jean Snella (1938–1940 and 1945/46) Ignace Tax (1935-1940 and 1942-1945) Jacques Zimako (1977-1981)

Coach and president

In addition to the “talent factory”, the continuity of personnel in the club is probably one of the secrets of the great success of ASSE: in the period in which les Verts won all their titles - with the exception of the cup win in 1962 - only four coaches were in total for 40 years Office, three of them were also players in Saint-Étienne - and at the same time, two club presidents had a total of 41 years of service.

President Pierre Guichard (1927–1943, 1950–1952 and 1959–1961) Roger Rocher (1961–1982) Bernard Caiazzo (since 1998)

Trainer Teddy Duckworth , 1930s, first league promotion Ignace Tax , 1943–1950 Jean Snella , 1950–1959 and 1963–1967 Albert Batteux , 1967–1972 Robert Herbin , 1972–1983, 1987–1990 and 1997/98

Women team

The women's football department of AS Saint-Étienne was dissolved in 1977. Then the Racing Club de Saint-Étienne was founded, whose women's soccer players joined the financially stronger local rivals in 2009, initially under the name of Saint-Étienne Loire Féminin and from 2010 again as ASSE.

The first women's team has been playing in Division 1 Féminine , the highest women's football league in France, up to and including 2014/15 . In 2011 the players won the Coupe de France féminine , the French club cup, while they were in the final again in 2013, but this time lost. In 2017 , Saint-Étienne was relegated to the second division for women .

literature

• Christophe Barge / Laurent Tranier: Vert passion. Les plus belles histoires de l'AS Saint-Étienne. Timée, Boulogne 2004, ISBN 2-915586-04-7
• Thierry Berthou / Collectif: Dictionnaire historique des clubs de football français. Pages de Foot, Créteil 1999 - Volume 1 (A – Mo), ISBN 2-913146-01-5 , Volume 2 (Mu – W), ISBN 2-913146-02-3
• Jean Cornu: Les grandes equipes françaises de football. Famot, Genève 1978
• Frédéric Parmentier: AS Saint-Étienne, histoire d'une légende. Cahiers intempestifs, Saint-Étienne 2004, ISBN 2-911698-31-2

Web links

Commons : AS Saint-Étienne  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official club website (French)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ASSE-Stats.com: Stade Geoffroy-Guichard
2. ^ Claude Puel - coach profile. Retrieved March 6, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Jean-Louis Gasset - coach profile . ( transfermarkt.de [accessed on January 25, 2018]).