AS Valentigney
| AS Valentigney | |||
| Basic data | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Surname | Association Sportive de Valentigney | ||
| Seat | Valentigney , France | ||
| founding | 1920 | ||
| First soccer team | |||
| Venue | Stade des Longines | ||
| Places | 200 | ||
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The Association Sportive de Valentigney is a French football club from Valentigney near Montbéliard .
The league eleven play their home games at the Stade des Longines , which in the 1920s and 1930s was considered one of the best equipped venues in France - with a comfortable grandstand, heated changing rooms, shower rooms and a medical room - and regularly attracted 4,000 and more spectators. The community itself did not have much more than 5,000 inhabitants at that time. In the 2005/06 season, the ASV only appeared in the eleventh-highest league in the country.
history
AS Valentigney was founded in 1920. It dominated football in the Doubs département between the world wars , was 14 times champion of the regional honor division ( Division d'Honneur ) within 19 years , and in 1927 French amateur champion (Champion de France Honneur) - only one today more unofficial title - and even reached the final in the national cup competition in 1926 , in which Olympique Marseille then managed to prevail with 4: 1. In 1928 the AS made it to the second round of the cup . This was followed in 1936 - in the meantime professional football had been introduced in France - another amateur championship , this time still recognized today .
At that time, however, the neighboring club FC Sochaux-Montbéliard , which was founded in 1928 and originally a company team of the car manufacturer Peugeot , had overtaken ASV's position in the region. Valentigney's players also worked for the most part in this company, and Jules Peugeot was temporarily mayor of the town and president of the club. Between 1942 and 1944, the two clubs even formed a syndicate under the pressure of World War II and the partial occupation of the country . After that, AS Valentigney achieved only one more, moreover, extremely modest success when they were able to become champions of the now fourth-rate Division d'Honneur in 1961 and played for one season in the amateur league CFA.
League affiliation
The club has never had professional status and has therefore never played first-class ( Division 1 , renamed Ligue 1 since 2002 ).
successes
- French champion : so far none (but amateur champion 1936)
- French cup winner : so far none (but finalist 1926 )
Well-known former players
Three members of the final eleven from 1926 were appointed to the French national B team, namely goalkeeper Henri Entz and the two strikers Étienne Grédy and the scorer of the consolation goal in the final, Edmond Chavey .
literature
- Thierry Berthou / Collectif: Dictionnaire historique des clubs de football français. Pages de Foot, Créteil 1999 - Volume 2 (Mu-W), ISBN 2-913146-02-3
Individual evidence
- ^ Berthou / Collectif, p. 471