Arras FCF
The Arras Football Club Féminin, or Arras FCF for short, was a French women's football club from the northern French city of Arras . For the 2020/21 season, the club will be merged as a women's division in the Racing Club Lens , which is known as une fusion absorption , i.e. a mixture of equal merger and the takeover of the small club by the large one.
history
The Arras FCF was a relatively young club formation. It was initially created as a department of the long-established FA Arras , where a women's football department was formed in 2001. Ten years later, they went into business for themselves and took on their current club name. Arras entered into a cooperation with Racing Lens at an early stage , which was extended to 2020, and uses their training center. In this context, the second division - neighborhood derby of the women from Arras against Lille OSC was scheduled in November 2019 as a prelude to the top match of the second men's division between Lens and FC Lorient at Stade Bollaert-Delelis .
The club colors of the Arras FCF were blue and red. Since 2012, the league women have not played their home games in the Stade Pierre-Bolle , but in the city's own Stade Degouve-Brabant , which has natural grass, a covered grandstand and a spectator capacity of over 2,500 visitors . In addition, the club also used the Stade de l'Hippodrome .
League affiliation and achievements
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The footballers of the club were promoted to the third division just one year after they were founded, in which the AFCF placed in the upper part of the table for eight years; But it was not until 2010 that they were promoted to the second highest division, division 2 , which is divided into three groups . It then only took two years for Arras to qualify as first group for promotion to Division 1 Féminine . At the end of the 2014/15 season , the women of the FCF rose again to the second division of France, where they fought with their regional rivals of the FCF Hénin-Beaumont for sporting supremacy in the north and prevailed.
In the women's cup competition , the footballers from Arras - still as a third division and still under the club name Arras FA - fought their way to the second round for the first time in the 2009/10 season . They achieved their greatest success so far, now as a second division team, in the 2011/12 season , when the Arras FCF advanced to the round of the last four teams; there, the eventual winners of the Olympique Lyon Cup ended all hopes for a place in the final with a clear 8-0 victory. In the quarter-finals of 2017/18 , too, it was Olympique that threw Arras out of the competition, this time even 11-0. In the last year of his independence, the second division player again made it to the quarter-finals .
Well-known players
The most famous football players who wear or have worn the Arras dress include the Congolese national player Chardente Ndoulou , goalie Claire Jacob ( U-17 world champion in 2012 ), Charlotte Saint-Sans Levacher ( 2013 U-19 European champion ) and Ludivine Bultel , who took part in the U-20 World Cup in 2008 , but did not play for Arras at the time. Marion Makuch , who was appointed to the Bleues squad in spring 2014 , was on the verge of becoming Arras' first national team player.
Web links
Notes and evidence
- ↑ " Arras FCF will merge with RC Lens in 2020 " from April 3, 2019 at footofeminin.fr
- ↑ see the articles " On a D1 with the Ligue 1 clubs " of September 25, 2014 and " Agreement between RC Lens and Arras FCF renewed " of April 5, 2017, both at footofeminin.fr
- ↑ Article “ Derby Arras against Lille in the Stade Félix Bollaert ” from October 19, 2019 at footofeminin.fr
- ↑ see the "Relocation report" of June 23, 2012 on the La Voix du Nord website
- ↑ see the corresponding information on the website of the French football association FFF
- ↑ Seasonal league membership according to Arras' club data sheet at footofeminin.fr