Association Sportive Montferrandaise
The Association Sportive Montferrandaise ( ASM ) is a sports club from the French city of Clermont-Ferrand . It is best known for the rugby union department, which plays under the name ASM Clermont Auvergne in the top 14 French league . The basketball division was three times champion in women.
ASM was founded in 1911 by Marcel Michelin, the son of the Michelin company founder André Michelin . The abbreviation stood at the beginning for Association Sportive Michelin ; In the beginning, the ASM was a company sports club that organized leisure activities for Michelin employees. The club colors blue and yellow correspond to those of the Michelin group. The sports association Union des Sociétés Françaises de Sports Athlétiques forbade the club to continue to name itself after a company and had an organizational separation. The club changed its name slightly; the third letter of the association abbreviation ASM stands today for the Montferrand district.
Today the association consists of the following departments:
- basketball
- Boxing
- Soccer
- Weightlifting
- Judo
- athletics
- Wrestling
- Rugby Union - see ASM Clermont Auvergne
- tennis
- do gymnastics