Calais RUFC
| Calais RUFC | |||
| Basic data | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Surname | Calais Racing Union Football Club | ||
| Seat | Calais | ||
| founding | 1902 | ||
| Colours | yellow Red | ||
| president | Pascal Joly | ||
| Website | Official club website | ||
| First soccer team | |||
| Head coach | Djezon Boutoille | ||
| Venue | Stade de l'Épopée | ||
| Places | 12,432 | ||
| league | Championnat de France amateur 2 | ||
| 2009/10 | 1st place | ||
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Calais RUFC or fully Calais Racing Union Football Club is a French football club based in Calais in the Pas-de-Calais department . Its actual founding year is 1974, when it emerged from a merger of the Racing Club de Calais with the Union Sportive de Calais . The former had already emerged from a merger between FC and SC Calais in 1902 and played in Division 2 under professional conditions from 1933 to 1938 . The roots of the CRUFC in these two predecessors can be seen not only in the club name, but also in the club colors, which are now red, yellow and black: the RC wore yellow (in the early years: gold) and black, the US red and yellow.
The league team played in the Stade Julien-Denis until autumn 2008 , which had space for 4,900 spectators. From then on, she moved to the newly built, municipal Stade de l'Épopée for 12,432 spectators . Club president is Alain Guérot, current coach of the Ligaelf Djezon Boutoille . (As of August 2011)
League affiliation
The RUFC has not yet had professional status, but it did - from 1933 to 1938 - its predecessor RC Calais. As a result, today's club can not look back on a participation in Division 1 (since 2002 Ligue 1 ). In the 2013/14 season, Calais competes in the fifth class CFA2 .
Cup fright
In the national cup, however, Calais has attracted attention several times in the recent past: in the 1999/2000 season, the then fourth division successively defeated the second division OSC Lille and AS Cannes as well as the first division racing Strasbourg and Girondins Bordeaux and met in the final against FC Nantes , the was only able to prevail with a penalty goal in the 90th minute with 2-1.
In the 2005/06 season, the club reached the quarter-finals after successes over ES Troyes AC (first division) and Stade Brest (second division); there again meant the FC Nantes (and with 0: 1 again just barely) the end of a successful cup course.
2006/07 once again advanced far, this time the first division club CS Sedan finished with 2: 1 further cup dreams of the CRUFC in the round of the last 32 teams.
successes
- French champion : so far none
- French cup winner : so far none (but finalist 2000 )
Well-known former players
- Coloman Braun-Bogdan (RC Calais, later Romanian national coach)
- Julien Denis (RC Calais, played two international matches in 1908)
- Raoul Gressier (RC Calais, played an international match at the Olympic Games in London in 1908 )
literature
- 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