EDS Montluçon

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The Étoile des Sports Montluçonnais or EDS Montluçon for short is a French football club from Montluçon .

The club colors are yellow and black. The EDSM, like its successor club Ilets Étoile Foot Montluçon , competed in the Dunlop Stadium , which was inaugurated in 1937 and which now has a capacity of around 2,900 spectators.

history

The club was founded in 1934 at the instigation of an employee of the local Dunlop works as the Étoile Sportive de Montluçon . The company provided the club with financial and infrastructural support, for example through the construction of a stadium, which was completed three years later, and the opportunity to offer players from the club, which competed under amateur conditions, a job. In 1940/41 the company merged with the company sports club Dunlop Sports and it was renamed Étoile Des Sports Montluçonnais . The D capitalized in the abbreviation EDS enabled the association to Étoile Dunlop Sports; The national football association had banned company information in club names shortly after the First World War . For the first time in 1950/51 and then from 1959 for a good decade, Montluçon's fighting team played in a group of the highest French amateur league . In August 1971, the Montluçon stadium was severely damaged by a cyclone, but it was repaired relatively quickly.

After the most successful sporting period in the club's history (see below) , in which the EDS was named the best French amateur team of the year by the specialist magazine France Football in 1974, it continued to oscillate between the third and fourth leagues for around a decade and a half before it was only in 1997 still in fifth class and in the 21st century only competed in regional games. In 2011 the association was liquidated, the subsequent re-establishment of which has since been called Ilets Étoile Foot Montluçon .

League affiliation and achievements

The club has never had professional status and consequently have never been to the highest French league played was for it but for ten years (1970-1976 and 1978- 1982 ) in the second division represented than this one for professionals and amateurs "open league" was. The EDSM achieved its best placings in the 1970/71 season , when it took fourth place in the final ranking of its relay team in a league with three groups of 16 participants, or in 1974/75 (fifth in the table in a league with two groups of 18 participants ).

In the cup competition , EDS Montluçon made 18 main rounds between 1947 and most recently in 2009, with a focus on the period between the mid-1960s and the early 1980s. From 1966/67 up to and including 1975/76 she even managed to do this without interruption. In total, the yellow-blacks reached the sixteenth and two times ( 1972 and 1973 ) even the second round. In 1972 they had Olympique Marseille on the verge of defeat, because the opponent waived four of his aces ( Roger Magnusson , Didier Couécou , Édouard Kula and Joseph Bonnel ) after the supposedly secure 4-1 first leg win in the second leg in Auvergne ; Until the final whistle, however, the 2-0 leading outsider failed to score a third goal. Three years later, Montluçon had eliminated first division Red Star in the thirty-second finals and then met Marseille again, from which the second division wrested a 0-0 in the first leg. This encounter took place in front of a record crowd of 12,300 visitors at the Stade Dunlop . A week later it was also 0-0 at the Stade Vélodrome after 90 minutes, before Marseille scored a goal in extra time. In 1982, EDS Montluçon faced Olympique Marseille a third time - again in the sixteenth finals - but this time lost in both games (0: 2 and 2: 4). A final cup highlight followed seven years later : against Paris Saint-Germain , another 11,000 spectators paid their money at the ticket booth of the Stade Dunlop , and the now only third division leader kept the defeat there in the 0: 1 as well as in the 1: 2 lost Second leg at Parc des Princes in Paris .

2012/13 Montluçon occurs only in a lower regional amateur league.

Well-known former players and coaches

literature

  • Thierry Berthou / Collectif: Dictionnaire historique des clubs de football français. Pages de Foot, Créteil 1999, Volume 1, ISBN 2-913146-01-5
  • L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: Coupe de France. La folle épopée. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2007, ISBN 978-2-915-53562-4

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Berthou / Collectif, p. 243
  2. ^ Berthou / Collectif, p. 107
  3. ↑ a b c Berthou / Collectif, p. 244
  4. ↑ a b Berthou / Collectif, p. 245
  5. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, p. 388
  6. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, p. 391
  7. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, p. 398
  8. ^ Berthou / Collectif, pp. 244/245