ESOF La Roche

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The ESOF La Roche is a French football club from La Roche-sur-Yon . His full name is Étoile Sportive Ornaysienne de Football Vendée La Roche-sur-Yon . He has gained supra-local importance through his women's football department , which this article mainly deals with.

history

The club was founded in 1938 as Étoile Sportive Ornaysienne as part of the Catholic sports movement by a parish in Saint-André-d'Ornay, an independent neighboring town until the mid-1960s and since then a district of La Roche-sur-Yon. From 1945 football was also played in the club; the men's team has not yet got beyond the regional highest amateur division, Division d'Honneur . The more successful local competition ( FC Yonnais and AEPB La Roche ) also contributed to this.

The women's football department founded in 1978 at the club that was renamed ESOF La Roche in the second half of the 1980s developed differently. The players in the red and blue club colors grew into the role of a sporty flagship of the Vendée within a decade and a half ; since 1996 they have always played in the first or second division of France (see the section below) . The women of ESOF will continue to play their home games in the 21st century at the Stade de Saint-André , which has a spectator capacity of around 1,800.
The department is known for its good youth work; For example, there were three ESOF players in the French squad at the 2010 U-20 World Cup .

League affiliation and successes of the women's team

For the first time in the 1985/86 season and also in the following year, La Roche's female soccer players - still largely without a chance or success - took part in the preliminary round of the France-wide women's championship. Then it lasted until 1991/92 , when they still missed the qualification for the single-track highest division (Championnat National 1 A) .
In the 1996/97 season , however, they managed to rise, and until 2003/04 ESOF belonged continuously to the French elite class , as well as again soon afterwards from 2005 to 2008 and from 2009 to 2011. La Roches women returned there in 2015, but rose after only one year back to the second division . Especially in its most successful period around the turn of the millennium, the club had a number of national players in its ranks; for example, there were no fewer than five women footballers from ESOF La Roche in the 2001 French European Championship squad.

The women have not yet made it to a national championship title; however, they were French runners- up in 1999 and 2001 . In the national cup competition , launched in 2001 , ESOF came four times as the best result up to the round of the last eight women's teams (2003, 2011, 2012 and 2019). The club's palmarès also includes two second division championship titles (1996 and 2009).

Well-known former players

Web links

Notes and evidence

  1. ↑ see the outline of the club's history on esofootball.net