Entente Montpellier Le Crès
The Entente Montpellier Le Crès is a football club from Montpellier and its neighboring municipality Le Crès . It has gained supraregional importance through its female soccer players , whom this article is about; nowadays it's called Entente Castelnau Le Crès FC .
history
The women's department was originally created by the Racing Club Paillade Montpellier ; La Paillade is a large housing estate created in the 1960s in Montpellier's north-western district of La Mosson. In 1990 Racing merged with the Entente Cressoise ; this merger club took the name Entente Montpellier Le Crès . The women played their home games at the Stade Joseph-Blanc .
In 2001, the women's soccer players joined the Montpellier HSC , which is also based in La Mosson , where club officials and players hoped for better financial support for their sport - and received: the MHSC won a total of five national championship and cup titles in the following years. In 2001 the daily Liberation even spoke of the "birth of the first professional women's team" in France. In the second decade of the 21st century, however, there is again a women's football department at the club now trading under the name of Entente Castelnau Le Crès FC ; whose women's eleven will play in a lower regional division in 2014/15.
League affiliation and achievements
The league frenzy of Racing Paillade first reached the national championship round in the 1985/86 season , but was eliminated in the first round as well as in the following year. This was her fate again in 1989/90. When the French Football Association introduced a first division under the name Championnat National 1 A in 1992 , the merger club Entente Montpellier Le Crès was placed in the second highest division . In 1997, the women of the group won promotion to the first division as group winners. They finished their debut season in eighth place in the final classification, and in the following three seasons they placed in this table area (ranks 9, 8 and 7). Then followed the transfer to local rivals MHSC.
At the national cup competition , the Entente has not yet participated - at least not at the france-wide Main Round - because of competition until 2001 was introduced.
Well-known former players
The coach Patrice Lair , who also looked after two leading French women's teams with the Montpellier HSC and Olympique Lyon, was active in the same function at the Entente Castelnau Le Crès in 2007/08 - albeit with their seventh-class men's team at the time.
Notes and evidence
- ↑ Laurence Prudhomme-Poncet: Histoire du football féminin au XXe siècle. L'Harmattan, Paris 2003, ISBN 2-7475-4730-2 , p. 286, describes this assessment as "a bit premature".
- ↑ see the data sheet at les-sports.info