Antibes FC
The Football Club Antibes Juan-les-Pins is a French football club from Antibes , a city on the Côte d'Azur in the French department of Alpes-Maritimes ; Juan-les-Pins , a fashionable seaside resort, is a district of Antibes.
The club was founded in 1912 as Olympique d'Antibes . It carried this name until 1933, then it was called FC Antibes , was renamed Olympique d'Antibes Juan-les-Pins in 1940 and took its current name in 1966 after a merger with Espérance d'Antibes and US Antiboise .
The club colors are blue and white; the league team plays at the Stade du Fort Carré , which has a capacity of 4,000 seats. During the soccer World Cup in 1938 , the quarter-finals between Sweden and Cuba (8-0) were played here, at that time the stadium had a capacity of around 23,000 spectators. (As of August 2006)
League affiliation
Antibes had professional status from 1932 to 1947. First class ( Division 1 , renamed Ligue 1 since 2002 ) played the club from 1932 to 1940. He is one of the 20 founding members of the French professional league, in whose very first season he was actually qualified for the final of the French championship as the winner of the southern group; It turned out, however, that Olympique had tried to bribe players of the SC Fives , which is why the second-placed local rival, AS Cannes , took his place in the final. In the 2013/14 season Antibes competes in the sixth class Division d'Honneur .
successes
- French champion : Nothing, so far best placing 1st place in Group B (1932/33)
- French cup winner : so far none
Known players past and present
- Karl air - the Austrian was in September 1932, the first-ever scorer in the Division 1 at all
- Fernando Giudicelli (1936/37), Brazilian world championship participant from 1930
- Vilmos Kohut (1939/40)
- Károly Kovács (1932–1934)
- Laurent Robuschi trained the team for a total of 25 years (from 1968 to 1975 as a player- coach, then until 1993 as a coach)
- Joseph Rodriguez - Olympique's only French international : In 1932 he played two internationals and scored one goal
- Alexandre Villaplane - although he was no longer a national player
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
Remarks
- ↑ According to the French-language literature this should, however, Charles' brother Johann climate have been