FC Dieppe
The Football Club Dieppois or FC Dieppe for short is a French football club from the Norman port city of Dieppe .
The club colors are blue and white. The footballers, also known as les Harengs ("the herring"), have been playing in the Stade des Vertus since 2006 , which has a capacity of 2,600 spectators; Before that, they had used the Stade Maurice Thoumyre , which opened in 1927, where around 7,000 spectators in 1956, on the occasion of a cup game against Red Star Olympique , ensured the visitor record in Dieppe, which will continue into the 21st century.
history
The club was founded at the end of 1896 by schoolchildren and students, its official registration took place in 1897. The footballers initially played on meadows or on the beach of the English Channel , then on a lawn in the middle of the city. In 1901, the city administration issued a temporary ban on gambling. From 1908 FC Dieppe competed in the top regional division of the USFSA , and in 1909 he managed to leave FC Rouen behind; however, he lost the subsequent final against the strongest Norman team of the prewar period, the Le Havre AC .
During the First World War , the sporting business came to an almost complete standstill - as in much of northern France. FC Dieppe had its most successful years from 1919 until the occupation of the country in World War II (1940). In the 21 editions of the French cup competition , the Harengs were missing only for four seasons (1926/27 and 1931-1934) in the respective national cup main round, although they were 18 years of it only amateur league players. Six times they reached the sixteenth-finals (1921, 1922, 1926, 1928, 1930 and 1938) and in the 1923/24 season after a victory over Olympique Lille even the round of the best 16 teams. In it they lost 4-1 to the eventual winner of the competition, Olympique Marseille . Dieppe's brief excursion into professionalism at the end of the 1930s (third place in the third division in 1936/37 , second division in 1937/38 and 1938/39 ) ended with his early exit for financial reasons.
After the Second World War , the first team began in the regional Division d'Honneur and commuted between this and the national highest amateur league until the early 1970s; also in the cup she made it to the main round seven times by 1967, but only survived the thirty-second finals in 1948 and 1953. It was not until 2001, 2013 and afterwards in 2020 that the name of FC Dieppe reappeared among the 64 best cup teams in the country. In championship operations, with the exception of three third division seasons (1979 to 1982), it did not get beyond the fourth highest division.
League affiliation and achievements
FC Dieppe only had professional status from 1936 to 1939 and never belonged to the first division ( called Ligue 1 from 2002 ). In the 2019/20 season, the league team will compete in the fifth-class National 3 . FC Dieppe has only won titles in the regional amateur sector (seven-time champion in the Division d'Honneur of Haute-Normandie between 1952 and 1996). (As of January 2020)
Essential players and coaches for the club
- Marcel Delarue , French national B player in the 1920s and club president during his professional years
- Robert Mercier , coach in the late 1930s
- Julien Stopyra , player- coach 1967–1969
- Sékou Touré , player 1964/65
literature
- Thierry Berthou / Collectif: Dictionnaire historique des clubs de football français. Pages de Foot, Créteil 1999, ISBN 2-913146-01-5 , Volume 1, pp. 125-128