FC Lyon
The Football Club de Lyon is a French football club from Lyon , which has gained notoriety through its men's and, more recently, its women's teams . FC Lyon also had a successful rugby division before World War II , which became French champions in 1910 ; In 1934 she joined local rivals Lyon Olympique Universitaire .
The Stade Georges-Vuillermet used by the FCL now has an artificial turf pitch for footballers and a natural grass pitch for LOU rugby players.
History of the football department
The association was founded in 1893; the association football department was established in 1895 and joined the oldest of the competing associations , the Union des sociétés françaises de sports athlétiques . Between 1908 and 1914, the soccer players in jerseys with a red and white checkerboard pattern - hence their nickname "les Damiens" ("the diamonds") - won the USFSA championship of the Rhône-Alpes region four times . In the subsequent nationwide finals (championnat de France) , however, they regularly failed at the latest in the quarter-finals. In 1917, however, FC Lyon even reached the final of this national championship, but lost it 1: 4 against CASG Paris .
When the cross-association French Cup was played for the first time in the 1917/18 season , FCL advanced to the final after victories over AS Lyon, Olympique Marseille , Stade Rennes and AS Française Paris. But the opponent of the "Damiens" ( Olympique de Pantin , 3-0) also won this final . In the following years, the club made it in this competition only once again ( 1921 ) at least in the sixteenth finals.
Soon after the introduction of professionalism (1932), FC Lyon entered into a syndicate with AS Villeurbanne and played under its own name in 1933/34, from 1934 to 1936 as AS (Lyon-) Villeurbanne in Division 2 , but withdrew in the spring 1936, during the second half of the 1935/36 season , retired from the competition. This was followed by a brief relationship with the footballers from Lyon OU. Since then, the club's men have only played in lower-class amateur leagues.
Women's soccer
After the legalization of women's football in the 1970s, FC Lyon founded an independent department that overshadowed the traditional but ultimately unsuccessful men of the club with numerous national titles around the turn of the millennium. The women became national champions four times between 1991 and 1998 and won the cup competition twice in 2003 and 2004 respectively . In the summer of 2004, the women's football department joined Olympique Lyon , which in turn had emerged from Lyon OU after the Second World War. At Olympique, the footballers hoped for better financial support for their top sport. In fact, OL has been the French women's champion several times since 2007 and also a cup winner in 2008 - a series to which FC Lyon made a good contribution.
Since the first half of the 2010s, the club again has a female eleven who play for points at the lower regional level (“District”) . In the 2017/18 season she only narrowly failed to make it into the national cup main round .
successes
Men
- French champion : Nothing, but in 1908, 1909, 1912 and 1914 USFSA regional champion of the Rhône-Alpes region and finalist in the USFSA national championship in 1917
- French Cup : Finalist 1918
Women
- French champions : 1991 , 1993 , 1995 , 1998
- French Cup Winners : 2003 , 2004 (and 2002 finalists)
Well-known players
- Henri Bard , member of the 1918 Cup final
- Marie-Angèle Blin , national player, 1980–1995 for FCL
- Sandrine Brétigny , with FCL until 2004, then with Olympique Lyon; National player , Division 1 top scorer in 2003 and 2007
- Jocelyne Gout , national player, 1987-1998 with FCL
- François Hugues , 24-time international , two of them during his time at FCL
- Guillaume "Willy" Lieb , 15 times national player, including three games during his time at FCL
- Cécile Locatelli , national player, 1992-2004 with FCL
- Patricia Mousel , national player, 1980-1993 for FCL
- Véronique Nowak , national player, 1982–1995 with a short break at FCL
- Emmanuelle Sykora , 81 times national player, 77 of them during her time at FCL
- Marie-Christine Umdenstock , national player, 1985–2000 with FCL
- Michèle Wolf , the first French woman to reach 30 full international matches (during her time at FCL)
hockey
| European Cup balance men's field | ||||
| year | competition | level | space | place |
| 1969 | Club Champions Cup | 1 | 6th | Brussels |
| 1970 | Club Champions Cup | 1 | 6th | Terrassa |
| 1971 | Club Champions Cup | 1 | 6th | ROME |
| 1972 | Club Champions Cup | 1 | 9 | Frankfurt |
| 1973 | Club Champions Cup | 1 | 7th | Frankfurt |
| 1974 | Club Champions Cup | 1 | 6th | Utrecht |
| 1975 | Club Champions Cup | 1 | 11 | Frankfurt |
| 1976 | Club Champions Cup | 1 | 9 | Amsterdam |
| 1977 | Club Champions Cup | 1 | 9 | London |
| 1981 | Club Champions Cup | 1 | 8th | Brussels |
The men were the dominant team in France in the 1970s and took part ten times in the European Cup, where Lyon finished sixth four times as the best placement.
- French men's field hockey champions: 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1980
- French women's field hockey champion: 1938, 1947, 1949, 1951, 1952, 1954, 1958
The hockey department merged in 1998 with the hockey players of the Tennis Club de Lyon and became independent as FC Lyon HC .
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
Remarks
- ↑ see the seasonal articles in the French language Wikipedia ( 1908 , 1909 , 1912 and 1914 )
- ↑ Nowadays it is controversial whether it was actually about Henri or one of his brothers or cousins.
- ↑ Data sheet with photo on the orienteering club website ( Memento of the original from October 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ A b L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: La belle histoire. L'équipe de France de football. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2004 ISBN 2-951-96053-0 , p. 382
- ↑ Compilation from EHF Handbook 2016 ( memento of the original from March 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
