FC Metz
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| Surname | Football Club de Metz | |||
| Seat | Metz , France | |||
| founding | February 2, 1912 (as SpVgg 1912 Metz) January 1, 1919 (re-established as CA Messin Metz) |
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| president | Bernard Serin | |||
| Website | fcmetz.com | |||
| First soccer team | ||||
| Head coach | Frédéric Antonetti | |||
| Venue | Stade Saint-Symphorien | |||
| Places | 25,636 | |||
| league | Ligue 1 | |||
| 2019/20 | 15th place (quotient regulation) | |||
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The Football Club de Metz is a French football club in the Lorraine city of Metz .
In reference to the chestnut-red tone in the club's colors, the team's nickname is “Les Grenats” (the garnet red). The dragon Graoully is shown in the coat of arms .
The president of the club is Bernard Serin. The professional team is trained by Frédéric Antonetti .
history
The origins of the club go back to the merger of the then German clubs Metzer SpVgg , FC Metis Metz and FC Alte Herren Metz to form SpVgg 1912 Metz on February 2, 1912. After the defeat in World War I , the German Empire ceded the province of Alsace-Lorraine to France. As a result, all German clubs and thus the SpVgg were dissolved in 1912 . Several former members then founded CA Messin Metz on January 1, 1919 . The merger with AS Metz to form FC Metz on April 15, 1932 created the basis for participation in the newly created professional game operations in France ( Division 1 ).
Between 1934 and 1936 the club was briefly called Club des Sports Metz . At the time of the German occupation in World War II , the club was renamed FV Metz in 1940 and from 1941 played in the German Gauliga Westmark , in which he was runner-up three times in a row. After the liberation of France in 1944, the club again took the name FC Metz .
From 1967 to 2002, FC Metz belonged to the top French division, Division 1 . Then the club shuttled between the first and second division (relegations in 2002, 2006 and 2008); In 2011 he narrowly escaped relegation to the third division . At the end of the following season he stepped as table-18. for the first time since the introduction of professional football in France ( 1932/33 ) to move into the third division. Here you rose as second in the table directly back to Ligue 2 and a year later to Ligue 1. Another year later they relegated again to Ligue 2, only to be promoted again a year later.
Sporting successes
championship
The club has not yet won a championship. 1997/98 he was runner-up behind the RC Lens due to the poorer goal difference .
Cup
FC Metz won the French Cup twice and reached the final in 1938 :
- 1984 : FC Metz - AS Monaco 2-0 aet
- 1988 : FC Metz - FC Sochaux 1: 1, 5: 4 n.e.
In 1996 they won the league cup with a 5-4 penalty shootout against Olympique Lyon .
European Cup balance sheet
FC Metz achieved its greatest international success in the 1984/85 season . In the first round of the European Cup Winners' Cup , FCM faced FC Barcelona . After the first leg was lost 4: 1 in front of their home crowd, FC Metz defeated Bernd Schuster's team 4: 1 at the Camp Nou stadium and advanced to the next round. There they were eliminated against Dynamo Dresden . In the first leg in Dresden they lost 3-1, the second leg in Metz ended 0-0.
As a runner-up they played in 1998 in qualifying for the 1998/99 UEFA Champions League . There they failed at the Finnish club HJK Helsinki and continued to play in the first round of the UEFA Cup . There one eliminated against the Yugoslav representative Red Star Belgrade .
| season | competition | round | opponent | total | To | Back |
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| 1968/69 | Exhibition cities cup | 1 round |
 Hamburger SV
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3: 7 | 1: 4 (H) | 2: 3 (A) |
| 1969/70 | Exhibition cities cup | 1 round |
 SSC Naples
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2: 3 | 1: 1 (H) | 1: 2 (A) |
| 1984/85 | UEFA Cup Winners' Cup | 1 round |
 FC Barcelona
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6: 5 | 2: 4 (H) | 4: 1 (A) |
| 2nd round |
 Dynamo Dresden
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1: 3 | 1: 3 (A) | 0: 0 (H) | ||
| 1985/86 | Uefa cup | 1 round |
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3: 7 | 1: 5 (A) | 2: 2 (H) |
| 1988/89 | UEFA Cup Winners' Cup | 1 round |
 RSC Anderlecht
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1: 5 | 1: 3 (H) | 0: 2 (A) |
| 1995 | UEFA Intertoto Cup | Group stage |
 Keflavík ÍF
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2: 1 | 2: 1 (A) | |
 Partick Thistle
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2: 1 | 2: 1 (H) | ||||
 NK Zagreb
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1-0 | 1: 0 (A) | ||||
 LASK Linz
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1-0 | 1: 0 (H) | ||||
| Round of 16 |
 Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț
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0: 2 | 0: 2 (A) | |||
| Quarter finals |
 Racing Strasbourg
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2-0 | 2: 0 (A) | |||
| 1996/97 | Uefa cup | 1 round |
FC Tirol Innsbruck
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1-0 | 0: 0 (A) | 1: 0 (H) |
| 2nd round |
 Sporting Lisbon
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3: 2 | 2: 0 (H) | 1: 2 (A) | ||
| 3rd round |
 Newcastle United
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1: 3 | 1: 1 (H) | 0: 2 (A) | ||
| 1997/98 | Uefa cup | 1 round |
Excelsior Mouscron
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6: 1 | 2: 0 (A) | 4: 1 (H) |
| 2nd round |
 Karlsruher SC
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1: 3 | 0: 2 (H) | 1: 1 (A) | ||
| 1998/99 | UEFA Champions League | 2nd qualifying round |
 HJK Helsinki
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1: 2 | 0: 1 (A) | 1: 1 (H) |
| 1998/99 | Uefa cup | 1 round |
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3: 3 (3: 4 on behalf ) |
1: 2 (A) | 2: 1 a.d. (H) |
| 1999 | UEFA Intertoto Cup | 2nd round |
 MŠK Žilina
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4: 2 | 1: 2 (A) | 3: 0 (H) |
| 3rd round |
SC Lokeren
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( a ) 2: 2 | 2: 1 (A) | 0: 1 (H) | ||
| Semifinals |
 Polonia Warsaw
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6: 2 | 5: 1 (H) | 1: 1 (A) | ||
| final |
West Ham United
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2: 3 | 1: 0 (A) | 1: 3 (H) |
Overall record : 40 games, 15 wins, 8 draws, 17 defeats, 53:56 goals (goal difference −3)
Squad 2018/19
As of July 31, 2018
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- Coach: Frédéric Antonetti
Trainer
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György Orth (1939)
player
- Emmanuel Adebayor
- Anthony Baffoe , German-Ghanaian soccer player, former captain of the Ghanaian national team
- Henri Baillot , goalscorer and international player in the second half of the 1940s
- Jules Bocandé , goalscorer and national player for Senegal
- Danny Boffin , Belgian international
- Nico Braun , national player for Luxembourg , one of the best goal scorers in the club's history
- Thadée Cisowski , French international
- Papiss Demba Cissé , Senegalese international
- Philippe Gaillot , 423 league appearances for FCM
- Cheikh Guèye , Senegalese international
- Sylvain Kastendeuch , Metz 'league record player with 440 first division appearances, national player
- Ignace Kowalczyk , known as Ignace, “playmaker” before and after World War II , national player
- "Tony" Kurbos , record scorer in one game (6 hits) in Division 1
- Ludovic Obraniak , Polish international
- Éric Pécout , member of the 1984 cup winners' eleven
- Robert Pirès , French international , 1998 world champion and 2000 European champion
- Miralem Pjanić , Bosnian international
- François Remetter , French national goalkeeper at the 1954 and 1958 World Championships
- Franck Ribéry , French international
- Louis Saha
- Rigobert Song
- Jeff Strasser , record national player for Luxembourg
- Edmund Weiskopf , played his only international match in 1939 while he was with the Messins
- Sylvain Wiltord , France international
- Bernard Zénier , French international, club official after his playing career
Stadion
FC Metz plays its home games in the Stade Saint-Symphorien, which opened in 1923 and has a capacity of 26,700 . This is located in the suburb of Longeville-lès-Metz .
Women's soccer
FC Metz also had a women's football department early on . After its legalization (1970) and the introduction of a French national championship (1974) , women participated almost continuously in the finals, which were initially held in tournament mode, until 1989, only missing in the 1978/79 season. However, she never made it into the four best teams. It lost its dominant position in northeastern France at the beginning of the 1990s, in particular to ASPTT Strasbourg , FC Vendenheim and the Lorraine rivals from AS Nancy . So the FC Metz could not qualify for the 1992 newly created highest women's league (Championnat National 1 A) . Neither did Metz soccer players reach the main rounds in France in the cup competition introduced in 2001 .
It was not until the 2014/15 season that Metz's women play at the highest national level again, now renamed Division 1 Féminine . The club did not owe this fact to its own sporting achievements, but only to the fact that the women's football department of the North Lorraine AS Algrange joined FC Metz after their promotion because they hoped for better financial resources there. Metz's women continue to play their home games in the Stade du Batzenthal from Algrange . After a year back in second class , Metz 'women played again in the first division in 2016/17, only to be relegated again after this season and to be promoted back to the top national division for the 2018/19 season .
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
Web links
- Official website (French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ fiche staff - FRÉDÉRIC ANTONETTI. In: fcmetz.com. Retrieved November 16, 2018 (French).
- ↑ Squad list on the website of FC Metz, as of July 31, 2018
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