FC Rouen

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FC Rouen
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Basic data
Surname Football Club de Rouen 1899
founding 1899
president Pascal Darmon
Website fcrouen.fr/
First soccer team
Head coach Didier Ollé-Nicolle
Venue Stade Robert Diochon
Places 12,018
league Championnat de France National
2011/12 6th place
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The Football Club de Rouen 1899 is a French football club from Rouen , the capital of the Seine-Maritime department , on the Seine in Normandy .

It was founded in 1896 (initially as a rugby club, from 1899 also with an association football department ) as FC Rouennais . The club had its current name from 1933 and, interrupted by bankruptcy and the re-establishment as Olympique Grand Rouen in the 1990s, again since 2003. The club colors are red and white, which is why the team is also known as the “Red Devils” (French: Diables Rouges ) referred to as. The league team plays at the Stade Robert Diochon , which was expanded to a capacity of 12,018 in summer 2009.

The club's president is Pascal Darmon; the first team is currently being trained by Didier Ollé-Nicolle (as of January 2013).

history

The most successful time of the "Red Devils" was between about 1910 and 1930, even if the club had almost a regular place in Division 1 in the following two decades and in the 1960s . Rouen was a member of the Union des Sociétés Françaises de Sports Athlétiques , the oldest and most popular of the French football associations until 1919 , and had a powerful competitor in the Norman relay with Le Havre AC , whom he first met in 1910 (and then annually until 1914) left behind and became the master of Normandy. However, the following opponents at national level - especially from the north (Lille, Roubaix) and from Paris, but also from the Mediterranean coast - were too strong for Rouen, so that it was only enough to participate in the final in 1913, but then Stade Helvétique Marseille won the national title.

After the First World War and the founding of the Fédération Française de Football (Association) , the FC achieved their greatest success to date: they fought through to the final of the French Cup in 1925 and met CASG Paris here . After the first game was 1-1 even after extra time, Rouen had to play a second time in Paris a few days later (always the venue of the final from the start). This game was lost 2: 3. It was also the very first replay in the long history of the French Cup; between 1918 and 1997 this only happened eight times - after that, penalty shoot-outs were introduced for immediate decision-making. In 1936 FC Rouen rose for the first time in the highest professional league in France .

During the Second World War , the FC Rouen managed to win two titles "without value": in 1940 and 1945 it was the champions of the northern relay in occupied France - but the French Football Association does not count these championships as official titles.

League affiliation

Rouen had professional status from 1933–1995 and again since 2003. First class ( Division 1 , renamed Ligue 1 since 2002 ) played the club 1936-1943, 1944-1947, 1960-1970, 1977/78 and 1982-1985. After four years in the third division , he was forcibly transferred to the amateur camp in 2013 and plays in the d'Honneur division .

successes

Former players who are important for the club

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

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