Saint-Louis FC
| Saint-Louis FC | |
| Full name | Football Club de Saint-Louis |
| place | Saint-Louis , Haut-Rhin , France |
| Founded | 1911 |
| Dissolved | 1990 |
| Club colors | |
| Stadion | Stade de la Frontiere |
| Top league | Division 3 |
| successes | Alsatian champion 1936, 1946, 1949, 1952, 1968 and 1974 |
The FC Saint-Louis was a traditional French football club based in the municipality of Saint-Louis in Alsace Haut-Rhin department , which consisted 1911-1990.
history
The club was founded in Sankt Ludwig in 1911 as the Sankt Ludwig football club . At that time, the municipality of Sankt Ludwig belonged to the Mulhouse district in the realm of Alsace-Lorraine . Today it is called Saint-Louis, is located near the German- French- Swiss border triangle and borders directly on the city of Basel .
After Alsace fell back to France after the First World War , the club entered under its French name FC Saint-Louis . The club played in the 1919/20 season, from 1923 to 1927, in the 1929/30 season and from 1935 to 1937 in the highest French regional class, the Alsatian Ehrendivision ( Division d'Honneur Alsace ) and in 1936 was Alsatian champion.
During the German occupation of France in World War II from 1940 to 1944, the football clubs from Alsace-Lorraine took part in the games of the German Reich . The FC Saint-Louis now appeared again under its German name FC Sankt Ludwig . He was accepted into the Gauliga Alsace in 1940 , but rose as the bottom of the table in the Oberelsass season after the 1940/41 season in the local district league.
Since 1945, the club played again as FC Saint-Louis in the French league system and was a regular participant in the Alsatian honor division, whose championship he won in 1946, 1949, 1952, 1968 and 1974. For several years, FC Saint-Louis also played in a higher national class. In the seasons 1949/50, 1952/53, from 1968/69 to 1971/72 and from 1974/75 to 1977/78, the club belonged to the highest French amateur class , which was the third division at that time. From 1978/79 to 1979/80 there were two seasons in the fourth division, division 4. After that, the club only played in the Alsatian area.
In the seasons 1926/27 , 1927/28 , 1928/29 , 1930/31 , 1932/33 , 1933/34 , 1968/69 , 1969/70 , 1970/71 , 1971/72 and 1974/75 FC Saint -Louis the national main round of the French Cup .
The FC Saint-Louis merged in June 1990 with the neighboring club FC Neuweg to form FC Saint-Louis Neuweg .
Personalities
- Serge Gaisser , French soccer player, emerged from the youth of FC Saint-Louis
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stadium information at www.europlan-online.de
- ↑ www.rsssf.com: Division d'Honneur - Alsace 1919–1932
- ↑ a b League history of FC Saint-Louis
- ↑ Hardy Greens : From the Crown Prince to the Bundesliga. 1890 to 1963. Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 1 . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1996, ISBN 3-928562-85-1 , p. 207 .