FF Nîmes Métropole Gard
The Football Féminin Nîmes Métropole Gard or FFNMG for short is a women's football club from Nîmes in the south of France , in the Gard department .
history
The history of the club began in 1995 with the establishment of a women's football department at the Football Club from Jonquières . In 2002 she started her own business as a football féminin Redessan Nîmes Métropole . In 2012 the soccer players moved from Redessan to Nîmes; this step was connected with the adoption of today's club name. In the same year FFNMG entered into a partnership with the professional club Olympique Nîmes without having given up its independence; this cooperation enables the women to use the Olympique infrastructure, especially the training facilities.
As a division of FC Jonquières, the club colors were black and red, then from 2002 to 2012 blue and white; then the women of the FFNMG took over the red and white of their partner club Olympique and also wear the crocodile in their new club crest. For their home games, the league eleven uses the Stade du Mas Praden in the neighboring municipality of Marguerittes to the east , which has a capacity of around 1,000 seats, the Stade de la Bastide in Nîmes or for matches that are expected to attract greater audience interest - like this Neighborhood derby against HSC Montpellier in August 2015 - the Stade des Costières .
League affiliation and achievements
Until 2006, the club's first women's team played in the regional Division d'Honneur and from then on in a group in the third division; Her Palmarès recorded three victories (2000 to 2002) in the interdepartmental cup competition of Gard and Lozère in these early years . In 2010 she qualified for Division 2 Féminine , in which she is represented until 2015. In 2014 the FF Nîmes Métropole Gard failed as group runner-up behind the ASPTT Albi on promotion to Division 1 Féminine ; twelve months later, however, he was arithmetically established prematurely as a first division promoter.
In the national cup competition introduced in 2001 , Nîmes' women reached the national main round for the first time in 2008/09 , in which, however - as in the two following years - they were eliminated in the sixteenth finals. Later the cup dreams ended up to and including the 2014/15 season even in the thirty-second finals at the latest.
Well-known former and current players
Until the early 2010s, it was mostly women from the region who wore the club's dress. From then on, increasingly, women who had previously played with the "big neighbor" HSC Montpellier came, such as 2013 Zohra Ayachi and for Algeria active Nora Hamou Maamar . In 2014, Ludivine Diguelman and Élodie Ramos, two experienced former senior international players and Marine Pervier, an ex-U-20 international, moved from Montpellier to Nîmes. On the other hand, the FFNMG has been awarded the École de foot (“football school”) label annually by the French Football Association since 2012 for its good work with young talent .
Web links
- Official website of the association
Notes and evidence
- ↑ see the article " Nîmes Olympique and FF Nîmes Métropole sign a partnership agreement " from August 8, 2012 at objectifgard.com
- ↑ see the information on the stadium on soccerway.com
- ↑ see the season end table 2013/14 at footofeminin.fr
- ↑ see the article " Nîmes - Montpellier, much more than a derby " from August 30, 2015 at footofeminin.fr
- ↑ see the FFNMG roster on the 2014/15 season data sheet at footofeminin.fr
- ↑ according to the article about the club's history ( memento of the original from September 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the club's website
