French women's football championship 1979/80

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The French women's football championship 1979/80 was the sixth play of this title after the official recognition of women's football by the French Football Association in 1970. The comparable competitions between the world wars remained unofficial, especially since they were organized by an all-women sports association.

The 1979/80 championship - there was no top division in France before 1992 - was played in a mixture of group play and knockout mode ; In order to take part in the nationwide final round, the women's teams had to qualify at the regional level beforehand. The previous year's champions of AS Étrœungt did not even qualify for the main round this time; instead, the women of Stade Reims won their fourth French championship.

Preliminary round

At this season, the mode was changed and the actual finals were streamlined. First, a regional champion was determined in six leagues of eight women’s teams in a double round of points with home and return matches. These six champions were split into two groups of three, in which each club competed against each other, with one game at home and one away. In the event of a tie - the two-point rule applied  - the better goal difference was decisive. The first two in the group qualified directly for the final, which - unlike the previous draws - was played in just one match and also in a neutral place without previous cross-over games.

In the sources used, no individual results or tables of the six regional leagues can be found, only the champions are named. These were FC Metz in the north , VGA Saint-Maur in the middle , Stade Reims in the east, Olympique Marseille in the south-east , AS Soyaux in the south-west and Stade Quimper in the west .

Semifinals

Group A

St.
Qui 		VGA
StM 		AS
Soy
Quimper Stadium 3: 1 a :
VGA Saint-Maur : 1: 5
AS Soyaux 2: 1 :
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Pl. society Sp G U V Gates Pts.
1. AS Soyaux 2 2 0 0 7: 2 4-0
2. Quimper Stadium 2 1 0 1 4: 3 2: 2
3. VGA Saint-Maur 2 0 0 2 2: 8 0: 4

Group B

Ol.
Mar 		FC
Met 		St.
Rei
Olympique Marseille 3: 2 :
FC Metz : 1: 3
Stade Reims 2: 1 :
Pl. society Sp G U V Gates Pts.
1. Stade Reims 2 2 0 0 5: 2 4-0
2. Olympique Marseille 2 1 0 1 4: 4 2: 2
3. FC Metz 2 0 0 2 3: 6 0: 4

Endgame

The final of the group winners took place in mid-June 1980 in the southern banlieue of Paris .

Stade Reims - AS Soyaux 2: 0 (2: 0)
Constellations
Gates

1-0 Loisel (2nd)
2-0 Abar (38th)

particularities

Danielle Vatin, one of Reims' two goalkeepers, returned to her usual position in this final, even if only for one half. In the second leg of last year's final, however, coach Geoffroy had called her out as an attacker due to personnel shortage . But this time Isabelle Musset , who had played all the finals of the previous five years with Reims, was absent due to injury.

literature

  • Pascal Grégoire-Boutreau: Au bonheur des filles. Cahiers intempestifs, Saint-Étienne 2003, ISBN 2-911698-25-8

Web links

Notes and evidence

  1. ↑ For these early championships, see the article Fémina Sport Paris .
  2. ↑ Grégoire-Boutreau (see under literature ) and the websites rsssf.com and footofeminin.fr were used.
  3. ↑ The sources contradict each other with regard to the venue and the date: Grégoire-Boutreau, p. 243, names June 16 in Viry-Châtillon , while rsssf.com mentions June 15 in Juvisy-sur-Orge . However, the two cities in the Essonne department are only a few kilometers apart and it can be assumed with a probability bordering on certainty that not two finals have been contested. Regarding the problem (not only applicable to French women's football) that its early years had hardly any resonance in the contemporary media and were not systematically documented into the 21st century, see the chapter “Public perception in France” in the article French national football team Women . After all, this was the first championship final of which even the time of player changes is known.