Iris Club Lillois

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The Iris Club Lillois was a football club from the northern French city ​​of Lille .

history

The club was founded in 1898; he chose the club colors blood red and gold (Sang et or) . He then joined the Union des sociétés françaises de sports athlétiques (USFSA), the largest French sports association of the time. The club's footballers became champions of northern France just a year after they were founded, but lost to Le Havre AC in the semi-final game for the national title . In 1901 the ICL advanced again to the finals of the USFSA national championship, and again it was Le Havre AC that blocked his way into the final. Until the First World War , the Iris Club in northern France could no longer prevail against the stronger competitors, in particular Racing Roubaix , the US Tourcoing and the local rivals Olympique , founded in 1902 .

In the 1920s and 1930s, especially after the introduction of professional gaming operations from 1932/33, the ICL was only number three in its own city behind Olympique and SC Fives . Only in the state cup competition did he occasionally attract national attention, whose main round in France he reached seven times in a row from 1928/29 to 1934/35 . In the 1930/31 season, after victories over Red Star Strasbourg and FC Sète, he made it into the round of the best 16 teams, one year later - this time a. a. against CA Paris and again against FC Sète - even to the quarter-finals.

Coat of arms of Lille OSC (1950s) with iris

During the occupation of northern France in World War II , there was a concentration of forces in the city's football clubs; initially the Iris Club merged with Olympique in May 1941; the resulting Olympique Iris Club Lillois merged with SC Fives in 1944. This merger association has been called Lille OSC since then and carried a stylized iris (iris or fleur-de-lys ) in its coat of arms until the 1970s .

Some of the members of the Iris Club Lillois, the oldest of the three merged clubs, did not go this way and joined the Iris Club in neighboring Lambersart , which was founded in the 1920s by rugby players from the club .

successes

  • USFSA Champion of Northern France 1899, 1901

Well-known players and coaches

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 .
  • Paul Hurseau / Jacques Verhaeghe: Olympique Lillois - Sporting Club Fivois - Lille OSC Alan Sutton, Joué-lès-Tours 1997, ISBN 2-84253-080-2 .

Notes and evidence

  1. ↑ see the results of the individual USFSA championships at Pierre Cazal: France (1900-1920). in: International Federation of Football History and Statistics (ed.), Fußball-Weltzeitschrift No. 23, 1994, pp. 15-24