CO Le Puy

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The Club Omnisports du Puy or CO Le Puy for short is a French football club from Le Puy-en-Velay . Since 2009 it has been called Le Puy Foot 43 Auvergne ; 43 is the ordinal number of the Haute-Loire department in which the city is located.

Le Puy's club colors are now sky blue and white; Like CA Le Puy, the CO achieved its greatest successes in traditional red and black. The club's fighting team competes in the Stade Charles-Massot , which today still has a capacity of around 4,800 spectators.

history

The club was founded in 1903 as Pédale Vellavienne , which was soon renamed Association Sportive du Puy and, in the early 1920s, Club Athlétique Le Puy . Under this name he won the title of regional champion of the Ligue du Lyonnais for the first time in 1924 and was one of the most successful French amateur clubs in the first years after the Second World War.In 1949 he was second in the southern group of the newly created, nationwide highest amateur league, at that time the third league level. The club repeatedly changed its name in the following decades: in the mid-1960s, the CA became the CO Le Puy , in 1990 the SCO Le Puy and in 1992 the Union Sportive de Football Le Puy (USF). In 2009, after a merger with local rivals AS Taulhac, the club took its current name Le Puy Foot 43 Auvergne . In 1974, the team returned to the third division and commuted between this and the fourth division for a decade. In 1986 she moved from the old Stade Lafayette to the newly built inner-city Stade Charles-Massot , which had a grandstand for 3,600 spectators.

In 1990 the club was over-indebted with around one million francs, the professional division had to file for bankruptcy, but the first team was able to play the season to the end. In 1991, forcibly relegated to the highest regional amateur league, the USF Le Puy only returned in 1998 to the now only fifth-rate national amateur game operation (CFA 2).

Women's football is also played in the club; The department was created in 2006 when the women of the Entente Saint-Maurice from neighboring Yssingeaux joined the USF Le Puy. In the 2006/07 season and again since 2011, the players from Le Puy are represented in the French second division. In between, they were relegated to the fourth highest division.

League affiliation and achievements

The club has never played in the highest French division . However, the club's fighting team belonged to the second highest division for five seasons between 1984 and 1989 and had professional status until 1990. Her best placement was a seventh place in the final classification of her group in the 1985/86 season; During the first third of the season, the COLP had even been leading the table throughout.

In the national cup competition for the Coupe de France , the footballers from Auvergne did not leave any particularly lasting impressions. Overall, they made it to eight main round participations between 1948 and most recently 1986 , between 1948/49 and 1951/52 at least four times in a row. But they only survived the first round twice (1949 and 1975), the thirty-second finals, and then eliminated in the subsequent sixteenth finals. In the 1948/49 season, the then CA Le Puy eliminated the second division CA Paris 1-0, but was then clearly defeated 1: 4 by the first division club OGC Nice . 1974/75 the competition for the Central French was similar; first the CO defeated a second division side, AS Béziers , 1-0, then met France's by far the most successful team of the decade, AS Saint-Étienne . This lot brought together two contestants whose stadiums were less than 60 km apart. However, the two-tier difference was confirmed in the first game - the cup was played back and forth from the sixteenth to the quarter-finals - at the Stade Geoffroy-Guichard , as the eventual winner claimed 6-0. In the second leg, around 9,000 spectators attended the Stade Lafayette Le Puy's honorable 2-1 defeat. For the Red-Blacks, there was a player on the field in both matches with Georges Govou, whose son Sidney, who was born a few years later, would become a multiple French national team player .

In 2013/14 the successor Le Puy Foot 43 Auvergne competes in the fifth class CFA 2 .

Well-known former players and coaches

literature

  • Thierry Berthou / Collectif: Dictionnaire historique des clubs de football français. Pages de Foot, Créteil 1999, Volume 1, ISBN 2-913146-01-5
  • L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: Coupe de France. La folle épopée. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2007, ISBN 978-2-915535-62-4

Web links

Notes and evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Berthou / Collectif, p. 180
  2. ↑ a b Berthou / Collectif, p. 179
  3. ^ Berthou / Collectif, p. 181
  4. ↑ see the data sheet of the women elf at footofeminin.fr
  5. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, p. 365
  6. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, p. 391