OM Vitrolles

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OM Vitrolles
Full name Olympique de Marseille Vitrolles
Abbreviation (s) OMV
Founded 1991
Dissolved 1996
Club colors blue White
Hall Palais des Sports de Marseille
Places 5,800
league Ligue Nationale de Handball


Greatest successes
National French champion
1994, 1996
Coupe de France
1993, 1995
International European Cup Winners' Cup
1993

Olympique de Marseille Vitrolles was a French handball club from Marseille . OM Vitrolles was founded in 1991 and was not part of the Olympique Marseille sports club . Although he was legally independent, he received financial support from the football club. The city of Vitrolles and the Conseil général des Bouches-du-Rhône raised 50% of the budget of up to twelve million francs . When the club could no longer make up a deficit of three million francs, it was downgraded to the third division in the summer of 1996. It meant the end for the previously highly successful club.

In the top French division in men's handball, the Ligue Nationale de Handball , OM was champion in 1994 and 1996 and vice-champion in 1992, 1993 and 1995. In the Coupe de France he reached the final in 1992, but lost to Vénissieux Handball 20:24. The following year he won the title by a 32:22 win over US Créteil HB . Also in 1995 he won the final 26:21 against Sélestat AHB . In 1996 they lost to US Ivry HB in the final at 22:30.

Internationally, Vitrolles won the European Cup Winners' Cup 1992/93 when it first appeared . In the final they defeated KC Veszprém . A year later they were back in the final, but were defeated by FC Barcelona . In the EHF Champions League 1994/95 you reached the group stage of the last eight teams. In 1995/96 they reached the quarter-finals again in the cup winners' competition.

Well-known former players

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.liberation.fr Hand: l'OM-Vitrolles dans un trou financier et sportif. Déficitaire, le club champion de France est rétrogradé (French) from May 22, 1996, accessed on April 19, 2014
  2. ↑ www.liberation.fr L'OM du hand, main dans la main (French) of March 25, 1995, accessed on April 19, 2014