OS Monaco

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Omnium Sports Monaco or OSM for short is a sports club based in the Principality of Monaco . It has achieved importance in particular through its women's football department , whose teams took part in French games and competed at the top level there at times; therefore, this section is the focus of this article.

history

The woman division 1976. Knapp was founded a decade later began the time in the Omnium sport the most successful team in the region Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur set (see the section here below) . This phase came to an end in the mid-1990s. In 2010 the women from OSM joined their “big neighbor” AS Monaco .

League affiliation and achievements

For the first time, Omnium Sports Monaco was able to qualify for the France-wide championship finals in the 1985/86 season , which at that time was still held in the form of a final tournament with a mixture of group and knockout games . The Monegasque immediately advanced to the semi-finals as group winners, in which, however , they had to admit defeat to the eventual champions VGA Saint-Maur . The following year they were again in the semifinals, but did not reach the final again. In 1989 and 1990, OSM made it to the quarter-finals, with the women again failing in 1989 at the eventual French champions (this time it was CS Saint-Brieuc ).

At the time when a nationwide first women's league was introduced in France (1992), which was initially called Championnat National 1 A , OS Monaco was only second class . However, as the group winners, the women promptly made it into the upper house of football, and they also became the first French second division champions. In the following season 1993/94 it was not enough to keep up the league, the OSM would have been denied even if the regional association had not deducted three points from the club for lack of a "substructure" in the youth area. The Monegasians then played in the second division until 2002, then only in the regional Division d'Honneur ; there they were still represented after their transfer to AS Monaco (until at least 2015).
In the national cup competition , which was only introduced in 2001, the women of Omnium Sports never made it to the main competition; Their furthest advance in it was enough in 2007/08 to reach the 1/64 final, in which they lost 8-0 to another third division team.

Well-known former players

Web links

Notes and evidence

  1. see the historical outline of the club's history (under web links )
  2. see the dates of this cup game at footofeminin.fr