Olympique Saint-Memmie
Olympique Saint-Memmie is a French women's football club from Saint-Memmie , a small municipality bordering Châlons-en-Champagne .
history
The club was founded under the name Association Sportive de Saint-Memmie . Its colors are blue and yellow. The league team plays at the local Stade Déborah-Jeannet , named after a longtime former striker for the club.
League affiliation and successes of the women's team
For the first time in the 1995/96 season , the footballers from Saint-Memmie belonged to France's highest women's division, the Championnat National 1 A , from which they had to relegate after two seasons. In 1999 Olympique returned to the first division and until 2006 remained a member of the French elite class, which has since been renamed Division 1 Féminine . During this time, the club has had a number of national players in its ranks, in particular the record scorer of the Bleues , Marinette Pichon , who also took part in the European Championship finals in 1997 and 2001 during her time in Saint-Memmie and in 2002 as Football Player of the Year with a French trophy Professional players union UNFP was awarded. Gaëtane Thiney became the 2003 U-19 European Champion during the eight years she played for the club .
The women from Champagne have not yet made it to a national championship title ; their best placement was a fifth place in the final ranking of the 2000/01 season , while otherwise they mostly did not get beyond the bottom third of the table. In the 2001 established national cup competition for the Challenge de France , Olympique advanced in the 2005/06 season as the best result in the round of the last sixteen women's teams. In the 2013/14 season, Olympique Saint-Memmie will only play in the regional Division d'Honneur .
Well-known former players
Web links
Notes and evidence
- ↑ see the article "Que sont devenues les Championnes d'Europe U19 de 2003?" From August 2013 at footofeminin.fr
- ↑ see Saint-Memmies data sheet for this season at footofeminin.fr