Olympique Paris

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Olympique de Paris was a football club from Paris .

The club was founded in 1895 by the merger of Étoile Parisienne and Société Athlétique de Pantin under the name Olympique de Pantin ; Pantin is a suburb on the northeastern outskirts of Paris, part of which belongs to the 19th arrondissement of the capital. The club kept this name until its merger with SC Vaugirard (1918) - from then on it was called Olympique de Paris .

From 1918 the club color was green; the team played in the Stade Bergeyre , which had space for 15,000 spectators.

The beginnings

Little is known about the first 20 years of the club's history; Olympiques footballers had no success before the First World War. The club's rugby players stood in the final of the state championship three times in a row from 1895 to 1897 and won the title in 1896. The football division joined the Ligue de Football Association (LFA) before the First World War , which, at the instigation of Jules Rimet , had split off in 1910 from France's oldest and largest football association, the Union des Sociétés Françaises de Sports Athlétiques (USFSA), and how the other associations also held their own championship ( Trophée de France ). (For details see under Football in France # early years )

In Paris, clubs other than Olympique Pantin dominated: Standard AC , Racing Club de France , Gallia Club (all from the USFSA), Étoile des Deux Lacs and Patronage Olier from the Catholic association FGSPF as well as CAP and Red Star from the LFA. And across the country, the strongholds of football were in the northern coal district ( Olympique Lille , RC Roubaix , US Tourcoing ), on the English Channel ( Le Havre AC , FC Rouen ) and the Mediterranean coast ( Stade Helvétique Marseille ).

The "Olympic Decade" (1915–1925)

Olympique won the LFA Paris Round for the first time in 1915 and was able to repeat this success in 1916. In the same year, the club even won the national finals, in which the champions of all four competing associations determined their national title holder ( Trophée Interfédérale ) (2-0 against Étoile des Deux Lacs ). This title was of course a "model of no value": in large parts of the country football had come to a complete standstill because of the war , because they were in the frontline area, the players were wearing uniforms instead of sportswear, there were supply bottlenecks or clubs had disbanded. Official championship titles have only existed in France since the introduction of a national, professional league operation (1932/33).

The French Cup ( Coupe Charles Simon , known as Coupe de France since 1920 ), which was launched by Henri Delaunay in 1917 - and thus before the FFF was founded in 1919 - was different : although only 48 teams took part in its first draw, because there was still war, but this title is still official today. And in this competition Olympique Pantin prevailed against Lyon Olympique Universitaire and local rivals Club Français and CASG , also won the final against FC Lyon 3-0 and thus became the very first French cup winner.

In the following years, too, Olympique was extremely successful in this competition with a steadily growing number of participants: In 1919, the club , which has since been renamed Olympique de Paris , was again in the final, after among other things again well-known local rivals (this time Gallia Club , Racing Club de France and CAP ) could turn off. There, however, CASG Paris retained the upper hand with 3: 2 nV. In 1920 Olympique had to admit defeat in the round of 16 Olympique Lille . But in 1921 the club reached the final for the third time in four years: as in 1919, in a duel between two teams from Paris, the opponent had the better end for themselves - Red Star won 2-1. Red Star was able to take immediate revenge for only finishing second behind Olympique in the Paris championship round. Olympique, exceptionally successful in the Cup for eight years, reached the semi-finals in 1922, 1923 and 1925 and the quarter-finals in 1924; but there was no second title win.

The sudden end

After the Stade Bergeyre was demolished , Olympique surprisingly joined their big rival Red Star at the turn of the year 1926/1927 . For the fans, who saw this step as a "forced marriage", it was little consolation that the new club was called Red Star Olympique for the next 41 years , adopted the green club colors (even to this day) and also continued the cup tradition: after 1921 , 1922 and 1923 RSO also entered the list of winners of the Coupe de France in 1928 and 1942 .

League affiliation and achievements

National player

French national team

The number of international games for Olympique Pantin / Paris and the period of these international appearances are given in brackets

  • Paul Baron (1, 1923)
  • Ernest Clère (1, 1924)
  • Maurice Cottenet (7, 1921-1925) previously two and then nine more internationals for two other clubs
  • Louis Darques (9, 1919–1923, scored one goal)
  • Jules Dewaquez (22, 1920-1924, scored six goals; Olympic participant 1920 and 1924) then 19 more international matches for another club
  • Robert Dufour (1, 1924)
  • Fernand Faroux (1, 1912)
  • Émile Fiévet (1, 1912)
  • Eugène Langenove (2, 1921)
  • Louis Mistral (3, 1921-1923) previously two more internationals for another club
  • Jean Picy (1, 1914)
  • Antoine Rouchès (1, 1921)
  • Marcel Vignoli (2, 1925)

Other countries

  • Belgium : René Decoux, Van Ruey, Lambrechts, Verhoeven

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 , Volume 2 (Mu-W) ISBN 2-913146-02-3