Paris FC

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Paris FC
Logo ParisFC 2011.png
Basic data
Surname Paris Football Club
Seat Paris
founding 1969
president Pierre Ferraci
Website www.parisfootballclub.com
First soccer team
Head coach René Girard
Venue Stade Charléty
Places 20,000
league Ligue 2
2019/20 17th place
home
Away

The Paris Football Club (short: PFC , not to be confused with FC Paris , a rugby club) is a French football club from the state capital .

The club colors are sky blue and black. The men's league team usually plays at the Stade Déjerine , which has a capacity of 2,500; Due to the inadequate condition of the playing surface, the French association decided to move to the Stade Marville in La Courneuve in 2006 and to the Stade Charléty in 2007 (20,000 spectators).

The club's president is Pierre Ferracci; the first team is currently being trained by René Girard (as of January 2020).

History and name changes

Club emblem (until 2011)

Paris FC was only founded in 1969. The intention was to bring top-level football back to the capital after the traditional clubs Racing Club and Stade Français had been relegated from Division 1 in 1964 and 1967 and Red Star had long since been based in the Paris area . This new FC was a club without members and without a team in the first year; therefore in 1970 it merged with Stade 1904 Saint-Germain-en-Laye (from which, also as a new foundation, Paris Saint-Germain emerged) and was called Paris-Saint-Germain FC for one season , then again PFC. In 1978/79 he renamed himself Paris 1 , again for only one year (because of his sponsor, the radio station Europe 1).

This was the last season of the first division of the club, which was left behind early on in the race for success and popular approval against its "younger stepbrother" PSG. Also contributed to the fact that the PFC only in its three Erstligajahren in that time completely rebuilt Parc des Princes was allowed to begin (there 1979 attendance record with 41,000 visitors in the game against AS Saint-Etienne ), but otherwise the dilapidated Stade de la Porte de Montreuil to make do had . Because of its temporary closure, the PFC literally wandered through the greater Paris area at times; In 1981/82 the league eleven even played part of their home games in Troyes, 170 km away .

In 1982/83 the club merged with the Racing Club to form Racing Paris I ; In 1983 it was re-established independently as Paris FC 83 , which made further name changes in 1997 ( Paris FC 98 ) and 1998 ( Paris FC 2000 ) and has now been renamed again.

Talks and negotiations between the PFC and the successful women's football club Juvisy FCF have been taking place since mid-2016 , in which the possibilities of very close cooperation up to a merger of the clubs were to be explored. The two clubs merged in the summer of 2017 (see the women's football chapter below) . At times the footballers of the traditional Racing Club Paris were also involved in the negotiations ; this should bring the long- standing considerations of permanently installing a strong, second professional club for men and women in the capital in addition to PSG , closer to realization.

League affiliation

The PFC had professional status from 1970 to 1973 and from 1976 to 1984, and has had it again since 2015. The club played first class ( Division 1 , renamed Ligue 1 since 2002 ) from 1972 to 1974 and in the 1978/79 season. Since 1982 he has been commuting between third and fourth class. In 2015 they were promoted to the second-class Ligue 2 , but the club was relegated again after just one season. Paris FC will again compete in Ligue 2 in the 2017/18 season; after the club had failed in the relegation, he moved up by withdrawing his license for SC Bastia .

successes

Known people in the past and present

French national team

The number of internationals for Paris FC and the period of these international appearances are shown in brackets

  • Jean Djorkaeff (1, 1972) previously made 47 other international appearances for three other clubs
  • Louis Floch (3, 1973) previously 13 more internationals for another club; 1972/73 also the tenth best scorer in the D1
  • Jean-Paul Rostagni (5, 1972–1973) previously made 20 more internationals for three other clubs
Other

Women's soccer

The talks and negotiations between PFC and Juvisy FCF that began in mid-2016 led to the merger of the all-women’s club with the PFC in summer 2017 - under its name. Juvisy's last president, Marie-Christine Terroni, is the head of the new PFC women's department, all previous Juvisy women's groups and the junior school will remain in the Essonne department , where they will also play their games, although the first division eleven will probably play individual matches at the Stade Charléty in Paris. The previous youth teams of the PFC, however, will remain in the 20th arrondissement of the capital. This has created France's largest women's football department with around 400 active women and girls. The women of the PFC will play in the D1F, the highest league in France, from the 2017/18 season . This team has been coached by the French record international player Sandrine Soubeyrand since October 2018 .

literature

  • Thierry Berthou et al .: Dictionnaire historique des clubs de football français. Pages de Foot, Créteil 1999, ISBN 2-913146-01-5 (Volume 1, A-Mo) or ISBN 2-913146-02-3 (Volume 2, Mu-W).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Juvisy plans a new future from January 19, 2017 at footofeminin.fr
  2. ↑ Le Paris FC repêché en Domino's Ligue 2 à la place du SC Bastia. Ligue de football professionnel, July 25, 2017, accessed July 31, 2017 (French).
  3. ↑ Article “ The FCF Juvisy Essonne and the Paris FC are one ( Memento of July 10, 2017 in the Internet Archive )” of July 6, 2017 on fcfjuvisy.fr