Entente Fontainebleau-Nemours
The Entente Fontainebleau-Nemours is a French football club from Fontainebleau and Nemours , which at times also entered into a syndicate with clubs from Bagneaux-sur-Loing ( Entente Bagneaux-Fontainebleau-Nemours ) and Melun ( Entente Melun-Fontainebleau ). All four places are located in the Seine-et-Marne department southeast of Paris .
history
The club was founded in 1912 as Club Sportif de Fontainebleau , which joined the Fédération Cycliste et Athlétique de France (FCAF) at a time when there were still several competing associations in France . As early as 1913, the CS won the championship of this association at the departmental level. Until after the Second World War , however, the men's team no longer emerged nationally. In 1956 she rose as champions of the Division d'Honneur of the Ligue de Paris in the top national amateur division , in which she was initially only able to hold for one season. Returned there, Fontainebleau also played several times in the upper table quarter from 1962. In 1966 it merged with the neighboring Association Sportive Bagneaux-Nemours under the name Entente Bagneaux-Fontainebleau-Nemours. The associated intention to concentrate forces produced initial successes between 1967 and 1969, when the EBFN reached the final of the French amateur championship three times in a row - even though it was defeated by US Quevilly , Gazélec FCO Ajaccio and Pierrots Vauban Strasbourg - and in 1970 rose to the second division . The merger lasted until 1978, the year of relegation to the second division.
When the club played again in the second division from 1981 to 1983, he did so as Entente Fontainebleau-Bagneaux. For his last second division season 1987/88 into the second decade of the 21st century , he formed a syndicate with US Melun ; this Entente Melun-Fontainebleau dissolved again after only one year. In 1998, CS Fontainebleau, which had crashed into sixth division at that time, became the Racing Club du Pays de Fontainebleau . This one has blue and yellow as the club colors; The league team plays its home games in the La Faisanderie stadium, which can seat around 8,000 .
League affiliation and achievements
The footballers have never played first class ( Division 1 , since 2002 Ligue 1 ) and have not had professional status. Your total of eleven second division seasons (1970–1978, 1981–1983 and 1987/88) took place in an "open" mode for amateurs and professionals. Your best placement in it was a fifth place in 1971 (league with 48 teams in three seasons) or an eleventh place in 1974 (league with 36 teams in two seasons) in their respective group.
The "Bellifontains" - as the residents and also the players of Fontainebleau are called in France - reached the main round of the national cup 14 times between 1956 and 1988 . They survived the first round six times, but were then eliminated in the sixteenth finals. They only narrowly failed twice: In 1958, the then honorary division leader defeated the second division FC Grenoble 3-1 and only gave up 2-4 defeat against the first-class Racing Lens after extra time. 1980 ended the first division club FC Metz in two close games (0-0 and 1-2) further hopes of the third division club.
In 2012/13 the Racing Club played in the seventh class "Promotion d'Honneur".
Well-known former players and coaches
- Jean-Pierre Adams , player 1967–1970
- Alfred Aston , player- coach 1949/50
- Annaïg Butel , as a teenager from 2004-2007 with the successor to Bagneaux-Nemours
- Michel Jacques , trainer 1958–1963
- Philippe Mahut , player 1974–1976
- Francisco "Paco" Rubio , coach in the mid-1990s
- André Simonyi , coach in the mid-1950s
- Lilian Thuram , as a teenager
literature
- Thierry Berthou / Collectif: Dictionnaire historique des clubs de football français. Pages de Foot, Créteil 1999, Volume 1, ISBN 2-913146-01-5
- L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: Coupe de France. La folle épopée. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2007, ISBN 978-2-915-53562-4