Arras Football
| Arras Football | |
| Basic data | |
|---|---|
| Surname | Arras Football Association |
| Seat | Arras |
| founding | 1902 |
| president | Jacques Boulnois |
| Website | http://www.arrasfootball.fr/ |
| First soccer team | |
| Head coach | Reynald Dabrowski |
| Venue | Stade Degouve-Brabant |
| Places | 1500 |
| league | CFA 2 (group A) |
| 2012/13 | 5. |
Arras Football is a French football club based in Arras in northern France . The men's team, which is now taking part in the amateur championship, had professional status between 1936 and 1940 and played second-rate during this time under the name Racing Club Arras .
history
After the team started playing in 1901, it gave itself official character in October 1902 when it was founded as a club. Initially only active in friendly games , the team joined the USFSA championship in 1912 .
Under the leadership of President Michel Brabant, the club assumed professional status in 1936. Due to the lack of success in previous years, the club was integrated into the lowest professional game class, the Championnat de France de football D3 . In the one-time league, the team won 13 of their 19 games and rose as champions together with US Tourcoing in Division 2 . Here, too, the club immediately dominated its season, in the subsequent promotion round he finished sixth. Also placed in the middle of the table the following year, the Second World War ended the ambitions of the club, which gave up its professional status after a season in the regional war championship in 1940.
After the war, Racing Arras played in the amateur field. As a fifth division, the team made headlines in the Coupe de France 1948/49 when they advanced to the quarter-finals and only failed there at the first division club FC Metz . In the following years, the club made several appearances in the French Cup, but could not build on the success and was regularly eliminated early. Since the 1970s, the club rose several times to the fourth-class Championnat de France Amateur , but had to relegate just as often. In 1997, the local rivals Union Sportive d'Arras Ouest joined the now sixth class playing RC Arras, which then took on the current name. In 2003 the team rose again to the national amateur level; In 2013/14 she played in the fifth class CFA 2.
Women's soccer
Since 2001 the club has also had a women's football department . This became independent in 2011, has been called Arras FCF since then and is currently (2013/14 season) playing in the second year of the French women's top division .