RC Besançon
The Besançon Racing Club is a French football club from Besançon , the capital of the Franche-Comté region . From its establishment in 1904 to 1987 it was called Racing Club Franc-Comtois de Besançon ; the club color is red. The league team plays its home games at the Stade Léo-Lagrange , which has a capacity of 11,500 spectators. The club president is François Bourgoin, coach of the first men's eleven Hervé Genet (as of August 2011).
history
Founded in 1904 by members of the city's military garrison , the Racing Club Franc-Comtois Besançon joined the Union des sociétés françaises de sports athlétiques (USFSA). A year later, the football department was established, which quickly gained a good reputation regionally and was USFSA champions in Eastern France four times in a row before the First World War (1909, 1910, 1911 and 1912); In these early years, however, there were several competing football associations (see here for more details ) , and the clubs from Alsace and north-eastern Lorraine - incorporated as the Reichsland Alsace-Lorraine into the German Empire until 1919 - were also absent from these championship rounds. After the war, now under the unified umbrella of the Fédération Française de Football , a 20-year sporting lean period followed before the RCFC became amateur champions of Franche-Comté in 1939. Three years earlier, the city council had built the Stade Léo-Lagrange , which had a capacity of 18,000 at the time , a cycling stadium with a running track and playing field (known as the stade vélodrome in France ), where the club's footballers also competed. During the Second World War , they reached the semi-finals of the German-occupied zone in the national cup , but lost 3-2 to Olympique Iris Club Lille .
In 1945, the club's management decided to take part in the professional game operations introduced in 1932. As a result of this step, Racing played continuously in the second division until 1986 , at times it was also attractive to better-known players. In the Cup, the RCFC made it to the quarter-finals twice (1950 and 1954). Before the 1986/87 season it had to file for bankruptcy and was then re-established under its current name. Only in 2003, as champions of the third division (national) , did the RC return to Ligue 2 , if only for a one-year interlude. After the team was again represented in the National in 2011/12, insolvency led to another bankruptcy of the club in the summer of 2012. The re-establishment Racing Besançon rose for the 2013/14 season back to the Division d'Honneur , currently the sixth highest division.
League affiliation and achievements
Besançon had professional status from 1945 to 1987 and again from 2003 to 2005; the Division 1 (since 2002 Ligue 1 ) he was never a member, but for more than 40 seasons of the second highest division .
The greatest successes in the French cup competition are two quarterfinals in 1950 and 1954 ; Besançon was also a semi-finalist in the 1942 occupied zone competition. And in 1962 the club was able to adorn itself with the Coupe Drago .
Former players and coaches important to the club
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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
Remarks
- ↑ L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: Coupe de France. La folle épopée. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2007, ISBN 978-2-915535-62-4 , p. 358