RC Flacé-Mâcon

The Racing Club Flacé-lès-Mâcon , often short RC Flacé-Macon , occasionally RCF Macon , is a French football club from Mâcon northwestern district Flacé-lès-Mâcon. He has achieved national importance through his female soccer players .

history

The association was founded in 1959; In 1984 the women's football department was established there. In terms of sport, this quickly developed not only into the most successful team in the city, but also in the entire Bourgogne region .

The club colors are blue and white; Flacé-Mâcon’s league frenzy plays its home games at the Stade Pierre-Guérin , which has a capacity of 3,200 spectators (including a good 1,000 seats).

League affiliation and achievements

In their third season ( 1986/87 ), Racings women qualified for the state championship, which at the time was still held in the form of a final tournament; In the first few years they did not get beyond the preliminary round, but they have been there every year since their debut up to and including 1992. They survived the preliminary round for the first time in the 1988/89 season , when they subsequently eliminated the “subscription champions” of the 1980s, VGA Saint-Maur , and in the semifinals if they were tied with ASJ Soyaux only because of the away goal rule they missed the French final. In doing so, they had given up the big regional competitors of FC Lyon and SC Caluire Saint-Clair .
In 1992 they qualified as one of twelve teams for the newly introduced national first women's league , known as Championnat National 1 A in the first few years . After only one season, the RC Flacé-Mâcon rose from the highest division in 1993 and has not returned there until the present. At times, the blue-whites only appeared in the fourth-highest division, before they were represented in the third division from 2002 and in the second division again from 2009; they returned there after two third division years in 2015.

In the national cup competition for the Coupe de France , which was only introduced in France in the 2001/02 season , the Burgundians usually fell out quite early on. Only in the 2003/04 season did they advance into the round of the 16 best teams, the round of 16, in which the third division team at the time was clearly defeated by Racing Club Besançon .

Well-known players

Rose Lavaud , who took part in the 2010 U-20 World Cup and is now a national team player, no longer plays for the RCF Mâcon
Peggy Provost , 1992/93 at the RCF Mâcon
Jocelyne Ratignier , national player at the beginning of the 1970s, for the RCFM predecessor FC Mâcon

Web links

Racing Flacé-Mâcon club website

Notes and evidence

↑ see the description of the stadium on the city's official website
^ Association membership according to their data sheet on the website of the French association FFF ; It cannot be determined whether Ratignier, who played for France in its first, partly still unofficial, international matches in 1971, played in a mixed youth team at the RCF Mâcon, which was not uncommon in the early days of legalized women's football.

[1] see the description of the stadium on the city's official website

[2] Association membership according to their data sheet on the website of the French association FFF ; It cannot be determined whether Ratignier, who played for France in its first, partly still unofficial, international matches in 1971, played in a mixed youth team at the RCF Mâcon, which was not uncommon in the early days of legalized women's football.