RC Paris

The Racing Club de Paris (or RC Paris for short ) is one of the most traditional French football clubs from the state capital . Today it is based in Colombes ( Département Hauts-de-Seine , ordinal number: 92) in the Parisian banlieue and has been called Racing Club de France Football 92 or Racing CFF 92 for short since 2005 . The footballers are part of the multi-sport club Racing Club de France .

The club colors are sky blue and white; the league team is currently playing in the Stade Lucien-Choine , a subsidiary of the Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir , which has a capacity of 7,000 seats. From 2009 to 2012, the “penguins” - the club's nickname, which has been popular with fans and the media since the 1930s - entered into a syndicate with FC Levallois . Since then they have been competing alone again under the name Racing Club de France Colombes 92 .

History and name changes

RC Paris was founded in 1882 under the name Racing Club de France ; the football department was added in 1896 . This makes it one of the oldest football clubs in France alongside Le Havre AC , Standard AC Paris and others. With the introduction of professional football (1932) the club renamed itself under its president Jean Bernard-Lévy in Racing Club de Paris ; At the beginning of the 1966/67 season, Racing merged with CS Sedan , called itself Racing Club Paris-Sedan and, after this one-year merger was dissolved, it was called Racing Club de France again .

From 1983 further renaming followed: 1983 (merger with Paris FC ) again RC Paris , 1984 (in order to circumvent the advertising ban still existing in France) Matra Racing , 1991 (after returning to the amateur camp) Racing 92 , 1995 Racing Club de France 92 , from 1999 to 2005 under Racing Club de Paris and since then as Racing Club de France 92 .

Racing had joined the oldest and largest of the French federations, the USFSA ( see Football in France # early years ), in whose national game the club had participated since 1897. In 1907 the penguins became its title holder, and also runner-up in 1902, 1903, 1908 and 1911.

The champions of the Paris League made their first appearance in the final in 1902, but lost 4: 3 against another traditional club of French football, the Racing Club Roubaix . The winning goal of the team from the northern coal region fell in the 175th minute of the game - at that time, as in Germany, France also played through until a winner was determined.

When a uniform professional league was introduced in France in 1932, Racing naturally belonged to it and remained in it until 1953 - although between 1940 and 1944 France was divided into a zone occupied by Germany and the formally independent rest of France , so no champions for that whole country was determined.

Since the end of 2016 Racing has been involved in talks and negotiations with Paris FC and the successful women's soccer club Juvisy FCF , in which the possibilities of a very close cooperation up to a merger of the clubs are to be explored. This could bring the considerations, which have been recurring for many years, to permanently install a strong second professional club for men and women in the capital in addition to PSG , a realization.

League affiliation

The RC had professional status from 1932–1966 and 1983–1990. First class ( Division 1 , renamed Ligue 1 since 2002 ) played the club 1932-1943, 1944-1953, 1954-1964, 1984/85 and 1986-1990. Since then he has been commuting between third and fifth class. Currently (2017/18) he competes in the fifth highest French league.

Logo history

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  1932-1966

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  1983-1984

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  1984-1988

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  1988-1991

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  1999-2005

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  since 2005

successes

• French champion : 1936 (and runner-up in 1961 , 1962 )
• French cup winner : 1936 , 1939 , 1940 , 1945 , 1949 (also finalist 1930 , 1950 , 1990 )
• French champion of the USFSA : 1907 (and runner-up in 1902, 1903, 1908, 1911)

Significant people in the past

Pierre Allemane Manuel Anatol Henri Bard Émile Bongiorni Maxime Bossis Thadée Cisowski Edmond Delfour Raoul Diagne Maurice Dupuis Luis Fernández Enzo Francescoli

Pierre Grillet Ernst Happel Oscar Heisserer François Today Rudolf Hiden Heinrich Hiltl Lucien Jasseron Gusti Jordan Fred Kennedy Sid Kimpton Pierre Littbarski

Abderrahman Mahjoub Roger Marche Jules Mathé Arne Larsen Økland Pierre Pibarot André Tassin Joseph Ujlaki Ernest Vaast Émile Veinante René Vignal Edmund Weiskopf

Other sports

→ Main article : Racing 92

Nowadays the Racing Club is more successful in rugby than in football: the men's team, which merged with US Métropolitaine in 2001 to form Racing Métro 92, plays in the top French league in 2011/12 . The team has been called Racing 92 since 2015 .

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
• Jean Cornu: Les grandes equipes françaises de football. Famot, Genève 1978
• Günter Rohrbacher-List: Jean Bernard-Lévy - the football crazy from Paris. , in: Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling (ed.): Star of David and Leather Ball. The history of the Jews in German and international football. The workshop, Göttingen 2003 ISBN 3-89533-407-3

Web links

• Official website of the entire association (French)
• Private page , very informative about Racing's past and present (French)
• Article "Tell me, Daddy, what is racing?" At cahiersdufootball.net (French)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Article “ Juvisy designs a new future ” from January 19, 2017 at footofeminin.fr