Racing Strasbourg

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Racing Strasbourg
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Basic data
Surname Racing Club de Strasbourg Alsace
Seat Strasbourg , France
founding 1906 (as FC Neudorf)
2011 (re-establishment)
Colours blue White
president Marc Keller
Website rcstrasbourgalsace.fr
First soccer team
Head coach Thierry Laurey
Venue Stade de la Meinau
Places 26,109
league Ligue 1
2019/20 10th place (quotient regulation)
home
Away
The 1919 crew
The team for the 1936/37 season

The Racing Club de Strasbourg Alsace (since 2012 with the addition "Alsace" ), generally known in German-speaking countries as Racing Strasbourg , in France primarily as RC Strasbourg , is a French football club from the Alsatian city ​​of Strasbourg . Because of the club's colors blue and white, racing, like the national team, is called Les Bleus - in German: the blues.

history

The club was founded in 1906 as FC Neudorf , named after the Strasbourg suburb of Neudorf , and has played in the "Hämmerle Garden" in Meinau since 1914. After the Reichsland Alsace-Lorraine fell back to France in 1919 , it was renamed RC Strasbourg-Neudorf, then in 1921 Racing Club de Strasbourg . The name was chosen based on what was then the most prestigious football club in France, the Paris Racing Club de France .

At the beginning of September 1939, Strasbourg was evacuated in anticipation of an attack by the German Wehrmacht and Racing temporarily settled in Périgord , where the team played against the local clubs for the championship of the Dordogne department and won the title of 1939/40 undefeated. After the Germans had brought Alsace under their control, the team returned with most of the players to Strasbourg and played there for the time being as the “lawn sports club Strasbourg”, often abbreviated as “RSC Strasbourg”, in the Gauliga Alsace . There, the current lawn athletes were three times third between 1941 and 1943, twice behind FC Mühlhausen and once behind the local sports community of the SS .

In the 1970s the club was temporarily called Racing Pierrots Strasbourg Meinau . In 1979 they celebrated the greatest success in the club's history when they became French champions. As a result, you played in the European Champions Cup the following season . There they made it to the quarter-finals, where they lost out to Ajax Amsterdam (0-0, 0-4).

The club in the final of the Coupe de la Ligue 2005

At the end of the 2009/10 season , Racing was relegated to the National (D3) , was even to be forced to move to the fourth division in the meantime and thus only played third-rate for the first time in its club history. In addition, the RCS was at this time for the first time in financial difficulties, which were assessed as so serious that the club was threatened with bankruptcy . After the direct resurgence failed in 2011, the club's announced restrictions by club president Jafar Hilali, a French businessman living in London , for this case: no application for extension of professional status, closure of the Strasbourg football school and, if necessary, filing for bankruptcy. Even at the end of June, a few weeks before the start of the new season, it was still unclear in which league to compete in 2011/12: The squad of players, the coach question, the outcome of several termination processes and the future ownership structure as well as the related questions of financial resources were not clarified. In mid-July 2011, the responsible association commission DNCG decided in the appeal process that Racing will be transferred to the fourth division as a result of around 4 million euros in debt. The Alsatians lost their professional status and the Strasbourg football school.

Thereupon the announced Hilali successor Sébastien Graeff withdrew his promise to support the association. After insolvency proceedings (redressement judiciaire) , the competent Strasbourg court decided on August 22, 2011 to dissolve the association's corporation. Racing's first team had to start over in the fifth division (CFA2) . Frédéric Sitterlé became president; however, this resigned during the season. He was followed by Marc Keller , who had once been a racing player and held the post of general director in Strasbourg until 2006. In 2012 Racing rose to the fourth league ( Championnat de France Amateur ); In view of a debt level of 1.4 million euros, the association had to provide evidence of own funds of 850,000 euros by the end of June 2012. The audience support for the club remained almost unchanged in the amateur area. For the “derby” against FC Mulhouse - the first since January 1992 - 20,004 visitors filled the Stade de la Meinau at the beginning of April 2013, setting a new French record for a fourth division game. On the last day of the game against US Raon Racing won 3-2 and returned to the third division. In the 2013/14 season, Racing initially played at the top of the table at home games, often supported by a five-digit number of spectators, but then soon dropped and actually had to go to the CFA at the end, but in mid-July 2014 it was announced that one would will continue to play nationally. At the end of the 2015/16 season, under coach Jacky Duguépéroux, they became champions of the third division and rose to Ligue 2 . Thereafter, Duguépéroux was replaced by Thierry Laurey for reasons of age . In the 2016/17 season, the club managed to win the second division championship and thus march through to Ligue 1 with a 2-1 win on the last day of the game against FC Bourg-Péronnas .

In the first season after returning to Ligue 1 , Racing Strasbourg managed to stay in the league with 15th place in the table and one point ahead of 18th place (barrage games against the third in Ligue 2). The following season Racing placed 11th and also won the league cup after EA Guingamp was beaten 4-1 on penalties in the final. As a result, the Alsatians qualified for the second qualifying round for the UEFA Europa League and even reached the barracks games, in which Racing Strasbourg was eliminated despite a 1-0 first leg win against last year's semi- finalists Eintracht Frankfurt . In the third season after promotion, they increased again and reached tenth place in the table.

League affiliation

  • The club played first-class ( Division 1 , since 2002 Ligue 1 ) 1934–1939, 1945–1952, 1953–1957, 1958–1960, 1961–1971, 1972–1976, 1977–1986, 1988/89, 1992–2001, 2002–2006, 2007/08 and since 2017
  • Second rate ( Ligue 2 ): 1952/53, 1957/58, 1960/61, 1971/72, 1976/77, 1986–1988, 1989–1992, 2001/02, 2006/07, 2008–2010, 2016/17; 1970/71 (second team)
  • Third class ( Championnat de France National ): 2010/11, 2013-2016
  • Fourth grade ( CFA ): 2012/13
  • Fifth grade ( CFA 2 ): 2011/12

successes

European Cup balance sheet

season competition round opponent total To Back
1961/62 Exhibition cities cup 1 round Hungary 1957Hungary MTK Budapest 03:13 1: 3 (H) 02:10 (A)
1964/65 Exhibition cities cup 1 round ItalyItaly AC Milan 2: 1 2: 0 (H) 0: 1 (A)
2nd round SwitzerlandSwitzerland FC Basel 6: 2 1: 0 (A) 5: 2 (H)
3rd round SpainSpain CF Barcelona (L) 2: 200 0: 0 (H) 2: 2 (A)
0: 0 aet in Barcelona
Quarter finals EnglandEngland Manchester United 0: 5 0: 5 (H) 0: 0 (A)
1965/66 Exhibition cities cup 1 round ItalyItaly AC Milan 003: 3 (L) 0: 1 (A) 2: 1 (H)
1: 1 a.d. in Milan
1966/67 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup 1 round Romania 1965Romania Steaua Bucharest 2: 1 1: 0 (H) 1: 1 (A)
2nd round Bulgaria 1948Bulgaria Slavia Sofia 1: 2 1: 0 (H) 0: 2 (A)
1978/79 Uefa cup 1 round SwedenSweden IF Elfsborg 4: 3 0: 2 (A) 4: 1 (H)
2nd round ScotlandScotland Hibernian Edinburgh 2: 1 2: 0 (H) 0: 1 (A)
3rd round Germany Federal RepublicFederal Republic of Germany MSV Duisburg 0: 4 0: 0 (H) 0: 4 (A)
1979/80 European Champions Cup 1 round NorwayNorway Start Kristiansand 6: 1 2: 1 (A) 4: 0 (H)
2nd round CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia FK Dukla Prague 2: 1 0: 1 (A) 2: 0 a.d. (H)
Quarter finals NetherlandsNetherlands Ajax Amsterdam 0: 4 0: 0 (H) 0: 4 (A)
1995 UEFA Intertoto Cup Group stage TurkeyTurkey Gençlerbirliği Ankara 4: 1 4: 1 (H)  
MaltaMalta FC Floriana 4-0 4: 0 (A)  
AustriaAustria FC Tirol Innsbruck 4-0 4: 0 (H)  
IsraelIsrael Hapoel Petach Tikwa 0-0 0: 0 (A)  
Round of 16 AustriaAustria SK Forward Steyr 4-0 4: 0 (H)  
Quarter finals FranceFrance FC Metz 2-0 2: 0 (A)  
Semifinals AustriaAustria FC Tirol Innsbruck 7: 2 1: 1 (A) 6: 1 (H)
1995/96 Uefa cup 1 round HungaryHungary Újpest Budapest 5-0 3: 0 (H) 2: 0 (A)
2nd round ItalyItaly AC Milan 1: 3 0: 1 (H) 1: 2 (A)
1996 UEFA Intertoto Cup Group stage TurkeyTurkey Kocaelispor 1: 1 1: 1 (H)  
MaltaMalta Hibernians Paola 2-0 2: 0 (A)  
RussiaRussia Uralmash Yekaterinburg 1: 1 1: 1 (H)  
BulgariaBulgaria CSKA Sofia 0-0 0: 0 (A)  
1997/98 Uefa cup 1 round ScotlandScotland Glasgow Rangers 4: 2 2: 1 (H) 2: 1 (A)
2nd round EnglandEngland Liverpool FC 3: 2 3: 0 (H) 0: 2 (A)
3rd round ItalyItaly Inter Milan 2: 3 2: 0 (H) 0: 3 (A)
2001/02 Uefa cup 1 round BelgiumBelgium Standard Liege 2: 4 0: 2 (A) 2: 2 (H)
2005/06 Uefa cup 1 round AustriaAustria Graz AK 7-0 2: 0 (A) 5: 0 (H)
Group stage SwitzerlandSwitzerland FC Basel 2-0 2: 0 (A)  
NorwayNorway Tromso IL 2-0 2: 0 (H)  
ItalyItaly AS Roma 1: 1 1: 1 (A)  
SerbiaSerbia Red Star Belgrade 2: 2 2: 2 (H)  
Knockout phase BulgariaBulgaria Litex Lovech 2-0 2: 0 (A) 0: 0 (H)
Round of 16 SwitzerlandSwitzerland FC Basel 2: 4 0: 2 (A) 2: 2 (H)
2019/20 UEFA Europa League 2nd qualifying round IsraelIsrael Maccabi Haifa 4: 3 3: 1 (H) 1: 2 (A)
3rd qualifying round BulgariaBulgaria Locomotive Plovdiv 2-0 1: 0 (A) 1: 0 (H)
Play-offs GermanyGermany Eintracht Frankfurt 1: 3 1: 0 (H) 0: 3 (A)
Legend: (H) - home game, (A) - away game, (N) - neutral place, (a) - away goal rule , (i. E.) - on penalties , (n. V.) - after extra time

Overall record : 62 games, 29 wins, 16 draws, 17 defeats, 97:68 goals (goal difference +29)

people

Current squad 2019/20

As of May 8, 2020

No. Nat. Surname birthday in the team since Contract until
goal
01 BelgiumBelgium Matz Sels 02/26/1992 2018 2024
16 JapanJapan Eiji Kawashima 03/20/1983 2018 2021
30th FranceFrance Bingourou Kamara 10/21/1996 2017 2023
40 FranceFrance Louis Pelletier 02/03/2000 2018 2020
Defense
02 FranceFrance Mohamed Simakan 05/03/2000 2019 2023
03 SenegalSenegal Abdallah Ndour 12/20/1993 2015 2020
05 Ivory CoastIvory Coast Lamine Koné 02/01/1989 2019 2021
13 SerbiaSerbia Stefan Mitrović (C)Captain of the crew May 22, 1990 2018 2022
19th FranceFrance Anthony Caci 07/01/1997 2018 2022
23 FranceFrance Lionel Carole 04/12/1991 2018 2021
24 FranceFrance Alexander Djiku 08/09/1994 2019 2023
27 FranceFrance Kenny Lala 10/03/1991 2017 2021
33 FranceFrance Ismaël Aaneba 05/29/1999 2018 2020
midfield
06th FranceFrance Jérémy Grimm 03/27/1987 2013 2020
10 FranceFrance Benjamin Corgnet 04/06/1987 2017 2020
11 FranceFrance Dimitri Liénard 02/13/1988 2013 2021
14th Bosnia and HerzegovinaBosnia and Herzegovina Sanjin Prcić 11/20/1993 2019 2022
17th FranceFrance Jean-Ricner Bellegarde 06/27/1998 2019 2023
18th FranceFrance Ibrahima Sissoko 10/27/1997 2018 2022
26th FranceFrance Adrien Thomasson 12/10/1993 2018 2021
Storm
08th GhanaGhana Abdul Majeed Waris 09/19/1991 2020 2020
12 FranceFrance Lebo Mothiba 01/28/1996 2018 2023
20th MaliMali Kévin Zohi 12/19/1996 2018 2021
25th FranceFrance Ludovic Ajorque 02/25/1994 2018 2022

List of trainers (since 1928)

In brackets: number of terms of office

Surname in office of ...
FranceFrance Oscar Bongard 1928 to 1930
AustriaAustria Adolf Riebe 1930 to 1932
? Louis Neureuther00 1932 to 1933
AustriaAustria Robert Fischer 1933 to December 1933
AustriaAustria Friedrich Kerr Jan. 1934 to 1935
AustriaAustria Josef Blum 1935 to 1938
Nazi stateNazi state Karl "Charles" Rumbold 1938 to 1940
Nazi stateNazi state Karl Bostelaar 1941 to 1944
FranceFrance Émile Veinante 1945 to 1947
DenmarkDenmark Kaj Andrup 1947 to 1948
FranceFrance Emile Veinante (2) 1948 to 1949
FranceFrance Charles Nicolas 1949 to April 1952
Spain 1945Spain Segundo Pascual April 1952 to 1952
CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia Pépi Humpál 1952 to 1955
FranceFrance Oscar Heisserer 1955 to 1956
FranceFrance Jean Avellaneda 1956 to 1957
CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia Ferdinand Faczinek 1957 to 1958
CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia Pépi Humpál (2) 1958 to 1960
FranceFrance Émile Veinante (3) 1960 to December 1961
FranceFrance Robert Jonquet Dec. 1961 to 1964
FranceFrance Paul Frantz 1964 to 1966
AustriaAustria Walter Presch 1966 to April 1967
FranceFrance René Hauss Apr. 1967 to Feb. 1968
FranceFrance Paul Frantz (2) March 1968 to October 1970
Spain 1945Spain Paco Mateo Oct 1970 to Feb 1971
HungaryHungary Jenő Csaknády Feb. 1971 to Apr. 1971
FranceFrance Paul Frantz (3) April 1971 to 1971
FranceFrance Casimir Nowotarski 1971 to November 1973
FranceFrance Robert Domergue Nov 1973 to 1974
NetherlandsNetherlands Hennie Hollink 1974 to Nov. 1975
FranceFrance Paul Frantz (4) Nov. 1975 to 1976
AustriaAustria Heinz Schilcher 1976 to Nov. 1976
RomaniaRomania Elek Schwartz Nov. 1976 to 1977
FranceFrance Gilbert Gress 1977 to Sep. 1980
FranceFrance Raymond Hild Sep 1980 to November 1981
FranceFrance Roger Lemerre Nov. 1981 to 1983
Germany BRBR Germany Jürgen Sundermann 1983 to Mar. 1985
FranceFrance Jean-Noël Huck March 1985 to December 1985
FranceFrance Francis Piasecki Dec. 1985 to Sep. 1986
FranceFrance Didier Six Sep 1986 to Sep. 1986
FranceFrance Robert Herbin Sep 1986 to 1987
PolandPoland Henryk Kasperczak 1987 to Sep. 1988
FranceFrance Jean-Pierre Dogliani Sep 1988 to Sep. 1988
FranceFrance Gerard Banide October 1988 to August 1989
FranceFrance Albert Gemmrich Sep 1989 to Sep. 1989
FranceFrance Léonard Woodpecker Sep 1989 to 1991
FranceFrance Gilbert Gress (2) 1991 to 1994
FranceFrance Daniel Jeandupeux 1994 to Mar. 1995
FranceFrance Jacky Duguépéroux March 1995 to Jan. 1998
FranceFrance René Girard Jan. 1998 to Jan. 1998
FranceFrance Pierre Mankowski Jan 1998 to Nov 1999
FranceFrance Claude Le Roy Nov. 1999 to Nov. 2000
FranceFrance Yvon Pouliquen Nov. 2000 to 2001
Czech RepublicCzech Republic Ivan Hašek 2001 to 2003
FranceFrance Antoine Kombouaré 2003 to October 2004
FranceFrance Jacky Duguépéroux (2) October 2004 to 2006
FranceFrance Jean-Pierre Papin 2006 to 2007
FranceFrance Jean-Marc Furlan 2007 to 2009
FranceFrance Gilbert Gress (3) 2009 to August 2009
FranceFrance Pascal Janin Aug. 2009 to 2010
FranceFrance Laurent Fournier 2010 to 2011
FranceFrance François Keller 2011 to Mar. 2014
FranceFrance Jacky Duguépéroux (3) March 2014 to 2016
FranceFrance Thierry Laurey since 2016

Well-known former players

Stade de la Meinau

Stadion

The club has played its home games at the Stade de la Meinau since 1914 , which has space for 29,200 spectators.

Fans and rivalries

Ultra Boys 90 at home against RC Lens (2007)

The club's Ultras call themselves UB90 (Ultra Boys 90) and are solid friends with the Karlsruher SC fan scene , regular support at home and away games is the order of the day. Cheers in German can also be heard, especially “Now it's going!” Is an integral part of the vocal repertoire. For a long time there has also been a friendship with the ultras from SK Sturm Graz from the Austrian first division .

Until the 2016/17 season there was a long friendship with the Ultras from Hertha BSC , which existed due to the mutual friendship with the Ultras of the Karlsruher SC . At the beginning of the season, however, the official friendship was publicly declared over. However, mutual visits to the games and good contacts between the fan scenes continue to exist.

More recently, FC Metz has been the rival of Racing. In the 2010/11 season they played in the National against SR Colmar . The rivalries with other clubs from Alsace have largely fallen asleep due to the long-standing class differences.

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 .

Web links

Commons : Racing Strasbourg  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interview with Strasbourg's then President Jean-Claude Plessis ( Memento of the original from May 16, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at France Football. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.francefootball.fr
  2. ↑ see the article "Racing Strasbourg, damned to climb" from the Badische Zeitung on April 19, 2011
  3. ↑ see the article "Strasbourg - a story of the crazy" in France Football of June 21, 2011, pp. 32–35.
  4. ↑ Red card for Racing Strasbourg loses professional status July 9, 2011 .
  5. ↑ see this article from July 11, 2011 at France Football.
  6. ↑ Article from Le Parisien of July 18, 2011
  7. ↑ after this article in the Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace of August 25, 2011.
  8. ↑ see the article from June 4, 2012 at francefootball.fr
  9. ↑ France Football, April 9, 2013, p. 36
  10. ^ Squad of Racing Strasbourg. In: rcstrasbourgalsace.fr. Racing Strasbourg, accessed May 9, 2020 (French).
  11. ↑ https://hb98.de/freunde/