SAS Épinal
| SAS Épinal | |||
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| Basic data | |||
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| Surname | Stade Athletique Spinalien Épinal | ||
| Seat | Épinal , France | ||
| founding | 1941 | ||
| president | Stéphane Viry | ||
| Website | www.sasfootball.com/ | ||
| First soccer team | |||
| Head coach | Xavier Collin | ||
| Venue | Stade de la Colombière | ||
| Places | 7,200 | ||
| league | National 2 - Groupe B | ||
| 2018/19 | 8th place | ||
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The SAS Épinal , with its full name Stade Athlétique Spinalien , is a French football club from the municipality of Épinal on the upper Moselle , the capital of the Vosges department . Spinalia is the adjective to Épinal.
His club colors are yellow and blue, his league team plays in the Stade de La Colombière , which today only has space for 7,200 spectators. The club's president is Stéphane Viry; the first team is currently being trained by Xavier Collin. In the 2019/20 season, SAS will play in the fourth division .
history
The club emerged in 1946 from the merger of Stade Saint-Michel (founded 1918) and Athlétique Club Spinalien (founded 1928) and was called Stade Athlétic d'Épinal . In 1998, the then third division went bankrupt and was re-established under its current name.
League affiliation and achievements
The club has never played in the top division (Division 1, renamed Ligue 1 in 2002 ). However, he has during the ten years in which he was represented in the second division (1974–1979, 1990–1993 and 1995–1997), already had professional status.
In the French cup competition , the Spinaliens were more often in the national main round after the Second World War . Six times of these (1955/56, 1989/90, 1992/93, 1997/98, 2012/13 and 2017/18) they reached the sixteenth finals, in which they were then eliminated. In 2019/20, however, the team playing in the fourth division (National 2) even advanced into the round of the last eight.
Well-known former players and coaches
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