SC Abbeville

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The Sporting Club Abbeville Côte Picarde, or SC Abbeville for short, is a French sports club from the Picardy city ​​of Abbeville , which has become known in particular for its football department - which this article mainly deals with and which now also has women's and girls' teams . The SCA currently has additional departments for athletics, hockey, swimming, tennis and golf.

The club colors are blue and red; The home stadium of the footballers is currently the local Stade Paul Delique , which has a capacity of 5,000 seats, including almost 1,000 seats. Club president is David Renoire; the league team is coached by Mathieu Vallois. (As of April 2020)

history

The club was founded in 1901 by young men as Football Abbevillois ; they played their first traditional game in January 1902 on a lawn made available to them by the city council. Since a number of members also wanted to practice other sports, the club changed its name about a year later to Sporting Club Abbevillois ; at this point the club also took on its colors, which have remained well into the 21st century. In 1907 the players succeeded in snatching away the USFSA championship title of Picardy from their big competitor AC Amiens , which entitles them to participate in the final round of the French championship. In this, however, they were already defeated by the Cercle Pédestre et Nautique Châlons with 0: 1 in the round of 16 and were eliminated early.

Between the world wars, the SC won the championship in Picardy again in 1919; In 1922 the club's own stadium (Stade Paul Delique) was inaugurated. The club made a good name for itself in particular through its youth work: the youth team won 125 of its 140 matches between 1926 and 1935. The men's fighting team reached three times (1924, 1927, 1932) the first main round in the state cup competition ; after the introduction of professionalism in France (1932) she belonged to the third division in 1936/37 , but ended this "excursion" as eighth in the table after only one season and returned to the amateur area.

After the Second World War and the German occupation, SC Abbeville was able to resume playing in the heavily destroyed city early because its stadium had been spared major damage. The league team continued to play in the amateur game, but from 1971 at the highest national level; a few years earlier (1967) she had forced Racing Lens into a replay in the sixteenth-finals of the cup . After the SCA was relegated from the top amateur league in 1977, three successive promotions followed up to Division 2, which was played in two seasons and was "open" for professionals and amateurs . During the 1989/90 season - the Sporting Club had assumed professional status in 1986 - the club had to file for bankruptcy, although its home games during the ten second division years were always relatively well attended with over 2,000 spectators. Even in the country's cup competition of SCA in those years made a name twice by himself when he, in each case in the sixteenth finals on home soil in 1983 to eventual winners Paris Saint-Germain over 9,000 visitors with 1: 0 defeated and in 1988 the Lille a 2: 2 -Remis struggled, which in both cases was not enough to advance. Since 1990 - during this time the club name was also expanded - Abbeville's footballers only made it into the fourth-highest division for at least one season (2001/02) , otherwise they only commuted between fifth and seventh league level.

League affiliation and achievements

The SC Abbeville had professional status in the 1936/37 season and from 1986 to 1990; from 1980 to 1990 he belonged to Division 2 (since 2002: Ligue 2). In the 2020/21 season, the club's first team will only play in the sixth class Régionale 1 .

The SCA achieved its best final placement in the second division seasons 1982/83 and 1985/86 , when he finished ninth in his group.

Former players and coaches who are essential for the club

literature

  • Charles and Christophe Bartissol: Les racines du football français. PAC, Paris 1983, ISBN 978-2-85336-194-1 , pp. 87-97
  • Thierry Berthou / Collectif: Dictionnaire historique des clubs de football français. Pages de Foot, Créteil 1999, ISBN 2-913146-01-5 , Volume 1, pp. 27-29

Web links

Notes and evidence

  1. ^ Pierre Cazal: France (1900-1920). in International Federation of Football History and Statistics (Ed.): Fußball-Weltzeitschrift No. 23 , 1994, p. 19
  2. ↑ a b Berthou / Collectif, p. 27
  3. ^ Berthou / Collectif, p. 28f.
  4. ↑ L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: La belle histoire. L'équipe de France de football. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2004, ISBN 2-951-96053-0 , pp. 299 and 382