SC Caluire Saint-Clair

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The Sporting Club Caluire Saint-Clair is a French football club from Caluire-et-Cuire , a medium -sized town bordering Lyon . Saint-Clair is one of their districts. The club has gained importance through its women's football department .

history

The SCCSC was founded in 1968, at a time when women's football was experiencing a renaissance , not only in France , after French women's championships had already taken place immediately after the First World War . In March 1970 the FFF football association legalized the practice of this sport by women, and when it organized the first national championship in 1974 , the players from Caluire-et-Cuire were among the 16 clubs that were able to qualify for the finals.

Until the early 1990s, the Sporting Club was among the elite of French women's football, although from the early 1980s it had to compete with an increasingly stronger and more successful local rival , the neighboring FC Lyon . With the introduction of a uniform nationwide league, the Championnat National 1 A , for the 1992/93 season , Caluire developed into an “elevator womanhood” between the first and second division, and with the increasing professionalization of women's football in France (legalization of the payment of players and reorganization of the league system with the introduction of Division 1 Féminine from 2002 ) the club only played a regional role.

In 2011, the women's division separated from SC Caluire Saint-Clair. Currently the women play under the name Caluire Football Féminin 1968 in the third class Division d'Honneur of the Rhône-Alpes region . Their club colors are green and black, the league eleven compete in the Terre des Lièvres stadium in Caluire-et-Cuire.

League affiliation and achievements

First class was the SC Caluire Saint-Clair from 1974 to 1992 - with two exceptions in the seasons 1975/76 and 1979/80 - as well as 1995-1997, 1998-2000 and so far for the last time in the 2001/02 season .
As long as the French championship was decided in a final round, the soccer players repeatedly reached the quarter-finals; three times (1976/77, 1977/78 and 1981/82) they were even in the semi-finals, and they achieved their greatest success in the summer of 1977, in which they played the final . In all three of the above-mentioned seasons, however, the French “over-team” of Stade Reims prevented the SCCSC from being able to adorn itself with a championship title. So it remained for the club, which nonetheless is one of the pioneers of women's football in France, with two second division championships (1995 and 1998).

Well-known former players

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Notes and evidence

  1. ↑ Laurence Prudhomme-Poncet: Histoire du football féminin au XXe siècle. L'Harmattan, Paris 2003, ISBN 2-7475-4730-2 , p. 193
  2. ↑ At this time of women's football, see the article Fémina Sport Paris .