SC Caudry

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The Star Club Caudrésien or SC Caudry for short was a football club from the small town of Caudry in northern France .

history

The pure football club was founded in 1903; One of the founding members was Léonce Bajart , who was only 15 at the time , a resident of Caudry who was later involved in social policy and, during the German occupation (1940–1944), also in the Resistance . The club initially joined the Fédération Cycliste et Athlétique de France (FCAF), one of the national football associations that existed side by side until after the First World War . After winning the FCAF Association Championship in 1909 (see below) , the Star Club Caudry moved to the much larger competitor Union des sociétés françaises de sports athlétiques (USFSA). The club colors of the SCC, whose coat of arms was adorned with a six-pointed star, were sky and dark blue. His teams played their games on a grass pitch next to the local water reservoir for the first three decades .

After the establishment of the uniform regional association FFFA (1919), the Star Club joined it. In 1935, thanks mainly to the patronage of his club president, he received a stadium with a roofed grandstand and turf drainage , which was very modern for the time and which was named after the latter and was called Stade Louis-Sandras until the 21st century . It was inaugurated with a women's international match between France and Belgium. In March 1987 it was the scene of another international encounter when the French defeated their Northern Irish opponents 2-0.

In 1967 the "best harvest" of the SCC went on due to a merger with the US Viesly in the Star Union . This new club, which existed until 1972, did not succeed in making the hoped-for leap into at least a national amateur league . As early as 1969, a new football club, the Entente Sportive de Caudry , was founded in Caudry , which regards itself as a continuation of its local predecessor. The Caudry City History Museum dedicated an exhibition to the Star Club at the turn of the year 2012/2013.

League affiliation and achievements

Six years after its founding, SC Caudry was in the final of the French championship of the FCAF; in it he defeated AS Alfortville 4-2. A subsequent playoff for the Trophée de France against the title holder of the Catholic sports federation FGSPF, the Bons Gars Bordeaux , did not take place - the travel costs were too high for both clubs. In 1914, the Star Club won the championship of the regional second highest division of the USFSA (Division North B) and after the war from 1923 to 1926 four times in a row that of the FFFA ( Division d'Honneur North B) .

When the FFFA decided soon after the introduction of professional football (1932) to set up a third professional league below the first and second divisions in 1936/37 , Caudry applied to participate and found, together with nine other teams exclusively from northern France, including US Tourcoing , Racing Arras , SC Abbeville and FC Dieppe , consideration. In the final ranking, the Star Club took seventh place; the "modest number of spectators" in the then 13,000-inhabitant city also did not allow any notable reinforcements. His players received an income made up of a fixed monthly amount of 200 francs - a tenth of the maximum allowed by the FFFA at the time - and point bonuses (25 francs for a draw, 30 for a win). Therefore, they all had to continue to have a job. This third division was discontinued after only a year, and the SCC then went back to the amateur team in the regional Division d'Honneur, which was the third highest division in France until 1948.

In the national cup competition introduced in 1917 , Caudry reached the main round three times, but each did not get beyond the thirty-second finals. In 1922/23 he failed at Racing Calais (0: 2) and in 1933/34 at Le Havre AC (1: 5), but in 1935/36 at least forced the then first division SC Fives into extra time and, after their draw, into a replay , in which the higher-class opponent then prevailed 6-0 in front of their own audience.

Well-known former players

The from the neighboring village Beaumont-en-Cambrésis originating Émilien Méresse (1915-2000), later pro at SC Fives and Olympique Lille , 1936 once a French A-national team used began with the football club at the Star Club. After finishing his playing career, he returned to the US Viesly in his region of origin as a coach for some time . Also Louys Wojtkowiak and Paul Cathelain played in Caudry until 1936 by Racing Paris were required for the first team. Wojtkowiak (often just called Louys) won the Coupe de France with this club three years later . In general, in the 1930s the SCC was considered “a bit like Racing's kindergarten”.

literature

  • Thierry Berthou / Collectif: Dictionnaire historique des clubs de football français. Pages de Foot, Créteil 1999, Volume 1, ISBN 2-913146-01-5
  • Espace de vie historique - Caudry d'hier et d'aujourd'hui (ed.): Exhibition concept "Le Star Club", Caudry 2013 (mach.)

Notes and evidence

  1. ↑ a b exhibition concept, Notre club a une histoire (outline of the club's history)
  2. ↑ a b c Berthou / Collectif, p. 107
  3. ↑ a b c d Gilles Gauthey: Le Football professionnel français. Volume 1, Paris 1961, p. 419
  4. ^ Pascal Grégoire-Boutreau: Au bonheur des filles. Cahiers intempestifs, Saint-Étienne 2003, ISBN 2-911698-25-8 , p. 257
  5. ↑ see the representation of this merger club on the side of the US Viesly
  6. ↑ See the website of ES Caudry ( Memento of the original from November 5, 2014 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 footeo.com; In view of the above data, however, this view appears problematic. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / escaudry.footeo.com
  7. ↑ see the article “Le Star Club caudrésien s'expose jusqu'au 23 février” from La Voix du Nord of November 11, 2012
  8. ↑ The Trophée de France was the French championship of the umbrella organization Comité Français Interfédéral (CFI) played between the masters of several associations (except the USFSA) from 1907 to 1912 .
  9. ^ Berthou / Collectif, pp. 18 and 107
  10. ↑ see the season table at rsssf.com
  11. ^ Alfred Wahl / Pierre Lanfranchi: Les footballeurs professionnels des années trente à nos jours. Hachette, Paris 1995, ISBN 978-2-0123-5098-4 , pp. 63f.
  12. ↑ L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: Coupe de France. La folle épopée. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2007, ISBN 978-2-915-53562-4 , p. 352
  13. ↑ Denis Chaumier: Les Bleus. Tous les joueurs de l'équipe de France de 1904 à nos jours. Larousse, o. O. 2004, ISBN 2-03-505420-6 , p. 214
  14. ^ Only Louys among others in Football (ed.): Almanach du football éd. 1936/37. Paris 1937, p. 45, Berthou / Collectif, p. 107, and Marc Barreaud: Dictionnaire des footballeurs étrangers du championnat professionnel français (1932-1997). L'Harmattan, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-7384-6608-7 , p. 49, which supplements his surname in the spelling Vojkowiak.