SC Fives

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The Sporting Club Fivois, or SCF for short, was a traditional French football club from Fives , a district of the city of Lille in the northern department , right on the border with Belgium .

The SC was founded in 1901 as Éclair (Eng .: "Blitz") Fivois ; In 1919 he adopted the name SC Fives (pronounced [ Fi: w ]), which the club retained until it was dissolved (merged with Olympique Lillois , 1944 ). He played in the Stade Virnot .

The club color of the SC Fives was blue; it still lives on today in the blue and red of OSC Lille.

history

Before the First World War

Fives, the club from an eastern suburb of Lille, joined the only football association until then , the Union des Sociétés Françaises de Sports Athlétiques (USFSA), which from 1898 carried out a national championship competition called Championnat de France . This competition was dominated by teams from the northern heavy industrial area until 1910, despite tough competition in their own region, on the English Channel and in Paris. This achievement is not devalued by the fact that from 1905 there were competing associations that played their own championship - the USFSA remained the association with the largest number of members, as did most of the other traditional clubs in France (e.g. Standard AC , Racing Club de France and Club Français from Paris, to which Le Havre AC , Stade Helvétique Marseille , Olympique Lille , RC Roubaix and US Tourcoing belonged.

The Fivois played a good role in the northern group of the USFSA, but were unable to take the lead nationwide, while the neighbors from Roubaix, Tourcoing and Lille managed to win the title.

Between the wars

Runner-up team 1933/34

After founding the uniform football association FFF (1919), Fives played for several years in the highest (amateur) league in the north ( Division d'Honneur ). Even with the introduction of a national, professional league operation (1932), the SCF remained first class. In the first professional season (1932/33) this Division 1 still consisted of two non-regionally assigned ten seasons: Fives finished seventh in Group B, but local rivals Lille Olympique became first in Group A and then the very first official national champion. In the following season, however, the suburbs missed the state championship by only one point, were runner-up and also left their big neighbors two places behind. Fives also won the direct comparison (3: 0 and 1: 1). Until the Second World War and the subsequent occupation by the German Wehrmacht, the SCF always ended up in the middle of the field (between 8th and 12th place), but mostly won at least its home games against Lille.

In the national cup competition for the Coupe de France , the SC Fives regularly advanced to the last rounds: quarter-finalists in 1936 and 1940, semi-finalists in 1935, 1938 and 1939, as well as participation in the final in 1941. However, the Liller suburbs were unable to win the title - against Girondins Bordeaux lost the SC with 0-2.

The "war championships", which no longer allowed the whole country to operate in the league, saw the teams from Lille (which was in the "forbidden zone") again in the northern group from 1942, and that was only for one season: 1942/43 Fives there again third (again leaving Olympique behind). But the prohibition of professionalism and the stipulation to only play regional national teams in the 1943/44 season (the Équipe Fédérale Lille-Flandres came second here) hit the SCF particularly hard, both sportingly and economically, so that in 1944 he responded in Lille Olympique Sporting Club renamed local rivals joined and ceased to exist as an independent club.

League affiliation and achievements

After the introduction of professional football, SC Fives played first-class from 1932 to 1939 ( Division 1 , renamed Ligue 1 in 2002 ).

Known players

French national team

The number of international matches for SC Fives and the period of these international appearances are given in brackets

Other

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
  • Paul Hurseau / Jacques Verhaeghe: Olympique Lillois - Sporting Club Fivois - Lille OSC Alan Sutton, Joué-lès-Tours 1997 ISBN 2-84253-080-2