SR Saint-Dié

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Sports Réunis Déodatiens or SR Saint-Dié for short is a French football club from Saint-Dié-des-Vosges , in the Lorraine part of the Vosges . Déodatiens is the adjective for the place name.

The club colors are red and black. The club's fighting team now competes in the Stade Émile Jeanpierre , which has a capacity of around 1,500 spectators, including 335 seats, and is named after the club's first president.

history

The club was founded in 1908 as Stade Déodatien ; it took until 1936 before he rose for the first time in the highest regional amateur league , the Lorraine Division d'Honneur . In 1946, soon after the end of World War II , Stade merged with local rivals US Saint-Dié and adopted the name SR Déodatiens . The new club triggered a small "football boom" in the city in the late 1940s; so his league team, which only competed in the then sixth class Promotion d'Honneur , was accompanied to neighborhood derbies in the Vosges department by up to 1,000 supporters. SR also found material support from the owner of a local textile company who provided jobs for a number of players. The team played their home games until the 1990s in the Stade du Breuil , which was built before the Second World War and whose playing surface was considered “one of the most catastrophic in the country [and] hardly suitable for a league” - “depending on the weather, hard as concrete or muddy".

Nevertheless, it was not until 1966 that the Déodatiens achieved renewed promotion to the Division d'Honneur , three years later the one in the highest French amateur league , in which they were able to rely on an average of around 1,600 paying visitors in 1969/70. After SR Saint-Dié had even played in the second division for several seasons (see below) , the club was heavily in debt until the beginning of the 1980s - even if the balance sheet deficit for 1982 of 450,000 francs in the early 21st century seems comparatively small - and could only be saved from liquidation through the private financial commitment of the club president at the time. Since the beginning of the 1990s, the Déodatiens have not got beyond fifth class - with correspondingly negative effects on the average number of visitors. In the league games in the 1991/92 season, Saint-Dié's year of relegation to the fourth league, for example, an average of just under 250 spectators paid their money at the ticket booth of the Stade du Breuil , which had a record number of 5,600 payers (1976).

League affiliation and achievements

The club has never had professional status and also never in the highest French league played was but seven years ( 1975 - 1982 ) in the second division represented, which was then split an equally open to professionals and amateurs, in two 18-man seasons League was. In 1978 and 1981, the Déodatiens achieved their best positions in the final table with eleventh place in their group.

In the national cup competition , SR Saint-Dié has so far (2013) made nine main rounds; the time focus was on the section between the mid-1970s and mid-1980s, the last participation for the time being dates from the 1991/92 season . The first foray into the thirty-second finals was made by Stade Déodatien in 1936/37 ; Then it lasted until 1974/75 , when the opponent Paris Saint-Germain FC needed a replay after a 2-2 draw - this match played in Vittel was attended by around 6,000 SRD fans - to eliminate the Lorraine amateur eleven. This second game took place in the Stade Marcel-Picot in Nancy in front of 11,000 spectators. In the following years they survived the first round three times in order to have to bow to a “big name” of French football in the subsequent round of 32: 1976 Stade Reims , 1978 OSC Lille and 1979 Olympique Marseille .

In the 2013/14 season, Saint-Dié is represented in the sixth class Division d'Honneur.

Well-known former players and coaches

literature

  • Thierry Berthou / Collectif: Dictionnaire historique des clubs de football français. Pages de Foot, Créteil 1999, Volume 2, ISBN 2-913146-02-3
  • L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: Coupe de France. La folle épopée. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2007, ISBN 978-2-915-53562-4

Web links

Notes and evidence

  1. ↑ see the relevant information ( Memento of the original from August 31, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on france-stades.com @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / france.stades.free.fr
  2. ↑ a b Berthou / Collectif, p. 377
  3. ↑ a b c Berthou / Collectif, p. 379
  4. ^ Berthou / Collectif, pp. 378 and 380
  5. ^ Berthou / Collectif, p. 380
  6. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, p. 391; the audience figures from Berthou / Collectif, p. 378.
  7. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, pp. 392, 394 and 395