Stade Béthune
The Stade Béthunois Football Club or Stade Béthune for short is a French football club from Béthune in the Pas-de-Calais department .
The club color is navy blue. The league team now competes in the Stade Municipal de Béthune , which has a capacity of around 1,500 spectators.
history
The club was founded in 1902, a year in which there was a veritable wave of "start-ups" of football clubs in northern France. It was one of the numerous miners' associations in the region, where the players, officials and spectators mostly came from the same social milieu . In the 1936/37 season, the highest amateur division in the north, to which Stade Béthune also belonged, even consisted exclusively of such “buddy clubs”.
In 1938 and 1949 Stade Béthunois won the French amateur championship , and was also in the final of this competition in 1947, in which it was defeated by FC Gueugnon . In 1938 Stade Béthune first switched off Stade Reims and prevailed 2-1 in the final against FC Scionzier . When Stade Béthunes won the title again in 1949, an above-average number of spectators visited the home stadium, for example 6,900 visitors in the league game against neighboring US Auchel and over 5,700 in the championship final against the amateur eleven from Roanne . With the decline of mining in northern France in the 1960s, this “chum club”, which until the 21st century only shuttled between fourth and seventh league levels, also disappeared from the national field of vision.
League affiliation and achievements
The club has never had professional status and has never played in the highest or second highest French division . When Béthune wanted to take the step into professionalism in 1935, his admission was rejected by the regional association due to a lack of financial prospects . From 1933 to 1954, however, he played continuously in the highest amateur league, the Division d'Honneur and the 1948 newly introduced, national Championnat de France Amateur (CFA) , then until 1993 continuously in the fourth division.
The Stade Béthunois FC was more successful in the national cup competition for the Coupe de France , in which it took part in a total of 14 main rounds between 1926/27 and most recently in 1963/64 . The focus of these successes was between the mid-1930s and mid-1950s, interrupted, of course, by the time of the German occupation, when the teams from the coal basin near the border were subject to special restrictions. In almost half of their participations, the team from Béthune also survived the first round, reaching the sixteenth finals four times (1939, 1947, 1949 and 1954) and twice the second round (1938, 1948). In 1937/38 , Stade had initially eliminated two professional second division players with the Cercle Athlétique Paris and Racing Union Calais , each of which required two encounters because the first had been a draw even after extra time. In the subsequent round of the 16 best teams, Béthune was then defeated by the first-class playing northern French neighbors of the SC Fives . Ten years later , the Béthunois had it a little easier, defeating ES Bully and CA Valenciennes first two other mining and amateur clubs from the region and then clearly defeated the professionals from Stade Français Paris .
In the 2013/14 season, the Stade Béthune league team will compete in the sixth-class Division d'Honneur .
Well-known former players and coaches
- Dominique Corroyer , coach 2003-2006
- Louis Dugauguez , player 1934-1938
- Louis Hermant , goalscorer and selection player for Northern France (“The Lions of Flanders”) in the late 1930s and early 1940s
literature
- L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: Coupe de France. La folle épopée. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2007, ISBN 978-2-915-53562-4
- Jacques Verhaeghe / Gilbert Hocq: Le football en Nord-Pas-de-Calais 1892–2007. Alan Sutton, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire 2007, ISBN 978-2-84910-681-5
Web links
- Club side
- Béthunes seasonal performance since 1946/47 at footballenfrance.fr
Notes and evidence
- ↑ see the information on the stadium at france.stades.free.fr
- ↑ Verhaeghe / Hocq, p. 21
- ↑ Verhaeghe / Hocq, p. 85
- ↑ see the list of French amateur champions on the website of the Fédération Française de Football
- ↑ Verhaeghe / Hocq, p. 132
- ↑ Verhaeghe / Hocq, p. 87
- ↑ Verhaeghe / Hocq, p. 132f.
- ^ Marion Fontaine: Le Racing Club de Lens et les "Gueules Noires". Essai d'histoire sociale. Les Indes savantes, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-84654-248-7 , pp. 208f.
- ↑ Verhaeghe / Hocq, pp. 71 and 87
- ↑ Verhaeghe / Hocq, p. 156
- ↑ Verhaeghe / Hocq, p. 99
- ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, p. 354
- ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, p. 364
- ↑ Verhaeghe / Hocq, p. 98