Stade Olympique Merlebach
| SO Merlebach | |
| Basic data | |
|---|---|
| Surname | Stade Olympique de Merlebach |
| Seat | Freyming-Merlebach |
| founding | 1926 |
| Website | http://so-merlebach.com/ |
| First soccer team | |
| Venue | Stade Léon Brom-Francois Konrady, Cocheren |
| Places | 1,500 |
| league | Regional 3 Lorraine |
| 2017/18 | |
Stade Olympique de Merlebach is a French football club from the Lorraine town of Freyming-Merlebach (German Freimengen-Merlenbach ).
history
Beginnings
The club was founded under the name US Merlebach . Only one year after it was founded, the club got its current name.
In German gaming operations
With the German occupation of France, Freyming-Merlebach came under its German name Freimengen-Merlenbach in the Gau Westmark . The club was renamed TSG Merlenbach . The club took part in German gaming under this name. In the 1943/44 season, the Grenzklub also played in the Gauliga Westmark . However, the season had to be canceled due to the war.
Return to French gaming and sporting development since then
Before the end of the war, the Lorrainers returned to French gaming operations and adopted their old name. In the 1946/47 season, the club began playing and took part in the Division d'Honneur . In that season they took first place with 29 points, which was also achieved in the following season with 37 points. As a result, they rose to the CFA . In the 1948/49 season they finished second in the table. In the season it was only enough for the SO Merlebach for sixth place. The following season, the Grenzklub found itself in eighth place, which could be defended in the following season. The following season, the SO reached seventh place in the table. Also in the 1953/54 season, the Lorraine only finished seventh in the table. The border club played in the CFA until 1961, before the team was relegated. The re-emergence was missed when you finished second. The promotion was also missed in the following season. This time, however, the fourth place in the table was occupied. In the 1963/64 season, the club from the Franco-German border region finished only sixth. A year later, the promotion was just missed when the Lorraine were only three points behind the reserve team of FC Metz . 1966 then succeeded the promotion to the CFA, when the team ended the season as leaders. In the first season after the promotion, the club took a respectable third place. While the sixth place in the table followed in 1968 and the eighth place in the table in 1969, the team occupied fourth place in the table in 1970, which was equivalent to promotion to the second-class Division 2 (today Ligue 2 ). The team was represented in professional football for the first time in its club history. However, at the end of the 1970/71 season, they rose again, as table sixteenth, from Division 2. The sporting descent continued in Division 3 when the club was relegated to 13th place in the table in Division d'Honneur. To date, the club has not been able to return to professional football.
present
In the 2018/19 season the club plays in the eight-class Regional 3 Lorraine . The current home ground is the Stade Léon Brom-Francois Konrady in the neighboring town of Cocheren .
Individual evidence
- ^ DH Lorraine - 1947
- ^ DH Lorraine - 1948
- ↑ CFA Gr. Est 1949
- ↑ CFA Gr. Est 1950
- ↑ CFA Gr. Est 1951
- ↑ CFA Gr. Est 1952
- ↑ CFA Gr. Est 1953
- ↑ CFA Gr. Est 1954
- ↑ CFA Gr. Est 1961
- ^ DH Lorraine - 1962
- ^ DH Lorraine - 1963
- ^ DH Lorraine - 1964
- ^ DH Lorraine - 1965
- ^ DH Lorraine - 1966
- ↑ CFA Gr. Est 1967
- ↑ CFA Gr. Est 1968
- ↑ CFA Gr. Est 1969
- ↑ CFA Gr. Est 1970
- ↑ Division 2 Gr. North 1971
- ↑ Division 3 Gr. Est 1972