Stade Poitiers

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Stade Poitiers is a French football club from Poitiers .

The club colors are blue and white. Poitiers' combat team now competes in the Stade de la Pépinière , which is just across the city limits in Buxerolles and currently has a capacity of around 12,000 spectators.

history

The club was founded in 1921 as Sporting Club Poitevin ; At the same time as the first promotion (1936) to the Division d'Honneur , the regional highest amateur league, the Sporting Club changed its name to Stade Poitevin SC . In 1952, Stade Poitevin merged with the Patronage des Écoles Publiques de Poitiers (PEPP), which originated from the Catholic sports movement, and was renamed the Stade de Poitiers PEP . Until the beginning of the 1990s, the footballers played home games at the Stade Paul-Rébeilleau before they moved to the Stade de la Pépinière and left their previous domicile to the rugby players and other club departments. In the summer of 1997 the club, which could only hope for a small amount of public subsidies in the “ student city ”, was on the verge of bankruptcy because it had taken over financially while trying to return to the second division as quickly as possible . The bankruptcy could be avoided, but twelve months later the club was forcibly transferred to the fourth division by the responsible association committee DNCG . In 2007, after a renewed merger with an ecclesiastical local rival - this time with the Patronage Saint-Joseph-Cercle d'Éducation Physique de Poitiers or CEP for short - Stade took on the name Poitiers Football Club , which it has been using ever since.

League affiliation and achievements

The club had professional status from 1995 to 1998, but has never played in the top French league . But he was represented for five years (from 1970 to 1974 and 1995/96 again for one season) in the second division . His best placement in the final table succeeded Stade Poitiers 1972/73 with a fifth place in his group; During this season, the average number of spectators at his home games was a good 2,700. This popularity was exceeded in the 1995/96 season, at the end of which the team only had to relegate due to the poorer goal difference, when their point games were attended by an average of 3,300 paying spectators.

In the French cup competition for the Coupe de France , the club reached the national main round in twelve draws - with a focus on time in the mid-1990s - the first time in 1966/67 and the last time so far in the 2010/11 season . However, Stade Poitiers only survived the thirty-second finals in three years, and only once ( 1994/95 ) did the team advance into the round of the best 16 teams. In addition, the third division team at the time had “accomplished a heroic deed” in front of the record crowd of 7,555 visitors in the Stade de la Pépinière and won 2-1 against AS Monaco - at the time a “top address” in French football - before reaching the second round Second division La Berrichonne Châteauroux succumbed to relatively unsophisticated and unsophisticated.

In addition, Stade Poitiers once caused a sensation in the league cup, which is much less prestigious . In 1997/98, the third division played their way through to the quarter-finals after three 2-1 victories over Olympique Nîmes , OGC Nice - both second division partners - and first division Le Havre AC ; In this round Poitiers lost to the Girondins in Parc Lescure in Bordeaux only after extra time with 3: 4.

In 2014/15 Poitiers FC competed in the Division d'Honneur , the sixth-highest division in France.

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. ^ Berthou / Collectif, p. 314
  2. ^ Berthou / Collectif, p. 315
  3. ↑ see the information on the Stade Paul-Rébeilleau on the page of the Communauté d'agglomération of Grand Poitiers
  4. ^ A b Berthou / Collectif, p. 316
  5. ^ Berthou / Collectif, p. 317
  6. ^ Berthou / Collectif, p. 315f.
  7. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, p. 412
  8. ↑ see the complete overview of this league cup season on the website of the French league association LFP
  9. ^ Berthou / Collectif, pp. 314/315