Stade Raphaëlois

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Stade Raphaëlois was a traditional French football club from Saint-Raphaël . It was founded in 1905.

The club colors were black and red. The league team played in the Stade de l'Esterel , which has a capacity of 2,000 places.

In 2009 negotiations were started for a merger with Étoile Sportive de Fréjus ; Stade Raphaëlois no longer exists since June 3, 2009, but has been merged into the new Étoile Fréjus-Saint-Raphaël FC . The EFSRFC entered the third-rate national in the 2009/10 season .

history

After its founding, the association joined the Union des sociétés françaises de sports athlétiques , the oldest and largest of the associations competing at the time. As early as 1908, Stade was the first Côte-d'Azur champion of the USFSA and thus qualified for the final round of the national association championship (championnat de France) . In it he retired after a victory over FC Lyon, however, in the next round against Olympique Marseille . In the following six years until the outbreak of war , the Raphaëlois dominated the regional league; only in 1910 they did not become their champions, but had to give way to AS Cannes . In the subsequent games for the USFSA national championship, they were eliminated twice in the eighth (1909, 1911) and once in the quarter (1913, against Stade Helvétique Marseille ) and in the semifinals (1914, against Olympique Cettois ). In 1912, however, they succeeded in winning the now no longer official French championship: Stade Raphaëlois knocked out the Marseilles "Swiss", FC Lyon and US Tourcoing one after the other and was able to defeat AS Française 2-1 in the final after extra time.

After the end of the war, Stade Raphaëlois made a name for itself in the newly created cup competition in 1917/18 - there were no uniform leagues across France until 1932. Twice the team was eliminated only in the round of the last thirty-two participants ( 1926 and 1931 ), and twice in the quarter-finals ( 1928 and 1930 ). Twice she even reached the semi-finals ( 1927 at the US Quevilly , 1929 failed at SO Montpellier ). When professionalism was introduced in France in 1932, Stade Raphaëlois consequently applied for a corresponding license. The now founded uniform football association FFFA decided to allow only one team from the Côte d'Azur for the 20-man league - and that was the OGC Nice . Since then, Saint-Raphaël has only ever been represented in the amateur field.

League affiliation

The club never had professional status and therefore never played first class ( Division 1 , renamed Ligue 1 since 2002 ).

successes

Important persons for the association in the past

Web links

Remarks

  1. Article from the Var Matin  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.varmatin.com  
  2. For the individual seasons of the USFSA championship, see the French seasonal articles since 1894 .