Stade Reims

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Stade Reims
Club crest of Stade Reims
Basic data
Surname Stade de Reims
Seat Reims , France
founding 1910/1931
president Jean-Pierre Caillot
Website stade-de-reims.com
First soccer team
Head coach David Guion
Venue Stade Auguste-Delaune
Places 21,700
league Ligue 1
2019/20 6th place
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Stade de Reims [ stad də ʀɛ̃s ], usually short Stade Reims in German-speaking countries , is a French football club from Reims that was founded in 1910 and received its current name in 1931. In France, his men's team played a prominent role for a decade and a half after the Second World War, with six championship titles between 1949 and 1962 and two cup wins (1950, 1958). During this time, the club from Champagne was seen as a figurehead (équipe fanion or équipe phare) of French football , because Stade de Reims has an attractive, offensive style of play - often in retrospect as "sparkling champagne football" (foot pétillant, football champagne) called - and many of his players formed the framework of the national team , which, especially with their third place at the 1958 World Cup in Sweden, made for the first high point of French football . In addition, the club twice reached the final in the European Cup (1956, 1959), which a club from France only succeeded in 1976.

The highest French league had Stade Reims in 1979 for 33 years no longer belongs, is in the " eternal league table " but in 2016 still ranked 16th. Stade's female soccer players also contributed to the club's reputation with five national championship titles between 1975 and 1982 . In the 1991/92 season he went bankrupt , his men's team had to start in the sixth division after being re-established and was rarely in the headlines nationwide. From 2002 to 2012 and again 2016-2018, Reims played again in the second division with the exception of two seasons ; In 2012, exactly half a century after winning the last championship title, the club returned to Ligue 1 for four years , to which it was promoted again in 2018.

history

The beginnings as a company sports club

Inauguration of the sports field with the "Presidential Stand" in Parc Pommery (1913)

The club emerged from the Société Sportive du Parc Pommery (SSPP), officially registered on September 29, 1910 , the company sports association of the Pommery & Greno sparkling wine cellar , which also ran hiking , gymnastics , rugby , athletics and cycling . This was the first club of its kind in the region and, typical of corporate sport, was personally presided over by the owner, Count Marie Charles Jean Melchior de Polignac ; the football department was headed by René Humbert, the company's managing director. Its members interested in football were initially only employees of the winery , but soon they were also employees of the suppliers, i.e. winemakers , coopers and carters . Pommery & Greno had already introduced voluntary socio-political institutions such as a company pension fund and health insurance at the turn of the century ; In 1909 it laid out the Parc Pommery (since 2004: Parc de Champagne ) on the southern outskirts of the city as a recreational area for its workers. In 1913, three hectares of it were used for the construction of a large gymnasium and festival hall as well as an open-air sports field. Since comparable urban leisure areas did not yet exist in Reims at that time, Pommery opened his park to other sports enthusiasts. The footballers - in gold-colored jerseys and green shorts reminiscent of the company product - participated in the championships of the Marne and Champagne departments before the First World War and, from 1922, in the Ligue Nord-Est , which also included Île-de-France and included the Ardennes region. In the 1920s, the club also recruited football players from outside the company, whom it was able to induce to change clubs in times of “ circumvention of the amateur statute ” (amateurisme marron) with benefits such as the offer of a job, generous leisure time arrangements or direct payments.

In the summer of 1929, the SSPP rose to the Division d'Honneur , the top division of the Ligue Nord-Est, in which, however, other teams, including local rivals Sporting Club Rémois , dominated. Nonetheless, friendly matches in Parc Pommery against renowned opponents attracted up to 5,000 spectators, and abroad - for example in April 1931 in Stuttgart and Frankfurt am Main  - she played in well-filled stadiums.

From 1931 until the end of World War II

For details on the championship placements and the performance in the Coupe de France since 1931, see league affiliation and placements .

The Stade Vélodrome Municipal before World War II; in the background the cathedral of Reims

In view of the impending introduction of a national league , the club's management decided to prepare the club's football division for the professionalism that would come with it; this required, among other things, an organizational separation from the company and the other departments of the SSPP. On June 18, 1931, it was officially registered as the Stade de Reims , with René Humbert at its head; Orange and black (tango et noir) became the new club colors. The club name, which comes from the Greek " stadium ", was preferred to the proposal Olympique de Reims . The first game under the new name was a 7-2 win against FC Reims on August 23, 1931 at Parc Pommery.

The first squad consisted mainly of players who were already active at the SSPP, including "the first great goalscorer in the history of Stade Reims", Lucien Perpère . In addition, Stade signed the British players David Lee and Crookes, as well as the Swiss Schnebeli and the Hungarian Markusz, his first foreign professionals, which, however, were not allowed to play in point games in the 1931/32 season because the team continued only in the (amateur ) Division d'Honneur took over; with David Harrison , previously successful at FC Sète , among others , Stade also afforded a paid coach . In 1934, the footballers moved from Parc Pommery to the newly built, urban Stade Vélodrome Municipal . Twelve months later, under their new coach William Aitken, they not only made it to the professional second division , but also became French amateur champions after a 2-1 final win over Girondins Guyenne Sport from Bordeaux. During this time, goalkeeper André Tassin (from 1935) and outside runner Louis Finot (from 1937) joined Reims' team for the first time with two former French national players.

In the 1937/38 season, two personalities came to the club who were largely responsible for its future athletic advancement: Henri Germain became a member of the finance committee of the board and the 18-year-old striker Albert Batteux moved from the Énergie Club Rémois to the big neighbor. The club merged in 1938 with the Sporting Club Rémois and took over its club colors red and white; To this day, Stades players are also known for short as Rémois ("Reimser") or Rouges et Blancs ("Red and White"). A year later Stade Reims finished the second division season in sixth place, but had made it into the round of the top eight teams in the national cup and thrown a top team in the first division out of the race with AS Saint-Étienne . In addition, the second team was again French amateur champions.

With the outbreak of the Second World War and the French mobilization , the regional association FFFA could not maintain the game operations in the previous form, but was played in three regional groups. Since a number of clubs had to withdraw completely from the competition due to a lack of players, Stade Reims was assigned to the northern group of Division 1. It also played a good role in it after the German invasion (1940), was even first in the group in 1942 and in the same year also reached the cup final of the occupied zone , in which it was defeated by Red Star Olympique . In the 1943/44 season, only Équipes Fédérales ("federal selections") with state-paid contract players were allowed to compete in France's professional sector (for more information on the background, see here ). Under the sporting director Henri Germain, Stades footballers were assigned to the ÉF Reims-Champagne together with colleagues from Sedan-Torcy and Troyes , which made it into the cup in the national final , which was then lost . In the subsequent final war season - these championships are now only considered unofficial competitions - the players in the top division, which was again divided into two, represented the respective club colors again and Stade came fourth in the north.

The French literature gives no indication of the political involvement of the club's management with the occupying power or the collaborating Vichy regime . Apparently the only Jewish player from Reims at this time, Hakoahner Kurt Platzek , who fled Vienna after the “ Anschluss ” in 1938 , was interned in the nearby Mourmelon-le-Grand in 1939 - like most “ enemy foreigners ” - and released in 1940 then settled in the unoccupied part of the country.

Rise in France and Europe (1945 to 1956)

For selected team line-ups between 1944 and 1979 see under The "big" Reims teams .

Although not athletically qualified for it, Stade Reims found in 1945 "due to his overall performance during the war years" admission to the now single-track Division 1. The newcomer sat at the top of the table from the start, not closing a single season in the first ten years Times worse than fourth, was runner-up in 1947 and national champion for the first time in 1949. In 1950 the red and whites were able to win the national cup after a 2-0 final victory over Racing Paris . Stade's second team also won the French amateur title again in 1948. From this "substructure" of the first team, Henri Roessler , who initially acted as player - coach, was able to use players to supplement the small squad of professional footballers - in 1945/46 Stade was only allowed to sign 14 professionals. Until 1946 these came almost without exception from the region, then occasionally also from Brittany or from clubs in the south of France (see the table at the end of this chapter and the map below ). With the Dutch international Bram Appel a foreigner was committed in 1949; but this remained the great exception.

1950 Roessler left the club; the head of the football department, Henri Germain, and President Victor Canard promoted the just 31-year-old striker Albert Batteux to his successor. In this function, Batteux was to play a key role in the further development of the offensive "champagne football" (jeu à la Champenoise) and in all its successes over the next 13 years. In 1953 and 1955, the Rémois won their second and third titles as champions of Division 1. In the following season, Stade Reims concentrated on the first ever European Cup , in which the French reached the final, and finished the domestic league in tenth - of 1946 to 1963 the only year with a placement below the fourth rank. In 1954 Reims also won the Coupe Charles Drago , and in 1955 the first ever Challenge des Champions , the French "Supercup".

In the years before the introduction of a Europe-wide competition, the national champions of France, Italy, Portugal and Spain played the Coupe Latine every year . In 1949, Stade Reims was clearly defeated by FC Barcelona with 0: 5 and AC Turin with 3: 5. In 1953, after a 2-1 win over Valencia CF, it reached the final, in which AC Milan was defeated 3-0 with its legendary " Gre - No - Li storm". In 1955 - that year the tournament was held in Paris - Reims was again in the final and lost to Real Madrid 0-2. The previous semi-final against AC Milan was of particular quality and went down in the annals as a "marathon game"; after 90 minutes it was 1: 1, after 120 2: 2. It was already after midnight, the Métro stopped running when a Glovacki hit made the decision - but according to the chroniclers, none of the 36,688 spectators had left the Prinzenpark . The sports newspaper L'Équipe was only able to open the day after next with the headline “A game of breathtaking intensity”; In addition, this encounter awakened “the love of the Parisian public for Stade de Reims”.

Almost twelve months later, Reims and Madrid faced each other again in the same stadium in a European final - this time for the European Cup  ; in turn, the teams offered "a thrilling, dramatic and absolutely high-class game" in which Reims, despite a 2-0 or 3-2 lead, was again defeated by the Madrilenians (final score 3: 4).

Important players up to and including the 1955/56 season

In literature, 26 or 27 players - Robert Lamartine was just as well suited to Reims' later phase of success - are counted among the "early club legends" who joined the club by 1955. What they have in common is that in addition to winning one or more national titles until the mid-1950s ...

  • Stade’s 35 record-breaking players or the 15 record-breaking goal scorers of all time,
  • and / or the Coupe Latine won in 1953 or were in the European Cup (EC1) final in 1956,
  • and / or were national players during their time in Reims.

Henri Roessler, who, like his successor Albert Batteux, still worked as a player- coach in the early years , is included in this group because he was responsible for the first two championship and cup titles. The only exception is Jacques Favre, who was the first goalkeeper of the league team (until 1948) "only" in 1944 in the cup final and in 1947 was runner-up. The Chilean international Fernando Riera Bauzà (14 first division appearances in the 1950/51 season), however, falls out.

Surname Previous
club 		With SdR
since 		Came at the
age of
... years 		position Years with
SdR 		Rank
stakes 		Rank
goalscorer 		Further achievements and successes
Robert Jonquet SS Voltaire Paris 1942 17th runner 18th 1. National team; Coupe Latine; EC1 final
Albert Batteux Energy Club Reims 1937 18th striker 26th 19th National team; Trainer 1950–1963
Jacques Favre unknown 1939 18th goalkeeper 9 105 D1 games
Raoul Giraudo AS Aix 1950 18th defender 9 102 D1 games; EC1 final
Michel Leblond own youth 1949 18th runner 12 6th National team; EC1 final
Francis Méano AS Aix 1949 18th striker 4th 12. National team; Coupe Latine; ( A youth
European champion 1949 )
Pierre Flamion ASC Mohon 1944 19th striker 6th 29 9. National team
Raymond Kopa SCO Angers 1951 19th striker 13 (a) 2. 7th National team; Coupe Latine; EC1 final
André Petitfils OFC Charleville 1939 19th runner 12 20th
Robert Siatka Olympique Alès 1953 19th Runner /
defender		 11 8th. National team; EC1 finals; Military
World Champion 1957
René Bliard own youth 1953 20th striker 8th 32. 6th National team; EC1 final
Robert Lamartine unknown 1955 20th striker 4th EC1 final (1959)
Roger Marche OFC Charleville 1944 20th defender 10 5. National team; Coupe Latine
Armand Penverne unknown 1947 20th runner 12 3. National team; Coupe Latine
Pierre Sinibaldi AS Troyes-Savinienne 1944 20th striker 9 15th 2. National team
Raymond Cicci USB Longwy 1951 21st runner 6th 21st National team; Coupe Latine
Michel Hidalgo Le Havre AC 1954 21st striker 3 EC1 final
René-Jean Jacquet Girondins Bordeaux 1954 21st goalkeeper 7th EC1 final
Jean Templin FC Villefranche 1950 21st striker 6th 26th Coupe Latine; EC1 final
Pierre Bini AS Clermont-Ferrand 1946 22nd striker 5 12.
André Jacowski Arago Sport Orléans 1945 22nd defender 8th 14th National team
Simon Zimny US Nœux-les-Mines 1949 22nd defender 9 11. National team; Coupe Latine; EC1 final
Léon Glovacki AS Troyes-Savinienne 1952 24 striker 7 (a) 13. 9. National team; Coupe Latine; EC1 final
Paul Sinibaldi Toulouse FC 1948 26th goalkeeper 8th 9. National team; Coupe Latine
Bram Appel Flag of the Netherlands.svg Sittardse Boys 1949 27 striker 5 27. 5. Dutch ex-international ;
Coupe Latine
Jean Prouff Stade Rennes UC 1948 28 striker 2 National team
Henri Roessler AS Troyes-Savinienne 1943 32 runner 7th Trainer 1945–1950
(a) Interruption (Kopa 1956–1959, Glovacki 1957–1960) not included

At the zenith of development (1956 to 1963)

Club coat of arms until 1992
Scene from the second leg between Feijenoord and Reims (March 1963)

At the beginning of this period, Stade Reims made negative headlines when in February 1957 they lost the Cup round of 32 to Sporting Club Union d'El Biar from the Algerian Division d'Honneur - the most cited surprise in over a century of competition history . But this remained a side note in the success story: In 1958 the team became champions again, also won the Coupe de France for the second time ( 3-1 in the final against runners-up Olympique Nîmes ) and thus became the fifth club in French professional football to win the doublé . In 1959 Reims again reached the final of the European Cup, in 1960 the fifth followed - Batteux 'opinion was won by the best team under his aegis (player squad see here ) - and in 1962 the sixth championship title within 13 years. Stade Reims achieved this last national success in a “heart-stopping final” and only just ahead of Racing Paris: At home, the red-whites lost 4-1 against the capital city eleven, but won the second leg on matchday 34 6-2; in their last meeting of the season, Reims defeated RC Strasbourg 5-1, Paris only won 2-1 in Monaco . As a result, both teams pulled past Olympique Nîmes (0: 1 at Stade Français ) and ended the season with the same number of points at the top of the table, so that the goal difference (83:60 versus 86:63 corresponding to 1.38 versus 1.37) was decisive gave. If the goal difference introduced in France in 1964 had already applied, Paris would have become champions due to the higher number of hits. As an indication of the continuing popularity of the Rémois the fact may be that then the famous Musette - accordionist Aimable an EP with the Marche de l'Équipe de Reims published, whose cover was decorated with a photo of the champion team. A year later, Stade finished the season as runner-up behind AS Monaco - and the presidium announced to everyone's surprise that the contract with successful coach Batteux would not be renewed, which was officially justified with a deficit club budget.

Stade Reims represented France in three of the five European Cups held during this period. In the 1958/59 final , the team met Real Madrid again, but the trophy also went to the Spaniards after a 2-0 victory in Stuttgart's Neckar Stadium . In 1960/61 Reims was eliminated in the round of 16 against Burnley FC and two years later the French left the European stage in the quarter-finals against Feijenoord Rotterdam .

Important player additions from 1956 to 1962

The information in the ranking columns in the following table refer to the club-internal sequence of all Reims first division players shown here .

Surname Previous
club 		With SdR
since 		Came at the
age of
... years 		position Years with
SdR 		Rank
stakes 		Rank
goalscorer 		Further achievements and successes
Claude Dubaële own youth 1957 17th runner 7th
Mohamed Maouche AS Saint-Eugène (b) 1956 20th runner 2.5 (c) Algerian "independence elf"
Paul Sauvage Limoges FC 1960 21st striker 4th National team
Bruno Rodzik AS Giraumont 1957 22nd defender 7th 11. National team; EC1 final in 1959
Just Fontaine OGC Nice 1956 23 striker 6th 33. 1. National team; EC1 final in 1959
Marcel Moreau own youth 1960 23 runner 6th
Lucien Muller Toulouse FC 1959 24 runner 3 (d) National team
Roger Piantoni FC Nancy 1957 25th striker 7th 23. 4th National team; EC1 final in 1959
Jean Vincent Lille OSC 1956 25th striker 8th 7th 8th. National team; EC1 finals 1959; ( A youth European champion 1949 )
Jean Wendling Toulouse FC 1959 25th defender 6th 24. National team; ( Military world champion 1957 )
Hassan Akesbi Olympique Nîmes 1961 26th striker 3.5 11. Moroccan international
Dominique Colonna OGC Nice 1957 28 goalkeeper 6th 18th National team; EC1 final in 1959
Raymond Kaelbel Le Havre AC 1962 30th runner 2 (French ex-national player)
Raymond Kopa
Robert Jonquet
Roger Marche
(b)Saint-Eugène (today: Bologhine ) was - like all of northern Algeria - an integral part of France (Algérie française) until 1962 .
(c)Interruption due to Maouche's time with the Algerian FLN team not counted.
(d) Muller returned to Stade as a player for two more years in 1968.

Despite a multitude of illustrious player names in the ranks of Stade Reims, especially Raymond Kopas, center runner Robert Jonquet ("Monsieur Bob") is considered to be the personification of the great times of the club. With the exception of the championship title in 1962, he was actively involved in all of the Profielf's titles, is by far its top division and record national player and was the only player to play in all four cup finals at European level for the Rémois. From 1964 to 1967 - then replaced by his former teammate Claude Prosdocimi  - and in 1980/81 he also returned to Champagne as coach of the league eleven. In Reims, a grandstand of the new stadium was later named after him, and it is in this city that he lived again in his final years.

The French media also regularly reminds of other player personalities up to the present day, for example left-wing winger Francis Méano and his tragic early death, the privately reserved outsider Armand Penverne, who was "the real boss on the pitch for over ten years", and defenders Robert Siatka, whom they called "the horse" in characterizing his endurance and running style. The story of Roger Marches, the “Ardennes wild boar” (sanglier des Ardennes) , who for ten years only rarely participated in team training with the approval of the club and instead kept himself in shape by running in the woods in the vicinity of his home village is also spread over and over again.

The slow decline (1963 to 1991)

Batteux's successor Camille Cottin , who was already a coach in Reims in the early 1940s, was able to largely fall back on the previous season's squad, but Kopa, Piantoni and the two defenders Rodzik and Wendling were sometimes absent for a long time during the season. Even before the end of the first half of the season Cottin was replaced by Jean Prouff, who was unable to avert the decline; In the summer of 1964, the descent of the previous year's runner-up was certain, combined with a significant bloodletting. Only Kopa, Akesbi, Wendling and Moreau were still available to the new coach Robert Jonquet for the rebuilding in Stade's first second division season since 1938/39. In 1966, the newly formed eleven succeeded in rising again, whereupon Henri Germain gave up the presidency, but as the penultimate was promptly relegated. It was not until 1970 - and only because the association increased Division 1 and then passed over AC Ajaccio and Olympique Avignon , who were qualified as successors - Stade Reims was back in the top division, and Germain returned to the top of the club. The good reputation of the club was unbroken: in a contemporary newspaper report, Stade's return to the first division was described as "the return of the most beautiful exhibit to the Museum of French Football".

Delio Onnis

The club built a team suitable for the first division around players like Jean-Claude D'Arménia , René Masclaux and Jean-François Jodar , to which national players such as Marcel Aubour , Georges Lech and Jacques Vergnes joined over the next few years . There were also a number of Argentines, of which in particular the goal scorer Delio Onnis (1971-1973), Carlos Bianchi (1973-1977) and José Santiago Santamaría (1974-1979) caused a sensation. In the league, Stade Reims regularly finished in the middle of the table until 1978 - the best placement was fifth in 1976 - in the cup it reached the semi-finals twice (1972, 1974) and even the final in 1977 , the 1: 2 against AS Saint -Étienne was lost. In the same year he won the relatively insignificant Alpine Cup . Obviously, the club had lived beyond its means in these years and only narrowly escaped bankruptcy in December 1978 : debts of 4 million francs were accounted for, corresponding to around 1.7 million  DM . As a result, Stade announced two coaches (Flamion and D'Arménia) and seven players; Salary cuts and charity campaigns by other clubs ( FC Nantes , Paris Saint-Germain ) and several media companies (motto: “Stade Reims must not die!”) prevented the dissolution of the club, but not relegation to Division 2 at the end of the season.

From 1979 to 1991 Stade Reims remained second class, only missed promotion in 1983 in the barrages against Olympique Nîmes, even won the league cup in 1991 - his last title to date - and was forcibly transferred to the third division in the same year due to his deficit situation.

Bankruptcy and a fresh start (since 1992)

The new Stade Auguste-Delaune
Alumni in Reims in 2006, including Muller, Colonna, Hidalgo, Kopa, Fontaine, Prosdocimi and Penverne (back row, 3rd to 9th from left)

In October 1991 a court ordered the bankruptcy and dissolution of the association in view of a debt level of more than FF 50 million  ; In 1992 it was re-established as the Stade de Reims Champagne . The continued use of the only slightly modified club crest with the champagne bottle was prohibited due to a new law ( loi Évin against nicotine addiction and alcoholism of 1991). In the same year, the club's management was forced to sell Stade's trophy collection, comprising 494 individual pieces, for FF 700,000 to the entrepreneur Alain Afflelou ; This called forth protests across the country in 1997 to a restitution led the collection to the club. For Stade, which took on its old name again in 1999, the sporting path led back within a decade from the sixth-class Division d'Honneur to paid football and the second division. In 1999, however, it also benefited from a decision by the regional association which refused the actually qualified GSI Pontivy the promotion. In 2000/01, Stade Reims caused a sensation throughout France for the first time when the then third division team advanced into the round of the top eight teams in the national cup and eliminated three higher-class teams on the way there.

Since 2002, the club has returned to professional status, which it retained in 2003/04 and 2009/10 when its league team only played in the third-highest division for one year . The new construction of the Stade Auguste-Delaune, which was completed in 2008, offers space for higher ambitions, which the team - still wearing the traditional red jerseys with white sleeves - was only able to meet again from 2012. After all, it attracted almost 20,000 spectators twice in December 2008 ( second division match against Racing Lens as the official stadium inauguration) and in March 2011 ( cup quarter-finals against OGC Nice ), and also for the local derby against the 2010/11 season, which was not particularly significant CS Sedan came over 17,000. In May 2012, 20,321 visitors paid for admission for the league game against AS Monaco , and the ticket booths no longer had to be opened for the last game of the season against Lens followed by a promotion ceremony. Stade's return to the first division led to an almost blanket appreciation of the club's services in the media; France Football, for example, published a four-page article before the last match day of the season entitled "There are mythical clubs and others that are not". The first two first division seasons after 33 years completed the red-whites in the middle of the table (ranks 14 and 11 respectively). In 2016, he was relegated to Ligue 2, from which Reims returned to the top division in 2018.

Regardless of the ups and downs of the Reims club history, there has been a special relationship between the club boards of Stade and Real Madrid since the two clubs met in three European cup finals. This is particularly evident in the fact that, for the first time in the mid-1950s, there were regular friendly matches between the two league teams. This tradition is kept up to the present day, although not every year. The last time such a game took place on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the 1956 final, in the presence of Raymond Kopa, Michel Hidalgo, Lucien Muller, Francisco Gento and Emilio Butragueño, among others . The French second division was defeated by the reigning Champions League winner , who had called up almost all of the regular players, 3: 5. The very active alumni association (Les anciens du Stade de Reims) , which annually organizes well-attended meetings of former players and plays charity matches, is also involved in this close contact .

Stade Reims today

Club structure

The club as a whole has only one football division and, as is customary in France, is organized according to association law (Association loi 1901 à statut renforcé) . A corporation responsible for the professional sector is integrated into this - at Stade Reims the form of a Société Anonyme Sportive Professionnelle (SASP) was chosen, the most commonly used of several options in France - which is only used by the shareholders, but not by the club members is controlled. The “parent association” assigns the right of use of its association membership (numéro d'affiliation) to the company to which it also belongs as a shareholder by means of a contractual agreement for a limited period of time. The SASP, represented by the full-time executive board, is the employer of the players, the coaching and supervisory staff as well as the other employees, for example in the office and in the junior training center, and relatively free in its internal affairs (management, sale of shares, etc.). This construction serves to ensure that - similar to Germany - tax advantages for the club are also retained under the commercial conditions of professional sport.

The club's balance sheet for the 2008/09 season, at the end of which Stade was relegated to the third division, showed total income before taxes of € 11.9 million - of which television rights and payments from own or the league sponsors account for 62%, In contrast, audience income was only 15% - a minus of € 34,000, but also € 2.3 million in debt.

As President ( Président-directeur général , PDG for short ), the transport entrepreneur Jean-Pierre Caillot has been at the helm of the SASP since 2004, whose company is also one of the main sponsors of the association as well as the logistics company Geodis Calberson and the elevator manufacturer Shanghai Sanei Didier Perrin. The league team has been coached by David Guion since summer 2017 , who had previously been youth coach at Reims for five years and led several players from his own offspring to the first team - with the result that the Rémois 2017/18 the table of the Led Ligue 2 by 14 points and returned to Ligue 1. Due to its sixth place in the final standings of Ligue 1 2019/20 , Stade has for the first time in 58 years been able to participate in a European competition, the qualifying rounds of the 2020/21 UEFA Europa League . The Rémois benefited from the "help" of Paris Saint-Germain FC , who won the triple of the championship, national and league cup and thus prevented a poorly placed French first division from buying this ticket.

The second (or reserve) team also played in the fourth division ( National 2 ) in 2019/20 , the A-youth (U19) eleven rose again in 2012 to the top division, which was played in four seasons, and in 2014 they defeated the final reached the Coupe Gambardella and won the national championship title in 2015.

In July 2014, the association opened its new training and education center, the "center of association life" in Bétheny , where the office is located and which is now officially named after Raymond Kopa. The Parc Pommery, which until then had been used as a training ground and for games by lower teams, is now finally history.

At the beginning of 2020, Stade entered into a partnership with the La Gauloise club from the city of Basse-Terre in Guadeloupe , initially for a period of three years, with a particular focus on the education of children and young people.

Player squad in the 2020/21 season

No. Surname birthday In the team since
goal
1 SerbiaSerbia Predrag Rajković October 31, 1995 2019
16 Yehvann Diouf November 16, 1999 2019
30th SenegalSenegal Dialy N'Diaye 4th July 1999 2019
Defense
2 BelgiumBelgium Wout Faes April 4, 1998 2020
3 Ivory CoastIvory Coast Ghislain Konan December 27, 1995 2017
5 MoroccoMorocco Yunis Abdelhamid September 28, 1987 2017
28 BelgiumBelgium Thibault De Smet June 5, 1998 2020
29 AustriaAustria Dario Maresic September 29, 1999 2019
32 BelgiumBelgium Thomas Foket September 25, 1994 2018
midfield
4th TogoTogo Alaixys Romao January 18, 1984 2018
7th Xavier Chavalerin March 7, 1991 2017
8th SwitzerlandSwitzerland Dereck Kutesa December 6, 1997 2019
10 SwedenSweden KosovoKosovo Arbër Zeneli February 25, 1995 2019
14th KosovoKosovo Valon Berisha February 7, 1993 2020
15th ZimbabweZimbabwe Marshall Munetsi July 22, 1996 2019
20th Tristan Dingome February 17, 1991 2018
23 PortugalPortugal Guinea-BissauGuinea-Bissau Moreto Cassama February 16, 1998 2019
24 Mathieu Cafaro March 25, 1997 2017
25th MaliMali Moussa Doumbia August 15, 1994 2018
26th Sambou Sissoko April 27, 1999 2019
attack
9 NetherlandsNetherlands Kaj Sierhuis April 27, 1998 2020
11 Boulaye Dia November 16, 1996 2019
17th GreeceGreece Anastasios Donis August 29, 1996 2019
18th EnglandEngland Fraser Hornby September 13, 1999 2020
21st Nathanaël Mbuku March 16, 2002 own offspring
27 MaliMali El Bilal Touré October 3, 2001 2020

As of August 23, 2020

Fan groups

Generations of players wore the Rouge et Blanc du Grand Reims

In July 1935, a group of supporters founded the Allez Reims fan club ! who originally supported all of the city's sports clubs. However, it quickly developed into a pure Stade fan club - from the beginning of 1937 it officially called itself Groupement des supporters du Stade de Reims  - from 1935 on it organized joint trips away from home, procured reduced-price tickets for its members, set rules of conduct for stadium visitors, and gave one annually Schedule and regularly supported the youth work of the club, as early as 1937, for example, with an amount of 1,310 francs. At that time it had 327 members. After the Second World War, Allez Reims grew ! and foreign sections emerged throughout the country, even in North Africa, which was still French at the time (for example the Algiers section in 1948 ). Since 1950 he published a members' newspaper at home games, which in its prime had a circulation of 50,000 copies. He organized balls and other social events, looked after the supporters of visiting teams, played soccer games against other fan clubs - regularly against the Supporters Club Lensois  - and sold fan articles. In the 1960s, its membership decreased sharply, but from 1970 exceeded the 2,000 mark again; In 1968 a third of the members came from the Paris agglomeration . In the mid-1980s, Allez organized Reims! a successful protest against the intention of the sponsor RTL to fundamentally redesign Stade's traditional red and white jersey.

Currently there are also three groups of mostly younger supporters of the first division, the oldest of which are the Ultrem (Ultras Rémois) , founded in 1995 , who are in the Stade Auguste-Delaune in the Robert Jonquet tribune and who belong to the Ultrà movement . The members of the KOP Mythique Rémois and the Reims Clan gather in 1931 at the Tribune Albert Batteux . Until the 21st century there was a certain aversion, especially towards the fans from Sedan , which is based on the competition for sporting supremacy in the region and which is also reciprocated by them due to the derby character of the games between the two teams.

Causes of the 20-year dominance

The question of how the rise of Reims from the mid-1940s and the long-term sporting supremacy of a club, which was previously unknown in France, was taken up repeatedly. The starting conditions for this “heroic story” (L'Épopée du Grand Reims) were by no means ideal (immediately preceding occupation, “provincial club” with relatively little audience participation). There were also strong competitors who were only able to maintain this role for a comparatively short period of time: OSC Lille in the first five post-war years, OGC Nice until the mid-1950s, Racing Paris and Olympique Nîmes in the second half of this decade, and AS Monaco from 1960.

Personnel continuity

A complete overview of all trainers and presidents can be found here .

Albert Batteux (1949)

For the chroniclers Perpère, Sinet and Tanguy, "the secret of the extraordinary success [...] was based on a very clear, goal-oriented association policy" and the long-term personal continuity at the main control points, which L'Équipe referred to as "Germain - Batteux - Kopa" reduced. Coach Batteux stuck to the World Cup system , but developed it since 1950 into a style of play that was always characterized by an offensive orientation, precise short passing game (petit jeu) , tempo changes, permanent mobility of all team parts and, as a basic requirement, highly developed fitness and Ball technique of the players who could and should bring in their individual strengths. Typical of this is Batteux's request to Raymond Kopa “If you stop dribbling , I'll put you on the bench. Your dribbles are a terrible weapon - they are your most important trump card and thus also that of the team, for which you give them freedom ” . He also introduced training camps to prepare for the season. What sounds like a matter of course for every trainer in the early 21st century was an absolute novelty at a time when the English style of play with solid defensive lines and offensive kick and rush was still considered the epitome of football. That is why David Goldblatt calls Batteux "the leading young trainer of this decade". Batteux himself summarized its strategy in a few words:

“Our style cannot rely on luck or chance. We don't just want to destroy the opponent's game, but [if it is prevented] already have our main goal in mind: the opposing goal, to which many roads lead. [...] Ball control means game control. "

The esteem for Albert Batteux has been preserved in France to the present day; in 2000 he was voted the second best French coach of the century by the readers of L'Équipe - behind the 1998 world champion coach Aimé Jacquet  . And in mid-2013 the editors of France Football unanimously declared him the best club coach, who has worked in the top French league since 1932.

In the early 1950s, the Reims style had repeatedly been criticized by journalists for being inefficient; Gabriel Hanot wrote of a “little game like the Austrians” that “leads to nothing”. When the sustainability of this successful style of play became evident, opposing presidents and coaches instead mocked the fact that Stade had "bought" his teams; They overlooked the fact that Batteux himself developed a Vincent or Fontaine in the club and national team and "gave 50 or 60 professionals to French football". The fact that this succeeded was also due to Henri Germain's ability to keep up with the offers of competing clubs despite constantly scarce resources, and to the long-term commitment of most of the regulars. Their average length of stay at Stade Reims was eight and three quarters in the early success phase and five and a quarter years in the later phase (see the tables above for both periods) .

Successful recruiting of young talent

For details and statistics on the most popular players, see also player statistics .

Origin of the Reims regular players 1945–1955

In the early stages of promotion, Stade Reims signed a particularly large number of young players - more than half of them were not yet of legal age (see table above )  ; in addition, the association had had its own talent scout with Pierre Perchat since 1945, long before this became common in France . Perchat was particularly successful in the north and east bordering regions, and often with amateur clubs instead of league competitors. Among them were a number of sons or grandsons of immigrants to the French mining regions, mainly Poland (Jacowski, Zimny, Templin, Kopa [szewski], Glovacki, Siatka, a little later Rodzik - as in the Second World War Kowalczyk , Ruminski and Stachowiak ), but also Italians (Prosdocimi, Cicci, and Piantoni 1957) and Spaniards ( Abenoza , Hidalgo). The will to achieve social advancement through sporting success was particularly strong among them; Raymond Kopa, for example, has it for himself with the words “If I had grown up without my Polish roots […] and in a somewhat more affluent family, I would not have felt the irresistible urge to break out of my milieu, it would have had the Kopa […] from Stade Reims, Real Madrid and the French national team probably not given ” explained. The two coaches of this era managed to incorporate many of them into the league team. In addition, they could fall back on players from the strong amateur team if necessary. Albert Batteux in particular took care of all active people intensively, both athletically and with private problems; 19-year-old Kopa, for example, lived with the Batteux family for the first few weeks after his arrival. The coach conveyed his ideas to them in countless one-on-one discussions, which is why he was often referred to as a “ prédicateur ”, although most of the time he was affectionately called Bébert by the players and respected decades later.

From 1956 onwards, the club brought more "seasoned professionals" from first division competitors than in previous years, including several with Fontaine, Akesbi and Abdallah Azhar , who were born in the North African colonial area of ​​France. But even these, together with the “old people”, soon felt like a “bond of friends” (Roger Piantoni) or “sworn comradeship” (Just Fontaine). The team was able to develop harmoniously even after the mid-1950s because there were no major changes in personnel. Rather, long-time players only left the club successively: Cicci and Hidalgo in 1957, Zimny ​​in 1958, Giraudo, Lamartine and Penverne in 1959, Jonquet in 1960, Bliard, Jacquet and Leblond in 1961, Siatka even in 1964. Then came Kopa (1959 from Madrid) and Glovacki (1960 from Saint-Étienne) two of the early Reimser returned to Champagne.

In the first division years during the 1970s, Henri Germain, who had returned to the presidency, relied in particular on footballers from Argentina , whereby his business relationships in South America benefited him. Later, with Robert Pires , another national player from the youth of Stade Reims emerged, who played a few point games for the third division team in the season before the club went bankrupt (1991/92) and then moved to FC Metz .

Social security for the players

Regardless of the club's success and the comparatively well-paid contracts, only very few players at Stade were able to make a fortune with the sport. The monthly income (fixed salary plus bonuses) Armand Penvernes, for example, after all a national player, amounted to 67,000 francs in 1949 (equivalent to 870 DM), rose to 173,000 by 1956 and in 1958, due to the particularly successful season, to 272,000 francs (≈2,700 DM); this corresponded to about seven times the average earnings of an industrial worker. Despite this development, Hans Blickensdörfer called the French professional "a poor cousin of the German licensed player" in the early 1960s. The conclusion of individual advertising contracts was also limited to very few active people like Raymond Kopa. That is why President Germain in particular attached great importance to the footballers building up a “second pillar” for the time after their active career or immediately after it had ended, and supported them actively in this. The Rémois benefited from their personal notoriety and popularity, but Henri Germain's role due to his relationships with companies and regional administrative bodies should not be underestimated. Although this had the positive side effect of a closer bond between its employees for the club, it was not done out of sheer egoism, because the clubs had more leverage in this regard anyway. Because until the end of the 1960s, the signing of a contract by a young professional meant that he could not leave the club before his 35th birthday without his consent.

Most of the players from Stade's “great days” no longer took up the activity that had been common in France for decades as the operator of a bar-tabac - the frequency of which is comparable to the takeover of a gas station or a Lotto Toto acceptance point in Germany - but preferred to be involved in other economic sectors. These included in particular the growing sporting goods and leisure industries. A 1969 study of the professional activities of 28 former regular players from Reims showed that nine of them were earning their living as entrepreneurs or executives in the sporting goods industry at the end of or after their careers, six as owners of one or more retail stores (food / luxury goods, vehicles , Domestic appliances). Five each worked as professional soccer coaches or were self-employed or in a managerial position in the service sector - including two as real estate agents. In addition, three former players became hoteliers, two teachers and only one restaurateur (Templin as a “classic” café animal ). In addition, several of them had bought houses and land, some of them already during their active time.

All the more surprising is the fact that players from this club were among the early activists of the French professional footballers' union founded in 1961 ; Fontaine and Hidalgo (until 1969) were even their first presidents.

International quality: red and white for the "blues"

For details and statistics on the Reims national players, see All senior national players for France .

The first player to be called up to the national team (often referred to as les Bleus , i.e. the blues ) during his time at Stade was Jules Vandooren . When he came to Reims in 1941, however, he was already a regular of the Équipe tricolore, and in 1943 he had ended his active career. From 1946 onwards, Pierre Sinibaldi and Marche were the first "Neu-Reimser" to play A international matches, followed in 1948 by Jonquet, Flamion, Batteux and Prouff, and in 1949/50, after the first championship title, Méano and Paul Sinibaldi. At the turn of the year 1948/49, five Reimser each played against Belgium and the Netherlands in France's team. This number was not reached again until 1952, but from November 1947 to mid-1963 - with two exceptions in 1953 and 1958 against so-called "easy opponents" - there was not a single international match without a footballer from Stade. In the total of 111 official internationals of the seasons 1947/48 to 1962/63, at least three Rémois were used in 75 games, of which 21 times even five, four times six and two times (1959/60) seven. Seven players from the same club in blue national dress did not appear again until 1991 - then from Olympique Marseille  .

In addition, Stade's club coach Albert Batteux acted as coach of the senior national team from March 1955 and coached it in 56 international matches until May 1962. At the 1958 World Cup , he led her to third place. Five Reimser, Jonquet, Penverne, Fontaine, Piantoni and Vincent contributed to the team’s “corset”, as did Kopa, who at the time was under contract with Real Madrid for three years; with goalkeeper Colonna was a sixth player of the doublé winner in the French squad for Sweden , from which Bliard had to be deleted shortly before the start of the tournament due to an injury. Fontaine's 13 goals made him the top scorer and Kopa was voted best player in the World Cup finals. That is why, especially from the mid-1950s, the assessment "The French national team is Reims, at least almost" prevailed.

Stade's team - more popular everywhere than in Reims

For detailed audience figures during the first division seasons, see audience figures for league home games .

Despite the sporting successes, the attractive style of play and a rapidly increasing population of the city - between 1946 and 1962 from around 111,000 to 134,000 inhabitants - the comparatively low number of spectators in Reims itself constantly gave rise to critical questions. At home league games, with one exception (11,545 spectators in 1959/60, when the team scored 109 goals in 38 league games), the seasonal average was only between 7,300 (1956/57) and 9,950 (1952/53). Only occasionally did more than 20,000 people find their way to the Stade Auguste-Delaune , which was renamed in 1945 after a murdered resistance fighter . Away, on the other hand, the Red-Whites had been the magnet since the late 1940s, and their own team's game against them was often the season's highlight at the stadium box office. In the opposing stadiums, the average number of spectators was always several thousand above the home average and for example, it more than doubled with almost 21,000 in 1956/57. There is no tacit explanation for this discrepancy in the literature; the competition for the public's favor with the then dominant cycling was not only in Reims with its particularly record-setting cycle track , but also in the other French cities. The low number of spectators at home was not primarily a financial problem, as income sharing was common in point and cup games in France - in Division 1 (until 1962) at a ratio of 60:40 in favor of the home club, in the Coupe de France (up to 1968) half. But after, for example, in May 1955 only 10,043 visitors wanted to see the last season home game of the new national champions against OGC Nice , the Reims daily L'Union reproachfully formulated "The Reims audience does not deserve France's best team". The PCF- affiliated sports newspaper Miroir-Sprint characterized the atmosphere on the stadium ranks with the statement that the "most critical and least self-indulgent spectators from all of France" are regularly present there.
That doesn't seem to have changed even decades later. Because even shortly before the end of the 2017/18 season , when the team was mathematically determined as the second division champion early on and still only had an average attendance of around 9,000, long-time supporters of the red-whites said: "Reims has never been a football city"; the "residents are extremely demanding, they only measure today's performance against past successes".

When less than 9,000 spectators bought tickets for Stade's first appearance in the newly created European Cup against Aarhus GF (autumn 1955), President Germain decided to move to the Parc des Princes in Paris, around 150 km away, for home games in this competition . The plan worked because the capital's audience fell in love with Stade Reims on the occasion of the “marathon match” against AC Milan in the Coupe Latine in 1955. Vörös Lobogó Budapest attracted over 36,000 visitors there in December 1955, and later on, “Stade's second home” regularly justified this decision, almost regardless of the attractiveness of the respective opponent; for example, in February 1959 a good 32,000 came against Standard Liège and in November 1962 almost 37,000 against Austria Wien .

Even at the friendship encounters against renowned teams from Europe or South America, which were held by Reims and were very popular in times of low television coverage and extremely rare direct broadcasts, those interested in football regularly frequented the Prinzenpark in large numbers. These revenues helped the Rémois noticeably to maintain their well-known team of players. Likewise, the name Stade Reims regularly attracted high five-digit visitor numbers on the numerous tours on which the team played games on all continents, even in a "footballing diaspora " like Indonesia (summer 1956). These trips were also essential to cover the club's budget. At the same time, the club also tried to advertise in the neighborhood; in the mid-1950s he played games against lower-class opponents during the week in Champagne.

On December 29, 1957, an estimated 700,000 television viewers across the country watched the match against FC Metz; this was the first live broadcast of a league game in France. Host Stade Reims only received a compensation payment from TF1 , which did not compensate much more than the difference between the audience income and the average income from previous home games. It was not until Stade's return to Division 1 (1970) that the Reims spectators rewarded the performance of their team more: for six years the average number of visitors was always over 10,000 and also exceeded that of away games. This only changed again during the last three first division seasons (1976 to 1979).

League affiliation and achievements

For details on the individual seasons since 1931, see League membership and placements .

The Rémois played first class ( Division 1 , since 2002 Ligue 1 ) in 1939–1943, 1944–1964, 1966/67, 1970–1979, 2012–2016 and since 2018.

Women's soccer

For statistics on the Reims players see under Soccer players .

The beginnings: number one in France

Immediately after the First World War, Reims developed into one of the centers of women's football, which was fought against by the French football associations FFF and its predecessors USFSA and CFI . The women of Les Sportives de Reims therefore joined the Fédération des Sociétés Féminines Sportives de France (FSFSF) and in 1921 they were the first non- Paris- based footballers to reach a final for the national championship in which they - as in 1922 and 1923 - were subject to the capital clubs En Avant and Fémina Sport . This early chapter of organized women's football came to an end around 1930.

In the mid-1960s, women's football also experienced a renaissance in France, which culminated in its legalization by the FFF in March 1970. In Reims, after almost four decades, there was again a game between two women's clubs in 1968, which then founded the Football Club Féminin de Reims ; At the turn of the year 1969/1970, this took up the proposal to form an autonomous department of Stade Reims. However, this autonomy also meant that the female soccer players - at the end of 1982 the department, including two youth teams, comprised 47 active players who regularly trained twice a week under Jean-Jacques Souef (head coach) and Gérard Richomme - received no financial support from the club as a whole, but from their own , had to rely on modest income.

From November 1969 to September 1975 Stade's women conceded only 21 defeats in 260 games, all of them outside France. They were also leading in the national championships from 1974/75, won five national titles within eight years - namely 1975 , 1976 , 1977 , 1980 and 1982  - and stood in 1978, 1979 and 1981 in the final, which they each against their big northern French competitor , AS Étrœungt , lost. They played friendly matches on all continents in front of an often five-digit audience and won several international tournaments, for example in New York (1970), Bandung (1972), Port-au-Prince (1974, 1978) and at the unofficial club world championship in Taipei (1978).

With Pierre Geoffroy , who was also the coach of the successful elves, a member of the club headed the national association's first women's football committee. Similar to the men, the women of the club made up the bulk of the national team at times . Until 1978, with two exceptions, there were always between five and eight Reimserinnen for France on the field, in a game against Belgium in 1976 even ten. Among the best-known players of the time were Élisabeth Loisel , who later also became the French national coach, Maryse Lesieur , Marie-Bernadette Thomas , Isabelle Musset and the goalkeeper Marie-Louise Butzig . From the mid-1980s onwards - during the 1985/86 season the club had withdrawn its women from the first division - the players re-founded FCF Reims.

In the spring of 2018, the feature film Comme des garçons (“Like the boys”) was released in French cinemas. This traces the early years of the Stade Reims women's team.

Since 2014: return of women's football

As of 1986, the club no longer had a women's football department, but re-established it in 2014 - certainly also under the impression that the FFF has been actively promoting the “feminization of French football” since the beginning of the decade. The Reimserinnen, trained by ex-professional Florent Ghisolfi , won their first competitive game on the occasion of a cup game in September 2014 at Olympique Saint-Memmie 5-0. The women finished the championship of the Division d'Honneur Champagne-Ardenne with a flawless record of 14 victories in as many games and a goal difference of 100: 4, which meant they qualified for the promotion round (Championnat Interrégional) to Division 2 Féminine . They also prevailed in this and competed in second class in 2015/16. This season, at the end of which the number of participants in the D2F was reduced from 36 to 24 women, the red-whites also finished fifth in the group as in the following season 2016/17. After finishing second in their group a year later, they were promoted to Division 1 Féminine under coach Amandine Miquel in 2019 with a 14-point lead as undisputed group winners and second division champions . At the end of their first season in the "footballing upper house" , Reims' women finished eighth in the table.

Player squad in the 2020/21 season

Coach Amandine Miquel is available for the 2020/21 season :

Surname birthday
goal
Audrey Dupupet January 3, 2001
United StatesUnited States Phallon Tullis-Joyce October 19, 1996
Defense
CameroonCameroon Marie-Aurelle Awona 2nd February 1993
Charlotte Blanchard July 9, 1990
Océane Deslandes July 26, 2000
Magou Doucouré October 21, 2000
United StatesUnited States Hana Kerner March 17, 1997
UkraineUkraine Darya Kravets March 21, 1994
CanadaCanada Easther Mayi Kith March 28, 1997
midfield
Rachel Corboz May 1, 1996
Tess David June 10, 1995
Lou-Ann Joly April 14, 2002
Joséphine Palin June 4, 2001
Chloé Philippe January 21, 2000
Solène Wittmann January 27, 2002
NetherlandsNetherlands Vita van der Linden 4th January 1997
attack
Kessya Bussy June 19, 2001
Naomie Feller November 6, 2001
PortugalPortugal Mélissa Gomes April 27, 1994
Costa RicaCosta Rica Melissa Herrera October 10, 1996
Sonia Ouchene March 14, 2000
EnglandEngland Grace Rapp July 6, 1995
UkraineUkraine Tanya Romanenko 3rd October 1990

As of August 23, 2020

literature

To the history of the club

  • Marc Barreaud / Alain Colzy: Les géants du Stade de Reims. Euromedia, Douzy 2012, ISBN 979-10-90217-07-2
  • Thierry Berthou / Collectif: Dictionnaire historique des clubs de football français. Pages de Foot, Créteil 1999 - Volume 2 (Mu – W), ISBN 2-913146-02-3
  • Jean Cornu: Les grandes equipes françaises de football. Famot, Genève 1978
  • Pascal Grégoire-Boutreau / Tony Verbicaro: Stade de Reims - une histoire sans fin. Cahiers intempestifs, Saint-Étienne 2001, ISBN 2-911698-21-5
  • Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of European Football Clubs. The first division teams of Europe since 1885. AGON, Kassel 1992, 2002², ISBN 3-89784-163-0 (however not error-free with regard to earlier data)
  • Michel Hubert / Jacques Pernet: Stade de Reims. Sa legend. Atelier Graphique, Reims 1992, ISBN 2-9506272-2-6
  • L'Équipe (Ed.): Stade de Reims. Un club à la Une. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2006, ISBN 2-915535-41-8 (cassette with 20 facsimiles of historical title pages and an accompanying volume)
  • Lucien Perpère / Victor Sinet / Louis Tanguy: Reims de nos amours. 1931/1981 - 50 ans de Stade de Reims. Alphabet Cube, Reims 1981
  • Jacques and Thomas Poncelet: Supporters du Stade de Reims 1935-2005. Self-published, Reims 2005, ISBN 2-9525704-0-X

Individual player biographies

  • Just Fontaine: Reprise de volée. Solar, unspecified 1970
  • Just Fontaine (including Jean-Pierre Bonenfant): Mes 13 vérités sur le foot. Solar, Paris 2006, ISBN 2-263-04107-9
  • Michel Hidalgo (and Patrice Burchkalter): Le temps des bleus. Mémoires. Jacob-Duvernet, Paris 2007, ISBN 978-2-84724-146-4
  • Raymond Kopa: Mes matches et ma vie. Ed. Pierre Horay, Paris 1958
  • Raymond Kopa (and Paul Katz): Mon football. Calmann-Lévy, Paris 1972
  • Raymond Kopa (and Patrice Burchkalter): Kopa. Jacob-Duvernet, Paris 2006, ISBN 2-84724-107-8
  • Marc Barreaud: Roger Marche. Un sanglier, un champion, un myth. Euromedia, Douzy 2011, ISBN 979-10-90217-04-1
  • Nathalie Milion: Piantoni - Roger-la-Classe. La Nuée Bleue / Éd. de l'Est, Nancy 2003, ISBN 2-7165-0602-7

Overall representations

  • Hubert Beaudet: Le Championnat et ses champions. 70 ans de Football en France. Alan Sutton, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire 2002, ISBN 2-84253-762-9
  • Pierre Delaunay / Jacques de Ryswick / Jean Cornu: 100 ans de football en France. Atlas, Paris 1982, 1983², ISBN 2-7312-0108-8
  • David Goldblatt: The ball is round. A global history of football. Viking / Penguin, London 2006 ISBN 0-670-91480-0
  • L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: La belle histoire. L'équipe de France de football. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2004, ISBN 2-9519605-3-0
  • L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: 50 ans de Coupes d'Europe. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2005, ISBN 2-9519605-9-X
  • L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: Coupe de France. La folle épopée. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2007, ISBN 978-2-915535-62-4
  • Laurence Prudhomme-Poncet: Histoire du football féminin au XXe siècle. L'Harmattan, Paris 2003, ISBN 2-7475-4730-2
  • Jean-Philippe Rethacker / Jacques Thibert: La fabuleuse histoire du football. Minerva, Genève 1996, 2003², ISBN 978-2-8307-0661-1
  • Alfred Wahl : Les archives du football. Sport et société en France (1880-1980). Gallimard, o. O. 1989, ISBN 2-07-071603-1
  • Alfred Wahl / Pierre Lanfranchi : Les footballeurs professionnels des années trente à nos jours. Hachette, Paris 1995, ISBN 2-01-235098-4
  • Matthias Weinrich: The European Cup. 1955 to 1974. AGON, Kassel o. J. [2007], ISBN 978-3-89784-252-6

Film documentaries

  • Olivier Hennegrave: Le Stade de Reims. Une odyssée en rouge et blanc. (DVD, 2011)
  • Jules-César Muracciole: Allez le Stade. 1950-1962, une passion Rémoise. (DVD, 2005)
  • Jules-César Muracciole: Batteux, l'homme du match. (DVD, 2005)
  • Tony Verbicaro: 1956-2006. Real Madrid, Stade de Reims et Ligue des Champions. (DVD, 2006)

Web links

References and comments

  1. ↑ for example Beaudet: Le Championnat et ses champions. 70 ans de Football en France. , 2002, p. 51; Hidalgo: Le temps des bleus. Mémoires. , 2007, p. 37; Fontaine: Mes 13 vérités sur le foot. , 2006, p. 74; Milion: Piantoni - Roger-la-Classe. , 2003, p. 170; Weinrich: The European Cup. 1955 to 1974. , n.d., pp. 15 and 58; Hardy Greens: World Football Encyclopedia. Europe & Asia. Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-576-1 , p. 99
  2. ↑ In some French publications, Stade is even one rank higher, because there the league balance of FC Toulouse is divided into two parts - before and after its bankruptcy (1967); on the other hand, for example, Beaudet: Le Championnat et ses champions. 70 ans de Football en France. , 2002, p. 211.
  3. ^ Perpère / Sinet / Tanguy: Reims de nos amours. 1931/1981 - 50 ans de Stade de Reims. , 1981, p. 9
  4. ↑ Choice: Les archives du football. Sport et société en France (1880-1980). , 1989, p. 189ff.
  5. ↑ See the article by Sébastien Moreau, "Football et champagne," on the WeAreFootball page . Moreau also points out that this predecessor of Stade Reims has hardly been seen in the club's history.
  6. ↑ Grégoire-Boutreau / Verbicaro: Stade de Reims - une histoire sans fin. , 2001, p. 9ff.
  7. ↑ see also Wahl / Lanfranchi: Les footballeurs professionnels des années trente à nos jours. , 1995, pp. 33-41; Choice: Les archives du football. Sport et société en France (1880-1980). , 1989, p. 249f.
  8. ^ Perpère / Sinet / Tanguy: Reims de nos amours. 1931/1981 - 50 ans de Stade de Reims. , 1981, pp. 12-14 and 16
  9. ^ Hubert / Pernet: Stade de Reims. Sa legend. , 1992, p. 19
  10. ↑ Grégoire-Boutreau / Verbicaro: Stade de Reims - une histoire sans fin. , 2001, p. 15
  11. ↑ see the article “These great goalscorers who made Stade de Reims” ( Memento of December 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) of March 26, 2012 at lunion.com
  12. ^ Perpère / Sinet / Tanguy: Reims de nos amours. 1931/1981 - 50 ans de Stade de Reims. , 1981, pp. 17-19; Grégoire-Boutreau / Verbicaro: Stade de Reims - une histoire sans fin. , 2001, pp. 15 and 18
  13. ↑ Barreaud / Colzy: Les géants du Stade de Reims. , 2012, p. 15
  14. ↑ Grégoire-Boutreau / Verbicaro: Stade de Reims - une histoire sans fin. , 2001, p. 32f .; Perpère / Sinet / Tanguy: Reims de nos amours. 1931/1981 - 50 ans de Stade de Reims. , 1981, p. 50
  15. ^ Perpère / Sinet / Tanguy: Reims de nos amours. 1931/1981 - 50 ans de Stade de Reims. , 1981, p. 63; Germain's role also in Rethacker / Thibert: La fabuleuse histoire du football. , 2003, p. 171
  16. ↑ Platzek later survived a Gestapo imprisonment and returned to Austria after the end of the war. - see David Forster / Georg Spitaler: Die Fußballmeister. The life paths of the Hakoah players in the interwar period. , in Susanne Helene Betz / Monika Löscher / Pia Schölnberger (eds.): “… more than a sports club”. 100 years of Hakoah Vienna 1909–2009. Studienverlag, Innsbruck 2009, ISBN 978-3-7065-4683-6 , pp. 119–121. Perpère / Sinet / Tanguy: Reims de nos amours. 1931/1981 - 50 ans de Stade de Reims. , 1981, p. 47f. and 52, also mention Platzek, but refer exclusively to the participation of the middle runner in Stade's rise in the summer of 1939.
  17. ^ Delaunay / de Ryswick / Cornu: 100 ans de football en France. , 1983, p. 175; Berthou / Collectif: Dictionnaire historique des clubs de football français. , 1999, p. 342. Originally, the association only wanted to accept teams that had qualified after the end of the 1938/39 season; Due to mergers ( Lille / Fives , Roubaix ) and an increase in the D1, Stade Reims, Girondins AS du Port and Lyon OU also became first class in 1945 .
  18. ↑ Germain and Canard, two "sandpit friends" from Ludes-le-Coquet and successful in the champagne branch, formed a dual leadership from 1945 to 1953, when the former became president of the entire club. - Cornu: Les grandes equipes françaises de football. , 1978, p. 54; Hubert / Pernet: Stade de Reims. Sa legend. , 1992, pp. 30 and 52
  19. ↑ Cornu: Les grandes equipes françaises de football. , 1978, p. 66
  20. ^ Delaunay / de Ryswick / Cornu: 100 ans de football en France. , 1983, p. 199
  21. ↑ L'Équipe of June 24, 1955, p. 1, facsimile in L'Équipe: Stade de Reims. Un club à la Une. , 2006; Perpère / Sinet / Tanguy: Reims de nos amours. 1931/1981 - 50 ans de Stade de Reims. , 1981, p. 101; Grégoire-Boutreau / Verbicaro: Stade de Reims - une histoire sans fin. , 2001, pp. 75f .; Rethacker / Thibert: La fabuleuse histoire du football. , 2003, p. 249; Beaudet: Le Championnat et ses champions. 70 ans de Football en France. , 2002, p. 54
  22. ^ Weinrich: The European Cup. 1955 to 1974. , n.d., p. 11; similar to Klaus Leger: Just like Real Madrid once did. The history of the European Cup 1955–1964. AGON, Kassel o. J. [2003], ISBN 3-89784-211-4 , p. 21
  23. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès: Coupe de France. La folle épopée. , 2007, pp. 209-213; Delaunay / de Ryswick / Cornu: 100 ans de football en France. , 1983, pp. 216f .; Cornu: Les grandes equipes françaises de football. , 1978, p. 68; Rethacker / Thibert: La fabuleuse histoire du football. , 2003, pp. 274f .; Grégoire-Boutreau / Verbicaro: Stade de Reims - une histoire sans fin. , 2001, pp. 89-92; most recently in the article "Il ya des clubs mythiques et d'autres qui ne le sont pas" in France Football from May 15, 2012, p. 23
  24. ↑ Football 59. L'Équipe, Paris 1958, p. 14
  25. ↑ Lead by l'Équipe of May 21, 1962, front page facsimile in L'Équipe: Stade de Reims. Un club à la Une. , 2006
  26. ^ Rethacker / Thibert: La fabuleuse histoire du football. , 2003, pp. 331f .; Beaudet: Le Championnat et ses champions. 70 ans de Football en France. , 2002, p. 78; Grégoire-Boutreau / Verbicaro: Stade de Reims - une histoire sans fin. , 2001, pp. 288/289
  27. ↑ Grégoire-Boutreau / Verbicaro: Stade de Reims - une histoire sans fin. , 2001, p. 124f .; Milion: Piantoni - Roger-la-Classe. , 2003, pp. 168f .; L'Équipe: Stade de Reims. Un club à la Une. , 2006, companion volume p. 12. On the other hand, Rethacker / Thibert explain: La fabuleuse histoire du football. , 2003, p. 347, this dismissal with the fact that a majority of the club officials urged President Germain to do so, because Batteux acted “too independently” in their eyes and fell back into mediocrity at the European level (similar to Cornu: Les grandes équipes françaises de football . , 1978, p. 73, and Beaudet: Le Championnat et ses champions. 70 ans de Football en France. , 2002, p. 80). Batteux then continued to work successfully - especially at AS Saint-Étienne - and was the first French coach of the year in 1970 .
  28. ↑ Grégoire-Boutreau / Verbicaro: Stade de Reims - une histoire sans fin. , 2001, p. 70
  29. ↑ See most recently France Football of March 1, 2011, p. 28; A grandstand in Reims and, since 2003, the stadium of his birthplace are named after Méano.
  30. ↑ last again in the article Les Top 50 des joueurs bretons. in France Football, issue 3550 of April 29, 2014, p. 32
  31. ^ Rethacker / Thibert: La fabuleuse histoire du football. , 2003, pp. 276f.
  32. ↑ Grégoire-Boutreau / Verbicaro: Stade de Reims - une histoire sans fin. , 2001, p. 62; Denis Chaumier: Les Bleus. Tous les joueurs de l'équipe de France de 1904 à nos jours. Larousse, o. O. 2004 ISBN 2-03-505420-6 , S. 206. Therefore, the term Marches as "wild boar" is because it is the emblem of his native region, he remained connected throughout his life.
  33. ^ According to Berthou / Collectif: Dictionnaire historique des clubs de football français. , 1999, p. 347, the association justified this decision with the "illustrious Reims past"; Ajaccio stayed in the top league because FC Rouen withdrew for a short time.
  34. ↑ Grégoire-Boutreau / Verbicaro: Stade de Reims - une histoire sans fin. , 2001, p. 143
  35. ^ Greens: Encyclopedia of European Football Clubs. The first division teams in Europe since 1885. , 2002, p. 157
  36. ↑ Grégoire-Boutreau / Verbicaro: Stade de Reims - une histoire sans fin. , 2001, p. 175f .; according to Hardy Greens: World Football Encyclopedia. Europe & Asia. Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-576-1 , p. 99, Stade's debts even amounted to FF 6 million.
  37. ↑ according to the association's website ( memento of March 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), there in the chapter "1991–2002 Retour de l'enfer"
  38. ↑ Illustration of the forbidden logo see here ; until its (re-) renaming in 1999, Stade then had no club coat of arms at all. The full legal text can be found at Legifrance (in French).
  39. ↑ L'Équipe: Stade de Reims. Un club à la Une. , 2006, companion volume p. 13; Berthou / Collectif: Dictionnaire historique des clubs de football français. , 1999, p. 350f.
  40. ^ Berthou / Collectif: Dictionnaire historique des clubs de football français. , 1999, p. 351; Grégoire-Boutreau / Verbicaro: Stade de Reims - une histoire sans fin. , 2001, pp. 232/233
  41. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès: Coupe de France. La folle épopée. , 2007, p. 418
  42. ↑ Audience figures for the games against Lens (December 5, 2008) and Sedan (May 10, 2011) , both on lfp.fr, and against Nice (March 1, 2011) on francefootball.fr ( Memento of March 12, 2011 on the Internet Archives )
  43. ↑ according to the game data sheet at lfp.fr
  44. ^ After this announcement on May 17, 2012 at France Football
  45. ↑ Article “Il ya des clubs mythiques et d'autres qui ne le sont pas” in France Football from May 15, 2012, pp. 22-25; very similar to Le Monde from May 11, 2012 ( “A myth never dies” ).
  46. ↑ see the DVD Real Madrid, Stade de Reims et Ligue des Champions (including numerous game excerpts)
  47. ↑ Article “Voir Madrid et rajeunir”, in France Football of 23 August 2016, pp. 28/29
  48. ^ Moritz Ansorge: The football market in Germany and France. A sport-economic comparison between Bundesliga and Ligue 1, taking into account the country-specific sports organization. Master's thesis at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 2009, p. 49f. (available here as PDF )
  49. ↑ Balance on the LFP league association page (PDF; 2.1 MB), there on p. 74/75
  50. ↑ see the website of the Groupe Caillot
  51. ↑ France Football of March 1, 2011, pp. 28f.
  52. ↑ see the organization chart on the website of the French League Association
  53. ↑ Article “Reims - Mise à jour réussie” in France Football of February 6, 2018, pp. 34/35
  54. ↑ a b Article "Reims - quatre défis pour enfin durer" in France Football of April 24, 2018, here p. 36
  55. ↑ Article " La Gauloise, partner club until 2022 " from January 29, 2020 at stade-de-reims.com
  56. ↑ Squad on the website of the club and the league association LFP
  57. ^ Berthou / Collectif: Dictionnaire historique des clubs de football français. , 1999, p. 342
  58. ↑ Poncelet / Poncelet: Supporters du Stade de Reims 1935-2005. , 2005, pp. 13-25 and 64
  59. ^ 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 , p. 179
  60. ^ Hubert / Pernet: Stade de Reims. Sa legend. , 1992, p. 63; Poncelet / Poncelet: Supporters du Stade de Reims 1935-2005. , 2005, pp. 44, 84, 87 and 93
  61. ↑ Poncelet / Poncelet: Supporters du Stade de Reims 1935-2005. , 2005, p. 148
  62. ↑ see the association ( Memento from July 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) and the websites of the Groupement Officiel des Supporters du Stade de Reims , Ultrem and KOP Mythique .
  63. ↑ See the report “Sedan – Reims, away game in Dudulien” ( memento of the original from April 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the side of the Ultrem; The local designation of Sedans as Dudulie refers to the fact that Sedan fans brought a living brook named Dudule, whose heraldic animal since 1970, to the final stadium when the club won the first cup ( 1956 ) - L'Équipe / Ejnès: Coupe de France. La folle épopée. , 2007, p. 294. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ur95.com
  64. ↑ Beaudet: Le Championnat et ses champions. 70 ans de Football en France. , 2002, p. 33; Grégoire-Boutreau / Verbicaro: Stade de Reims - une histoire sans fin. , 2001, p. 5; Milion: Piantoni - Roger-la-Classe. , 2003, p. 148
  65. ↑ after Cornu: Les grandes équipes françaises de football. , 1978, which devotes a separate chapter to each of these competitors
  66. ^ Perpère / Sinet / Tanguy: Reims de nos amours. 1931/1981 - 50 ans de Stade de Reims. , 1981, p. 115; L'Équipe / Ejnès: 50 ans de Coupes d'Europe. , 2005, p. 309
  67. ^ Rethacker / Thibert: La fabuleuse histoire du football. , 2003, pp. 225/226 and 228; Perpère / Sinet / Tanguy: Reims de nos amours. 1931/1981 - 50 ans de Stade de Reims. , 1981, p. 94; L'Équipe / Ejnès: 50 ans de Coupes d'Europe. , 2005, p. 309
  68. ^ Kopa: Kopa. , 2006, pp. 73/74; similarly also L'Équipe / Ejnès: La belle histoire. L'équipe de France de football. , 2004, p. 80; Fontaine: Mes 13 vérités sur le foot. , 2006: Le temps des bleus. Mémoires., P. 73
  69. ^ Goldblatt: The ball is round. A global history of football. , 2006, p. 418
  70. ↑ Cornu: Les grandes equipes françaises de football. , 1978, pp. 58f .; Rethacker / Thibert: La fabuleuse histoire du football. , 2003, p. 228
  71. ^ "Ligue 1 - les 50 meilleurs entraîneurs de l'histoire" , France Football No. 3508 of July 2, 2013, pp. 32-38
  72. ^ Rethacker / Thibert: La fabuleuse histoire du football. , 2003, pp. 227f. and 277
  73. ↑ Pierre Perchat (1904–1962) was already active in the SSPP and in 1931 became a member of the football department at Stade Reims. - Cornu: Les grandes equipes françaises de football. , 1978, pp. 55f .; Hubert / Pernet: Stade de Reims. Sa legend. , 1992, pp. 45-47; Perpère / Sinet / Tanguy: Reims de nos amours. 1931/1981 - 50 ans de Stade de Reims. , 1981, pp. 19 and 94; Jean Riverain / Claude Quesniaux: Kopa, Coppi… et autres champions. GP, Paris 1961, p. 31f.
  74. ↑ Cf. the investigation of the “climber mentality” of footballers from the coal mining industry in northern France in 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 ; Goldblatt: The ball is round. A global history of football. , 2006, pp. 405 and 419; Wahl / Lanfranchi: Les footballeurs professionnels des années trente à nos jours. , 1995, p. 114, who at the same time call this opportunity for advancement a “myth” (p. 117/118).
  75. ^ Kopa: Mon football. , 1972, p. 8
  76. ^ Kopa: Kopa. , 2006, p. 70ff .; Hidalgo: Le temps des bleus. Mémoires. , 2007, p. 38f .; Milion: Piantoni - Roger-la-Classe. , 2003, pp. 159f.
  77. ^ Piantoni in Hubert / Pernet: Stade de Reims. Sa legend. , 1992, p. 85; Fontaine in Fontaine: Reprise de volée. , 1970, p. 77
  78. ↑ Beaudet: Le Championnat et ses champions. 70 ans de Football en France. , 2002, pp. 45f.
  79. ^ Hidalgo: Le temps des bleus. Mémoires. , 2007, p. 38, describes his move from Le Havre to Reims (1954) as “a transition to another dimension - the players are paid better, most own a car, and some can even be customized for it”. At the same time, however, he also emphasizes the “social cohesion [and] familiarity” in the association.
  80. ↑ See the detailed description of the income development in French football in the post-war decade and a half in Wahl / Lanfranchi: Les footballeurs professionnels des années trente à nos jours. , 1995, pp. 139-144, on Penverne in particular pp. 143f.
  81. ↑ Hans Blickensdörfer: A ball flies around the world. Union, Stuttgart 1965, 1969³, p. 173
  82. ^ Kopa: Kopa. , 2006, p. 181ff.
  83. ↑ Grégoire-Boutreau / Verbicaro: Stade de Reims - une histoire sans fin. , 2001, p. 71
  84. ↑ Wahl / Lanfranchi: Les footballeurs professionnels des années trente à nos jours. , 1995, pp. 154-156
  85. ↑ Wahl / Lanfranchi: Les footballeurs professionnels des années trente à nos jours. , 1995, pp. 157f .; three players even had a second professional pillar.
  86. ↑ Wahl / Lanfranchi: Les footballeurs professionnels des années trente à nos jours. , 1995, p. 181ff.
  87. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès: La belle histoire. L'équipe de France de football. , 2004, p. 308ff. (by play), and 382/383 (overview summarized by clubs); Denis Chaumier: Les Bleus. Tous les joueurs de l'équipe de France de 1904 à nos jours. Larousse, o.O. 2004 ISBN 2-03-505420-6 (sorted by player)
  88. ↑ Grégoire-Boutreau / Verbicaro: Stade de Reims - une histoire sans fin. , 2001, p. 243
  89. ↑ see this article ( Memento of October 14, 2007 on the Internet Archive ) on FIFA.com
  90. ^ Perpère / Sinet / Tanguy: Reims de nos amours. 1931/1981 - 50 ans de Stade de Reims. , 1981, p. 117; Grégoire-Boutreau / Verbicaro: Stade de Reims - une histoire sans fin. , 2001, p. 242/243, overwrite the corresponding chapter "Very red-white blue"; in L'Équipe: Stade de Reims. Un club à la Une. , 2006, companion volume p. 11, this is formulated with the words "The teams of Reims and France are one"; at Greens: Encyclopedia of European Football Clubs. The first division teams of Europe since 1885. , 2002, p. 147, is referred to as the “core team of that French national team”.
  91. ^ Population development in the city of Reims according to Cassini / EHESS
  92. ↑ Milion: Piantoni - Roger-la-Classe. , 2003, p. 115
  93. ↑ All figures in this section and in the outsourced audience table according to the information from Grégoire-Boutreau / Verbicaro: Stade de Reims - une histoire sans fin. , 2001, from p. 252.
  94. ↑ Grégoire-Boutreau / Verbicaro: Stade de Reims - une histoire sans fin. , 2001, p. 75
  95. ↑ Milion: Piantoni - Roger-la-Classe. , 2003, p. 155
  96. ^ According to Perpère / Sinet / Tanguy: Reims de nos amours. 1931/1981 - 50 ans de Stade de Reims. , 1981, p. 103, against Aarhus 8,400, according to Weinrich: Der Europapokal. 1955 to 1974. , no year, p. 8, and L'Équipe / Ejnès: 50 ans de Coupes d'Europe. , 2005, p. 304, however, even fewer than 6,000 spectators were in the stadium.
  97. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès: 50 ans de Coupes d'Europe. , 2005, p. 303; Perpère / Sinet / Tanguy: Reims de nos amours. 1931/1981 - 50 ans de Stade de Reims. , 1981, pp. 101f .; Berthou / Collectif: Dictionnaire historique des clubs de football français. , 1999, p. 345
  98. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès: 50 ans de Coupes d'Europe. , 2005, pp. 304-308
  99. ^ Perpère / Sinet / Tanguy: Reims de nos amours. 1931/1981 - 50 ans de Stade de Reims. , 1981, p. 115; Hidalgo: Le temps des bleus. Mémoires. , 2007, p. 45
  100. ^ Rethacker / Thibert: La fabuleuse histoire du football. , 2003, p. 260
  101. ^ Hidalgo: Le temps des bleus. Mémoires. , 2007, p. 38
  102. ↑ Football 58. L'Équipe, Paris 1957, p. 5; Cornu: Les grandes equipes françaises de football. , 1978, p. 68
  103. ^ Berthou / Collectif: Dictionnaire historique des clubs de football français. , 1999, p. 348
  104. ^ Prudhomme-Poncet: Histoire du football féminin au XXe siècle. , 2003, pp. 87f.
  105. ^ Prudhomme-Poncet: Histoire du football féminin au XXe siècle. , 2003, p. 217
  106. ^ Prudhomme-Poncet: Histoire du football féminin au XXe siècle. , 2003, pp. 190-193 and 197; then this accession of women took place in January 1970, according to Grégoire-Boutreau / Verbicaro: Stade de Reims - une histoire sans fin. , 2001, p. 156, already in November 1969. See also the detailed article “ Stade Reims 40 years ago first French champions ” from July 30, 2015 at footofeminin.fr.
  107. ↑ Article “Un Stade de Reims en demi-teinte” in Le football au féminin, no. 1, Ed. Nouveauté, Paris 1983, pp. 14/15; Trainer responsibilities on p. 35.
  108. ↑ a b Grégoire-Boutreau / Verbicaro: Stade de Reims - une histoire sans fin. , 2001, p. 157
  109. ^ Prudhomme-Poncet: Histoire du football féminin au XXe siècle. , 2003, p. 230f .; a photo of the 1975 master squad can be found at Grégoire-Boutreau / Verbicaro: Stade de Reims - une histoire sans fin. , 2001, pp. 158/159.
  110. ^ Perpère / Sinet / Tanguy: Reims de nos amours. 1931/1981 - 50 ans de Stade de Reims. , 1981, p. 180; Grégoire-Boutreau / Verbicaro: Stade de Reims - une histoire sans fin. , 2001, p. 157
  111. ^ Prudhomme-Poncet: Histoire du football féminin au XXe siècle. , 2003, p. 235
  112. ^ French line-up for this game on the side of the FFF
  113. ↑ see the season information 1985/86 (Stade Reims in Group G) at rsssf.com
  114. ↑ Article “ Reims' female pioneers as the source of inspiration for the film 'Comme des garçons' ” from April 25, 2018 at footofeminin.fr
  115. ↑ Match report from September 17, 2014 at footofeminin.fr
  116. ↑ see the table of DH 2014/15 ( Memento of April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the French association
  117. ↑ Article “ Reims and Le Havre end in beauty, the Reims as masters ” from April 29, 2019 at footofeminin.fr
  118. ↑ cadres at the website of the association and of footofeminin.fr
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