USL Dunkerque
| USL Dunkerque | |||
| Basic data | |||
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| Surname | L'Union sportive du littoral de Dunkerque | ||
| Seat | Dunkerque | ||
| founding | 1962 | ||
| Colours | blue White | ||
| president | Jean-Pierre Scouarnec | ||
| Website | usldunkerque.com | ||
| First soccer team | |||
| Head coach | Benjamin Rytlewski | ||
| Venue | Stade Marcel tribute | ||
| Places | 3000 | ||
| league | National 1 | ||
| 2018/19 | 11th place | ||
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The Union Sportive du Littoral de Dunkerque or USL Dunkerque for short is a French football club from Dunkerque in French Flanders . It was founded in 1909 as Stade Dunkerquois . In the 2015/16 season, their league eleven will compete in the third-class National Championship .
The club colors are blue and white. The club's motto is “Against storms and floods” (Contre vents et marées) in the coat of arms of the USLD . She plays her home games in the Stade Marcel-Tribut , which has a capacity of 4,000 spectators.
history
The Stade Dunkerquois , founded in 1909, had to stop all gaming operations during the First World War . In 1919 it was re-established as US Dunkerque-Malo . Renamed Union Racing (UR) Dunkerque-Malo in the 1920s and Olympique Dunkerque in the early 1930s , the club assumed professional status and played in Division 2 until the outbreak of World War II . In 1954, Olympique merged with the Dunkerque Étudiant Club and was henceforth called US Dunkerque . The USD was only able to survive considerable financial problems with the help of the city in the mid-1980s and was called USL Dunkerquois from 1987 onwards. In 1996 she was relegated to the third division , and in 1997 even to the fourth division.
In the interwar period, the club was moderately successful in what was then the only national competition, the Coupe de France . In the 1928/29 cup season , he at least made it to the semi-finals; in this, however, he was defeated by FC Sète 1: 2. In the following year , the UR Dunkerque-Malo advanced to the quarter-finals; this could repeat the 1937 competing in the professional second division team from 1935 to 1939 . The Second World War and the German occupation of France forced the complete cessation of club life. After the country was liberated, it took the US Dunkerque two decades to return to Division 2, in which it then remained in series for 30 years from 1966/67. However , she only came close to promotion to the top division in 1979, but her third place in the final table was not enough at the time. In the cup competition she reached the quarterfinals two more times ( 1968 and 1971 ). After their sporting descent in the mid-1990s, which led them to the 5th division, the USLD has found itself in the third division since 2013/14 .
League affiliation
Dunkerque had professional status from 1935 to 1939 and again from 1966 to 1997; in Division 1 (since 2002: Ligue 1 ) the club has never been represented.
successes
- French champion : Nothing
- French cup winner : Nothing (but semi-finalist 1929 )
Formerly important people for the club
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literature
- Thierry Berthou / Collectif: Dictionnaire historique des clubs de football français. Pages de Foot, Créteil 1999 - Volume 1 (A-Mo) ISBN 2-913146-01-5
Web links
Remarks
- ↑ Malo-les-Bains (also: Malo-aan-Zee) was incorporated into Dunkerque in 1970 and should not be confused with Saint-Malo in Brittany .
- ↑ Berthou / Coll., Pp. 131f.