USM Malakoff

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The Union Sportive Municipale de Malakoff or USM Malakoff for short is a French football club from the municipality of Malakoff , located on the southern outskirts of Paris in the Hauts-de-Seine department . In a "region of constant, often dazzling change ... the club is considered an element of particularity and continuity".

The club colors of the USMM are blue and red. The fighting team still competes in the Stade Marcel-Cerdan today .

history

The club goes back to the Jeunesse Athlétique Malakoff founded in 1920 ; after a merger in 1934 with two local rivals , he renamed himself Vedette Athlétique Malakoff , which in 1936 the Union Sportive Ouvrière Malakoff joined. After the liberation of France from German occupation, it merged with three other local associations around the turn of the year 1944/45 and took on its name, which is still valid today. The club was affiliated with both the Fédération Française de Football (FFF) and the workers' sports association Fédération Sportive et Gymnique du Travail (FSGT). When the Hungarian national team made a stopover in Paris in November 1953 after their historic 6-3 win against England at Wembley Stadium , they played a friendly against the USMM at the newly built Stade Marcel-Cerdan. This game, which drew more than 10,000 visitors, played Malakoff for one half each with his FFF and his FSGT team. The workers' footballers were also several French champions and in 1966 also cup winners (Coupe Delaune) of their association. The FFF team, however, did not rise until 1963 in the then second highest amateur league, the Division d'Honneur , and in 1966 in the third-class national Championnat de France Amateur . Until 1985 the USMM always played at least at this level; Until 1991 she was at least fourth class, then followed several relegations to the lower leagues at the department level.

The club, which in the 1950s - and thus long before this became mandatory for French professional clubs - made a name for itself with its own training program for young footballers, was supported by the politics and administration of the "red Malakoff" for decades. From 1939, the community had made the city's Stade Lénine available to footballers , and even after the Second World War , the communist city ​​fathers , which continued well into the 21st century, were able to offer many players a position in the public service. Until 1976 the club even had its office in the town hall. The two combat teams (FSGT and FFF) often had more than just sporting success in mind and repeatedly played benefit games for the victims of natural disasters (for example, on the occasion of the floods in Brittany in 1973) or for the benefit of striking workers threatened with dismissal . Another peculiarity was that the football department, which was the only one to generate significant income, especially in the 1960s and 1970s, always ceded its financial surpluses for the club's budget.

League affiliation and achievements

The club has never had professional status and has never played in the first French division . However, the first men's team belonged to France's second-highest league for one year in the 1975/76 season .

In the national cup competition for the Coupe de France , the USMM brought it to eight main round participations between 1967 and 1982 , of which four times in a row from the 1973/74 season. A total of three times (1968, 1977 and 1981) Malakoff survived the first round, the thirty-second finals, but then retired in the sixteenth finals. When the USM in 1967/68, after a 3-0 win against second division FC Grenoble, met the eventual winner of the competition and winner of the doublé , AS Saint-Étienne , over 16,000 spectators in the Stade Bauer in Saint-Ouen witnessed Malakoff's 0 : 4 defeat. In the same stadium, the then only third-rate team managed a first-round surprise in early 1977 by eliminating first division US Valenciennes-Anzin 3-2 on penalties - after 120 minutes it had been 2-2.

The club's first men's soccer team, which also has a large number of other divisions - at times this was up to 20 departments, in addition to soccer, especially swimming and athletics  - competed in the tenth-class Excellence division in the 2012/13 season .

Well-known former players and coaches

Later first division players who emerged from the USMM and who also returned to this club after finishing their professional career:

literature

  • Charles and Christophe Bartissol: Les racines du football français. PAC, Paris 1983, ISBN 2-85336-194-2
  • Thierry Berthou / Collectif: Dictionnaire historique des clubs de football français. Pages de Foot, Créteil 1999, Volume 1, ISBN 2-913146-01-5
  • 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. ↑ Bartissol, p. 172
  2. ^ Berthou / Collectif, p. 206
  3. ^ Berthou / Collectif, pp. 207/208
  4. ↑ Bartissol, pp. 174f.
  5. ↑ see the dossier on WeAreFootball (under web links )
  6. ↑ Bartissol, p. 175
  7. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, pp. 390ff.
  8. ^ Berthou / Collectif, p. 207
  9. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, p. 393
  10. ↑ Bartissol, p. 173
  11. ↑ see the season table 2012/13 on the website of the French association
  12. ↑ Bartissol, pp. 179f.