US Concarneau

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The Union Sportive Concarnoise or US Concarneau for short is a French sports club from Concarneau in the Finistère department in Brittany . The footballers of the amateur club have reached the main round of the national competition for the Coupe de France several times since the 1960s and have even made it to the quarter-finals once. That is why you are considered to be one of the most successful "thumbs" in the country - petits poucets are the most successful, lower-class clubs in France's soccer cup. Club and players are often in public tooLes Thoniers ("The tuna fishermen ") called; France's largest fishing fleet for this fish is based in Concarneau's port.

The club colors are blue and red. The coach of the first team is Nicolas Cloarec. The league eleven play their home games at the Stade Guy-Piriou , which has a capacity of 6,500. (As of December 2016)

History and league affiliation

USC was founded in 1911; In addition to football, athletics and gymnastics could also be practiced in the club, and later basketball as well . In 1931 USC merged with US Beuzecquoise. In football, the sporting highlight of the season before the Second World War usually consisted of the local derby against the competitors of L'Hermine Concarnoise , a club of the Catholic sports movement, who also only appeared at the lower league level . In 1952, the club acquired a site on which it built its own stadium (Stade de Kérampéru) , which was floodlit in 1973, rebuilt nearby after severe destruction by a hurricane (October 1987) and sold to the city in 2003.

It was not until the second half of the 1950s - under the coach Lazare Gianessi  - that the US rose several times and in 1964 reached the Division d'Honneur for the first time, which at the time was the highest amateur league, albeit consisting of numerous regional relays. In the 1970s, mostly third-class, from 1980 the harbor townspeople commuted between third and fourth division. They often played their big neighborhood derby against Stade Quimper . In 1977 they missed promotion to Division 2 only because of the slightly worse goal difference compared to En Avant Guingamp .
In the 1990s, the footballers crashed into the sixth division, from which they only returned to the fifth and later the fourth highest division ( CFA2 or CFA ) in 2000 . From 1998 to 2008, the ex-national player Yvon Le Roux had a decisive influence on the path of the USC as sports director. In the 2016/17 season, the eleven from the 19,000-strong community made it into the semi-professional nationwide third division for the first time .

A team of cup surprises

Unlike in the championship operation , the US Concarneau has repeatedly reached the national main round in the cup for decades. Alongside the US Montagnarde, it is a second Breton amateur club that has made a name for itself in the Coupe de France . She succeeded for the first time in 1966/67 when she was eliminated in the thirty-second finals as well as five years later. In 1982 and 1986 she survived the first round, and also made it among France's best 64 teams in 1987 and 1989.

Due to the occasional sporting decline, the USC only penetrated into the thirty-second finals again in the first decade of the new millennium with three further draws. Since 2013/14 , the team has not only qualified for the main round every year, but has always survived at least one round. In 2014, Concarneau only narrowly failed in the round of 16 against eventual cup winner EA Guingamp with 2: 3 after extra time. The following year , the Thoniers , who at that time were fourth-class, even advanced to the quarter-finals after victories over two second division clubs ( Chamois Niort and FCO Dijon ) and the Iris Club Croix , in which they - this time at the Stade du Moustoir in Lorient in front of 18,000 visitors - again met Guingamp and again only just lost to the first division with 1: 2. In the current competition in the 2016/17 season , however, the US Concarneau missed their 13th reaching the national cup main round.

literature

  • Georges Cadiou: Les grands noms du football breton. Alan Sutton, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire 2006, ISBN 2-84910-424-8
  • Les 50 meilleures equipes bretonnes. Bretons Mag, issue 25, Vannes 2015

References and comments

  1. ↑ Number from info-stades.fr
  2. ↑ see the outline of the club's history at usc-concarneau.com
  3. ^ Cadiou, p. 120
  4. ^ Cadiou, p. 121
  5. ↑ Cadiou, pp. 121 and 262
  6. ↑ viewer information according to stades-spectateurs.com
  7. ↑ see the match report from March 5, 2015 at leparisien.fr

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