US Melun
The Union Sportive de Melun , US Melun for short , is a French football club from Melun , in the Seine-et-Marne department, southeast of Paris .
history
The club was founded in 1921 as US Melun. But with the exception of a single achievement of the nationwide main round in the cup competition shortly after the Second World War (1947/48), the footballers who played their home games in the municipal stadium of Meluns were never able to attract national attention for half a century. That changed only in the mid-1970s with the promotion to the third division, and intensified work with their own youth teams had contributed to this. The A-youth of the small club had succeeded in 1976/77 in the Coupe Gambardella among the top eight French teams, and at the end of the season the USM league eleven managed to move up to the second division as runners-up in the group , which they did not last long belonged to (see below) .
For the 1987/88 season Meluns league team formed a syndicate with CS Fontainebleau in order to be able to build a powerful second division team with financial support from both local administrations. However, this attempt was unsuccessful; the Entente Melun-Fontainebleau rose almost twelve months later and the merger was dissolved. In 1989, the USM teamed up with a local neighbor and played under the name Sporting de Melun-Dammarie 77 . In 1992, the French football association Sporting refused to return to the second division, for which the club had athletically qualified; The reason for this was a budget deficit of around five million francs . The club was liquidated, the immediate re-establishment of its successor Football Club Melun - the club still bears this name in 2013 - had to start in the Division d'Honneur .
League affiliation and achievements
In Division 1 , called Ligue 1 since 2002 , the club has never competed and has never had professional status. Instead, the Melun footballers played in the second division for three years, from 1977 to 1979 under their own name and from 1987/88 under the umbrella of the Entente Melun-Fontainebleau . The Division 2 was as well as could attend during this time an "open league", both at the professional amateur clubs.
Meluns footballers reached the main round of the French Cup competition for the Coupe de France five times between 1947 and 1991 , but were always eliminated in the thirty-second finals, i.e. after one game. They failed particularly close to a "big one" in the 1985/86 season when they had to cancel the sails at the Stade de la Faisanderie in the neighboring town of Fontainebleau against the two classes higher competing first division OSC Lille after extra time with 1: 2.
In 2013/14 FC Melun played in the sixth class Division d'Honneur.
Well-known former players and coaches
- Patrick Parizon , coach 1991/92
- Henryk Wieczorek , player 1982–1986
literature
- 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
- Club side of FC Melun
- Melun's second division years on the side of the French league association LFP
- Outline of the club's history at footballenfrance.fr