US Saint Malo

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The Union Sportive de Saint-Malo is a traditional French football club from Saint-Malo and its former neighboring municipality of Saint-Servan in the Breton department of Côtes-d'Armor, which was independent until 1967 . In her most successful sporting period until 1945 she was called US Saint-Servan or US Servannaise ; in addition, the association was often referred to as US Saint-Servan-Saint-Malo or US Servannaise-Malouine . Today's name was given after the Second World War . Since then, the league team - apart from a brief interlude in the third division from 1987 - only shuttled between the top amateur league (CFA) and the sixth division d'Honneur .

The club colors are black and gold; The current club president is Roland Beaumanoir. The league eleven plays at the Stade de Marville and is coached by Pierre-Yves David. In the 2013/14 season, the USSM competes in the fourth class CFA.

history

The association was founded in 1902 by English people living in the port city of Saint-Malo for professional reasons. He joined the Union des sociétés françaises de sports athlétiques , the oldest and largest of the competing associations at the time. As early as 1905, again in 1907 and then annually from 1910 to 1914, the US Saint-Servan was the USFSA champions of western France in a permanent duel with Stade Rennais UC and thus qualified for the finals for the national association championship (championnat de France) . In 1910 she advanced to the semi-finals after victories over UC Le Mans and Stade Français Paris , but then failed at the subsequent champions US Tourcoing . Eliminated in the quarter-finals in 1911, 1912 and 1913, they reached the semifinals again in 1914 - and lost again to the eventual champion, this time Olympique Lille . Seven players from Saint-Servan and four from Rennes formed the Équipe de l'Ouest , which won the first French Cup for regional national teams organized by the USFSA in 1911.

After the First World War , the USSM had its greatest successes in the Cup , the only national competition until the introduction of professionalism (1932). Seven times she was in the round of the last 16 teams ( 1920 , 1921 , 1927 , 1928 , 1929 , 1931 , 1932 ) and in 1924 even in the quarter-finals, in which she was defeated by FC Rouen . In the 1940/41 Cup, which was restricted due to the war conditions , she also reached the quarter-finals of the occupied zone. In 1933 she applied for the newly established second professional division and officially renamed herself US Saint-Servan-Saint-Malo . After completing this first season in 11th place in the northern group, she withdrew from professional football at the beginning of the 1934/35 season.

Since the end of the Second World War, the US only managed to reach the eighth finals in 1949 and 2016 , and also a sixteenth-finals in the French cup competition in 1961 . His brief membership in the third division was also more than two decades ago.

Nowadays the amateur club has a women's soccer department in addition to the men's soccer division. Their league eleven rose to the second highest division in 2014 , which they also belong to in 2016/17.

League affiliation

The USSSSM only had professional status from 1933 to late summer 1934. The club has never played first class (Division 1, renamed Ligue 1 since 2002 ).

successes

Alumni who are important for the association

literature

  • Thierry Berthou / Collectif: Dictionnaire historique des clubs de football français. Pages de Foot, Créteil 1999 - Volume 2 (Mu-W) ISBN 2-913146-02-3
  • Georges Cadiou: Les grands noms du football breton. Alan Sutton, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire 2006 ISBN 2-84910-424-8

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Remarks

  1. ^ Cadiou, p. 97
  2. ↑ For the individual seasons of the USFSA championship, see the French seasonal articles since 1894 .