US Suisse Paris
The Union Sportive Suisse de Paris ( US Suisse for short ) is a French football club from Paris , whose most successful period was in the first third of the 20th century.
history
Founded in 1894 under the name United Sports Club , the club, which initially included British people working in Paris among its members, joined the Union des sociétés françaises de sports athlétiques . At the time, the USFSA was the only sports federation in France that also accepted association footballers. The USC chose navy and light blue as the club colors - just like the doyen of French football, Le Havre AC - as a tribute to the universities of Oxford and Cambridge in the football and rugby motherland of England. As a venue he used the Stade de la Porte Dauphine , which was also home to the Standard AC Paris ; against this opponent, the United SC drew a 0-13 defeat at the USFSA Championship in 1895.
It was not until the turn of the century that the club played a more important role in the association championships, which were limited to Paris and the surrounding area during the “ childhood years of French football ”. In 1900 the USC was third, in 1902 after a barrage game against Racing Club de France second. In 1903 he succeeded in winning the Coupe Sheriff Dewar , a cup competition held from 1899 to 1909 in which - in contrast to the Coupe manner - teams that had more than three foreigners in their ranks were also allowed to take part. In 1904, the USC as Paris champions even reached the national final after beating Olympique Marseille 4-0 , in which, however, he had to bow to Racing Roubaix 2-4; There were still five British players in the final eleven. This team also included a Frenchman, Eugène Nicolaï , who made two appearances in the young senior national team the following year ; he remained the only French international for the club.
In 1906 the USC merged with FC Suisse , the club of several Swiss people living in Paris , and from then on called itself Union Sportive Suisse. In 1910 he left the USFSA, from which many footballers felt set back against rugby , and founded the Ligue de Football Association (LFA) together with a few other clubs . The USS never became association master there either. For this she took part with 47 other clubs in 1917 in the first national cup competition (Coupe Charles Simon) , in which she advanced several times in the following years; In 1918, 1925 and 1926 she reached the eighth finals, in 1921 and 1927 even the quarter-finals. In 1926 she gave herself up to FC Cette only after three close games (2: 2, 3: 3 - each after extra time - and 3: 5) and attracted considerable spectators in her new venue at the Porte Dorée . In addition, the “Parisian Swiss” made a name for themselves in international friendly matches, for example in 1923 when they scored 0-0 against Juventus Turin . That is why US Suisse registered for the second division one year after the introduction of professionalism in France (1932) . And although François Hugues was an ex-national player in her ranks (albeit aging), she ended the 1933/34 season prematurely on March 1, 1934 after 16 defeats, two draws and only one win and has only been in the To find amateur area. There, in the lowest Parisian leagues, the club is still active in the 21st century.
League affiliation and achievements
US Suisse only had professional status in 1933/34 and never played in the top division, Division 1 (renamed Ligue 1 since 2002 ).
- French champion: Nothing (but USFSA runner-up in 1904)
- French cup winner: Nothing (but quarter-finalist 1921, 1927)
- Winner of the Coupe Sheriff Dewar : 1903
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
- Alfred Wahl : Les archives du football. Sport et société en France (1880-1980). Gallimard, op. 1989, ISBN 2-0707-1603-1
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Berthou / Collectif, p. 430.
- ^ Berthou / Collectif, p. 431.
- ↑ L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: La belle histoire. L'équipe de France de football. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2004 ISBN 2-951-96053-0 , p. 383.
- ^ Berthou / Collectif, p. 431.
- ↑ Wahl, especially p. 99ff. and 113ff.
- ↑ Almanach du football éd. 1933/34. Paris 1934, p. 68.