VGA Saint-Maur

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La Vie au Grand Air de Saint-Maur is a sports club from Saint-Maur-des-Fossés , in the eastern Parisian banlieue . The club, often briefly referred to as VGA Saint-Maur , was founded in 1919; his club colors are blue and yellow. The name of the club is reminiscent of the French nature-loving movement that started around the turn of the century, after which not only a weekly magazine (published between 1898 and 1922), but also a number of sports clubs - such as VGA du Médoc  - was named.

The VGA now has over 20 departments, of which in particular football - there especially the women's section as six-time champion of France - and volleyball ( French men's champion 1976), but also the table tennis division (two runners-up for men in 1990 and 1991, for the 2011 season / 12 in the highest league, the Pro A , returned) have contributed significantly to their reputation.

This article deals specifically with the club’s soccer players.

The women's football section

The women's section was created in 1968, before the French federation legalized women's football, which was only completed in early 1970 . She was one of the nine founding members who started a league game in the greater Paris area in 1971, and when a national championship was held for the first time in 1974/75 , she was one of the 16 finalists, but could not prevail in her group against the eventual title winner Stade Reims . In 1975/76 VGA Saint-Maur failed again in the group stage, this time at FC Rouen . It wasn't until three years later that she reached the finals again, and then it was until 1983 before she even became French champion for the first time after beating Olympique Hénin-Beaumont in the final . Until 1991 there was no season with one exception (1988/89) in which Saint-Maur was not in the final, and the VGA also prevailed in five other finals. During this time the club had a large number of national players in its ranks.

The most successful players in the championships were: (a)

In the successful 1980s, Saint-Maur's women had only two coaches, both women: Dominique Tedeschi for most of the time (five titles) and for two years Élisabeth Loisel (one title).

(a) Only title wins in which the respective player was used in the final are counted here.
(b) The four players named above were also the only ones to stand in the two championship finals (1984, 1991) that Saint-Maur had lost.

With the introduction of a nationwide, single-track league for the 1992/93 season, women belonged to this division 1 Féminine , before being relegated in 1998 as third-last and to which they did not return until 2015. It also failed prematurely in the regional cup competition introduced in 2001 . From the Île-de-France , it was especially the Juvisy FCF and, more recently, the women of Paris Saint-Germain who ousted the VGA Saint-Maur from its former supremacy. At the end of the 2008/09 season, the VGA was even relegated to the third division, from which it only found its way back up in 2013. Two years later, the league frenzy rose to the top division with a flawless record of 22 wins in as many league games - no division 2 team had done this before . Striker Marlyse Ngo Ndoumbouk , who alone scored 43 of Saint-Maur's 98 goals, played a key role in this return after 17 years . After only one season, however, the relegation followed.

In the 2015/16 season, the Blue-Yellows played their home games at the Stade Léo Lagrange in Bonneuil-sur-Marne , which has a capacity of around 2900 spectators.

The men's soccer department

The men of the club do not have any successes like the women; they never got beyond the highest national amateur league during the 1950s - then the third highest division. In the national cup they reached the national main round four times ( 1922 , 1947 , 1953 and 1956 ), but were eliminated there in the thirty-second finals. Nowadays the men's league team is only represented in a lower, regional division.

successes

literature

  • Laurence Prudhomme-Poncet: Histoire du football féminin au XXe siècle. L'Harmattan, Paris 2003, ISBN 2-7475-4730-2

Web links

Notes and evidence

  1. ↑ Prudhomme-Poncet, p. 200
  2. ↑ Prudhomme-Poncet, p. 221
  3. ↑ see, also for the following seasons, the results at rsssf.com
  4. ↑ see the season results (1st and 2nd league and cup) at rsssf.com
  5. ↑ see the article "VGA Saint Maur = Record" from May 26, 2015 at footofeminin.fr
  6. ↑ according to the article “ Presentation of the VGA Saint-Maur ” from August 18, 2015 at footofeminin.fr