Standard Athletic Club
The Standard Athletic Club de Paris (or short standard AC) is a traditional football club from the French capital.
The association with the English name (ie not Athlétique ) emerged from the Gordon Football Club, the football interested British had founded in Paris in 1891. In March 1892 raised W.-D. Attrill, N. Tunmer and the brothers Wynn standard of baptism. He was one of the three oldest clubs in the country that no longer played football in the rugby version. The association soon found a sports field in the Bois de Boulogne, near the Porte Dauphine; he should have been the first football club in France, where the initially highly sparse appearing spectators had to pay an entrance fee.
History
Before the First World War
Standard AC occurred directly after its foundation, the first single Football Federation of France, the Union des Sociétés Françaises de Sports Athlétiques ( USFSA ), in which an initially confined to Paris in 1894, from 1898/99 national Championship ( Championnat de France) performed. Although there were in 1905 competing associations that played off their own championship, but the USFSA remained the largest membership of any association to which most other traditional clubs of France (eg Gallia Club, Racing Club de France and Club Français of Paris, the Le Havre AC, Stade Helvétique Marseille, Olympique Lille, RC Roubaix and Tourcoing U.S. ) belonged.
The first recorded encounter disputed standards kicker against the Club Français Paris on November 1, 1892; the game ended in a draw. In the following weeks it sat defeats ( 0:2 again against the Club Français, 1:5 and 0:3 against the British White Rovers Paris ) before, in January 1893 the first win was (4-0 on CF). In the spring of this year, the SAC received the team of FC Marylebone from London, the 7-0 win gave the Parisians a true lesson.
Obviously, the players of default had actually learned their lesson from this: the first, of course, confined to Paris Championnat de France (May 1894) they beat in the final of the hitherto unbeaten against French teams White Rovers with 2:2 and 2:0 ( replay ). Thus, ten Britons and a Frenchman first French masters; the preparation of the winner is obtained: H. Wynn - W.-D. Attrill, E. Wynn - Hill, J. Roscoe, Leguillard - Vines, O. Hickx (or Higgs ), Hunter, A. Tunmer, N. Tunmer.
This top spot in the " childhood " of French football kept standard AC to held shortly after the turn of the century: even in 1895, 1897, 1898 and ( for the first time after a final against the other regional champions ) 1901 won the title. Only the Club Français (1896) and Le Havre AC (1899 and 1900 ) were able to interrupt Standards successful series. 1901 Le Havre was humiliated downright after a draw in Paris to his home turf with its 6:1. Thereafter, however, came with the Racing Club Roubaix another club 's championship series and standard could never achieve similar success.
No "Revival " in the cup
At the very first playout of the National Cup competition ( 1917/18 as Coupe Charles Simon, since 1919/20, as a Coupe de France) took the Standard Athletic Club - given the club tradition, one can say, of course - in part, met but in the Round of 32 Teams calculated on the oldest of its rivals: after a 2-2 Club Français sat down in the replay by 5-1. In the years 1925 and 1926 standard reached in each case the round of 64 teams, but since then it remained even such modest successes fails. (As of 2010)
The standard AC today
After all, there is this tradition club today: standard, although no longer plays long in the Bois de Boulogne, but since 1922 in Meudon ( Hauts -de -Seine département ) in the southwest, the "better" gates of Paris; his players did not fight in Ligue 1, but only in a lower amateur league for the win. But in a clubhouse on a very British acting sports facility the old trophies of a great past are still regularly polished. The club is also 2008 English language; except football tennis, squash, field hockey, cricket and golf are operated.
Achievements
- French Champion: None; in France are now only the title from the season 1932/33, as the official
- National champion of the Championnat de France the USFSA: 1894, 1895, 1897, 1898, 1901
- French Cup Winners: None
National players
France's first official international match took place on May 1 of 1904, the second in February 1905 - too late for the standard AC, because the already had his marriage behind him and during these years also, few French in its ranks. Thus, the roll of honor of the Équipe Tricolore recorded while national player of not less than 41 Paris Football Club, but just the very first "subscription champion " of the country is not represented on it.