Angers SCO

The Angers Sporting Club de l' Ouest is a French football club based in Angers, capital of the French department of Maine -et -Loire.

The club colors are black and white. Club president since December 2011 Saïd Chabane. The first team is coached since 2011 by Stéphane Moulin (August 2013). With the rise of 2007, the SCO Angers returned from the third division to Ligue 2, where the team competes ever since. The League team carries out their home games at the Stade Jean Bouin - which has a capacity of 18,000 seats after the conversion of Coubertin Tribune.

History

It was founded the club on 10 October 1919 a Friday, by the brothers Fortin, her character bank directors of the Banque de Crédit de l' Ouest, as Sporting Club de l' Ouest du Crédit ( SCCO or SCO). The first game is then completed on 19 October of the same year in the Championnat de la Ligue de l' Ouest against Stade Nantais UC The preparation of the first game in club history was committed to the following players together. :

  • Legendre ( goalkeeper ) - Guyot, multi - Lamarre (defender) - Bigarré, Perreault, brother ( center half ) - Hardy, Forget, Roger, Durbécé, Guimon ( striker )

The first season we finished off the sixth and thus last in the ranking, while local rivals Club sportif Julien Bessonneau ( CSJB ) won the championship. The second season, in which you left the originally lying on the road to Nantes location of the home games and moved to a different terrain, then ran successfully. So you could in addition to the interim league standings also reaching the round of 32 in the French Cup record where you failed at U.S. Servannaise. In the following season, you could repeat this success Cup, but failed this time 0-8 at the Stade Bessonneau at the first under the old name Olympique de Pantin French Cup winner in 1918, Olympique de Paris. From 1922 to 1924, however, was followed by disappointing performances of the team of Angers. You could with the rival C.S.J.B. in terms of performance not keep up and so finally took place in the spring of 1924, the temporary dissolution of the football section of the club. In the following period, initially the rugby department into the most important division of the association, in 1929 began the revival of the football department.

In 1989, the club adopted its current name.

League membership

Professional status of 1946-1998 and again since 2000 owned Angers. 23 completed seasons of the club in its history in the top French league (Division 1 2002 Ligue 1 renamed). This period covered the seasons 1956-1968, 1969-1975, 1976/77, from 1978 to 1981 and 1993 / 94th

Achievements

National

  • French Champion: None, so far best finish rank 3 (1966 /67)
  • French Cup Winners: None so far (but Finalist 1957)

The previous best finish in the national league system dates from the season 1966/67, when they finished third in the first French league. 1969 and 1976 was celebrated the championship in Division 2 in the second highest French league Angers won also in the years 1958, 1978 and 1993, the vice - championship. In the meantime, slipped in the third league, the club missed the championship there in 2003 in the Championnat de France National, but secured the vice-championship. In the years 1934 and 1967 could also regional amateur championship of the Ligue de l' Ouest (now Ligue de Bretagne de Football ) out, add their own success statistics.

In the French cup competition so far succeeded once the finals. There, however, they lost the predecessor of today's club Toulouse FC -called existing from 1937 to 1967, Toulouse Football Club on May 26, 1957, 3:6. Furthermore, could the club in the years 1962, 1966, 1969 and 2011 to reach the semi-finals of the French Cup. 2011 prevented doing a 1:3 defeat against PSG another finals.

Internationally

In the 1972/73 season, the club participated for the first and so far only time participating in a European competition, as we took in the UEFA Cup. There, however, Angers had already failed in the first round on GDR representatives Dynamo Berlin after posting an 1-1 draw at home in the first leg, but then in Berlin lost the return leg 1-2.

Club Records

  • In the 1968/69 season the team of Angers marked in the second division in 40 games a record of 128 goals.
  • Pierre Bourdel with 477 games in the period 1963-1975, in which he scored 12 goals, a record player of the club by appearances.
  • Most of the hits for SCO Angers scored Christophe Lagrange, who scored 125 times between 1988 and 1994 in the opponent's goal.
  • The biggest win in the club's history provides the 11:0 home is against the RCFC Besançon from the 1968/69 season, while the 0:9 away defeat at FC Mulhouse in the season 1984/85 is the negative mark in this regard.

Team colors

In the initial phase of the association the club's colors were blue and white. During the 1930s then broke black from the blue, as the then President of this color " best fit " was held. In the following period to the present, the play clothes was repeatedly subjected to modifications. So until the 1950s was white the dominant of the two colors in the tricot of the club. However, the mid-1950s won the black color in relation to meaning.

Rivalries with other clubs

The most important rival of the SCO Angers was the FC Nantes, since from 1945, fought together in Division 2 at the regional hegemony. After the paths of the two clubs initially did not run more parallel due to different leagues affiliation, blazed the sporting duel between the two clubs in the early 1960s again and lasted into the 1980s on, this time. In the premier league With the descent Angers but ' also ended this era. Over time, this rivalry came as a result of the lack of common leagues belonging more and more into oblivion. Mentioned with the descent of the canaris ( " canaries " ) competitors (2007) began this rivalry revive again.

More, however, is the importance subordinated derbies are the games against Stade Laval, based on an incurred in the 1970s rivalry and which emerged as a result of decades of joint league affiliation. So it was the occasion of a friendly game of both teams on 14 July 2009 to arguments .. then during the game both teams on 4 December of the same year it came as a result of the part of the Angevin fans ignited smoke bombs to a several -minute stoppage in play. This resulted in a fine by the Football Association for the SCO Angers result.

In the recent past also established a certain degree of competition with the neighbors Le Mans FC.

Previous Presidents

Previous coach

Major players of the club

  • Patrice Lecornu
  • Farès Bousdira
  • Jacky Charrier
  • Jean -Pascal Beaufreton
  • Grégoire M'Bida
  • 2000s
  • Paul Alo'o Efoulou
  • Fahid Ben Khalfallah
  • Thierry Cygan
  • Bruno Ecuele Manga
  • Guy Moussi
  • Steve Savidan
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