ASOA Valence

The Association Sportive de Valence, Valence AS short, is a French football club based in Valence, who emerged from the Association Sportive d' Origine Arménienne de Valence ( Valence ASOA ) 2005.

History

The history of AS Valence is essentially the story of two competing local associations who shared decades the Stade de la Palla. The club colors are red and white, the ASV; the combat team plays at the Stade Georges Pompidou, which offers over 14,000 spectators.

FC Valence

Mid-1920s, founded the music and gymnastics club Alliance Valentinoise a football department that Stade Valentinois was called and in 1930 the club joined Valence Sportif. 1946, made ​​the footballer independently as a Football Club de Valence. After the FC several times a promotion to the highest regional league, which was Division d' Honneur failed, he went in 1951 a merger with a club from La Voulte -sur -Rhône one who played in the top national amateur league. This Club Sportif La Voulte Valence had until 1961 inventory, then the FCV played back independently in lower departmental leagues.

In1973 succeeded in rising to the top purely amateur league (then the third highest league level ), in which the FC took two seasons. In 1981, he returned there, also managed both 1980 and 1981 a place in the Cup main round and rose in 1984 even in the second division, which was then held for two seasons and was open to professional as amateur teams. The team stayed in it but only for this one season in which they but reüssierte in the National Cup by ausschaltete Olympique Marseille, and advanced into the knockout stages. After the desired return to the Division 2 failed several times in the following years, the FC 1992 merged with local rivals USJOA, which this rise was just succeeded (see the section here under ).

ASOA Valence

The club was founded in the early 1920s under the name Union Sportive de la Jeunesse d' Origine Arménienne ( USJOA ) of Armenian refugees who had settled after the genocide of their ethnic group 1915/1916 in large numbers in and around Valence. For decades, blessed a senior dignitaries of the Armenian Church community of the city regularly the lawn at the Stade de la Palla. For the first time in 1977/ 78, the footballers of the club played at the same level as the local rival FC, ​​but only for one season. From 1984, however, the USJOA rose in eight years to seven times to a level leagues and played from 1992 - the year of the merger with FC Valence - in the second division. This ascent season closed the club down on a remarkable fifth place in its group. Whether he has already been accepted at this time officially named the Association Sportive d' Origine Arménienne de Valence ( ASOA ), comes from the literature used not clear; at least he took over the red and white colors of the FC, ​​and his first team played their duty games in the larger Stade Georges- Pompidou. 1993 ASOA gave himself a pro Regulations, 1998 came even up to eight points on a promotion place in the first division zoom and remained until 2000 in the Division 2, in which she returned in 2002 for two years.

In the National Cup have the " Armenians ", in whose ranks were now significantly more Africans as descendants of the founder of the association environment, can make twice for special attention during these years. In 2001, she defeated a third division, inter alia, AS Monaco, the reigning at that time French champions, and secreted only from in the second round against the eventual Cup winner Racing Strasbourg. In 1996, she had even brought it up in the quarter-finals, in which they also contest the later winner (AJ Auxerre) documents - with 0:2, as well as 2001 - and in this game, with over 14,000 viewers a up to the present (2013 ) unmatched club record lined up.

As ASOA Valence had athletic qualified for the second division again in 2005, the League Association denied her for financial reasons the rise. The association then filed for bankruptcy and emerged as a new AS Valence.

AS Valence

The ASOA successor had to start over in the meantime sechstklassigen Division d'Honneur. 2011 reached the summit in the fourth division ( Championnat de France amateur ( CFA) ), the top national amateur league. In the cup competition for the Coupe de France, the ASV has so far reached only once the main round (2011 /12), in which she was eliminated in the Round of against first division side FC Evian Thonon Gaillard.

League membership and achievements

First class (Division 1 since 2003 Ligue 1) has so far neither the AS nor any of the previous clubs played and accordingly not won a championship. Professional status had only the ASOA, and the AS Valence enters 2013/14 in the Championnat de France amateur from 1993 to 2005. (CFA).

Well-known former players and coaches

  • Éric Assadourian, Armenian national team, 1999-2001 at ASOA
  • Cédric Kanté, national player of Mali, 2002/ 03 in ASOA
  • Hamlet Mchitarjan, Armenian national team, 1989-1994 at ASOA
  • Bruno Metsu, ASOA coach in 1998/99
  • Didier Notheaux, ASOA coach 1993-1995 and 2000-2003
  • Bill Tchato, Cameroonian national team, 1996-1998 at ASOA
  • Mario Zatelli, trainer at CS La Voulte Valence 1954-1959
Valence, Drôme 1979–80 Coupe de France 1980–81 Coupe de France 1984–85 French Division 2 1984–85 Coupe de France Local derby 1992–93 French Division 2 1997–98 French Division 2 2000–01 Coupe de France Championnat National AS Monaco FC 1995–96 Coupe de France 2011–12 Coupe de France Hamlet Mkhitaryan (born 1962)
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