Blois Foot 41

The Association Amicale de la Jeunesse de Blois (Short form: AAJ Blois, the name means literally " Friends League of Youth of Blois " ) is a French football club based in Blois in central France. Blois has since the early 1980s, also has a women's football department.

History

Founded as the AAJ Blois in 1912 She was wearing this name unchanged until 1999.; This year there was a merger with the local rivals U.S. Blois was founded in 1984, which has since been under the name Blois Football 41 plays. The 41 is the atomic number of the department of Loir -et -Cher, lies in the Blois.

The club colors are red and yellow. How times the AAJB, also competes her successor in urban Stade des Alleys Jean Leroi, which still today has a capacity of 7,000 spectators, provided space in earlier decades, even for around 10,000 visitors. Section, the league team in Stade de Vienne in the left bank of the Loire nearest neighbor municipality of Saint -Gervais- la -Forêt has been home.

League membership and achievements

The club has never had professional status and also never played in the top French league, but was nine years (1970-1975 and 1978-1982) in the second division represented, which was equally open to both amateur and professional teams during this time. Your best placements reached the AAJ in 1970/71 ( as a group of eight in a league that consisted of three squadrons each with 16 participants ) and 1980/81 ( as a group twelfth in a league with two squadrons with 18 participants).

In the French Cup competition for the Coupe de France Blois qualified a total of twelve times for the national main round, the first time in the season 1943/44, and to date (2013 ) the last time 2004/05. The temporal focus was between the mid- 1950s and the early 1970s. Five of these lotteries the AAJ or her successor reached the round of (1956, 1960, 1965, 1972 - by one of his time- acclaimed 1-0 victory over Erstdivisionär Bordeaux - and 2005), and 1970/71 they even made it among the eight best teams in France. There it was Olympique Marseille, which prevented advancement of Zweitdivisionärs AAJ Blois with two significant victories ( 9:1 and 4:2 ).

In the season 2013/14 Blois Football 41 enters in the sechstklassigen Division d'Honneur.

Well-known former players and coaches

  • René Bihel, in the 1950s, twice coach of the AAJ
  • Aly Cissokho, players (as a child and teenager, 1995-2003)
  • Robert Dewilder, coaches 1978-1982
  • René Ferrier, from coaches
  • Philippe Gondet ( as a teenager ), later A-National player
  • " Pancho " Gonzalès, coach from 1982
  • Ahmed Kantari, Moroccan national team ( as a teenager until 1999)
  • Veronique Romagnoli, in her time at Blois in 1984 European Championship participant with the French women's national
  • Pierre Sbaiz, Players 1970-1975
  • Bako Touré, Players 1971/72
  • Claude Trape, deaf and dumb goalkeeper early 1970s
Centre (French region) Local derby 1970–71 French Division 2 1980–81 French Division 2 2004–05 Coupe de France FC Girondins de Bordeaux 1970–71 Coupe de France
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