Calais RUFC

Calais RUFC or completely Calais Racing Union Football Club is a French football club based in Calais in the Pas -de -Calais.

His real foundation year is 1974, when he emerged from a fusion of the Racing Club de Calais with the Union Sportive de Calais. The former was, in turn, emerged in 1902 from a merger between FC and SC Calais and had played from 1933 to 1938 under professional conditions in Division 2. The roots of CRUFC in these two predecessors is evident not only in the club's name, but also in the club colors, yellow and black are red today: RC wore yellow ( in the early years: Gold ) and Black, the U.S. red and yellow.

The League team played until the fall of 2008 at the Stade Julien Denis, offered the space for 4,900 spectators. From then on, she moved to the 12,432 spectators for newly built, municipally owned Stade de l' Épopée. Club president is Alain Guérot, current coach of the Ligaelf Djezon Boutoille. (August 2011)

League membership

Professional status of the RUFC not yet possessed, but well - from 1933 to 1938 - its predecessor RC Calais. Consequently, the current club can not participate in the Division 1 ( called since 2002 Ligue 1) look back. In the 2013/14 season Calais takes in fünftklassigen CFA2.

Cup shock

In the National Cup, however Calais has made numerous occasions highlighted in the recent past: in the 1999/2000 season defeated the then fourth division successively the second division club Lille and AS Cannes as well as the first division side Racing Strasbourg and Bordeaux and met in the final to FC Nantes, the to prevail only by a penalty goal in the 90th minutes with 2:1 could. In the 2005/06 season the club came after victories against ES Troyes AC ( first division ) and Stade Brest ( second league) in the quarter-finals; there meant again the FC Nantes ( and 0-1 again just barely ) the end of a successful Cup course. 2006/ 07 again ventured far, finished this time the first division side CS Sedan 2-1 further Cup dreams of CRUFC in the round of 32 teams.

Achievements

  • French Champion: None so far
  • French Cup Winners: None so far (but Finalist 2000)

Well-known former players

  • Coloman Braun-Bogdan (RC Calais, who later became Romanian national team coach )
  • Julien Denis (RC Calais, played two international matches in 1908 )
  • Raoul Gressier (RC Calais, denied in 1908 an international match at the Olympic Games in London)
Championnat de France Amateur FC Girondins de Bordeaux CS Sedan Ardennes 1999–2000 Coupe de France
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