La Roche VF
La Roche Vendée Football or short La Roche VF is a French football club based in La Roche- sur -Yon.
The club colors are light and dark blue. The League team takes in the urban Stade Henri Desgrange, which has a capacity of 9,000 spectators.
History
The history of on 1 July 1989 resulting from a merger of two local rivals association is essentially the story of his two predecessors FC and AEPB.
FC La Roche- sur -Yon
The football section this is often referred to as Football Club Yonnais, polysportiven Association was created in 1933. Until the early 1980s, he was the athletic more successful of the two " big guns " of the city. From 1961 he played briefly for the first time in the top amateur league in which he returned in 1972. The former club policy was characterized by a system of intensive youth development and promotion: ten of the eleven starting players the rise 1971/72 season came from his own youth. 1983 Get your FC also became the first promotion to the second division in which he, however, kept only for this season. The season had begun to achieve success; the club with the lowest budget of all 37 second division defeated in his first home Olympique Marseille before more than 6,200 spectators at the Stade Henri Desgrange 2-0. Later in the decade, until the merger of the two rivals FC dismounted until the fourth highest league. In the cup competition for the Coupe de France FC made it three times until the statewide Main Round, it reached in 1983 even the sixteenth final, but resigned the following season as Zweitdivisionär already in the first round unceremoniously against a Ehrendivisionär from. In this and the 1980/81 season by the way both clubs from La Roche- sur -Yon were in the statewide Cup main round.
AEPB La Roche
The Amicale des Ecoles Publiques du Bourg -sous -la -Roche or short AEPB La Roche was founded in 1947. The footballer this " circle of friends of public education " from the 1964 to La Roche- sur -Yon eingemeindeten Bourg- sous- la -Roche reached in 1976, after three ascents within four years, the highest amateur league. Unlike the rival FC the AEPB recruited their players from across the Vendée, a " region with a particularly high density of talent ". It was then that club whose footballer 1978/79 represented their city the first in the French Cup main round and did make nine more times in the 1980s - just about a year. In the summer of 1984, when the FC relegation from the second division, AEPB La Roche rose on there, held likewise initially only one season in it, but returned in 1986 to go back there and kept the class until the merger in 1989.
La Roche VF
The concentration of forces meant that LRVF until 1993 - then the Division 2 was reduced from 36 to 22 teams and only was open to professional clubs - was second-rate, albeit at the price of a budget deficit of over 3.5 million francs. As of 1996, only viertklassig, he occasionally dropped in the early 21st century, even down to the lowlands of the sixth league. In the cup competition could even longer to build on the successes of the APEB La Roches footballer after all, by qualified in nine of the 13 years after the merger for the main round, giving them last again 2013/14 succeeded.
League membership and achievements
The association or its predecessors have never owned professional status and also never played in the top French league, but were nine years (1983 /84 FC, 1984/85 and 1986 to 1989 the AEPB, 1989-1993 LRVF ) represented in the second division. Best place in the league at that time consisting of two seasons was a twelfth rank in the season 1990/91, after the merger.
In the French Cup football came together a total of twenty main round appearances between 1978/79 and most recently in 2001 / 02 for the teams from La Roche- sur -Yon. This was twice the FC, nine times the AEPB and also nine times LRVF. They were particularly successful in the 1980s, as the FC one and four times the AEPB reached the round of. The latter made it to the host 1987/88 even up among the 16 best teams in the country, had in the first two rounds with a fourth and a fifth-tier but also luck of the draw and was defeated in the second round against Stade Quimper, a Zweitdivisionär. The following year, Olympique Lyon prevented in extra time of the second leg that AEPB La Roche again succeeded in the second round feeder.
For the season 2013/14 has risen La Roche VF from the Division d' Honneur again in the fifth league ( CFA2 ).
Well-known former players and coaches
- Ludovic Batelli, player (1989-1991)
- Daniel Éon, 1961 -? Player at FC
- Joachim Marx, trainers 1988-1990
- Jocelyn Gourvennec, coaches 2008-2010