Perpignan Canet FC
The football club Perpignan Perpignan or short FC is a French football club based in Perpignan in northern Catalonia.
The club colors are sky blue and the Catalan yellow-red. Today, the men's team at the Stade Saint -Michel of the neighboring Canet -en -Roussillon comes in, which has a capacity of nearly 3,500 spectators.
History
The club was founded in 1934 as a club Olympique Perpignanais. Up to 1950 he was in town only the number 2 behind the footballers of the known mainly by their Rugby Union Sportive division Arlequins that even in the professional second division competed mid-1940s. The CO, however, was only once in 1944, the nationwide round of the cup competition, but there came to his game in Grenoble not. After a three-year stint as the Stade Olympique Perpignanais (1949-1952) was in 1952 renamed to FC Perpignan. This was followed by the successful athletic years of the club (see section here below ) in which the football players, the 13,000 -seat Stade Jean- urban Laffon shared with the rugby players of the USAP. With him höherklassiger football in almost the entire region and - - As, however, the French Football Federation FC after the end of the season 1958/59 ", surprisingly, the professional license revoked ," the association disappeared for more than a quarter century in the lowlands lower amateur leagues at the department level.
Only in the second half of the 1980s began the return of FC Perpignan in the national league play; In 1986, he rose in the third, 1991 in the second division in which he was represented five of the following six years. At the end of 1996/ 97, he had to undergo a judicial insolvency proceedings and was dissolved. Although the FC was sporty as early as 1959, not descended, began immediately for his newly formed successor Sporting Roussillon Perpignan next season in the fourth division, and whose path led in the early 21st century even deeper. Renamed in Perpignan Football Catalan 2001, the club merged with FC 2002 Canet 66; of any resulting Perpignan Canet FC is 2013 not returned yet again in the national amateur game mode ( CFA CFA or at least 2).
League membership and achievements
Professional status has owned from 1952 to 1959 and from 1994 to 1997 FC Perpignan; in the top French league he has never played, but was during those ten years - at the second division - and that even from 1991 to 1993. His best results were in each case an eighth place in 1954 and 1996, when the D2 played in a group with 20 or 22 teams, respectively Rank 7 1991/92 (D2 into two groups of 18 participants). In games against opponents particularly attractive as Olympique Marseille or Toulouse for instance filled in the 1995/96 season up to 10,000 visitors to the Stade Jean -Laffon. 2013/14 replaces the successor PCFC in the sechstklassigen Division d'Honneur.
In the cup competition for the Coupe de France, it has the FCP after 1944 - at that time still as CO Perpignan - yet brought to ten other major round participations, which up to the present (2013 ) to date last 1996 He succeeded mainly in the 1950s and 1990s., that is the time when the club played in Division 2. Three sweeps the Catalans brought it here to the Round of (1954, 1955 and 1959 ), in the season 1956/57, even up to the top 16 teams in the country ( second round ). In this case, the FC Perpignan succeeded in sixteenth -final against Olympique Marseille in Sète - Cup matches were played in those years generally on neutral ground - a 2-1 win, and also in the following round they were against Girondins Bordeaux at 0:1 scarce long with. Two years later switched Perpignan, this time in Carcassonne, Marseille again from the competition, and again was the final score 2-1.
Well-known former players and coaches
- Jean Avellaneda, coach 1950-1956
- Robert Dewilder, coach 1996/97
- Lassina Diabaté, the Ivorian national team, the FCP 1994-1997
- Roman Jakóbczak, Polish national team, 1979/80 in the FCP
- César Rodríguez, Players 1955-1957
- Jules Sbroglia, from the mid- 1980s coach and sports director
- Pierre Sinibaldi, coaches 1956-1959