Poitiers FC
Stade Poitiers is a French football club based in Poitiers.
The club colors are blue and white. Poitiers ' first team enters today at the Stade de la Pépinière, which lies just beyond the city limits in Buxerolles and currently has a capacity of around 12,000 spectators.
History
The club was founded in 1921 as Sporting Club Poitevin; same time as the first ascent (1936 ) in the Division d' Honneur, the highest level of regional amateur league, the Sporting Club changed its name to Stade Poitevin SC. 1952 merged Stade Poitevin with the coming of the Catholic Sport Motor Club Patronage des Écoles Publiques de Poitiers ( PEPP ) and changed its name to Stade de Poitiers PEP. Until the early 1990s, the football players competed to home games even at the Stade Paul- Rébeilleau before they moved to the Stade de la Pépinière and their previous domicile leaving the rugby players and other club departments. In the summer of 1997 the association, in the " student city " could hope to public subsidies only to a small extent stood close to bankruptcy, because he had, financially taken in the attempt as soon as possible to return to the second division. Although the bankruptcy could be avoided, but twelve months later the club was forcibly transferred by the relevant association committee DSCG in the fourth league. 2007, after re- merger with an ecclesiastical rivals - this time with the patronage of Saint -Joseph- Cercle d' Éducation Physique de Poitiers or short CEP - Stade took the name of Poitiers Football Club, which he bares.
League membership and achievements
The club has owned 1995-1998 professional status, but never played in the highest French league. But this he spent five years ( 1970-1974 and 1995/96 for a season again ) represented in the second division. His best finish at the final table succeeded Stade Poitiers 1972/73 with a fifth place in its group; This season, the average number of audience was at his home games at good 2,700 visitors. This popularity was exceeded in the 1995/96 season, at the end of the team only had to descend on goal difference as its point games attended by an average of even 3,300 paying spectators.
In the French Cup competition for the Coupe de France, the club reached in twelve lotteries - with temporal focus in the middle of the 1990s - the nationwide main round, the first time 1966/67, and the last time so far in the season 2010/11. However Stade Poitiers survived in only three years, the Zweiunddreißigstelfinale, and only once (1994 /95) met the crew from up in the round of the last 16 teams. For this purpose, 's then third division had before record crowd of 7,555 visitors at the Stade de la Pépinière a " feat accomplished " in Sixteenth-finals and 2-1 against AS Monaco - at that time a " top address" of French football - enforced before it when in the second round second division club La Berrichonne Châteauroux was subject to relatively unceremoniously.
In addition Stade Poitiers has also, however, significantly less prestigious League Cup ensured once a stir. In his discharge in 1997/98 the third division took place after three 2-1 victories over Olympique Nimes, OGC Nice - both Zweitdivisionäre - and first division side Le Havre AC up in the quarter-finals by; in this round was defeated at the Parc Lescure Poitiers from Bordeaux Girondins only after the extension with 3:4.
2013/14 enters the Poitiers FC in the CFA 2, the fifth- highest division of France, at.
Well-known former players and coaches
- Lionel Charbonnier, coach and general manager 2002-2004
- Ferdinand Coly, players 1993-1996, 2002 FIFA World Cup qualifiers with Senegal
- Bernard Delcampe, player-coach 1967-1970, Coach 1970-1975
- Tomasz Frankowski, Polish national team, at Poitiers in 1996/97
- Guy Roux, Players 1958-1960