Toulouse FC (women)

The Toulouse Olympique Aérospatial Club, usually only briefly Toulouse OAC or TOAC is a polysportiver French club Toulouse. He has France width awareness in particular by its resolution at the beginning of the 21st century women's football department acquired, with which this article deals primarily.

History

Founded as the Women's football department in 1980, with the club as a whole - as its name suggests - on organizational and material support from the aviation and aerospace company Aerospatiale, in the 21st century under the name of Airbus SAS a part of EADS, one could count, which then as now the largest industrial employer in the " Pink City ". Initially had the women who competed in the club colors sky blue and white, to deal with quite strong local competitors, especially with Union and Olympique Mirail.

In 2001, after winning the third championship title, the successful women's football department of the Olympique Aérospatial Club In 2002, the " big club " of the city, Toulouse FC, on, under whose colors the players who had mitvollzogen this step, yet another French Cup won.

League membership and achievements

For the first time took the TOAC players already in the season 1981/82 participated in the preliminary round of the French Women's Championship; there failed the Toulouse football players, however, as already in the regional preliminary round as three years later. It was not until the 1988/ 89 before TOAC again allowed to intervene in the competition for the French championship, but here - as well as rivals of OM Toulouse - again eliminated in the first round. Otherwise ran the following three seasons - and was introduced as the French Football Federation from the season 1992/93 a single national first division, the TOAC indeed one of the twelve participants, but increased, as well as Olympique Mirail Toulouse, already at the end of this season it from.

From 1994 again top notch, began the period in which the TOAC dominated women's football in France. In the following seven years he won three times in a row the championship (1999, 2000 and 2001) and was runner-up as often ( 1995, 1997, 1998). To win three championships in succession wife was until then only two other clubs in France succeeded ( Stade Reims mid-1970s and VGA Saint -Maur in the 1980s ). During this period, numerous footballers of the club were elected to the French women's national. In the European Championship finals in Germany in 2001 included five TOAC players in the squad France. Right after that ended the history of successful clubs. As a further france cup competition for football players was introduced only in 2001, the TOAC could never win this; the women's organization of the first winner of the Challenge de France féminine, the Toulouse FC, but included many former players of the club.

Well-known former players

  • Gaëlle Blouin
  • Mélanie Briche
  • Caroline Bouscatel
  • Marie -Ange Kramo
  • Céline Marty
  • Sandrine Rouquet
  • Lilas Traïkia
  • Sabrina Viguier
  • Élodie Woock
  • Anne Zenoni
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