Calais RUFC

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CRUFC
Full nameCalais Racing Union Football Club
Nickname(s)Les Sangs et Ors (The Blood(-Reds) and Golds)
Les Canaris (The Canaries)
Founded1974
Dissolved2017
GroundStade de l'Épopée
Capacity12,432

Calais Racing Union FC (Calais RUFC) was a French football club based in Calais, France.

Calais RUFC was founded in 1974 after a merger of two local clubs and, as an amateur club, reached the

2000 Coupe de France Final which it lost to top-flight Nantes. The club played at the 12,342-seater Stade de l'Épopée. Calais Racing Union was liquidated in September 2017.[1]

History

Foundations

Sleeping Club

The club was founded in 1902 as Racing Club de Calais. RC Calais had excellent results in the first editions of the

CFA and Division d'Honneur
.

Union Sportive

Union Sportive was founded after the war in 1947, after a merger of two local clubs. Its main successes were reaching the last 32 of Coupe de France and notable appearances in Coupe Gambardella.

Merger

Racing Club was merged with Union Sportive in 1974, renamed as Calais Racing Union Football Club to reflect the names of the 2 clubs, and was given both the clubs' colours.[2] Before the merger derby matches between the two attracted up to 5000 fans.

1999–2000 Coupe de France

Main article: 2000 Coupe de France final

Calais RUFC entered the international spotlight during their run to the final of the

Stade Félix-Bollaert in Lens
due to issues with facilities and capacity.

They eventually lost 2–1 to Nantes Atlantique in the final at the Stade de France in Paris on 7 May 2000, despite leading 1–0 at half-time.[4][5]

Recent history

There was another creditable run in the 2005–06 Coupe de France, as Calais progressed through eight rounds, including a win over top-division Troyes, before losing narrowly in the quarter-finals, again to Nantes.[6]

The club played their first match in their new

Wasquehal had an attendance of around 4,000.[citation needed
]

On 15 May 2010, CRUFC won the

CFA
as one of the best runners up.

In the 2016–17 season they finished bottom of CFA group B and were relegated, having had seven points deducted for various reasons during the season.[7][8] Subsequently, the FFF gave them an Administrative relegation, meaning they would play the 2017–18 season at Regional level at best.[9]

Calais RUFC eventually dissolved in September 2017.

Honours

  • Coupe de France
    • Runners-Up: 1999–00
  • CFA Group A
    • Champions: 2006–07
  • Division Three (North)
    • Champions: 1980–81
  • CFA 2 Group A
    • Champions: 1987–88, 1997–98, 2002–03, 2009–10
  • CFA 2 Group B
    • Champions: 2010–11
  • DH North
    • Champions: 1975–76
  • DH North pas de Calais
    • Champions: 1990–91

Former coaches

  • Albert Dubreucq (1962–1965)
  • Bulgaria Dimitri Antonov (1965–1966)
  • R. Noël (1966–1967)
  • Jean (1967–1968)
  • Claude Plancque (1968–1973)
  • Bernard Placzek (1973–1979
  • Eugène Grévin (1979–1980)
  • Jacques Fardoux (1980–1982)
  • Algeria Mohamed Lekkak (1982–1983)
  • Bernard Ledru (1983–1985)
  • Argentina Gabriel Desmenez (1985–1987)
  • Italy Richard Ellena (1987–1991)
  • Jean-Marc Varnier (1991–1993)
  • Jean-Claude Cloët (1993–1994)
  • Switzerland Daniel Fuchs (1994–1995)
  • Spain Ladislas Lozano (1995–2001)
  • Portugal Manuel Abreu Freitas (2001–2002)
  • Sylvain Jore (2002)
  • Jean-Jacques Allais (2002)
  • Sylvain Jore (2002–2003)
  • Jean-Jacques Allais (2003)
  • Sylvain Jore (2003–2007)

References

  1. ^ "Liquidation du Calais Racing Union Football Club: Clap de Fin Pour Une Étoile Filante di Football". Retrieved 26 May 2018.
  2. ^ "France - Trainers of First and Second Division Clubs".
  3. ^ "A Baseball Cup" Archived 2012-10-20 at the Wayback Machine, Mravic, Mark, Sports Illustrated May 16, 2000
  4. ^ "France Cup 1999/2000". RSSSF.
  5. ^ Dawkes, Phil (7 May 2020). "Calais Racing Union: The amateur team that went to Coupe de France final". BBC Sport.
  6. ^ Fiers d'être Calaisiens [Proud to be Calaisians], Calais-Réalité 186, 26 April 2006, scan via Calais Football Memoire (in French)
  7. ^ "Direction Nationale de Contrôle de Gestion – Commission Federale de Controle de Clubs – Réunion 17 Janvier 2017" (PDF) (in French). FFF.fr. 17 January 2017. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 March 2019. Retrieved 9 February 2017.
  8. ^ "PROCES-VERBAL COMMISSION FEDERALE DES EDUCATEURS ET ENTRAINEURS DE FOOTBALL SECTION STATUT DES EDUCATEURS ET ENTRAINEURS §3" (PDF) (in French). FFF. 8 March 2017. p. 5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 March 2019. Retrieved 1 May 2017.
  9. ^ "DNCG : Un club de CFA rétrogradé, un club de DH promu en N3" (in French). foot-national.com. 20 June 2017. Retrieved 21 June 2017.
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