Excelsior AC Roubaix

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Full name

Excelsior Athlétic Club de Roubaix

Founded

1928

Dissolved

1995

Ground

Stade Amédée Prouvost
Roubaix
France
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Excelsior Athlétic Club de Roubaix was a French football team playing in the city of Roubaix, Nord.

1 History
2 Names of the club
3 Honours
4 Notable players
5 Managerial history
6 References
7 See also
8 External links

[edit] History

The team was founded in 1928 in a merger between Football Club de Roubaix and Excelsior Club de Tourcoing.In 1932, the team turned professional and played the first professional football sesaon in 1932/1933 and won the same year its first major trophy, the Coupe de France.Till the World War II, the team managed to stay in Division 1. After the war, the club merged with RC Roubaix and US Tourcoing in CO Roubaix-Tourcoing (1945-1970). After 1970, the team struggled at an amateur level till its demise in 1995. In 1977, the team merged with Sporting Club de Roubaix to create Roubaix Football, then in 1990 with Stade Roubaix (i.e. former RC Roubaix) but never managed to come back to Division 1, only playing the 1983/84 season in Division 2. The team ended due to financial problems.

[edit] Names of the club

1928-1944. Excelsior Athlétic Club de Roubaix.
1944-1970. in CO Roubaix-Tourcoing.
1970-1977. Excelsior Athlétic Club de Roubaix.
1977-1990. Roubaix Football
1990-1995. Stade Club Olympique de Roubaix (SCOR).

[edit] Honours

Coupe de France : 1933

[edit] Notable players

French international players
Célestin Delmer (5, 1933-1934)
Marcel Desrousseaux (2, 1935-1937)
Jean Gautheroux (1, 1936)
Henri Hiltl (1, 1944) (he played for Austria as Heinrich Hiltl, then for France as Henri Hiltl)
Marcel Langiller
Lucien Leduc
Noël Liétaer (7, 1933-1934)
- Jean Sécember (1, 1935)
Foreign players
John Donoghue, John Baker Muir and Alexander McLennan
Heinrich Hiltl, Adolf Vogl
Gaston Plovie
Jenö Kalmar
Ivan Petrak
Helenio Herrera