Excelsior AC Roubaix

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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.

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[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.

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[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
  • Flag of Scotland John Donoghue, John Baker Muir and Alexander McLennan
  • Flag of Austria Heinrich Hiltl, Adolf Vogl
  • Flag of Belgium Gaston Plovie
  • Flag of Hungary Jenö Kalmar
  • Flag of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia Ivan Petrak
  • Flag of Argentina Flag of France Helenio Herrera

[edit] Managerial history

  • Flag of England Griffiths: 1932-1933
  • Flag of France René Dedieu: 1933-1937
  • Davidovitch: 1937-1939
  • Flag of France Marcel Desrousseaux: 1970-1972
  • Flag of France Pierre Cnude: 1972-1973
  • Flag of France J. Schmidt: 1973-1975
  • Flag of France Albert Dubreucq: 1975-1977
  • Flag of France Sarrazyn: 1977-1980
  • Flag of France Tony Giaquinto: 1980-April 1987
  • Flag of France Thierry Deneulin: April 1987-?
  • Flag of Algeria Boumedienne Belhadji: 1992-1994
  • Flag of France Pierre Michelin: 1994-1995
  • Flag of Algeria Boumedienne Belhadji: 1995-December 1995

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