Excelsior Athlétic Club of Roubaix

The Excelsior Athlétic Club of Roubaix was a club of Football French which operated between 1928 and 1945 then of 1970 to the December 9th 1995, under other names. In 1996, a club is recreated under the name of SCO Roubaix 59 .

Prize list

  • Victorious of the Coupe de France: 1933.

Various names of the club

Former players

History of the club

  • Excelsior Athlétic Club of Roubaix is founded in 1928, following the fusion of Football Club of Roubaix (Promotion of Honor) and of Excelsior Club of Tourcoing (Division of Honor). This bringing together is made necessary by the fact that Excelsior de Tourcoing is found without stage.
  • “the new” club northerner has start of two major assets. The Stage Amédée-Prouvost, inaugurated in September 1927, is one of the most beautiful enclosures of the area however rich in sporting installations of point. The club is also largely helped by the establishments Charles Tiberghien of Tourcoing and by the Groupe Prouvost.
  • With such assets, the players of talent as Langiller are not long in migrating towards Roubaix and the results feel some. 16th of finalist of the Coupe de France 1929, 32e of finalist the following season, Excelsior reaches the quarters in 1931 by in particular drawing aside a.C. Metz, the Raphaëlois Stage and Le Havre. Roubaix is finally eliminated by Parisian from the French Club, future winners of the test.
  • Taken along by its credit sport director Edouard Edrennes, and put in appetite by its recent results (1/8 of finalist of the Coupe de France 1932), the club crosses the rubicon professionalism as of 1932, contrary to its large neighbor, the R.C. Roubaix.
  • Recruiting the excellent Scot David Bartlett (32-34), Excelsior is maintained in Division 1 to the war under the crook of Misters Griffiths, Dedieu and Davidovitch, without never playing the first parts. Better recorded classification: a fifth place in 1933 -34.
  • the Coupe de France allows, on the other hand, with the club roubaisien to enrich its prize list. In 1933, Excelsior finally finds the neighbors amateurs of Racing Club of the test. Taken along by the Langiller captain and his two British (Barlett and Payne), Excelsior is essential 3-1. The return of the players in Roubaix gathered several tens of thousands of supporters at the station. Moreover, the public of the Amédée-Prouvost stage was designated by Friendly Professional players of Football like the “most sporting public of France”.
  • One of the most spectacular players having evolved/moved under the shirt of Excelsior is the Austrian Heinrich Hiltl (. This attacker having a striking of exceptional ball which made devastations in particular on frank blow, however was very criticized in Vienna; one then reproached him his inclinations to draw from too far. Devenu Henri Hiltl, it is under the name of “Mr Hiltl” that it enters the history of the club (German biography).
  • Other foreigners illustrating itself in Excelsior: the Belgian Gaston Plovie, the Scot John Donoghue, John Baker Muir and Alexander Mc Lennan, the Hanke Austrian, the formidable Hungarian Jenö Kalmar, the Yugoslavian Ivan Petrak and famous free-Argentinian the Helenio Herrera. This list is far from being exhaustive. That of the French players of great talent having evolved/moved during the Thirties in Excelsior is quite as impressive and copier. Let us quote simply here with stolen Delmer, Gabrillargues, Scharwath, Lietaer, Secember, Desrousseaux, Gauteroux, Rodriguez, Dhur and Rose, all international.
  • Always present on the scene of football during the second world war, Excelsior is decapitated by the reform of colonel Pascot who raye Roubaix of the chart of the professional football of a stroke of the pen. As of the summer 1944, Excelsior finds its section pro, then joined the CO Roubaix-Tourcoing after one disappointing season 1944-45 with one 11th place on 12 in Northern zone of the last championship of war.
  • In 1970, the club finds its own identity following the final dislocation of the C.O.R.T. Robert Verrue is named with the presidency.
  • Under the crook of the trainers Marcel Desrousseaux and Pierre Cnude, Roubaix is maintained five seasons in D3 before knowing relegation in 1975 under the control of J. Schmidt. President Hollestelle resigns, Mr. Isabel succeeds to him. Albert Dubreucq inherits the post of trainer.
  • the club roubaisien remains Excelsior until in 1977 before adopting the name of Roubaix Football following fusion between Excelsior and Sporting Club of Roubaix. This bet is that of Me Maillard, carried to the presidency.
  • Promoted in D4 in 1978, in D3 in 1981 then in D2 in 1983, the progression roubaisienne is astonishing. The two last rises are to be put at the credit of the trainer Tony Gianquinto, ex-pro inhabitant of Lille.
  • Only black spot in this rebirth, the stages roubaisiens, formerly famous among most modern of the country, collapse under the weight of the years. The Cycle-racing track is unsuited to football, but remains impossible to circumvent because the Jean-Dubrule Park decayed and is closed, while the famous Amédée-Prouvost stage was shaven.
  • From the start flanked of the red lantern, Roubaix seems a little to tend to hold the shock in D2. In the search of the first success, the men of Gianquinto sign three consecutive (12th with 14th J.) allowing Roubaix to leave the zone of relegation. But this period lasts only one week. The Coupe de France is also catastrophic with an elimination as of the 7th turn by Evreux (D3). The financial future of the club seems mortgaged the more so as at the end of the season the public roubaisien is announced by its absence. That is explained in particular by the spectacle proposed on the ground and the very painful conditions of reception to the Cycle-racing track of Roubaix. They are hardly 300 to assist with the good-byes roubaisiens in D2 the April 21st 1984 vis-a-vis Guingamp (1-1).
  • Private of many its best elements during the summer 1984, and in spite of the fidelity of Tony Gianquinto, Roubaix remains in Division 3. At the end of April 1987, whereas Roubaix still crosses in low waters of the zone of relegation, Gianquinto is thanked. Its old accomplice Thierry Denneulin succeeds to him whereas there remain six matches to save the head of the club in D3. The psychological shock does not operate and Roubaix is relegated.
  • In 1990, the club becomes the Olympic Stage Club of Roubaix after fusion with the Stage, ex-R.C. Roubaix. In fact a little the old C.O.R.T takes again life. Promoted in D3 in 1992, then 5th on this level the following year, one believes a time in the revival of high level football in Roubaix under the control of Boumediene Belhadji. But the results quickly become less brilliant. The S.C.O.R. does not survive, when in the course of season 1995-96, the mayor of Roubaix does not renew any more his assistance.
  • Following voluntary liquidation (December 7th 1995), the magistrates' court of Lille pronounces the January 11th 1996 the compulsory liquidation of the S.C.O. Roubaix which does not even complete its season in Division 3. The good-byes roubaisiens take place as of on December 9th (16th day) at the Dubrule-Verriest stage. With the final whistle, vibrating It is not that one goodbye my brothers is entonné by a thousand of faithful.

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