League of Brittany of football

The Ligue of Brittany of football (LBF) manages, under the aegis of the French federation of football (FF), football in Brittany (administrative area).

The League is founded in July 1918 under the name of Ligue of the West of Football Association (LOFA) to replace the Regional committee of USFSA. The June 16th 1990, the League of the West of Football becomes the League of Brittany de Football (LBF).

The championships seniors of the League of Brittany

Level	Competition
VI	Division of honor 14 clubs
VII	Division of elite 2 groups of 12 clubs
VIII	Division 4 groups of 12 clubs
IX	Division regional honor 6 groups of 12 clubs
X	Promotion of honor 10 groups of 12 clubs

The Division of Honor (DH)

The Division of Honor is the championship of elite on the level of the regional Leagues. In the league of Brittany, the DH includes/understands 14 clubs. The champion of Brittany reaches directly the higher level, the CFA2 (D5), while the second disputes a stopping with the second of another regional league to take down a ticket of promotion in CFA2. The last three are relegated.

14 clubs of the season 2007-2008

Prize list of the championship of the West (1903-1991)/Brittany

(regional championship USFSA 1903-1918, DH Ouest 1919-1990, DH Brittany since the season 1990-1991)

(1) In the past US Saint-Servan until 1945.
(2) Today Stage Resident of Saint-Nazaire.
(3) In the past US Mans until in 1985, date of fusion with the SO Maine. The serial number US Mans being preserved at the " nouveau" club, the prize list US Mans returns from right to the MUC72 .
(4) Today Valves OC, after fusion enters the Valves FC (ex-UCK) and Swift Vannetais in 1998.
(5) Atlantic Today FC Unpleasant Redon.
(6) Today FC Pont-l'Abbé.

History

Time USFSA

The Committee of Brittany of USFSA is created the April 6th 1902. It has a general sports vocation and deals with the businesses of football as from 1903 by setting up the first championship of Brittany, which includes/understands also the Laval-native Stage. The competition begins the January 11th 1903 and is completed the March 8th 1903, by a final where FC Of Rennes is essential 4-3 vis-a-vis the Stade of Rennes.

The formula of cut to direct elimination of use in 1903 and 1904 is replaced in 1904 - 1905 by a hen formula, standard championship.

In 1911, the USFSA sets up a regional competition, the Inghan Cut, ancestor of the Coupe of the French provinces. Brittany is essential on Paris in semi-final vis-a-vis selection USFSA of Paris (3-1) in semi-final before gaining this trophy finally by beating Languedoc by 3 goals with one. Seven players of US Sevrannaise and four of the Stage of Rennes composed this team of victorious Brittany.

The Great War puts football between brackets as of 1914, and the Stage of Rennes carries the blow of thanks to the Committee of Brittany of the USFSA in June 1918. The club of Rennes decides to leave the USFSA and to form an independent league: the LOFA. This decision was made at the time of the general meeting of the Stage of Rennes the June 23rd 1918.

Other leagues

The USFSA does not have the exclusiveness in football in Brittany like everywhere else in France. Thus, the FGSPF which federates catholic patronages is particularly powerful in Brittany. Many clubs result from these patros: Turn-in Auvergne of Rennes, Juniors by Brittany, Goblins of Valves, the Stage Charles-of-Blois de Guingamp or the Armorican one of Brest (aujourdhui Brest-native Stage), in particular.

League (LOFA/WINDWARD SIDE/LBF)

1918-1942

The first general meeting of the LOFA takes place the July 28th 1918. The clubs present at this meeting are the Stade of Rennes, the Laval-native Stade, the Stade dinanais, the Hermitage-Club, the Paul-Bert Circle and the Sporting union of the sales representatives. Ernest Folliard, already president of the Stage of Rennes, is elected president of the League which sets up a championship reserved at the clubs that it recognizes and a cut open to the Breton clubs of FGSPF or USFSA. Indeed, all the clubs did not follow the Stage of Rennes in the adventure of the " Ligue" and 1919 should be waited until to see joining the majority of the Bretons clubs. On this date, the LOFA joined the incipient FF but was already member of CFI since 1918, thus giving access to the Coupe de France 1918 - 1919 to the clubs of the LOFA.

The LOFA largely will overflow the borders of Brittany, being étandant to the Flowering ash, the Sarthe, the Vendée and same Two-Sevres! The territory of the LOFA is divided into six districts in 1920.

During years which followed, patiently were worked out and developed the payments of the WINDWARD SIDE, unceasingly specified by the successive General meetings. In 1928, Ernest Folliard having believed to have to withdraw itself, Mr. Cancel agreed to take his succession, that it preserved until 1932, time when, for personal reasons, it transmitted it to Mr. Levacher. This last occupied the Presidency of 1932 to August 7th, 1944, goes back to its death of the continuations of an surgical operation.

1942-1960

June 20th, 1942, pursuant to the instructions of the Ministry for the Sports of the Vichy government, the League of the West was divided into two Committees. The Committee of Brittany, including/understanding: The Ille-et-Vilaine, Coast-of-North (today Coasts of Armor), Finistere and Morbihan. The Committee of Anjou including/understanding: the Breton department of Loire-Inférieure (today Loire-Atlantique), the Maine-et-Loire, Mayenne and the Sarthe. In November 1944, the League of the West was restored, pursuant to the decision of abrogation of the Charter of the Sports, and the decision of the Federal office of the FF dated September 7th, 1944, it was named the temporary Council to the next General meeting of the League, the president being Mr. Cancel.

December 1st, 1945, Mr. Cancel took again the presidency of the League of the West and under its direction, during 10 years, contributed to equip the WINDWARD SIDE with an always better administrative organization. Mr. Cancel, who is at the origin of the foundation of the League of the West, accepted, in September 1955, to continue to work within the Management Committee, but left in Marcel Saupin, who made so much for football, in particular in his Nantes area, the presidency of the League of the West.

In June 1958, Jean Noury, general vice-president, succeeded Marcel Saupin, obliged by the disease to withdraw the Council of the League. Member of this same Council since 1942 and the Federal office since 1956, Jean Noury was also Dirigeant of club, selected then captain of the team of the West.

1960-1968

In 1960, the WINDWARD SIDE celebrated its 1.000e affiliated club and its 40.000e laid off and accepted FF the large federal plate carrying the inscription " With the League of the West, first League of France". The constant development of the WINDWARD SIDE created needs on the administrative level and posed a problem that Jean Noury subjected to approval leaders of the WINDWARD SIDE, at the time of the General meeting of 1960: The displacement of the head office in larger and better adapted buildings. This transfer was not the first, from the small office of the street of Nemours, installed by president Folliard and who comprised only one meeting room and an office, that of the first administrative secretary.

In 1967, the 30 clubs of the beginning had become 1.462 and grouped 69.122 bachelors. The General meeting of May 28th, 1967 will see sitting for the last time the representatives of the Loire-Atlantique and the Maine-et-Loire. Indeed, little time after, in order to conform to the politico-administrative decision of reorganization of the French areas, the Loire-Atlantique is detached the remainder Brittany by decree, as in 1942. It will have to form, with the Maine-et-Loire and the Vendée (this last defector of the Mid-west), a named entity Atlantic Ligue of football. After these departures, the WINDWARD SIDE was composed of seven Districts gathering 1.002 clubs and 45.660 bachelors. The following season (1967-1968), the WINDWARD SIDE counted 1.085 clubs for 50.683 bachelors.

1968-1988

In spite of the amputation of 1967, the WINDWARD SIDE remains on the statistical level one of most important leagues France: it is the first by the number of its clubs, second by its manpower of bachelors and second by the importance of its college of referees. On the material plan, thanks to a healthy management, it has a seat with the measurement of its importance and is equipped with modern equipment adapted to the multiplicity and the complexity of the tasks falling at its administrative services. Moreover, the WINDWARD SIDE had installed at the time three of its Districts in their own walls.

In 1973, the League of the West gains the challenges of the FF of the Index of the Radiation and, in 1974, it is first with the Index of Progression of Manpower. They is as into 1974 as the Sports Studies are created, with the Bréquigny college of Rennes. It is a first in France (22 colleges are concerned today in Brittany, without counting the Loire-Atlantique). November 27th, 1976, Gilbert Behier, Général vice-president has to take in hands the destiny of the WINDWARD SIDE. Well-known of the sportsmen of the West, the new president had largely proven reliable before his election: former referee of excellent reputation, member of the Council of the WINDWARD SIDE since 1952, president of the District of the Sarthe since 1967 and Member of the central Commission of the statutes and payments.

At the end of 1980-1981, the WINDWARD SIDE counts 153.124 bachelors and 1.722 clubs. This same year 1981, on July 1st, following an administrative decision, the Sarthe and Mayenne must leave the WINDWARD SIDE to form the Ligue of Maine. Nevertheless, always in 1981, the WINDWARD SIDE had deployed an intense activity under the impulse of president Leon Guiard (former player then president of the ACE Brest-native), carrying out the construction of an head office adapted to the needs for the clubs, in particular to the techniques of data processing, and the development of the policy of young people, by supporting the creation of a championship of the gravitational West of the young people, by calling upon dynamic sponsors. Thus the WINDWARD SIDE had found the solutions to keep its bachelors to resist the consequences of a downward demography about it. The Breton departments were now between them, while remaining orphan Loire-Atlantique.

December 7th, 1987, Breton football was shocked by the sudden death of president Guiard. In March 1988, the League of the West celebrated its 70 years, cash 133.474 bachelors and 1.358 clubs.

1988 at our days

June 25th, 1988, Paul Hesran, former player then president of the Briochin Stage, is elected the new president of the WINDWARD SIDE. At the time of the general meeting of June 16th, 1990, the League of the West of Football becomes the League of Brittany de Football (LBF), and this in spite of the absence of the Loire-Atlantique. March 13rd, 1999, the League of Brittany celebrated its 80e birthday in Pontivy. At June 26th, 1999, it counted 152.640 bachelors and 1.205 clubs. At the year of the season 1999-2000, it counted 154.230 bachelors for 1.206 clubs. At the end of the season 2000-2001, the LBF entered 152.358 bachelors for 1.197 clubs, that is to say a fall of 1,15% compared to the former season. Despite everything, there is more than 9.000 beginners footballers each year in Brittany.

In 2005 - 2006, the LBF counts 154.329 bachelors (4th league in France behind Paris, the Rhone-Alps and the Nord-Pas-de-Calais), including 132.758 players, 18.657 technical leaders, 1982 referees and 932 licenses (trainers, in particular). Source: FF (pdf) Its figures did not rappartissent district as follows: Coasts of Armor 31.554 bachelors, Finistere north 23.679, Finistere south 18.260, Ille-et-Vilaine 44.750 and Morbihan 36.043. Source: FF (PDF)

Successive head offices of the LOFA/WINDWARD SIDE/LBF

1918-? : Rennes, 1 quai Lamennais
? - 1931: Rennes, 4 rue de Nemours
1931-1938: Rennes, 4 rue du Pré-Botté
1938-1963: Rennes, 11 boulevard de la Tour d'Auvergne
1963-1985: Rennes, 2 boulevard de la Tour d'Auvergne
EPD. 1985: Rennes, 17-19 rue du Sapeur Michel Jouan

Great footballistic figures of the LOFA/WINDWARD SIDE/LBF

Henri Guerin : He sets up the practice of football at 7 in 1967-68, with first experiments in Saint-Malo and Vannes. Official starting took place the following season and, in November 1976, a regional commission of football to 7 was created.
Roger Guerbignot : It framed football with 7 as of the first hours with Henri Guerin. Deceased in 1981, he was the first Regional Technical Adviser of the WINDWARD SIDE in 1970. A Challenge (competition) of the LBF bears its name today.
Jean Abautret : He was the founder of the school of football of Thursday, at the Lesnevien Stage, in the Fifties. He was thereafter a pioneer and great stimulating football with 7. Deceased in 1978, a Challenge of the LBF bears its name today.
Canon Gelh : Person in charge and trainer of the team of the Saint-Etienne college of Rennes (where he is professor of sciences and English), he is elected with the council of the LOFA in 1934 and of which he will be the general secretary of 1944 to 1972. Member of the central Commission of the young people of the FF. A Challenge of the LBF bears its name today.
Leon Guiard : It is under the impulse of this president of the WINDWARD SIDE that, in March 1982, the category Débutant football to 5 is created for the older children of 5 years and half at 8 years.

See too

Team of Brittany of football (amateurs)

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