SMUC Marseille
SMUC Marseille | |||
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Full name | Stade Marseillais Université Club | ||
Founded | 1941 | , recreated from OM Virtrolles 1994||
Arena | Palais des sports de Marseille Stadium de Vitrolles[1] | ||
Capacity | 5800 5000 | ||
President | Dominique Tésorière | ||
Head coach | - | ||
League | - | ||
Club colours | |||
Stade Marseillais Université Club Handball, often just called SMUC Marseille, is a team handball club from Marseille, France. Currently, SMUC Marseille competes in the French First League of Handball.
Between 1989 and 1996 the team was called OM Vitrolles, and acted as a part of the broader sports club Olympique de Marseille and was economically surported by them. When Olympique de Marsille was involved in the bribing scandal Affaire VA-OM, it affected the handball team, and the players began to strike, as they were not getting paid.[2] The team was administratively relegated to the French third tier in 1996, as they could not pay there 3 million Franc debt. Afterwards the team returned to be Stade Marseillais Université Club Handball again.[3][4]
Accomplishments
[edit]- EHF Cup Winner's Cup:
- Winner (1): 1993 (as OMV)
- Runners-up (1): 1994 (as OMV)
- French league:
- Winner (7): 1965, 1967, 1969, 1975, 1984 (as SMUC); 1994, 1996 (as OMV)
- Runners-up (3): 1983 (as SMUC); 1993, 1995 (as OMV)
- Coupe de France:
- Winner (3): 1976 (as SMUC); 1993, 1995 (as OMV)
- Runners-up (2): 1992, 1996 (as OMV)
Famous former players
[edit]Phillippe Gardent
Thierry Perreux
Jackson Richardson
Éric Amalou
Frédéric Volle
Éric Quintin
Mirko Bašić
Zoran Đorđić
Mile Isaković
Slobodan Kuzmanovski
Philippe Julia
References
[edit]- ^ {"EHF Greenbook 1994". eurohandball.com. European Handball Federation. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
- ^ "«De la gloire à l'anonymat»: L'OM-Vitrolles, l'étoile filante du handball français" (in French). Le Figaro. 27 December 2019. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
- ^ "Hand: l'OM-Vitrolles dans un trou financier et sportif . Déficitaire, le club champion de France est rétrogradé". Libération (in French). 22 May 1996. Retrieved 19 April 2014.
- ^ "L'OM du hand, main dans la main". Libération (in French). 25 March 1995. Retrieved 19 April 2014.