Club Olympique de Roubaix-Tourcoing was a
football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...
club based in
Roubaix
Roubaix ( , ; ; ; ) is a city in northern France, located in the Lille metropolitan area on the Belgian border. It is a historically mono-industrial Communes of France, commune in the Nord (French department), Nord Departments of France, depar ...
, France. The team was founded in 1945 in a merge of three clubs:
Excelsior AC Roubaix,
RC Roubaix
Racing Club de Roubaix was a French association football team that played in Roubaix, Nord.
History
The team was founded in 1895 and was very successful before the establishment of professionalism in France. In 1933, after losing twice in a ...
and
US Tourcoing
Union Sportive Tourquennoise, commonly shortened to US Tourcoing, is a French football club founded in 1902 and based in Tourcoing. The club played in the Championnat National 3 (and its previous incarnation at the fifth level) for five seasons s ...
. In the
1946–47 season, the club won the
Division 1. The club later fell into the lower levels of French football and was eventually dissolved on 15 June 1970.
Honours
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Division 1:
1946–47
Managerial history
Source:
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Jean Batmale (1945–1946)
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Charles Demeillez (1946–1947)
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Georges Winckelmans (1947–1948)
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Ernest Payne (1948–1949)
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Julien Darui (1949 – January 1953)
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Marcel Desrousseaux (January 1953 – February 1955)
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Jean Baratte (February 1955 – 1955)
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Stanis Laczny (1955 – April 1959)
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Robert Lemaitre (April 1959 – 1959)
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Jean Lechantre (1959–1960)
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Maurice Blondel
Maurice Blondel (; ; 2 November 1861 – 4 June 1949) was a French philosopher, whose most influential works, notably ''L'Action'', aimed at establishing the correct relationship between autonomous philosophical reasoning and Christian belief.
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(1960–1962)
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Jacques Favre (1962–1963)
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Marcel Desrousseaux (1963–1964)
References
External links
Fan site
Association football clubs established in 1945
Association football clubs disestablished in 1970
1945 establishments in France
1970 disestablishments in France
CO Roubaix-Tourcoing
Roubaix-Tourcoing
Football clubs in Hauts-de-France
Ligue 1 clubs
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