Stade Marseillais Université Club Handball, often just called SMUC Marseille, is a
team handball
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club from
Marseille
Marseille (; ; see #Name, below) is a city in southern France, the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Departments of France, department of Bouches-du-Rhône and of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Regions of France, region. Situated in the ...
,
France
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. 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
Olympique de Marseille (, ; , ), also known simply as Marseille, or by the abbreviation OM (, ), is a French professional Association football, football club based in Marseille which competes in Ligue 1, the French football league system, top f ...
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.
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() is a French daily morning newspaper founded in 1826. It was named after Figaro, a character in several plays by polymath Pierre Beaumarchais, Beaumarchais (1732–1799): ''Le Barbier de Séville'', ''The Guilty Mother, La Mère coupable'', ...
, date=27 December 2019 , accessdate=18 February 2020, language=fr 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.
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(), popularly known as ''Libé'' (), is a daily newspaper in France, founded in Paris by Jean-Paul Sartre and Serge July in 1973 in the wake of the protest movements of May 1968 in France, May 1968. Initially positioned on the far left of Fr ...
, title=L'OM du hand, main dans la main, date=25 March 1995, accessdate=19 April 2014, language=fr
Accomplishments
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EHF Cup Winner's Cup:
** Winner (1): 1993 (as OMV)
** Runners-up (1): 1994 (as OMV)
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French league
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:
** Winner (7): 1965, 1967, 1969, 1975, 1984 (as SMUC); 1994, 1996 (as OMV)
** Runners-up (3): 1983 (as SMUC); 1993, 1995 (as OMV)
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Coupe de France
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:
** Winner (3): 1976 (as SMUC); 1993, 1995 (as OMV)
** Runners-up (2): 1992, 1996 (as OMV)
Famous former players
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Phillippe Gardent
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Thierry Perreux
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Jackson Richardson
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Éric Amalou
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Frédéric Volle
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Éric Quintin
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Mirko Bašić
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Zoran Đorđić
Zoran Đorđić (; born 15 October 1966) is a Serbian former handball player. He is the father of fellow handball player Petar Đorđić.
Club career
In his home country, Đorđić played for RK Metaloplastika, Metaloplastika (1986–1992) and R ...
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Mile Isaković
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Slobodan Kuzmanovski
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Philippe Julia
References
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Handball clubs in France
Sports clubs and teams in Marseille
Handball clubs established in 1989
1989 establishments in France
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