SMUC Marseille

SMUC Marseille
SMUC Marseille
Full name	Stade Marseillais Université Club
Founded	1941, recreated from OM Virtrolles 1994
Arena	Palais des sports de Marseille; Stadium de Vitrolles
Capacity	5800; 5000
President	Dominique Tésorière
Head coach	-
League	-
Club colours
Home	Away

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 supported 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

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

References

^ "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.

[eurohandball-1] "EHF Greenbook 1994". eurohandball.com. European Handball Federation. Retrieved 18 February 2020.

[figaro-2] "«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.

[3] "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.

[4] "L'OM du hand, main dans la main". Libération (in French). 25 March 1995. Retrieved 19 April 2014.

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