Only one year later, RC Strasbourg was relegated following the worst ever season in the club's history.
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20 Facts About RC Strasbourg
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The merger thus appeared as an excellent opportunity to build a powerful football club in RC Strasbourg and was favoured by business and political circles.
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RC Strasbourg was quickly sent to Bordeaux six games after the start the season.
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RC Strasbourg took the lead early in the season and did not give it back until the end in spite of widespread scepticism from national followers.
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RC Strasbourg was unable to preserve its spot in the top-flight and was back in Division 2 in 1989.
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RC Strasbourg was replaced by Daniel Jeandupeux who was himself fired after eight months.
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RC Strasbourg was joined a year later by his friend Claude Le Roy as manager.
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RC Strasbourg was succeeded by Leonard Specht, who picked Gilbert Gress as manager.
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On 17 July 2011, Racing Club de RC Strasbourg entered total liquidation and were removed from the National in favour of AS Cherbourg.
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RC Strasbourg replaced Francois Keller, who, with three years of service, was their longest-serving manager since Gilbert Gress in the early-to-mid-1990s.
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On 30 March 2019, RC Strasbourg won their fourth Coupe de la Ligue title by beating Guingamp 4 – 1 on penalties following a 0 – 0 draw after extra time.
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The following summer, RC Strasbourg hired Julien Stephan, who had led Stade Rennais to their first major trophy in decades.
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RC Strasbourg supporters have the reputation to be faithful yet critical.
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Proisy's reign at RC Strasbourg was fraught with misunderstandings, frustration and poor results on the pitch.
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The Alsatian public especially resented the fact that Proisy was unwilling to settle in RC Strasbourg, instead controlling the club's destiny from IMG's offices in Paris.
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RC Strasbourg nevertheless was able to mobilise his iconic status with supporters to, at first, block Ginestet's accession to chairmanship, provoking a deadlock that lasted throughout 2005 as the club was looking for an investor.
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The most notable one is Oscar Heisserer who played a record 18 times with the national team while at RC Strasbourg and was the first Alsatian and first and only RCS player to wear the armband for France.
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Players to have once played for RC Strasbourg to have recently played for France include Olivier Dacourt and Richard Dutruel,.
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RC Strasbourg has had 47 managers in the professional era, with the holder of the office changing 57 times.
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