SMUC Marseille

{{short description|French handball club}} {{Infobox handball club | clubname = SMUC Marseille | image = SMUC Marseille.png | fullname = Stade Marseillais Université Club | short name = | founded = {{start date and age|1941}}, recreated from OM Virtrolles {{start date and age|1994}} | ground = Palais des sports de Marseille<br>Stadium de Vitrolles<ref name="eurohandball">{{cite web|url=http://statistics.eurohandball.com/reports/?typ=a&season=1994&mw=1&bewerbTyp=2&b=2 |title=EHF Greenbook 1994 |website=eurohandball.com|publisher=European Handball Federation|access-date=18 February 2020}}</ref> | capacity = 5800<br>5000 | chairman = Dominique Tésorière | manager = - | league = - | season = | position = | website = | colour1 = blue | colour2 = white |pattern_la1=_three_blue_left_shoulder_stripes |pattern_b1 =_three_blue_left_shoulder_stripes |pattern_sh1= |pattern_ra1= |rightarm1 =FFFFFF |body1 =FFFFFF |leftarm1 =FFFFFF |shorts1 =FFFFFF |pattern_la2= |pattern_b2 = |pattern_sh2= |pattern_ra2= |rightarm2 =0063ff |leftarm2 =0063ff |body2 =0063ff |shorts2 =0063ff }}

'''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.<ref name="figaro">{{cite web |url=http://sport24.lefigaro.fr/handball/actualites/serie-de-la-gloire-a-l-anonymat-l-om-vitrolles-l-etoile-filante-du-handball-francais-987215 |title=«De la gloire à l'anonymat»: L'OM-Vitrolles, l'étoile filante du handball français |publisher=Le Figaro |date=27 December 2019 |accessdate=18 February 2020|language=fr}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.liberation.fr/sports/1996/05/22/hand-l-om-vitrolles-dans-un-trou-financier-et-sportif-deficitaire-le-club-champion-de-france-est-ret_171002 |website=Libération|title=Hand: l'OM-Vitrolles dans un trou financier et sportif . Déficitaire, le club champion de France est rétrogradé|date=22 May 1996|accessdate=19 April 2014|language=fr}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.liberation.fr/sports/1995/03/25/l-om-du-hand-main-dans-la-main_125871 |website=Libération|title=L'OM du hand, main dans la main|date=25 March 1995|accessdate=19 April 2014|language=fr}}</ref>

==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== *{{flagicon|FRA}} Phillippe Gardent *{{flagicon|FRA}} Thierry Perreux *{{flagicon|FRA}} Jackson Richardson *{{flagicon|FRA}} Éric Amalou *{{flagicon|FRA}} Frédéric Volle *{{flagicon|FRA}} Éric Quintin *{{flagicon|CRO}} Mirko Bašić *{{flagicon|SRB}} Zoran Đorđić *{{flagicon|SRB}} Mile Isaković *{{flagicon|SRB}} Slobodan Kuzmanovski *{{flagicon|FRA}} Philippe Julia

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Smuc Marseille}} Category:Handball clubs in France Category:Sports clubs and teams in Marseille Category:Handball clubs established in 1989 Category:1989 establishments in France