{{short description|French footballer (1908–1991)}} {{Infobox football biography | name = Yves Dupont | image = Yves Dupont 1931.jpg | image_size = | caption = Dupont in 1931 | full_name = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1908|10|05|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Saint-Pons-de-Thomières]], France | death_date = {{death date and age|1991|05|05|1908|10|05|df=y}} | death_place = [[Valleraugue]], France | height = | position = [[Midfielder]] | youthyears1 = | youthclubs1 = [[Bédarieux]] | years1 = 1926–1929 | clubs1 = [[Bédarieux]] FC | caps1 = | goals1 = | years2 = 1929–1932 | clubs2 = [[Montpellier HSC|Montpellier]] | caps2 = | goals2 = | years3 = 1932–1933 | clubs3 = [[AS Béziers Hérault (football)|AS Béziers]] | caps3 = | goals3 = | years4 = 1933–1935 | clubs4 = [[FC Sète 34|FC Sète]] | caps4 = | goals4 = | years5 = 1935–1937 | clubs5 = [[Montpellier HSC|Montpellier]] | caps5 = | goals5 = | years6 = 1938–1939 | clubs6 = [[US Revel|Revel]] | caps6 = | goals6 = | totalcaps = | totalgoals = }} '''Yves Dupont''' (5 October 1908 – 5 May 1991) was a French [[Association football|footballer]] who played as a [[midfielder]] for [[Montpellier HSC|Montpellier]] and [[FC Sète 34|FC Sète]] in the 1930s.
==Playing career== Born in the [[Hérault]] town of [[Saint-Pons-de-Thomières]] on 5 October 1908, Dupont began his football career in a modest club based in the small town of [[Bédarieux]], from which he joined Montpellier in 1929, aged 21.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k7214836s/f4.item.r=dupont%20montpellier.zoom |title=La celebrite de Bédarieux? Ses biscottes... et son club de football |trans-title=Bédarieux's celebrity? Its biscuits... and its football club |language=fr |website=gallica.bnf.fr |page=4 |date=4 July 1935 |access-date=21 April 2025}}</ref>
[[File:SO Montpellier 1931 Stade Buffalo.jpg|thumb|left|Dupont with the Montpellier team in 1931.]] Together with [[Charles Cros (footballer)|Charles Cros]], [[Roger Rolhion]] and the Temple brothers ([[Jacques Temple|Jacques]] and [[Pierre Temple|Pierre]]), he was a member of the Montpellier team that reached the [[1931 Coupe de France final]], which ended in a 3–0 loss to [[Club Français]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.om4ever.com/CoupeFrance/1930/Coupe1930-1931.html |title=Saison 1930-1931 Club Français Vainqueur |trans-title=1930-1931 Season Club Français Winner |language=fr |website=www.om4ever.com |access-date=21 April 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://mfe11.free.fr/histoire/volet4.htm |title=Histoire du club - Si Montpellier m'était conté... |trans-title=Club History - If Montpellier were told to me... |language=fr |website=mfe11.free.fr |access-date=21 April 2025}}</ref> The following day, the journalists of the French newspaper ''L'Auto'' (currently known as ''[[L'Équipe]]'') stated that he "showed courage, but never shone; however, he marked [[Émile Hennequin]], who was not a difficult opponent".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k46333713/f4.image.r=dupont.zoom |title=La victoire du Club Français sur les S.O. Montpellier pour la Coupe de France - Comment ils ont joué |trans-title=The French Club's victory over S.O. Montpellier for the Coupe de France - How they played |language=fr |website=gallica.bnf.fr |publisher=[[L'Auto|L'Équipe]] |page=4 |date=4 May 1931 |access-date=21 April 2025}}</ref>
Dupont stayed at Montpellier for three years, from 1929 until 1932, when he moved [[AS Béziers Hérault (football)|AS Béziers]]. The following year, he joined Sète, whose new coach, [[René Dedieu]], had known Dupont at SO Montpellier.{{cn|date=June 2025}} In his first season at the club, Sète won the double, the [[1933–34 French Division 1]] and the [[1933–34 Coupe de France]], beating [[Olympique de Marseille]] 2–1 in the [[1934 Coupe de France final|final]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.om4ever.com/CoupeFrance/1930/Coupe1933-1934.html |title=Saison 1933-1934 Sète Vainqueur |trans-title=1933-1934 Season Sète Winner |language=fr |website=www.om4ever.com |access-date=21 April 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.pinte2foot.com/article/fc-sete-a-jamais-les-premiers |title=FC Sète, à jamais les premiers |trans-title=FC Sète, forever the first |language=fr |website=www.pinte2foot.com |date=3 June 2023 |access-date=5 June 2025}}</ref> The following day, the journalists of ''L'Auto'' stated that Dupont, who was involved in his team's second goal, "worked with heart, with his youth and enthusiasm being communicated to their partners and particularly to the forwards".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k4634471r/f4.image.r=dupont.zoom |title=Le Football Club de Sète remporte la Coupe de France |trans-title=Sète Football Club wins the French Cup |language=fr |website=gallica.bnf.fr |publisher=[[L'Auto|L'Équipe]] |page=4 |date=7 May 1934 |access-date=21 April 2025}}</ref> In 1938, he signed for [[US Revel|Revel]], the reigning champions of the [[Ligue de Midi-Pyrénées]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k7214928k/f2.item.r=dupont%20montpellier.zoom |title=U.S. Revel |language=fr |website=gallica.bnf.fr |page=2 |date=20 July 1938 |access-date=21 April 2025}}</ref>
==Later life and death== In 1973, having become an inspector and departmental director of youth and sport, Dupont wrote a historical book on FC Sète titled ''La Mecque du football ou Mémoires d'un dauphin'' ("The Mecca of Football or Memoirs of a Dauphin").<ref name=Cat>{{cite web |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12123859m |title=Notice de personne "Dupont, Yves (1908-1991)" |trans-title=Personal information "Dupont, Yves (1908-1991)" |language=fr |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |access-date=21 April 2025}}</ref>
Dupont died in [[Valleraugue]] on 5 May 1991, at the age of 82.<ref name=Cat/>
==Honours== ;Montpellier *[[Coupe de France]]: **Runner-up (1): [[1930–31 Coupe de France final|1930–31]]
;FC Sète *[[Coupe de France]]: **'''Champions (1)''': [[1933–34 French Division 1|1933–34]]
*[[Ligue 1]]: **'''Champions (1)''': [[1933–34 Coupe de France|1933–34]]
==References== {{reflist}}
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