Association Sportive Amicale
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| Full name | Association Sportive Amicale |
|---|---|
| Short name | AS Amicale |
| Founded | 1897 |
| Dissolved | April 1902 |
| Ground | Lycée Français de Madrid |
| Chairman | William MacAndrews |
| League | Centro championship |
The Association Sportive Amicale was a football team based in Madrid, Spain, which was founded in 1897 and dissolved in 1904 after being absorbed by Madrid FC. It was founded by students at the Lycée Français de Madrid under the name Association Sportive Française, and together with Sky Foot-Ball Club, it was the first pioneer of football in the Madrid region.[1]
The club was born in 1897, in parallel to the creation of the Sky Football Club, possibly due to the relationship between the students of the French Lyceum and those from the Institución Libre de Enseñanza. The name chosen was Association Sportive Française.[1]
Due to the limited extension of the said sport in the country, there were still no proper venues for its practice, so the enthusiastic players were distributed by different vacant lots and areas of the city in which the players themselves arrived early to paint the lines of the field and prepare the goals to be able to play their matches, but mainly they were held at the Lycée Français de Madrid.
In 1902 it changed its name to the Association Sportive Amicale, becoming commonly known as the Amicale.[1]