Edmond Delfour

Youth career

1918-1924 : Draveil 1924-1927 : Étoile Juvisy-Viry

Senior career

1928-1929 : Stade Français 1929-1937 : RC Paris 1938-1939 : RC Roubaix 1939-1945 : FC Rouen 1945-1946 : Red Star

For France national football team he got 41 caps and scored 2 goals between 1929 and 1938. His first cap was against England on 09/05/1929. His first goal was against Czechoslovakia on 11/05/1930. His second and last goal was against England on 14/05/1931. He participated at three edition of FIFA World Cup : in 1930, 1934, and 1938. He played the whole 6 France's games in the three tournaments. The 1938 FIFA World Cup quarter-final lost against Italy on 12 June 1938 was his last cap. He was one of the 6 players to have appeared in all three of the pre-war World Cups. The other being teammates Étienne Mattler and Emile Veinante, Romanian Nicolae Kovács, Belgian Bernard Voorhoof and Brazilian Patesko. He was the last surviving of those 6 players.

While he was still a player, he coached FC Rouen from 1940 to 1945, then Red Star from 1945 to 1946 From 1946 to 1951 he coached Belgian club Gent. He then managed Stade Français from 1952 to December 1953. He then coached Le Havre AC from January 1954 to 1955. In 1956, he went back to Belgium to coach several clubs : Gent from 1956 to 1958, Cercle Brugge from 1958 to 1962, Union Saint-Gilloise from 1962 to 1964. From 1964 to 1965 he managed USC Corte. He then coached Tunisian side Club Sportif de Hammam-Lif from 1966 to 1969. He ended his career at SC Bastia from 1969 to December 1970

Player

RC Paris

Ligue 1 : 1935-1936 Coupe de France : 1936