A football club leaves the elite division due to the death of its patron

Sports réunis Colmar is a football club that played the only season of its history in Division 1 during the 1948-1949 campaign. The team secured its sporting survival by finishing in eleventh place in the general standings. However, the death of its president and patron Joseph Lehmann, nicknamed the good father Lehmann, plunged the club into a financial deadlock and forced it to restart in the amateur championship.