FC Lausanne-Sport

FC Lausanne–Sport (also referred to as LS) is a Swiss football club based in Lausanne in the canton of Vaud. Founded in 1896, Lausanne Sport currently plays in the Swiss Super League, the highest tier of football in the country, and hosts games at the Stade Olympique de la Pontaise. The team has won seven league titles and the Swiss Cup nine times.

Lausanne–Sport

Full name	Football Club Lausanne-Sport
Nickname(s)	Les bleu et blanc (The Blue and White)
Founded	1896
Ground	Stade de la Tuilière
Capacity	12,544
Owner	Ineos
President	David Thompson
Manager	Giorgio Contini
League	Swiss Super League
2019–20	Swiss Challenge League, 1st (promoted)
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours

History

Chart of FC Lausanne-Sport table positions in the Swiss football league system

The club was founded in 1896 under the name of Montriond Lausanne. However, the Lausanne Football and Cricket Club was established in 1860, believed to be the oldest football club on the European continent by some historians. The club took the name Lausanne-Sports FC in 1920 after the football section merged with the Club Hygiénique de Lausanne, a physical education club. The club plays at the Stade Olympique de la Pontaise, a 15,850 all-seater stadium used for the 1954 FIFA World Cup. They played in Swiss First Division between 1906 and 1931 and 1932–2002.

After the 2001–02 season, Lausanne-Sports were relegated because the club did not obtain a first level license for the 2002–03 season. Following the 2002–03 season in the second division, Lausanne-Sports FC were again relegated due to bankruptcy. They were reformed as FC Lausanne-Sport for the 2003–04 season and had to begin play at the fourth tier. The team was promoted in consecutive seasons from the fourth division after the 2003–04 season and the third division after the 2004–05 season. After an additional six years in the second tier of Swiss football, the club was promoted to the Super League for the 2011–12 season.

Lausanne-Sport qualified for the 2010–11 UEFA Europa League after they reached the 2010 Swiss Cup final against Champions League-qualified Basel. In the 2010–11 Europa League, while still playing in the second tier Challenge League, they performed a shock getting to the group stages beating favourites Lokomotiv Moscow on the way.

Lausanne-Sport were relegated to the Swiss Challenge League at the end of the 2013–14 Swiss Super League season.[1] Two years later, they finished first in the 2015–16 Swiss Challenge League, which promoted them back to the top tier of Swiss football for the 2016–17 season.[2]

On 13 November 2017, the club was acquired by Ineos, a Swiss-based British petrochemicals company owned by Jim Ratcliffe, the nation's wealthiest person.[3] The first transfer under the new ownership was that of Enzo Fernández, son of Zinedine Zidane.[4] However, the season ended with relegation. Ratcliffe's brother Bob became club president in March 2019.[5] The club won promotion back to the top flight as champions of the 2019–20 Swiss Challenge League.[6]

Honours

League

• Ligue Nationale A/Super League
  • Winners (7): 1912–13, 1931–32, 1934–35, 1935–36, 1943–44, 1950–51, 1964–65
  • Runners-up (8): 1946–47, 1954–55, 1961–62, 1962–63, 1968–69, 1969–70, 1989–90, 1999–2000
• Ligue Nationale B/Challenge League
  • Winners: 1931–32, 2010–11, 2015–16, 2019–20
• 1. Liga Promotion
  • Winners: 2004–05
• 1. Liga Classic
  • Winners: 2003–04

Cups

• Swiss Cup
  • Winners (9): 1934–35, 1938–39, 1943–44, 1949–50, 1961–62, 1963–64, 1980–81, 1997–98, 1998–99
  • Runners-up (8): 1936–37, 1945–46, 1946–47, 1956–57, 1966–67, 1983–84, 1999–2000, 2009–10
• Swiss League Cup
  • Runners-up: 1980–81

Players

Current squad

As of 5 February, 2021[7]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK   SUI Thomas Castella 2 MF  CIV Trazié Thomas (on loan from Nice) 4 DF  GER Moritz Jenz 5 DF   SUI Noah Loosli 6 DF  POR Elton Monteiro 7 MF  CRO Stjepan Kukuruzović (captain) 8 MF   SUI Joël Geissmann 9 FW  FRA Evann Guessand (on loan from Nice) 10 FW  FRA Lucas Da Cunha (on loan from Nice) 11 MF  CIV Brahima Ouattara (on loan from Nice) 12 FW  COD Jonathan Bolingi (on loan from Antwerp) 13 DF  NOR Per-Egil Flo 17 FW  NOR Rafik Zekhnini (on loan from Fiorentina) 18 GK   SUI Noah Falk 20 MF  FRA Hicham Mahou (on loan from Nice)

No. Pos. Nation Player 21 MF   SUI Cameron Puertas 22 DF   SUI Marc Tsoungui 24 DF  CIV Armel Zohouri (on loan from Nice) 25 DF  SRB Nikola Boranijašević 28 DF  JPN Toichi Suzuki 33 FW   SUI Isaac Schmidt 37 DF  FRA Ange Nanizayamo 38 MF  POR Pedro Brazão (on loan from Nice) 39 FW  COD Josias Lukembila 40 GK  SEN Mory Diaw 45 MF   SUI Stéphane Cueni 46 MF  POR Alvyn Sanches 47 FW  KVX Florian Hysenaj 48 MF   SUI Théo Rochat 66 MF   SUI Gabriel Bares 99 FW  BIH Aldin Turkeš

Former players

• Jean-Philippe Karlen

Former coaches

Billy Hunter (1922–23) Jimmy Hogan (1925) Fred Spiksley (1928) Robert Pache (1931–32) Jimmy Hogan (1933–34) Alwin Riemke (1934–35) Friedrich Kerr (1939) Frank Séchehaye (1942–43) Fritz Leonhardt and Georg Baumgartner (1943–45) Louis Maurer (1945–50) Béla Volentik (1950–51) Jacques Spagnoli (1951–53) Joseph Schaefer (1953–54) Bram Appel (1954–55) Fernand Jaccard (1955–57) Walter Presch (1957–60) Albert Châtelain (1960–61) Charles Marmier and Frank Séchehaye (1961–62) Jean Luciano (1962–64)

Roger Reymond and Roger Bocquet (1964) Roger Reymond (1964–65) Kurt Linder (1965–66) Wilhelm Hahnemann (1966–67) Roger Vonlanthen (1967–72) Louis Maurer (1972–74) Paul Garbani (1974–76) Miroslav Blažević (1976–79) Charly Hertig (1979–82) Péter Pázmándy (1982–84) Radu Nunweiller (1984–87) Umberto Barberis (1 August 1987 – 20 June 1993) Marc Duvillard (1993–94) Martin Trümpler (1 July 1994 – 30 June 1995) Georges Bregy (1 July 1995 – 30 September 1997) Radu Nunweiller and Pierre-André Schürmann (1998) Pierre-André Schürmann (24 October 1998 – 11 December 2000) Victor Zvunka (1 July 2000 – 30 June 2001) Radu Nunweiller (1 July 2001 – 5 December 2001)

Umberto Barberis (20 February 2002 – 8 May 2002) Pablo Iglesias (2002–03) Gabriel Calderón (1 January 2003 – 30 June 2003) Jochen Dries (2003–04) Gérard Castella (1 July 2005 – 24 May 2006) Alain Geiger (1 June 2006 – 21 November 2006) Paul Garbani and P. Isabella (interim) (24 November 2006 – 11 December 2006) Stéphane Hunziker and Patrick Isabella (17 February 2007 – 30 May 2007) Umberto Barberis (1 July 2007 – 17 December 2007) Thierry Cotting (15 December 2007 – 30 June 2009) John Dragani (1 July 2008 – 30 June 2010) Árpád Soós (19 March 2010 – 30 June 2010) Martin Rueda (1 July 2010 – 30 June 2012) Laurent Roussey (1 July 2012 – 21 October 2013) Alexandre Comisetti (22 October 2013 – 7 November 2013) Henri Atamaniuk (8 November 2013 – 20 June 2014) Francesco Gabriele (1 July 2014 – 9 October 2014) Marco Simone (13 October 2014 – 24 March 2015) Fabio Celestini (24 March 2015 – present)[8][9]

Recent seasons

Recent season-by-season performance of the club:[10][11]

Season	Division	Tier	Position
2005–06	Challenge League	II	3rd
2006–07			13th
2007–08			13th
2008–09			7th
2009–10			10th
2010–11			1st ↑
2011–12	Super League	I	7th
2012–13			9th
2013–14			10th ↓
2014–15	Challenge League	II	5th
2015–16			1st ↑
2016–17	Super League	I	9th
2017–18			10th ↓
2018–19	Challenge League	II	3rd

Key

↑ Promoted

↓ Relegated

Lausanne-Sports Rowing

Lausanne-Sports Aviron is the rowing club of Lausanne-Sport.

References

1. "Le FC Lausanne-Sport relégué" (in French). 4 May 2014. Retrieved 28 November 2016.
2. "Lausanne accède à l'élite" (in French). 5 May 2016. Retrieved 28 November 2016.
3. Wilson, Bill (13 November 2017). "Chemicals giant Ineos buys Swiss football team". Retrieved 9 June 2018.
4. "Enzo Zidane leaves Alaves for Lausanne revolution". FourFourTwo. 1 January 2018. Retrieved 9 June 2018.
5. "After buying Team Sky, Ineos makes change at Lausanne-Sport". The Seattle Times. The Associated Pres. 22 March 2019. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
6. "Bob Ratcliffe: "Tout le monde doit voir le LS comme une équipe de Super League"" [Bob Ratcliffe: "Everyone must see LS as a Super League team"] (in French). RTS. 3 August 2020. Retrieved 25 September 2020.
7. "1ère équipe" [1st team] (in French). FC Lausanne-Sport. Retrieved 11 December 2020.
8. "Le FC Lausanne-Sport limoge Simone et mise sur Celestini" (in French). 24 March 2015. Retrieved 22 December 2016.
9. "Celestini prolonge trois ans au FC Lausanne-Sport" (in French). 21 May 2015. Retrieved 22 December 2016.
10. "Archives des saisons – Challenge League" (in French). Retrieved 22 December 2016.
11. "Archives des saisons – Super League" (in French). Retrieved 22 December 2016.

External links

• Football department
• Athletics department
• Roller hockey department
• Rowing department

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