FC Avenir Beggen
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| Full name | Football Club Avenir Beggen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | Wichtelcher (Pixies) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Founded | 1 July 1915 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ground | Stade rue Henri Dunant, Beggen |
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| Capacity | 4,830 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chairman |  Jean Hansen |
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| Manager |  Fernando Gutierrez |
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| League | Luxembourg Division of Honour | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2005-6 | National Division, 12th | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Football Club Avenir Beggen, usually abbreviated to Avenir Beggen, is a football club, based in Beggen, in southern Luxembourg.
Avenir Beggen had played in the National Division in consecutive seasons since 1965-66, but were relegated in the 2005-06 season.
[edit] Honours
- Winners (6): 1968-69, 1981-82, 1983-84, 1985-86, 1992-93, 1993-94
- Runners-up (5): 1974-75, 1982-83, 1986-87, 1989-90, 1991-92
- Winners (7): 1982-83, 1983-84, 1986-87, 1991-92, 1992-93, 1993-94, 2001-02
- Runners-up (4): 1973-74, 1987-88, 1988-89, 1997-98
[edit] European Competition
Avenir have qualified for UEFA European competition sixteen times.
- Qualifying round (2): 1993-94, 1994-95
- First round (4): 1969-70, 1982-83, 1984-85, 1986-87
- Qualifying round (1): 2002-03
- First round (4): 1975-76, 1985-86, 1990-91, 1995-96
- First round (4): 1983-84, 1987-88, 1988-89, 1992-93
- Second round (1): 1974-75
They have won three ties in European competition (although two were only on technicalities):
- In 1974-75, their Cup Winners' Cup first round opponents, Enosis Paralimni of Cyprus, withdrew due to ongoing crisis in that country.
- In the same competition in 1992-93, Avenir beat the Faroe Islands' B36 Tórshavn 2-1 on aggregate in the qualifying round, before losing 5-1 on aggregate to Spartak Moscow in the first round proper.
- In the 1995-96 UEFA Cup, Avenir lost on away goals to Örebro SK, but Avenir were awarded a 3-0 victory when it transpired that the Swedes had fielded an ineligible player.
In addition to those three ties, Avenir have won one game in a tie that they eventually lost (2-1 at home against Inter Bratislava in the 1990-91 UEFA Cup, before losing 5-0 in Bratislava).
Overall, Avenir's record in European competition reads:
| P | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | |
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| FC Avenir Beggen | 36 | 3 | 3 | 30 | 12 | 142 | -130 |
