Lausanne Sports
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Full name | Football Club Lausanne Sports | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Founded | 1896 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ground | Stade Olympique de la Pontaise, Lausanne (Capacity 15,850) |
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Manager | Thierry Cotting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
League | Challenge League | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2006-07 | Challenge League, 13th place | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Lausanne Sports (also referred to as LS) is a sports club from Lausanne, Switzerland. It is most famous for its football department (FC Lausanne-Sport), but the club has also athletics, sport rowing, and rink hockey departments.
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[edit] History
The football-section 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 contienent by some historians). The club took its current name in 1920 after the football section merged with the Club Hygiénique de Lausanne, a physical education club.
[edit] Football
FC Lausanne-Sport won the Swiss Football League seven times: in 1912/13 (then it was called Montriond Lausanne), 1931/32, 1934/35, 1935/36, 1943/1944, 1950/1951 and 1964/65.
It also won the Schweizer Cup nine times: in 1935, 1939, 1944, 1950, 1962, 1964, 1981, 1998 and 1999.
It currently plays in the Swiss Challenge League.
LS is playing at the Stade Olympique de la Pontaise (16'000, all seated), a stadium used for the 1954 FIFA World Cup.
[edit] Current Squad
As of 17 January 2008.
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[edit] Former Famous Players
[edit] Former Coaches
[edit] Sport rowing
Lausanne-Sports Aviron is the rowing club of Lausanne Sports.
[edit] External links
- Football department
- Athletics department
- Roller hockey department
- Rowing department
- Fan forum
- Supporters website
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Swiss Challenge League 2007/08
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