FC Lausanne-Sport

Lausanne-Sport

Full name

Football Club Lausanne-Sport

Nickname(s)

Les blancs

Founded

1896

Ground

Olympique de la Pontaise

Capacity

15,850

President

Alain Joseph

Manager

Fabio Celestini

League

Swiss Super League

2016–17

Swiss Super League, 9th

Website

Club website

Home colours

Away colours

Third colours

FC Lausanne-Sport (also referred to as LS) is a Swiss football club based in Lausanne.

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 1906–1931 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]

Lausanne-Sport has won the Swiss First Division seven times and the Swiss Cup nine times.

Honours

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 (2): 2010–11, 2015–16
1. Liga Promotion
- Winners: 2004–05
1. Liga Classic
- Winners: 2003–04
Swiss Cup
- Winners (9): 1935, 1939, 1944, 1950, 1962, 1964, 1981, 1998, 1999
- Runners-up (8): 1937, 1946, 1947, 1957, 1967, 1984, 2000, 2010
Swiss League Cup
- Runners-up: 1981

Current squad

As of 22 July 2017 Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Thomas Castella
4	DF	Jérémy Manière
5	DF	Alain Rochat
6	DF	Elton Monteiro
7	MF	Benjamin Kololli
8	MF	Joël Geissmann
9	FW	Pak Kwang-ryong
10	FW	Gonzalo Zarate
11	MF	Samuele Campo
14	MF	Alexandre Pasche
15	DF	Leandro Marín
18	MF	Andrea Maccoppi
19	FW	Francesco Margiotta (on loan from Juventus)

No.	Position	Player
20	MF	Maxime Dominguez
21	DF	Djamel Mesbah
22	GK	Kevin Martin
23	MF	Ali Kabacalman
25	MF	Marco Delley
27	MF	Mersim Asllani
28	MF	Yeltsin Tejeda
29	FW	Andi Zeqiri
30	DF	Nicolas Gétaz
35	GK	Diego Berchtold
37	FW	Gabriel Torres
86	FW	Valeri Bojinov

Former coaches

Billy Hunter (1922–23)
Jimmy Hogan (1925)
Fred Spiksley (1928)
Robert Pache (1931–32)
Jimmy Hogan (1933–34)
Alv 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 (Aug 1, 1987 – June 20, 1993)
Marc Duvillard (1993–94)
Martin Trümpler (July 1, 1994 – June 30, 1995)
Georges Bregy (July 1, 1995 – Sept 30, 1997)
Radu Nunweiller and Pierre-André Schürmann (1998)
Pierre-André Schürmann (Oct 24, 1998 – Dec 11, 2000)
Victor Zvunka (July 1, 2000 – June 30, 2001)
Radu Nunweiller (July 1, 2001 – Dec 5, 2001)

Umberto Barberis (Feb 20, 2002 – May 8, 2002)
Pablo Iglesias (2002–03)
Gabriel Calderón (Jan 1, 2003 – June 30, 2003)
Jochen Dries (2003–04)
Gérard Castella (July 1, 2005 – May 24, 2006)
Alain Geiger (June 1, 2006 – Nov 21, 2006)
Paul Garbani and P. Isabella (interim) (Nov 24, 2006 – Dec 11, 2006)
Stéphane Hunziker and Patrick Isabella (Feb 17, 2007 – May 30, 2007)
Umberto Barberis (July 1, 2007 – Dec 17, 2007)
Thierry Cotting (Dec 15, 2007 – June 30, 2009)
John Dragani (July 1, 2008 – June 30, 2010)
Árpád Soós (March 19, 2010 – June 30, 2010)
Martin Rueda (July 1, 2010 – June 30, 2012)
Laurent Roussey (July 1, 2012 – October 21, 2013)
Alexandre Comisetti (October 22, 2013 – November 7, 2013)
Henri Atamaniuk (November 8, 2013 – June 20, 2014)
Francesco Gabriele (July 1, 2014 – October 9, 2014)
Marco Simone (October 13, 2014 – March 24, 2015)
Fabio Celestini (March 24, 2015 – present)^[3]^[4]

Recent seasons

Recent season-by-season performance of the club:^[5]^[6]

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	Challenge League	II	1st ↑
2016–17	Super League	I	9th
2017–18

Key

↑ Promoted	↓ Relegated

Lausanne-Sports Rowing

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

References

↑ "Le FC Lausanne-Sport relégué" (in French). 4 May 2014. Retrieved 28 November 2016.
↑ "Lausanne accède à l'élite" (in French). 5 May 2016. Retrieved 28 November 2016.
↑ "Le FC Lausanne-Sport limoge Simone et mise sur Celestini" (in French). 24 March 2015. Retrieved 22 December 2016.
↑ "Celestini prolonge trois ans au FC Lausanne-Sport" (in French). 21 May 2015. Retrieved 22 December 2016.
↑ "Archives des saisons - Challenge League" (in French). Retrieved 22 December 2016.
↑ "Archives des saisons - Super League" (in French). Retrieved 22 December 2016.

External links

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Swiss Super League
2017–18 teams	Basel Grasshopper Lausanne-Sport Lugano Luzern Sion St. Gallen Thun Young Boys Zürich
Former teams	Aarau Bellinzona Neuchâtel Xamax Schaffhausen Servette Vaduz Wil Yverdon-Sport
Associated competitions	Swiss Cup Swiss Challenge League
Seasons	2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18

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