CA Spora Luxembourg was a
football
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club
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* "Club", by Kelsea Ballerini from the album ''kelsea''
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, based in
Luxembourg City
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, in southern
Luxembourg
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. It is now a part of
Racing FC Union Luxembourg
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The etymology of the name originates from Racing Club ...
.
History
Spora was founded in 1923 as an amalgam of
Racing Club Luxembourg
Racing Club Luxembourg is a now defunct Luxembourgian football team which was merged with Sporting Club Luxembourg in 1923 to make CA Spora Luxembourg
CA Spora Luxembourg was a football club, based in Luxembourg City, in southern Luxembourg. It ...
and
Sporting Club Luxembourg
Sporting Club Luxembourg are a now defunct Luxembourgian football team which was merged with Racing Club Luxembourg to become CA Spora Luxembourg
CA Spora Luxembourg was a football club, based in Luxembourg City, in southern Luxembourg. It is n ...
, two of the leading lights of early Luxembourgish football. For the first seventeen years of existence, Spora would battle with
FA Red Boys Differdange
Football Association Red Boys Differdange was a football club, based in Differdange, in south-western Luxembourg. It is now a part of FC Differdange 03.
History
Red Boys was founded as ''SC Differdange'' in 1907, the year after Luxembourg's firs ...
for ultimate ascendancy in Luxembourgish football. Although Red Boys won more trophies in this period, Spora picked up almost every piece of silverware that Red Boys didn't, with seven
league titles and three
Luxembourg Cup
The Luxembourg Cup () is the national knockout cup competition in Luxembourgian football. It was first held in 1922, and has been held annually since, with the exception of the four seasons during the German occupation during Second World War.
W ...
s in just fifteen years.
During the
German occupation of Luxembourg, the club played in the
Gauliga Moselland
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under the name of ''Moselland Luxemburg''.
After the
Second World War
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, Spora continued to win titles (albeit less frequently than before). To its pre-war haul, the club added four more championships and won the Luxembourg Cup another five times. In 1956, Spora recorded one of the most celebrated European club results in Luxembourgish history, as it beat the
West German
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champions,
Borussia Dortmund
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.
In 2005, Spora merged with two other clubs from Luxembourg City,
CS Alliance 01 and
Union Luxembourg
Union Sportive Luxembourg, usually known as Union Luxembourg, was a football club, based in Luxembourg City, in southern Luxembourg. It is now a part of Racing FC Union Luxembourg.
History
Union Luxembourg was formed in 1925 as an amalgam of ...
, to form Spora's modern incarnation,
Racing FC Union Luxembourg
Racing Fussball Club Union Luxembourg ( lb, Racing Fussball Club Union Lëtzebuerg), usually abbreviated to Racing-Union, is a football club based in Luxembourg City in southern Luxembourg.
The etymology of the name originates from Racing Club ...
.
Honours
*
National Division
:Winners (11):
1924–25,
1927–28,
1928–29,
1933–34,
1934–35,
1935–36,
1937–38,
1948–49,
1955–56,
1960–61,
1988–89
:Runners-up (10):
1923–24,
1925–26,
1929–30,
1930–31,
1932–33,
1944–45,
1951–52,
1958–59,
1966–67,
1987–88
*
Luxembourg Cup
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W ...
:Winners (8): 1927–28, 1931–32, 1939–40, 1949–50, 1956–57, 1964–65, 1965–66, 1979–80
:Runners-up (8): 1924–25, 1928–29, 1929–30, 1930–31, 1933–34, 1944–45, 1962–63, 1986–87
As Racing Club Luxembourg
*
National Division
:Winners (1): 1909–10
*
Luxembourg Cup
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W ...
:Winners (1): 1921–22
As Sporting Club Luxembourg
*
National Division
:Winners (2): 1910–11, 1918–19
:Runners-up (3): 1911–12, 1913–14, 1915–16
European competitions
Spora qualified for UEFA European competition eleven times.
*
UEFA Champions League
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:First round (3): 1956–57, 1961–62, 1989–90
*
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
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:First round (3): 1965–66, 1966–67, 1980–81
*
UEFA Cup
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:First round (5): 1964–65, 1967–68, 1987–88, 1991–92, 1992–93
Spora won two games in Europe. In 1956–57, the team surprisingly won the second leg of their tie against
West German
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champions
Borussia Dortmund
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2–1, having lost the first leg 4–3 in Germany. Under today's system, using the
away goals rule
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, Spora would have gone through. However, in 1956, matches were replayed, and Spora was dispatched 7–0. Spora's second victory was in the 1964–65
UEFA Cup
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, when it won its second leg against
FC Basel
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1–0, but went out nonetheless, having lost the first leg 2–0.
Managers
*
Josef Frühwirth (1938)
* Willi Macho (1955–57)
*
András Béres
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External linksProfile at club Brugge
(1960–62)
*
Carlo Weis (1987–88)
* Wieslaw Chadakowski (1989–90)
* Heinz Eimer (1991–92)
* Jean Fiedler (1992–93)
* François Zdun (1993–97)
* Florim Alijaj (2001–02)
* Heinz Eimer (2002–04)
* Jean Sabbatucci (2004)
* Alain Happe (2004–05)
* Bernard Wégria (2005)
References
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