Vaud
Vaud ( ; french: (Canton de) Vaud, ; german: (Kanton) Waadt, or ), more formally the canton of Vaud, is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation. It is composed of ten districts and its capital city is Lausanne. Its coat of arms b ...
Stade de la Tuilière
Stade de la Tuilière is a football stadium in Lausanne, Switzerland. It is the current home of the football club FC Lausanne-Sport. The stadium has a capacity of 12,544.
FC Lausanne-Sport planned the construction of the stadium in 2017. Their ...
1954 FIFA World Cup
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. They played in Swiss First Division between 1906 and 1931, 1932–2002, 2011-2014, 2016-2018 and 2020-2022. The team has won seven league titles and the Swiss Cup nine times.
History
19th century
The club was founded in 1896 under the name of ''Montriond Lausanne''. However, the
Lausanne Football and Cricket Club
The Lausanne Football and Cricket Club was a Swiss association football and cricket club.
The club was founded in 1860 by English students, who had studied at private schools in the area of Lausanne. During the year of the foundation this club ...
was established in 1860, believed to be the oldest football club on the European continent by some historians.
20th century
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 end of the 1950s and the whole of the 1960s were among the club's finest times. LS won the Swiss Cup twice (1962 and 1964), lost an additional Swiss Cup final to
by forfeit, won the Swiss championship (1965) and was runner-up four times (1961, 1962, 1963), as well as in 1969. The year 1965 was the year of the 7th and last Swiss championship title. It was probably the most successful, earning its protagonists the nickname of "Lords of the Night", a reference to some enchanting evenings. Since the advent of the floodlights in the new stadium, the matches have mainly taken place in the evenings which was at the time a unique feature.
21st century
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 for a three season stay before being relegated in 2014. After two seasons in the second tier the team was promoted for a two season stay in the top division in 2016 and survived relegation in their first season before being relegated back to the second tier again in 2018. Now somewhat of a yo-yo club the team were promoted to the top tier again in 2020.
Lausanne-Sport qualified for the
2010–11 UEFA Europa League
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. 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
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on the way.
Lausanne-Sport were relegated to the Swiss Challenge League at the end of the
2013–14 Swiss Super League
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A total of 10 teams compete ...
season. Two years later, they finished first in the
2015–16 Swiss Challenge League
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, which promoted them back to the top tier of Swiss football for the 2016–17 season.
On 13 November 2017, the club was acquired by
Ineos
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Ineos is organised into about 20 standalone business units, each with its own b ...
, a Swiss-based British petrochemicals company owned by
Jim Ratcliffe
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, the nation's wealthiest person. The first transfer under the new ownership was that of Enzo Fernández, son of
Zinedine Zidane
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. However, the season ended with relegation. Ratcliffe's brother Bob became club president in March 2019. The club won promotion back to the top flight as champions of the
2019–20 Swiss Challenge League
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2010–11
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1. Liga Classic
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History League Names
Sin ...
**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
Jimmy Hogan
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(1925)
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Fred Spiksley
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Jimmy Hogan
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(1933–34)
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Alwin Riemke
Alwin Riemke (2 February 1910 – November 1991) was a German footballer who played in the 1920s and 1930s. He played as goalkeeper. He was also trainer and manager in Switzerland and Germany in the late 1930s and 1940s.
Playing career
Riemke ...
Fritz Leonhardt
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Louis Maurer
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Bram Appel
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Playing career
Club
Born in Rotterdam but raised in The Hague,Fernand Jaccard (1955–57)
* Walter Presch (1957–60)
* Albert Châtelain (1960–61)
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Charles Marmier
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Kurt Linder
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Louis Maurer
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(1972–74)
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Paul Garbani
Paul Garbani (born 21 June 1927) is a Swiss football manager.
References
1927 births
Living people
Swiss football managers
Étoile Carouge FC managers
Neuchâtel Xamax FCS managers
FC Lausanne-Sport managers
Urania Genève Sport ma ...
(1974–76)
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Miroslav Blažević
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(1976–79)
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Charly Hertig
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Club career
Hertig was part of the Lausanne ...
Gabriel Calderón
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Calderón played in several teams including Argentine Ra ...
(1 January 2003 – 30 June 2003)
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Jochen Dries
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Forwards (also known as attackers) are outfield positions in an association football team who play the furthest up the pitch and are therefore most responsible for sco ...
Alain Geiger
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He played mainly as a centre-back despite being only 1.80m in a career that lasted 20 years, and mad ...
(1 June 2006 – 21 November 2006)
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Paul Garbani
Paul Garbani (born 21 June 1927) is a Swiss football manager.
References
1927 births
Living people
Swiss football managers
Étoile Carouge FC managers
Neuchâtel Xamax FCS managers
FC Lausanne-Sport managers
Urania Genève Sport ma ...
Laurent Roussey
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Career
On 22 October 2013, Roussey joined FC Sion as manager for the third time. ...
(1 July 2012 – 21 October 2013)
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Alexandre Comisetti
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Club career
He played for several clubs, including Lausanne Sports, Yverdon-Sport FC, Grasshoppers Zürich, AJ Auxerre ...
(22 October 2013 – 7 November 2013)
* Henri Atamaniuk (8 November 2013 – 20 June 2014)
* Francesco Gabriele (1 July 2014 – 9 October 2014)
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Marco Simone
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He most prominently played for Milan, with whom he won four Serie A championships and two UEFA Cham ...
(13 October 2014 – 24 March 2015)
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Fabio Celestini
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(24 March 2015 – 2018)
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Giorgio Contini
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Playing career
Teams
He played at various clubs in Switzerland, such as FC Win ...
(2018 - 9 June 2021)
* Ilija Borenović (10 June 2021 - 4 February 2022)
Recent seasons
Recent season-by-season performance of the club:
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Lausanne-Sports Rowing
Lausanne-Sports Aviron is the
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