Stade Dudelange was a

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club from

Dudelange Dudelange (; ; ) is a commune with town status in southern Luxembourg. It is the fourth-most populous commune, with 22,043 inhabitants. Dudelange is situated close to the border with France. The commune also includes the smaller town of Bude ...

, in southern

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. It is now a part of

F91 Dudelange F91 Dudelange (; , ) is a Luxembourgish professional Association football, football club based in Dudelange which plays in the Luxembourg National Division. It was formed in 1991 as a merger between three teams in the town: Alliance Dudelange, ...

, which was formed by the merger of Stade,

Alliance Dudelange Club Sportif Alliance Dudelange was a football club from Dudelange in southern Luxembourg. It was founded in 1916 as a merger between Étoile Rouge Dudelange (1908) and Étoile Bleue Dudelange (1912). Under German occupation in World War II, its ...

, and

US Dudelange Union Sportive Dudelange was a football club from Dudelange in southern Luxembourg, and a predecessor of F91 Dudelange. History The team was founded in 1912 as a merger between Minerva Dudelange and Jeunesse de la Frontière 1908 Dudelange. U ...

in 1991. Stade was one of the country's most successful clubs, winning 10 National Division championships and four

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titles; to this day, the former is the third-greatest haul by any club behind

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and the defunct

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. In its heyday of the late 1940s, Stade won four consecutive National Division titles. Including two championships won before

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interrupted domestic play, Stade won a string of six consecutive titles, a feat that has never been matched. During

, Luxembourg was

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and the club became part of German football competition. Playing as FV Stadt Düdelingen they were part of the top flight Gauliga Moselland. The team captured the divisional title there in 1942 and advanced to the German national playoffs where they were put out by the dominant side of the era,

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, who were on their way to the championship.

Honours

* National Division :Winners (10): 1938–39, 1939–40, 1944–45, 1945–46, 1946–47, 1947–48, 1949–50, 1954–55, 1956–57, 1964–65 :Runners-up (6): 1919–20, 1922–23, 1924–25, 1927–28, 1955–56, 1959-60 *

:Winners (4): 1937–38, 1947–48, 1948–49, 1955–56 :Runners-up (8): 1927–28, 1935–36, 1938–39, 1939–40, 1946–47, 1956–57, 1957–58, 1959–60 * Gauliga Moselland :Winners (1): 1941–42

Footnotes

Stade Dudelange Stade Dudelange was a football club from Dudelange, in southern Luxembourg. It is now a part of F91 Dudelange, which was formed by the merger of Stade, Alliance Dudelange, and US Dudelange in 1991. Stade was one of the country's most successf ...

Defunct football clubs in Luxembourg Sports clubs and teams in Dudelange Association football clubs established in 1913 Association football clubs disestablished in 1991 1913 establishments in Luxembourg 1991 disestablishments in Luxembourg {{Luxembourg-footyclub-stub