FC Lausanne-Sport

Lausanne–Sport
Full name	Football Club Lausanne-Sport
Nickname(s)	Les bleu et blanc (The Blue and White)
Founded	1896; 128 years ago
Ground	Olympique de la Pontaise
Capacity	15,850
Owner	Ineos
President	David Thompson
Manager	Giorgio Contini
League	Swiss Super League
2019–20	Swiss Challenge League, 1st (promoted)
Website	Club website
Home colours	Away colours

FC Lausanne–Sport (also referred to as LS) is a Swiss football club based in Lausanne in the canton of Vaud. Founded in 1896, it plays in the Swiss Super League, the second highest league in the country, and hosts games at the Stade Olympique de la Pontaise. The team has won seven league titles and the Swiss Cup nine times.

History

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 and 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]

On 13 November 2017, the club was acquired by Ineos, a Swiss-based British petrochemicals company owned by Jim Ratcliffe, the nation's wealthiest person.^[3] The first transfer under the new ownership was that of Enzo Fernández, son of Zinedine Zidane.^[4] However, the season ended with relegation. Ratcliffe's brother Bob became club president in March 2019.^[5]

Honours

League

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: 1931–32, 2010–11, 2015–16, 2019–20
1. Liga Promotion
- Winners: 2004–05
1. Liga Classic
- 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

Current squad

As of 11 August, 2020 Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	SUI	Thomas Castella
6	DF	POR	Elton Monteiro
7	MF	CRO	Stjepan Kukuruzović
8	MF	SUI	Joël Geissmann
9	FW	KOS	Andi Zeqiri
11	FW	BFA	Anthony Koura
13	DF	NOR	Per-Egil Flo
17	MF	SUI	João Oliveira
19	MF	SUI	Christian Schneuwly
20	MF	SUI	Maxime Dominguez
21	MF	SUI	Cameron Puertas


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
22	DF	SUI	Marc Tsoungui
24	DF	SUI	Noah Loosli
25	DF	SRB	Nikola Boranijašević
30	DF	SUI	Nicolas Gétaz
33	FW	SUI	Isaac Schmidt
37	DF	FRA	Ange Nanizayamo
39	FW	COD	Josias Lukembila
40	GK	SEN	Mory Diaw
42	MF	FRA	Gabriel Bares
50	GK	SUI	Noah Falk
99	FW	BIH	Aldin Turkes

Out on loan

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


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
21	MF	FRA	Enzo Fernández (at Rayo Majadahonda until 30 June 2019)
31	MF	SUI	Dominik Schmid (at FC Wil until 30 June 2019)

Former coaches

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

Umberto Barberis (20 February 2002 – 8 May 2002)
Pablo Iglesias (2002–03)
Gabriel Calderón (1 January 2003 – 30 June 2003)
Jochen Dries (2003–04)
Gérard Castella (1 July 2005 – 24 May 2006)
Alain Geiger (1 June 2006 – 21 November 2006)
Paul Garbani and P. Isabella (interim) (24 November 2006 – 11 December 2006)
Stéphane Hunziker and Patrick Isabella (17 February 2007 – 30 May 2007)
Umberto Barberis (1 July 2007 – 17 December 2007)
Thierry Cotting (15 December 2007 – 30 June 2009)
John Dragani (1 July 2008 – 30 June 2010)
Árpád Soós (19 March 2010 – 30 June 2010)
Martin Rueda (1 July 2010 – 30 June 2012)
Laurent Roussey (1 July 2012 – 21 October 2013)
Alexandre Comisetti (22 October 2013 – 7 November 2013)
Henri Atamaniuk (8 November 2013 – 20 June 2014)
Francesco Gabriele (1 July 2014 – 9 October 2014)
Marco Simone (13 October 2014 – 24 March 2015)
Fabio Celestini (24 March 2015 – present)^[6]^[7]

Recent seasons

Recent season-by-season performance of the club:^[8]^[9]

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	Super League	I	10th ↓
2018–19	Challenge League	II	3rd

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.
^ Wilson, Bill (13 November 2017). "Chemicals giant Ineos buys Swiss football team". Retrieved 9 June 2018.
^ "Enzo Zidane leaves Alaves for Lausanne revolution". FourFourTwo. 1 January 2018. Retrieved 9 June 2018.
^ "After buying Team Sky, Ineos makes change at Lausanne-Sport". The Seattle Times. The Associated Pres. 22 March 2019. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
^ "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

[1] "Le FC Lausanne-Sport relégué" (in French). 4 May 2014. Retrieved 28 November 2016.

[2] "Lausanne accède à l'élite" (in French). 5 May 2016. Retrieved 28 November 2016.

[3] Wilson, Bill (13 November 2017). "Chemicals giant Ineos buys Swiss football team". Retrieved 9 June 2018.

[4] "Enzo Zidane leaves Alaves for Lausanne revolution". FourFourTwo. 1 January 2018. Retrieved 9 June 2018.

[5] "After buying Team Sky, Ineos makes change at Lausanne-Sport". The Seattle Times. The Associated Pres. 22 March 2019. Retrieved 30 January 2020.

[6] "Le FC Lausanne-Sport limoge Simone et mise sur Celestini" (in French). 24 March 2015. Retrieved 22 December 2016.

[7] "Celestini prolonge trois ans au FC Lausanne-Sport" (in French). 21 May 2015. Retrieved 22 December 2016.

[8] "Archives des saisons – Challenge League" (in French). Retrieved 22 December 2016.

[9] "Archives des saisons – Super League" (in French). Retrieved 22 December 2016.

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