Draft:RC Lens in European Football

RC Lens in European football
Club	RC Lens
First entry	1975–76 European Cup Winners' Cup
Latest entry	2023–24 UEFA Europa League

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Declined by RoboCric 10 months ago. Last edited by Cageyfella 4 months ago. Reviewer: Inform author.

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Comment: While the article is notable, according to our policy of WP:NOTSTATS, articles with statistics should include explanatory text providing context. Please expand it following the comment of previous reviewer. Thanks. Robo^Cric Let's chat 17:26, 27 December 2023 (UTC)

Comment: This is a good start, but I think you should add more sources (including independent ones, if possible) and make a few more tweaks...
Take a look at similar articles, like this and this, so you can learn how to improve your own draft. Oltrepier (talk) 11:32, 26 December 2023 (UTC)

This is the list of all RC Lens's European matches.^[1]

Overall record

As of 12 December 2023

Competition	Played	Won	Drew	Lost	GF	GA	GD	Win%
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	4	1	1	2	10	7	+3	025.00
UEFA Intertoto Cup	10	6	4	0	24	9	+15	060.00
UEFA Champions League	18	7	5	6	22	28	−6	038.89
UEFA Cup / UEFA Europa League	64	28	17	19	110	92	+18	043.75
Total	96	42	27	27	166	136	+30	043.75

Source: UEFA.com
Pld = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; GD = Goal Difference. Defunct competitions indicated in italics.

Results

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Season	Competition	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1975–76	European Cup Winners' Cup	First round	Home Farm	1–1	6–0	7–1
1975–76	European Cup Winners' Cup	First round	Den Haag	2–3	1–3	3–6
1977–78	UEFA Cup	First round	Malmö FF	4–1	0–2	4–3
		Second round	Lazio	0–2	6–0 aet	6–2
		Third round	Magdeburg	0–4	2–0	2–4
1983–84	UEFA Cup	First round	Gent	1–1	2–1 aet	3–2
		Second round	Royal Antwerp	2–2	3–2	5–4
		Third round	Anderlecht	1–1	0–1	1–2
1986–87	UEFA Cup	First round	Dundee United	1–0	0–2	1–2
1995–96	UEFA Cup	First round	Avenir Beggen	6–0	7–0	13–0
		Second round	Chornomorets Odesa	0–0	4–0	4–0
		Third round	Slavia Prague	0–0	0–1 aet	0–1
1996–97	UEFA Cup	First round	Lazio	0–1	1–1	1–2
1998-99	UEFA Champions League	Group E	Dynamo Kyiv	1–3	1–1	Second place
			Arsenal	1–1	1–0
			Panathinaikos	1–0	0–1
1999–2000	UEFA Cup	First round	Maccabi Tel Aviv	2–2	2–1	4–3
		Second round	Vitesse	4–1	1–1	5–2
		Third round	Kaiserslautern	1–2	4–1	5–3
		Fourth round	Atlético Madrid	2–2	4–2	6–4
		Quarter-finals	Celta de Vigo	0–0	2–1	2–1
		Semi-finals	Arsenal	0–1	1–2	1–3
2002-03	UEFA Champions League	Group G	Milan	2–1	1–2	Second place
			Deportivo La Coruña	3–1	1–3
			Bayern Munich	1–1	3–3
	UEFA Cup	Third round	Porto	1–0	0–3	1–3
2003-04	UEFA Cup	Qualifying round	Torpedo Kutaisi	3–0	2–0	5–0
		First round	Cementarnica 55	5–0	1–0	6–0
		Second round	Gaziantepspor	1–3	0–3	1–6
2005-06	UEFA Intertoto Cup	Second round	Lech Poznań	2–1	1–0	3–1
		Third round	NK Varteks	4–1	1–1	5–2
		Semi-finals	Wolfsburg	4–0	0–0	4–0
		Finals	CFR Cluj	3–1	1–1	4–2
	UEFA Cup	First round	Dyskobolia Grodzisk	1–1	4–2	5–3
		Group C	Steaua București	---	0–4	Second place
			Hertha BSC	---	0–0
			Sampdoria	2–1	---
			Halmstad	5–0	---
		Round of 32	Udinese	1–0	0–3	1–3
2006-07	UEFA Cup	First round	Ethnikos Achna	3–1	0–0	3–1
		Group D	Parma	1–2	---	Third place
			Osasuna	3–1	---
			OB	---	1–1
			Heerenveen	---	0–1
		Round of 32	Panathinaikos	3–1	0–0	3–1
		Round of 16	Bayer Leverkusen	2–1	0–3	3–4
2007-08	UEFA Intertoto Cup	Third round	Chornomorets Odesa	3–1	0–0	3–1
	UEFA Cup	Second qualifying round	Young Boys	5–1	1–1	6–1
	UEFA Cup	First round	Copenhagen	1–1	1–2 aet	1–3
2023-24	UEFA Champions League	Group B	Arsenal	2–1	0–6	Third place
			Sevilla	2–1	1–1
			PSV Eindhoven	1–1	0–1
	Europa League	Knockout round	Freiburg	15 Feb	22 Feb

Best results

UEFA Champions League
- Group Stage: 1998–99, 2002–03, 2023–24

UEFA Europa League/UEFA Cup
- Semi-finals: 1999–2000
- Round of 16: 1977-78, 1983-84, 1995-96, 2006-07
- Knockout Round: 2023-24

UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
- Round of 16: 1975–76

References

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