Fédération Luxembourgeoise de Football

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Fédération Luxembourgeoise de Football
F d ration Luxembourgeoise de Football.svg
founding November 22, 1908
FIFA accession March 13, 1910
UEFA accession June 15, 1954
president Paul Philipp
Secretary General Joël Wolff
National teams National team
Clubs (approx.) 106
Homepage www.flf.lu

The Fédération Luxembourgeoise de Football (FLF) (Luxembourgish: Lëtzebuerger Foussballfederatioun ; German: Luxemburger Fußballföderation ) is the national football association of Luxembourg . In the Luxembourg Association, 37,158 players (players and referees) are organized in 106 clubs (as of July 18, 2014). The FLF organizes the league operations of the Luxembourg clubs, up to the BGL Ligue , as well as the Luxembourg cup competition, the Coupe de Luxembourg and organizes the various Luxembourg national football teams . Although football is a national sport in Luxembourg, both the Luxembourg clubs and the two national teams are extremely unsuccessful internationally.

history

At the end of 1906, the first football club in Luxembourg, CS Fola Esch Football an Lawn Tennis Club , was founded; just two years later there were 13 clubs that wanted to form an umbrella organization. This was brought into being in November 1908 by representatives of the 13 clubs. Just a year and a half later, in the spring of 1910, the association was accepted by FIFA and organized a Luxembourg soccer championship for the first time. In the autumn of 1911, the first international match of the men's selection against France followed , but it was lost 4-1 in the Luxembourg capital. In 1913 no championship could be held due to organizational problems, but this was continued despite the German occupation during the First World War . The Coupe de Luxembourg was held for the first time in 1922 . During the renewed German occupation during the Second World War , the Luxembourg Association was forcibly dissolved in 1941 and the member clubs were forcibly assigned to the Mosel football region .

The association was restored at the beginning of 1945 and held the first championship in the year the World War ended. In 1954, the FLF was one of the 29 founding members of UEFA .

The Coupe des Dames has been played since the 2001/2002 season.

Although Luxembourg took part in all men's world and euro championships except in the first tournaments, they never qualified for the finals. The greatest international success was reaching the last elimination round before the European Championships in 1964 , thus a placement among the top eight European teams, as the European Championship finals only had four participants.

In the round of the last 16 the national team of the Netherlands could be defeated 1: 1 and 2: 1, before they lost to Denmark after two draws (2: 2 and 3: 3) just 0: 1 in the playoff.

Since then, however, the association's international successes have been extremely rare.

Today, however, the youth players of the Luxembourg squad win many small games / tournaments against the Rhineland or other clubs in neighboring countries: France, Belgium and Germany. Either the U15 team or the U17 team are involved in most of the victories. The youth don't play many international matches against other countries, however.

UEFA five-year ranking

Placement in the UEFA five-year ranking ( previous year's ranking in brackets ). The abbreviations CL and EL after the country coefficients indicate the number of representatives in the 2019/20 season of the Champions League and the Europa League .

  • 41. +2( 43 ) Lithuania ( league , cup ) - coefficient: 6,750 - CL: 1, EL: 3LithuaniaLithuania 
  • 42. −1( 41 ) Latvia ( league , cup ) - coefficient: 5,625 - CL: 1, EL: 3LatviaLatvia 
  • 43. +5( 48 ) Luxembourg ( league , cup ) - coefficient: 5,500 - CL: 1, EL: 3LuxembourgLuxembourg 
  • 44. +2( 46 ) Armenia ( league , cup ) - coefficient: 5,250 - CL: 1, EL: 3ArmeniaArmenia 
  • 45. +2( 47 ) Malta ( league , cup ) - coefficient: 5.125 - CL: 1, EL: 3MaltaMalta 

Status: end of the European Cup season 2018/19

President

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. According to the FLF website flf.lu ( [1] , French ).
  2. 37,158 licensed at Lëtzebuerger Footballfederatioun (Luxembourgish)
  3. a b Data on international matches from the RSSSF website ( [2] , English ).
  4. UEFA rankings for club competitions. In: UEFA. Retrieved July 14, 2019 .