FC Lausanne Sports

FC Lausanne Sports
	FC Lausanne Sports
Basic data
Surname	Football Club ; Lausanne Sports
Seat	Lausanne , Vaud
founding	1896
Colours	Blue White
president	David Thompson
Website	lausanne-sport.ch
First soccer team
Head coach	Giorgio Contini
Venue	Olympique de la Pontaise stadium
Places	15,850
league	Super League
2019/20	▲ 1st place, Challenge League
home	Away

The FC Lausanne-Sport (LS) is a Swiss football club from Lausanne , the capital of the canton of Vaud . It is the successor club to Lausanne-Sports, which was founded in 1896 as Montriond FC and had to file for bankruptcy in 2003. The predecessor was never relegated in terms of sport.

Lausanne-Sports was a seven-time Swiss champion and nine-time cup winner . He plays in the Stade Olympique de la Pontaise , which can seat 15,850 people and is also the venue for the annual athletics event. The club colors of Lausanne are blue and white.

history

FC Montriond Lausanne was founded in 1896 and has been taking part in the Swiss championship since 1902. In 1920 the name was changed to Lausanne-Sports.

The last great successes of its predecessor Lausanne-Sports were the participation in the Swiss Cup finals in 1998, 1999 and 2000, of which two finals were won. In 1998 the FC St. Gallen was defeated, in 1999 the Grasshopper Club Zurich . When they last participated in 2000, however, they were inferior to FC Zurich on penalties. In the 2000/01 UEFA Cup , Lausanne was able to eliminate Cork City FC , Torpedo Moscow and Ajax Amsterdam before being eliminated by FC Nantes in the third round.

The successor club celebrated two promotions in a row, the march from the 2nd league interregionally to the 1st league and from there to the Challenge League was the team's success in the years 2004 to 2006.

In the 2005/06 season, Stéphane Chapuisat, one of the most successful Swiss footballers of all time, played for FC Lausanne-Sport. He was previously active for the Vaudois from 1987 to 1990. He retired from his position as President of Lausanne-Sport due to lack of time.

In 2010, Lausanne-Sport qualified for the Swiss Cup final in 2010, which was lost 6-0 to the Swiss champions FC Basel . Since FC Basel had won both the championship and the cup, Lausanne was qualified as a second division team for the UEFA Europa League .

There the club started in the second qualifying round, Lausanne met FK Borac Banja Luka from Bosnia-Herzegovina. The first leg at home at the Stade Olympique de la Pontaise ended with a 1-0 win for Lausanne-Sport, a 1-1 in the second leg was enough for a move into the next round. In this, the team met the Danish club Randers FC who could be defeated 3-2 away, in Lausanne again a 1-1 draw was enough to move into the next round.

In the playoff round, the last round before the group stage, Lausanne was drawn to the Russian representative Lokomotiv Moscow . In front of 11,200 spectators in the Pontaise, the team wrestled a 1-1 from the favorites. In Moscow the teams parted again 1: 1 after 90 minutes, the subsequent extra time brought no decision. So the penalty shoot-out decided, in which the Swiss second division team prevailed 4-3 and thus made it into the UEFA Europa League as an outsider . In the group stage of the UEFA Europa League, Lausanne-Sport finished fourth and last in Group F, where opponents PFK CSKA Moscow , US Palermo and Sparta Prague had been.

Lausanne sport rose at the end of the 2010/11 season. However, you could only stay in the Super League until 2014. For the 2016/17 season, the club was able to rise again to the top division.

The club was taken over in December 2017 by the chemical company Ineos . In the same season, the club had to accept the next relegation. One day after relegation, the club announced that the goal was to get back up immediately. In the same announcement it was also announced that the budget would remain at the level of the previous Super League , or even be increased. The investors stayed too.

Despite the high budget, the climb was missed. Servette made the promotion in the derby against Lausanne perfect. Two weeks later it was also clear that Lausanne had missed the barrage because FC Aarau was able to secure second place.

successes

Old logo

championship
- Swiss champions (7): 1913 , 1932 , 1935 , 1936 , 1944 , 1951 , 1965
Cup
- Swiss Cup winners (9): 1935, 1939, 1944, 1950, 1962, 1964, 1981, 1998, 1999
- Swiss Cup finalist (8): 1937, 1946, 1947, 1957, 1967, 1984, 2000, 2010
- Swiss League Cup finalist (1): 1981
International
- Exhibition Cities Cup : semi-finals ( 1955–1958 )
- European Cup Winners' Cup : quarter-finals ( 1964/65 )
- UEFA Cup : Round of 32 ( 1978/79 , 2000/01 )
- UEFA Intertoto Cup : semi-finals ( 2001 )
- UEFA Europa League : group stage ( 2010/11 )

Eternal table

FC Lausanne-Sport is currently on the 6th place in the all-time Super League table .

Current squad 2019/20

As of February 25, 2020

No.		position	Surname
1	Switzerland	TW	Thomas Castella
6th	Portugal	FROM	Elton Monteiro
7th	Croatia	MF	Stjepan Kukuruzović
8th	Switzerland	MF	Joël Geissmann
9	Switzerland	ST	Andi Zeqiri
11	France	ST	Anthony Koura
13	Norway	FROM	Per-Egil Flo
14th	Switzerland	MF	Alexandre Pasche
17th	Switzerland	MF	João Oliveira
18th	Switzerland	TW	Dany Da Silva
19th	Switzerland	MF	Christian Schneuwly
20th	Switzerland	MF	Maxim Dominguez
21st	Spain	MF	Cameron Puertas
23	Congo Republic	FROM	Igor Nganga

No.		position	Surname
24	Switzerland	FROM	Noah Loosli
25th	Serbia	FROM	Nikola Boranijašević
27	Switzerland	ST	Dan Ndoye
30th	Switzerland	FROM	Nicolas Gétaz
33	Switzerland	ST	Isaac Schmidt
37	France	FROM	Mickaël Nanizayamo
39	Switzerland	ST	Josias Lukembila
40	France	TW	Mory Diaw
41	Switzerland	FROM	Adam Ouattara
42	Switzerland	TW	Gabriel Barès
50	Switzerland	TW	Noah Falk
88	Switzerland	MF	Cabral
99	Switzerland	MF	Aldin Turkes