FC Progrès Niederkorn

FC Progrès Niederkorn
Basic data
Surname	Football Club Progrès Niederkorn
Seat	Niederkorn , Luxembourg
founding	August 14, 1919
president	Fabio Marochi
Website	progres.lu
First soccer team
Head coach	Roland Vrabec
Venue	Stade Jos Hauptert Niederkorn
Places	2,800
league	BGL Ligue
2019/20	2nd place
home Away

The Football Club Progrès Niederkorn is a football club from the village of Niederkorn in Luxembourg, which belongs to Differdange . The club colors are yellow-black.

history

Progrès was founded on August 14, 1919 under the name Cercle Sportif . The playing attire consisted of a red jersey with a white chest ring and white sleeves and white trousers. On March 15, 1922, the colors were changed to a black and yellow striped jersey and a little later to black pants.

Progrès was promoted to the second-rate honorary doctorate as early as 1923 . In 1926, he was promoted to the top division, the national division, for the first time . In 1933 Progrés won the first club title with the Coupe de Luxembourg with a 4-1 win over Union Luxembourg .

After the German occupation of Luxembourg , it was renamed FK Niederkorn in 1940 . Under this name, the club rose in 1942 to the Gauliga Moselland . Niederkorn immediately became champion of the group west and played against the champion of the group east, TuS Neuendorf , for a place in the finals of the German championship in 1943 . After a 3-0 win in the first leg, the second leg was lost 5-1 and the final round was missed. In 1943 , the club also took part in the main round of the DFB Cup (then Tschammerpokal ), but lost 3-0 to Sportfreunde Katernberg in the first round .

After the liberation of Luxembourg, the national division was played again in 1944/45 , and the club was renamed FC Progrès again in 1944 . Due to a 1: 3 defeat against The National Schifflingen , the club missed the leap into the finals. In the same year, a 2-0 victory in the final made it possible to win the Luxembourg Football Cup for the second time. The following year Progrès again reached the final of the soccer cup, but this time Jeunesse Esch had to admit defeat 1: 3. After the club had played in the midfield of the national division for the following years, he achieved the championship title of Luxembourg for the first time in the 1952/53 season with a point ahead of Jeunesse Esch. In 1956 the final of the soccer cup was reached again, Progrès had to admit defeat to Stade Dudelange after extra time with 1: 3 . In 1959/60 the club was the last in the national division and thus played only second class for the first time in 24 years. The return to the top league succeeded in the 1963/64 season , but the club missed relegation by three points and immediately rose again to the honorary doctorate. 1967 succeeded the renewed rise in the first class. After Progrès barely managed to stay in the national division in the following four seasons, the club had to go back to the second division after the 1971/72 season .

With the promotion to the national division in 1974/75 began the most successful era in the history of FC Progrès . In the 1976/77 season the club was runner-up behind Jeunesse Esch, in the same year they won the Luxembourg Football Cup for the third time with a 3-1 replay against Red Boys Differdange . In 1977/78 the club became Luxembourg football champions for the second time, and the trophy was successfully defended. After the runner-up in 1978/79 and the lost cup final against Spora Luxembourg in 1980, Progrès Nationaldivision was able to become Luxembourg football champions for the third and last time in 1980/81 . In the European Cup, the club was eliminated in the first round. In the next few years, the playing strength could no longer be maintained, the club ended the seasons mostly in the midfield of the national division. In 1988/89 the club rose due to the newly introduced relegation play-offs in the honorary doctorate. However, while the rose FC Progrès for season 1990/91 again in the National Division on, after only one season but the club had in the second division again.

It was ten years before Progrès FC played again in the national division. Promotion to the national division in 2001/02 was followed by relegation a year later, but since 2006/07 the club has been back in the top division of Luxembourg. In 2012/13 Progrès narrowly escaped relegation when the club was able to make the barrage game against FC UNA Strassen 1-0 after extra time. With fourth place in the 2014/15 season, Progrès Niederkorn qualified for the 2015/16 UEFA Europa League , in which the club despite a 0-0 draw in the first leg after a 3-0 defeat in the second leg against Shamrock Rovers in eliminated in the first qualifying round. In August 2016, FC Progrès split from coach Fabien Tissot and signed Paolo Amodio, who had been dismissed from Union Titus Petingen 18 days earlier . In the 2016/17 season , the fourth place was again achieved, which qualified for participation in the 2017/18 UEFA Europa League . In the first qualifying round Progrès was surprisingly able to prevail after a 0-1 defeat in the first leg with a 2-0 win in the second leg against the Scottish representative Glasgow Rangers . This was the first victory in an international competition and the greatest international success for this club. In the second qualifying round, however, Progrés was eliminated from the competition by two defeats against AEL Limassol .

After FC Progrès fought for the championship at eye level with F91 Dudelange for a long time in the 2017/18 season and finished as runner-up in the end, coach Paolo Amodio became after almost two years together with assistant coach Emilio Lobo on October 3, 2018 due to unsuccessful sports dismiss. One day later, the club introduced the French Cyril Serredszum , who was the coach at Fola Esch until February 2018 , as the new head coach and his compatriot Serge Wolf, previously the coach of Swift Hesperingen , as the new trainer. After a 5-0 defeat by RFC Union Luxemburg , Serredszum and Wolf were sacked two game days before the end of the 2018/19 season . Interim coach Mario Mutsch managed to lead the club to 4th place, which, due to the cup win of champion F91 Dudelange, entitled it to participate in the pre-qualification of the 2019/20 UEFA Europa League .

On June 12, 2019, the German Roland Vrabec was introduced as the new trainer. In the Europa League, the team survived two knockout rounds and was eliminated by a 0-0 second leg after a 2-0 first-leg defeat against Glasgow Rangers. In the BGL League, the Progrès ranked second behind Fola Esch after 17 match days. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic , the season was interrupted on March 12, 2020 and canceled on April 28, 2020. The association decided not to award any titles. As the runner-up at the time of the cancellation, Niederkorn was nominated by the association for the upcoming Europa League season, so that the club will participate in the European Cup for the first time four years in a row. The best striker was Emmanuel Françoise with 11 league goals.

successes

National

• Luxembourg champion: 1953 , 1978 , 1981
• Luxembourg Cup Winner : 1933, 1945, 1977, 1978
• Luxembourg Cup finalists: 1946, 1956, 1980

As FK Niederkorn :

• Master Gauliga Moselland Group West: 1943

European Cup

FC Progrès has so far participated in the main round of a European competition seven times. Of a total of 16 games, 13 were lost. On September 16, 1981 succeeded in the first round of the European Cup of national champions a 1-1 draw against the Northern Irish representative Glentoran Belfast . In qualifying for the 2017/18 Europa League , the Scottish record champions Glasgow Rangers were eliminated in the first round by a 2-0 home win.

season	competition	round	opponent	total	To	Back
1977/78	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	1 round	Vejle BK	00:10	0: 1 (H)	0: 9 (A)
1978/79	European Champions Cup	1 round	real Madrid	00:12	0: 5 (A)	0: 7 (H)
1979/80	Uefa cup	1 round	Grasshopper Zurich	0: 6	0: 2 (H)	0: 4 (A)
1981/82	European Champions Cup	1 round	Glentoran FC	1: 5	1: 1 (H)	0: 4 (A)
1982/83	Uefa cup	1 round	Servette Geneva	0: 4	0: 1 (H)	0: 3 (A)
2015/16	UEFA Europa League	1st qualifying round	Shamrock Rovers	0: 3	0: 0 (H)	0: 3 (A)
2017/18	UEFA Europa League	1st qualifying round	Glasgow Rangers	2: 1	0: 1 (A)	2: 0 (H)
		2nd qualifying round	AEL Limassol	1: 3	0: 1 (H)	1: 2 (A)
2018/19	UEFA Europa League	1st qualifying round	FK Qəbələ	2: 1	2: 0 (A)	0: 1 (H)
		2nd qualifying round	Honved Budapest	2: 1	0: 1 (A)	2: 0 (H)
		3rd qualifying round	FK Ufa	3: 4	1: 2 (A)	2: 2 (H)
2019/20	UEFA Europa League	Pre-qualification	Cardiff Metropolitan	( a ) 2: 2(a)	1: 0 (H)	1: 2 (A)
		1st qualifying round	Cork City	3: 2	2: 0 (A)	1: 2 (H)
		2nd qualifying round	Glasgow Rangers	0: 2	0: 2 (A)	0: 0 (H)

Legend: (H) - home game, (A) - away game, (N) - neutral place, (a) - away goal rule , (i. E.) - on penalties , (n. V.) - after extra time

Overall record: 28 games, 5 wins, 4 draws, 19 defeats, 16:56 goals (goal difference −40)

Squad season 2019/20

As of July 4, 2019

Current squad

goal	Defense	midfield	attack
01 Sébastien Flauss 12 Kenan Agovic 30th Stéphane Ferreira da Costa 81 Youn Czekanowicz	05 Ben Vogel 20th Jonni Filipe Correia Santos 22nd Marvin Martins 23 Adrien Ferino 32 Tom Laterza 34 Tim Hall 38 Metin Karayer 70 Yann Matias Marques	04th Aldin Skenderovic 08th Yannick Cervellera 09 Yannick Bastos 10 Belmin Muratovic 24 Ricky Borges 31 Sebastien Thill 40 Christian Silaj Mathias Jänisch	07th Mayron De Almeida 14th Emmanuel Françoise 17th Issa Bah 22nd Kempes Tekiela 27 Gullit Ramos 97 Florik Shala

Coaching staff and officials

function	Surname	nationality
Chief trainer	Roland Vrabec
Assistant coach	Olivier Ciancanelli
Goalkeeping coach	Felipe Couto Machado
Fitness trainer	Jeff Paulus
Head of the youth department	Giovanni Barnabo

Former players and coaches

• Ernest Arend (* August 6th, 1889), founding member, 3 international matches
• Germain Dahm (born November 16, 1928), player 1947–1964, 2 international matches
• Fernand Lahure (born March 28, 1929), player 1945–1964, 28 senior international games, Olympic participant 1952
• Victor Nurenberg (* December 22nd, 1930), player until 1951, later 3 times French champion, 19 international matches
• Albert "Aly" May (born November 24, 1954), top scorer in 1979, 1981
• Henri Bossi (* February 20, 1959) player 1975–1988, three times coach, 1 international match
• Hubert Meunier (born December 14, 1959), player 1975–1982 and 1990/91, 54 international A matches, first European scorer
• Marcel Bossi (* 14.1.1960) player 1977–1989, 63 senior internationals
• Paolo Amodio (* May 28, 1973) player 2001–2002, coach 2012–2014 and 2016–2018
• Ismaël Bouzid (* July 21, 1983) player 2014–2017, 13 senior internationals for Algeria
• Mario Mutsch (* 3.9.1984) player 2017–2019, 101 international matches (record international)
• Aleksandr Karapetjan (* 23.12.1987) player 2017-2019, 9 senior internationals for Armenia
• Marvin Martins (* February 17, 1995), player 2018–2019, 7 full international matches
• Olivier Thill (* December 17, 1996) player 2015–2018, 22 international matches
• Tim Hall (born April 15, 1997) player 2018–2019, 3 full international matches

Fans

In addition to the record champion Jeunesse Esch, the club has the highest attendance figures in the BGL League. In the 2019/20 season, the average attendance was 961 (1st place in the BGL League). The active fan scene is organized in the "Black & Yellow Block" and loudly supports the team at home and away games with drums and megaphones.

There is a special rivalry with local rivals FC Differdingen 03 , the derbies are regularly among the most popular games in the league. With the fan club "Angry Goats" of the US Bad Mondorf , however, a friendship is maintained. The fan clubs visit each other regularly.

Women's soccer

The women's team of FC Progrès is the Luxembourg record holder with 16 national championships (as of November 2017) . She won the national cup twice and reached the cup final five more times. In addition, she took part in the preliminary round tournament of the 2001/02 UEFA Women's Cup in Odense , Denmark , but was eliminated without scoring or scoring after the first round. After the team largely joined FC Mamer 32 before the start of the 2005/06 season , the team was re-established by the youth team in 2007 and rose again to Ligue 1 for the 2008/09 season. In 2011/2012 the club took part in the UEFA Women's Champions League . At the qualifying tournament in Limassol and Larnaka , Cyprus , they finished last in the group with 0 points and 0:26 goals.

successes

• Luxembourg champion: 1975, 1977, 1978, 1985–89, 1999–2005, 2011
• Luxembourg Cup Winner: 2002, 2003
• Luxembourg Cup finalists: 2004, 2005, 2011, 2012, 2013

European Cup

competition	round	opponent	Result
UEFA Women's Cup 2001/02	Group 6	ŽFK Mašinac Classic Niš	0:11
		Odense BK	0:13
		Gatões FC	0: 8
UEFA Women's Champions League 2011/12	Group 7	Apollon Limassol	0:14
		Legend-Cheksil Chernigov	0: 8
		Swansea City	0: 4

Web links

• Club homepage
• Club data on fussball-lux.lu

Individual evidence

1. ↑ progres.lu: review of the first 75 years. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 25, 2014 ; accessed on May 24, 2014 . 
2. ↑ lessentiel.lu: “Paolo Amodio and Emilio Lobo take over Progrès” from October 18, 2016
3. ↑ tageblatt.lu: Niederkorn separates from coach Amodio. Retrieved October 3, 2018 . 
4. ↑ wort.lu: Serredszum and Wolf introduced. Retrieved October 4, 2018 . 
5. ↑ tageblatt.lu: Progrès dismisses coach Cyril Serredszum - Mario Mutsch steps in. Retrieved May 11, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Progrès officially introduces the German professional trainer Roland Vrabec. In: tageblatt.lu. June 12, 2019, accessed June 12, 2019 . 
7. ^ FC Progrès Niederkorn .