FC Lausanne-Sport

Lausanne-Sport
Full name Football Club Lausanne-Sport
Nickname(s) Les blancs
Founded 1896
Ground Olympique de la Pontaise
Ground Capacity 15,850
President Alain Joseph
Manager Fabio Celestini
League Swiss Super League
2015–16 Swiss Challenge League, 1st (promoted)
Website Club home page

FC Lausanne-Sport (also referred to as LS) is a Swiss football club based in Lausanne.

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 1906–1931 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]

Lausanne-Sport has won the Swiss First Division seven times and the Swiss Cup nine times.

Honours

Current squad

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

No. Position Player
1 Switzerland GK Thomas Castella
3 Spain DF Carlos Blanco (on loan from Juventus)
4 Switzerland DF Jérémy Manière
5 Switzerland MF Xavier Margairaz
6 Portugal DF Elton Monteiro
7 Kosovo MF Benjamin Kololli
8 Switzerland MF Musa Araz
9 North Korea FW Pak Kwang-ryong
10 Uruguay FW Kevin Méndez (on loan from Roma)
11 Switzerland MF Samuele Campo
12 Brazil DF Marcus Diniz
13 Italy DF Paolo Frascatore (on loan from Roma)
14 Switzerland MF Alexandre Pasche
No. Position Player
15 Spain MF Juan Esnáider
16 Switzerland DF Nicolas Gétaz
17 Switzerland MF Olivier Custodio
18 Italy MF Andrea Maccoppi
19 Italy FW Francesco Margiotta (on loan from Juventus)
20 Switzerland MF Maxime Dominguez
21 Switzerland MF Ming-yang Yang
22 Switzerland GK Kevin Martin
23 Switzerland MF Jordan Lotomba
25 Switzerland MF Nassim Ben Khalifa
28 Costa Rica MF Yeltsin Tejeda
35 Switzerland GK Dany da Silva
37 Panama FW Gabriel Torres

Former coaches

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

Lausanne-Sports Rowing

Lausanne-Sports Aviron is the rowing club of Lausanne-Sport.

References

  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.
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