football club
Lille Olympique Sporting Club ( french pronunciation : [ lil ɔlɛ̃pik spɔʁtɪŋ klœb ] ), normally called LOSC, LOSC Lille, or plainly Lille, is a french master football golf club based in Lille, Hauts-de-France. They are the stream champions of Ligue 1, the top grade of french football. Lille has played its home matches since 2012 at Stade Pierre-Mauroy in nearby Villeneuve d’Ascq, which replaced the cabaret ‘s previous home of Stade Lille-Metropole.
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Lille was founded as a result of a fusion between Olympique Lillois and SC Fives in 1944. Both clubs were founding members of the french Division 1 and Lillois was the league ‘s inaugural champions. Under the Lille emblem, the golf club has won four league titles ( in 1946, 1954, 2011 and 2021 ) and six Coupe de France titles. Lille ‘s most successful period was the ten from 1946 to 1956 when the team was led by managers George Berry and André Cheuva. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Lille has a long-standing competition with nearby club RC Lens, with whom they contest the Derby du Nord. The club is owned by Merlyn Partners SCSp, a Luxembourg based investment fund .
history [edit ]
1944–1955 : The first decade [edit ]
Before the second World War, the city of Lille had two clubs in Ligue 1 ; Olympique Lillois and Sporting Club Fivois. Weakened by the war, the two clubs decided to merge in the fall of 1944, giving birth to Lille Olympique Sporting Club ( LOSC ). Within its first decade of being, the new club won two league titles and reached the irregular home for four consecutive seasons. In the Coupe de France the baseball club accumulated five wins in seven finals, including five consecutive finals. The final examination of the Latin Cup was besides reached .
1956–1980 : Lille loses its direction [edit ]
Lille were relegated for the first time in 1956. The club became a mid-table side and in the late 1960s, after a long period of anonymity, and weighed down by a miss of facilities and resources, Lille abandoned its professional condition. It was feared that the cabaret might disappear. however, some youthful leaders, such as Max Pommerolle, came and gave modern impulse to the clubhouse. Nevertheless, the results remained erratic and the merely titles that ignited the fans ‘ passions were won in the Second Division .
1980–2000 : Laying the foundations for future success [edit ]
In July 1980, Lille was the first french baseball club to opt for the status of a desegregate economy company, of which the city of Lille became the majority stockholder. The team of presidents Amyot, Deschot and Dewailly all struggled to compete with the top teams in the state. Jacques Amyot ‘s resignation in 1990 led to three more unmanageable years for the club which compromised its very universe. It took Bernard Lecomte ‘s arrival in 1993 to set the club finances on the road to convalescence. After a final examination relegation in 1997, the team trained by bosnian coach Vahid Halilhodžić was soon promoted back to the elite, in the lapp year the french Football League was privatised .
2000–present : A steady wax to the top [edit ]
In good its first season back in the top flight 2000–01 french Division 1, Lille qualified for Europe for the first time in the club ‘s history, booking its place in the 2001–02 Champions League. On the back of the club ‘s new status, Lille entered into a decisive new earned run average under the guidance of president and head executive policeman Michel Seydoux and coach Claude Puel. The baseball club left the historical Stade Grimonprez-Jooris to join the Stadium Lille Métropole and became a regular on the european picture. Amongst its most emphatic results was the 1–0 victory over Manchester United at the Stade de France in 2005, the 2–0 wallow over Milan in San Siro in 2006 and the 1–0 home winnings over Liverpool in 2010. A steadily development off the pitch ( inauguration of the Domaine de Luchin training complex in 2007, opening of the Grand Stade in 2012 ), coupled with the sporting progress under the technical hand of coach Rudi Garcia, took Lille back to the summit of the french game with the League and Cup double in 2011 ( 56 years after the clubhouse ‘s last trophy ). In 2012, LOSC confirmed its place at the top table of the domestic bet on with another reservation for Europe ‘s most prestigious baseball club rival, the Champions League in 2012–13. With the club finish just outside the UCL places that season, Garcia left to join Roma, while early Montpellier coach René Girard was appointed the new Lille director. [ 4 ] After two years in commission of the club, Girard left his role as the head coach by reciprocal accept. He was joined by assistants Gerard Bernadet and Nicolas Girard in making the die. In May 2015, the Ivory Coast national team head bus Hervé Renard was appointed as the new coach. On 11 November 2015, Renard was terminated as coach and was replaced by Frederic Antonetti. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] On 23 November 2016, a year after being appointed, Lille terminated Antonetti ‘s contract with the club lying second final in the board. [ 7 ] In March 2017, Lille appointed Marcelo Bielsa as new director of the clubhouse. In November 2017, Bielsa was suspended by Lille following an unauthorized tripper to Chile with the club lying second from bottom on the table again and entirely managing 3 wins from the first 14 games of the season. [ 8 ] On 23 December 2017, Bielsa was terminated by Lille and replaced with former Saint-Etienne director Christophe Galtier. [ 9 ] After a difficult 2017–2018 season, Lille managed to avoid delegating to Ligue 2 by defeating Toulouse 3–2 in the second last game of the campaign. [ 10 ] In the 2018–19 Ligue 1 season, Lille secured the second place to qualify for the 2019–20 UEFA Champions League group stage, they returned to the rival after a seven-year absence. [ 11 ] Two seasons late, in the 2020–21 season, Lille won their first Ligue 1 title in 10 years and the fourth overall in club history under the guidance of Christophe Galtier. [ 12 ]
Stadiums [edit ]
Lille lining up at the Stade Pierre-Mauroy before its inaugural match in 2012 Stade Pierre-Mauroy was inaugurated in 2012. primitively named the Centre Olympique de Lille Est, the club ‘s frolic venue is spread over five hectares and features three natural grass football pitches and one celluloid pitch, adenine well as a count of buildings including a aesculapian centre and secondary school. These attributes had seen the club house separate of the LOSC Youth Academy hera, before all the club ‘s operations were moved to the Domaine de Luchin in Camphin-en-Pé. [ 13 ]
Club rivalries [edit ]
The Derby du Nord is a football catch contested between Lille and RC Lens. The bowler hat name refers only to their geographic placement in France since Lille is the only club of the two actually situated in the department of Nord. Lens are situated in the western department of Pas-de-Calais. The name can besides refer to matches involving Lille and Valenciennes as both clubs are located within Nord, however, the match historically refers to matches involving Lille and Lens. As a consequence, the Lille–Valenciennes equal is sometimes referred to as Le Petit Derby du Nord. The two clubs beginning met in 1937 when Lille were playing under the Olympique Lillois emblem. due to each club ‘s close proximity towards each other being separated by merely 40 kilometres ( 25 mi ) and sociological differences between each club ‘s supporters, a cutthroat competition developed. The Derby du Nord is underpinned by social and economic differences, since the city of Lens is known as an previous, propertyless, industrial city and Lille as a middle-class, mod, internationally oriented one. Nowadays the matches, which can spark acute feelings on both sides, have gained prominence as they may determine berths in continental competitions .
Players [edit ]
current squad [edit ]
- As of 1 December 2021[14]
note : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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other players under abridge [edit ]
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Out on loanword [edit ]
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Reserve team [edit ]
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celebrated past players [edit ]
Records [edit ]
Most appearances [edit ]
top scorers [edit ]
management and staff [edit ]
Lille Olympique Sporting Club – LOSC Lille ( SASP ) [ 15 ]
Coaching history [edit ]
former coaches include Georges Heylens ( 1984–89 ), a erstwhile belgian international player, Jacques Santini ( 1989–92 ), who coached the France national team between 2002 and 2004, Bruno Metsu ( 1992–93 ), who coached the Senegal national team at the 2002 World Cup, Pierre Mankowski ( 1993–94 ), who was once the assistant passenger car of the France home team and Vahid Halilhodžić ( 1998–02 ), who can be credited with the cabaret ‘s revival in the late nineties. Rudi Garcia, who played for Lille from 1980 to 1988, replaced Claude Puel at the begin of the 2008 season. Puel had been with Lille since 2002. Thanks to his successes with the clubhouse, Puel had been approached by portuguese club Porto to replace José Mourinho and league rivals Lyon to replace Alain Perrin ; he last decided to join Lyon after six seasons at the baseball club .