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Racing Club de Lens ( french pronunciation : ​ [ ʁasiŋ klœb də lɑ̃s ], normally referred to as RC Lens or plainly Lens ) is a french football club based in the northern city of Lens in the Pas-de-Calais department. Its nickname, les sang et or ( the blood and gold ), comes from its traditional color of loss and gold. Their traditional rivals are their northern neighbours Lille, with whom they contest the Derby du Nord.

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history [edit ]

origin of the club [edit ]

The club was established in 1906 in Lens by local students who enjoyed playing football on the city ‘s Place Verte ( the current Place de la République ). The name “ Racing Club de Lens ” was chosen as a reference to Racing Club de Roubaix and Racing Club de France, both popular clubs at the time. The golf club ‘s first board of directors was formed by the parents of those students. The club in the first place played in green and blacken to represent the initiation location ; they wore green to represent the list of the home deliver, “ Verte ”, ( meaning ‘green ‘ in French ), and total darkness to represent the ubiquity of the char mining industry in the besiege area. between 1907 and 1912, the players were forced to change home grounds doubly before settling at the Parc des Glissoires, situated between Avion and Lens. During World War I, in common with all french sports clubs, the team ‘s activities were stopped and did not restart until 1919. By this time, Lens had changed their play colours to sky blue .

Of blood and amber [edit ]

It was in 1924 that the bolshevik and gold colours first appeared. One caption says that Pierre Moglia, president of the club from 1923 to 1930, chose the color of the spanish flag after a colleague from the baseball club remarked that the Saint-Léger church ruins, which they had walked past one even, were the last visible remains of the local anesthetic spanish domination in 1648. Some people besides say that the colours were derived as a reference to the local ember mines : the crimson for the blood of the miners and the gold for the ember which was valuable at the time. It was besides in 1924 that the club was authorised to play at the newly built municipal stadium Raoul Briquet ( nowadays Léo Lagrange ). The first equal for the baseball club in their newfangled color was played for the inauguration of the stadium. In 1926, British football player Kid Fenton was the first star who played for Lens. He stayed for eight seasons and became a strong front-runner with the club ‘s supporters. This was besides the year the first supporters group was formed, and besides saw the beginning juncture that Lens captured the Championnat d’Artois. In 1929, Lens won the North championship and won promotion for the first time to the Division d’Honneur of the Ligue du Nord with the clubs Olympique Lillois, RC Roubaix, Excelsior Athlétic Club de Roubaix and AC Amiens. In the Artois League, the club steadily gained prestige, and in 1932 the club inaugurated the Stade Félix Bollaert .

The first victories [edit ]

In 1937, Lens gained entree to the first division after finishing beginning in the moment class, led by such players as Stefan Dembicki and Spechtl. Lens even managed to reach the last 16 of the Coupe de France, although the team was finally eliminated by the Red Star, 3–2. In 1943, Lens won the first class of the Northern Zone thanks to Dembicki, who scored 43 goals in 30 games. A year earlier, in a Coupe de France catch, he had scored 17 goals, which inactive remains to this day the global record for goals scored by one musician in a unmarried competitive match. immediately following World War II, Lens finished in one-sixth home in the 1945–46 temper, but they were relegated the be class. In 1948, the club played its first gear Coupe de France concluding, which they lost 3–2 against Lille. A year late, Lens was promoted to the first division, and Maryan Wisnieski was recruited, in 1953. Problems with the board, however, made him quit the club ; he joined italian club UC Sampdoria Genoa, though without much success. In 1962, the city of Lens ‘ mines were shut down and the future of the club was at interest, given that most of the players were miners by profession. between 1956 and 1968, survival was hard. Nevertheless, in 1964, Lens finished third gear, with Ahmed Oudjani the top scorer with 30 goals. Another celebrated actor, Georges Lech, joined Lens, although the club was relegated in 1968. The pursue year, the mine ‘s administrators rescinded their ownership of Lens, which signalled the end of professional football at the Stade Bollaert-Delelis. Lens was now once again an amateur club, one year after its relegation, and the long condition future looked very bare .

The good years and the accrue [edit ]

however, better days arrived in 1960 after the town council took interest in Racing Club de Lens. Lens ‘ mayor, André Delelis, was a long-run garter and recognized the importance of the baseball club ‘s success to the overall esprit de corps of the city. With the future president, Jean Bondoux, the mayor brought together volunteers and subscriptions to help the club outlive. furthermore, the city recovered ownership of the stadium from the close mine diligence. The following twenty years saw a boring but firm improvement in the club ‘s fortunes. In 1972, Lens reached the semi-finals of the Coupe de France, and the arrival of two polish players helped the club succeed forwarding to the first division. In 1975, Lens once again reached the final of the Coupe de France against the mighty Saint-Étienne, but lost the game 0–2. As finalist of the Coupe de France, Lens had the opportunity to participate in its first UEFA Cup Winners ‘ Cup, but the team was knocked out cursorily by the Dutch club ADO Den Haag. Lens ‘ sweetheart build up continued, and after finishing second in the league behind Nantes, they managed to qualify to the UEFA Cup. They knocked out swedish club Malmö FF, and more impressively, the potent italian golf club Lazio. After an away get the better of ( 2–0 ), they won 6–0 at the Stade Bollaert-Delelis after extra-time. unfortunately, after this rare international exploit for a french club, they were then eliminated by east german side 1. FC Magdeburg. Worse placid, the club went second to the second base division in 1978. The footprint backwards was very brief and immediate promotion back to the french elect level was achieved in 1979 with Roger Lemerre as head coach. During the 1980s, Gérard Houllier and Joachim Marx succeeded him. These were bang-up gains to the team, even though the baseball club lost important players such as Didier Sénac, Gaëtan Huard and Philippe Vercruysse .

Martel ‘s takeover [edit ]

In August 1988 Gervais Martel, a affluent local businessman, bought control of the club, with the help of Serge Doré. During the same year, Arnaud Dos Santos was named read/write head coach of the club, and led the club back to the first division in 1991. In 1993 and 1994, Lens ‘ strongest team to that date were highly competitive at the top of the league, and the team qualified for the UEFA Cup doubly in a row. Lens besides reached the semi-final of the Coupe de France after knocking out Paris Saint-Germain at the Parc des Princes, although the team lost to Montpellier. In 1998, es Sang et Or wrote the best page of their history under Daniel Leclercq ( “ the Druid ” ) : french champions, Coupe de la Ligue semi-finalists and finalists of the Coupe de France ( against PSG, a 2–1 get the better of ). Like a symbol, it is a actor who started his career in Lens, Yohan Lachor, who scored the finish in Auxerre giving Lens the claim in front of Metz. Under the “ Druid ”, Lens won its second major title in 1999 with the Coupe de la Ligue against Metz, with a goal from Daniel Moreira. That class, in the UEFA Champions League, Lens besides became the only club to have beaten English team Arsenal at the celebrated Wembley Stadium ( 1–0, with a goal from Mickaël Debève ), although they were knocked out on sum score over two matches. During the following season, Leclercq was fired, but Lens however did well to reach the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup. François Brisson ‘s men were finally eliminated by Arsenal, after they won against 1. FC Kaiserslautern ( a 4–1 win in Germany ), Atlético Madrid and Celta de Vigo. In the 2001–02 season, Joël Muller was named head coach. Lens finished moment that season and qualified for its second Champions League political campaign. The club, however, finished in eighth for the next two years. Muller was replaced during his fourth temper by Francis Gillot, who managed to qualify Lens for the UEFA Intertoto Cup, which Lens won, ensuring qualification for the UEFA Cup. During the 2006–07 temper, the Sang et Or finished the first gear contribution of the season in second, behind Lyon. But due to a chaotic second half, however, they lone finished fifth. A few days late, Francis Gillot resigned.

On 5 June 2007, Guy Roux made his comeback, although it lone lasted three months : He resigned after a 2–1 get the better of at Strasbourg. Jean-Pierre Papin took over, but Lens could not make up any labor throughout the season, finishing 18th, two points behind Toulouse, resulting in delegating to Ligue 2 for the following season. Lens finished the season with just 40 points, winning merely 9 times in 38 matches. After a slow startle in their lone class in Ligue 2, they managed to finish as leaders during the first half of the season. Earning 13 out of 15 points in their first five games of the second base one-half, everything looked set for a promptly return to the first base league. After only taking five points of the future six games, however, the promotion race was open again, although Lens recovered and became champions, securing promotion to Ligue 1 for 2009–10. After the 2010–11 temper, however, they again dropped to Ligue 2. On 16 May 2014, Lens sealed forwarding back to Ligue 1 on the final examination sidereal day of the season following a 2–0 win at Bastia. On 27 June, however, the League ‘s National Directorate of Management Control ( DNCG ) blocked Lens ‘ promotion to the lead flight due to irregularities in the cabaret ‘s aim budget for its next season. The write out was a €10 million payment due from major stockholder Hafiz Mammadov that was missing from the accounts. Lens president of the united states Gervais Martel claimed a public vacation in Mammadov ‘s native Azerbaijan had resulted in the delay and said the clubhouse would appeal. On 15 July, however, their forwarding was in hazard after an invoke commission upheld their appeal since the missing funds still had not yet arrived in the golf club ‘s accounts. Lens immediately declared their purpose to appeal to the french Olympic Committee ( CNOSF ), which has the baron to overrule the DNCG. On 25 July, the CNSOF recommended Lens should be allowed to play in Ligue 1. Because the Stade Bollaert-Delelis was being renovated for UEFA Euro 2016, Lens played their family matches for the 2014–15 Ligue 1 season at the Stade de la Licorne, home of Amiens, and at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis. It was announced on 29 January 2015 that Lens ‘ promotion from Ligue 2 at the conclusion of the 2013–14 season has been ruled invalid, and will therefore be automatically relegated to Ligue 2 for the 2015–16 season, careless of where the team places. thus, in August 2015 Lens returned to Ligue 2, albeit playing at the animate Stade Bollaert-Delelis. They drew an average home attendance of 28,996 in the 2016–17 season, the highest in Ligue 2 but missed promotion to the Ligue 1 during an disruptive last day of the season. [ 1 ] In the 2017–2018 Ligue 2 season, Lens lost their first seven matches in a rowing, the worst begin to a season in the club ‘s history. On 18 September, Lens last got their foremost succeed of the temper over US Quevilly-Rouen 2-0. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In the 2018–19 Ligue 2 season, Lens finished 5th on the table and reached the promotion play off final against Dijon FCO. After a 1–1 draw in the beginning stage, Lens would lose the second gear leg and the affiliation 3-1 after two goalkeeping blunders by Jérémy Vachoux cost his slope a prospect of promotion to Ligue 1. [ 4 ] On 30 April 2020, Lens were promoted to Ligue 1 after the LFP decided to end the seasons of both Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 early due to the Coronavirus pandemic. Lens were second on the postpone in Ligue 2 at the clock of the decision. [ 5 ] In the 2020-21 season, Lens finished 7th on the Ligue 1 mesa after an impressive beginning season back in France ‘s top flight. [ 6 ]

Honours [edit ]

Winners (3): 1959, 1960, 1965
Runners-up (1): 1957
Winners (3): 1957, 1958, 1992
Runners-up (3): 1979, 1983, 1993, 1995

Records [edit ]

current squad [edit ]

First team [edit ]

As of 6 October 2021.[8]

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Out on lend [edit ]

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Reserve team [edit ]

As of 23 October 2021[9]

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Squad U 19 [edit ]

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withdraw numbers [edit ]

12 – France Club Supporters ( the 12th Man )
17 – Cameroon Marc-Vivien Foé, Midfielder ( 1994–99 ) – posthumous honour.

luminary players [edit ]

former players [edit ]

Three Lens players won the gold decoration in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games : defender Didier Sénac, deoxyadenosine monophosphate well as strikers François Brisson and Daniel Xuereb who scored a goal each in France ‘s victory over Brazil 2–0 in the final examination at the Pasadena Rose Bowl in front of a crowd of 103,000. For a complete list of RC Lens players, see class : RC Lens players

french internationals [edit ]

As of 31 January 2019
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Presidents [edit ]

Coaches [edit ]

former coaches include two antique France coaches : Gérard Houllier ( 1982–85 ) managed France between July 1992 and November 1993, and Roger Lemerre ( moment half of the 1996–97 temper, then as adjunct coach 1997–98 ), who coached France between July 1998 and July 2002 .

See besides [edit ]

References [edit ]

  • La Gailette: Racing Club de Lens’ prolific academy – These Football Times (2015)