Lille OSC vs AS Saint-Etienne: The Mastiffs are going to win a tough match

Association football society in Lille

Football game club

Lille

Full name	Lille Olympique Sporting Order
Nickname(south)	Les Dogues (The Mastiffs)[one]
Curt proper noun	LOSC
Founded	23 September 1944; 77 years ago  (1944-09-23)
Footing	Stade Pierre-Mauroy
Chapters	50,186
Owner	Merlyn Partners SCSp
President	Olivier Létang
Head motorbus	Jocelyn Gourvennec
League	Ligue 1
2020–21	Ligue i, 1st of 20 (champions)
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours Third colours
Electric current flavour

Lille Olympique Sporting Social club
(French pronunciation: ​
[lil ɔlɛ̃pik spɔʁtɪŋ klœb]), commonly called
LOSC,
LOSC Lille, or simply
Lille, is a French professional person football club based in Lille, Hauts-de-French republic. They are the current champions of Ligue 1, the acme tier of French football. Lille has played its home matches since 2012 at Stade Pierre-Mauroy in nearby Villeneuve d’Ascq, which replaced the club’s previous home of Stade Lille-Metropole.

Lille was founded as a effect of a merger between Olympique Lillois and SC Fives in 1944. Both clubs were founding members of the French Division 1 and Lillois was the league’s countdown champions. Under the Lille emblem, the society has won 4 league titles (in 1946, 1954, 2011 and 2021) and vi Coupe de French republic titles. Lille’s nearly successful period was the decade from 1946 to 1956 when the squad was led past managers George Berry and André Cheuva.^[2]
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Lille has a long-standing rivalry with nearby social club RC Lens, with whom they competition the Derby du Nord. The order is owned by Merlyn Partners SCSp, a Luxembourg based investment fund.

History

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1944–1955: The first decade

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Before the 2d Earth State of 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 autumn of 1944, giving birth to Lille Olympique Sporting Gild (LOSC). Within its outset decade of existence, the new club won two league titles and reached the second place for 4 sequent seasons. In the Coupe de France the social club accumulated v wins in 7 finals, including five successive finals. The final of the Latin Loving cup was also reached.

1956–1980: Lille loses its fashion

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Lille were relegated for the outset time in 1956. The society became a mid-tabular array side and in the late 1960s, after a long menstruation of anonymity, and weighed down by a lack of facilities and resources, Lille abased its professional status. It was feared that the club might disappear. However, some young leaders, such as Max Pommerolle, came and gave new impetus to the social club. Nonetheless, the results remained erratic and the only titles that ignited the fans’ passions were won in the Second Division.

1980–2000: Laying the foundations for time to come success

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In July 1980, Lille was the kickoff French society to opt for the status of a mixed economic system company, of which the city of Lille became the majority shareholder. The team of presidents Amyot, Deschot and Dewailly all struggled to compete with the height teams in the state. Jacques Amyot’s resignation in 1990 led to 3 more than difficult years for the club which compromised its very existence. Information technology took Bernard Lecomte’s arrival in 1993 to set the gild finances on the road to recovery. After a final relegation in 1997, the team trained past Bosnian jitney Vahid Halilhodžić was shortly promoted dorsum to the elite, in the aforementioned year the French Football League was privatised. Club was purchased in 1999 by Luc Dayan and Francis Graille for one symbolic franc.

2000–present: A steady climb to the top

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In but its starting time season back in the acme flight 2000–01 French Sectionalisation 1, Lille qualified for Europe for the first fourth dimension in the club’due south history, booking its place in the 2001–02 Champions League. On the dorsum of the club’s new status, Lille entered into a decisive new era under the guidance of chairman and master executive officer Michel Seydoux and coach Claude Puel. The club left the historical Stade Grimonprez-Jooris to join the Stadium Lille Métropole and became a regular on the European scene. Among its most emphatic results was the 1–0 victory over Manchester United at the Stade de French republic in 2005, the two–0 triumph over Milan in San Siro in 2006 and the ane–0 domicile win over Liverpool in 2010. A steady development off the pitch (inauguration of the Domaine de Luchin training circuitous in 2007, opening of the Thou Stade in 2012), coupled with the sporting progression under the adept hand of coach Rudi Garcia, took Lille back to the superlative of the French game with the League and Cup double in 2011 (56 years later the club’s last trophy). In 2012, LOSC confirmed its place at the top tabular array of the domestic game with another qualification for Europe’southward virtually prestigious club competition, the Champions League in 2012–13. With the club finishing just outside the UCL places that flavor, Garcia left to join Roma, while former Montpellier coach René Girard was appointed the new Lille manager.^[four]
After two years in charge of the club, Girard left his role as the head coach by mutual consent. He was joined by assistants Gerard Bernadet and Nicolas Girard in making the exit. In May 2015, the Ivory coast national team caput coach Hervé Renard was appointed as the new manager. On eleven Nov 2015, Renard was terminated as manager and was replaced by Frederic Antonetti.^[5]
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On 23 November 2016, a twelvemonth afterward being appointed, Lille terminated Antonetti’s contract with the guild lying second last in the tabular array.^[seven]
In March 2017, Lille appointed Marcelo Bielsa every bit new manager of the club. In November 2017, Bielsa was suspended past Lille following an unauthorized trip to Chile with the club lying second from bottom on the table again and only managing 3 wins from the starting time 14 games of the season.^[8]

On 23 December 2017, Bielsa was terminated by Lille and replaced with one-time Saint-Etienne director Christophe Galtier.^[9]
After a hard 2017–2018 season, Lille managed to avoid relegation to Ligue 2 past defeating Toulouse iii–2 in the second concluding game of the campaign.^[x]

In the 2018–19 Ligue 1 season, Lille secured the 2nd place to qualify for the 2019–xx UEFA Champions League group stage, they returned to the competition after a seven-twelvemonth absence.^[11]
Two seasons later, in the 2020–21 season, Lille won their starting time Ligue ane title in 10 years and the fourth overall in club history under the guidance of Christophe Galtier.^[12]

Stadiums

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Stade Pierre-Mauroy was inaugurated in 2012. Originally named the
Centre Olympique de Lille Est, the club’s sporting venue is spread over v hectares and features three natural grass football pitches and i synthetic pitch, as well as a number of buildings including a medical center and gymnasium. These attributes had seen the club house part of the LOSC Youth Academy hither, before all the club’s operations were moved to the Domaine de Luchin in Camphin-en-Pé.^[13]

Club rivalries

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The Derby du Nord is a football match contested between Lille and RC Lens. The derby proper name refers only to their geographical location in French republic since Lille is the just lodge of the two actually situated in the department of Nord. Lens are situated in the western department of Pas-de-Calais. The proper noun can too refer to matches involving Lille and Valenciennes as both clubs are located within Nord, withal, the match historically refers to matches involving Lille and Lens. As a issue, the Lille–Valenciennes match is sometimes referred to equally
Le Petit Derby du Nord. The ii clubs first met in 1937 when Lille were playing under the Olympique Lillois emblem. Due to each club’s close proximity towards each other being separated past but 40 kilometres (25 mi) and sociological differences between each club’south supporters, a fierce rivalry developed. The Derby du Nord is underpinned by social and economical differences, since the city of Lens is known as an old, working-grade, industrial urban center and Lille as a middle-grade, modern, internationally oriented one. Nowadays the matches, which can spark intense feelings on both sides, have gained prominence as they may determine berths in continental competitions.

Players

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Current squad

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As of 3 February 2022
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Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may concord more than than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player i GK CRO Ivo Grbić (on loan from Atlético Madrid) 2 DF TUR Zeki Çelik iii DF POR Tiago Djaló 4 DF NED Sven Botman 5 DF SWE Gabriel Gudmundsson 6 DF POR José Fonte (captain) 7 FW FRA Jonathan Bamba viii MF POR Xeka 9 FW CAN Jonathan David 10 MF POR Renato Sanches xi MF FRA Hatem Ben Arfa

No. Pos. Nation Actor 16 GK SVK Adam Jakubech 17 FW TUR Burak Yılmaz 19 FW FRA Isaac Lihadji 20 MF ENG Angel Gomes 21 MF FRA Benjamin André (vice-captain) 22 FW Us Timothy Weah 23 MF KVX Edon Zhegrova 24 MF BEL Amadou Onana 26 DF FRA Jérémy Pied 29 DF CRO Domagoj Bradarić 30 GK BRA Léo Jardim

Out on loan

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

No. Pos. Nation Player — GK FRA Lucas Chevalier (on loan at Valenciennes) — DF TOG Hakim Ouro-Sama (on loan at Bastia-Borgo) — DF CIV Kouadio-Yves Dabila (on loan at Seraing) — MF FRA Rocco Ascone (оn loan at Nordsjaelland)

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF ANG Capita (оn loan at Trofense) — MF SEN Barthélemy Diedhiou (on loan at Trofense) — MF FRA Darly N’Landu (on loan at Avranches) — MF TUR Yusuf Yazıcı (on loan at CSKA Moscow)

Reserve squad

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Notation: Flags indicate national team as defined nether FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 33 DF MAR Saad Agouzoul 34 FW POR Bica 35 FW FRA Mamadou Simbakoli xl GK FRA Jules Raux — GK GRE Orestis Karnezis — GK FRA Tom Negrel — DF FRA Abdoulaye Zakha Bangoura — DF MAR Ismail Bouleghcha — DF FRA Nassim Innocenti — DF NED Luuk Kluiters — DF FRA Baptiste Rolland

No. Pos. Nation Player — DF FRA Maxime Wackers — MF BFA Joffrey Bazie — MF FRA Exaucé Mpembele Boula — MF GUI Alpha Diallo — MF BEL Jean-Pierre Longonda — MF COD Carmel Mabanza — MF FRA Ugo Raghouber — FW FRA Badredine Bouanani — FW GLP Jessy Breslau — FW FRA Ibrahim Karamoko — FW FRA Fadiga Ouattara

Notable past players

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Records

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Almost appearances

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Rank	Player	Matches
1	Marceau Somerlinck	428
2	André Strappe	365
3	Rio Mavuba	313
4	Mathieu Debuchy	301
5	Florent Balmont	292

Elevation scorers

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Rank	Player	Goals
1	Jean Baratte	218
ii	André Strappe	135
3	Gérard Bourbotte	96
4	Jean Lechantre	81
5	Bolek Tempowski	81

Direction and staff

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Lille Olympique Sporting Social club – LOSC Lille
(SASP)
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• President: Olivier Létang
• Deputy CEO: Marc Ingla
• Academy Director: Jean-Michel Van Damme
• Director of Football: Franck Béria
• Scouting Football Adviser: Luis Campos
• Head Omnibus: Jocelyn Gourvennec
• Assistant Coach:
  Jorge Maciel
• Assistant Coach: Kevin Plantet

Coaching history

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Old coaches include Georges Heylens (1984–89), a sometime Belgian international player, Jacques Santini (1989–92), who coached the French republic national squad between 2002 and 2004, Bruno Metsu (1992–93), who coached the Senegal national squad at the 2002 World Loving cup, Pierre Mankowski (1993–94), who was formerly the banana coach of the France national team and Vahid Halilhodžić (1998–02), who can be credited with the society’s revival in the late nineties. Rudi Garcia, who played for Lille from 1980 to 1988, replaced Claude Puel at the start of the 2008 season. Puel had been with Lille since 2002. Cheers to his successes with the club, Puel had been approached by Portuguese club Porto to supervene upon José Mourinho and league rivals Lyon to replace Alain Perrin; he finally decided to join Lyon later half-dozen seasons at the society.

Honours

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Domestic

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• Ligue 1
  • Champions (four): 1945–46, 1953–54, 2010–11, 2020–21
  • Runners-up (6): 1947–48, 1948–49, 1949–l, 1950–51, 2004–05, 2018–nineteen
• Ligue 2
  • Winners: 1963–64, 1973–74, 1977–78, 1999–2000
• Coupe de France
  • Winners (6): 1945–46, 1946–47, 1947–48, 1952–53, 1954–55, 2010–11
  • Runners-upward: 1944–45, 1948–49
• Coupe de la Ligue
  • Runners-up: 2015–16
• Trophée des Champions
  • Winners: 2021
  • Runners-upwardly: 1955, 2011
• Coupe Charles Drago
  • Runners-upward: 1954, 1956

Europe

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• UEFA Intertoto Loving cup
  • Winners: 2004
• Latin Loving cup
  • Runners-up: 1951

References

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External links

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Wikimedia Eatables has media related to Lille OSC.

• Official site
• Soccerway