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Lausanne Sports
Full name	Football Club Lausanne Sports
Founded	1896
Ground	Stade Olympique de la Pontaise, Lausanne; (Capacity: 15,850)
Manager	John Dragani
League	Challenge League
2008-09	Challenge League, 7th place
Home colours	Away colours

Lausanne Sports (also referred to as LS) is a sports club from Lausanne, Switzerland. It is most famous for its football department (FC Lausanne-Sport), but the club has also athletics, sport rowing, and rink hockey departments.

[edit] History

The football-section 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.^{[citation needed]} The club took its current name in 1920 after the football section merged with the Club Hygiénique de Lausanne, a physical education club.

[edit] Football

FC Lausanne-Sport won the Swiss Super League seven times and the Swiss Cup nine times. The club currently play in the Swiss Challenge League. The club play at the Stade Olympique de la Pontaise (16'000, all seated), a stadium used for the 1954 FIFA World Cup.

[edit] Honours

Swiss Champions: 1913, 1932, 1935, 1936, 1944, 1951 and 1965
Swiss Cup: 1935, 1939, 1944, 1950, 1962, 1964, 1981, 1998 and 1999

[edit] Current squad

As of 26 July, 2009

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Anthony Favre
2	MF	Dylan Stadelmann
5	DF	Baptiste Buntschu
6	DF	Guillaume Katz
7	FW	Marco Gabriele
8	MF	Antoine Rey
9	FW	Kamel Boughanem
10	FW	Franck Madou
11	FW	Nicolas Hélin
13	FW	Luis Filipe Pimenta

No.	Position	Player
15	MF	Ridge Mickael Mobulu
16	DF	Nicolas Gétaz
17	DF	Admir Bilibani
18	GK	Mathieu Debonnaire
19	MF	Abdul Carrupt
20	MF	Nicolas Marazzi
21	MF	Bertrand Ndzomo
22	DF	Fabien Gaiser
24	DF	Jérôme Sonnerat
25	GK	Damien Đurić
30	MF	Rodrigo Tosi