1999–2000 RC Lens season

This is the 1999–2000 RC Lens season.

Season summary

Lens reached the UEFA Cup semi-final before being eliminated by Arsenal.

First team squad

Squad at end of season^[1]

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

No. Position Player 1 GK Guillaume Warmuz 2 DF Éric Sikora 3 DF Yoann Lachor 4 MF Olivier Dacourt 5 MF Jocelyn Blanchard 6 MF Cyril Rool 7 FW Bruno Rodriguez 8 MF Stéphane Collet 9 MF Alex Nyarko 10 FW Daniel Moreira 11 FW Joseph-Désiré Job[2] 12 MF Redouanne El Ouardi 13 DF Youl Mawéné 14 DF Ferdinand Coly

No. Position Player 16 GK Sébastien Chabbert 18 MF Philippe Brunel 19 DF Patrick Barul 20 FW Lamine Sakho 21 MF Pascal Nouma 22 DF Xavier Méride 23 DF Adama Coulibaly 24 DF José-Karl Pierre-Fanfan 25 DF Valérien Ismaël 26 MF Charles-Édouard Coridon 27 FW Olivier Bogaczyk 28 DF Franck Queudrue 29 MF Ludovic Delporte 30 GK Cédric Berthelin

Transfers

Results

UEFA Cup

Second round

Lens v Vitesse

28 October 1999	Lens	4–1	Vitesse	Félix-Bollaert, Lens
	Brunel  3' Nouma  17' Nyarko  76' Blanchard  87'	Report	van Hooijdonk  73'	Referee: Siarhei Shmolik (Belarus)

Vitesse v Lens

4 November 1999	Vitesse	1–1	Lens	GelreDome, Arnhem
	Kreek  64'	Report	Blanchard  90'	Referee: Bernhard Brugger (Austria)

Third round

Lens v Kaiserslautern

25 November 1999	Lens	1–2	Kaiserslautern	Stade Félix-Bollaert, Lens
	Schjønberg  85' (o.g.)	Report	Sikora  32' (o.g.) Wagner  38'	Attendance: 36,243 Referee: Alfredo Trentalange (Italy)

Kaiserslautern v Lens

9 December 1999	Kaiserslautern	1–4	Lens	Fritz-Walter-Stadion, Kaiserslautern
	Hristov  21'	Report	Job  20', 39' Strasser  55' (o.g.) Nyarko  90'	Attendance: 25,000 Referee: Sándor Puhl (Hungary)

Fourth round

Atlético Madrid v Lens

2 March 2000	Atlético Madrid	2–2	Lens	Vicente Calderón Stadium, Madrid
20:15	Hasselbaink  23', 78'	Report	Dacourt  15', 77'	Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Kyros Vassaras (Greece)

Lens v Atlético Madrid

9 March 2000	Lens	4–2	Atlético Madrid	Stade Félix-Bollaert, Lens
21:00	Nouma  29', 53' Sakho  37' Brunel  71'	Report	Hasselbaink  45' Kiko  65'	Attendance: 37,229 Referee: Nikolai Levnikov (Russia)

Quarter-finals

Celta Vigo v Lens

16 March 2000	Celta Vigo	0–0	Lens	Balaídos, Vigo
21:30		Report		Attendance: 27,000 Referee: Karl-Erik Nilsson (Sweden)

Lens v Celta Vigo

23 March 2000	Lens	2–1	Celta Vigo	Stade Félix-Bollaert, Lens
20:45	Ismaël  62' (pen.) Nouma  72'	Report	Revivo  56'	Attendance: 41,000 Referee: Paul Durkin (England)

Semi-finals

Arsenal v Lens

6 April 2000	Arsenal	1–0	Lens	Arsenal Stadium, London
20:00	Bergkamp  2'	Report		Attendance: 38,102 Referee: Günter Benkö (Austria)

Lens v Arsenal

20 April 2000	Lens	1–2	Arsenal	Stade Félix-Bollaert, Lens
20:45	Nouma  73'	Report	Henry  41' Kanu  87'	Attendance: 41,043 Referee: José María García-Aranda (Spain)

References