F91 Dudelange

Dudelange
Full name F91 Dudelange
Founded 1991
Ground Stade Jos Nosbaum,
Dudelange
Capacity 2,558
Chairman Flavio Becca
Manager Dino Toppmöller
League Luxembourg National Division
2017–18 National Division, 1st

F91 Dudelange (French: [ɛf ka.tʁə.vɛ̃.ɔ̃z dyd.lɑ̃ʒ]) is a Luxembourgish professional football club based in Dudelange. It currently plays in the Luxembourg National Division.

It was formed in 1991 as a merger between three teams in the city: Alliance Dudelange, Stade Dudelange and US Dudelange. Domestically, it has won the Luxembourg National Division on 12 occasions and the Luxembourg Cup seven times. F91 Dudelange qualified for the 2018–19 UEFA Europa League, becoming the first club from the country to reach the group stage of a European competition.

History

Simplified illustration of origin of F91 Dudelange

It was formed in 1991 from the clubs Alliance Dudelange, Stade Dudelange, and US Dudelange. All three clubs had won the National Division or the Luxembourg Cup before, but each had fallen upon hard times, and the amalgamated club was expected to be more stable, in both a sporting and financial sense.

Turning the club into a title-challenging team took a while. Stade Dudelange and US Dudelange had been in Luxembourg's third tier (the 1. Division), whilst Alliance Dudelange was struggling to remain in the second league (the Division of Honour). The new club would take Alliance's place in the Division of Honour in the 1991–92 season.

F91 was promoted in its first season, and soon established itself as a competent top-flight team, not finishing outside the top half of the table until 1996–97. Towards the end of the 1990s, Dudelange gradually improved, and brought to an end Jeunesse Esch's era of dominance by storming to the 1999–00 league title by eleven points.

In 2004–05, Dudelange won the title and competed in the UEFA Champions League for the 2005–06 season. In the competition Dudelange became the first club in Luxembourg's history to reach the second qualifying round, after a remarkable victory over NK Zrinjski (they lost 0–1 at home in the first leg, in the second leg they scored a goal in the 3rd minute of stoppage time to equalize on aggregate, and then scored 3 more goals in extra time). However, Dudelange were easily beaten by Rapid Wien in the second qualifying round.

In the 2005–06 season, Dudelange completed the league and cup Double for the first time since the merger. They replicated this feat in the 2006–07 season, and won a fourth consecutive National Division title in 2007–08.

In the 2012–13 UEFA Champions League, F91 Dudelange defeated Tre Penne 11–0 on aggregate, earning them an appointment with Austrian champion Red Bull Salzburg in the second round. They defeated Salzburg 1–0 in Luxemburg, and lost 3–4 in Salzburg, to win the tie on the away goal rule. For the first time in club history, Dudelange qualified for the third round of the competition.

In 2013–14, Dudelange reclaimed the title with a 3–0 victory over Fola Esch on the final day of the season. This earned the club a spot in the 2014–15 UEFA Champions League.

In 2018, F91 Dudelange became the first Luxembourgish team to reach the group stage of a major European competition, after defeating CFR Cluj 5–2 on aggregate in the UEFA Europa League play-off round.[1] Due to Dudelange's apparent underdog status, daily newspaper Gazeta Sporturilor regarded CFR's elimination as "the biggest shame in the history of Romanian football".[2] Dudelange had also previously defeated Polish side Legia Warsaw in the third qualifying round.

Honours

Domestic

Leagues

Cups

European record

Overview

As of 21 September 2018
Competition Pld W D L GF GA
UEFA Champions League 36 7 5 24 41 70
UEFA Cup / UEFA Europa League 22 6 4 12 20 38
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup 4 0 0 4 3 19
TOTAL 62 13 9 40 64 127

Matches

Season Competition Round Club Home Away Aggregate
1993–94 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup QR Israel Maccabi Haifa 0–1 1–6 1–7
1994–95 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup QR Hungary Ferencváros 1–6 1–6 2–12
1999–00 UEFA Cup QR Croatia Hajduk Split 1–1 0–5 1–6
2000–01 UEFA Champions League 1Q Bulgaria Levski Sofia 0–4 0–2 0–6
2001–02 UEFA Champions League 1Q Latvia Skonto FC 1–6 1–0 2–6
2002–03 UEFA Champions League 1Q Republic of Macedonia FK Vardar 1–1 0–3 1–4
2003–04 UEFA Cup QR Slovakia Artmedia Petrzalka 0–1 0–1 0–2
2004–05 UEFA Cup 1Q Lithuania FK Ekranas 1–2 0–1 1–3
2005–06 UEFA Champions League 1Q Bosnia and Herzegovina Zrinjski Mostar 0–1 4–0[A] 4–1
2Q Austria Rapid Wien 1–6 2–3 3–9
2006–07 UEFA Champions League 1Q Republic of Macedonia FK Rabotnički 0–1 0–0 0–1
2007–08 UEFA Champions League 1Q Slovakia MŠK Žilina 1–2 4–5 5–7
2008–09 UEFA Champions League 1Q Slovenia Domžale 0–1 0–2 0–3
2009–10 UEFA Champions League 2Q Latvia Ventspils 1–3 0–3 1–6
2010–11 UEFA Europa League 1Q Denmark Randers FC 2–1 1–6 3–7
2011–12 UEFA Champions League 1Q Andorra FC Santa Coloma 2–0 2–0 4–0
2Q Slovenia Maribor 1–3 0–2 1–5
2012–13 UEFA Champions League 1Q San Marino Tre Penne 7–0 4–0 11–0
2Q Austria Red Bull Salzburg 1–0 3–4 4–4 (a)
3Q Slovenia NK Maribor 0–1 1–4 1–5
UEFA Europa League PO Israel Hapoel Tel Aviv 1–3 0–4 1–7
2013–14 UEFA Europa League 1Q Moldova Milsami Orhei 0–0 0–1 0–1
2014–15 UEFA Champions League 2Q Bulgaria Ludogorets Razgrad 0–4 1–1 1–5
2015–16 UEFA Europa League 1Q Republic of Ireland University College Dublin 2–1 0–1 2–2 (a)
2016–17 UEFA Champions League 2Q Azerbaijan Qarabağ 1–1 0–2 1–3
2017–18 UEFA Champions League 2Q Cyprus APOEL 0–1 0–1 0–2
2018–19 UEFA Champions League 1Q Hungary MOL Vidi 1–1 1–2 2–3
UEFA Europa League 2Q Kosovo Drita 2–1 1–1 3–2
3Q Poland Legia Warsaw 2–2 2–1 4–3
PO Romania CFR Cluj 2–0 3–2 5–2
Group stage Greece Olympiakos – –
Italy Milan 0–1 –
Spain Betis – 0–3

Notes

  • QR: Qualifying round
  • 1Q: First qualifying round
  • 2Q: Second qualifying round
  • 3Q: Third qualifying round
  • PO: Play-off round
  • A ^ After extra time.

Current squad

As of 3 September 2018 [3]

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

No. Position Player
1 Luxembourg GK Jonathan Joubert (captain)
2 Luxembourg DF Clayton
3 Serbia DF Milan Biševac
4 Luxembourg DF Kevin Malget
5 Luxembourg DF Tom Schnell
6 Germany MF Marc-André Kruska
7 Bosnia and Herzegovina FW Sanel Ibrahimović
8 Germany MF Mario Pokar
9 Luxembourg MF Danel Sinani
10 Germany MF Dominik Stolz
12 France GK Landry Bonnefoi
13 France MF Clément Couturier
No. Position Player
16 Luxembourg GK Enzo Esposito
21 Germany FW Patrick Stumpf
22 Angola MF Stélvio
23 Germany MF Yannick Kakoko
24 Bulgaria MF Edisson Jordanov
25 Luxembourg FW Edis Agovic
26 Ghana DF Jerry Prempeh
27 France DF Bryan Mélisse
28 France FW Nicolas Perez
33 Luxembourg GK Joé Frising
77 Luxembourg FW David Turpel
95 France FW Jordann Yéyé

Managers

  • Belgium Philippe Guérard (1 July 1994 – Sept 25, 1994)
  • France Benny Reiter (1 July 1996 – 1 Dec 1997)
  • Italy Angelo Fiorucci (1 July 1998 – 30 June 2000)
  • Luxembourg Carlo Weis (1 July 2000 – Sept 24, 2003)
  • Germany Roger Lutz (25 Oct 2003 – 30 June 2004)
  • France Michel Leflochmoan (1 July 2004 – 30 June 2009)
  • Belgium Marc Grosjean (1 July 2009 – 10 June 2011)
  • Luxembourg Claude Origer (caretaker) (15 Aug 2009 – 31 Dec 2009)
  • Luxembourg Dan Theis (13 June 2011 – 17 Oct 2011)
  • Germany Ralph Pinatti Stange (caretaker) (18 Oct 2011 – 25 Nov 2011)
  • France Didier Philippe (25 Oct 2011 – 13 Nov 2012)
  • France Patrick Hesse (16 Nov 2012 – 30 May 2013)
  • France Pascal Carzaniga (1 July 2013 – 28 May 2014)
  • Belgium Sébastien Grandjean (1 July 2014 – 30 June 2015)
  • France Michel Leflochmoan (1 July 2015 – 30 June 2016)
  • Germany Dino Toppmöller (1 July 2016 – )

References

  1. ↑ UEFA.com. "UEFA Europa League - CFR Cluj-Dudelange". UEFA.com. Retrieved 2018-08-30.
  2. ↑ "CFR CLUJ - DUDELANGE 2-3 // 5 motive pentru care "dubla" CFR - Dudelange este cea mai mare rușine din istoria fotbalului românesc" [CFR CLUJ - DUDELANGE 2-3 // 5 reasons why the CFR - Dudelange "double" is the biggest shame in the history of Romanian football]. Gazeta Sporturilor (in Romanian). 31 August 2018. Retrieved 19 September 2018.
  3. ↑ "Squad". Retrieved 9 July 2018.
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