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F91 Dudelange

Association football club in Luxembourg

F91 Dudelange
Summary

Association football club in Luxembourg

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managerMika Pinto
leagueNational Division
season2024–25
positionNational Division, 3rd of 16
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Dudelange F91 Dudelange (; , ) is a Luxembourgish professional football club based in Dudelange which plays in the Luxembourg National Division.

It was formed in 1991 as a merger between three teams in the town: Alliance Dudelange, Stade Dudelange and US Dudelange. Domestically, it has since won the National Division on 16 occasions and the Luxembourg Cup eight times.

F91 Dudelange made it to the 2018–19 UEFA Europa League group stage, becoming the first club from the country to reach the group stage of a European competition. Dudelange also made the 2019–20 UEFA Europa League group stage where they became the first team from Luxembourg to win a game in the group stage after a shock 4–3 victory over APOEL of Cyprus.

History

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 which they were beaten 5–1 on aggregate by Maribor.

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. 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". Dudelange had also previously defeated Polish side Legia Warsaw in the third qualifying round. The men from the Grand Duchy were drawn into a 'Group of Death', containing European powerhouses AC Milan, Olympiacos and Spanish side Real Betis. The Luxembourgers did, however, managed to pick up a famous and hard-fought point, on the last matchday, when they drew 0–0 against Real Betis at the Stade Josy Barthel.

In 2019, Dudelange qualified for the Europa League group stages for the second successive season after defeating FC Ararat-Armenia in the play-off round in a penalty shootout.

Dudelange fared much better in their second European group stage adventure, being drawn into a group with Europa League stalwarts Sevilla, Cypriot champions APOEL and Qarabağ of Azerbaijan.

On the first group stage matchday, on 19 September 2019, Dudelange became the first ever team from Luxembourg to win a game in a European group stage after beating APOEL 4–3 in Nicosia. Dudelange, whose coach Emilio Ferrera had resigned only two days prior, came back from a 3–2 deficit to defeat the Cypriots.

After losing their next four group matches, Dudelange faced Qarabag on the last matchday in Baku where they came within two minutes of recording another famous win, before the Azeri side equalised in injury time, thus the men from Luxembourg finished bottom of the group with a respectable 4 points.

Honours

Domestic

League

Historical league performance chart of F91 Dudelange and its predecessors

Cups

European record

Matches

SeasonCompetitionRoundClubHomeAwayAggregate
1993–94UEFA Cup Winners' CupQRIsrael Maccabi Haifa0–11–61–7
1994–95UEFA Cup Winners' CupQRHungary Ferencváros1–61–62–12
1999–00UEFA CupQRCroatia Hajduk Split1–10–51–6
2000–01UEFA Champions League1QBulgaria Levski Sofia0–40–20–6
2001–02UEFA Champions League1QLatvia Skonto1–61–02–6
2002–03UEFA Champions League1QRepublic of Macedonia Vardar1–10–31–4
2003–04UEFA CupQRSlovakia Artmedia Petrzalka0–10–10–2
2004–05UEFA Cup1QLithuania FK Ekranas1–20–11–3
2005–06UEFA Champions League1QBosnia and Herzegovina Zrinjski Mostar0–14–04–1
2QAustria Rapid Wien1–62–33–9
2006–07UEFA Champions League1QRepublic of Macedonia Rabotnički0–10–00–1
2007–08UEFA Champions League1QSlovakia MŠK Žilina1–24–55–7
2008–09UEFA Champions League1QSlovenia Domžale0–10–20–3
2009–10UEFA Champions League2QLatvia Ventspils1–30–31–6
2010–11UEFA Europa League1QDenmark Randers2–11–63–7
2011–12UEFA Champions League1QAndorra FC Santa Coloma2–02–04–0
2QSlovenia Maribor1–30–21–5
2012–13UEFA Champions League1QSan Marino Tre Penne7–04–011–0
2QAustria Red Bull Salzburg1–03–44–4 (a)
3QSlovenia Maribor0–11–41–5
UEFA Europa LeaguePOIsrael Hapoel Tel Aviv1–30–41–7
2013–14UEFA Europa League1QMoldova Milsami Orhei0–00–10–1
2014–15UEFA Champions League2QBulgaria Ludogorets Razgrad0–41–11–5
2015–16UEFA Europa League1QIreland UCD2–10–12–2 (a)
2016–17UEFA Champions League2QAzerbaijan Qarabağ1–10–21–3
2017–18UEFA Champions League2QCyprus APOEL0–10–10–2
2018–19UEFA Champions League1QHungary MOL Vidi1–11–22–3
UEFA Europa League2QKosovo Drita2–11–13–2
3QPoland Legia Warsaw2–22–14–3
PORomania CFR Cluj2–03–25–2
Group FGreece Olympiacos0–21–54th
Italy Milan0–12–5
Spain Real Betis0–00–3
2019–20UEFA Champions League1QMalta Valletta2–21−13–3 (a)
UEFA Europa League2QNorth Macedonia Shkëndija1–12−13–2
3QEstonia Nõmme Kalju3−11−04–1
POArmenia Ararat-Armenia2–11−23–3 (p)
Group ASpain Sevilla2–50−34th
Cyprus APOEL0−24−3
Azerbaijan Qarabağ1−41–1
2021–22UEFA Europa Conference League2QRepublic of Ireland Bohemians0–10–30–4
2022–23UEFA Champions League1QAlbania Tirana1–02−13–1
2QARM Pyunik1−41–02–4
UEFA Europa League3QSWE Malmö FF2–20−32–5
UEFA Europa Conference LeaguePOPOL Lech Poznań1–10–21–3
2023–24UEFA Europa Conference League1QIRL St Patrick's Athletic2–13–25–3
2QMLT Gżira United2−10–22–3
2024–25UEFA Conference League1QAND Atlètic Club d'Escaldes2−01−03–0
2QSWE Häcken2−61−63–12
2025–26UEFA Conference League1QAND Atlètic Club d'Escaldes2−30−22–5

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

Out on loan

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 – 30 June 2019)
  • BEL Emilio Ferrera (1 July 2019 – 17 September 2019 )
  • BEL Bertrand Crasson (17 September 2019 – 7 May 2020 )
  • POR Carlos Fangueiro (1 July 2020 30 June 2023)
  • USA Jamath Shoffner (1 July 2023 present)

Women's team

F91 have a women's team, currently competing in the Dames Ligue 3 Series 2, the 3rd tier of women's football in Luxembourg. In the 1997–98 season, the team won the Dames Ligue 1 title.

References

References

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  2. "Stade Jos Nosbaum".
  3. "Organigramme F91 Diddeleng".
  4. "Kader F91 Diddeleng".
  5. Mollereau, Julien. (19 September 2019). "Victoire 3-4 à Nicosie : Le F91 gagne le match le plus fou de l'histoire du foot luxembourgeois". Le Quotidien.
  6. "UEFA Europa League – CFR Cluj-Dudelange". UEFA.
  7. (31 August 2018). "CFR CLUJ – DUDELANGE 2-3 // 5 motive pentru care "dubla" CFR – Dudelange este cea mai mare rușine din istoria fotbalului românesc". [[Gazeta Sporturilor]].
  8. Hippert, Franky. (17 September 2019). "F91 Dudelange trainer Emilio Ferrera steps down". RTL Sport.
  9. "F91 Dudelange 1 (Senior M) - Saison 2025/26". F91 Diddeleng.
  10. "F91 Dudelingen - Damen Liga 3 - 2. Bezirk".
  11. "Luxembourg (Women) 1997/98".
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