FC Differdange 03

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FC Differdange

Full name

FC Differdange 03

Nickname(s)

Founded

2003

Ground

Stade du Thillenberg,
Differdange
(Capacity 7,150)

Chairman

Erny Muller

Manager

Dan Theis

League

Luxembourg National Division

2006-7

National Division, 3rd





Home colours

Football Club Differdange 03 is a football club, based in Differdange, in south-western Luxembourg.

1 History
2 Current squad
3 Honours
- 3.1 As Red Boys Differdange
4 European Competition
- 4.1 As Red Boys Differdange
5 External link

[edit] History

Differdange 03 was formed in 2003 as an amalgam of two clubs from the city of Differdange: FA Red Boys Differdange and AS Differdange. When the clubs merged, in time for the 2003-04 season, Red Boys was languishing in the bottom half of the Division of Honour, while AS was in mid-table position in the third tier of Luxembourgian football. The new club took Red Boys league position, and was promoted back into the National Division in the 2005-06 season, when the top division was expanded from twelve clubs to fourteen.

Red Boys Differdange had previously been one of the largest and most successful teams in Luxembourgian football, having won the Luxembourg Cup more times than any other team (14). During the 1920s and 1930s, Red Boys competed with Spora Luxembourg for dominance of Luxembourgian football. Red Boys was the more successful of the two, and won thirteen trophies in as many years between 1923 and 1936. Despite the staunch competition (Spora won 8 trophies in the same period), this record has never been matched.

[edit] Current squad

No.	Position	Player
30	GK	Miguel Luis da Costa Camoes
	GK	Dirk Meier
25	GK	Yannick Schlentz
	GK	Daniel Strock
4	DF	André Almeida Rodrigues
15	DF	Ante Bukvic
	DF	Edin Besacic
18	DF	Karime Groune
2	DF	Kim Kintziger
	DF	Max Krippler
	DF	Andy May
	DF	Manou Schauls
33	DF	Jean Wagner
21	MF	Paolo Amodio
23	MF	Ibrahim Diop
19	MF	Michel Kettenmeyer
22	MF	Phillipe Lebresne

No.	Position	Player
7	MF	Jérémie Peiffer
	MF	Igor Perreira
6	MF	Bruno Ribeiro
8	MF	Pedro Daneil Ribeiro Alves
	MF	Phillipe Simoes Ribeiro
10	MF	Dario Soraire
9	FW	Mirko Albanese
	FW	Laurent Carème
	FW	Marcel Christophe
	FW	Philippe di Filippo
	FW	Aurélien Joachim
28	FW	Pierre Piskor
	GK	Antony Poos
3	DF	Nelson Manuel da Silva Domingues
20	MF	David Chalmandrier
5	FW	Nicky Ciemniak

[edit] Honours

[edit] As Red Boys Differdange

National Division

Winners (6): 1922-23, 1925-26, 1930-31, 1931-32, 1932-33, 1978-79

Runners-up (11): 1910-11, 1926-27, 1933-34, 1934-35, 1957-58, 1973-74, 1975-76, 1979-80, 1980-81, 1983-84, 1984-85

Luxembourg Cup

Winners (14): 1924-25, 1925-26, 1926-27, 1928-29, 1929-30, 1930-31, 1933-34, 1935-36, 1951-52, 1952-53, 1971-72, 1978-79, 1981-82, 1984-85

Runners-up (11): 1923-24, 1931-32, 1934-35, 1947-48, 1949-50, 1954-55, 1957-58, 1969-70, 1976-77, 1985-86, 1989-90

[edit] European Competition

[edit] As Red Boys Differdange

Red Boys Differdange qualified for UEFA European competition three times.

UEFA Champions League

First round (1): 1979-80

UEFA Cup Winners' Cup

First round (3): 1972-73, 1982-83, 1985-86

UEFA Cup

First round (6): 1974-75, 1976-77, 1977-78, 1980-81, 1981-82, 1984-85

Red Boys never progressed past the first tie in any European competition. They won one match in Europe, winning their 1979 Champions League first leg 2-1 against Omonia Nicosia before losing 6-1 in Cyprus. In the 1984 UEFA Cup, Red Boys managed a surprise goalless draw with the giants of Ajax Amsterdam, but were crushed 14-0 in the return (which remains a UEFA Cup record).

Overall, Differdange's record in European competition reads: