In the city of Lens , there is a passion by the inhabitants : the football . And in Lens there is a big team of football since 1906... I will to tell you the history of this team ...
In 1906 , it ' s here the start ...
... in the pub of " Boulevard des ecoles " , in Lens ...
It s in this mythic place that the peoples went for playing football , on the " La Place Verte " ( Now it s the " Place de la République " ) .
The first colors of the team were green ( for the " Place Verte " and black ... for the coal , of course !!!
1907...
The players must to change of place for playing because they disturbed the inhabitants . So they went in a big field for playing ...
1907 was too the year when the team changed his colors for the second times --> the Tshirt were black and red .
Between 1908 and 1912 ...
... the players must to change again the place for playing before to go to " Les Glissoires " , the place for the trainings and the amical matches .
The First World War ...
During the WW1 , the RCL was miss , but the club to come back to life thanks to the " Comité de secours Americain " . The colors was then blue and white .
1924 , the " Sang et Or " !!!
It s in 1924 that he RCL had his definitives colors:
the red and the yellow .
An evenig , next a meeting ,the players and the seniors executives to cross near the ruins of the chuch St Leger and one of the people saw that there were in this ruins the spanish remains ...
Spane !!! This colour , to ones of arens . The red and the yellow were a lights for M.Moglia , the headmaster of the club .
1934 the Felix Bolleart stadium ...
Thanks for their good result , the city of Lens give to the club a stadium...the " Felix Bolleart " stadium ... During 4 years it s will the allianc between the coal and the football in Artois .
( The first nocturns installations were built on the 20th of april in 1954 )
1962 The start of the end of the RC Lens ???
In 1962 , the colliery closed !!! So it didn t money for the club !!! So , on the 1st of april 1974 , the club sign an agrement for the free arrangement of the stadium with the city of Lens .
Since this agrement others installations were built for the world football cup in 1998 and for the euro in 1984 notably .
The capacity of the stadium now is of 41 233 places .
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The principals honours of the RCL
_winner of " Ligue 1 " --> 1998
_winner of " Ligue 2 " -->1937 1949 1973
_winner " coupe de la ligue " --> 1994 1999
_best public of France -->2000 2002
written by Pierre
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