1999–2000 RC Lens season

Lens
1999–2000 season
President	Gervais Martel
Manager	François Brisson
Stadium	Stade Félix-Bollaert
Division 1	5th
Coupe de France	Round of 64
Coupe de la Ligue	Round of 32
UEFA Cup	Semi-finals
Top goalscorer	League: ; Pascal Nouma; Lamine Sakho (8); All: ; Pascal Nouma (14)
Average home league attendance	38,805
	← 1998–99 2000–01 →

The 1999–2000 season was the 93rd season in the existence of RC Lens and the club's 11th consecutive season in the top flight of French football. In addition to the domestic league, Lens participated in this season's editions of the Coupe de France, the Coupe de la Ligue and the UEFA Cup. The season covered the period from 1 July 1999 to 30 June 2000.^[2]

Season summary

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

First team squad

Squad at end of season^[3]^[2]

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


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


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

Transfers

In

Competitions

French Division 1

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
3	Lyon	34	16	8	10	45	42	+3	56	Qualification to Champions League third qualifying round
4	Bordeaux	34	15	9	10	52	40	+12	54	Qualification to UEFA Cup first round
5	Lens	34	14	7	13	42	41	+1	49	Qualification to Intertoto Cup third round
6	Saint-Étienne	34	13	9	12	46	47	−1	48
7	Sedan	34	13	9	12	43	44	−1	48	Qualification to Intertoto Cup second round

Source: Ligue 1
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.

Results summary


Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
34	14	7	13	42	41	+1	49	9	3	5	28	19	+9	5	4	8	14	22	−8

Last updated: 4 May 2002.
Source: Ligue 1

Results by round

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34
Ground	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H
Result	L	W	W	D	L	L	D	L	L	L	W	W	D	D	W	L	D	L	L	W	L	D	W	W	W	W	D	L	L	W	L	W	W	W
Position	15	9	4	5	9	14	12	16	17	18	17	13	13	13	12	14	13	15	16	16	16	16	14	12	10	6	8	9	12	11	11	9	7	5

Source: Ligue 1
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

UEFA Cup

First round

16 September 1999 First leg	Maccabi Tel Aviv	2–2	Lens	Ramat Gan, Israel
17:00	Kubica 43' Dayan 75'	Report	Sakho 38' Job 55'	Stadium: Ramat Gan Stadium Attendance: 4,500 Referee: Ivan Dobrinov (Bulgaria)

30 September 1999 Second leg	Lens	4–1 (4–3 agg.)	Maccabi Tel Aviv	Lens, France
18:00	Nouma 77' Delporte 80'	Report	Basis 24'	Stadium: Stade Félix-Bollaert Attendance: 35,663 Referee: Manuel Mejuto González (Spain)

Second round

28 October 1999 First leg	Lens	4–1	Vitesse	Lens, France
20:45	Brunel 3' Nouma 17' Nyarko 76' Blanchard 87'	Report	van Hooijdonk 73'	Stadium: Stade Félix-Bollaert Attendance: 36,326 Referee: Siarhei Shmolik (Belarus)

4 November 1999 Second leg	Vitesse	1–1 (2–5 agg.)	Lens	Arnhem, Netherlands
20:00	Kreek 64'	Report	Blanchard 90'	Stadium: GelreDome Attendance: 13,000 Referee: Bernhard Brugger (Austria)

Third round

25 November 1999 First leg	Lens	1–2	Kaiserslautern	Lens, France
18:00	Schjønberg 85' (o.g.)	Report	Sikora 32' (o.g.) Wagner 38'	Stadium: Stade Félix-Bollaert Attendance: 36,243 Referee: Alfredo Trentalange (Italy)

9 December 1999 Second leg	Kaiserslautern	1–4 (3–5 agg.)	Lens	Kaiserslautern, Germany
18:00	Hristov 21'	Report	Job 20', 39' Strasser 55' (o.g.) Nyarko 90'	Stadium: Fritz-Walter-Stadion Attendance: 25,000 Referee: Sándor Puhl (Hungary)

Fourth round

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

9 March 2000 Second leg	Lens	4–2 (6–4 agg.)	Atlético Madrid	Lens, France
21:00	Nouma 29', 53' Sakho 37' Brunel 71'	Report	Hasselbaink 45' Kiko 65'	Stadium: Stade Félix-Bollaert Attendance: 37,229 Referee: Nikolai Levnikov (Russia)

Quarter-finals

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

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

Semi-finals

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

20 April 2000 Second leg	Lens	1–2 (1–3 agg.)	Arsenal	Lens, France
20:45	Nouma 73'	Report	Henry 41' Kanu 87'	Stadium: Stade Félix-Bollaert Attendance: 41,043 Referee: José María García-Aranda (Spain)

Notes and references

Notes

^ Job was born in Lyon, France, but also qualified to represent Cameroon internationally, and made his international debut for Cameroon in 1997.

References

^ "Division 1 1999/2000 » Attendance » Home matches". Worldfootball.net. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
^ ^a ^b "Lens 1999/2000". Footballdatabase.eu. Retrieved 2 March 2021.
^ "Lens - 1999/00". FootballSquads.co.uk. Retrieved 2 March 2021.

[4] Job was born in Lyon, France, but also qualified to represent Cameroon internationally, and made his international debut for Cameroon in 1997.

[attendance-1] "Division 1 1999/2000 » Attendance » Home matches". Worldfootball.net. Retrieved 1 February 2021.

[foot00-2] "Lens 1999/2000". Footballdatabase.eu. Retrieved 2 March 2021.

[footballsquads-3] "Lens - 1999/00". FootballSquads.co.uk. Retrieved 2 March 2021.

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