L'auberge espagnole

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**L'auberge espagnole** (463279)
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Clubname	L'auberge espagnole
teamid	463279
nickname	Lauberge
Sounded	2008-01-28
Ground	El piso compartido
Region	Lëtzebuerg
Country	Luxembourg
Manager	Zabal
Coach	Pier Giuseppe Zaffaroni
League	IV.18 (115321)



Team colours

Stadium
ArenaName	El piso compartido
ArenaID	463279

RebuiltDate	2016-04-09
Total	90000

L'auberge espagnole is a hattrick club founded by Zabal on January 28, 2008.

The team, based at Luxembourg, won the Cup five times and was champion eight times. L'auberge espagnole also finished first in D.II, in D.III and in D.IV.
The club has been playing in Nationaldivisioun for 30 seasons in a row, and its stadium is Piso compartido, where it's been playing since the beginning. It has a capacity of 90 000 seats, and it's always full as it can count on 3615 loyal supporters according to the numbers from September 2020.
Home shirt has the same colors as OM and away shirt has those of Bilbao because the president of the club is a huge fan of these two clubs.
It has its own hymn: "Don't let me be misunderstood", heard in Kill Bill.

The club is currently playing in Nationaldivisioun, and finished 1st and reached the 1/4F in the Cup last season.

Identity

The origins of the club's name are given below:

1) the movie "L'Auberge espagnole" (literally: "the Spanish inn"), about a French student from the Erasmus program (European students exchange program), who is studying for a year in Barcelona, where he encounters many students from the same program from all over Europe, and who are living in the same apartment.
2) a French expression which refers to a place or a heterogeneous situation including people with various identities and origins, who come under the same roof to create a happy mess where everything seems possible.
Over the years, many managers came by on the club's main page, posting a message in the guestbook, having a drink ^^ or challenging the team for a friendly game, hence creating links with people from all over the world.

The club's logo has recently been modified, thanks to the Spanish manager kaiser1991 who completely redesigned it, adding his own artistic touch. The former logo of L'auberge espagnole has been the club's logo since the creation, and it was removed for a more modern picture on May 14th, 2017. The last logo is a mix of various inspirations and symbols.

We can see the Guggenheim museum as a background, which is the symbol of Bilbao (the city where the manager lived during his Erasmus program). Besides, we can see young people dancing on the beach, surrounded by music, alcohol and sun, linked to the Erasmus spirit, all of this over a Basque and Spanish flag.

The stadium is based on the same theme, piso compartido meaning a flat-share, which is the spirit of any self-respecting Erasmus. Indeed, stadium is a place where people can meet, mix with each other, share good moments, with respect and cheerfulness.

Players'shirts are branded with the two favourite clubs of the manager Zabal, Olympique of Marseille and Athletic Bilbao.

Finally, the club's anthem is the song of Santa Esmeralda -Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood , which can be heard in the movie Kill Bill, and brings luck to players especially when they meet some difficulty during a game.

History

( in progress)

L'auberge espagnole is a hattrick club founded by Zabal. This historical moment happened on January 28th, 2008. Team is located in Lëtzebuerg, Luxembourg. Future stars come from L'auberge espagnole's youth club Los erasmuños.

Palmares

League

1 Nationaldivisioun : Season 54 (75)
1 Nationaldivisioun : Season 51 (72)
1 Nationaldivisioun : Season 43 (64)
1 Nationaldivisioun : Season 40 (61)
1 Nationaldivisioun : Season 38 (59)
1 Nationaldivisioun : Season 36 (57)
1 Nationaldivisioun : Season 30 (51)
1 Nationaldivisioun : Season 32 (53)
1 II.3: Season 25 (46)
1 III.2: Season 21 (42)
1 IV.15: Season 15 (36)

2 Nationaldivisioun : Season 53 (74)
2 Nationaldivisioun : Season 50 (71)
2 Nationaldivisioun : Season 48 (69)
2 Nationaldivisioun : Season 47 (68)
2 Nationaldivisioun : Season 42 (63)
2 Nationaldivisioun : Season 41 (62)
2 Nationaldivisioun : Season 35 (56)
2 Nationaldivisioun : Season 31 (52)
2 Nationaldivisioun : Season 33 (54)
2 II.3: Season 24 (45)
2 II.3: Season 22 (43)
2 III.2: Season 19 (40)
2 III.2: Season 20 (41)
2 III.2: Season 17 (38)
2 III.2: Season 18 (39)

3 Nationaldivisioun : Season 39 (60)
3 Nationaldivisioun : Season 37 (58)
3 Nationaldivisioun : Season 28 (49)
3 Nationaldivisioun : Season 29 (50)
3 Nationaldivisioun : Season 34 (55)
3 II.3: Season 23 (44)
3 III.2: Season 16 (37)

Cup

1 Cup : Season 43 (64)
1 Cup : Season 40 (61)
1 Cup : Season 34 (55)
1 Cup : Season 33 (54)
1 Cup : Season 30 (51)

Runner-up; Cup : Season 41 (62)
Runner-up; Cup : Season 39 (60)
Runner-up; Cup : Season 27 (48)

Double Champion

Season 30(51)
Season 40(61)
Season 43(64)

Records

Some statistics about Matchs, Players (including friendlys matchs) and funny facts. (update august 2020)

Best match

Global
HTstats	Match
545	Qualifiers
542	League
528	Qualifiers

Defence
HTstats	Level	Match
261	Divine +2	League
238	Divine	League
234	Divine	League

Midfield
HTstats	Level	Match
219	Utopian	Qualifiers
213	Magical	Qualifiers
207	Magical	League

Attack
HTstats	Level	Match
222	Utopian	League
221	Utopian	Cup
219	Utopian	League

Players

Most matchs played
Player	Matchs
Charely Schweitzer	491
Shadrack Mtangi	368
Johnny Couzinet	342
Gust Dusseldorf	243
André Prego	231

Most goals
Player	Goals
Chris Nauta	167
Patricio Belzunces	156
Shadrack Mtangi	141
André Prego	127
Kamil Struk	127

Captain most often
Player	Matchs
Charely Schweitzer	334
Elimu Bonseu	118
Adis Lapsītis	81
Stéphane Loiseau	77
Eugénio Miquelino	63

Most time best player
Player	Matchs
Estêvão Rodrigues Soares	88
André Prego	81
Š. Jurovčák	77
Johnny Couzinet	76
Charely Schweitzer	48

Clean sheets
Player	Matchs
Christophe Hanff	71
Stéphane Loiseau	46
Jean-Yves Suire	36
Mathieu Lauze	28
Manuel Vitre	28

Noticeable Facts

Widest Victory
13-0
13-0
12-0
12-0
12-0
12-0

Widest Defeat
0-9
0-9
0-8
0-8
0-8
0-8

Best attendance
122 371	Cup (F)
118 764	Cup(1/2)
109 338	Cup(1/2)

Best att.: Friendlys Matchs
8 067
8 028
7 782

Longest Match
140 min	(Friendly)
139 min	(Friendly)
137 min	(Friendly)
137 min	(Friendly)
136 min	(Cup:1/8)
135 min	(Cup:1/4)
135 min	(Masters)
135 min	(Friendly)
135 min	(Friendly)
135 min	(Friendly)

Officials Matchs with Penalty shoot-out
1-1; 3-4	W	(Masters:R2)
2-2; 4-5	W	(Cup:1/4)
1-1; 2-4	W	(Cup:1/4)
2-2; 3-4	W	(Cup:1/8)
2-2; 0-5	W	(Cup:4th)
1-1; 4-5	W	(Cup:5th)
1-1; 3-1	W	(Cup:R1)
2-2; 2-5	W	(Friendly)
1-1; 2-1	W	(Friendly)
0-0; 5-4	W	(Friendly)
0-0; 0-3	W	(Friendly)
0-0; 4-3	W	(Friendly)
0-0; 3-0	W	(Friendly)
0-0; 4-1	W	(Friendly)
3-3; 5-3	W	(Friendly)
3-3; 5-3	L	(Cup:F)
2-2; 5-6	L	(Friendly)
1-1; 2-4	L	(Friendly)
1-1; 2-3	L	(Friendly)
2-2; 1-3	L	(Friendly)
0-0; 4-5	L	(Friendly)
0-0; 3-1	L	(Friendly)
0-0; 3-4	L	(Friendly)
0-0; 2-3	L	(Friendly)
5-5; 2-3	L	(Friendly)

Notable players

In the course of year 2009, the club, which was in D.III (3rd Luxembourg series), decided to make an ambitious recruiting, finding that 3 special players, whose fates were to become international stars, and to be relied on by the club in order to access the top level.

So Johnny Couzinet, Charely Schweitzer, and Shadrack Mtangi joined consecutively L'Auberge espagnole, "Cuzi" (nickname of Johnny Couzinet) becoming the most expensive recruit of the club, bought in September 2009 for 4M€.

They were immediately given a Winger training, leading them to join, a few seasons later, the U-20 team for both the 3 of them, in Luxembourg for Schweitzer, France for Couzinet and Tanzania for Mtangi.

Couzinet made 3 Special Events during his first U-20 game, whereas Schweitzer became the U-20 team captain, and Mtangi overtook the number of 50 games played for U-20 team.

They were fast nicknamed The 3 Fantastics, multiplying goals, assists and SEs.

They were trained in Playmaking, Passing and even Defending for a few games, before turning to their favourite training, Winger. Besides, they won title after another title, with D.III title ((3rd Luxembourg series title), then D.II title ((2nd Luxembourg series title), and finally the supreme title, on April 28th, 2013, becoming Champions of Luxembourg, just after winning the Luxembourg Cup title during the same season, on March 20th.

Meanwhile, the 3 players were selected for their respective National Teams (NT), playing a total of 288 NT-games (if we add the games played by the 3 of them).
They managed to win several times the qualification for the World Cup, while playing in Championship for l'Auberge Espagnole, playing also Cup finals and Hattrick-Masters games.

In September 2014, the club's manager decided to start a new cycle and freed Couzinet and Mtangi, who carried out all their career in this club.

Schweitzer became later the Head Coach of the club's first team, being also the first coach with Excellent level to train in l'Auberge, thanks to his large experience (over 40).

It can also be noticed that Couzinet and Schweitzer faced once each other during a friendly game for the preparation of the World Cup here (425414262).

Here is an instant picture of their skills at the end of their career, as both the 3 of them were playing for their respective National Teams.

Johny Couzinet

More informations about Johnny Couzinet here.

Charely Schweitzer

More informations about Charely Schweitzer here.

Shadrack Mtangi

More informations about Shadrack Mtangi here.

Stadium

The piso compartido is the theater of home games of l'Auberge espagnole. Its name means literally, the flat-share, this stadium being a living place, shared by many fans and a nice reference to the name of the club.

The last modification of the stadium was made in April 2016 when its capacity was extended from 85,000 to 90,000 seats:

Terraces: 53,910
Basic seats: 21,330
Seats under roof: 12,690
Seats in VIP boxes: 2,070

The record crowds were beaten on April 2017 (season 64) for the league match(600923870) : 90,000 spectators, being fully booked!

The club played (last update: August 2020), 573 games in this stadium, 303 if friendly games aren't considered.

Fan Club

Team's fan club is called Los Erasmus. Currently, there are 3571 members. The name of the fan club comes from all the friends the manager met during the year he lived as an Erasmus student in Spain.

The "Classique"

Stats
	Wins	Draws	Losses	GF	GA
L'Auberge espagnole	16	3	6	67	48
FightClub Football Club	6	3	16	48	67
Largest win	6-1
Best HTstats	942 (488+454)

It pits, for a total of 12 seasons, FightClub Football Club against L'auberge espagnole, the 2 most present teams in Nationaldivisioun and friends IRL.

Besides this game is a derby (Luxembourg region) and it often was a turning point for each season for the 2 teams.

24 oppositions in Championship and 1 opposition in Cup - semi-final in Global season 55 (Luxembourg season 34), won 1-0 by l'Auberge espagnole.

Youth Academy

Income

Income
Total	Players (Nb)
89.129.418€	175
Youth sales fee	YA Fees
586.000€	17.760.000€
Net income	70.783.418€

A lot of players came out of the Youth Academy, Los erasmuños, since the club created it in 2008: L'auberge espagnole got huge profits by selling young players.

Paul Pogba is the biggest youth sale to date: 7 650 000€ paid by F.C. Vendetta 1.976 in 2019. Then he played for Luxembourg in U20 and NT
Before that Thomas Hornbergs was the biggest youth sale to date: 6 898 260 € paid by Pan de Molde F.C. in 2018. Then he played for Luxembourg in U20.
Until today, 30 players from the Youth Academy played in U20/U21 and 18 played in National Team.

The table below shows the club revenue and its profit until season 90 included.

NB: Fees: 1 season at 10K (=160 000€) and 55 seasons(90 included) at 20K=17 760 000.
=> 24 players sold at 1M or more:
+ 11 of them sold between 1 and 2M.
+ 7 of them sold between 2 and 3M.
+ 4 of them sold between 3 and 4M.
+ 1 of them sold between 4 and 5M.
+ 2 of them sold at 6M or more.

List of Youth players

More details on sold players are available if you go on the page of the youth players promoted by l'Auberge espagnole.

Transfer stats

Best purchases
Player	Id	Age	Date	Season	Price
Manuel Vitre		26,46Y	24/07/2019	72	14 344 000€
Stéphane Loiseau		27,59Y	23/09/2016	62	12 882 000€
Ulisses Silva		29,18Y	12/01/2021	77	9 428 000€

Best Sales
Player	Id	Age	Date	Season	Price
Paul Pogba		17,03Y	17/06/2019	71	7 650 000€
Andrea Lanconelli		32,41Y	04/04/2022	81	6 992 000€
Thomas Hornbergs		17,05Y	16/11/2018	70	6 898 260€

Club history table

Season	League	Position	Cup Round
45	Nationaldivisioun	4	7
44	Nationaldivisioun	5	8
43	Nationaldivisioun	'1	W
42	Nationaldivisioun	2	7
41	Nationaldivisioun	2	F
40	Nationaldivisioun	1	W
39	Nationaldivisioun	3	F
38	Nationaldivisioun	1	8
37	Nationaldivisioun	3	9
36	Nationaldivisioun	1	7
35	Nationaldivisioun	2	9
34	Nationaldivisioun	3	W
33	Nationaldivisioun	2	W
32	Nationaldivisioun	1	6
31	Nationaldivisioun	2	7
30	Nationaldivisioun	1	W
29	Nationaldivisioun	3	7
28	Nationaldivisioun	3	4
27	Nationaldivisioun	4	F
26	Nationaldivisioun	4	3
25	II.3	1	7
24	II.3	2	7
23	II.3	3	5
22	II.3	2	6
21	III.2	1	4
20	III.2	2	3
19	III.2	2	3
18	III.2	2	4
17	III.2	2	5
16	III.2	3	1
15	IV.15	1	2
14	IV.15	4	1
13	IV.15	4	-

Current squad

A mettre à jour.

Player	Goals	Hattricks	NT	U20
Jean-Yves Suire	3	0	0	0
Wolf Dietrich Backhaus	39	0	0	0
Rasmus Huuskonen	40	0	0	0
Joseph Theisen	31	0	0	0
Delbert Watt	31	0	0	0
Péter Csala	57	0	0	0
Charely Pussy Schweitzer	53	0	97	11
Fatih Sülemiş	25	0	0	0
Estêvão Rodrigues Soares	26	0	0	0
André Prego	21	0	0	0
Kamil Struk	39	2	0	0
Jos Morth	89	3	44	29
Săndel Duminică	53	1	0	0
Benjámin Lázár	56	2	0	0
Patricio Belzunces	139	11	0	0
Gust Dusseldorf	95	3	0	0
Gael Miramón	62	1	0	0
Jos Baudot	9	0	0	0
Wenzel Kiesch	10	0	0	0
Xavier Frast	0	0	0	0

Hall of Fame

	Emil Ivanov
	First day with club	2009-03-24
	Current occupation	Marketing Director
	Was inducted in the Hall of Fame at age 40 in December 24, 2012.

	Omer Tishbi
	First day with club	2010-06-25
	Current occupation	Referee
	Was inducted in the Hall of Fame at age 39 in May 22, 2013.

	Christopher Faucher
	First day with club	2010-09-25
	Current occupation	Agent
	Was inducted in the Hall of Fame at age 44 in August 21, 2014.

	Adis Lapsītis
	First day with club	2008-08-08
	Current occupation	Secretary
	Was inducted in the Hall of Fame at age 37 in December 20, 2011.

Supporters

137 managers are currently supporting L'auberge espagnole and Zabal is supporting 139 teams.
Datas about managers supporting team and supported teams are available on the Auberge espagnole Supporters page: