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Union Luxembourg

Full name	Union Sportive Luxembourg
Founded	1925
Dissolved	2005
Ground	Stade Achille Hammerel, Luxembourg City
Capacity	5,814
2004–05	National Division, 11th
Home colours

Union Sportive Luxembourg, usually known asUnion Luxembourg, was afootball club, based inLuxembourg City, in southernLuxembourg. It is now a part ofRacing FC Union Luxembourg.

Union Luxembourg was formed in 1925 as an amalgam ofUS Hollerich Bonnevoie andJeunesse Sportive Verlorenkost. Although US Hollerich had been one of the top clubs in Luxembourg, winning five titles consecutively, by 1925 its success had dried up. From the merger until theSecond World War the club would win only one trophy: thechampionship in 1927.

In 1940, theNazis renamed Union along with all other clubs as part of the process ofGermanisation. Between 1940 and 1944, Union's name would beVerein für Rasenspiele 08 Luxemburg. The end of occupation and reversion of moniker did little to change Union's success (or lack thereof); a solitaryLuxembourg Cup was all that Union had to show for the first fifteen years of freedom after the war.

However that all changed very swiftly, as Union hit its stride, beginning with another cup victory in 1959. Between 1959 and 1971, Union won two league titles and the Luxembourg Cup five times. Another barren spell followed; the 1970s and 1980s saw Union finish consistently in the top four in the league but, in seventeen years, Union Luxembourg only reached two cup finals and finished in the top two just once.

Another sudden spike of success came at the end of the 1980s. Union won three National Division titles back-to-back between 1990 and 1992 and returned to the habit of European qualification. Nonetheless, as with so many clubs in Luxembourg during the 1990s and 2000s, Union could not withstand the pressure to consolidate. Union arranged a merger withCA Spora Luxembourg andCS Alliance 01 to form its modern form,Racing FC Union Luxembourg, to take effect after the2004–05 season. Union were relegated in 2004–05 (as was Spora), marking an unfitting end to one of Luxembourg's most successful clubs.

• National Division
  • Winners (6):1926–27,1961–62,1970–71,1989–90,1990–91,1991–92
  • Runners-up (9): 1921–22, 1947–48, 1962–63, 1963–64, 1964–65, 1965–66, 1972–73, 1992–93,1997–98
• Luxembourg Cup
  • Winners (10): 1946–47, 1958–59, 1962–63, 1963–64, 1968–69, 1969–70, 1985–86, 1988–89, 1990–91, 1995–96
  • Runners-up (10): 1922–23, 1925–26, 1932–33, 1936–37, 1960–61, 1961–62, 1966–67, 1977–78, 1982–83, 1996–97

• National Division
  • Winners (5): 1911–12, 1913–14, 1914–15, 1915–16, 1916–17
  • Runners-up (2): 1909–10, 1917–18

Union Luxembourg qualified for UEFA European competition 21 times.

• UEFA Champions League

Qualifying round (1): 1971–72

First round (4): 1962–63, 1990–91, 1991–92, 1992–93

• UEFA Cup Winners' Cup

Qualifying round (2): 1996–97, 1997–98

First round (8): 1963–64, 1964–65, 1969–70, 1970–71, 1978–79, 1984–85, 1986–87, 1989–90

• UEFA Cup

Qualifying round (1): 1998–99

First round (5): 1965–66, 1966–67, 1973–74, 1988–89, 1993–94

Without having won a tie, Union won two matches against European opponents. The first came in 1970–71, againstTurkish sideGöztepe in the Cup Winners' Cup. Göztepe had won the first leg 5–0, but Union managed a 1–0 victory in the home leg (this was very limited revenge, as Göztepe had knocked Union out the previous year, too). Their second victory was overBodø/Glimt ofNorway, by one goal to nil, having losing the first leg 4–1. Union also managed draws againstBotev Plovdiv andDjurgårdens IF in 1984–85 and 1989–90 respectively.

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• Union Luxembourg
• Association football clubs established in 1925
• Association football clubs disestablished in 2005
• 1925 establishments in Luxembourg
• 2005 disestablishments in Luxembourg
• Defunct football clubs in Luxembourg
• Football clubs in Luxembourg City

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