1999–2000 RC Lens season

RC Lens
1999–2000 season
Chairman	Gervais Martel
Manager	François Brisson
Stadium	Stade Bollaert-Delelis
Division 1	5th
Coupe de la Ligue	Unknown
Coupe de France	Unknown
UEFA Cup	Semi-finals
Average home league attendance	38,805[1]

This is the 1999–2000 RC Lens season.

Season summary

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

Squad at end of season[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

Pos	Team	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.

28 October 1999	Lens	4–1	Vitesse	Félix-Bollaert, Lens
	Brunel 3' Nouma 17' Nyarko 76' Blanchard 87'	Report	van Hooijdonk 73'	Referee: Siarhei Shmolik (Belarus)

4 November 1999	Vitesse	1–1 (2–5 agg.)	Lens	GelreDome, Arnhem
	Kreek 64'	Report	Blanchard 90'	Referee: Bernhard Brugger (Austria)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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