Lens top Ligue 1 as we close in on the halfway point, ahead of PSG by one point at the top of the table. The historic French club has had a meteoric rise over the past five years, considering they were in Ligue 2 as recently as 2020. Franck Haise...
The competition in Ligue 1 is tight, with Paris Saint-Germain in first place with 30 points, while Olympique de Marseille and Lens are behind PSG with 28 points (at the time of writing). Lens are in a good position compared to last season (eighth), achieving good results and still competing to get the title so far. Looking at their...
Olympique de Marseille have signed Argentine defender Facundo Medina on a season-long loan from Ligue 1 rivals RC Lens. This is one of the team's most important signings for the upcoming 2025/2026 Ligue 1 season. Under Italian coach Roberto De Zerbi, in his first season at the club, Marseille finished second...
In July 2023, Abdukodir Khusanov joined RC Lens in Ligue 1 from Belarusian club Energetik-BGU for €100k. When he moved to France, the young centre-back was a virtual unknown, valued at €400k by Transfermarkt. A year and a half after that move, Khusanov (186cm/6’1”, 84kg/185lbs) has made a significant impression...
The 2024/25 Ligue 1 season is the first since 2019/20 that RC Lens have begun without Franck Haise at the helm. After a stellar period of about four-and-a-half seasons or so at Stade Bollaert-Delelis, during which time he guided Les Sang et Or to as high as a second-place finish...
France has always been a breeding ground for some of the most incredibly talented footballers to develop. The state-of-the-art INF Clairefontaine training centre is known worldwide for producing some of the best players in world football. Additionally, Ligue 1 clubs have invested heavily in their youth systems, with the likes...
Lens started this season poorly in Ligue 1, where they occupy 14th place with eight points after eight matches, after being second in Ligue 1 last season with only a four-point deficit to Paris Saint-Germain. Lens have conceded 13 goals this season, of which four have come from set-pieces, with...
Lens have been an example to clubs all around the world for the past few seasons in how to effectively rebuild and regularly compete above their means with a sound strategy and stability around the club, featuring a healthy dose of intelligent people in decision-making positions. Last October, their stable...
After losing three key players in the summer, finishing in seventh place for the second year running and missing out on European qualification by only four points, you could have forgiven the RC Lens supporters for thinking their period of progress was ending and for being a little pessimistic ahead...
Lens have got the 2022/23 campaign off to a flying start, taking four wins and one draw from their opening five games. This puts them on 13 points, level with PSG and Marseille at the summit of France’s top flight. It’s still early days, but that’s certainly not bad company...
While Clermont Foot turned a lot of heads last season in Ligue 1, with a spirited campaign that saw them avoid relegation in their first season back in the top-flight it, it would still be fair to say that they were not the season's biggest surprise as RC Lens impressed...
Saturday saw Monaco vs Lens in Ligue 1. We've broken down all the key stats for you to digest in this tactical analysis and provide insights around; * shot maps * pass flow * heatmaps * defensive actions * average positions and much more! We also try to answer some questions...
Jonathan Clauss (178cm/5’10”, 67kg/147lbs) was Lens' most prolific assist-provider in Ligue 1 last season, with 10 of his team’s 62 goals (16.13%) being assisted by the right wing-back. Clauss had been the subject of a great deal of summer transfer speculation in recent weeks, with the likes of EPL sides...
Paris Saint-Germain is blessed with a huge and highly fruitful catchment area of young talent from which they can essentially pick and choose the elite of the elite at the youth level to place in their academy, develop, and eventually add to their first team. One player who’s gone through...
Lens completed Ligue 1’s first major incoming transfer of the 2022 January transfer window when they announced the signing of Patrick Berg (175cm/5’9”, 70kg/154lbs) from Bodø/Glimt in mid-December, with the right-footed 24-year-old central midfielder having just captained his side to a second straight Norwegian Eliteserien title. Captain Berg played a...
Last season, Lens returned to Ligue 1 after a five-season absence and manager Franck Haise helped them to achieve their best top-flight finish since the 2006/07 season by guiding them to seventh place. The Pas-de-Calais-based club did lose three and draw one of their final four league games last season...
