SC Bettembourg

Full name	Sporting Club Bettembourg
Founded	2012 (2012)
Ground	Terrain 1, Bettembourg
Capacity	1000
President	Patrick Hutmacher[1]
Manager	Olivier Gilson
League	Dames Ligue 1
2022–23	3rd
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours

SC Bettembourg is a Luxembourgish women's football club based in Bettembourg, Luxembourg. The club was founded in 1908 however the women's section has been in existence since 2012.^[2] SC Bettembourg play in Dames Ligue 1, the top flight of domestic women's football in Luxembourg. A second ladies team was introduced in 2014 and they currently play in the second tier. The team's colours are blue and white.

SC Bettembourg plays its home matches at Terrain 1 Bettembourg, a 1,000-capacity stadium that is situated in Bettembourg.^[3]

History

SC Bettembourg has been running a men's team since 1908, but it wasn't until 2012 when the women's team was introduced. They began in Division 3 and quickly rose up the rankings. In their inaugural season, the women's team won promotion into the second division, then in the 2013–14 season SC Bettembourg won promotion into Division 1 as well as launching a second women's team.^[4]

In their first season in the top flight in the 2014–15 season, SC Bettembourg finished in second place only by goal difference – tied on points with Jeunesse Junglinster.^[5] SC Bettembourg's 15 year old attacker Karen Marin won player of the season.^[6] The team also finished second in the 2015–16 season,^[7] as well as finishing runners-up in the Women's Cup.^[8] After successive second places, in the 2016–17 season finally bettered their adversaries Jeunesse Junglinster by winning their first league title by a comfortable 6 points and thus qualifying for their first ever Women's Champions League.^[9]

SC Bettembourg did not fare well in the 2017–18 Women's Champions League qualifying round, losing their first match 0–8 to PAOK^[10] and not scoring a goal in two further defeats.^[11]

The team won their second league title out of just five top-flight seasons in the 2018–19 season^[12] and once again qualified for the Women's Champions League. Despite another thrashing in their first game of the 2019–20 edition, losing 0–12 to FC Minsk,^[13] SC Bettembourg scored their first Champions League goals in a 2–7 defeat to Split, with Kate Thill scoring both.^[14]

Current squad

As of 15 August 2022

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  LUX Lena Krier 3 DF  LUX Bisa Ceman 4 FW  LUX Sabrina Dukovski 5 DF  LUX Kim Simone Ney 6 MF  LUX Sarah Witry 7 MF  LUX Karen Marin 8 MF  LUX Léa Pizzimenti 9 DF  LUX Sadine Correia 11 FW  LUX Anouchka Besch 12 MF  POR Joana Simões Pereira 14 FW  FRA Lucia Ruiz 16 DF  GER Kim Nilles 17 MF  FRA Stessy Musselek

No. Pos. Nation Player 18 DF  LUX Marie-Amélie Albrand 19 DF  LUX Luana Tosti 20 FW  LUX Kate Thill 21 DF  LUX Sheila Hoja 21 MF  FRA Océane Testard 23 DF  POR Nancy Serrano 25 MF  FRA Justine Oswald 29 DF  LUX Tamara Aniset 31 MF  LUX Senada Ceman 77 MF  LUX Melissa Teixeira Muacho 88 FW  LUX Amenis Correia - MF  POR Rita Garcia - MF  POR Marta Pires

Honours

• Dames Ligue 1
  • Winners: 2016–17,^[15] 2018–19^[16]
  • Runners-up: 2014–15,^[17] 2015–16,^[18] 2017–18^[19]
• Luxembourg Women's Cup
  • Runners-up: 2015–16^[20]

Record in UEFA Women's Champions League

By season

Season	Round	Opponent	Home	Away	Agg
2017–18	Qualifying round	PAOK	0–8 [21]		4th of 4 [22]
		SFK 2000	0–3 [23]
		Vllaznia	0–2 [24]
2019–20	Qualifying round	FC Minsk	0–12 [25]		4th of 4 [26]
		Zhytlobud-1 Kharkiv	0–6 [27]
		Split	2–7 [28]

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