Extreme Football Tourism: LUXEMBOURG: FC Jeunesse Canach

Stade Fernand Weber - Rue de Lenningen, Canach (FC Jeunesse Canach)

Luxembourg, canton: Remich

3 VIII 2025 / FC Jeunesse Canach - FC Mamer 32 1-3 / National Division (= LUX level 1)

Timeline

1930 / Foundation of a football club in Canach, a village in the southeast of the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg. The new club takes on the name FC Fortuna Canach. It is unknown if, yet no improbable that, the club played its football on a pitch laid out at Rue de Lenningen from the outset. In the course of the 1930s, the club never ventures into league football, sticking to playing friendly matches instead.
1940 / Upon the German occupation of Luxembourg, FC Fortuna Canach folds, ceasing all activities.
1946 / FC Fortuna Canach is re-established, with the club now taking the leap to playing proper league football in Division 3, the fifth and lowest level of Luxembourg’s league system.
1953 / After seven seasons in Division 3, FC Fortuna Canach folds, ceasing all activities.
1957 / FC Fortuna Canach is re-established with a new name, FC Jeunesse Canach. This club settles on the pitch at Rue de Lenningen – on what is now the side-pitch of the ground, situated to the west of the current main pitch.
1964 / Finishing in tenth place in Division 3 Group 3, FC Jeunesse Canach descends into the newly created Division 4, i.e. the sixth level of Luxembourg’s league pyramid, along with FC Blo-Weiss Itzig, FC Mondercange, FC Noertzange Huncherange-Fennange, FC Ehlerange, and bottom club JS Hagen.
1971 / Runners-up in Division 4 Group 3, 3 points behind champions FC Red Boys Aspelt, FC Jeunesse Canach qualifies for the promotion play-offs for one extra promotion ticket. Finishing in second place, 2 points behind FC Berdenia Berbourg, but ahead of FC Blo-Giel Hupperdange en FC Luna Oberkorn, the club fails to secure a return to Division 3.
1975 / Champions in Division 4 Group 3, 8 points ahead of closest followers FC Vinesca Ehnen, FC Jeunesse Canach manages a return to Division 3 after an absence of eleven years.
1976 / In a reorganisation of Luxembourg’s league pyramid, all reserves’ teams are excluded from league football, as a result of which FC Jeunesse Canach wins automatic promotion to Division 2, the fourth tier, for the first time.
1978 / Runners-up in Division 2 Group 3, 4 points behind champions AS Remich, FC Jeunesse Canach qualifies for the promotion-relegation play-offs for one ticket in Division 1, taking on CS Hobscheid and D1 club CS Oberkorn. With the latter taking first place, FC Jeunesse Canach stays in Division 2.
1983 / Champions in Division 2 Group 3, 2 points ahead of closest rivals FC Progrès Cessange, FC Jeunesse Canach accedes to Division 1, the third level of Luxembourgian football, for the first time.
1984 / Finishing bottom of the table in Division 1 Group 2, FC Jeunesse Canach drops back into Division 2 after just one season, along with the club finishing in second-last place, FC Jeunesse Biwer.
1985 / A new pitch is added to the set-up at Rue de Lenningen, laid out to the east of the original pitch, with first team football moving to this new playing field.
1987 / Finishing in second-last place in Division 2 Group 2, FC Jeunesse Canach descends into Division 3 along with bottom club FC Alisontia Steinsel.
1989 / Champions in Division 3 Group 2, FC Jeunesse Canach clinches promotion to Division 2, along with runners-up FC Rupensia Larochette, which had finished 3 points behind them.
1991 / Finishing in third place in Division 2 Group 2, FC Jeunesse Canach qualifies for a play-off for two extra promotion places against FC Green Boys Harlange-Tarchamps and FC Les Aiglons Dalheim. Taking second place in these play-offs behind the former, Canach manages a return to Division 1 after an absence of seven seasons, along with the two best placed teams in its division, FC Sporting Bertrange and FC Jeunesse Junglinster.
1992 / Finishing in second-last place in Division 1 Group 2, FC Jeunesse Canach is retrograded into Division 2 after just one season, along with US Mondorf-les-Bains and bottom club US Sandweiler.
1994 / Runners-up in Division 2 Group 3, 1 point behind champions FC Minière Lasauvage, FC Jeunesse Canach manages a return to Division 1.
1996 / Finishing in second-last place in Division 1 Group 2, FC Jeunesse Canch drops back into Division 2 along with CS Sanem and bottom club FC Olympique Eischen.
2004 / Runners-up in Division 2 Group 2, 5 points behind champions US Sandweiler, FC Jeunesse Canach manages a return to Division 1. The successful player-coach is Patrick Maurer, who had joined the club six years previously.
2005 / Runners-up in Division 1 Group 1, 10 points behind champions FC Minerva Lintgen, FC Jeunesse Canach wins back-to-back promotions, acceding to Promotion d’Honneur, the second tier of Luxembourg’s football pyramid, for the first time. The successful player-coach is Patrick Maurer.
2010 / Going from strength to strength with coach Patrick Maurer, FC Jeunesse Canach now manages a second place in Promotion d’Honneur, 4 points behind champions FC Wiltz 71 – sufficient for a historic promotion to the National Division, the top flight of Luxembourg football. Moreover, the club also manages to reach the quarterfinals of Luxembourg’s Cup following wins over AS Wincrange and National Division teams Racing FC Union Luxembourg and US Rumelange. Eventually, the club suffers elimination at the hands of CS Grevenmacher (4-2).
2011 / Having had a rocky ride in the first half of its maiden season in the National Division, with the first eleven (!) matches ending in defeat, FC Jeunesse Canach manages to improve its performances in the course of the season – but not enough to stave off relegation, finishing in last place and dropping back into Promotion d’Honneur along with FC Wiltz 71 and FC Etzella Ettelbruck.
2012 / Champions in Promotion d’Honneur, 1 point ahead of FC Etzella Ettelbruck, FC Jeunesse Canach manages an immediate return to the National Division, along with the aforementioned club and play-off winners FC Wiltz 71.
2013 / Still coached by Patrick Maurer, FC Jeunesse Canach enjoys the best season in club history, finishing in a respectable seventh place in the National Division.
2015 / Finishing bottom of the table in the National Division, FC Jeunesse Canach drops back into Promotion d’Honneur after two seasons, along with UN Käerjéng 97 and FC US Hostert. In the winter break of the following season, coach Patrick Maurer leaves the club after an impressive 17,5 years. Maurer would later return to Canach for a shorter – and less successful – second spell.
2023 / Finishing in fourth place in Promotion d’Honneur, FC Jeunesse Canach qualifies for a promotion-relegation play-off, in which the club suffers defeat at the hands of CS Fola Esch (4-3 A.E.T.) in an encounter staged at Stade Achille Hammerel in Luxembourg.
2025 / Finishing in fourth place in Promotion d’Honneur, FC Jeunesse Canach qualifies for a promotion-relegation play-off, in which the club edges past FC Wiltz 71 (1-1 A.E.T. & penalty shoot-out) in an encounter staged at Stade am Deich in Ettelbruck. As such, the club manages a return to the National Division after eight years. In September 2025, the ground at Rue de Lenningen is officially renamed Stade Fernand Weber in honour of a supporter and volunteer who had died in a car accident the previous year.