Counting since their first top-flight game, September 9, 2012, as the Arras FCF. Thrashed 6–0 at Juvisy in the lineage's 2012 debut as Arras FCF, the club Lens absorbed in 2020; the Lens-branded elite debut in 2025 drew a record 10,712 to Bollaert — and ended in relegation anyway.
IN THE MEANTIME…
The Sang et Or have never won it all. This clock has been running since their first top-flight game.
They have never even reached the play-off final.
That's 14 top-flight seasons of waiting.
Since then: TikTok went global and ChatGPT launched.