Racing Club de Lens (French pronunciation: , commonly referred to as RC Lens or simply Lens) is a French professional football club based in the northern city of Lens in the Pas-de-Calais department. Its nickname, les sang et or (the blood and gold), comes from its traditional colours of red and gold. Their traditional rivals are their northern neighbours Lille, with whom they contest the Derby du Nord. Their most famous trophy is winning the championship in 1998. Three Lens players won the gold medal in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games: defender Didier Sénac, as well as strikers François Brisson and Daniel Xuereb who scored a goal apiece in France's triumph over Brazil 2–0 in the final at the Pasadena Rose Bowl in front of a crowd of 103,000. More information...
According to PR-model, rclens.fr is ranked 11,900th in multilingual Wikipedia, in particular this website is ranked 1,504th in French Wikipedia.
The website is placed before slb.com and after ndsu.edu in the BestRef global ranking of the most important sources of Wikipedia.