INEOS, a leading manufacturer of petrochemicals, specialty chemicals, and oil products has purchased Lausanne-Sports, Europe’s most established football clubs. The acquiring entity is INEOS Football SA. FC Lausanne-Sport, is currently 6th in the Swiss Super League.

INEOS first located its office in Rolle in 2010, began to build close links to the community near to its offices in Canton Vaud and Lausanne. It sponsorship Lausanne Hockey Club (LHC) which helped the club to reach from Series B to Series A. INEOS also encouraged investment in the academy structure of L4C (The youth teams for LHC) to give the opportunity to younger players.

David Thompson, CEO INEOS Football SA, says, “INEOS is excited about taking this major step into top-class football as part of our wider commitment to encourage youth sport in Lausanne and Canton Vaud. We hope and expect that this new investment in the team will take Football Club Lausanne-Sport forward to further success, and we see no reason why this could not mean playing in Europe.”

INEOS believes that Lausanne Sport has the potential to develop to the top of the Swiss league and has set out its ambition of qualifying for European football. INEOS looks forward to further enhancing the success based on junior player development.

David Thompson further said that “Working in close partnership with the management team behind Lausanne Hockey Club, we have helped achieve its goal of moving from Series B to Series A. We think that the same potential exists for FC Lausanne-Sport and its junior teams. We see no reason why in time they should not qualify for European football providing a golden opportunity to help develop junior players from the local area and from our new academy programme in Africa.”