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Strasbourg, Strasbourg · France · Ligue 1

League titles
1
last 1979
Major cups
8
last 2019
Top-2 finishes
2
Top-4 finishes
6
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Power-ranking history

Hover a season for its rank and score
Rank (1 = best)1434Score (per-season normalised)0.00.51.059/6069/7079/8089/9099/0009/1019/20

Against expectation

Every French top-flight match this club has played in the Ligue 1, scored against the odds an Elo rating gave it before kick-off. Over 64 seasons from 1933-34 to 2024-25 it has beaten them by +2.8 match points.

RC Strasbourg: surplus against expectation, 1933-34 to 2024-251933-34: +13.5 league points vs expected (47 on 33.5, 2 for a win) · bar height +6.8 match points1934-35: +2.4 league points vs expected (39 on 36.6, 2 for a win) · bar height +1.2 match points1935-36: −3.2 league points vs expected (33 on 36.2, 2 for a win) · bar height −1.6 match points1936-37: +0.1 league points vs expected (33 on 32.9, 2 for a win) · bar height +0.0 match points1938-39: −2.9 league points vs expected (28 on 30.9, 2 for a win) · bar height −1.4 match points1945-46: −0.8 league points vs expected (33 on 33.8, 2 for a win) · bar height −0.4 match points1946-47: +6.8 league points vs expected (43 on 36.2, 2 for a win) · bar height +3.4 match points1947-48: −0.9 league points vs expected (37 on 38.0, 2 for a win) · bar height −0.5 match points1948-49: −8.8 league points vs expected (26 on 34.8, 2 for a win) · bar height −4.4 match points1949-50: +0.1 league points vs expected (31 on 30.9, 2 for a win) · bar height +0.1 match points1950-51: +2.7 league points vs expected (34 on 31.3, 2 for a win) · bar height +1.3 match points1951-52: −10.3 league points vs expected (16 on 26.4, 2 for a win) · bar height −5.2 match points1953-54: +7.9 league points vs expected (36 on 28.1, 2 for a win) · bar height +4.0 match points1954-55: +3.9 league points vs expected (37 on 33.1, 2 for a win) · bar height +2.0 match points1955-56: −2.1 league points vs expected (30 on 32.1, 2 for a win) · bar height −1.1 match points1956-57: −3.3 league points vs expected (26 on 29.3, 2 for a win) · bar height −1.7 match points1958-59: +4.0 league points vs expected (38 on 34.0, 2 for a win) · bar height +2.0 match points1959-60: −6.4 league points vs expected (25 on 31.4, 2 for a win) · bar height −3.2 match points1961-62: +3.1 league points vs expected (34 on 30.9, 2 for a win) · bar height +1.5 match points1962-63: +0.7 league points vs expected (34 on 33.3, 2 for a win) · bar height +0.4 match points1963-64: +2.5 league points vs expected (33 on 30.5, 2 for a win) · bar height +1.2 match points1964-65: +4.9 league points vs expected (38 on 33.1, 2 for a win) · bar height +2.4 match points1965-66: −1.6 league points vs expected (38 on 39.6, 2 for a win) · bar height −0.8 match points1966-67: −3.3 league points vs expected (36 on 39.3, 2 for a win) · bar height −1.6 match points1967-68: −2.5 league points vs expected (34 on 36.5, 2 for a win) · bar height −1.2 match points1968-69: −2.4 league points vs expected (29 on 31.4, 2 for a win) · bar height −1.2 match points1969-70: +3.3 league points vs expected (36 on 32.7, 2 for a win) · bar height +1.6 match points1970-71: −5.5 league points vs expected (31 on 36.5, 2 for a win) · bar height −2.7 match points1972-73: −3.9 league points vs expected (30 on 33.9, 2 for a win) · bar height −1.9 match points1973-74: +4.6 league points vs expected (37 on 32.4, 2 for a win) · bar height +2.3 match points1974-75: +3.7 league points vs expected (40 on 36.3, 2 for a win) · bar height +1.8 match points1975-76: −6.2 league points vs expected (29 on 35.2, 2 for a win) · bar height −3.1 match points1977-78: +13.2 league points vs expected (50 on 36.8, 2 for a win) · bar height +6.6 match points1978-79: +11.3 league points vs expected (56 on 44.7, 2 for a win) · bar height +5.6 match points1979-80: −2.6 league points vs expected (43 on 45.6, 2 for a win) · bar height −1.3 match points1980-81: −1.5 league points vs expected (40 on 41.5, 2 for a win) · bar height −0.8 match points1981-82: −3.8 league points vs expected (36 on 39.8, 2 for a win) · bar height −1.9 match points1982-83: −4.0 league points vs expected (33 on 37.0, 2 for a win) · bar height −2.0 match points1983-84: +2.2 league points vs expected (39 on 36.8, 2 for a win) · bar height +1.1 match points1984-85: −4.8 league points vs expected (31 on 35.8, 2 for a win) · bar height −2.4 match points1985-86: −1.1 league points vs expected (31 on 32.0, 2 for a win) · bar height −0.5 match points1988-89: −2.8 league points vs expected (29 on 31.8, 2 for a win) · bar height −1.4 match points1992-93: +4.0 league points vs expected (40 on 36.0, 2 for a win) · bar height +2.0 match points1993-94: −3.0 league points vs expected (34 on 37.0, 2 for a win) · bar height −1.5 match points1994-95: +2.3 league points vs expected (51 on 48.7, 3 for a win) · bar height +0.7 match points1995-96: +3.3 league points vs expected (54 on 50.7, 3 for a win) · bar height +1.0 match points1996-97: +10.7 league points vs expected (60 on 49.4, 3 for a win) · bar height +2.0 match points1997-98: −5.3 league points vs expected (37 on 42.3, 3 for a win) · bar height −1.9 match points1998-99: −4.2 league points vs expected (38 on 42.2, 3 for a win) · bar height −0.7 match points1999-00: +5.0 league points vs expected (46 on 41.0, 3 for a win) · bar height +1.2 match points2000-01: −8.8 league points vs expected (29 on 37.8, 3 for a win) · bar height −3.2 match points2002-03: +2.3 league points vs expected (45 on 42.8, 3 for a win) · bar height +1.0 match points2003-04: −0.9 league points vs expected (43 on 43.9, 3 for a win) · bar height +0.1 match points2004-05: +5.0 league points vs expected (48 on 43.0, 3 for a win) · bar height +1.9 match points2005-06: −13.9 league points vs expected (29 on 42.9, 3 for a win) · bar height −4.1 match points2007-08: −8.3 league points vs expected (35 on 43.3, 3 for a win) · bar height −3.3 match points2017-18: −5.8 league points vs expected (38 on 43.8, 3 for a win) · bar height −1.8 match points2018-19: +3.2 league points vs expected (49 on 45.8, 3 for a win) · bar height +2.1 match points2019-20: +3.6 league points vs expected (38 on 34.4, 3 for a win) · bar height +0.9 match points2020-21: −4.4 league points vs expected (42 on 46.4, 3 for a win) · bar height −1.6 match points2021-22: +11.7 league points vs expected (63 on 51.4, 3 for a win) · bar height +4.2 match points2022-23: −10.3 league points vs expected (40 on 50.3, 3 for a win) · bar height −2.9 match points2023-24: −2.8 league points vs expected (39 on 41.8, 3 for a win) · bar height −0.9 match points2024-25: +12.9 league points vs expected (57 on 44.1, 3 for a win) · bar height +4.4 match points
1933-34one bar per season · height in match points · hover for that season2024-25
Best season against expectation
1933-34 +13.5 league pts
47 points on 33.5 expected as RC Strasbourg
Worst season against expectation
2005-06 13.9 league pts
29 points on 42.9 expected as RC Strasbourg

Season points use that season’s own scoring, two for a win before 1994-95 and three from it; the bars use match points so the whole series is comparable.The rating only starts telling you much after about 1960. Before that, knowing the era’s home-and-away split is almost as good as knowing the teams.

1946-47 table not final: source 4 matchdays short (20 clubs at 34 of 38) and one round mis-dated.1994-95 results not final: results supplied from football-data.co.uk 1994-95 all-Europe archive (sheet F1), compiled by Joe Buchdahl; supplied by Ashwin 2026-09-05.2019-20 table not final: abandoned at the COVID-19 shutdown, 279 of 380 played.

Strasbourg against expectation →How this is measured →

What the squad was worth

Total market value of the squad, EUR millions, by month; the player count beside it is the size of the priced squad.

How this is measured

Drawn as a step, not a curve: Transfermarkt reprices every squad in December and June (marked with a small tick on the axis) and revalues continuously between, so the line only moves when a real valuation changed, never by interpolation.

A month renders no value at all once the priced squad falls below 15 players, so a thin squad is never shown as a cheap one. The series is floored at July 2012on purpose: earlier Transfermarkt totals reflect which players happened to be priced yet rather than the squad’s real worth, and are excluded rather than shown misleadingly low.

Upstream (dcaribou/transfermarkt-datasets) has been paused since July 2026, so the series ends where the source ends rather than where the season does.

Player valuations from Transfermarkt via github.com/dcaribou/transfermarkt-datasets (CC0).

What the squad was worth€390m
RC Strasbourg Alsace: squad value by month, 2016-07 to 2026-06021042116-1718-1920-2122-2324-25
Peak
€390m in Jun 2026 · 27 players valued
Most recent
€390m in Jun 2026 · 27 players valued

Strasbourgon the rankings →

The money ledger

Fees paid and received each season, and what the squad was worth once the trading is netted out.

How this is measured

Spent is the fees paid for players arriving, received the fees for players leaving, both in EUR millions by the July-to-June season of the move. A move with no fee on record (a free, a loan, an undisclosed sum) is counted, never priced: the small figure beside each total is the moves with a fee, plus those without (so 4+3 is four priced arrivals and three unpriced), and a quiet window is not mistaken for a cheap one. Wages are not here: they are estimates nobody licenses, and fees are documented.

Appreciationis the season’s change in squad value with the net spend taken out: buy 100m of players and finish 100m higher is zero; finish 120m higher and the club made 20m of players better, or the market repriced them. It needs a priced squad at both ends of the season (the same 15-player floor as the value chart), so it is blank rather than guessed for a season that lacks one.

The source has been paused since 6 July 2026, so the final row holds only the opening days of its window.

Transfer fees and player valuations from Transfermarkt via github.com/dcaribou/transfermarkt-datasets (CC0).

The money ledger−€93m
Spent
€290m
47 arrivals with a fee
Received
€197m
22 departures with a fee
Net
−€93m
207 moves with no fee
Appreciation
+€289m
10 seasons with a priced squad

Grown or bought: in 2026-27, trading €0m and appreciation . Over the last 5 seasons (2022-232026-27), trading −€103m and appreciation unpriced.

The director’s ledger: 101 arrivals graded since 2022-23, 1 ungraded, 87% EV-positive. €248m deployed for a 1.5× multiplier.

2026-27 spent received to 6 July 2026
2 moves, no fee on record
unpriced
2025-26 spent €119m received €78m
in: Joaquín Panichelli €17m
+€106m
squad gain
2024-25 spent €62m received €14m
in: Sékou Mara €12m
+€66m
squad gain
2023-24 spent €61m received €43m
in: Abakar Sylla €20m
+€9m
squad gain
2022-23 spent €7m received €10m
in: Jean-Eudes Aholou €3m
−€8m
squad gain
2021-22 spent €5m received €16m
in: Ismaël Doukouré €2m
+€21m
squad gain
2020-21 spent €10m received €1m
in: Habib Diallo €10m
+€19m
squad gain
2019-20 spent €8m received €22m
in: Alexander Djiku €5m
−€9m
squad gain
Show all 13 seasons
2018-19 spent €16m received €14m
in: Lebo Mothiba €4m
+€54m
squad gain
2017-18 spent €4m received
in: Jonas Martin €2m
+€26m
squad gain
2016-17 spent €1m received
in: Jean-Eudes Aholou €1m
+€5m
squad gain
2015-16 spent received
4 moves, no fee on record
unpriced
2014-15 spent received
3 moves, no fee on record
unpriced

Money against football

Every priced club-season in the six leagues: points against expectation across, squad value gained beyond the net spend up. This club’s seasons are joined.

Tap or drag on the plot: the nearest club-season, its points and its money.

the frontier: no other club-season beat it on both axes · this club, season by season, the largest dot the latest

Every club’s return on the transfer window →

Greatest games

RC Strasbourg's top matches by the club Game Score: closeness, stakes, quality and upset over one unified rating of league and European play.All-time board.

#DateStageResultScore
11937-05-09Coupe de France · FinalNL 1-2 v FC Sochaux-Montbéliardgame score 78.4
21949-05-15Division 1HL 1-2 v CO Roubaix-Tourcoinggame score 65.4
31997-12-09UEFA Cup · Third Round · 2nd leg, agg 2-3AL 0-3 v Internazionalegame score 64.5
41966-05-22Coupe de France · FinalNW 1-0 v FC Nantesgame score 63.4
51952-05-18Division 1HL 1-2 v RC Lensgame score 62.2
61955-01-30Division 1AW 2-1 v Stade Reimsgame score 62.1
71949-02-13Division 1AW 2-1 v Lille OSCgame score 61.5
81947-05-11Coupe de France · FinalNL 0-2 v Lille OSCgame score 60.1
91952-04-13Division 1AW 1-0 v FC Sochaux-Montbéliardgame score 59.9
101939-04-08Division 1AW 1-0 v Olympique Lilloisgame score 59.9

Footprint

Tiers played
L1
Top-flight (L1) seasons
66
First season
1935
Most recent season
2026

The Heartbreak Index5.2 · #416

The Tortured · League title, 1979

5.2
Heartbreak
#416
of 1,139 clubs
#266
in Football
5.2
agony
The clocks
  • League title since 19791.3
  • Major trophy since 20191.1
  • Major final appearance since 20190.7
Heaviest wounds

relegated from the top flight, 2006 · relegated from the top flight, 2008 · relegated from the top flight, 2001 · relegated from the top flight, 1989

One formula, every club the site covers. See the whole board →

Season-by-season

Most recent season first. Covers Ligue 1 only. Rows tagged "national playoff" are pre-modern formats where the workbook records only playoff participants, not round-robin standings.

2027
Ligue 1 (1) · P6● live
4 P · 2-1-1 · 9:8 · +1
7
pts
2026
Ligue 1 (1) · P8
34 P · 15-8-11 · 58:47 · +11
53
pts
EUCL
2025
Ligue 1 (1) · P7
34 P · 16-9-9 · 56:44 · +12
57
pts
EUCL
2024
Ligue 1 (1) · P13
34 P · 10-9-15 · 38:50 · -12
39
pts
2023
Ligue 1 (1) · P15
38 P · 9-13-16 · 51:59 · -8
40
pts
2022
Ligue 1 (1) · P6
38 P · 17-12-9 · 60:43 · +17
63
pts
2021
Ligue 1 (1) · P15
38 P · 11-9-18 · 49:58 · -9
42
pts
2020
Ligue 1 (1) · P11
27 P · 11-5-11 · 32:32 · 0
38
pts
EL
2019
Ligue 1 (1) · P11
38 P · 11-16-11 · 58:48 · +10
49
pts
Lg CupEL
2018
Ligue 1 (1) · P15
38 P · 9-11-18 · 44:67 · -23
38
pts
2008
Ligue 1 (1) · P19
38 P · 9-8-21 · 34:55 · -21
35
pts
2006
Ligue 1 (1) · P19
38 P · 5-14-19 · 33:56 · -23
29
pts
UC
Show all 66 seasons
2005
Ligue 1 (1) · P11
38 P · 12-12-14 · 42:43 · -1
48
pts
Lg CupUC
2004
Ligue 1 (1) · P13
38 P · 10-13-15 · 43:50 · -7
43
pts
2003
Ligue 1 (1) · P13
38 P · 11-12-15 · 40:54 · -14
45
pts
2001
Division 1 (1) · P18
34 P · 7-8-19 · 28:61 · -33
29
pts
CoupeUC
2000
Division 1 (1) · P9
34 P · 13-7-14 · 42:52 · -10
46
pts
1999
Division 1 (1) · P12
34 P · 8-14-12 · 30:36 · -6
38
pts
1998
Division 1 (1) · P13
34 P · 9-10-15 · 39:43 · -4
37
pts
UC
1997
Division 1 (1) · P9
38 P · 19-3-16 · 52:49 · +3
60
pts
Lg CupUC
1996
Division 1 (1) · P9
38 P · 14-12-12 · 46:44 · +2
54
pts
UC
1995
Division 1 (1) · P10
38 P · 13-12-13 · 43:43 · 0
51
pts
CoupeUC
1994
Division 1 (1) · P13
38 P · 10-14-14 · 43:47 · -4
34
pts
1993
Division 1 (1) · P8
38 P · 12-16-10 · 58:57 · +1
40
pts
1989
Division 1 (1) · P18
38 P · 10-9-19 · 47:59 · -12
39
pts
1986
Division 1 (1) · P19
38 P · 10-11-17 · 36:54 · -18
31
pts
1985
Division 1 (1) · P16
38 P · 9-13-16 · 47:57 · -10
31
pts
1984
Division 1 (1) · P8
38 P · 11-17-10 · 36:38 · -2
39
pts
1983
Division 1 (1) · P15
38 P · 11-11-16 · 40:51 · -11
33
pts
1982
Division 1 (1) · P10
38 P · 12-12-14 · 41:41 · 0
36
pts
1981
Division 1 (1) · P7
38 P · 14-12-12 · 44:47 · -3
40
pts
1980
Division 1 (1) · P5
38 P · 17-9-12 · 58:50 · +8
43
pts
EC
1979
Division 1 (1) · P1
38 P · 22-12-4 · 68:28 · +40
56
pts
UCEC
1978
Division 1 (1) · P3
38 P · 19-12-7 · 70:40 · +30
50
pts
UC
1976
Division 1 (1) · P19
38 P · 9-11-18 · 39:56 · -17
32
pts
1975
Division 1 (1) · P9
38 P · 16-8-14 · 49:56 · -7
43
pts
1974
Division 1 (1) · P8
38 P · 13-11-14 · 62:67 · -5
45
pts
1973
Division 1 (1) · P16
38 P · 9-12-17 · 42:62 · -20
30
pts
1971
Division 1 (1) · P18
38 P · 13-5-20 · 54:63 · -9
31
pts
1970
Division 1 (1) · P5
34 P · 15-6-13 · 65:55 · +10
36
pts
1969
Division 1 (1) · P14
34 P · 10-9-15 · 34:41 · -7
29
pts
1968
Division 1 (1) · P16PO
38 P · 13-8-17 · 34:40 · -6
34
pts
1967
Division 1 (1) · P12
38 P · 14-8-16 · 54:52 · +2
36
pts
CWC
1966
Division 1 (1) · P8
38 P · 13-12-13 · 59:47 · +12
38
pts
CoupeICFCCWC
1965
Division 1 (1) · P5
34 P · 13-12-9 · 56:46 · +10
38
pts
ICFCICFC
1964
Division 1 (1) · P9
34 P · 11-11-12 · 43:41 · +2
33
pts
Lg CupICFC
1963
Division 1 (1) · P14
38 P · 9-16-13 · 54:63 · -9
34
pts
1962
Division 1 (1) · P15
38 P · 12-10-16 · 45:54 · -9
34
pts
ICFC
1960
Division 1 (1) · P19
38 P · 9-7-22 · 55:92 · -37
25
pts
1959
Division 1 (1) · P11
38 P · 14-10-14 · 65:76 · -11
38
pts
1957
Division 1 (1) · P17
34 P · 9-8-17 · 43:66 · -23
26
pts
1956
Division 1 (1) · P14
34 P · 12-6-16 · 54:66 · -12
30
pts
1955
Division 1 (1) · P4
34 P · 15-7-12 · 74:55 · +19
37
pts
1954
Division 1 (1) · P6
34 P · 15-6-13 · 60:61 · -1
36
pts
1952
Division 1 (1) · P18
34 P · 4-8-22 · 38:80 · -42
16
pts
1951
Division 1 (1) · P9
34 P · 14-6-14 · 49:58 · -9
34
pts
Coupe
1950
Division 1 (1) · P13
34 P · 11-9-14 · 46:73 · -27
31
pts
1949
Division 1 (1) · P17
34 P · 10-6-18 · 40:68 · -28
26
pts
1948
Division 1 (1) · P6
34 P · 13-11-10 · 82:58 · +24
37
pts
1947
Division 1 (1) · P3
38 P · 21-7-10 · 80:50 · +30
49
pts
Coupe
1946
Division 1 (1) · P12
34 P · 13-7-14 · 53:62 · -9
33
pts
1939
Division 1 (1) · P10
30 P · 10-8-12 · 39:43 · -4
28
pts
1938
Division 1 (1) · P5
30 P · 12-9-9 · 66:54 · +12
33
pts
1937
Division 1 (1) · P6
30 P · 12-9-9 · 62:39 · +23
33
pts
Coupe
1936
Division 1 (1) · P3
30 P · 18-3-9 · 67:37 · +30
39
pts
1935
Division 1 (1) · P2
30 P · 21-5-4 · 73:33 · +40
47
pts
Domestic Cup Finals

Most recent first. Every domestic cup final the club has played, including losses. Scheduled finals (date not yet passed) are flagged.

2019
Coupe de la Ligue
Won
2005
Coupe de la Ligue
Won
2001
Coupe de France
Won
2001
Trophée des Champions
Runner-up
1997
Coupe de la Ligue
Won
1995
Coupe de France
Runner-up
1966
Coupe de France
Won
1964
Coupe de la Ligue
Won
1951
Coupe de France
Won
1947
Coupe de France
Runner-up
1937
Coupe de France
Runner-up
European competition appearances

Most recent first. One row per entry showing the deepest round reached. A Cup Winner badge marks tournaments the club won: gold for the European Cup / Champions League, silver for every other UEFA or Intercontinental trophy.

2025-26
Europa Conference League(EUCL)
Semi-final
2019-20
Europa League(EL)
Qualifying
2005-06
UEFA Cup(UC)
Round of 16
2001-02
UEFA Cup(UC)
Qualifying
1997-98
UEFA Cup(UC)
Round of 16
1995-96
UEFA Cup(UC)
Group stage
1979-80
European Cup(EC)
Quarter-final
1978-79
UEFA Cup(UC)
Round of 16
1966-67
Cup Winners Cup(CWC)
Round of 16
1965-66
Inter-Cities Fairs Cup(ICFC)
Round of 32 / qualifying
1964-65
Inter-Cities Fairs Cup(ICFC)
Quarter-final
1961-62
Inter-Cities Fairs Cup(ICFC)
Group stage