Hi,

I am new to this forum and would like to know if there exists, or if there is any interest in setting up, an expat football team in the Lausanne-Morges area.

I used to live in Geneva, where the football teams are a bit more established among the diplomatic missions. I recently played for the Geneva Irish when we lost to the Geneva Scots 2-1. I know that those 2 teams would be keen to get more friendly practice in against other teams with a similar level (if you can call a group of 25-50 year olds panting in the sun chasing a ball before collapsing in a heap a "level").

This would involve getting together somewhat regularly for training and socialising afterwards. This would also be dependant on finding a suitable location to play (easier in the summer than in the winter). Let me know if you're interested or if you know of a group already playing.

For those of you playing in expat teams in other parts of Switzerland, get in touch and we could possibly organise a weekend tournament somewhere.

Cheers

Andrew

Hi,

I've just moved to Geneva from London and have been searching forums for football teams. I'm working in geneva but living in Nyon. I noticed your post is a year or so old. Did you ever get anything sorted out?

If anyone else is reading this and knows of a team or can help at all i'd be really grateful.

cheers,

Matt

Hey Matt,

I'm not sure if anything ever got off the ground. We were looking at setting up a Gaelic team in Lausanne too, but it never really took off (probably my fault, as I've been traveling a lot for work this summer). But if you're willing to drive it, then you should not have any difficulty in getting a few players...

I live in Lausanne and would love to play, football, Gaelic, hurling, tennis...more or less anything in fact so if anyone does find/set up a team or even a kickaround I'd be interested.

Oh and there is a grand pitch with nice goals in the parc de milan (just below the train station)

Hey,

Can you tell me if there is a local competition for Football?.. i have a University team of english speaking students who want to play regular games!... cost, location etc!

Thanks

heather

Any developments on this? i am interested in playing soccer,gaa...Will try the hurling but it's so long since i played that i could be more of a danger than anything. BTW, does anyone know how many irish there actually are in the Lausanne area?