Racing Club de Lens (commonly called RC Lens) is a French football club from the northern city of Lens, in the Pas-de-Calais département. After being crowned champions of the French Ligue 2 at the end of the 2008/09 season, the club returned to Ligue 1 for 2009/10 where it had a two-year stint before being relegated back to the French second division at the end of the 2010/11 season.
