FC Sion and 2012. The club are known for their club football chant: ""sit down if you love Sitten"" a wordplay on the town's German name Sitten. The club also has a training centre near its office in Martigny and a youth development center in nearby Riddes. FC Sion Football Club de Sion, commonly known as simply FC Sion or Sion, is a Swiss football team from the city of Sion (). The club was founded in 1909, and play their home matches at the Stade Tourbillon. They have won the Swiss Super League twice, and the Swiss Cup in 13 of
Lauda Sion Lauda Sion "Lauda Sion Salvatorem" is a sequence prescribed for the Roman Catholic Mass for the feast of Corpus Christi. It was written by St. Thomas Aquinas around 1264, at the request of Pope Urban IV for the new Mass of this feast, along with "Pange lingua", "Sacris solemniis", "Adoro te devote", and "Verbum supernum prodiens", which are used in the Divine Office. The Gregorian melody of the "Lauda Sion" is borrowed from the eleventh-century sequence "Laetabundi iubilemus" attributed to Adam of Saint Victor. The hymn tells of the institution of the Eucharist and clearly expresses the belief of the