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R.E. Mouscron was a Belgian association football

Football in Belgium

Football, a sport which has been played in Belgium since the end of the 19th century, is that country's most popular sport. The national association was founded in 1895 with the intention of bringing some order and organization to the sport...

club from the municipality of Mouscron

Mouscron

Mouscron is a Walloon city and municipality located in the Belgian province of Hainaut. The Mouscron municipality includes the old communes of Dottignies , Luingne, and Herseaux .-Middle Ages:...

, Hainaut. In December 2009 they were declared bankrupt and suspended operations soon after marking the end of professional football in Mouscron.

History

The club is the result of the merger between Stade Mouscron and A.R.A. Mouscron in 1964.

R.E. Mouscron had financial problems during the 2004–05 season and so the president and mayor of Mouscron Jean-Pierre Detremmerie left the club and was replaced by Edward Van Daele. The players with the higher wages were asked to leave the club, as did Marcin Żewłakow, Franky Vandendriessche

Franky Vandendriessche

Franck "Francky" Vandendriessche is a former Belgian football goalkeeper.-International career:Vandendriessche played one game with Belgium against Croatia due to the injuries of both Geert De Vlieger and Frédéric Herpoel and Belgium lost 4-0...

, Geoffrey Claeys

Geoffrey Claeys

Geoffrey Claeys is a football player who last played for Melbourne Victory in the A-League as a central Defender....

, Koen De Vleeschauwer and Alexandre Teklak

Alexandre Teklak

Alexandre Teklak is a Belgian football player who currently plays for RJS Heppignies-Lambusart-Fleurus.-References:*...

.

In late 2009 Manchester City was ready to spend £3million to save R.E. Mouscron from bankruptcy

Bankruptcy

Bankruptcy is a legal status of an insolvent person or an organisation, that is, one that cannot repay the debts owed to creditors. In most jurisdictions bankruptcy is imposed by a court order, often initiated by the debtor....

and use them as a feeder club.

On 28 December 2009, Mouscron announced its third forfeit in a row because of enduring financial problems, and was thus, according to Belgian league rules, excluded from competition, with all its previous results in the ongoing competition

2009–10 Belgian First Division

The 2009–10 season of the Belgian Pro League was the 107th season of top-tier football in Belgium. The season began on 31 July 2009 with the first matches of the regular season, and ended in May 2010 with the last matches of the playoff round...

being scrapped. The club in its current form will cease to exist, with all its players (and staff) becoming free agent

Free agent

In professional sports, a free agent is a player whose contract with a team has expired and who is thus eligible to sign with another club or franchise....

s. It is not yet known if the club, with its current matricule, will start over in a lower league.

Honours

Belgian Second Division
Belgian Second Division
The Belgian Second Division is the second-highest division in the Belgian football league system after the Belgian Pro League. It was created by the Belgian Football Association in 1905. Between 2008 and 2010 it was named EXQI League after a television channel owned by the league main sponsor,...

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- Runners-up (1): 1993–94
Belgian Second Division Final Round
Belgian Second Division Final Round
The Belgian Second Division Final Round is the playoff part of the Belgian Second Division. It is a contested by four teams, the winner being promoted to the first division.-Eligibility:...

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- Winners (1): 1996
Belgian Cup
Belgian Cup
The Belgian Cup is the main knockout football competition in Belgium, run by the Belgian Football Association. The first cup was held in 1911-12. The most successful cup club is Club Brugge KV with 10 titles followed by RSC Anderlecht and R Standard de Liège...

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- Runners-up (1): 2001–02, 2005–06
  Belgian Cup 2005-06
  The Belgian Cup 2005-06 was the 51st staging of the Belgian Cup which is the main knock-out football competition in Belgium. It was won by S.V. Zulte-Waregem. After the first 5 rounds teams from the Belgian First Division entered the competition on November 10, 2005...

European record

As of December 2008.

Competition	Apps	P	W	D	L	GF	GA
UEFA Cup UEFA Cup The UEFA Europa League is an annual association football cup competition organised by UEFA since 1971 for eligible European football clubs. It is the second most prestigious European club football contest after the UEFA Champions League...	2	8	2	3	3	11	15

Season	Competition	Round	Club	Home	Away
1997–98 UEFA Cup 1997-98 The UEFA Cup 1997–98 was won by Internazionale comfortably in an all-Italian final against Lazio. It was their third title in eight years in the competition....	UEFA Cup UEFA Cup The UEFA Europa League is an annual association football cup competition organised by UEFA since 1971 for eligible European football clubs. It is the second most prestigious European club football contest after the UEFA Champions League...	2QR	Apollon Limassol Apollon Limassol Apollon Limassol is a Greek Cypriot sports club, based in Limassol. It has football, basketball and volleyball teams. Founded in 1954, Apollon F.C...	3–0	0–0
		1R	FC Metz FC Metz Football Club de Metz, commonly referred to as simply Metz , is a French association football club based in Metz. The club was formed in 1932 and has spent most of its history in the Ligue 1, though they currently play in Ligue 2, the second level in French football league system. Metz plays its...	0–2	1–4
2002–03	UEFA Cup UEFA Cup The UEFA Europa League is an annual association football cup competition organised by UEFA since 1971 for eligible European football clubs. It is the second most prestigious European club football contest after the UEFA Champions League...	QUAL	Fylkir Reykjavik	3–1	1–1
		1R	Slavia Praha	2–2	1–5

Notable players

Belgium Walter Baseggio

Walter Baseggio

Walter Baseggio is a Belgian footballer who plays for AFC Tubize, as a central midfielder.-Club career:...

Jonathan Blondel

Jonathan Blondel is a Belgian football midfielder who currently plays for Club Brugge. He is a skillful defensive midfielder. Blondel started his career at Royal Excelsior Mouscron, before signing to the Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur on August 7, 2002...

Geoffrey Claeys

Geoffrey Claeys is a football player who last played for Melbourne Victory in the A-League as a central Defender....

Steve Dugardein

Steve Dugardein is a Belgian footballer, who last played for Oud-Heverlee Leuven.-References:...

Christophe Grégoire

Christophe Grégoire is a Belgian footballer who plays for Charleroi.-External links:* at VI.nl...

Axel Lawarée

Axel Lawarée is a Belgian football player currently playing for TuS Bösinghoven.-Honours:* Austrian Football Bundesliga top scorer: 2002–03 * Austrian Football Bundesliga champion: 2004–05-References:...

Dominique Lemoine

Dominique Lemoine is a retired international Belgian footballer.-References:* * *...

Christophe Lepoint

Christophe Lepoint is a Belgian footballer currently playing for Gent. On 19 May 2010 he made his debut in the Belgian national team in a friendly match against Bulgaria in Brussels and scored the equaliser in a 2-1 win....

Maxime Lestienne

Maxime Lestienne is a Belgian footballer who plays as a winger for Belgian club Club Brugge.-Mouscron:As a youth product of R.E...

Emile Mpenza

Émile Mpenza

Eka Basunga Lokonda "Émile" Mpenza is a Belgian footballer who plays for Neftchi Baku as a striker. He has been capped at international level by Belgium. His older brother, Mbo, was also a footballer who represented Belgium....

Mbo Mpenza

Mbo Jérôme Mpenza is a retired Belgian footballer who played as a striker. He was capped by Belgium at international level, scoring three goals in 56 appearances...

Luigi Pieroni

Luigi Pieroni is a Belgian football striker, currently playing for French club AC Arles-Avignon.-Career:He finished the Jupiler League 2003-04 season as topscorer with 28 goals while he was playing for R.E. Mouscron. He previously played with R.F.C...

Pascal Renier

Pascal Renier was a Belgian football defender. His former clubs include Club Brugge and R.E. Mouscron. He also played for Troyes AC in French Ligue 1.Renier was in the Belgium squad for the 1994 World Cup, albeit without playing....

Stefaan Tanghe

Stefaan Tanghe is a Belgian footballer who plays for KBS Poperinge.-Career:Tanghe made his debut in professional football in the 1997-98 season when playing for Excelsior Moeskroen. He also played competitive matches for FC Utrecht.-External links:*...

Alexandre Teklak

Alexandre Teklak is a Belgian football player who currently plays for RJS Heppignies-Lambusart-Fleurus.-References:*...

Franky Vandendriessche

Yves Vanderhaeghe

Yves Vanderhaeghe is a retired Belgian footballer who played as a defensive midfielder.Known for his tackling, hard-working approach and stamina, he played for five different clubs during his 22-year professional career....

Daan Van Gijseghem

Daan van Gijseghem

Daan van Gijseghem is a Belgian football player who currently plays for Club Brugge in the Belgian First Division.-Career:...

Gordan Vidović

Gordan Vidovic

Gordan Vidović is a former football player who played for the Belgium national team.His first club was FK Igman from Ilidža, suburb of Sarajevo. He was spotted there in 1988, by FK Željezničar Sarajevo and soon moved to this top division club. When the War in Bosnia-Herzegovina started, he went to...

Mark Volders

Mark Volders is a Belgian football goalkeeper who currently plays for STVV in the Jupiler League.- Career :- External links :* * *...

Algeria Samir Beloufa

Samir Beloufa

Samir Beloufa is a French-Algerian football player for the Swedish side Helsingborgs IF of the top Allsvenskan league. He transferred to Helsingborg from the Belgium club Westerlo in March 2007. He also played with Mouscron and Germinal Beerschot in Belgium...

Australia Stephen Laybutt
Bahrain Jaycee John

Bosnia and Herzegovina Adnan Čustović

Adnan Custovic

Adnan Čustović is a Bosnian footballer who plays as a forward for Germinal Beerschot.- Career :Before joining Mouscron, Čustović mainly played for French division 1 and 2 teams Le Havre AC, Stade Lavallois and Amiens SC, on 21 December left R.E. Mouscron and moved to K.A.A. Gent.- International...

Cameroon Bertin Tomou

Bertin Tomou

Bertin Tomou Bayard is a Cameroonian former football striker. He had represented Cameroon national football team.-Football career:...

Croatia Zoran Ban

Zoran Ban

Zoran Ban is a retired Croatian professional football player.-External links:*...

Tonči Martić

Tonci Martic

Tonči Martić is a Croatian former footballer who played for Hajduk Split and Excelsior Mouscron.-External links:* at VI.nl *...

France Cédric Berthelin

Cédric Berthelin

Cédric Berthelin is a French football player who presently plays with R.A.E.C. Mons.-Career:Berthelin started his professional career with RC Lens in 1999 and spent two seasons with the sang et or making only occasional first team appearances. During the 2001/2 season he played for ASOA Valence...

Idir Ouali

Idir Ouali is a French-Algerian football player who is currently playing for Le Mans UC in Ligue 2.-Club career:Ouali began his career in the junior ranks of amateur club SCO Roubaix 59 in his native Roubaix...

Kuwait Abdulaziz Al Misha'an

Abdulaziz Al Misha'an

Abdulaziz Ahmad Al Misha'an Al Enezi is a Kuwaiti footballer who is a Midfielder for the Kuwaiti Premier League club Al Qadsia.-References:...

Poland Marcin Żewłakow Michał Żewłakow
Senegal Demba Ba

Demba Ba

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Serbia Nenad Jestrović

Nenad Jestrovic

Nenad Jestrović is a retired Serbian football forward, last playing for FC Metz.-Career:...

Slovenia Ermin Šiljak

Ermin Šiljak

Ermin Šiljak is a former Slovenian football player of Bosnian origin. He is renowned as a great finisher, and has top off the ball instincts to get into scoring positions. He currently works as assistant coach at NK Domžale.-Club career:He started his professional career at NK Svoboda...

South Africa Bevan Fransman

Bevan Fransman

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Former coaches

1990–1995 : André Van Maldeghem
1995–1996 : Georges Leekens
1996–1997 : Georges Leekens, Gil Vandenbrouck
1997–2002 : Hugo Broos
2002–2003 : Lorenzo Staelens
Lorenzo Staelens
Lorenzo Jules Staelens is a retired Belgian footballer and a current manager.Having started his career as a defensive midfielder, he finished it as sweeper at nearly 40, and scored more than 100 goals overall....
2003–2004 : Georges Leekens
2004–2005 : Philippe Saint-Jean, Geert Broeckaert
Geert Broeckaert
Geert Broeckaert is a retired Belgian professional football player.-Career:Broeckaert was a youth product of AA Gent, but at the age of 17 he moved to Cercle Brugge after his father had bought off his contract...
2005–2006 : Geert Broeckaert, Paul Put, Gil Vandenbrouck
2006–2007 : Gil Vandenbrouck
2007-12/2008 : Marc Brys
Marc Brys
Marc Brys is a former Belgian football player who is currently the manager of YRKV Mechelen since May 2010.-References:...
12/2007-06/2009: Enzo Scifo

External links

Official Website R.E. Mouscron at UEFA.COM

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