Can somebody re-direct me to the Belgium thread/forum? I have not been able to find it, sry. I got a question regarding Belgian football, too: which belgian club was recently demoted to the lower divisions after going into liquidation???
Quite a lot. In 2002 both RWDM and Eendracht Aalst were demoted to 3rd level. RWDM was even resolved completly and will start over again this season in the 8th level (lowest level). Aalst is promoted already again to the 2nd level. This year both Lommel and KV Mechelen were demoted to 3rd level. Lommel merged with an other 3rd level team (Overpelt) and is now called KVSK United.
Re: Re: Belgium Thread? The stuff you learn on Bigsoccer. Thanks Forza AZ. Hope your club's finances are doing well this season.
Re: Re: Belgium Thread? Thanks bro. Lommel is the one I was actually looking for (doing World Soccer Word puzzle lol)
What !!! did RWD Molenbeek die totally!!! Bruxelles second biggest team, a merger of Racing White, Daring Club and a third Traditional club. Racing Bruxelles with 6 Belgian championships and Daring with 5 Belgian championships and as RWDM Molenbeek a Championship in 1975 a institution in Belgian football. And Lommel merged..... in 2 years time yhere will only be 3 teams left in the belgian league after the rest either merged or folded. By the way Belgium must have the world record in number of Professional club mergers.
RWDM was "dead" for 1 year. They've now started again at the lowest (=8th) level of Belgian football.
Wrong ! they are now playing in 2nd division and is now called FC Brussels-Strombeek and has a pretty strong team (on paper).
But werent Strombeek a seperate team before? Maybe they are RWDMs cultural successor but would you be able to call them the new version of RWDM? I mean would FC Brussel/Strombeek be considered as the side who won the belgian championship in 1975?
That's right Strombeek already existed before. It's president agreed to cooperate with the people who decided to rebuilt the former RWDM under its new name FC Brussels.They hope to play in 1st division within 3 years.The games are played in RWDM former stadium Edmond Machtens. Its supporters are the same that supported RWDM and consider (for most of them) this new club the "new" RWDM.
Aha okay since the supporters consider FC Brussels as RWDM. But the Name FC Brussels are perfect one can wonder why a city as Brussels only have Anderlecht(actuelly aren't Anderlecht playing in the city of Anderlecht?)
That's correct.The name FC Brussels has been chosen to identify easier the club abroad has a club from "the capital of Europe". Anderlecht is playing IN Anderlecht has it's a suburb of Brussels.
Just like in Copenhagen, were they Had Brondby but no team with Copenhagen in, then they created a team called FC Copenhagen, so potential fans could identify the team as the Capitak team.
Why is Belgium in the Northern Europe section anyway? They should be merged with the Holland section.