R. Daring Club Molenbeek

Royal Daring Club Molenbeek was a football team from the city of Brussels, Belgium until 1973 (51 years ago) (1973). It was created in 1895 (129 years ago) (1895) as Daring Club de Bruxelles and was the second club to register to the Belgian Football Association (it thus received the matricule number 2), but it was admitted to the league only in 1903.

R. Daring Club Molenbeek

Full name	Royal Daring Club Molenbeek
Nickname(s)	Les Daringmen
Founded	1895
Dissolved	1973
Ground	Stade Oscar Bossaert, Molenbeek-Saint-Jean
Capacity	12,266
Home colours Away colours

Poster for a match at the Royal Daring Club in Brussels, in 1912. ^[1]

History

Daring Brussels were formed in 1895 and after absorbing other local clubs in 1920 they became Royal Daring Club Molenbeek.^[2]

It had to wait until 1936 to come back at the top and win its fourth championship, and the fifth came a year later. In 1938, it finished 2nd. The next season saw a poor performance by Daring to finish 13th (forelast). The club was relegated just before the competition was stopped because of World War II. The team changed its name to Royal Daring Club de Bruxelles in 1950. Twenty years later, the name was finally changed to Royal Daring Club Molenbeek before the club merged with matriculation n°47 Royal Racing White to become R.W.D. Molenbeek in 1973. Since then, the matriculation n°2 was erased. ^{[citation needed]}

Honours

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• Belgian First Division
  • Champions: 1911–12, 1913–14, 1920–21, 1935–36, 1936–37
• Belgian Second Division
  • Winners: 1954–55, 1958–59
• Belgian Cup
  • Winners: 1934–35
  • Runners-up: 1969–70

• Coupe Jean Dupuich
  • Winners (2): 1923 and 1924 (shared)
  • Runner-up (4): 1912, 1914, 1920 and 1922^[3]

European cup history

Season	Competition	Round	Country	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1965–66	Inter-Cities	1		AIK Stockholm	1–3	0–0	1–3
1968–69	Inter-Cities	1		Panathinaikos	2–1	0–2	2–3

References

1. Alfred Wahl, La balle au pied : Histoire du football (pp. 30–31), "Découvertes Gallimard" collection (vol. 83).
2. Pm Doutreligne (November 2011). "Union city blues". When Saturday Comes. Retrieved 24 May 2014.
3. "Coupe Jean Dupuich". RSSSF. 4 July 2019. Archived from the original on 13 July 2022. Retrieved 17 February 2022.

External links

• (in French and Dutch) Daring history (archived 8 May 2005)