Royal Daring Club de Bruxelles

Daring Club de Bruxelles
Full nameRoyal Daring Club Molenbeek
NicknameLes Daringmen
Founded1895
Dissolved1973
GroundStade Oscar Bossaert, Molenbeek-Saint-Jean
Capacity12,266
Poster for a match at the Royal Daring Club in Brussels, in 1912.[1]

Royal Daring Club Molenbeek was a football team from the city of Brussels, Belgium until 1973. It was created in 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.

History

Daring Club de Bruxelles were formed in 1895 and consolidated its structure after absorbing other local clubs. In 1920, Daring CB found its new home ground in Molenbeek on West suburb of Greater Brussels. At the time the stadion received the name of "Oscar Bosschaert" (later "Charles Malis"). On same year, the club has been recognized as a "Royal Society" and became the Daring CB SR (Société Royale).

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 (R. Daring CB). Twenty years later, the name was finally changed back to Royal Daring Club Molenbeek before the club stopped its activies, due to different difficulties, mainly financial. Due the choice of former R. Daring CM, matriculation n°47 Royal Racing White decided to move from Woluwe (in South-East of Brusssels suburb to Molenbeek and to become R.W.D. Molenbeek in 1973. There was neither merging, neither absorption. The club with number 47 simply added the name "Daring" to its name, with hope to draft back the fans of former matriculation n°2. This one was simply erased en 1973. The so called R.W.D.M was a Royal Society but never adds this mention in its name [2].

Honours

Historical league performance chart of RWDM and its predecessors, including Daring Club

European cup history

Season Competition Round Country Club Home Away Aggregate
1965–66 Inter-Cities 1 Sweden AIK Stockholm 1–3 0–0 1–3
1968–69 Inter-Cities 1 Greece 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. ↑ Foot 100 ASBL Dictonnaire des Club belges depuis 1895
  3. ↑ "Coupe Jean Dupuich". RSSSF. 4 July 2019. Archived from the original on 13 July 2022. Retrieved 17 February 2022.
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