Royale Union Saint-Gilloise

Union

Full name	Royale Union Saint-Gilloise
Nickname(s)	Les Unionistes Union 60
Founded	1 November 1897 (1897-11-01)
Ground	Stade Joseph Marien, Forest, Brussels
Ground Capacity	6,000
Chairman	Alain Vander Borght
Manager	Drazen Brncic
League	Belgian Third Division/B
2013–14	Belgian Third Division/B, 6th
Home colours Away colours

Royale Union Saint-Gilloise is a Belgian football club originally located in the municipality of Saint-Gilles, in Brussels, although since the 1920s it has been based at the Stade Joseph Marien in the neighbouring municipality of Forest.

The club is one of the most successful in the history of Belgian football, but currently plays in the third division. The club won 11 Belgian championships between 1904 and 1935, making it the most successful Belgian club before World War II. The team colours are blue and yellow.

History

The club was founded in 1897 and obtained its first of eleven titles as Champion of Belgium in 1904. Its matricule is the n°10, meaning that it was the tenth football club to be formed in Belgium. From 1933 to 1935 the team played 60 consecutive matches undefeated, setting a still unbeaten and well-known record in Belgium. In the early 1900s the club also had a dominant spell in some of the very first "European" Cup competitions that took place, prior to officially sanctioned UEFA competitions.

Between 1958 and 1965 the club had a brief spell of European success, playing the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, and reaching the semi-finals in the 1958-60 edition after a two legged victory against A.S. Roma. However, in 1963, the club was relegated to the second division, and in 1980 even fell as low as the Belgian Promotion division.

Honours

Domestic

• Belgian First Division:
  • Winners (11): 1903-04, 1904–05, 1905–06, 1906–07, 1908–09, 1909–10, 1912–13, 1922–23, 1932–33, 1933–34, 1934–35
  • Runners-up (8): 1902-03, 1907–08, 1911–12, 1913–14, 1919–20, 1920–21, 1921–22, 1923–24
• Belgian Second Division:
  • Winners (1): 1963-64
  • Runners-up (1): 1967-68
• Belgian Third Division A:
  • Winners (2): 1975-76, 1983–84
• Belgian Third Division B:
  • Winners (1): 2003-04
• Belgian Cup:
  • Winners (2): 1912-13, 1913–14

European

• Coupe Ponthoz:
  • Winners (3): 1905, 1906, 1907
  • Runners-up (1): 1904
• Coupe Dupuich:
  • Winners (1): 1914

Current squad

As of 14 September, 2013.^[1] Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Bilen Yousfi 2 DF Gaël Kipeya 4 DF Anthony Cabeke 5 DF Kevin Dieme 6 MF Sadjaliou Sow 7 MF Constant Keskinidis 8 MF Steve Dessart 9 FW Konstantinos Apostolopoulos 10 MF Hiraç Yagan 11 FW Jamaïque Vandamme 13 DF Vincent Van Diepenbeeck 14 DF Vamuya Kamara 15 MF Ignazio Cocchiere

No. Position Player 16 MF Ilias Khamal 17 MF Steven Godfroid 18 FW Grégory Bilstein 19 GK Anthony Sadin 20 FW Karim Bahhodh 21 DF Robby Vanhamel 22 MF Manuel De Castris 23 MF Saïd Mjahid DF Anthony Portier MF Aaron Verwilligen GK Mohammed Alouachi FW Yahya Boumediene

Staff

Head Coach

• Jacques Urbain

Assistant Coach

• Grégory Vanmelkebeke

Goalkeeper Coach

• Florent Delstanche

Medical

Kiné

• Ali Errachidi
• Nick Parijs

Reserve squad

The team played in the Réserves Amateur Série E.^[2]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player GK Michael Kaya GK Bilal Missri DF Sadou Bah DF Imad Benabdelkrime DF Kafoumba Berete DF Yassine Dahraoui DF Marcos Del Molino DF Massimo Grimaldi DF Younes Touzani DF Hamza Yousfi DF José Zanzalá MF Mohamed Aissa MF Lucas Bonessa

No. Position Player MF Mehdi Chairi MF Michaël Coutinho-Cardoso MF Brahim Essikal MF Constant Keskinidis MF Imad Mohallem MF Jordan Van Cappellen FW Chemceddine Aoulad FW Emmanuel Claes FW Sofiane Dahraoui FW Vincent Donnay FW Ange Makungu FW Kevin Luz Sampaio FW Zachary Zekhnini

See Also

• Christophe Goumotsios

References

External links

• Official website