Royal Excel Mouscron

Full name

Short name

REM

Founded

1922
as RRC Péruwelz

Ground

Stade Le Canonnier

Capacity

10,571

Owner

Pini Zahavi

Chairman

Patrick Declerck

Manager

Mircea Rednic

League

Belgian First Division A

2016–17

Belgian First Division A, 15th

Website

Club website

Home colours

Away colours

Third colours

Royal Excel Mouscron, also known simply as Mouscron or (especially locally) REM, is a Belgian football club located in the town of Mouscron, in the western province of Hainaut. The club was formed as Royal Mouscron-Péruwelz in the spring of 2010 as a result of the merging of bankrupt club Royal Excelsior. Mouscron and R.R.C. Peruwelz and was renamed in the summer of 2016 to Royal Excel Mouscron. The team plays in the Belgian First Division A after winning the Belgian Second Division promotion play-offs in the 2013–14 season.

History

Following the liquidation and break-up of R.E. Mouscron, whose registration number was removed by the Royal Belgian Football Association, the city of Mouscron began negotiations with leaders of R.R.C. Peruwelz about a possible merge. After weeks of hesitation and uncertainty, an agreement was reached. The agreement was officially signed and announced on March 11, 2010. Debts of about €100,000 in R.R.C. Peruwelz's name were cleared while the city agreed to maintain the training center known as "Futurosport". The newly merged club, Royal Mouscron-Péruwelz, took on the history of R.R.C. Peruwelz, receiving matricule number 216 and keeping red and blue as its main colors.^[1] In its first season, it participated in Belgian Promotion A, the 4th level of Belgian football. After a strong season, they were promoted to the Belgian Third Division for the 2011–12 season, playing in Division A. They had reached Round 6 of the 2011–12 Belgian Cup before losing narrowly to Belgian Pro League club Beerschot AC on penalties 4–3. They finished first in their division in league play, and thus were promoted to the Belgian Second Division. The next season Mouscron-Péruwelz finished 2nd and qualified for the promotion play-offs but lost. In the 2014 play-offs Mouscron-Péruwelz wound up 4th and qualified yet again; this time they won the play-offs, promoting them to the highest division of Belgian football for the first time in their history, bringing back top tier football to Mouscron after a 5-year absence.

Current squad

As of 6 July, 2017.

No.	Position	Player
3	DF	Nathan de Medina
4	DF	Teddy Mézague
5	DF	Lucas Morales
6	MF	Omar Govea (on loan from Porto B)
7	FW	Fabrice Olinga
8	MF	Mohamed Aidara
9	FW	Yannis Mbombo
10	FW	Jonathan Bolingi (on loan from Standard Liège)
11	MF	Dimitri Mohamed
14	MF	Sebastjan Spahiu
16	GK	Clément Libertiaux
17	FW	Babacar Dione
18	FW	Taiwo Awoniyi (on loan from Liverpool)

No.	Position	Player
21	MF	Selim Amallah
22	DF	Sébastien Locigno
26	MF	Aristote Nkaka
27	DF	Mërgim Vojvoda
28	DF	Jérémy Huyghebaert
29	MF	Noam Debaisieux
30	MF	Benjamin Van Durmen
31	DF	Bruno Godeau
33	GK	Jean Butez (on loan from Lille)
54	GK	Logan Bailly
55	DF	Rael Nzeza
98	MF	Thomas Demol
	DF	Artur Jorge (on loan from Braga)

On loan

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

No.		Position	Player
		DF	Daniel Graovac (at FK Zeljeznicar Sarajevo until 30 June 2018)

No.		Position	Player

Managers

Philippe Saint-Jean (July 1, 2010 – June 30, 2012)
Arnaud Dos Santos (June 27, 2012 – Dec 19, 2013)
Rachid Chihab (Dec 22, 2013 – Dec 29, 2014)
Fernando Da Cruz (Dec 29, 2014 – June 30, 2015)
Čedomir Janevski (July 1, 2015 – January 20, 2016)
Glen De Boeck (January 20, 2016 – )

References

↑ History of Royal Mouscron-Péruwelz

External links

Belgian First Division A

Seasons

Championship Cup (1895–1904)	1895–96 1896–97 1897–98 1898–99 1899–1900 1900–01 1901–02 1902–03 1903–04
First Division (1904–1926)	1904–05 1905–06 1906–07 1907–08 1908–09 1909–10 1910–11 1911–12 1912–13 1913–14 1914–19 1919–20 1920–21 1921–22 1922–23 1923–24 1924–25 1925–26
Division of Honour (1926–1952)	1926–27 1927–28 1928–29 1929–30 1930–31 1931–32 1932–33 1933–34 1934–35 1935–36 1936–37 1937–38 1938–39 1939–41 1941–42 1942–43 1943–44 1944–45 1945–46 1946–47 1947–48 1948–49 1949–50 1950–51 1951–52
First Division (1952–1993)	1952–53 1953–54 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93
Belgian League (1993–2008)	1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08
Belgian Pro League (2008–2016)	2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16
Belgian First Division A (2016–present)	2016–17 2017–18

Clubs

2017–18 teams

Former

Active

Defunct

Statistics and awards

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