Royal Léopold Club
The Royal Léopold Club is a sports club from Ukkel, south of the Belgian capital . The club with the colors red, white and black was founded on February 11, 1893 as Léopold Football Club and was named after the former Belgian King Leopold II. When the hockey department was founded in 1895, the club name was shortened to Léopold Club. In 1898 the tennis department was set up and in 1921 the Léopold Club was given the privilege of calling itself Royal. Today the Royal Léopold Club, which has around 2000 members, includes tennis , hockey and bridge . The original Ten Bosch club area became too small in 1901 and the move to today's club complex in Park Brugmann took place. The seven hectare club area has 26 tennis courts and two artificial turf hockey fields.
Soccer
The Léopold Club was one of ten clubs that founded the UBSSA in 1895 , the forerunner of the Belgian football association KBVB , and in 1896 one of the seven founding members of the First Division . He received the number 5 from the association and was considered an association of the Brussels upper class. In the 1901/02 season, Léopold reached second place with the first-placed Racing Club Bruxelles . So that according to the rules at the time, a playoff for the Belgian championship had to decide. Léopold lost this 3: 4 after extra time. 1911/12, the club rose after seventeen years of first class from bottom of the table in the second division . After one season Léopold rose again as second in the table, but had to go back to the second division after a year. The second class could be held until 1926, and in 1928 there was a relegation to the fourth class. After that, the club played in the Third League from time to time. In 1954 the footballers started their own business under the name Royal Léopold FC . After some mergers, including in 1990 with the football department of Royal Uccle Sport , the club traded as Royal Uccle Léopold FC in 2011/12 and is based in the fourth division.
The Léopold players Hendrik van Heuckelum, Eric Thornton and Gustave Pilgrims were members of the Belgian national football team at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris.
tennis
Driven by Paul de Borman and his wife Anne, the club developed into one of the most successful in Belgian tennis. In 1920 and 1924 Anne de Borman and Jean Washer represented Belgium at the Summer Olympics . In 1925, the Léopold Club hosted the World Clay Court Championship. The winners were the French Henri Cochet in the men and Suzanne Lenglen in the women. In 1931 and 1932 Josane Sigart reached the double finals, and in 1932 the mixed final at Wimbledon . Together with the French Doris Metaxa , she won the title there in 1932.
In 1952, most of the club complex was bought by the Brugmann family and a tennis stadium with 4500 seats was built, which was later expanded to 5000 seats, which was named after Paul de Borman. The two players Jacky Brichant and Philippe Washer won the Eurozone Davis Cup finals in 1953 and 1957 . The 1957 final took place at the Royal Léopold Club.
Between 1969 and 1972 and 1977 to 1981 the Brussels Open men's tournament was held on the grounds of the Royal Léopold Club. Participants included Tom Okker , Ilie Năstase , Arthur Ashe and Ivan Lendl . In 2000 the club was one of eight founding members of the international association Centenary Tennis Clubs .
hockey
| European Cup balance men's field | ||||
| year | competition | level | space | place |
| 1969 | Club Champions Cup | 1 | 4th | Brussels |
| 1970 | Club Champions Cup | 1 | 3 | Terrassa |
| 1971 | Club Champions Cup | 1 | 5 | ROME |
| 1972 | Club Champions Cup | 1 | 6th | Frankfurt |
| 1973 | Club Champions Cup | 1 | 4th | Frankfurt |
| 1974 | Club Champions Cup | 1 | 4th | Utrecht |
| 1975 | Club Champions Cup | 1 | 2 | Frankfurt |
| 1980 | Club Champions Cup | 1 | 8th | Barcelona |
| 1989 | Club Champions Trophy | 2 | 1 | Lisburn |
| 1990 | Club Champions Cup | 1 | 5 | Frankfurt |
| 1992 | Club Champions Cup | 1 | 5 | Amsterdam |
| 1993 | Club Champions Cup | 1 | 4th | Brussels |
| 1996 | Cup Winners Trophy | 2 | 4th | Gibraltar |
| 2003 | Club Champions Cup | 1 | 5 | Brussels |
| 2005 | Club Champions Cup | 1 | 5 | Amsterdam |
| 2006 | Club Champions Cup | 1 | 5 | Cannock |
| 2013 | Euro Hockey League | 1 | AF | Amsterdam |
| 2016 | Euro Hockey League | 1 | AF | Amstelveen |
| 2017 | Euro Hockey League | 1 | VR 24 | Banbridge |
| 2019 | Euro Hockey League | 1 | AF | Eindhoven |
The men's team plays in the Eredivisie and is the record champion with 25 titles. In the 2010/11 season, the team reached fifth place and thus missed the championship play-offs of the four best-placed teams. The women are also represented in the highest Belgian league and have 14 national championship titles. The men's team reached the final of the EuroHockey Club Champions Cup in 1975 , but lost 1-0 to SC Frankfurt 1880 .
Success men
- EuroHockey Club Champions Trophy: 1989
- Belgian champion: 1922, 1923, 1928, 1939, 1951, 1952, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 2002, 2004 , 2005
- Belgian Cup winners: 1924, 1935, 1945, 1951, 1968, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1982, 1988, 2003
Achievements women
- Belgian champion: 1922, 1923, 1926, 1930, 1936, 1937, 1950, 1951, 1992, 1995, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2005
- Belgian Cup Winner: 1926, 1992, 1998, 2000, 2001
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ World Football Archives - Club Data Royal Léopold Uccle FC (accessed March 4, 2012)
- ↑ History - historical data of the tennis department (accessed March 4, 2012)
- ^ Founding members of the Centenary Tennis Clubs (accessed March 4, 2012)
- ↑ Compilation from EHF Handbook 2016 ( memento of the original from March 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 50 ° 48 ' N , 4 ° 21' E