Royal Racing Club Bruxelles
The Racing Club was founded in 1891 as an athletics club, which was joined by a football department in 1894. In 1921 he was given the privilege of being able to call himself Royal Racing Club de Bruxelles . Its colors are black and white. The club, with over 1000 members, now only offers hockey and tennis . The first square used by the association was located at today's Sacré-Cœur basilica in Koekelberg , then at the Velodrome of Longchamps in Ukkel . In 1901 Racing moved to its current location at the edge of the forest on Avenue des Chênes. In addition to the sports field, tennis courts were also created. The large grandstand was built in 1903 using innovative reinforced concrete technology, whereby it was roofed over as one of the first non-wooden grandstands in Europe and is still in use today. On May 1, 1904, the international soccer match between Belgium and France took place in the Racing Stadium. It is the first official international match between the two countries since FIFA was founded . 1500 spectators saw a 3: 3. In 1923 the clubhouse was built according to plans by the architect Fritz Seeldrayers. After the Second World War, Racing had the 40,000-seat Drielindenstadion built in Bosvoorde , to which the athletes and footballers moved in 1948. Racing played the opening game against the Italian champions AC Turin . The tennis and hockey players stayed at the old location in Ukkel.
Soccer
In 1895 Racing was one of the founding members of the Belgian football association UBSSA, later KBVB . In the early years of the Belgian soccer league, Racing Club was the dominant team. She was champion in 1897, 1900, 1901, 1902, 1903 and 1908, and runner-up in 1898, 1904, 1905 and 1907. Racing won its last national title by winning the Belgian Cup in 1912. After the First World War, the club's best days were over and he only played in the lower regions of the first or second division.
As one of the oldest football clubs in the country, Racing held the prestigious root number six of the Belgian Football Association. These matriculation numbers are assigned by the KBVB to its member associations in the order in which they are registered, so a low master number is an identification of a special tradition of an association. In 1963, the club's footballers merged with White Star to form Royal Racing White , which in turn merged with Daring Molenbeek to form Racing White Daring Molenbeek (RWD) in 1973 . A new football club with the old name Racing Club de Bruxelles 1891 was founded in 2005.
hockey
There are two artificial turf fields available on the club grounds , with the grandstand from 1903 on the main square. There are four men's teams and five young senior / senior teams at Racing. Five teams and two 35+ teams in the women's area. There are also over 30 youth and children's teams.
Men's
The first men play in the highest Belgian field hockey league, the Division d'Honneur . After the club could not win any titles for years, things have been looking up again recently. In the hall, the club recently reached three national championships and on the field Racing 2010 was runner-up and qualified for the Euro Hockey League , where two defeats against Rot-Weiß Köln and the Spanish Club de Campo already meant the end after the preliminary round.
successes
| European Cup balance men's field | ||||
| year | competition | level | space | place |
| 2011 | Euro Hockey League | 1 | VR 24 | Eindhoven |
| 2012 | Euro Hockey League | 1 | VR 24 | Antwerp |
| 2014 | Euro Hockey League | 1 | 4th | Eindhoven |
| 2017 | Euro Hockey League | 1 | AF | Eindhoven |
| 2018 | Euro Hockey League | 1 | VF | Rotterdam |
- Belgian field hockey champion: 1924, 1933, 1935, 1936, 1941
- Belgian field hockey cup winners: 1928, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1938, 1939, 1941, 1957, 1960, 1962, 1966, 1970
- Belgian indoor hockey champion: 2008, 2009, 2010
- EuroHockey Hallen Club Champions Challenge winner: 2009, 2011
Ladies
successes
- Belgian champion: 1924, 1925, 1927, 1933, 1948, 1949
- Belgian cup winners: 1924, 1925, 1927, 1932, 1948, 1950, 1959, 1964, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1987
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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 ° 23' E