Royal Uccle Sport

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Royal Uccle Sport is a sports club from the city ​​of Ukkel, south of Brussels . The club, founded in 1901, plays in the colors blue and white. Today there is only the tennis and hockey departments . The footballers, who were first class for a few years, merged in 1990 with the football division of the Royal Léopold Club to form Royal Uccle Léopold FC .

Soccer

Four years after its founding, the club was included in the Union Belge des Sociétés de Sports Athlétiques in 1905 and received the trunk number 15. In 1909, the club rose to the second division , where it remained for two seasons. In 1912 Uccle rose again to the 2nd division, where in the 1913/1914 season the championship and promotion to the highest Belgian league, the First Division , was achieved. Due to the First World War , the first division games did not take place until the 1919/1920 season. After two seasons it went back to the second division, where in the 1921/22 season the immediate promotion was possible. But after only one year, the move to the second class followed. In 1926 Uccle Sport received the privilege of being able to call themselves Royal. In 1947 the club rose to the first division for the last time for a one-year interlude. Until 1958 the club stayed in the second division for up to a year, in 1965 it was relegated to the fourth division. In 1972 Uccle disappeared into the lowlands of the provincial leagues.

Hockey and tennis

European Cup balance men's field
year competition level space place
1976 Club Champions Cup 1 2 Amsterdam
1977 Club Champions Cup 1 2 London
1978 Club Champions Cup 1 6th Barcelona
1979 Club Champions Cup 1 7th The hague
1981 Club Champions Cup 1 6th Brussels
1982 Club Champions Cup 1 6th Versailles
1983 Club Champions Cup 1 5 The hague
1984 Club Champions Cup 1 2 Terrassa
1985 Club Champions Cup 1 5 Frankenthal
1986 Club Champions Cup 1 5 Utrecht
1988 Club Champions Cup 1 8th Bloemendaal

In 1907 Uccle Sport built four tennis courts. In 1930 hockey was started for sport in the winter months. Even before the Second World War , tennis and hockey players were self-employed and at the time had six tennis courts and two hockey fields. For mascot is a weather vane located on the chimney of the neighboring brewery Merlo in the form of a blackbird developed. When the chimney was demolished, the club acquired the weather vane, which has since been placed near the club entrance.

In 1952, Energeia TC joined the association because it had to give up its facility near Avenue Brugmann. By the early 1970s, the club complex had grown to five hockey fields and twelve tennis courts. In 1985 the first artificial hockey pitch was inaugurated. A second artificial turf followed in 2004.

Royal Uccle Sport is next to the Royal Léopold Club (1975 0-1 against SC Frankfurt 1880 ) the only Belgian hockey club that reached the finals of the European Cup. The men failed in the Club Champions Cup in 1976 against Southgate HC 2: 3, in 1977 against Southgate 1: 4 and in 1984 against TG Frankenthal 2: 3. The women were also defeated in the Club Champions Cup in 1974 to the Harvestehuder THC 0: 1 and in 1979 to the Amsterdam H&BC 1: 3. Both the women, who are Belgian record champions, and the men play in the Eredivisie , the top national division , in the 2011/2012 season .

Successes men's hockey

  • Belgian champion: 1964, 1965, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1987
  • Belgian Cup winners: 1958, 1961, 1972, 1974, 1980, 1981, 1984, 1986, 1987, 2007, 2008

Successes women's hockey

  • Belgian champion: 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1989, 2009
  • Belgian Cup winners: 1963, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1988, 1999, 2007, 2008, 2009

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Individual evidence

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Coordinates: 50 ° 48 '  N , 4 ° 19'  E