R.E. Mouscron

Royal Excelsior Mouscron was a Belgian football club from the municipality of Mouscron, Hainaut. In December 2009 they were declared bankrupt and soon ceased to exist. A new club known as Royal Excel Mouscron was formed in March 2010 and placed in the Belgian Third Division.

Key Information

Full name	Royal Excelsior Mouscron
Nickname(s)	Les Hurlus, Les Frontaliers
Founded	1922 (Stade Mouscron, ARA Mouscron) 1 July 1964 (merge and registration)
Dissolved	28 December 2009
Ground	Stade Le Canonnier
Capacity	10,571
Website	www.excelsior.be
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The club was the result of the merger between Stade Mouscron and A.R.A. Mouscron in 1964.

R.E. Mouscron had financial problems during the 2004–05 season and so the president and mayor of Mouscron Jean-Pierre Detremmerie left the club and was replaced by Edward Van Daele. The players with the higher wages were asked to leave the club, as did Marcin Żewłakow, Franky Vandendriessche, Geoffrey Claeys, Koen De Vleeschauwer and Alexandre Teklak.

In late 2009 Manchester City was ready to spend £3million to save R.E. Mouscron from bankruptcy and use them as a feeder club.^[1]

On 28 December 2009, Mouscron announced its third forfeit in a row because of enduring financial problems, and was thus, according to Belgian league rules, excluded from competition, with all its previous results in the ongoing competition being scrapped. The club in its current form ceased to exist, with all its players (and staff) becoming free agents.

In March 2010 a successor club was formed with the merging of the bankrupt R.E. Mouscron and R.R.C. Peruwelz. The new club was known as Royal Mouscron-Péruwelz until they later declared bankruptcy in May 2022.^[2]

• Belgian Second Division:
  • Runners-up (1): 1993–94
• Belgian Second Division final round:
  • Winners (1): 1996
• Belgian Cup:
  • Runners-up (2): 2001–02, 2005–06

As of December 2008.

Season	Competition	Round	Nat.	Club	Home	Away
1997–98	UEFA Cup	2QR		Apollon Limassol	3–0	0–0
		1R		Metz	0–2	1–4
2002–03	UEFA Cup	QR		Fylkir	3–1	1–1
		1R		Slavia Prague	2–2	1–5

• 1990–1995 : André Van Maldeghem
• 1995–1996 : Georges Leekens
• 1996–1997 : Georges Leekens, Gil Vandenbrouck
• 1997–2002 : Hugo Broos
• 2002–2003 : Lorenzo Staelens
• 2003–2004 : Georges Leekens
• 2004–2005 : Philippe Saint-Jean, Geert Broeckaert
• 2005–2006 : Geert Broeckaert, Paul Put, Gil Vandenbrouck
• 2006–2007 : Gil Vandenbrouck
• 2007–12/2008 : Marc Brys
• 12/2007-06/2009: Enzo Scifo

• (in French and Dutch) Official website
• (in English) R.E. Mouscron at UEFA.com
• R.E. Mouscron Archived 13 February 2010 at the Wayback Machine at EUFO.de
• R.E. Mouscron at Weltfussball.de
• R.E. Mouscron at Football Squads.co.uk
• R.E. Mouscron at National-Football-Teams.com
• R.E. Mouscron at Football-Lineups.com