Léopold FC
Royal Léopold FC is a Belgian football club from the city of Brussels. It was founded in 1893 as Léopold Football Club and encountered many name changes in its history, the last of them following a string of merges to keep the matricule n°5 alive (such as with R.C.S. La Forestoise in 1996 for example); it changed name to the present one in July 2014. The club currently plays in the Belgian Promotion D, the fourth level in Belgian football. It was created as a club for the bourgeoisie and nobility in Brussels.
In 1912-13 it played in the second division but managed to secure a place in the first division for the next season. However, it finished last again in the last season before World War I and never managed to come back at the top level.
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- (in English) RSSSF Archive
- (in English) Belgian football clubs history
- Association football clubs established in 1893
- Football clubs in Brussels
- 1893 establishments in Belgium
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