Royal Daring Club Molenbeek was a football team from the city of Brussels, Belgium until . It was created in as Daring Club de Bruxelles and was the second club to register to the Belgian Football Association (it thus received the matricule number 2), but it was admitted to the league only in 1903.

History

Daring Brussels were formed in 1895 and after absorbing other local clubs in 1920 they became Royal Daring Club Molenbeek.

R. Daring Club Molenbeek

It had to wait until 1936 to come back at the top and win its fourth championship, and the fifth came a year later. In 1938, it finished 2nd. The next season saw a poor performance by Daring to finish 13th (forelast). The club was relegated just before the competition was stopped because of World War II. The team changed its name to Royal Daring Club de Bruxelles in 1950. Twenty years later, the name was finally changed to Royal Daring Club Molenbeek before the club merged with matriculation n°47 Royal Racing White to become R.W.D. Molenbeek in 1973. Since then, the matriculation n°2 was erased.

R. Daring Club Molenbeek

Honours

Belgian First Division

Champions: 1911–12, 1913–14, 1920–21, 1935–36, 1936–37

Belgian Second Division

Winners: 1954–55, 1958–59

Belgian Cup

Winners: 1934–35

Runners-up: 1969–70

Coupe Jean Dupuich

Winners (2): 1923 and 1924 (shared) Runner-up (4): 1912, 1914, 1920 and 1922

R. Daring Club Molenbeek

European cup history

References

Daring history

Association football clubs established in 1895

Daring Club

Association football clubs disestablished in 1973

1895 establishments in Belgium

1973 disestablishments in Belgium

Organisations based in Belgium with royal patronage

Belgian Pro League clubs