Royal Excel Mouscron (, ), commonly known as Mouscron or familiarly as REM, was a Belgian professional

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club based in

Mouscron Mouscron (; Dutch and vls, Moeskroen, ; Picard and Walloon: ''Moucron'') is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the Belgian province of Hainaut, along the border with the French city of Tourcoing, which is part of the Lille metropoli ...

. The team was formed as ''Royal Mouscron-Péruwelz'' in the spring of 2010 as a result of the merging between

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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 place ...

and R.R.C. Peruwelz. Its current name was adopted in the summer of 2016.

History

Following the liquidation and break-up of

, whose registration number was removed by the

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, the city of

began negotiations with leaders of R.R.C. Peruwelz about a possible merge. After weeks of hesitation and uncertainty, an agreement was reached. The agreement was officially signed and announced on 11 March 2010. Debts of about

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100,000 in R.R.C. Peruwelz's name were cleared while the city agreed to maintain the training center known as "Futurosport". The newly merged club, Royal Mouscron-Péruwelz, took on the history of R.R.C. Peruwelz, receiving

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number 216 and keeping red and blue as its main colors.History of Royal Mouscron-Péruwelz
/ref> In its first season, it participated in

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, the 4th level of Belgian football. After a strong season, they were promoted to the

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for the 2011–12 season, playing in

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. They had reached Round 6 of the

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before losing narrowly to

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club

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on penalties 4–3. They finished first in their division in league play, and thus were promoted to the

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. The next season Mouscron-Péruwelz finished 2nd and qualified for the promotion play-offs but lost. In the 2014 play-offs Mouscron-Péruwelz wound up 4th and qualified yet again; this time they won the play-offs, promoting them to the highest division of Belgian football for the first time in their history, bringing back top tier football to

after a 5-year absence. In 2016, the name of the club was changed to ''Royal Excel Mouscron''. In 2022, the club was dissolved because of a financial reason.

Technical staff

References

External links

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Official Website

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