Royal Stade Brainois, often called just Stade Brainois was a Belgian football club from

Braine-le-Comte Braine-le-Comte (; nl, ’s-Gravenbrakel, ; wa, Brinne-e-Hinnot) is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium. On January 1, 2018, Braine-le-Comte had a total population of 21,649. The total area is whic ...

, Hainaut,

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History

The club was founded on 1 July 1923 as Amicale Athlétique Brainoise. Two years later it received the matricule 343,Foot 100 ASBL. ''Dictionnaire des clubs affiliés à l'URBSFA depuis 1895 : Archives de l'URBSFA''
/ref> which it kept throughout its history. On 13 June 1951, the club became a "royal society", and adopted the name Royale Amicale Athlétique Brainoise accordingly. On the 1 July 1969, a neighboring club, Union Sportive Branoise, founded 7 April 1938, matricule 2607 was merged into the club and became Stade Branois. The club never reached higher in the league pyramid than the national fourth tier, where they spent the majority of their history. They suffered relegation 4 times; in 1978-79, 1987-88, 1995-96 and 2001-02. However they did win the Hainaut Championship 3 times and reached the 5th round of the national cup in

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. In April 2021, Stade Brainois and

AFC Tubize Royale Union Tubize-Braine, also known as Tubize-Braine or RUTB, is a football in Belgium, Belgian football club based in the cities of Tubize and Braine-le-Comte. The club was founded in 1990 as the result of a merger of two clubs, F.C. Tubize ...

announced theirintention to merge and the new was to be re-named

Royale Union Tubize-Braine Royale Union Tubize-Braine, also known as Tubize-Braine or RUTB, is a Belgian football club based in the cities of Tubize and Braine-le-Comte. The club was founded in 1990 as the result of a merger of two clubs, F.C. Tubize and Amis Réunis de ...

. On 1 July 2021 the club was merged into AFC Tubize and ceased to exist along with its matricule.

Notable players

The club is best known as the first club of

Eden Hazard Eden Michael Walter Hazard (born 7 January 1991) is a Belgian professional footballer who plays as a winger or attacking midfielder for La Liga club Real Madrid. Known for his creativity, dribbling, passing and vision, Hazard is considered o ...

, between 1995 and 2003, joining them at the age of 4. During his time at the club, one of his youth coaches described him as a "gifted" player. He added: "He knew everything. I had nothing to teach him". His brothers Thorgan and Ethan started their careers at the club too.

Honours and achievements

* Hainaut First Division **Champions: 1971, 1986, 1993, 1999 * Hainaut Second Division **Champions: 2016 *

Belgian Cup The Belgian Cup (french: link=no, Coupe de Belgique; nl, Beker van België []; german: link=no, Belgischer Fußballpokal) is the main Single-elimination tournament, knockout association football, football competition in Belgium, run by the Belgia ...

: **2017–18 Belgian Cup#First Round, 1st Round: 2017–18 Belgian Cup, 2017–18 ** 2nd Round: 2010-11, 2020–21 ** 5th round: 2018-19

References

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