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| Full name | Racing White Daring Molenbeek | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Nickname | Les Coalisés | ||
| Founded | 1909 (asWhite Star (Athletic) Club d'Ixelles) 1973 (merging) | ||
| Dissolved | 2002 | ||
| Ground | Edmond Machtens Stadium | ||
| Capacity | 12,266 | ||
| Website | www | ||
 Current season | |||
R.W.D. Molenbeek, short forRacing White Daring Molenbeek, was a Belgianfootball club founded in 1909 as White Star Club de Bruxelles. It then became a member of theBelgian Football Association later the same year as White Star Athletic Club and received theregistration number 47.
The club played several seasons in thefirst division (1924–25 and from 1934–35 to 1946–47) first as White Star Woluwé A.C. then as Royal White Star A.C. The laterWhite Star Woluwé F.C. took its name from this team but is not otherwise related.
In 1963 the club merged withRacing de Bruxelles to become Royal Racing White. It played in the first division from 1965 until 1973 after two seasons in thesecond division. Its home ground was the Stade Fallon inWoluwe-Saint-Lambert,Brussels till the club merged with the famousDaring Club de Bruxelles in July 1973, becoming R.W.D. Molenbeek. The main reason for that merger was the poor league attendance.
The club played in the first division for ten seasons after its inception, winning the1974–75 Belgian First Division, regularly qualifying for European competitions and even reaching the semi-final of the1976–77 UEFA Cup. Since the club had kept the registration number 47 of R. Racing White it could begin in the first division but it had lost the honours of the Daring Club. The club played inMolenbeek-Saint-Jean, Brussels.[citation needed]
From 1984, the club encountered many difficulties, leading to bankruptcy in 2002.
During the 2002–03 season, K.F.C. Strombeek (located nearBrussels) moved to the Edmond Machtens Stadium and becameF.C. Molenbeek Brussels Strombeek the next season. The new club, which used Strombeek'smatricule (registration) №1936, subsequently began in the second division but was promoted to theBelgian First Division in 2004.[citation needed]
At the same time, a group of fans, who fought to keep the name alive, had also recreated a new team called RWD Molenbeek (with a new registration number) in 2003. The new team started at the very bottom of the Belgian football league system - provincial division 4 in Brabant (level 8), but has been promoted to the Brabant provincial division 1 (level 5 in Belgium) in 2006 after absorbing another team from the Brabant province. In 2015, thematricule ofStandaard Wetteren was sold to a group of investors who started the clubRWDM47, trying to reinstate the history of the club.[citation needed]
| Season | Competition | Round | Club | Home | Away | Aggregate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1972–73 | UEFA Cup | 1R |  CUF Barreiro | 0–1 | 0–2 | 0–3 |
| 1973–74 | UEFA Cup | 1R |  Espanyol | 1–2 | 3–0 | 4–2 |
| 2R | Vitória Setúbal | 2–1 | 0–1 | 2–2 (a) | ||
| 1974–75 | UEFA Cup | 1R |  Dundee | 1–0 | 4–2 | 5–2 |
| 2R |  Twente | 0–1 | 1–2 | 1–3 | ||
| 1975–76 | European Cup | 1R |  Viking | 3–2 | 1–0 | 4–2 |
| R16 |  Hajduk Split | 2–3 | 0–4 | 2–7 | ||
| 1976–77 | UEFA Cup | 1R |  Næstved | 4–0 | 3–0 | 7–0 |
| 2R |  Wisła Kraków | 1–1 | 1–1 | 2–2 (5–4p) | ||
| 3R |  Schalke 04 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2–1 | ||
| QF | Feyenoord | 2–1 | 0–0 | 2–1 | ||
| SF | Athletic Bilbao | 1–1 | 0–0 | 1–1 (a) | ||
| 1977–78 | UEFA Cup | 1R | Aberdeen | 0–0 | 2–1 | 2–1 |
| 2R |  Carl Zeiss Jena | 1–1 | 1–1 | 2–2 (5–6p) | ||
| 1980–81 | UEFA Cup | 1R |  Torino | 1–2 | 2–2 (aet) | 3–4 |
| 1996–97 | UEFA Cup | 1R |  Beşiktaş | 0–0 | 0–3 | 0–3 |
