Royal Excelsior Mouscron was a Belgian football club from the municipality of

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, Hainaut. In December 2009 they were declared bankrupt and soon ceased to exist. A new club known as

Royal Excel Mouscron Royal Excel Mouscron (, ), commonly known as Mouscron or familiarly as REM, was a Belgian professional football club based in Mouscron. The team was formed as ''Royal Mouscron-Péruwelz'' in the spring of 2010 as a result of the merging between ...

was formed in March 2010 and placed in the

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History

The club was the result of the merger between Stade Mouscron and A.R.A. Mouscron in 1964. R.E. Mouscron had financial problems during the 2004–05 season and so the president and mayor of Mouscron Jean-Pierre Detremmerie left the club and was replaced by Edward Van Daele. The players with the higher wages were asked to leave the club, as did Marcin Żewłakow, Franky Vandendriessche, Geoffrey Claeys, Koen De Vleeschauwer and Alexandre Teklak. In late 2009

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was ready to spend £3million to save R.E. Mouscron from

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and use them as a

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. On 28 December 2009, Mouscron announced its third forfeit in a row because of enduring financial problems, and was thus, according to Belgian league rules, excluded from competition, with all its previous results in the ongoing competition being scrapped. The club in its current form ceased to exist, with all its players (and staff) becoming

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s. In March 2010 a successor club was formed with the merging of the bankrupt R.E. Mouscron and R.R.C. Peruwelz. The new club was known as

Royal Mouscron-Péruwelz Royal Excel Mouscron (, ), commonly known as Mouscron or familiarly as REM, was a Belgian professional football club based in Mouscron. The team was formed as ''Royal Mouscron-Péruwelz'' in the spring of 2010 as a result of the merging between ...

until they later declared bankruptcy in May 2022.https://www.sofoot.com/breves/belgique-le-royal-excel-mouscron-fait-faillite (In french)

Honours

Belgian Second Division The Belgian Second Division was the second-highest division in the Belgian football league system, one level below the Belgian Pro League. It was founded by the Royal Belgian Football Association in 1909 and folded in 2016, when it was replace ...

: **Runners-up (1): 1993–94 *

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: **Winners (1): 1996 *

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: **Runners-up (2): 2001–02, 2005–06

European record

:''As of December 2008.''

Former coaches

*1990–1995 : André Van Maldeghem *1995–1996 : Georges Leekens *1996–1997 : Georges Leekens, Gil Vandenbrouck *1997–2002 : Hugo Broos *2002–2003 : Lorenzo Staelens *2003–2004 : Georges Leekens *2004–2005 : Philippe Saint-Jean, Geert Broeckaert *2005–2006 : Geert Broeckaert, Paul Put, Gil Vandenbrouck *2006–2007 : Gil Vandenbrouck *2007–12/2008 : Marc Brys *12/2007-06/2009:

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History

Honours

European record

Former coaches

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