Royal Racing Club Tournaisien was a
Belgian football club
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from the city of
Tournai
Tournai ( , ; ; ; , sometimes Anglicisation (linguistics), anglicised in older sources as "Tournay") is a city and Municipalities in Belgium, municipality of Wallonia located in the Hainaut Province, Province of Hainaut, Belgium. It lies by ...
,
Hainaut from 1909 to 2002. Its
matricule
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was the n°36.
History
It was founded in 1909 as "Racing Club Tournaisien" and then changed to R.R.C. Tournaisien in 1934. The club first reached the
second division
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in 1955 and qualified quickly for the
first division 1st Division or First Division may refer to:
Military
Airborne divisions
*1st Parachute Division (Germany)
*1st Airborne Division (United Kingdom)
* 1st Airmobile Division (Ukraine)
* 1st Guards Airborne Division
Armoured divisions
*1st Armoure ...
(in 1958–59). Relegated at the end of the season, the club then decayed and fell off to the
third division in 1970. In 2002 the Racing Club merged with its neighbour of R.U.S. Tournaisienne to become the
R.F.C. Tournai, currently playing in the
Tweede Klasse – Belgian Second Division.
External links
Belgian football clubs historynbsp;– 1st and 2nd division final tables
Association football clubs established in 1909
Defunct football clubs in Belgium
Association football clubs disestablished in 2002
1909 establishments in Belgium
2002 disestablishments in Belgium
Organisations based in Belgium with royal patronage
R.R.C. Tournaisien
Belgian Pro League clubs
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