R.F.C. Seraing (1922)

RFC Seraing

Full name	Royale Football Club Seraing
Nickname(s)	The White Lions
Founded	1922; 102 years ago (1922)
Ground	Stade du Pairay, Seraing
Capacity	8,207[1]
Chairman	Marc Sombreffe
Manager	Mbaye Leye
League	Challenger Pro League
2023–24	Challenger Pro League, 15th of 16
Website	http://www.rfc-seraing.be
Home colours Away colours
Current season

RFC Seraing is a Belgian association football club based in Seraing in the province of Liège. They play their home games at the Stade du Pairay. The club currently compete in Challenger Pro League, the second tier of Belgian football.

The club was founded in the early 20th century as RFC Bressoux, registered with the Belgian FA under matricule 23, but renamed in 1992 to Royale Union Liégeoise or RUL after a merger. Upon the default of R.F.C. Seraing in 1996, the club again renamed itself to Seraing RUL and started playing at the Stade du Pairay where the former RFC Seraing played until its default. It was however an entirely different club and completely distinct from the former RFC Seraing. Seraing RUL was at that level playing at the fourth level of Belgian football. The club would remain at the lower levels of Belgian football, never higher than the third level. It 2006, this club changed its name to RFC Seraing to recapture the past of the club whose place it took, but dropped further, even sinking to the fifth level in 2014, at which point it bought the rights (and place) of another club (Boussu Dour Borinage) to swap places. As a result, the club now carried matricule 167 (as 23 now belonged to Boussu Dour Borinage) and was able to immediately jump three levels and started the 2014–15 season in the Belgian Second Division. It started in the Second Division under the new name Seraing United, but reverted to RFC Seraing one season later. With the Belgian league reform of 2016, the club dropped back to the third level but managed to achieve promotion twice in succession in 2019–20 and 2020–21 to reach the 2021–22 Belgian First Division A, bringing back top division football to the city of Seraing after 25 years. In 2022–23 season, the club got relegated back down to Challenger Pro League. Following season, the club avoided relegation to Belgian National Division 1 from 2024–25 season after finishing 15th place in 2023–24 Challenger Pro League due to the administrative relegation of K.V. Oostende cause did not license from professional league then dissolved.

• Belgian Second Division
  • Champions (2): 1981–82, 1992–93

As of 29 August, 2024^[2]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  SEN Ousmane Ba (on loan from Metz) 2 DF  BEL Sacha Marloye 4 DF  FRA Marvin Tshibuabua 6 DF  BEL Noah Solheid 7 FW  GUI Mohamed Camara 8 MF  BEL Nils Schouterden 9 FW  SEN Pape Moussa Fall (on loan from Metz) 10 FW  BEL Saliou Faye 13 DF  FRA Maxime Allione 14 MF  BEL Valentin Guillaume 15 DF  SEN Cheikhou Ndiaye 16 GK  FRA Lucas Margueron

No. Pos. Nation Player 17 MF  BEL Bassim Boukteb 18 FW  BEL Tidiane Leye 20 MF  FRA Sonny Perrey 21 MF  BEL Matteo Scarpinati 22 DF  BEL Yannis Lawson 23 MF  SEN Djibril Diarra 24 DF  GAB Sidney Obissa 27 MF  BEL Mathieu Cachbach 28 DF  FRA Ruben Droehnlé 30 GK  ARG Geronimo De Ridder 38 MF  ALG Nabil Bouchentouf

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

• Official website
• R.F.C. Seraing at Eu-football

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