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Racing Mechelen
Full name	Koninklijke Racing Club Mechelen
Founded	1904 (creation) 1906 (registration)
Ground	Oscar Vankesbeeck Stadion, Mechelen (Capacity 13,687)
Chairman	Edmond Phlips
Manager	Regi van Acker
League	Belgian Third Division A
2004-05	Third division A, 12th
Home colours 　 Away colours

K.R.C. Mechelen is a Belgian football club from Mechelen in the Antwerp province.

Founded in 1904 as Racing Club de Malines, the club registered two years later to the federation and received the matricule n°24. The name of the club changed three times: first the suffix Société Royale was added (1929), then the name was translated in Dutch becoming Racing Club Mechelen Koninklijke Maatschappij (1937). It was eventually simplified in 1957.

April 3rd, 2004: North stand

Racing Mechelen played its first season in the first division in 1910-11 and finished 8th on 12. By this time, rival FC Malines, later called KV Mechelen, was playing in second division. Next season, Racing ended 11th just one point away from Beerschot and was relegated. Just before World War I, Racing finished second of their division while FC Malines was third (8 points away). Thus RC Malines promoted, playing next season in first division, which was played in 1919-20. They ended 6th. Two years after that FC Malines was playing in the first division too. In 1929 and 1930 after having spent one year in second division (1924), the club grabbed a third place in the first division. A record it would beat in 1952 with a second place after a new sequence of two third places (1950 and 1951). In 1954 it qualified for the final game of the Belgian Cup. Afterwards, the club fell to the second division and rarely played at a higher level since a couple of decades.

• Belgian First Division:
  • Runners-up (1): 1952
  • Third place (4): 1929, 1930, 1950 and 1951
• Belgian Second Division:
  • Winners (4): 1910, 1948, 1975, 1988
  • Runners-up (5): 1914, 1925, 1939, 1946, 1985
• Belgian Cup:
  • Runners-up (3): 1954

No. Position Player GK Sergei Deweerdt GK Gert van Asselberghs GK Nick Vanuytven DF Laurent Ciku DF Nouredine El Ayadi DF Olivier Mununga DF Michaël Nnaji DF Cedric Schauwers DF Thierry van Vinckenroye DF Christoph Verstappen MF Nathan Axford MF Jamil Benouahi

No. Position Player MF Benjamin MF Roel Engelen MF Tim Scheers MF Tim van Rompay MF Tim Verstraeten FW Abou FW Joao Olivio Calicchio FW Samir Derraz FW David Nechelput FW Orazio Russo FW Kevin Sanders

• (Dutch) Official website

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