RWDM Brussels
Squad
- Abdoul Karim Dante2020current
- Glenn Claes2020current
- Ivan Yagan2020current
Lenny Nangis2020current- Leonardo Rocha2020current
- Nicolas Rommens2020current
- Stélvio Rosa da Cruz2020current
- Florent da Silva2023current
Luis Segovia2023current- Makhtar Gueye2023current
Pierre Dwomoh2023current- Shuto Abe2023current
- Xavier Mercier2023current
- Christ Makosso2024current
Yan Vorogovskiycurrent- Benjamin Delacourt2019–2020
- Bryan Verboom2019–2020
- Abderahmane Soussi2020–2021
Thomas Ephestion2021–2021
Thomas Ephestion2021–2022
Zakaria El Ouahdi2021–2023
Thomas Ephestion2022–2023
Mamadou Sarr2024–2024
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Career & Clubs
The club was founded in 2015. Standard Wetteren had folded that year and merged with another club, liberating its matricule (registration number), which was sold to people wanting to revive the former RWDM with matricule 47, which folded in 2002. As such the new club was named RWDM47. The club quickly rose through the ranks, winning two consecutive promotions from the fifth to the third tier. In December 2021, the club announced that it had come under the ownership of American business executive John Textor, who also holds stakes in English side Crystal Palace, Brazilian side Botafogo and French side Lyon.
RWDM's academy is in Belgium, and many footballers have come from there, notably Adnan Januzaj and Michy Batshuayi to name a few Belgian internationals as well as a few internationals for other countries. On 13 May 2023, RWDM secured promotion to the Belgian Pro League by winning the Challenger Pro League title in a narrow 1–0 victory over RSCA Futures, with Mickaël Biron scoring the winning goal. They went straight back down at the end of their first season back in the top flight and the following season narrowly missed out on promotion, wasting a strong lead with just two games to go and eventually ending just short of automatic promotion.
On 5 June 2025, the club announced that it would adopt a new name, an initiative proposed by its American owner, John Textor. Effective 1 July 2025, the club would be known as Daring Brussels, a reference to the legacy of the…
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RWDM Brussels is a Belgian professional football club based in Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, a municipality of Brussels. The team competes in the Belgian Division 1, the third tier of the Belgian football league system.
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