Standard Liège

On the first day of school in September 1898, the pupils of Collège Saint-Servais in Liège started a football club, which they called Standard of Liège in reference to Standard Athletic Club of Paris. Standard, whose official name is Royal Standard Club of Liège, was based in Cointe and Grivegnée before settling permanently in 1909 in Sclessin, an industrial neighbourhood in Liège. Standard initially joined the Belgian First League in 1909 before returning to the lower leagues a few years later. The club then gained promotion back to the top division in 1921 and has never been relegated since.

Shortly after World War II, Roger Petit, a former player and team captain, became general secretary of the club. Petit worked alongside President Henrard Paul to establish Standard among the elite of Belgian football. In 1954, Standard won their first club trophy, the Belgian Cup, which was soon followed by a first national title in 1957–58. At European level, in the 1960s, the club reached the semi-finals of the European Cup in 1961–62, falling to beaten finalists Real Madrid 0–6 on aggregate, and the same stage of the Cup Winners' Cup in the year 1966–67, losing to eventual champions Bayern Munich.

The 1960s and early 1970s brought much success to the club, as Standard won six Belgian First Division titles, two Belgian Cups and a League Cup. Driven by the Austrian Ernst Happel, Standard won the Belgian Cup again in 1981. The following year, Raymond Goethals took control of the…

Continental

UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Runners-up (1): 1981–82 UEFA Intertoto Cup Runners-up (1): 1996

Invitational

Trofeo Costa del Sol: Runners-up (1): 1965 Trofeo Ciudad de Palma: Runners-up (1): 1969 Tournoi de Paris: Runners-up (1): 1980 Amsterdam Tournament: Runners-up (1): 1981 Trofeo Santiago Bernabéu: Runners-up (1): 1982 Mohammed V Cup: Champions (1): 1986 Tournoi de Casablanca: Champions (1): 1987 Feyenoord Tournament: Champions (1): 1987, Runners-up (1): 1983 Philips Stayen Cup: Champions (1): 2014

Individual

Belgian First Division topscorer Lucien Fabry (1927), Jean Mathonet (1956), Roger Claessen (1968), Antal Nagy (1969), Erwin Kostedde (1971), Harald Nickel (1978), Aurelio Vidmar (1995)

Individual

Belgian Golden Shoe Jean Nicolay (1963), Wilfried Van Moer (1969, 1970), Christian Piot (1972), Eric Gerets (1982), Sérgio Conceição (2005), Steven Defour (2007), Axel Witsel (2008), Milan Jovanović (2009) Belgian Professional Footballer of the Season Milan Jovanović (2008) Belgian Professional Manager of the Season Robert Waseige (1995), Michel Preud'homme (2008), László Bölöni (2009) Belgian Young Professional Footballer of the Season Michaël Goossens (1993), Axel Witsel (2008) Belgian Professional Goalkeeper of the Season Gilbert Bodart (1985, 1986, 1992, 1995), Vedran Runje (1999, 2001, 2006) Ebony Shoe Marouane Fellaini (2007), Michy Batshuayi (2014) Belgian Lion Award Mehdi Carcela (2015, 2018, 2019), Ishak Belfodil (2017), Selim Amallah (2020)