R.F.C. de Liège

Early history

The city of Liège was introduced to football at the end of the 19th century by English workers, and the Parc de la Boverie, which housed a velodrome, quickly became the home for the first football players in the region. The cyclists were also among the first to take an interest in this new sport, which allowed them to train during the winter months. On 14 February 1892, Liège Football Club was founded by members of the Liège Cyclist's Union, who also organized the first edition of the "Liège-Bastogne-Liège", the oldest cycling race, on the same day. The club's first official match took place in Brussels against a Brussels FA XI, and lost the match 4–0 on a 200 x 100-metre pitch. The club's registrations quickly increased, and the Liège team took its revenge against the Brussels FA on a new ground located in the gardens of the Château de Sclessin, this time wearing red and blue jerseys in homage to the London-based English club Dulwich Hamlet. In 1895, Liège FC became an inaugural member of the Belgian Football Association as Football Club Liégeois (FC Liégeois), and the club won the subsequent inaugural national championship of Belgium in 1895–96, thus becoming first-ever Belgian Champion. Most of the members of that first squad were Belgian, such as Fernand Defalle, Lucien Londot, Ernest Moreau de Melen, Gérard Kleinermann, but also had Englishmen, such as Treharne Reeves, Samuel Hickson, who was the top scorer of the inaugural edition, and Harry…

League

Belgian First Division Champions (5): 1895–96, 1897–98, 1898–99, 1951–52, 1952–53 Runners-up: 1896–97, 1958–59, 1960–61 Belgian Second Division Winners: 1911–12, 1922–23, 1943–44 Belgian Third Division Winners: 1942–43, 1995–96, 2006–07 Belgian Fourth Division Winners: 2014–15 Belgian National Division 1 Runner-up: 2022–23

Cups

Belgian Cup Winners: 1989–90 Runners-up: 1986–87 Belgian League Cup Winners: 1986 Runners-up: 1973