RUS Binche
Full nameRoyale Union Sportive Binche
Nickname(s)Les Gilles
Founded1942 (as Sporting Club Leval)
2019 (as RUS Binche)
GroundStade Aimé Vachaudez
Capacity3,000
ChairmanBelgium Damien Schéna
ManagerBelgium Jean-Louis D'Achille
LeagueNational Division 1
Current season

RUS Binche is a Belgian football club from Binche. The club is affiliated with the Royal Belgian Football Association with matricule 3835. The club in its current form was established in 2019 from the merger of two local clubs. The club currently play in Belgian National Division 1.

History

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In 1942, Sporting Club Leval was founded in Leval-Trahegnies. The club joined the Belgian Football Association and started playing in the lower provincial leagues. Leval's club colors were red and blue.

RSC Leval remained in the various provincial leagues for the following decades. At the end of the 1990s, the club dropped from the Second Provincial to the Third Provincial and further to the Fourth Provincial, the lowest level, in 2000. Leval became champions there in 2002 and climbed back to the Third Provincial. In the following years, they continued to climb, first to the Second Provincial and finally in 2008 to the highest provincial level.

In 2012, RSC Leval merged with other clubs in the municipality to form a major club in Binche. Besides Leval, the merger involved two other clubs, RFC Ressaix and JS de Bray.[1] RFC Ressaix was an old club affiliated with the Belgian Football Association with matricule 528. Ressaix was a former first provincial club that had dropped from the First to the Fourth Provincial in the past decade and had returned to the Third Provincial at the time of the merger. JS de Bray was a younger club, affiliated since 2003 with matricule 9437, and had climbed to the Second Provincial. Other clubs in the municipality of Binche did not participate in the merger, including RUS Binchoise, which had played in the national divisions for over a decade but had dropped to the provincial leagues. The merged club was named Royale Jeunesse Entente Binchoise and continued with the matricule 3835 of the highest-ranked Leval in the First Provincial. The matricules of Ressaix and Bray were canceled. The merged club experienced success in its first season. RJE Binchoise became champions and promoted to the national divisions for the first time in 18 years after the city rival RUS Binchoise had disappeared from there.

RJE Binchoise managed to stay in the middle of the Fourth Division in its first season. However, in the second season, they finished last, and the club dropped back to the provincial leagues after two seasons of national football.

On January 30, 2019, RJEB merged with RUS Binchoise to form RUS Binche. The club continued to play in the Third Amateur Division.[2]

Results

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Season Division League Points Remarks
  I II III IV P.I      
As Royale Jeunesse Entente Binchoise
2012/13         1 First Provincial Hainaut 61
2013/14       10   Fourth Division A 38
2014/15       16   Fourth Division B 22
2015/16         5 First Provincial Hainaut 51
  1A 1B 1N 2N 3N P.I From 2016-17 there are 3 national and 2 regional levels
2016/17           1 First Provincial Hainaut 58
2017/18         6   Third Amateur Division 52
2018/19         16   Third Amateur Division 20
As Royale Union Sportive Binche
2019/20           1 First Provincial Hainaut 61
2020/21         4   Division 3 ACFF A 7 Season canceled after matchday 4 due to COVID-19.
2021/22         6   Division 3 ACFF A 42 Promoted to Division 2 via playoffs after winning against FC Herstal, Crossing Schaerbeek, and RFCB Sprimont
2022/23       6     Division 2 ACFF 42
2023/24       5     Division 2 ACFF 54
2024/25           National Division 1 ACFF

References

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  1. ^ Le nouveau club de l’entité binchoise prend forme petit à petit, from La Dernière Heure (in French), February 11, 2012
  2. ^ "A Binche, la fusion entre la RJEB et la RUS est entérinée". DHnet. Retrieved 4 June 2024.
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Category:Association football clubs established in 2019 Category:Football clubs in Belgium Category:Binche