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Brussels
Full name	Football Club Molenbeek; Brussels
Nickname(s)	Les Coalisés (The United)
Founded	November 30, 1932 (creation); March 23, 1933 (registration); 2003 (merge)
Ground	Stade Edmond Machtens,; Molenbeek-Saint-Jean,; Brussels; (Capacity: 15,266)
Chairman	Johan Vermeersch
Manager	Christophe Dessy
League	Belgian Second Division
2008-09	Belgian Second Division, 10th
Home colours	Away colours

F.C. Brussels is a Belgian football club based in the municipality of Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, Brussels playing in the Belgian Second Division. The club was formed in 2003 by the merger of R.W.D. Molenbeek and K.F.C. Strombeek. Although by using Strombeek's matricule n°1936, it lost Molenbeek's honours, the rest of the club was in fact composed of the remainders of the RWDM.

[edit] History

F.C. Strombeek first registered for the Belgian Football Association in 1932. It won the third division in 2000 and finished 10th in the second division the next year. In 2002 and 2003 Strombeek finished in 9th place. The club then merged with the RWDM that had just been refused its license for the first division. The new club won the second division that season under the coaching of Harm van Veldhoven but the manager was eventually fired in the summer. The new coach Emilio Ferrera made a bad start with the team at the highest level and was replaced by former Belgium manager Robert Waseige. Although Waseige managed to prevent Brussels' relegation (the team finished 15th) he subsequently resigned. The chairman Johan Vermeersch then hired Frenchman Albert Cartier for the 2005-06 season.

At the end of a disastrous 2007-08 season, Brussels found itself far adrift at the bottom of the table, 8 points behind St Truiden with whom they were relegated to the second division.

[edit] Timeline

R.W.D. Molenbeek had itself been created by the merger of earlier clubs. The timeline below shows visually the history of the various clubs that went into the creation of FC Brussels.

[edit] Current squad

As of 6 November 2009 (2009 -11-06)^[update]

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Olivier Werner
2	DF	Juanma
4	DF	Zoran Nizic
5	MF	Dimitri Parker
6	MF	Flavien Le Postollec
7	DF	Jonathan Heris
8	FW	Sacha Berkes
9	FW	Aurélien Coppin
10	MF	Geoffrey Cabeke
11	FW	Dalibor Veselinović
12	FW	Abou Coulibaly

No.	Position	Player
14	MF	Kristopher Vicente
15	MF	Jonathan Nsimba Lusadusu
16	MF	Jérôme Nolleveaux
17	MF	Marvin Turcan
19	MF	Paul Armand Niankou
20	GK	Isa Izgi
21	MF	Aurelien Cabeke
22	DF	Quantin Durieux
23	MF	Sebastién Phiri
24	FW	Jean-Paul Lutula
28	MF	Adolphe Tohoua
30	GK	Sebastién Van den Eynde