Anderlecht (football club)
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| Full name | Royal Sporting Club Anderlecht |
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| Nickname(s) |
Purple & White, Sporting (Dutch: Paars-wit; French: Les Mauves et Blancs) |
| Founded | 27 May 1908 (creation) 1909 (registration) |
| Ground |
Anderlecht, Brussels Capital-Region |
| Capacity | 28,063 (21,845 for European matches) |
| Chairman | |
| Manager | René Weiler |
| League | Belgian First Division A |
| 2016–17 | Belgian First Division A, 1st |
| Website | Club website |
Royal Sporting Club Anderlecht, usually known as Anderlecht (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɑndərˌlɛxt], French: [ɑ̃dəʁlɛkt], German: [ˈandɐˌlɛçt]) or RSCA (Dutch: [ˌɛrɛseːˈjaː], French: [ɛʁ ɛs se ɑ], German: [ˌʔɛɐ̯ ʔɛs tseː ˈʔaː]), is a Belgian professional football club based in Anderlecht, Brussels Capital-Region. Anderlecht plays in the Belgian First Division A and is the most successful Belgian football team in European competitions, with five trophies, as well as in the Belgian domestic league, with 34 championship wins. They have also won nine Belgian Cups and hold the record for most consecutive Belgian championship titles, winning five between the 1963–64 and 1967–68 seasons.
Founded in 1908, the club first reached the highest level in Belgian football in 1921–22 and have been playing in the first division continuously since 1935–36. They won their first major trophy after World War II with a championship win in 1946–47. Since then, they have never finished outside the top six of the Belgian first division. They are ranked 12th amongst all-time UEFA club competition winners, tenth in the IFFHS continental Clubs of the 20th Century European ranking and were 41st in the 2012 UEFA team rankings. In 1986, they achieved their best UEFA ranking with a joint first place with Juventus.
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