R. Olympic Charleroi Châtelet Farciennes

R. Olympic Charleroi Châtelet Farciennes

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Full name	Royal Olympic Charleroi Châtelet Farciennes
Founded	1912 (1912)
Ground	Stade de la Neuville, Belgium
Ground Capacity	8,000
Manager	Xavier Robert
League	National Division 1
2022–23	National Division 1, 7th of 20
Home colours Away colours

R. Olympic Charleroi Châtelet Farcienness, is a Belgian association football club from the city of Charleroi, Hainaut. As of 2019, they play in the Belgian National Division 1 (renamed from Belgian First Amateur Division in 2020).

History

It was founded in 1912 as Olympic Club de Charleroi. The next year the club registered to the Belgian Football Association to become the matricule n°246. Between 1972 and 1982 the club was named R.O.C. de Montignies-sur-Sambre before reverting to its prior name. In 2000 the club merged with R.A. Marchienne and changed its name from Royal Olympic Club de Charleroi to Royal Olympic Club de Charleroi-Marchienne. Finally in 2019, the club merged with Royal Châtelet S.C. to become R. Olympic Charleroi Châtelet Farciennes.

O.C. de Charleroi first appeared in the second division in 1936 and it won its league eight points ahead of U.S. du Centre, a rival club located nearby Charleroi. It then played in the first division until 1963 (except for the 1955–56 season), joined at that level by the rival Charleroi S.C. in 1947. Olympic finished 3rd in 1939 and then second in 1947. The club had a short come back in the first division in 1967–68 and in 1974–75 but dropped back to the lower leagues, playing mostly at the third or fourth level.

Current squad

As of 3 April 2020

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Tanguy Moriconi 3 DF Pie-Luxton Bekili 4 DF Kieran Felix 5 DF Victor Corneillie 6 MF Geoffrey Ghesquière 7 FW Mohamed Dahmane 9 FW Yassine Delbergue 10 MF Quentin Vanderbecq 11 FW Alan Mayanga 12 DF Jérémie Lioka 14 FW Francois Engolo 15 MF Virgile Marquis

No. Position Player 17 MF Umut Gündogan 19 MF David Perreira-Bofomua 21 MF Corentin Cottet 22 MF Ozkan Cetiner 23 FW Joel Ito 26 GK Ulric Cremers 30 MF Kaïss Mansouri 55 DF Gael Kakudji 90 MF El Mehdi Khaida 93 FW Leandro Zorbo 97 MF Arnaud Guedj 99 FW Aissa Saïdane

References

• Belgian football clubs history
• RSSSF Archive – 1st and 2nd division final tables

External links

• Official site