Seraing United

Seraing United

Full name	Seraing United
Founded	1922
Ground	Stade Pairay, Seraing
Capacity	14,236
Chairman	Mario Franchi
Manager	Arnaud Mercier
League	Belgian Second Division
Home colours Away colours

Seraing United is a Belgian association football club based in Seraing in the province of Liège. They have been playing in the Belgian Second Division since 2009–10 as Royal Boussu Dour Borinage and were formerly known as Royal Francs Borains up until the start of the 2008–09 season. They play their home games at the Stade Pairay.

History

The club of CS Boussu-Bois was founded in 1918 in Boussu.^[1] In 1982, the club merged with CS Elouges, a club from the neighbouring town of Elouges, in the municipality of Dour, and was renamed Royal Francs Borains Boussu-Bois Elouges. In 1984–85, they won the Promotion B, 4th level of football in Belgium, and were promoted to the third division.^[2] At that moment, they simplified their name to Royal Francs Borains. The club became a third division regular, though they could not avoid relegation in 1994–95. After four seasons in the Promotion, Royal Francs Borains were back to the third level, and in 2008–09, they reached for the first time in their history the second level of football, under their new naming of Royal Boussu Dour Borinage. In 2009–10, they had their best ranking in their history, with a 5th place in the second division. Their highest league ranking was a 5th place in the second division in 2009–10.

In 2014, Boussu Dour Borinage sold their official matricule (167) to the owners of Seraing RUL (23) and bought itself the matricule 5192 of Royal Charleroi Fleurus, playing in the Belgian Fourth Division. As a result, the team with matricule 167 moved to Seraing and was renamed Seraing United. It moved from the Stade Robert Urbain in Boussu to the Stade Pairay in Seraing. The Boussu Dour-based team moved to the fourth division and was renamed Francs Borains. However, the results and history of the Boussu Dour-based team remain with the matricule 167 and will be continued as Seraing United.

Players

Current squad

As of 29 November, 2015.^[3]

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 Anthony Mfa Mezui (on loan from Metz) 2 DF Francois D'Onofrio 3 DF Miguel Dachelet 4 DF Marouane Sahraoui (on loan from Metz) 5 DF Christophe Preseaux 6 MF Théo Pierrot 7 MF Valentin Lamort 8 MF Popoola Saliu (on loan from Metz) 9 FW Moussa Gueye 10 FW Thibaut Vion (on loan from Metz) 11 FW Fabrice Mansoni 12 FW Kwame Nsor (on loan from Metz) 14 MF Nianankoro Doumbia 16 MF Pape Camara

No. Position Player 17 MF Hicham Said 18 GK Maxime Mignon 20 DF Lucas Ferron 21 DF Petar Bojovic 23 MF Alessio Cascio 24 DF Jeffrey Rentmeister 25 FW Hilaire Momi (on loan from St. Truidense) 27 DF Axel Bonemme 28 DF Ali Bamba 29 FW Erwin Senakuku 37 FW Axel Bossekota (on loan from Cercle Brugge) – GK Julien Wets – MF Luciano Teixeira

Staff

Sports

Head coach:

• Arnaud Mercier

References

1. "Belgium – Overview of teams". Pluto. Retrieved 5 February 2011.
2. "Classements finals des divisions supérieures 1984–85" (PDF). footbel.be. Retrieved 5 February 2011.
3. Team 2014–15

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