Historical Crests RFC Liège

Name: ​ ​RFC Liège

Nickname(s): Les Sang et Marine (The Blood and Marine)

Founded: 1892

Stadium: Stade de Rocourt

Capacity: ​ 3,500

RFC Liège Crest History

The first official RFC Liège crest appeared in 1892, following the foundation of Liège Football Club, one of Belgium's oldest football clubs. The badge featured a traditional heraldic shield incorporating the club's red-and-blue colours, establishing a visual identity that would remain closely associated with the club for more than a century.

Following the club's adoption of the Royal designation in 1920, the crest was updated to reflect its new status as Royal Football Club Liégeois. While retaining the traditional shield and club colours, the revised badge introduced the club's new initials, reinforcing its growing prestige within Belgian football.

In 1950, the crest underwent its first significant refinement. The shield adopted cleaner lines and more balanced proportions, while the typography was modernised to produce a more elegant and contemporary appearance without altering the club's established identity.

A further redesign arrived in 1960, introducing subtle refinements to the shield and lettering while preserving the club's traditional red-and-blue colour scheme. The updated badge remained faithful to RFC Liège's historic visual identity and accompanied the club during another successful period in Belgian football.

In 1970, the crest received another minor update, featuring improved graphic detailing and revised typography. Although modernised, the overall composition remained largely unchanged, reflecting the club's commitment to preserving its heritage.

Following the official name change to Royal Club Liégeois in 1991, the crest was redesigned to display the club's new name while retaining the familiar shield and colours. The update reflected the club's revised identity but maintained a strong visual link with previous emblems.

A major change came in 1995, when RFC Liège merged with Royal Tilleur Football Club to become Royal Tilleur FC Liégeois. A new crest combined elements representing both clubs while preserving Liège's traditional red-and-blue colours, symbolising the union that allowed the club to continue following the loss of its historic Rocourt stadium.

In 1997, the badge was refined with updated typography and simplified graphic elements, creating a cleaner and more balanced appearance while retaining the identity introduced two years earlier.

Following the club's return to the name Royal Football Club de Liège in 2000, another redesigned crest restored greater emphasis to the historic RFC Liège identity. The shield was simplified, the traditional colours remained unchanged, and the updated typography reflected the club's renewed focus on its own heritage.

A final refinement followed in 2002, introducing cleaner lines, improved proportions and subtle graphic enhancements. While modernised for contemporary use, the redesign preserved the historic shield and red-and-blue colours that have represented RFC Liège since the club's foundation, creating the basis of the crest that continues to represent one of Belgium's oldest football clubs today.

KSC Lokeren Club History

Founded on 22 January 1923 as Racing Club Lokeren, KSC Lokeren grew from a local football club into one of Belgium's most respected professional sides. After receiving the Koninklijke (Royal) designation in 1951, the club became Koninklijke Racing Club Lokeren before merging with local rivals Koninklijke Standaard FC Lokeren in 1970 to form Koninklijke Sporting Club Lokeren. This merger laid the foundations for the club's rise to the highest level of Belgian football.

Sporting Lokeren reached the Belgian First Division for the first time in 1974 and soon established itself among the country's leading clubs. The club enjoyed its greatest period of success during the late 1970s and early 1980s, finishing runners-up in the 1980–81 Belgian First Division, reaching the 1980–81 Belgian Cup Final, and advancing to the quarter-finals of the 1980–81 UEFA Cup, where Lokeren earned widespread recognition for its attractive style of football.

Although league honours proved elusive, Lokeren remained a consistent presence in the Belgian top flight for much of the following three decades. In 2000, the club merged with Koninklijke Sint-Niklase SKE, becoming Sporting Lokeren Sint-Niklaas Waasland, before adopting the name KSC Lokeren Oost-Vlaanderen in 2003. Despite these changes, the club retained its traditional black, white and yellow colours and continued to play at the Daknamstadion.

The most successful era in the club's history arrived during the 2010s. Sporting Lokeren won the Belgian Cup for the first time in 2011–12, defeating KV Kortrijk in the final. Two years later, the club lifted the trophy again by beating SV Zulte Waregem in the 2013–14 Belgian Cup Final, before enjoying an impressive run in the UEFA Europa League, including victory over Hull City to reach the group stage.

Following relegation from the Belgian Pro League in 2019, the club encountered severe financial difficulties and was declared bankrupt in April 2020, bringing an end to nearly a century of history under matricule 282. Only days later, an agreement was reached with KSV Temse to continue the club's footballing tradition through the newly formed KSC Lokeren-Temse, which adopted Lokeren's colours, stadium and identity while competing under Temse's registration number.

The successor club achieved successive promotions, earning a place in the Challenger Pro League in 2024. In 2025, the club officially shortened its name to KSC Lokeren, restoring the historic name of the original club while continuing its legacy at the Daknamstadion.

Throughout its history, Lokeren's fiercest rivalries have been with fellow East Flanders clubs KAA Gent, SK Beveren and Sint-Niklaas SK, fixtures fuelled by regional pride and local competition. 

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