RSC Anderlecht

Royal Sporting Club Anderlecht, abbreviated as RSC Anderlecht, is a football club from Belgium, from the municipality of Anderlecht in the Brussels-Capital Region. It was founded on 27 May 1908 and plays in the Belgian First Division. It is the team with the most Belgian league titles, with 34, the most recent won in 2017. It is also, together with KV Mechelen, the only Belgian team to have won European titles: two European Cup Winners' Cups (1976 and 1978), two European Super Cups (1976 and 1978) and one UEFA Cup (1983). The club's traditional colours are purple and white.

Founded in 1908, the club first reached the top level of Belgian football in the 1921–22 season and went through several promotions and relegations until 1935, the year in which it settled in the top division. It won its first major title after the Second World War with the 1946–47 league championship. Since then, it has never finished outside the top six places in the Belgian top division. The club's golden age took place during the 1980s, when it was crowned UEFA Cup champion in 1983 against SL Benfica. In 1982 and 1986 it reached the semi-finals of the European Cup, and in 1984 it was unable to repeat its second consecutive UEFA Cup, losing the final to Tottenham Hotspur on penalties. It is ranked 12th among all clubs that have won UEFA competitions and was recognised as the 10th best team of the 20th century by the IFFHS.

Anderlecht played its matches at Astridpark in the municipality of Anderlecht from 1917, but it was rebuilt in 1983 at its current site, the Constant Vanden Stock Stadium, replacing the old Emile Versé Stadium. The club maintains a great rivalry with Club Brugge and Standard Liège, and previously with the now-defunct RWDM Brussels FC.