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Roermond Football Club Roermond, abbreviated as RFC Roermond, was a Dutch amateur football club from Roermond in Limburg. The club was founded on May 1 1900 as RFC Roermondia.

History
RFC Roermond was established through a merger of the football clubs Roermondia and RVV (Roermondse Voetbal Vereniging) in 1920. The board of RFC Roermond decided to register the club with the predecessor of the KNVB instead of the Catholic football association. A well-known player from RFC Roermond who represented the Dutch national team is Pierre Massy. In the 1920s, Pierre was so popular in Roermond that special Pierre Massy ties, trousers, and jackets were sold. With RFC Roermond, Pierre Massy secured the KNVB Cup in 1936, making it the first Limburg club to do so. Another international player produced by RFC is Harry Schreurs, who got caps in the national team.

Sportpark Stadsweide
In 2001, RFC had to leave its sports ground at the Maashaven due to the arrival of the Designer Outlet Roermond. The municipality of Roermond made space on Leropperweg to establish a new sports ground. This new sports park was quickly renamed the Pierre Massy Sportpark in his honour. Unfortunately, the club experienced a decline both in terms of sporting performance and financially at its new location, leading to the club having to sell the sports ground in 2009. The club was granted one year of dispensation by the KNVB to find a new facility. They succeeded and started using the fields of SVH'39 in Herkenbosch from the 2010/2011 season onwards.

Sportpark Stadsweide was shared with the Katholieke Sportvereniging Swift until they also had to leave the location and merged with Sportvereniging Victoria Roermond to form SVC 2000. In the seasons 2016/17 and 2017/18, anticipating the merger with SV EMS, the teams were grouped together with SV EMS. However, in the summer of 2018, the merger fell through. RFC was supposed to get its affairs in order to facilitate the merger. Unfortunately, RFC failed to resolve the issues. As a result, the club ceased to exist and was dissolved.

League results from 1923/24 untill 2017/18

 * As a combined team under the name SV EMS/RFC

Honours

 * Districtsbeker Zuid II
 * Winner in 1979/80


 * KNVB beker
 * Winner in 1935/36

Known (ex-)players

 * Pierre Massy
 * Harry Schreurs
 * Ger Schuman