Prior to the second world war, Temse had two official football clubs: Racing Temsche (matricule 807), founded in 1908 and playing in blue and yellow later renamed into FC Temsica; and Temsche SK (matricule 501), founded in 1924 and playing in red and white.

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the club participated several times in the UEFA Cup, most notably reaching the quarter-finals in 1981.

Thereafter the club was less successful but remained at the highest level of Belgian football (except for three seasons in the mid 1990s), mostly finishing mid-table with the best result a third place in 2003.

[3] Later that year, the club was taken over by a group led by Louis de Vries and Alexander Janssen, taking the positions of president and CEO respectively.

[4] Lokeren had outstanding debts of €5 million and was not able to pay its staff and players anymore, folded as a club and ceased to exist.

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